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 |isbn=19481244400008517061|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukStig Abell

|genre=Crime|genresummary=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 daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his 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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For Sharingthe moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The second book Builders were demolishing an old house in Justine Avery's Wonders series is Norwich - the perfect antidote site was going to long summer days with bored children hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing ormurder? Inevitably, indeedDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, as webut Nelson doesn've found recentlyt, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic that she is rolling across pregnant with his child as a result of the worldone night they spent together some three months ago. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with Her condition will be obvious before long, repurposed, and played with again?not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn= Samira Ahmed0008551324|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to The Devil You Know(D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensCrime|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'In s prepared to tell the end, we all become stories'' Spending police where the summer in Paris sounds like body of a dream missing person is buried and who was responsible for most peopleher death. This person, especially art-lovershe promises, but Khayyam can't relax is someone big and stop thinking about it will be worth the mess she left behind in Chicagopolice doing what he wants. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to unveil serve the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix remainder of his sentence and Lord Byronto get an early parole date. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves Not much to ask, but uncover is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the true story of the woman other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and why it was one that should never have been forgottenanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0349003556

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0008405026|title=LovelessA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager whoIt's embarking on sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her first year of university bed one summer night. She was never found and is in the investigation ground to a desperate struggle to figure herself outhalt. She's always been in love with love. With the idea of love Now, her mother, Helena, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding bliss. But the reality for her has always been differentfather are dead in their bed. She's never had Initially, it looks like a crush. Shestraightforward murder/suicide but there's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something and fall for someone. But when about the opportunity presents itself in any kind positioning of real, tangible the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and physical way for her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- she's disgusted by itand-shut case is now a complex double murder. But isn't Kerrigan is convinced that what shethe explanation lies in Rosalie's supposed to want? Isndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412Xs boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B086LLRZFH0571379877|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanThe Kellerby Code|author=Darren ShanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=ArchieEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with a fantastic vistatheatre director. All of the Born He's most famous buildings and monuments also self- Big Benobsessed, the Taj Mahaldemanding,  the Eiffel Tower handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But thereand he's no time drunkenly confided how he feels to waste Robert. Most men in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help Robert's position would stay away from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is Stanza or tell Edward that a darling relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is afraid left to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on stumble upon the two of them kissing in a new, and even more dangerous, adventure...dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1408712288Jo Callaghan|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)|author=Val McDermidLeave No Trace

|summary=It was When a man is found crucified on the middle top of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potAI detective Lock. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allards their first live case together, ostensibly having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a Frenchmanfew days later, but in reality James Auld Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Edinburghunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was Will they be able to solve the prime suspect case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the disappearance case and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servantpotentially, Iain Auld. DCI Karen Pirie, as head out of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stage.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1399613073|title= The Doors of EdenMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticOlivia, in every sense Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the worda century. "Epic" Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a word that's thrown around bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a lot these days, but if perfectionist and a book ever earned trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the name group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's this onegoing to end in tragedy. It We don's a doorstopper full of big ideast 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, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1509865888

|authorisbn=Will Carver0241636604|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Hinton HollowIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, population 5you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence,120poverty and injustice. It sounds like one of those signs you see There was no posh public school on improbably wide highways in America's midhis CV -west, but this particular Hinton Hollow he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a small town in Berkshirefacility 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 what was, essentially, Englanda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Detective Sergeant Pace Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up here. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, until something happened and he ran away to the cityCarole. HeFreya's former mentor and Carole's running away again…only this time evil close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is following him dead and is going 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 not felt able to touch just about everyone be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in towna cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1913193306

|authorisbn=Jacqueline WilsonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Love FrankieAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at schoolcome. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.'

