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|isbnauthor=1471179273Sylvie Cathrall|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing There are few greater joys than a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her book which lives up to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might becompelling premise. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body this is one of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008517061|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This third 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 final book her daughter Diana, as moving in the first volume together would mean a lot of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Inez make it almost all relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the way to future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the Cuckoo's Nest, where future on the Vote of Alignment will be heldback burner. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V

|isbn=00083147211786482126|title=Truth Be ToldThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kia AbdullahElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'effortful'' familyapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and Was this prompts a phone call in return. ritual killing or murder? There are two sons of the familyInevitably, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old AdamDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Their motherIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Sofiabut Nelson doesn't, regrets that she didn't name them is pregnant with his child as a result of the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'one night they spent together some three months ago. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolHer condition will be obvious before long, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed not least because Ruth is prone to be going well until the night when he was rapedsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15098895150008551324|title=The Darkest Evening Devil You Know (D I Vera StanhopeS Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took 's unusual for anyone from the wrong turning as she drove home in Hardie family to approach the blizzardpolice. If she hadnNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he't s prepared to tell the car might not have been found until police where the morning body of a missing person is buried and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left openwas responsible for her death. Vera took the boy This person, he promises, is someone big and drove to it will be worth the nearest habitationpolice doing what he wants. She ''thought'' it would And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother remainder of the man who inherited - his sentence and Hector was the black sheep of the familyto get an early parole date. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going Not much to be embarrassingask, but there was little else that is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she could 's even prepared to do in the circumstancesother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=02414254410008405026|title=The Thursday Murder ClubA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Richard OsmanJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She used to be a nurse was never found and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth investigation ground to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outhalt. Details of where Now, her mother, Helena, and how her father are exchanged and Joyce confirms that dead in their bed. Initially, it would have taken looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about forty-five minutes the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubcomplex double murder. They meet each Thursday Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as you might have guessedDerwent's boss, Una Burt) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageare less convinced.

|isbn=19481244400571379877|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsThe Kellerby Code|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series Edward Jevons is the perfect antidote to long summer days a working-class young man, obsessed with bored children his upper- orclass friends, indeedRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, as we've found recentlydemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the worldhim. What do you do when every book Edward has been read and every toy has been played in love with, repurposed, Stanza since their university days - and played with again?he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author= Samira AhmedJo Callaghan|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowLeave No Trace|rating= 3.54|genre=TeensCrime|summary=''In When a man is found crucified on the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like top of a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind hill in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre DumasNuneaton, Khayyam DCS Kat Frank finds herself on a historical journey with him assigned to unveil the truth about case alongside her sidekick, the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with Alendre Dumasseveral cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Eugene Delacroix Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Lord Byrona very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. As Will they be able to solve the two teenagers travel case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the city they not only discover themselvescase and, potentially, but uncover the true story out of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.a career?|isbn=0349003556139851120X

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1399613073|title=LovelessMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on her the first year day of university medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is in a desperate struggle bonus when you aim to figure herself outbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. She's always been in love with love Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. With Anjali is the idea free spirit of love, the idea of falling madly for someone group and finding blissshe becomes a GP. But the reality for her has always been different. She When we first meet them they's never had re at a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something drug and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind of real, tangible alcohol-fuelled party and physical way for her - she's disgusted by it. But isn't that what she's supposed going to want? Isnend 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 what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do will impact the three friends. This time, it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412Xs their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B086LLRZFH0241636604|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Darren ShanGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=ArchieIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with a fantastic vistare unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. All of A hoodie and jeans replaces the Born's most famous buildings pin-stripe suit and monuments - Big Ben, his background is the Taj MahalEast End,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherwhere he was familiar with violence, joined by those clever Merge vinespoverty and injustice. But there's There was no time posh public school on his CV - but he had been to waste in admiration: Archie the London School of Economics. Stevenson is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to bright - extremely bright - and he has a venerable locksmith called Winstonfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for stupid. It was his foster parentsability at what was, essentially, Archie feels a card game which got him an obligation to take Winston's placeinternship with Citibank. And so Archie embarks on Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a new, and even more dangerous, adventure...trader.

|isbn=14087122881035021803|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Val McDermidC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the middle English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd Freya's former mentor and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and it didn't take too long the circumstances seem suspicious, to establish that say the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghleast. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he Arthur was the prime suspect in reason why Freya had not been back to the disappearance and possible murder of his brothervillage: Arthur, prominent civil servantshe feels, Iain Auldlet her down badly. DCI Karen Pirie, Even though they were in business together as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unitantique hunters, had been she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the last person to review profession she loved. After the casesplit, she worked in a couple cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of years earlier her life, who was murdered) and Freya and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stageJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Adrian TchaikovskyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The Doors of EdenAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5

|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the wordshape of things to come. "Epic" '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a word thatfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's thrown around a lot these days, advantageous to me but if a book ever earned I'm left with the name feeling that it's this oneall getting away from me. It's a doorstopper full Some of big ideasit 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 at times it almost felt too big for my brainwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1509865888

|author=Will CarverSunny Singh|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It sounds like one of those signs you see Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westsite, but this particular Hinton Hollow there is Sam, a small town in Berkshirewartime photographer and Abhi, Englandthe hotel manager. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereAs 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, until something happened and he ran away keeps on venturing out of her room to try to the citycapture what's happened through her photography. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and is going they both wait to touch just about everyone in townsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1913193306086154742X

|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1529153298|title=Love FrankieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Frankie It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is nearly fourteenPrime Minister. Being nearly fourteen is (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not easy when your mum has what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to leave have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her for another womanfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedDown South is a frightening, andforeign place, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at schoolbest avoided. Oh For Miv, and when Sam, your the move would mean leaving her best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - Sharon, and you donshe't fancy him backll do anything to prevent that. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=17765728581398524085|title=How Do You Make a BabyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Nicci French

|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 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 Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigantwo. But he's Upper Peninsula. Shea bad magician's twenty-six and cat, so his favourite bun has been there for fifteen yearsturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and killed himselfwhiffs. Her sisterThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, Dianawhere a troll hunter is expected – well, just twenty-years-oldone much bigger than Murray was, was left at the family hometo be honest, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachelbut he's very bright turned up and although shehe's ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a voluntary patient at ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the Mental Health Center she remains therequestion if you did, feeling would it land? The catch is that this the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is what she deserves. Perhapsset as the city of Portland, thoughOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the circumstances are not as she remembers.covid pandemic

|isbn=15069094421529431735|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryWinter Visitor|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJames Henry

|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'The greatest hatred, like return all the greatest virtue and more surprising. He'd been exiled on the worst dogsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, is silent.saying that she's ill and hasn' The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, is from German romantic writer Jean Pault long to live. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson It's latest novel and for whom hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way abducted, stripped to the very last his underwear and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all sent to a watery grave in the way throughboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It sounds uncomfortable - but Is it isn't: it's honest.a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Rob BakerAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials Glorious Race of Expat Life in AfricaMagical Beasts

|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=''"Go to MaliEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him," they saidand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. "The music is amazing Eli lives with his lovely gran," they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.'' Rob Baker too – for there is an ethnomusicologista generation missing in the family. '' A what?few short years ago, Eli'' I hear you cry. Wells parents were both lost to the titular race, an ethnomusicologist studies music a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in relation the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to culture, so rather like the pair – but when a folklorist studies bad incident at the oral and written story traditions relating eatery leads to a cultureconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=B089CSNFT70571382231