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|isbnauthor=1472255917Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares There are few greater joys than a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known book which lives up to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new mancompelling premise. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre And this is one of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencethem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0008517061|title=The Long Dark RoadDeath in a Lonely Place|author=P R BlackStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Ferngate BridgeLittle Sky. There was There’s perhaps a furious storm going on and she'd already refused little uncertainty about the offer future of help from one man his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- that another car stops grid and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her - reservations about whether or her body - in not this is the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and future she's not going to be stopped.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona wants for herself and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since daughter? For the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Now, moment they’re enjoying life in the aftermath of present and putting the war, they travel all over future on the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsback burner. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…|isbn=1406385239

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN1786482126|title=But Never For LunchThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Sandra AragonaElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'If apartments - when they discovered the bones of a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to child beneath a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles doorway. There was no skull. Was this a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows ritual killing ormurder? Inevitably, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It'' You dons difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't get many better opening sentences than , that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..one night they spent together some three months ago. They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dogHer condition will be obvious before long, Beagle, has no intention not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafsickness.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008551324|title= The Last Resort Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to test a brand-new product from approach the mysterious Timeo Technology companypolice. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. All except Amelia whose presence But Davie Hardie is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, struggling in prison and each otherhe's histories prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenwho was responsible for her death. As the clock ticks down This person, these well-kept secrets are revealedhe promises, is someone big and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover be transferred to an open prison to serve the reason for her attendance remainder of his sentence and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themto get an early parole date. |isbn=1542020018}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=George Jackson Not much to ask, is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. it? SheThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn's not had sex for eight months t think so and she's stuck in even prepared to do the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt anyone who works with the leak him is kept well away from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her motherwhat's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officehappening.

|isbn=00083331730008405026|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Grace DentJane Casey

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=IIt'm always relieved when Grace Dent is s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of the judges on ''Masterchef''summer night. You know that you're going She was never found and the investigation ground to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the timea halt. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in front of hertheir bed. IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've often wondered s something about the woman behind positioning of the media image bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie''Hungrys disappearance: A Memoir of Wanting Moreothers (such as Derwent'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuress boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=18387731690571379877|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotKellerby Code|author=S J BennettJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=It's early 2016 Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter CourtStanza. SheRobert's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, whotheatre director. He's attempting also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to raise money from some rich Russians run errands for one of his pet projectshim. There'd Edward has been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening in love with Stanza since their university days - and one of the performers brought in he's drunkenly confided how he feels to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesRobert. The immediate reaction is Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that one of the guests a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador left to Moscow, stumble upon the Archbishop two of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Matt HaigJo Callaghan|title=The Midnight LibraryLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Between life and death there When a man is found crucified on the top of a library. And sohill in Nuneaton, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she DCS Kat Frank finds herself in assigned to the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to case alongside her, her parents are deadsidekick, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpAI detective Lock. She gave up on all the things that would It've let her escape the wets their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to diecases. But instead of deathwhen there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf Kat is filled suddenly struggling with books, each book providing a chance potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to try another life she could have lived, their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday or will Kat find herself taken off the 18th case and, potentially, out of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could've.a career?|isbn=1786892731139851120X

|isbn=03494230831399613073|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Moral Injuries|author=Frances BrodyChristie Watson

|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageOlivia, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashama century. Something Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate a bonus when you aim to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before longcardiothoracic surgeon. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing Laura is a perfectionist and what changes Barleycorn might need to makea trauma doctor. William Anjali is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself the free spirit of the group and she becomes a little bit GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'too'' much or is s going to bring back a German bride but heend in tragedy. We don'd like t know who suffered the business to tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be ship-shape before his nephew returnsan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott0241636604|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=1918 and If you were to bring up an image of a young man is arrested city banker in Durham Cathedralyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He refuses to give a name A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, no matter how hard they push where he will not say who he is. Eventuallywas familiar with violence, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't knowpoverty and injustice. He remembers being There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the road for London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a long time and being frightened, and some facility with numbers which most of the faces from the road, but other than us can only envy. He also realised that – everything that came before has gonemost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. They need It was his ability at what was, essentially, a name for the forms and so they call card game which got him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galileean internship with Citibank. A fanciful name for Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got theretrader.|isbn=1471192172

