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|author=Stephen FabesSylvie Cathrall|title=Signs of LifeA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= I was brought There are few greater joys than a book which lives up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'a compelling premise. In order words I'm not the sort And this is one of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thatthem.|isbn=17881612110356522776

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi0008517061|title=How It All Blew UpDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=TeensCrime| summary=18-year-old Amir is American IranianFormer Metropolitan Police detective, a MuslimJake Johnson, and gayhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. He struggles There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his identityvet girlfriend, unable to face telling his parents who he really isLivia and her daughter Diana, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs as moving in together would mean a lot of Amir kissing compromise: does Jake give up his boyfriend Amir panics off-grid and runs away...relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Italy! So begins a journey Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for Amir, herself and his family, where they all discover more about him, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and who he really is, and who he really wants to beputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1471409929

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain1786482126|title=The Readers RoomJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|genreauthor=General FictionElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Crime|summary=Violaine's publishing Builders were demolishing an old house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in Norwich - the Readerssite was going to hold seventy-five ' Room to sift through what is ninetyluxury' apartments -nine per cent dross – plus when they discovered the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be bones of a child beneath a huge smash, and so it has provendoorway. But there are several 'howevers' to thatThere was no skull. As inWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, however – Violaine Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a comaworking with DCI Harry Nelson. AndIt's difficult as Ruth knows, however – despite all urgingbut Nelson doesn't, the author that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailone night they spent together some three months ago. What Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any sudden bouts of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974sickness.

|isbn=19481245720008551324|title=Think Outside the BoxThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever theres 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's prepared to tell the police where the body of a puzzle missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>'an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'Just t think outside the box'' And so begins the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. Itshe's a clarion call even prepared to children to use their imaginations do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemsanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=0008405026|title=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger A Stranger in the Family (translatorMaeve Kerrigan 11)|titleauthor=The Seven DoorsJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision She was never found and decisions at the council, being forced investigation ground to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearshalt. The building he's inheritedNow, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single her mother, is needed by their adult daughterHelena, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving and her father are dead in and you're moving out'their bed. NowInitially, at this stage you may well, if you know this is it looks like a genre read, think itstraightforward murder/suicide but there's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in something about the positioning of the 1980s, but nobodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. We avoid genre completely, What looked as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, though it was going to be an open-and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesshut case is now a complex double murder. Until at Kerrigan is convinced that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1913193381

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0571379877|title=A Song of IsolationThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Edward Jevons is a career that is only beginning to hit the heights to retire to the highlands working-class young man, obsessed with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all thingshis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, though handsome and entitled and uses Edward to his credit run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he would rather be working in forestryfeels to Robert. They have found Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, relationship had begun between them but things are starting he's not like most men: Edward is left to feel wrong between stumble upon the two of themkissing in a dark passageway. |isbn=1913193365

|author= Christopher PaoliniJo Callaghan|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= On When a man is found crucified on the moon top of a distant gas gianthill in Nuneaton, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to make the planet habitable to human life. Howevercase alongside her sidekick, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moonAI detective Lock. It's surface leaves her bonded their first live case together, having previously been very successful with a strange alien entityseveral cold cases. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse But when the Extenuating Circumstances there is attacked and destroyed by an alien shipa second body found crucified a few days later, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She Kat is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a rag-tag bunch very high profile case that draws a lot of misfits, and the news is grimunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The same aliens that destroyed Will they be able to solve the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacecase in time, and only a mythical weapon known as or will Kat find herself taken off the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs case and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had potentially, out of a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…career?|isbn=1529046505139851120X

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak1399613073|title=My Life as a CatMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=This is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the story first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humancentury. It's something that each member in the alien collective Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is allowed a bonus when you aim to do, for 1 month, once they reach be a certain agecardiothoracic surgeon. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong with his arrival Laura is a perfectionist and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready to work as a park ranger, he trauma doctor. Anjali is instead in the body free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a cat on drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the other side of consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the country! three friends. This is not what he had planned! time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=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. Not only is he in A hoodie and jeans replaces the wrong place pin-stripe suit and his background is the wrong bodyEast End, where he is also in was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the middle London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a stormfacility 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, stuck in a tree! card game which got him an internship with Citibank. And so he meets OliveEventually, the little girl who rows out in this turned into permanent employment as a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardtrader.|isbn=1788006089

