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|author=Antony WoottenSylvie Cathrall|title=Season A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of the Mammoth (BigShorts)them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Tannash Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her brother Geb are waiting daughter Diana, as moving in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle to return. They're hoping for together would mean a feast lot of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join compromise: does Jake give up his uncle Gagba off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the other warriors on a hunting party future she wants for herself and take part her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in their deeds of derring-do. But their father, the leader of present and putting the future on the village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is powerback burner.|isbn=1939269679

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1786482126|title= Seven DevilsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris is one of Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the foremost operatives bones of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she child beneath a doorway. There was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearsno skull. Clo Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Although she It's less than pleased to discover difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that her former friend Eris she is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting pregnant with his child as a result of the mission commences; aboard the ship are one night they spent together some three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empiremonths ago. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is plotting prone to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last sudden bouts of the free alien speciessickness. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140

|authorisbn=Non Pratt0008551324|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable 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 her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend prison and he's prepared to tell the promise of police where the end body of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her sincedeath. A once active social profile left deserted. So This person, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterhe promises, she expects is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised an open prison to find serve the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, remainder of his sentence and then another layer to another person and another, each containing get an item unique early parole date. Not much to them and Freyaask, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and the promise of she'treasure' at s even prepared to do the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped other thing that Hardie demanded - and painful truths come to light make certain that threaten to break bonds, both new DS Max Craigie and old. Can anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943happening.

|isbn=178089922X0008405026|title=Invisible GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lisa JewellJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeens sixteen years since nine-yearsyear-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and beautifulthe investigation ground to a halt. By Now, her mother, Helena, and her own admissionfather are dead in their bed. Initially, sheit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a bit something about the positioning of a boffin, doing the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and enjoying maths, physics her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and biology at A level-shut case is now a complex double murder. Life hasnKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't been easy for hers disappearance: most people who have been close to her have died and sheothers (such as Derwent's now living boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with her Uncle Aaron in an eighthhis upper-floor flatclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Something Robert's a theatre director. He'reallys also self-obsessed, really bad happened'' demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to her when she was ten and she self-harmed run errands for a long timehim. Aaron organised psychological help Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and for three years Roan Fours was her therapisthe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but somehow managed he's not like most men: Edward is left to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When stumble upon the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest two of them kissing in Roana dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1838951067Jo Callaghan|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who man is acting suspiciously. She has found crucified on the top of a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the floor with case alongside her sidekick, the spine splayed upwardsAI detective Lock. It''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blacks their first live case together, is the titlehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Why But when there is Jim shocked? Wella second body found crucified a few days later, Jim was - ''Kat is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and killeda very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The author of Will they be able to solve the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mothercase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sisterpotentially, Anna.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1399613073|title=The Black KidsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Teens Thrillers|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the backdrop first day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a reaction to the absolution quarter of four police officers for beating a black mancentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Rodney King, nearly which is a bonus when you aim to deathbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Told from Anjali is the perspective free spirit of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from group and she becomes a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman finding her voice drug and embracing her heritagealcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1471188191

|isbn=07515674260241636604|title=The Wicked SisterTrading Game: A Confession|author=Karen DionneGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's If you were to bring up an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center image of a city banker in Michiganyour mind, you's Upper Peninsulare unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She's twentyA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-six stripe suit and has been there for fifteen yearshis background is the East End, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she where he was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun familiar with violence, poverty and killed himselfinjustice. Her sister, Diana, just twentyThere was no posh public school on his CV -years-old, was left at the family home, a lodge in but he had been to the Upper Peninsula wildernessLondon School of Economics. Rachel's very Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and although she's he has a voluntary patient facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at the Mental Health Center she remains therewhat was, essentially, feeling that this is what she deservesa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. PerhapsEventually, though, the circumstances are not this turned into permanent employment as she remembersa trader.

|isbn=15069094421035021803|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder-Mystery|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'The greatest hatreds close friend, Arthur Crockleford, like is dead and the greatest virtue 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 not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the worst dogsrebound from the love of her life, is silentwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, I've heard it said that 'technology' is from German romantic writer Jean Paulwhat happens after you're eighteen. But who are the worst dogs Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in de Lacey Davidsonmy lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's latest novel and for whom is advantageous to me but I'm left with the hatred? This mystery will last feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the way to possibilities and the very last probabilities and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about unwarranted hatred all or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honestI could understand.

