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 <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->'''Feature''':{{newfeatureFrontpage|categoryauthor=commentsSylvie Cathrall|title=Stand Up A Letter to Bullying With a Pulitzer Prize Winnerthe Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In every generation, there There are kids who become bullies. They bully their siblings, neighbor kids, and their classmates. They seem to believe that other kids look few greater joys than a book which lives up to them and respect thema compelling premise. That And this is self-delusion, as most adults are aware, but kids don't have the experience to properly judge what is respect and what is merely fearone of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B08BTXSS840008517061|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Jenny O'BrienStig Abell

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has slowed to less than a dribble and she's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look settled into his rustic life atLittle Sky. DS Owen Bates suggests There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the murder future of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Gaby is intrigued. She can't see any immediate failings her daughter Diana, as moving in the original investigationtogether would mean a lot of compromise: Angelica disappeared from a room does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in a securely-locked house, wearing with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her pyjamas, reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and was found dead by a dog walker on her daughter? For the Gt Orme moment they’re enjoying life in Llandudno the next day. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told present and putting the future on the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterback burner.

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1786482126|title=One Night in BeartownThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Many children have Builders were demolishing an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives old house in BeartownNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, is obsessed Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with bearsDCI Harry Nelson. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford It's difficult as Ruth knows, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every nightbut Nelson doesn't, that she looks out is pregnant with his child as a result of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outsideone night they spent together some three months ago. Every morning she says hello Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her schoolsudden bouts of sickness. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman0008551324|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she Neither side likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, and spends or has any respect for the weekend not drunk, but not soberother. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and thathe's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is missing from buried and who was responsible for her life. Except everything isdeath. Until one day This person, at a concert she won tickets for in an office rafflehe promises, she sees the man she is sure someone big and it will be her husbandworth the police doing what he wants. Eleanor begins a journey And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to make herself serve the best version remainder of herself that she can, in order his sentence and to secure this beautiful musicianget an early parole date. Then Not much to ask, as is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close even prepared to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with do the man's family other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and friends, anyone who works with Raymond him is kept well away from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanorwhat's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonehappening.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=18388873340008405026|title=Deadly Cry A Stranger in the Family (D I Kim StoneMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Angela MarsonsJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Diversity Awareness trainingher bed one summer night. The need for coffee overtook Stone - She was never found and the course had been investigation ground to a complete waste of time for halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyonefather are dead in their bed. It was in Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the shopping centre that Stone caught sight positioning of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her motherboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case What looked as though it was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock be an open-and-shut case is discovered some hours laternow a complex double murder. Her neck had been broken and it had all Kerrigan is convinced that the hallmarks of a quickexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard0571379877|title=The Coral BrideKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Angel Roberts Edward Jevons is an oddity a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- a female fisherwomanclass friends, making her living in a manRobert and Stanza. Robert's worlda theatre director. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigation. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionHe's also self-obsessed, Morales feels something more sinister is going ondemanding, handsome and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories entitled and secret family feudsuses Edward to run errands for him. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also Edward has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down been in love with personal problems Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he 's not like most men: Edward is unable left to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1913193322

|isbnauthor=1472134710Jo Callaghan|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonLeave No Trace

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for When a man is found crucified on the top of a cottage hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Cotswold village of Carsleycase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with all the problems that bringsseveral cold cases. Now the problem But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is settling into suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a different way very high profile case that draws a lot of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant unwanted attention to peopletheir AI Future Policing project. The first move is Will they be able to enter solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the village quiche-baking competition case and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Brownepotentially, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's of a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. Howcareer? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery...|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1399613073|title=The PushMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style''Olivia, but not Laura and Anjali met on the proper NCTfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. This bit Olivia is importantruthlessly ambitious, but which is a bonus when you have aim to wait be a little to see whycardiothoracic surgeon. This being London, such Laura is a class attracts perfectionist and a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the ladies the thing group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they have in common is 're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's their first babygoing to end in tragedy. Probably after the first one, you We don't have know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time for classes, or think youit've got child-rearing down pats their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=14722559170241636604|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Quintin JardineGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=On New YearIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's Evere unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner where he was celebrating at the golf club familiar with his wifeviolence, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner poverty and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksoninjustice. Jackson would be betterThere was no posh public school on his CV -known but he had been to the criminal fraternity London School of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's reformed and the new name reflects has a new manfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for It was his presence ability at what was, essentially, a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experienceEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1035021803|title=The Long Dark RoadAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=P R BlackC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgegrew up. There was a furious storm going on and sheShe'd already refused the offer s back now because of a request for help from one man in a big vehicleher beloved aunt, Carole. WeFreya'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops s former mentor and Stephanie Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is bundled into dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the car and driven offleast. There has Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been no sign of back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her - or her body - in the two years sincedown badly. Georgia is back is FerngateEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, determined to find out what happened and she's has not going felt able to be stopped.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since near the Blitz claimed man or pursue the lives of her familyprofession she loved. Now After the split, she worked in the aftermath of the wara cafe, they travel all over met and married James (on the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to rebound from the wilds love of Dartmoorher life, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient who was murdered) and Freya and powerful magicJames have now divorced. 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=B08KKQ85FNAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=But Never For LunchAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Sandra AragonaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock Opening up new ways of thinking about to be released into the company shape of carrion crows or, more to the point, about things to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billscome.''