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate1035021803|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to which we can never returnthe English country village where she grew up. Tahi Saihate She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, in her debut novel Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Astral Seasons close friend, Arthur Crockleford, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth dead and how the things we do circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a teenager can seem intensely important cafe, met and often married James (on the rebound from the love of her life-altering, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn= 1916277101

|authorisbn= Andrea StewartAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The Bone Shard Daughter All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (The Drowning EmpireEditors)|rating=4.5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

In an empire controlled by 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 bone shard magic 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 powers animalit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -like constructsquite frightening. Of course, an heir to 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 throne, a smuggler, latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a warrior will fight to find their place in the worldway I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Lin |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a palace of secrets and closed doorsterrorist group. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to Hiding from the throneterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, she vows to show him she there is capable of reviving Sam, a dying empire wartime photographer and in secretAbhi, she begins the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to unlock one door after another, searching try to care remotely for the mysteries of her past and residents who are still alive in the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing hotel, he forms a deadly game bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her quest for power will come at great costroom to try to capture what's happened through her photography. With revolution in Although they only ever talk over the air phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and creeping closer and closer they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peopleterrorists.|isbn=0356514943086154742X

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1529153298|title=She Lies CloseThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, around 6 months agohonestly... There has been no sign of her since) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and no arrests though. Women have been madedisappearing. And yet Well, they've been murdered, this book is not about Avabut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Not really Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. This book is about Grace When you're from Yorkshire, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house Down South is a suspect in Ava's disappearancefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. As a single mother to two young children For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's really wishing this sort of information had come stopped talking - to light before they moved inanyone.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti1398524085|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Tabby Cat Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature all worried but - strangely - a largeher husband, dog-like creature - appears in their houseAlec, is not. Black Cat Shortly afterwards, always one to take chargeEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, challenges this fearsome creature with all in the river. It was an easy assumption for the courage police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from a rather safe distancecouldn't stand the guilt. The creature is indignant - Salter children are not convinced but there''I'm not a dogs little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbn=17124357281035906708|title=Jamie's KeepsakeDiva|author=Michael GallagherDaisy Goodwin

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he's just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back We tend to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention think of doing that: he's been there for a yearMaria Callas as Greek, on the same ward where his brother died and nowbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, with his hair all shorn offNew York, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He wants Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that he's not Callas' to mention TB and to say make it was tonsillitismore manageable in the States. Good luck with When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that oneshe could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, AlexJackie.

|author=Alice OsemanChristopher Edge|title=SolitaireBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to ''I can hear the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; song of the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete lonersea. She hates a lot The call of things - including herselfthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. But suddenly'' Rosevear, a blog called Solitaire has arrived remote and is pulling pranks throughout partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the school. And Michael Holden has appeared rocks and is showing up everywhere in Tori's lifeplundering the wrecks. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedMira, like her mother before her, but suddenly she isone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. What does Solitaire want? WhoBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Torileader and Mira's life so badly and father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as heis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, really? Things are she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only getting stranger and darkernine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=97800075592200008664730

|author=Natasha FarrantJames Sherwood Metts|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Set in England in Things have been a bit sticky for the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti Earthlings. AI and Benautomation have been proceeding apace, who have lost everyone often replacing jobs they love, but don't want re paid to do and other tasks that took time to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopeaccomplish. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying Just as they were beginning to get used to the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields all this technological change and starting to take care think of him. Lottiother, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs new ways to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deepspend time, and powerful friendshipalong came an awful pandemic. It sees them become each other's family, Life was pretty much shut down and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boatalong with it, to try to find out all the truth of the people many daily social interactions on which they both lovedepend so heavily.|isbn=05713487691736128426

|isbnauthor=1471179273Matthew Tree|title=House We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Correctionself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicci FrenchA G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she'' There's in prisona part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, on remandall mine, at last. SheI just want to enjoy it for a while.''s sharing  Within a cell with Michaelaremote mountain pass, far away from the world, wholies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's more caring than , a family 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 appears. She delivers tough love non-witch to be born into her family for generations and gets Tabitha eating as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and drinking - administration rather than spells and encourages potions. When her to have a showergrandmother suddenly dies, unpleasant as Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? WellBriar Witch, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her garden shed by Andrew Kaneway left, who was helping with right and centre, Ellie uncovers the renovations rare ability to Tabitha's house. So far as communicate with the police are concerneddead, Tabitha is putting her at the only person heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who could have killed Rees - to trust and when determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodhave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529900360|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This third It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and final book in even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the first volume help of Darren Shana psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and Inez make it almost all the way to the Cuckoo's Nest, where not the Vote of Alignment will be heldItalian. But how will they get inwhich of them was the primary target?|isbn=B086LLWP4V

|isbn=00083147211529395224|title=Truth Be ToldLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Kia AbdullahSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The Hadids are an Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'effortful'' familys life. Flowers are sent for When he was seventeen he took the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this prompts a phone call in returnwas the job for him. There are two sons of the familyBefore long, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamhe was at Liverpool University. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnIt hadn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue - as with so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'many students - been his dream since he was a child. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolIf anything, 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 he'd wanted to be going well until the night when he was rapeda professional footballer.

