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|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Seven DoorsA 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 them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. We start with our couple, she There’s perhaps a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at little uncertainty about the council, being forced to move out future of their home, a building that had existed throughout her his life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhilewith his vet girlfriend, Livia and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult her daughterDiana, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. future she wants for herself and her daughter? We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, For the moment they’re enjoying life in case that has any bearing on what happens here, the present and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until putting the point where future on the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedback burner.|isbn=1913193381

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1786482126|title=A Song of IsolationThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only beginning to hit Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the heights to retire site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant bones of all thingsa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, though to his credit he would rather be Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working in forestrywith DCI Harry Nelson. They have found It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a hideaway on a small Scottish estateresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but things are starting not least because Ruth is prone to feel wrong between themsudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=1913193365

|authorisbn= Christopher Paolini0008551324|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with It's unusual for anyone from the efforts Hardie family to make approach the planet habitable to human lifepolice. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under Neither side likes or has any respect for the moonother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After prepared to tell the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half police where the staff body of the research stationa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad an open prison to worse when serve the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked remainder of his sentence and destroyed by to get an alien shipearly parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she has to flee 's even prepared to do the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a ragother thing that Hardie demanded -tag bunch of misfits, make certain that DS Max Craigie and the news anyone who works with him is grimkept well away from what's happening. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak0008405026|title=My Life as a CatA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member in sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the alien collective is allowed investigation ground to do, for 1 month, once they reach a certain agehalt. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeNow, her mother, Helena, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing her father are dead in Yellowstone Parktheir bed. Initially, ready to work as it looks like a park ranger, he is instead in straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the body positioning of a cat on the other side of the country! bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. This What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is not what he had planned! now a complex double murder. Not only Kerrigan is he convinced that the explanation lies in the wrong place and the wrong bodyRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, he 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 his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the middle of a storm, stuck love with Stanza since their university days - and 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 tree! And so relationship had begun between them but he meets Olive, 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the little girl who rows out two of them kissing in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonarddark passageway.|isbn=1788006089

|author= Tahi SaihateJo Callaghan|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonLeave No Trace|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= We long for our past even though it When a man is found crucified on the top of a place hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to which we can never returnthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel It''Astral Seasons their first live case together, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Her novel But when there is a meditation on youth second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and how a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the things we do as case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.career?|isbn= 1916277101139851120X

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1399613073|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsOlivia, an heir to Laura and Anjali met on the throne, first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a smugglercentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and which is a warrior will fight bonus when you aim to find their place in the worldbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Lin Laura is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets perfectionist and closed doorsa trauma doctor. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to Anjali is the throne, she vows to show him she is capable free spirit of reviving a dying empire the group and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicbecomes a GP. Yet Lin is playing When we first meet them they're at a deadly game drug and her quest for power will come at great costalcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. With revolution in We don't know who suffered the air and creeping closer and closer to tragedy or the gates of consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the palacethree friends. This time, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peopleit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0356514943

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering0241636604|title=She Lies CloseThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Ava Boone If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you'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 five years old when she went missingfamiliar with violence, around 6 months agopoverty and injustice. There has was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been no sign to the London School of her since, and no arrests have been madeEconomics. And yet, this book Stevenson is not about Avabright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Not really He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. This book is about Grace It was his ability at what was, essentially, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearancecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. As a single mother to two young children Eventually, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inturned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti1035021803|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happensIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. A creature - She's back now because of a largerequest for help from her beloved aunt, dog-like creature - appears in their houseCarole. Black Cat Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, always one to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all say the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.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 rebound from a rather safe distancethe love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbn=1712435728AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=JamieAll Tomorrow's KeepsakeFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Michael GallagherBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he's just being released from 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the Southern General Hospitalshape of things to come. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing ' I've heard it said that: he's technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been there for more than a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with his hair all shorn off, hewhat's going home in his dead brotheradvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's clothesall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. He wants to get outside Of course, I could research the possibilities and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good probabilities and his mother tells him that heend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitisre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Good luck with that one, AlexI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Alice OsemanSunny Singh|title=SolitaireHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Victoria Spring The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She has one real friend; Hiding from the rest terrorists who are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenlyrampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a blog called Solitaire has arrived wartime photographer and is pulling pranks throughout Abhi, the schoolhotel manager. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedthe hotel, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be linked cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to Tori? Why does Michael want try to be in Toricapture what's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are happened through her photography. Although they only getting stranger and darkerever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=9780007559220086154742X