You donI't get many better opening sentences than ve heard it said that, do 'technology' is what happens after you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting 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..re eighteen. They Well, I must confess that there have left The Career and settled been more than a few decades of technology in Romemy lifetime. Well I've kept up reasonably well with what'settleds advantageous to me but I' rather overstates m left with the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.}}{{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3feeling that it's all getting away from me.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group Some of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an allit is -expenses paid retreat to test a brandfrankly -new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyquite frightening. The group includes a games designer Of course, social media influencer, gossip columnist I could research the possibilities and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, probabilities and each otherend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's histories and it becomes clear that m reading someone who knows what they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, I needed people I knew I could trust and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In who could deliver information in a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themway I could understand. |isbn=1542020018

|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZSunny Singh|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=George Jackson The Hotel Arcadia is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck a luxury hotel in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a real talent for attracting dramaterrorist group. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak Hiding from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell terrorists who are rampaging through the roof whilst she was in it , killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and left her, stark nakedAbhi, staring at the pervy postmanhotel manager. She only has As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to take be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her motherroom to try to capture what's dog out for a walk for happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to end up with dog poo spattered across help her face - keep safe and a photo being taken they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by someone who shares it around the officeterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=00083331731529153298|title=Hungry: A Memoir The List of Wanting MoreSuspicious Things|author=Grace DentJennie Godfrey

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'Masterchefdisappeared'doesn't sound quite so frightening. You know Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the timeYorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. You also ponder on how For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she can look so elegant with all 'll do anything to prevent that good food in front of her. IShe've often wondered s not worried about the woman behind the media image and dangers or that her Mum''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuress stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=18387731691398524085|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=S J BennettNicci French

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's early 2016 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is at Windsor for the Easter Courtnot. She's having a dine Shortly afterwards, Etty and sleep at Greg, find the request body of Prince Charles, whoGreg's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought father, Duncan Ackerley, in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesriver. The immediate reaction is that one of It was an easy assumption for the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador police to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Sir David Attenborough. One then committed suicide when he couldn't bear to go down any of stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there''those'' roadss little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1035906708|title=The Midnight LibraryDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary= Between life and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided We tend to diethink of Maria Callas as Greek, but she finds herself was born to Greek parents in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong Manhattan, New York, in Nora's life hasDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her cat died, she lost original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her job, her brother wonfather changed it to 'Callas't speak to her, her parents are dead, make it more manageable in the boy States. When she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she called off was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door made no longer needs secret of her helppreference for her elder sister, Jackie. She gave up on }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all the things booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that would've let her escape has the wet, cold town nickname of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction'The Black Hole'. So at 23:22 All big movie fans, she realises that she isnthey't made for life and decides re looking forward to die. But instead lots of deathexciting films, and many, she finds many snacks! However, as the library. Each infinite shelf movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is filled with booksvery different, each book providing a chance and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to try another life she could have livedthe next, in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight can they figure out what on earth is going on Tuesday ? Will they ever get back to the 18th of Aprilcinema, Nora Seed begins and to live every life she could've.their real lives?|isbn=17868927311839942738

|isbnauthor=0349423083Rachel Greenlaw|title=Death Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Frances BrodyJames Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's Things have been approached by William Lofthouse of a bit sticky for the Barleycorn Brewery in MashamEarthlings. Something is going wrong with his business AI and heautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd like Kate re paid to look into it discreetly: he's hoping do and other tasks that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip took time to Germany before longaccomplish. James went Just as they were beginning to see what the continental brewers were doing get used to all this technological change and what changes Barleycorn might need starting to think of other, new ways to makespend time, along came an awful pandemic. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' Life was pretty much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like shut down and, along with it, all the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Caroline ScottMatthew Tree|title=When I Come Home AgainWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinancebe different from his father, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being frightened, exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and some who had endless crises of the faces from the roadself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, but other cultivated his abilities rather than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms his daydreams and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got thereset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1471192172B0CVFXPGP8

|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her 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 way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15294103471529900360|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Ghost Orchid|author=Helen CoxJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's assistantfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken a place Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamdifficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of t need the people attending are scions help of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehow, to scrape together the moneya psychologist only worked for a while. GraceFinally, whoit was Robin, Delaware's 22partner, comes who nudged Milo into the last categoryasking for help again. Her parents agreed to fund She knew that the course but told her involvement was something that if that was what the man she chose to do then they loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were finished with hermurdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Not long after she started He was the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - heir to an Italian shoe empire and immediately discovered she is married to an unsolved disappearance extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of a student from a year ago.them was the primary target?

