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|author=Mark LinganeSylvie Cathrall|title=Note A Letter to Self: An Educationthe Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= In Kry's worldFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a cascade lot of medical "advances"compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back with Livia or does Livia move to their regeneration state seven years before, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 present and putting the cosmetics industry is using future on the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsback burner. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}}

|isbn=18387700461786482126|title=Body LanguageThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=A K TurnerElly Griffiths

|summary=TwentyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five'luxury' apartments -year-old Cassie Raven is when they discovered the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herbones of a child beneath a doorway. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beThere was no skull. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old HarrovianRuth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's very conscious of his position and isndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even inclined to ask for the view , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that one night they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each bodyspent together some three months ago. That Her condition will prove be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to be a mistakesudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=05787617180008551324|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nancy CarverNeil Lancaster

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in recordspolice. Sadly, Neither side likes or has any respect for the original church was destroyed other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the Great Fire body of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire missing person is buried and then survived who was responsible for centuries until World War IIher death. This person, he promises, when is someone big and it was again ruined by bombs during will be worth the Blitzpolice doing what he wants. But that wasn't And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the end remainder of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising efforthis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, the stones from the churchis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's walls were transported even prepared to Fulton, Missouri. There, in do the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=B08NF79QXT0008405026|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Brooke AdamsJane Casey|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=ThirtyIt's sixteen years since nine-oneyear-year old Liberty Rossini has had Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardbed one summer night. She's delighted was never found and the two people she's brought with her investigation ground to the event couldn't be more pleaseda halt. SonjaNow, her mother, is an ex-model Helena, and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks from. Jessicalike a straightforward murder/suicide but there's thirtysomething 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-four and Liberty-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's best frienddisappearance: theyothers (such as Derwent've known each other since university s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Liberty adores JessicaStanza. Robert's husbanda theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, Charles handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their fouruniversity days -year-old daughter, Avaand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Life Most men in Robert's position would be perfect for Liberty if it wasnstay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he't for one things not like most men: she misses having Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a man in her lifedark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B08BTXSS84Jo Callaghan|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)|author=Jenny O'BrienLeave No Trace

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin When a man is twiddling her thumbs: found crucified on the usual flood top of cases has slowed a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to less than a dribble and shethe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's looking through their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby But when there is intrigued. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in second body found crucified a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamasfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next day. She was wearing very high profile case that draws a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforelot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the whole story: he's married to Kate Brockcase and, potentially, Angelica's younger sister.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1399613073|title=One Night in BeartownMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= Many children have an obsession Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartowntheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is obsessed with bearsa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She collects books about bears Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Her favourite toy Anjali is Berisford, the free spirit of the group and she becomes a teddy bear passed down by her grandmotherGP. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and says goodnight it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the bear statue outsidethree friends. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear This time, a colourful painted bear that lives at her schoolit's their teenage children who are involved. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman0241636604|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Glasgowyour mind, aloneyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. And she likes it that way. She works 9 A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-5, 5 days a week, stripe suit and spends his background is the weekend not drunkEast End, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routinewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and that's fine, thankyouverymuchinjustice. Nothing is missing from her life There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Except everything Stevenson is. Until one day, at bright - extremely bright - and he has a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husbandfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself He also realised that she can, in order most rich people expect poor people to secure this beautiful musicianbe stupid. Then It was his ability at what was, as she's on her way home one Fridayessentially, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to card game which got him in hospitalan internship with Citibank. Then Eventually, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just this turned into permanent employment as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worsetrader. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor'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 alone.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=18388873341035021803|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Angela MarsonsC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - to the course had been a complete waste of time for her as English country village where she knew that she was equally rude to everyonegrew up. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight She's back now because of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of request for help from her motherbeloved aunt, Carole. Stone Freya's former mentor and Bryant didnCarole't realise s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the extent circumstances seem suspicious, to which this case say the least. Arthur was going the reason why Freya had not been back to occupy their minds the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterprofession she loved. Her neck had been broken After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and it had all married James (on the rebound from the hallmarks love of a quickher life, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Roxanne BouchardAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Coral BrideAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Angel Roberts ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is an oddity - what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a female fisherwoman, making her living few decades of technology in a manmy lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's worldall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. When her lobster trawler Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is found drifting off a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the coast of Quebecterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, Detective Morales there is called in to come Sam, a wartime photographer and head Abhi, the investigationhotel manager. Although the signs seem As Abhi continues to point try to an obvious conclusioncare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by hidden agendasevents, fishing histories and secret family feudskeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. At Although they only ever talk over the same time phone, their friendship grows as trying Abhi tries to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable help her keep safe and they both wait to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiessee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1913193322086154742X

|isbn=14721347101529153298|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche The List of DeathSuspicious Things|author=M C BeatonJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheIt's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of Carsley1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She'd s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have preferred one of the more romantic names been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but at least Carsley is off to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the tourist trail with all the problems that bringsfamily 'Down South'. Now the problem When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. The first For Miv, the move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judgewould mean leaving her best friend, Reginald Cummings-BrowneSharon, and his wife Vera out she'll do anything to dinnerprevent that. She knows she's being ripped off at not worried about the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows dangers or that sheher Mum's going stopped talking - to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..anyone.