Poor Frankie! I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. |isbn= 0857535897 Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's 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 possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |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'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 see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17765728581529153298|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The List of Suspicious Things|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Home and FamilyGeneral Fiction|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed 1979 and told me that she'd get me a book about itMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A couple of days later woman? I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicsmean, in clinical language which had never been used in our house beforehonestly...) and I was told that it wouldnShe's not what't be discussed any further as it s worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they'wasnve been murdered, but to have 't something which nice people talked aboutdisappeared'doesn't sound quite so frightening. I Miv's upset because she'knews overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South' more. When you're from Yorkshire, but was little Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'wisers not worried about the dangers or that her Mum''. Thankfully, times have changeds stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15420174321398524085|title=The Nidderdale MurdersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=J R EllisNicci French|rating=35

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and a retired judgeher daughter, Etty. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a bankerare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. He Shortly afterwards, Etty and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponthe river. Rawnsley It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had a gripe with Fraser: murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payt stand the guilt. Other people had reason to comment on FraserThe Salter children are not convinced but there's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy little else they can do but get on with their lives and very difficult to work forwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=02414335681035906708|title=Eight DetectivesDiva|author=Alex PavesiDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in Spain. It's unbearably hot December 1923 and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going only moved to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something seriousAthens when she was thirteen. Only Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it never gets that far: when Bunny doesnto 't emerge after his siesta his guests find that heCallas's been murderedto make it more manageable in the States. How can When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that have happened? There's she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no one else in the housesecret of her preference for her elder sister, so one of them must be the killerJackie.

|isbnauthor=1526362759Christopher Edge|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=What Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a relief! A book about moneymovie marathon at their local cinema, for children, with clear explanations a place that has the nickname of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of itThe Black Hole'. Your reasons for wanting money donAll big movie fans, they't matter: we all need it re looking forward to some extent. lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! You might want to go into businessHowever, be a clever shopperas the movie starts, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be they very quickly realise that something you reallyabout this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn''really'' want to buyt even imagine. There's also But as they lurch from one film genre to the possibility of using next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to do good in the world.cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0008378363Rachel Greenlaw|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneCompass and Blade

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsmy heart.''

MackenzieRosevear, Robin a remote and Lily met when they all went to partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania rocks and twenty years later they're still plundering the best wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of friendsthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. When they first met they called themselves But when the Spicier Girls as Council Watch lays a nod trap to end the famous girl band of wrecking, they capture the dayisland's leader and Mira's father. Lily would be Adventure SpiceDesperate to save him from death, Robin the Homemaker Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and Mackenzie - wellwith only coordinates to guide her, Mackenzie would be she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the supporting actress in sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her own life. She married Owenfather, as her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whojourney takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's now fifteen-year-oldterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsPlanet Storyland

|summary=Time Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to catch you all up with some this technological change and starting to think of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much of shut down and, along with it that I, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'm ll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a bit late to the party with actual reviewingdrunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. Oops! And where better So Tim applied himself to start his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than with his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the new series from Bookbag favouriteDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, Darren Shan?at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

Archie is very down. HeWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's lost , a dear friend recentlyfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she 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 was young, in her training as a tragic accident, steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and Archie blames himselfpotions. He canWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't face school so he s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes himself for a truanting wander around Londonher place beside her. As he strolls across challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a footbridgemaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, he sees a girl Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suitsunder threat. He watches, aghast. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD61803364548