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant1529153298|title=Voyage The List of the SparrowhawkSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the story of two childrenPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Lotti and Benhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, who though. Women have lost everyone been disappearing. Well, they love've been murdered, but donto have 'disappeared' doesn't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopesound quite so frightening. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the police about his brotherfamily 'Down South's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. LottiWhen you're from Yorkshire, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and Down South is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. The day Lotti meets Ben (For Miv, the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deepmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and powerful friendshipshe'll do anything to prevent that. It sees them become each otherShe's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in not worried about the boat, dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveanyone.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792731398524085|title=House of CorrectionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's in prison, on remandfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She's sharing a cell with MichaelaHer children, sons Niall, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love Paul and gets Tabitha eating Ollie and drinking her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - and encourages her to have a showerhusband, Alec, unpleasant as the whole processes might beis not. And how did Tabitha get here? WellShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, on 21 December find the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who the river. It was helping with an easy assumption for the renovations police to Tabithamake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's houset stand the guilt. So far as the police The Salter children are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Darren ShanDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|titlegenre=General Fiction|summary=Archibald Lox We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Vote Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Alignment her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=This third Lucas and final book his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the first volume nickname of Darren Shan's new The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Inez make it almost all many, many snacks! However, as the way movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the Cuckoo's Nestnext, where the Vote of Alignment will be held. But how will can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get inback to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1839942738

|isbnauthor=0008314721Rachel Greenlaw|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortfulI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' family Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Flowers are sent for Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent seven who swim out to thank survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and this prompts any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a phone call in return. There are two sons of trap to end the familywrecking, seventeen-year-old Kamran they capture the island's leader and sixteen-year-old AdamMira's father. Their motherDesperate to save him from death, SofiaMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'sea. Sofia worries about that sort With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of thing. Both boys go foreign islands to the prestigious Hampton schoolheart of the smuggler's territory, where they board, despite Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park future of her home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1509889515James Sherwood Metts|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took bit sticky for the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardEarthlings. If she hadn't the car might not AI and automation have been found until the morning proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and who knows what would have happened other tasks that took time to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly accomplish. Just as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and drove starting to think of other, new ways to the nearest habitationspend time, along came an awful pandemic. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it Life was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - pretty much shut down and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassingalong with it, but there was little else that she could do in all the circumstancesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0241425441Matthew Tree|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a nurse drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to bleed out. Details of where his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical help. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) set himself high but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1948124440A G Slatter|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=The second book in Justine Avery'' There's Wonders series is the perfect antidote a part of me that wants to keep this just to long summer days with bored children - or, indeed, as we've found recently, myself for those however long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the worldI can. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played withThis secret magic of my own, repurposedall mine, and played with again?}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous at last. I just want to Know|rating= 3enjoy it for a while.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories''

Spending Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the summer in Paris sounds like world, lies Silverton; a dream town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for most peoplemagic, especially artEllie Briar is the first non-loverswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, but Khayyam can't relax her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagopotions. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre DumasWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the truth about Briar Witch, the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumastown's leader, Eugene Delacroix and Lord ByronEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the two teenagers travel rare ability to communicate with the city they not only discover themselvesdead, but uncover putting her at the true story heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the woman and why it was one that should never Briar witches' legacy, everything they have been forgottensacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03490035561803364548

