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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=BetrayalA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|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|rating=4

|summary=Meet UrsulaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, the stand-in ministerJake Johnson, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a yearhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the children who are ignorant future of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleanerhis life with his vet girlfriend, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with Livia and her Tinder profile. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampdaughter Diana, who has taken one look at as moving in together would mean a newspaper image lot of Ursula, compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and, knowing relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her of old, decided reservations about whether or not this is the future she needs saving from the devil posing beside wants for herself and her. daughter? You'll meet For the moment they’re enjoying life in the ministerial bodyguard present and driver putting the future on the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptback burner. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1786482126|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Elsie is Builders were demolishing an ordinary sort old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of girla child beneath a doorway. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgottenThere was no skull. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens to her. Was this a ritual killing or murder? So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herInevitably, they have to arrange for her to go and stay Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her Great Uncle for a weekDCI Harry Nelson. Poor ElsieIt's difficult as Ruth knows, forgotten againbut Nelson doesn't, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house that she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India is pregnant with his child as a boy, and he has an enormous tiger rug on result of the floor of one of the roomsnight they spent together some three months ago. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyHer condition will be obvious before long, and he says he has to keep it not least because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, Ruth is prone to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agosudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1788541707

|isbn=14721270130008551324|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenNeil Lancaster

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on handIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. The chairman 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 Philpott Electronics a missing person is buried and who was concerned about his managing directorresponsible for her death. This person, Harold Cheesemanhe promises, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like is someone big and it therewill be worth the police doing what he wants. This was unusual, as And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his wife had died before Cheeseman went sentence and to Australiaget an early parole date. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifeNot much to ask, Sheraton, was seeing another man. is it? Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to instal listening devices in do the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and his secretary, anyone who was works with him is kept well away from Geneva. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murderwhat's happening. 

|isbn=00084203860008405026|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrongStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Elizabeth DayJane Casey|rating=45|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe WallerIt's sixteen years since nine-year-Bridgeold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, Lemn Sissayher mother, Nigel SlaterHelena, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have her father are dead in common? their bed. TheyInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've all failed s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- more importantly and- they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwardsshut case is now a complex double murder. You'll find Kerrigan is convinced that the results of these discussions explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Failosophy''s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=05713626720571379877|title=SnowThe Kellerby Code|author=John BanvilleJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''WellEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, at least youRobert and Stanza. Robert're s a Wexford mantheatre director. He'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957run errands for him. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingRobert. Strafford was Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornehe's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the different religions - was two of them kissing in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therea dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1787477630Jo Callaghan|title=The Postscript Murders|author=Elly GriffithsLeave No Trace

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with man is found crucified on the top of a heart condition dies peacefully hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her armchairsidekick, it really shouldnthe AI detective Lock. It't be suspicious s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that was draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the view case in time, or will Kat find herself taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she spoke becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to Peggy Smithend in tragedy. We don's carert know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that there was more will impact the three friends. This 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 Peggybring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's death than met re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the eye pin- particularly as she knew that there stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no heart condition posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that Peggy had worried that she was being followedmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Then there It was the fact that Peggy his ability at what was , essentially, a 'murder consultant' who helped authors card game which got him an internship with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowCitibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=00083301311035021803|title=The Stolen SistersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Louise JensenC L Miller

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we start It''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that s twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultssince Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Well, theyShe're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issuess back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksCarole. TheyFreya're the Sinclair sisters s former mentor and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she was in charge of her sistersthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the eight-year-old twinsleast. Much as she loved them Carly Arthur was desperate the reason why Freya had not been back to get a text from Dean Malden and the village: Arthur, she feels, let her mobile phone held her attentiondown badly. Leah and Marie Even though they were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsidein business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The gate wasn't shut properly and BrunoAfter the split, their boxer dogshe worked in a cafe, escaped. As met and married James (on the rebound from the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Stephen FabesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Signs of LifeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= I was brought ''Opening up on maps and first-person narratives new ways of tales thinking about the shape of far away placesthings to come. '' I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. UnfortunatelyWell, I didnmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I't inherit ve kept up reasonably well with what Dr's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do Some of itis - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I also didn't inherit could research the possibilities and the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers probabilities and basic practicality that would have meant that end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottlem reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. In order words I'm not the sort of person needed people I knew I could trust and who will get on could deliver information in a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thatway I could understand.|isbn=1788161211

|author=Arvin AhmadiSunny Singh|title=How It All Blew UpHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers | summary=18-year-old Amir The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is American IranianSam, a Muslimwartime photographer and Abhi, and gaythe hotel manager. He struggles with his identity, unable As Abhi continues to try to face telling his parents care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he really isforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..capture what's happened through her photography.to Italy! So begins a journey for AmirAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants both wait to see if they will berescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1471409929086154742X

