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|author=Christina Hammonds ReedSylvie Cathrall|title=The Black KidsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Teens Science Fiction|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, There are few greater joys than a reaction book which lives up to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to deathcompelling premise. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters And this is one of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritagethem.|isbn=14711881910356522776

|isbn=07515674260008517061|title=The Wicked SisterDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Karen DionneStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper PeninsulaLittle Sky. She's twenty-six There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and has been there for fifteen yearsher daughter Diana, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-yearsas moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-old grid and that relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her father then took reservations about whether or not this is the gun future she wants for herself and killed himself. her daughter? Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at For the family home, a lodge moment they’re enjoying life in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel's very bright present and although she's a voluntary patient at putting the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, future on the circumstances are not as she remembersback burner.

|isbn=15069094421786482126|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The greatest hatred, like apartments - when they discovered the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silentbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull.'' The title of Was this enjoyable crime procedurala ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, is from German romantic writer Jean PaulDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson It's latest novel and for whom difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the hatred? This mystery one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will last all the way be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honestsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Rob Baker0008551324|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'"Go s prepared to Malitell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises," they said. "The music is amazing," they saidsomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. " And you what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get ten hours of sunshine every dayan early parole date." So I did.'' Rob Baker Not much to ask, is an ethnomusicologist. ''A whatit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' I hear you cry. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation s even prepared to culture, so rather like a folklorist studies do the oral other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and written story traditions relating to a cultureanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |isbn=B089CSNFT7

|authorisbn=James Patterson0008405026|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street corner, every day, for It's sixteen yearssince nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She is waiting for her parents was never found and the investigation ground to come and get hera halt. They left Now, her there when she was just tinymother, Helena, and although she's almost certain that they her father are never coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just dead in casetheir bed. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsInitially, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with it looks like a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, straightforward murder/suicide but there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to something about the prison next door to where positioning of the children live, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awayboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Where have they been taken, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and can Hawk rescue them before it-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too late?|isbn=1529120004boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17857656980571379877|title=Shed No TearsThe Kellerby Code|author=Caz FrearJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer'obsessed with his upper-class friends, strangled three women in a fortnightRobert and Stanza. When he was arrested he admitted the killingsRobert's a theatre director. A fourth death was attributed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him - that of Holly Kemp . Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and on occasions, Masters admitted he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itRobert. He played with the police, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings to put him Most men in Robert's position would stay away for from Stanza or tell Edward that a long time and the CPS were relationship had begun between them but he's not convinced about like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Holly Kemp case. There was no body and once Masters was murdered two of them kissing in prison, no hope of progressing the case furthera dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1473682401Jo Callaghan|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonLeave No Trace

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at When a man is found crucified on the end top of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Mallory Dunnochthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. TheyIt're now married and Mallory is s their first live case together, having twinspreviously been very successful with several cold cases. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brotherBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying Kat is suddenly struggling with Dandy a potential serial killer and Hugha very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Dandy and her detective partnerWill they be able to solve the case in time, Alec Osborne, had not or will Kat find herself taken up off the chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice beforecase and, potentially, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1399613073|title=The Lies You ToldMoral Injuries|author=Harriet TyceChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londontheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, they have their established groups. Robin's going which is a bonus when you aim to be an outsidera cardiothoracic surgeon. And why Laura is this happening? a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Well, over a matter Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a few days her parents' marriage fell apartGP. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for When we first meet them they're at a securities firm drug and alcohol- fuelled party and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back it's going to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerend in tragedy. ThatWe don's easier said than done when you've been out of t know who suffered the market place - and tragedy or the country consequences. Twenty- for more than ten five yearslater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=14087124150241636604|title=Cry BabyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Mark BillinghamGary Stevenson

|summary=It's June 1996 and footballtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's European Championships are about to start in Londonback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare Freya's former mentor and itCarole's one he close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has regularlynot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. It relates to After the split, she worked in a case cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from ten years earlier when he ''knew'the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow' s Futures: Fictions that a man was guilty, but didnDisrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary='t take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered and Opening up new ways of thinking about the man had killed himselfshape of things to come.''

Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and JoshI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ItI've kept up reasonably well with what's a happy combination in advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the boys are devoted to each other possibilities and - despite differences in the where probabilities and how end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they live - 're talking about or the women are best friendslatest conspiracy theorist. The boys are seven-year-old I needed people I knew I could trust and they play on the swings who could deliver information in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kierona way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B08CHJLNBSSunny Singh|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke AdamsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and The Hotel Arcadia is a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist luxury hotel in the heritage library next dooran unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on Hiding from new age books like thatthe terrorists who are rampaging through, which leave you dependent killing everyone on someone else's philosophiessite, there is Sam, to something a little deeperwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Charles is more of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a [[Personal bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himselfevents, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman and keeps on venturing out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: ither room to try to capture what's obvious to his friendshappened through her photography. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficialityAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, why does she feel drawn their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=15043213831529153298|title=SingleThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Againthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Againshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and Againwonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Louisa PatemanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=''You can't be happy We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and fulfilled on your ownonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. You are not complete until you find a manHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believemake it more manageable in the States. It wasn't unkind: it When she was simply the adults back in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her. It voice - she was reinforced by all those fairy tales where raised under the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued Nazi occupation by the handsome prince a mother who then marries mercilessly exploited her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Christopher Edge|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road Lucas and his friends are all booked in Glen Turrit. It was for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push place that has the car to its limits without fear nickname of being caught speeding'The Black Hole'. When the blond child stepped out in front All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel exciting films, and hit a tree. many, many snacks! When she came round after However, as the accident she movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitaleven imagine. She'd made her first mistake some time agoBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, although can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the realisation wouldn't be obvious cinema, and to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Suzanne CollinsRachel Greenlaw|title=The Ballad of Songbirds Compass and SnakesBlade|rating=43.5

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of ''I can hear the only surviving members song of the affluent Snow familysea. But their world was destroyed by The call of the war. Their riches gonedeep, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintainedanswering beat in my heart. As the 10th Hunger Games begins'' Rosevear, Coriolanus a remote and other students of partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Academy become rocks and plundering the first Mentors wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the tributes in seven who swim out to survey the gamesruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. This is his chance to prove himself But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the world island's leader and secure his place in the Capitol for goodMira's father. But when he is assigned Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a tribute bargain with no hope - a girl from District 12 - wreck survivor who is as charming as he thinks all chances of winning (both for her is secretive and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself with only coordinates to be a spark in his worldguide her, she sets off in search of a way he could never have imaginedfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As the Games commenceWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Lucy Gray fights for as her journey takes her life in from the watched streets of foreign islands to the arena - but behind heart of the scenessmuggler's territory, in Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the sly, complex future of her home and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooones she holds most dear. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001790008664730

|author=Sakinu AhronglongJames Sherwood Metts|title=Hunter SchoolPlanet Storyland

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is Things have been a work of fictionbit sticky for the Earthlings. ThatAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's possibly misleadingre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is Just as the blurb goes on they were beginning to get used to say ''recollections, folklore all this technological change and autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a childstarting to think of other, as an adolescentnew ways to spend time, as along came an adult are real awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and true. But memory is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling along with it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people should, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=19997912821736128426

|author=Kat EllisMatthew Tree|title=Harrow LakeWe'll Never Know

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing be different from its residents. But when she is found by her his father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother artistic passions all failed miserably and dark tales who had endless crises of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolaself confidence. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully So Tim applied himself to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at allhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=0241397049B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Helly ActonA G Slatter|title= The ShelfBriar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionFantasy|summary= When we meet Amy, she'' There's in a relationship with Jamiepart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. You can't really call it ' Within a partnershipremote mountain pass, because things tend to get done on his termsfar away from the world, but shelies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's sticking around because , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she hopes has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she can change himwas young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. AhWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, yesthe town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to pack for communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a surprise tripmaelstrom of chaos. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to get down on one knee? Was the work (trust and determine what to do as the wait) worth it?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18387708791803364548