|isbn=15294103471035021803|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen CoxC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistant, Grace Edwards, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has left her library job and taken a place on been back to the Venerable Bede AcademyEnglish country village where she grew up. She's vocational library studies course in Durhamback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's former mentor and Carole's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, so most of is dead and the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehowcircumstances seem suspicious, to scrape together say the moneyleast. GraceArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who's 22she feels, comes into the last categorylet her down badly. Her parents agreed Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to fund be near the man or pursue the course but told her that if that was what profession she chose to do then they were finished with herloved. Not long after she started After the coursesplit, Kitt Hartley came for she worked in a visit - cafe, met and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance married James (on the rebound from the love of a student from a year agoher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Vincent PanettiereAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=These Thy GiftsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports Opening up new ways of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for thinking about the future shape of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer things to home than he ever imaginedcome.''

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal I've heard it said that 'technology' is rocking his beloved Catholic churchwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, he discovers I must confess that one child in his own parish has there have been abused by more than a priest sent by his bishopfew decades of technology in my lifetime. And this isn I't just any boy: this is Steveve kept up reasonably well with what's grandson whose mother is advantageous to me but I'm left with the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangsterfeeling that it's widowall getting away from me. Steve Some of it is determined to seek justice for this boy - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and all children victimised by priests end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who have been protected by his churchknows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1503199886}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104Sunny Singh|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright Hiding from the terrorists who was 67 years old are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and had served six years for Abhi, the manslaughter of his wifehotel manager. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the murder of five boys between residents who are still alive in the ages of ten hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and seventeen. He was being ghosted keeps on venturing out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimsher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The Bogeyman was going Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14736924071529153298|title=The Book List of Two WaysSuspicious Things|author=Jodi PicoultJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatIt's someone who 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is there for the person who is dyingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carershonestly... ) ItShe's not what's worrying Miv's a rewardingfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasnto have 'disappeared' doesn't always sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her lifefather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Some fifteen years ago she was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, she was working with the move would mean leaving her supervisorbest friend, Professor Ian DumphriesSharon, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptand she'll do anything to prevent that. Then she was Dawn McDowell: She's not worried about the dangers or that was her maiden name, the name she published underMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens1398524085|title=Where The Crawdads SingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary= In 1952We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track but she was born to townGreek parents in Manhattan, wearing her alligator heelsNew York, in December 1923 and never came homeonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed changed it to 'Marsh-GirlCallas' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on make it more manageable in the marshStates. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, voice - she finds was raised under the Nazi occupation by a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback mother who mercilessly exploited her and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud made no secret of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriousher preference for her elder sister, run-down Marsh-GirlJackie. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|author=David C MasonChristopher Edge|title=Pandora's GardenerBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= John Cranston is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a gardenermovie marathon at their local cinema, although what he did before he became a gardenerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, he claimsthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is classifiedvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. That is just But as well because he is about they lurch from one film genre to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotthe next, where only he can save they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the day. cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=09561805231839942738

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowRachel Greenlaw|title= The Once Compass and Future WitchesBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, but there used to bethe answering beat in my heart.''

In 1893Rosevear, after a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the purges rocks and plundering the burningswrecks. Mira, witching has been reduced like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to little more than weak charms survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and simple spellsany treasure that lies within. If women want But when the Council Watch lays a trap to hold power in their handsend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to have their voices heardsave him from death, it Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is now through womensecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine 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 suffrageterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Onjali Q RaufJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Night Bus HeroPlanet Storyland

|summary=Hector is Things have been a bullybit sticky for the Earthlings. Egged on by his two 'friends'AI and automation have been proceeding apace, he takes other childrenoften replacing jobs they's sweets, harasses re paid to do and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnother tasks that took time to accomplish. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed Just as everyone expects him they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homethink of other, and seem new ways to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they arespend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believedalong with it, Hector finds himself embroiled with all the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101067741736128426

|isbnauthor=1849767343Matthew Tree|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoWe'll Never Know