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain1529153298|title=The Readers RoomList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5

|rating=3.5|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great success1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptshonestly... ) The three people who work in the ReadersShe' Room to sift through s not what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so it has provenfrightening. But there are several Miv'howeverss upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to thatmove the family 'Down South'. As inWhen you're from Yorkshire, however – Violaine herself Down South is not having life all her own waya frightening, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentforeign place, and starts this book coming round from a comabest avoided. And, however – despite all urgingFor Miv, the author 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 email. What is going to befall Violainemove would mean leaving her best friend, her memorySharon, her staff – and how much is any of it due she'll do anything to the hit novel? prevent that. And just where She's not worried about the heck did dangers or that come from?|isbn=1910477974her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=19481245721398524085|title=Think Outside the BoxHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Whenever you s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find a problem <br>''Wherever therethe body of Greg's a puzzle to solve <br>''However you get stuck father, Duncan Ackerley, in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the box'river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' And so begins t stand the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiukguilt. It The Salter children are not convinced but there's a clarion call to children to use little else they can do but get on with their imaginations lives and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemswonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1035906708|title=The Seven DoorsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try We tend to suggest a genre think of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleMaria Callas as Greek, but she a literature lecturer, he big was born to Greek parents in medical provision and decisions at the councilManhattan, being forced to move out of their homeNew York, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood in December 1923 and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out only moved to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'Athens when she was thirteen. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasionCallas' thrillers Hollywood gave us to make it more manageable in the 1980s, but noStates. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, When she was back in case Athens - supposedly so that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an oldershe could get appropriate training for her voice -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 she was raised under the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1913193381

|author=Michael J MaloneChristopher Edge|title=A Song of IsolationBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a career place that is only beginning to hit has the heights to retire nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the highlands with movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestryadventure they couldn't even imagine. They have found a hideaway But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on a small Scottish estate? Will they ever get back to the cinema, but things are starting and to feel wrong between them. their real lives?|isbn=19131933651839942738

|author= Christopher PaoliniRachel Greenlaw|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= On ''I can hear the song of the moon sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a distant gas giantremote and partially forgotten island, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with survives on luring ships into the efforts to make rocks and plundering the planet habitable to human lifewrecks. HoweverMira, like her mother before her, a discovery is one of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entityseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. After But when the entity bonded Council Watch lays a trap to her loses control and kills half the staff of end the research stationwrecking, they capture the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to take Kira in for examination. Things go save him from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is attacked secretive and destroyed by an alien shipwith only coordinates to guide her, and she has to flee to sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the 61 Cygnus star systemsea. She is revived aboard With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch watched streets of misfits, and foreign islands to the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed heart of the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacesmuggler's territory, and only a mythical weapon known as Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Staff future of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs her home 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 ones she could've possibly imagined…holds most dear.|isbn=15290465050008664730

|author=Carlie SorosiakJames Sherwood Metts|title=My Life as a CatPlanet Storyland

|summary=This is Things have been a bit sticky for the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humanEarthlings. ItAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's something re paid to do and other tasks that each member in the alien collective is allowed took time to do, for 1 month, once accomplish. Just as they reach a certain age. Leonard comes were beginning to get used to earth but gets distracted en route, all this technological change and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead starting to think of landing in Yellowstone Parkother, ready new ways to work as a park rangerspend time, he is instead in the body of a cat on the other side of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the wrong body, he is also in along with it, all the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! And many daily social interactions on which they depend so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardheavily.|isbn=17880060891736128426

|author= Tahi SaihateMatthew Tree|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonbe different from his father, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and often life-alteringset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= 1916277101B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Andrea StewartA G Slatter|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I could never be what he wanted if can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I did not take what I wantedjust want to enjoy it for a while.''