|author=Rob BakerSunny Singh|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TravelThrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what''"Go s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to Mali," see if they will be rescued before they saidare discovered by the terrorists. "|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The music List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is amazingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean," they saidhonestly. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.) She's not what' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologists worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'A what?disappeared'doesn' I hear you cryt sound quite so frightening. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to culturemove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, so rather like Down South is a folklorist studies frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the oral move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and written story traditions relating she'll do anything to a cultureprevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=B089CSNFT7

|authorisbn=James Patterson1398524085|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, every daysons Niall, for years. She is waiting for her parents to come Paul and Ollie and get herdaughter, Etty. They left her there when she was just tiny, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for all worried but - strangely - herhusband, she continues to head back there each dayAlec, just in caseis not. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsShortly afterwards, Etty and can fly! Since she was abandoned sheGreg, find the body of Greg's been living with a group of other childrenfather, Duncan Ackerley, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familyin the river. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to It was an easy assumption for the prison next door police to where the children live, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaycommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Where have The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they been taken, can do but get on with their lives and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17857656981035906708|title=Shed No TearsDiva|author=Caz FrearDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer'New York, strangled three women in a fortnightDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. When he Her original surname was arrested he admitted Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the killingsStates. A fourth death When she was attributed to him back in Athens - supposedly so that of Holly Kemp she could get appropriate training for her voice - and on occasions, Masters admitted to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied it. He played with the police, but there she was sufficient evidence on raised under the first three killings to put him away for Nazi occupation by a long time mother who mercilessly exploited her and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp case. There was made no body and once Masters was murdered in prisonsecret of her preference for her elder sister, no hope of progressing the case furtherJackie.

|isbnauthor=1473682401Christopher Edge|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=Those who were with us Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the end nickname of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch'The Black Hole'. TheyAll big movie fans, they're now married looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Mallory is having twins. many, many snacks! When they arrive no one can doubt However, as the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brothermovie starts, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and theyare swept up into an adventure they couldn're staying with Dandy and Hught even imagine. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance But as they lurch from one film genre to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice beforenext, but suddenly the possibility of being can they figure out of what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSRachel Greenlaw|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school'I can hear the song of the sea. She's left The call of the deep, the school she loved answering beat in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londonmy heart. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and as plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the pupils have all been there ''forever''wrecking, they have their established groups. Robincapture the island's leader and Mira's going father. Desperate to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Wellsave him from death, over Mira makes a matter of bargain with a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence wreck survivor who is staying in New York - as charming as he works for a securities firm - is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to pick up unearth what might save her practice father, as a criminal barrister. Thather journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's easier said than done when you've been out territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of the market place - her home and the country - for more than ten yearsones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1408712415James Sherwood Metts|title=Cry Baby|author=Mark BillinghamPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about to start in LondonThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare AI and itautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's one he has regularly. It relates re paid to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until the man's wife do and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. It's a happy combination in other tasks that the boys are devoted took time to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsaccomplish. The boys are seven-year-old and Just as they play on the swings in the park were beginning to get used to all this technological change and then dash off starting to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodthink of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Josh Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B08CHJLNBSMatthew Tree|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=He's Charles DevereauxTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian drunk and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more chronic underachiever whose dreams of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his mind? She's not studies, cultivated his usual type at all: it's obvious to abilities rather than his friendsdaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1504321383A G Slatter|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=''You There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can't be happy and fulfilled on your . This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. You are not complete until you find I just want to enjoy it for a manwhile.''.

This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believeWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. It wasn't unkind: it was simply Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the adults in her life advising her as first non-witch to what they thought would be best born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, hertraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the girl (shetown's usually fairly young) is rescued by leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the handsome prince who then marries dead, putting her so that they can live happily ever afterat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Few girls are lucky enough Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to be brought up ''without'trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' the expectation that legacy, everything they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief sacrificed to survive, is a choice''under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17873014351529900360|title=Dark WatersThe Ghost Orchid|author=G R HallidayJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted 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 drive down the private road in Glen Turritask for his help on difficult cases. It was a long road through some breathHis assertions that there were only open-taking scenery and she could push -shut cases which didn't need the car to its limits without fear help of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treepsychologist only worked for a while. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she Finally, it wasRobin, but it obviously wasnDelaware't a conventional hospitals partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd made her first mistake some time agoknew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, although though. Two lovers were murdered in the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for swimming pool of a long timeremote property in Bel Air. She'd made it when He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she chose is married to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Suzanne Collins1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Ballad Secret Life of Songbirds and Snakesa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familySiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. But their world His father was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - a GP and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes Rowlands didn't want to follow in the games. This is his chance to prove himself to footsteps, particularly when he considered the world and secure strain that being on-call put on his place in the Capitol for goodfather's life. But when When he was seventeen he is assigned took the opportunity of doing work experience with a tribute with no hope - family friend who was a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her vet and was convinced this was the job for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world Before long, in a way he could never have imaginedwas at Liverpool University. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena It hadn't - as with so many students - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for been his life toodream since he was a child. Will she survive the Games? Will If anything, he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong0861541774|title=Hunter SchoolA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. ThatDCI Domenic Jejeune's possibly misleadingclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" Maik was involved in the sense a street brawl - he would later maintain that Ahronglong made it all uphe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, or whether it is as the blurb goes on he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like murder the latterman. It feels like Now he could be facing the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and truedeath penalty. But memory is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a fickle thing, diplomatic incident and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1999791282