|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=The title Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and format chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyhis artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise So Tim applied himself to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how you meet it in everyday lifeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1849766920A G Slatter|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he' There's kinda part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, clever and loyalall mine, at last. You'll also need I just want to know that everything is '''MINE'''enjoy it for a while. And he means ''everything''. It begins with  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that heBriar's being generous in allowing that. Then it was , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the pork chopDarklands. WellThough she has always wished for magic, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left Ellie Briar is the carrots first non-witch to be born into her family for Leogenerations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ThatWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's another example of Marcellocousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's generosityleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. There was As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation rare ability to prove ownership. And talking of ownership communicate with the tree would provide all dead, putting her at the sticks he could ever want heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to chew. Theredo as the Briar witches's nothing unreasonable in any of thatlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is there?under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=18497670091529900360|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Rosie HaineJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have It hadn't been one of those books which Lt Milo Sturgis'preaches s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to the choirask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn': t need the help of a psychologist only people whoworked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'll buy it are the people s partner, who know nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' involvement was something that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustman she loved needed. ButThe next case did look simple, though... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a book about not wearing clothesremote property in Bel Air. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and small she is married to an extremely rich man and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. Theyit're fines not the Italian. In fact, they're wonderful.But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=02412959551529395224|title=TrioLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=William BoydSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. It's also the year when YSK Films are making His father was a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily BracegirdleGP and Rowlands didn's Extremely Useful Ladder t want to the Moon''follow in his footsteps, or ''Ladder particularly when he considered the Moon'' as itstrain that being on-call put on his father's known on setlife. Anny Viklund is When he was seventeen he took the female star in opportunity of doing work experience with a production which is proving to be just family friend who was a little bit racketyvet and was convinced this was the job for him. There are odd pressures on the producerBefore long, Talbot Kyddhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star 'd wanted to use his catchphrase, or include be a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingprofessional footballer.

|isbn=B08B39QNRH0861541774|title=The Curious History A Nye of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemPheasants|author=Michael PritchardSteve Burrows

|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I came to Michael PritchardDCI Domenic Jejeune's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a rather strange routeshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest Maik was involved in the way a street brawl - he would later maintain that hands workhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. An exploration of the history of Initially, he faced a problem which has defeated some charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with man. Now he could be facing the book being death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as much about the doctors treating the sufferers any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte AgerAlexander McCall Smith|title=Child of GalaxiesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=What does it mean The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be alive? all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. What are we made ofNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and where are we going? as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. ''Child Katie is coming out of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals break up with all a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the big questionschance to come home to Edinburgh. Written as a poemAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, the lyrical words don't shy away from darknessbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, nor talk down thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the children you are reading Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin tocharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations handsome) neighbour, William, to create lend a powerful, uplifting reading experience.hand…|isbn=19124974251846976596

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0811771741|title=BetrayalInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from outside the leading party toys to cover the post for a yearblankets. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who Some will be quick knits - others are ignorant 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 cleanerlong, who bizarrely has fallen into cosy afternoons in front of the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilefire' variety. YouThe projects are divided by the time they'll certainly meet a homeless tramptake to complete - less than five hours, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulafive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside hermore than twenty hours. You'll meet All the ministerial bodyguard projects are attractive, modern and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptuseable. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulabut that's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403me being picky.

|author=Tania UnsworthDean Koontz|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Elsie Benny is an ordinary sort of girlhaving a terrifically bad day. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and forgottenhis house gets trashed. She is quietOh, and compliantsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and makes it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the best of whatever happens very last person to herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So when her parents forget fortunately for Benny it turns out that her school holidays have started before they are free the delivery to take care of herhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, they have who has been sent to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a weekgood person. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides Spike is going to make the best take care of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyBenny, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor will certainly take care of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug Benny's enemies, if he seems unhappy, Benny, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator 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, 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 agoroped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17885417071662500491

|isbnauthor=1472127013Adam Stower|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton Murray and R W GreenBun

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a bit of work on handdecade. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned return has come about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, who because he's had apparently returned a letter from Australia because his ex-wife did not like it there, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. This was unusualIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went stripped to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations underwear and sent to instal listening devices a watery grave in the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Genevaboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murder.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008420386Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Alain de Bottonand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, Phoebe Waller-Bridgetoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Lemn SissayEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in common? the company of a magical beast. They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast dare to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the results prize of these discussions in ''Failosophy''magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231