In an empire controlled by Within a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsremote mountain pass, an heir to far away from the throneworld, lies Silverton; a smugglertown under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and a warrior will fight to find their place in the wider worldfrom the Darklands. Lin Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the emperor's forgotten daughterfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, kept locked away in her training as a palace of secrets steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and closed doorspotions. When her father refuses to recognise grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her as heir to the throneway left, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire right and in secretcentre, she begins Ellie uncovers the rare ability to unlock one door after anothercommunicate with the dead, searching for the mysteries of putting her past and at the forbidden art heart of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costmaelstrom of chaos. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer Reeling from one family secret to the gates of the palaceanother, Lin Ellie must decide just how far she will who to trust and determine what to go do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to become a catalyst of change and save her peoplesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=03565149431803364548

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1529900360|title=She Lies CloseThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. There has been no sign His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of her sincea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, and no arrests have been made. And yetDelaware's partner, this book is not about Avawho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Not really She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. This book is about Grace The next case did look simple, who has just discovered her neighbour though. Two lovers were murdered in her new house is the swimming pool of a suspect remote property in AvaBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's disappearancenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. As His father was a single mother GP and Rowlands didn't want to two young childrenfollow in his footsteps, sheparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's really wishing life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this sort of information had come was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to light before they moved inbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti0861541774|title=The Adventures A Nye of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Tabby Cat are minding their own business former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a large, dogknife -like creature - appears in their houseand he killed a Ghurka. Black Cat Initially, always one he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all murder the courage man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - diplomatic incident and wouldn''I'm not a dogt help Danny at all. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbnauthor=1712435728Alexander McCall Smith|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, he's just being released from run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Southern General Hospitalonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. The nurse thinks he'll Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come back and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of doing that: he's been there for a yearbreak up with a bad boyfriend, on and so jumps at the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going chance to come home in his dead brother's clothesto Edinburgh. He wants And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get outside 44 Scotland Street and back the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with his friends: his brothersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, Forbesor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that hethere's not to mention TB always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0811771741|title=SolitaireInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to the worldblankets. Nothing is interesting. People Some will be quick knits - others are stupid and boringof the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. She has one real friend; The projects are divided by the rest are just people she sits near so shetime they's not a ll take to complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenlyless than five hours, five to ten hours, a blog called Solitaire has arrived ten to twenty hours and is pulling pranks throughout more than twenty hours. All the school. And Michael Holden has appeared projects are attractive, modern and is showing up everywhere in Tori's lifeuseable. Tori doesn I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't know (or care) why shesocial-media-worthy projects's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Torithat's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreme being picky.|isbn=9780007559220

|author=Natasha FarrantDean Koontz|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, this is the story of two childrenhe loses his fiancee, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopehis house gets trashed. Ben is living on Oh, and someone has delivered a narrowboat on the canalreally weird, lying disturbing coffin-sized object to the police about his brotherhome, and it's imminent return from possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the battlefields very last person to take care of himdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. LottiSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, meanwhilea bad weather friend called Spike, who has been expelled sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from school and is back at home; it's nefarious forces for being a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forgood person. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) Spike is the beginning going to take care of a deepBenny, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherwill certainly take care of Benny's familyenemies, if he, Benny, and undertake Harper (a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out the truth of the people who exactly they both loveare.|isbn=05713487691662500491

|isbnauthor=1471179273Adam Stower|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she's in prisonwell, on remandwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. SheBut he's sharing a cell with Michaela, whobad magician's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showerthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, unpleasant as not into the whole processes might beregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. And how did Tabitha get here? WellThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees one much bigger than Murray was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithabe honest, but he's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could turned up and he'll have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Darren ShanB0C47LV1PC|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=This third and final book in the first volume of Darren ShanCan you make a 's new 'Yo birthing person'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it almost all ? Or is the way to the Cuckoo's Nestquestion if you did, where would it land? The catch is that the Vote of Alignment will answer for both could well be held. But how will they get in?... no. |isbn=B086LLWP4V''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, 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 to be going well until the night when he was raped.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15098895151529431735|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Winter Visitor|author=Ann CleevesJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardmore surprising. If she hadnHe't the car might not have d been found until exiled on the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly Costa del Sol as the car door had been left opena wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Vera took the boy The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and drove hasn't long to the nearest habitationlive. She It''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburns hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - stripped to his underwear and Hector was sent to a watery grave in the black sheep boot of the familya stolen Ford Sierra. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.home?

|isbnauthor=0241425441Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed out. Details Glorious Race of where 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) 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 Village.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1948124440|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukMagical Beasts

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=The second book Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Justine Avery's Wonders series is the perfect antidote to long summer days evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with bored children - orhis lovely gran, indeedtoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, as weEli've found recentlys parents were both lost to the titular race, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the worldin the company of a magical beast. What do you do This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when every book has been read and every toy has been played witha bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, repurposedEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and played with again?the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231