|isbn=15098895150861541774|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Ann CleevesSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=It was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home short holiday in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened Singapore to the toddler strapped into the car seatmeet up with an old ally, particularly as the car door had been left openGuy Trueman. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'' it Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would be the village but it later maintain that he was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the facing a man who inherited armed with a knife - and Hector was the black sheep of the familyhe killed a Ghurka. Calling there unannouncedInitially, particularly as they seemed he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have guests was going planned to murder the man. Now he could be embarrassing, but there was little else that she facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could do in the circumstancesprovoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0241425441Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter Perfect Passion Company is Joyce Meadowcrofta dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She used to be a nurse Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth planning to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed trip to Canada to bleed outget away for a while. Details Katie is coming out of where a break up with a bad boyfriend, and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes 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 that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. It didn't put Joyce off Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her shepherdabilities, and there's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get always her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday very helpful (as you might have guessedand rather handsome) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=19481244400811771741|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukMelissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=The second book in Justine AveryMelissa Leapman's Wonders series is the perfect antidote ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to long summer days with bored children blankets. Some will be quick knits - or, indeed, as weothers are of the 've found recentlylong, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across cosy afternoons in front of the worldfire' variety. What do you do when every book has been read 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 every toy has been played with, repurposedmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and played with again?useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author= Samira AhmedDean Koontz|title= Mad, The Bad and Dangerous to KnowWeather Friend|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=''In the endBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like and someone has delivered a dream for most peoplereally weird, especially artdisturbing coffin-loverssized object to his home, but Khayyam canand it't relax and stop thinking about s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the mess she left behind in Chicagovery last person to deserve all this bad luck. On He is a chance encounter with nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a descendant of Alexandre Dumasnew friend, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumastake care of Benny, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselveswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottenHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03490035561662500491

|author=Alice OsemanAdam Stower|title=LovelessMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Georgia Murray is supposed to be a teenager humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who's embarking on her first year of university and is in a desperate struggle able to figure herself out. She's always been in love with love. With the idea sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of love, the idea of falling madly for someone and finding blisstwo. But the reality for her has always been different. Shehe's never had a crush. Shebad magician's never cat, so his favourite bun has been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of real, tangible frightening adventure and physical way for her - she's disgusted by whiffs. This time round it. But isn't that what shedrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's supposed to want? Isnturned up and he't that what everyone is supposed ll have to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?do…|isbn=000824412X0008561249

|isbn=B086LLRZFHB0C47LV1PC|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanFragility|author=Darren ShanMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=ArchieCan you make a 's second foray into 'the MergeYo birthing person' opens with a fantastic vista. All of the Born's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Benjoke? And if you could, is the Taj Mahal,  question should you make it? Or is the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherquestion if you did, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie would it land? The catch is carrying an urgent cry that the answer for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to both could well 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 a new, and even more dangerous, adventure...no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=14087122881529431735|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Winter Visitor|author=Val McDermidJames Henry

|summary=It was the middle of 's February 1991 and bitterly Essex is bitingly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled , which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a body out the Firth of Forth instead of wanted drug smuggler for a lobster potdecade. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnhasn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghlive. A decade earlier heIt's gone missing hard to feel any sympathy when he was the prime suspect Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the disappearance and possible murder boot of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulda stolen Ford Sierra. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible problem closer to bring her into the case at an early stage.home?

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Doors Glorious Race of EdenMagical Beasts|rating= 4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Wow Eli is a busy lad – this novel is giganticby day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in every sense of the word. "Epic" is evening a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned helper at the name it's this onedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas Eli lives with his lovely gran, and at times it almost felt too big – for my brainthere is a generation missing in the family.|isbn=1509865888}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Hinton Hollow Death Trip|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5 A few short years ago,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaEli's mid-westparents were both lost to the titular race, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in Berkshire, Englandthe company of a magical beast. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereThis has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, until something happened and Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he ran away to most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going only thing to touch just about everyone in townpossibly save his gran.|isbn=19131933060571382231