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1529900360|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4|genre= For SharingCrime|summary=This Living Book is It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on a missiondifficult cases. What His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think help of many better missions than thata psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, can you? LetDelaware's see how it doespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. .... well, it opens up with Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a terrible jokeremote property in Bel Air. A groany joke, He was the heir to an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it Italian shoe empire and she is funny married to see how enthusiastic an extremely rich man and how generously this book wants to make you laugh - it''Oh, I'm terrible at jokess not the Italian. Some books are so good at But which of them. I always wanted to help someone laugh.'' |isbn= 194812453Xwas the primary target?

|isbn=15294022711529395224|title=Murder on Letting the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Helen CoxSion Rowlands

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a spot of bandage nowshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, although the details are (mercifully) scantGuy Trueman. After Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morning. There's been man armed with a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live knife - and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agohe killed a Ghurka. There are sufficient details Initially, he faced a charge of the current murder manslaughter but evidence came to make Halloran suspect light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man who murdered his wife - and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to speak to Jeremy Kerrhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author= Mark DawsonAlexander McCall Smith|title= The CleanerPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Ruthless The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and coldly competentoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, John Milton tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is one coming out of the British government's best assets – a contract killer break up with lethal instinctsa bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Now And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, after ten yearsbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, he wants outbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. But his job isn Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there't one you can just walk away from…s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=178739462X1846976596

|authorisbn=Angela Mack0811771741|title=I Am UnworthyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Isabel is determined Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to start freshblankets. Start again. Sixth form Some will be differentquick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Her tormentor doesn The projects are divided by the time they't go ll take to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurtcomplete - less than five hours, the fearfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and the person she becamemore than twenty hours. Josh is determined to keep going, even through the rage, All the painprojects are attractive, modern and using his fists to solve any problem or situationuseable. But he has secrets I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that threaten to tear him and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4Hme being picky.

|author=Laura Imai MessinaDean Koontz|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary= In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture Benny is having a man installed a telephone box in his gardenterrifically bad day. ''Inside there is an old blackHe loses his job, telephonehe loses his fiancee, disconnectedand his house gets trashed. Oh, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is and someone has delivered a real placereally weird, a necessary placedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and I am pleased to see it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the IMPORTANT NOTE thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the author attaches very last person to her story, deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the place delivery to his house is not a tourist destinationnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, it who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sacred placegood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a place that must be left to those waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who really need itexactly they are.|isbn=178658039X1662500491

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Adam Stower|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjytwo. SheBut he's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and hebad magician's in Provincetowncat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, Cape Codbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. He wishes that she This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was there, to be honest, but Clarehe's struggling to think of what turned up and he ''actually'' is ll have to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. Work's about to get very busy and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secret.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1780899858B0C47LV1PC|title=To Tell You the TruthFragility|author=Gilly MacmillanMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the house on question should you make it? Or is the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woods. Her four-year-old brother, Teddyquestion if you did, would have woken it land? The catch is that the house if she hadn't taken him with heranswer for both could well be... But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy 's story was crucial to 'Fragility'' is set as the police investigationcity of Portland, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendOregon, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the police.covid pandemic

|isbn=00082147001529431735|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)The Winter Visitor|author=Roz WatkinsJames Henry

|summary=DI Meg Dalton It's February 1991 and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the case of a missing teenagermore surprising. Violet Armstrong is well-known He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a vlogger - championing the cause of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only wanted drug smuggler for a bikini and has attracted the attention of animal rights activistsdecade. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got the job return has come about because shehe's had a woman) because letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's a vegetarianill and hasn't long to live. As if the case wasn't enough, MegIt's father hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is coming abducted, stripped to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years and Jai's convinced that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children underwear and that she wants more, but he doesn'tsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1784385166Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History Glorious Race of Nazi Germany|author=Roger MoorhouseMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=What Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the first image that comes to mind when you think of wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the Third Reich? Hitler? family. A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a concentration camp? None globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of these are comfortable images a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but they are emblematic of when a bad incident at the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images eatery leads to a confession from that time may be less familiar gran, Eli knows his only hope is to you. In this short volumedare to enter what he most hates, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate with the sole aim the period prize of magic at the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefactsend – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=0571382231