|author=Kat EllisAlexander McCall Smith|title=Harrow LakeThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, daughter run by Ness and operating as an alternative to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is saying goodbye planning to take a trip to Canada to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsget away for a while. But when she Katie is found by her father's assistant coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and forced so jumps at the chance to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying in his studyEdinburgh. And sobegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, while he recoversbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, she is sent off thanks to live 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with her grandmother some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in Harrow Lakematch-making, the small 1920s town but Ness has full confidence in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. Thereabilities, and there's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about always her mother very helpful (and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerrather handsome) neighbour, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hourWilliam, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.lend a hand…|isbn=02413970491846976596

|authorisbn= Helly Acton0811771741|title= The ShelfInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionCrafts|summary= When we meet Amy, sheMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in a relationship with Jamiefront of the fire' variety. You can The projects are divided by the time they't really call it a partnershipll take to complete - less than five hours, because things tend five to get done on his termsten hours, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change himten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Ah All the projects are attractive, yesmodern and useable. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up I perhaps show my age when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'finallybut that'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879s me being picky.

|author= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaDean Koontz|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)The Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingParanormal|summary=This Living Book Benny is on having a missionterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. What Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the mission? To make you laughthing that has trashed his house! I can't think of many better missions than that The thing is, can you? Let's see how it doesBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. .... well So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, it opens up with a terrible joke. A groany jokebad weather friend called Spike, an eye-roll jokewho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. The joke isn't very funny but it Spike is funny going to see how enthusiastic take care of Benny, and how generously this book wants to make you laugh - will certainly take care of Benny''Ohs enemies, if he, Benny, Iand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'm terrible at jokes. Some books s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are so good at them. I always wanted to help someone laugh.'' |isbn= 194812453X1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529402271Adam Stower|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship Murray is developing nicely: they're even into supposed to be a spot of bandage nowhumble, tidy and friendly cat, although the details are (mercifully) scant. After a night of passion Halloran one who is called away in the early hours able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the morningtwo. ThereBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a murder in Irendalehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, where Halloran used to live and where his wifethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, Kamalanot into the regular back garden, was strangled five years agobut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. There are sufficient details of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife - and others - This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is in some way involvedexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, despite being in prison. The DI heads off to speak be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to Jeremy Kerr.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Mark DawsonB0C47LV1PC|title= The CleanerFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Ruthless and coldly competentCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, John Milton would it land? The catch is one of that the British governmentanswer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility''s best assets – a contract killer with lethal instincts. Nowis set as the city of Portland, after ten yearsOregon, he wants out. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xcautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Angela Mack1529431735|title=I Am UnworthyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Isabel is determined to start fresh. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesnIt't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurt, the fear, s February 1991 and the person she became. Josh Essex is determined to keep goingbitingly cold, even through which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the rage, more surprising. He'd been exiled on the pain, and using his fists to solve any problem or situationCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. But The return has come about because he has secrets 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that threaten she's ill and hasn't long to tear him and his brothers apartlive. When Josh and Isabel It's worlds collidehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, can they make their relationship workstripped to his underwear and sent 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? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H

|author=Laura Imai MessinaAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Phone Box at the End Glorious Race of the WorldMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= In Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the northeast of Japanwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Inwate Prefecture the evening a man installed a telephone box in helper at the dessert cafe his gardengran owns and runs. ''Inside Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into a generation missing in the windfamily. A few short years ago, Eli'' It is a real places parents were both lost to the titular race, a necessary place, and I am pleased globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to see navigate the IMPORTANT NOTE that world in the author attaches company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to her story, that the place is not pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a tourist destinationconfession from gran, it Eli knows his only hope is a sacred placeto dare to enter what he most hates, a place that must be left with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to those who really need itpossibly save his gran.|isbn=178658039X0571382231