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten1529900360|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Tannash It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for the hunting party led by their uncle to returnhis help on difficult cases. They His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn're hoping t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a feast of mammoth meatwhile. Geb longs Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the day he can join his uncle Gagba and involvement was something that the other warriors on a hunting party and take part in their deeds of derring-doman she loved needed. But their father The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the leader swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the village, thinks that they also need heir to an education; that knowledge Italian shoe empire and she is powermarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1939269679 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1529395224|title= Seven DevilsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined GP and Rowlands didn't want to inherit follow in her past life as Princess Discordiahis footsteps, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for particularly when he considered the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although shestrain that being on-call put on his father's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this missionlife. Things get more interesting as When he was seventeen he took the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors opportunity of doing work experience with a secret that could potentially cripple family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Empirejob for him. Eris's brother Damocles Before long, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien specieshe was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a race against time as the rebels move child. If anything, he'd wanted to put be a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Non Pratt0861541774|title=Every Little Piece A Nye of My HeartPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Freya was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a beautifulshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in her existence as a queen bee 16street brawl -yearhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months awayhe killed a Ghurka. But one day Initially, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives he faced a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers charge of some kind, manslaughter but is surprised evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to find murder the parcel contains man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another layer addressed to police force could provoke a complete stranger, diplomatic incident and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasurewouldn' t help Danny at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|isbnauthor=178089922XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''When you wear The Perfect Passion Company is a hooddating agency in Edinburgh, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old run by Ness and beautifuloperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. By Ness has asked her own admissionyounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, she's as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a bit while. Katie is coming out of a boffinbreak up with a bad boyfriend, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology so jumps at A levelthe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''reallyEdinburgh we already love, really bad happened'' thanks to her when she was ten 44 Scotland Street and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psycheIsabel Dalhousie novels, but somehow managed with some new characters who quickly begin to miss that 'something really, really bad'charm. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but she retained an interest Ness has full confidence in Roan.her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18389510670811771741|title=The Nothing ManInstaKnits for Baby|author=Catherine Ryan HowardMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heMelissa Leapman's about to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning collection of knits from toys to pay for itblankets. Suddenly it drops to Some will be quick knits - others are of the floor with 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the spine splayed upwardsfire' variety. ''Nothing Man'' The projects are divided by Eve Black, is the title. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - ''is'time they' ll take to complete - the Nothing Man wholess than five hours, five to ten hours, until eighteen years ago raped ten to twenty hours and killedmore than twenty hours. The author of All the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherprojects are attractive, modern and then killed her, her father and her sevenuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-yearmedia-old sister, Annaworthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedDean Koontz|title=The Black KidsBad Weather Friend

|genre=Teens Paranormal|summary=Christina Hammonds ReedBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's debut novel possible that whoever or whatever was inside is set against the backdrop of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the 1992 Los Angeles riots, very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a reaction nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to the absolution of four police officers for beating his house is a black mannew friend, Rodney Kinga bad weather friend called Spike, nearly who has been sent to deathhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Told from the perspective Spike is going to take care of Ashley BennettBenny, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters and will certainly take care of raceBenny's enemies, to if he, Benny, and Harper (a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritagewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14711881911662500491

|isbnauthor=0751567426Adam Stower|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twenty-six Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and has been there for fifteen yearsfriendly cat, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and that her father then took the gun sleep and killed himself. Her sister, Dianawell, just twenty-years-old, was left at whatever takes his fancy next of the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernesstwo. RachelBut he's very bright and although shea bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a voluntary patient at hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, thoughcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the circumstances are not as she remembers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1506909442|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-Mystery|author=Matthew de Lacey Davidson|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=''The greatest hatredregular back garden, like the greatest virtue but into a world of frightening adventure and the worst dogswhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is silent.'' The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - honest, but it isnhe't: its turned up and he's honest.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Rob BakerB0C47LV1PC|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=''"Go to Mali," they said. "The music is amazing," they said. "And Can you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.make a '' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. Yo birthing person''A whatjoke?'' I hear And if you cry. Wellcould, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to cultureis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, so rather like a folklorist studies would it land? The catch is that the oral and written story traditions relating to a cultureanswer for both could well be.... no.

|authorisbn=James Patterson1529431735|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the man who would become known as more surprising. He'd been exiled on the roommate killer', strangled three women in Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fortnightdecade. When The return has come about because he was arrested he admitted the killings. A fourth death was attributed to him 's had a letter from his ex- wife, saying that of Holly Kemp - she's ill and on occasions, Masters admitted hasn't long to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itlive. He played with the policeIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings stripped to his underwear and sent to put him away for a long time and watery grave in the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp caseboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing the case further.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1473682401Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=Those who were with us at Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) wondrous library we start by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married visiting with him, and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt in the evening a helper at the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry dessert cafe his gran owns and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilverruns. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying Eli lives with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partnerhis lovely gran, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into too – for there is a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly generation missing in the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07WWSCGVS|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet Tyce|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new schoolfamily. SheA few short years ago, Eli's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going parents were both lost to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all been there ''forever'', they entrants have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter navigate the world in the company of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartmagical beast. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a securities firm - and her motherconfession from gran, Sadie Roper, has come back Eli knows his only hope is to London dare to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the market place - and end – the country - for more than ten yearsonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231