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1529900360|title=LovelessThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager whoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's embarking on her first year of university fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and is in a desperate struggle even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to figure herself outask for his help on difficult cases. She His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's always been in love with love. With t need the idea help of love, the idea of falling madly a psychologist only worked for someone and finding blissa while. But the reality for her has always been different. She Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's never had a crushpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She's never been kissedknew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. And she's desperate to feel something and fall for someone The next case did look simple, though. But when Two lovers were murdered in the opportunity presents itself swimming pool of a remote property in any kind of real, tangible Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and physical way for her - sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's disgusted by itnot the Italian. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't shewhich of them was the primary target?|isbn=000824412X

|isbn=B086LLRZFH1529395224|title=Archibald Lox and Letting the Cat Out of the Empress Bag: The Secret Life of Suanpana Vet|author=Darren ShanSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Archie's second foray Siôn Rowlands fell into 'the Merge' opens with veterinary science accidentally. His father was a fantastic vista. All of the BornGP and Rowlands didn's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Bent want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Taj Mahal,  the Eiffel Tower strain that being on- are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But therecall put on his father's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is family friend who was a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home vet and worry was convinced this was the job for his foster parentshim. Before long, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstonhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's place. And t - as with so Archie embarks on many students - been his dream since he was a newchild. If anything, and even more dangerous, adventure...he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=14087122880861541774|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Val McDermidSteve Burrows

|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was the middle of February and bitterly cold when facing a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled man armed with a body out the Firth of Forth instead of knife - and he killed a lobster potGhurka. It fell Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer light that suggested that he might have planned to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that murder the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier he's gone missing when Now he was could be facing the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulddeath penalty. DCI Karen Pirie, Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, any interference from another police force could provoke a couple of years earlier diplomatic incident and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case wouldn't help Danny at an early stageall.

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Doors of EdenPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel The Perfect Passion Company is gigantica dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in every sense of providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the wordbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. "Epic" Katie is coming out of a word that's thrown around break up with a lot these daysbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but if with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a book ever earned the name itbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's this one. Italways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a doorstopper full collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of big ideasthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and at times it almost felt too big for more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my brainage when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1509865888

|author=Will CarverDean Koontz|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Hinton HollowBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, population 5he loses his fiancee,120and his house gets trashed. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's mid-westpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but Benny is the very last person to deserve all this particular Hinton Hollow bad luck. He is a small town in Berkshire, Englandnice person. A really nice person. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, until something happened and he ran away who has been sent to the cityhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. HeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's running away again…only this time evil is following him enemies, if he, Benny, and is going to touch just about everyone in townHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19131933061662500491

|author=Jacqueline WilsonAdam Stower|title=Love FrankieMurray and Bun

|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Frankie Murray is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided able to leave her for another womansleep and eat and eat and sleep and, when your older sister well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the girliest girl who ever livedcatflap they both use can chuck them out, andnot into the regular back garden, above all when Sally but into a world of frightening adventure and her mates are bullying you at schoolwhiffs. Oh This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, and when Samone much bigger than Murray was, your best friend since foreverto be honest, suddenly starts sending out signs that but he might fancy you - 's turned up and you donhe't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! ll have to do…|isbn= 0857535897 0008561249

|isbn=1776572858B0C47LV1PC|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Fragility|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than ? Or is the basicsquestion if you did, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told would it land? The catch is that it wouldn't the answer for both could well be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ... no. ''knewFragility'' moreis set as the city of Portland, but was little ''wiser''. ThankfullyOregon, times have changed.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15420174321529431735|title=The Nidderdale MurdersWinter Visitor|author=J R EllisJames Henry|rating=34

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillmore surprising. The shooters at He'd been exiled on the butts were Costa del Sol as a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor and wanted drug smuggler for a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysdecade. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley return has come about because he's had a gripe with Fraser: heletter from his ex-wife, saying that she'd sold him an expensive car s ill and Fraser was being slow hasn't long to paylive. Other people had reason to comment on FraserIt's attitude hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy underwear and very difficult sent to work fora watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0241433568Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's 1930 Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his house in Spaingran owns and runs. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank Eli lives with his lovely gran, too much at lunch: he's going to have – for there is a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something seriousgeneration missing in the family. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that heA few short years ago, Eli's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be parents were both lost to the killer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow Ittitular race, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope globe- robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed trotting adventure where all entrants have to get hold navigate the world in the company of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buymagical beast. There's also This has made the possibility of using race anathema to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008378363|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela Crane|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A husband is about pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to have a confession from gran, Eli knows his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need only hope is to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went dare to the same college in Monroevilleenter what he most hates, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves with the Spicier Girls as a nod to sole aim the famous girl band prize of magic at the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be end – the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231