|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Vincent PanettiereSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=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's 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 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 be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=These Thy GiftsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''2006 is s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a tumultuous year for the Catholic Churchshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future Initially, he faced a charge of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer manslaughter but evidence came to home than light that suggested that he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins might have planned to try to make sense of murder the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic church, man. Now he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopcould be facing the death penalty. And this isn't just Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of interference from another police force could provoke a long past relationship between Steve diplomatic incident and a gangsterwouldn's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and t help Danny at all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, heading for HMP Spring Hilltailored service. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and had served six years for look after the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeena while. He was being ghosted Katie is coming out of Wakefield and into a new identity set break up in with a deal whereby he divulged bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimschance to come home to Edinburgh. The Bogeyman was going And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be set free on 2 July 2019charm. He appeared to be Katie has no experience in running a reformed character business, or in match-making, but he had Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revenge.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=14736924070811771741|title=The Book of Two WaysInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jodi PicoultMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatMelissa Leapman's someone who is there ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the person who is dying'long, to make their passage to whatever they believe cosy afternoons in as easy as possible and to support their carersfront of the fire' variety. ItThe projects are divided by the time they's a rewardingll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, caring occupation ten to twenty hours and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifemore than twenty hours. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an EgyptologistAll the projects are attractive, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptmodern and useable. Then she was Dawn McDowell: I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that was her maiden name, the name she published under's me being picky.

|author=Delia OwensDean Koontz|title=Where The Crawdads SingBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to townBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, wearing her alligator heelshe loses his fiancee, and never came homehis house gets trashed. Then one by one her siblings left Oh, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to nothing but sufferinghis home, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed it'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother s possible 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 whoever or whatever was inside is the marsh. Eventuallything that has trashed his house! The thing is, as Benny is the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning very last person to be loved and to be helddeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So, when 2 boys from fortunately for Benny it turns out that the town of Barkley Cove find their way delivery to herhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, she finds who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a new way good person. Spike is going to take care of life. But in 1969Benny, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud will certainly take care of the marshBenny's enemies, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriousif he, run-down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya nowBenny, after years of isolation and Harper (a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14721546651662500491

|author=David C MasonAdam Stower|title=Pandora's GardenerMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary= John Cranston Murray is supposed to be a gardenerhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, although what whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he did before he became 's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a gardenerhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, he claimsnot into the regular back garden, is classifiedbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. That This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is just as expected – well because he is about , one much bigger than Murray was, to be caught honest, but he's turned up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only and he can save the day. 'll have to do…|isbn=09561805230008561249

|isbn=0356512479B0C47LV1PC|authortitle= Alix E HarrowFragility|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesMosby Woods|rating= 54|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'There's no such thing as witchesjoke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, but there used to would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.''... no.

In 1893, after the purges and ''Fragility'' is set as the burningscity of Portland, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want to hold power in their handsOregon, cautiously begins to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Onjali Q Rauf1529431735|title=The Night Bus HeroWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Hector It's February 1991 and Essex is a bullybitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Egged He'd been exiled on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweets, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnthe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Yet The return has come about because he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't s had a letter from his faultex-wife, but then he isnsaying that she's ill and hasn't believed as everyone expects him long to be telling lieslive. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, and seem stripped to only care about his perfect sister underwear and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as sent to a watery grave in the boot of a lost causestolen Ford Sierra. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save Is it a homeless man warning from his local parka Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1510106774

|isbnauthor=1849767343Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The title and format 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 journey. It isn't: it's a hymn Glorious Race of praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849766920|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoMagical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson Eli is a schnauzer: what else could you be busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kind, clever helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and loyalruns. You'll also need to know that everything Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with a generation missing in the slipper: mum still has onefamily. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that heA few short years ago, Eli's being generous in allowing that. Then it was parents were both lost to the pork chop. Welltitular race, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the carrots for Leo. That's another example company of Marcello's generositya magical beast. There was This has made the race anathema to the acorn which squirrel was gnawing pair – but when a bad incident at: there was no documentation the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to prove ownership. And talking enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of ownership magic at the tree would provide all end – the sticks he could ever want only thing to chewpossibly save his gran. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?|isbn=0571382231