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1398524085|title=The PushHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= Six mums-to-be meet Charlotte Salter was expected at a prenatal class. Ither husband's NCT ''style''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 the proper NCT. This bit is important Shortly afterwards, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being LondonEtty and Greg, such a class attracts a wide variety find the body of peopleGreg's father, from all sorts of backgroundsDuncan Ackerley, but in the river. It was an easy assumption for most of the ladies police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the thing they have in common is itguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their first babylives and wonder about what really happened. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=14722559171035906708|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Diva|author=Quintin JardineDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=On New Year's EveWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner but she was celebrating at the golf club with his wifeborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, Professor Sarah GraceNew York, daughter Alex Skinner in December 1923 and the man with whom only moved to Athens when she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonwas thirteen. Jackson would be better-known Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new year. SkinnerCallas's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: make it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene more manageable in the centre of EdinburghStates. Skinner's not technically with the police now When she was back in Athens - he's chairman of InterMedia UK supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - but she was raised under the police value his knowledge Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and experiencemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQChristopher Edge|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackHole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on Lucas and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - place that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into has the car and driven off. There has been no sign nickname of her - or her body - in the two years since'The Black Hole'. Georgia is back is FerngateAll big movie fans, determined to find out what happened and shethey's not going re looking forward 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 the Blitz claimed the lives lots of her family. Nowexciting films, in the aftermath of the warand many, they travel all over the countrymany snacks! However, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to as the wilds of Dartmoormovie starts, where Nona discovers they very quickly realise that her world something about this new film format is full of ancient very different, and powerful magicthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only But as The Soldierthey lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is hell-bent going on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and will not stop until he has her…to their real lives?|isbn=14063852391839942738

|isbnauthor=B08KKQ85FNRachel Greenlaw|title=But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra AragonaCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesTeens|summary=''If a woman approaching I can hear the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into song of the company sea. The call of carrion crows or, more to the pointdeep, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsanswering beat in my heart.''

You don't get many better opening sentences than thatRosevear, do you? We first met His Excellency a remote and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Priorities: Ambassadress rocks and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the Priorities]] ruins – rescuing any survivors and we learned what it was like any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by end the Italian Government but wrecking, they capture the time has come for HE island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to retires save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and for Sandra Aragona with only coordinates to become The Wife guide her, she sets off in search of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled a family secret that lies buried deep in Romethe sea. Well 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'settled' rather overstates s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention future of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen her home and deafthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author= Susi Holliday James Sherwood Metts|title= The Last Resort Planet Storyland|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=A group of strangers gather on Things have been a private islandbit sticky for the Earthlings. They AI and automation have been invited to an all-expenses proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist do and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems other tasks that took time to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryaccomplish. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group Just as they explore the island, were beginning to get used to all this technological change and each starting to think of other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. As the clock ticks Life was pretty much shut downand, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and along with it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover all the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=15420200181736128426

|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZMatthew Tree|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years oldTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months a drunk and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot chronic underachiever whose dreams of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down exceptional at the bottom any of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it his artistic passions all failed miserably and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmanwho had endless crises of self confidence. She only has So Tim applied himself to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008333173A G Slatter|title=Hungry: A Memoir The Briar Book of Wanting More|author=Grace Dentthe Dead

|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on 'There'Masterchefs 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.''. You know that you Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar're going to get an honest opinion s, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the timeDarklands. You also ponder on how Though she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of 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, hertraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. IWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie've often wondered about s cousin Audra becomes the woman behind Briar Witch, the media image town's leader, and ''Hungry: A Memoir 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 Wanting More'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 a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuresunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=18387731691529900360|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotGhost Orchid|author=S J BennettJonathan Kellerman|rating=54

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's early 2016 fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for the Easter Courthis help on difficult cases. SheHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's having a dine and sleep at t need the request help of Prince Charlesa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, whoit was Robin, Delaware's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians partner, who nudged Milo into asking for one of his pet projectshelp again. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to She knew that the evening and one of involvement was something that the performers brought man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in to play the piano has been found dead swimming pool of a remote property in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesBel Air. The immediate reaction is that one of He was the guests heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, married to an ex-ambassador to Moscow, extremely rich man and it's not the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David AttenboroughItalian. One couldn't bear to go down any But which of ''those'' roads.them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Midnight LibrarySecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Between life Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided Rowlands didn't want to diefollow in his footsteps, she finds herself in particularly when he considered the Midnight Library. Everything strain that could've gone wrong in Norabeing on-call put on his father's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are dead, When he was seventeen he took the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpwas convinced this was the job for him. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet Before long, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directionhe was at Liverpool University. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn It hadn't made for life and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled - as with books, each book providing so many students - been his dream since he was a chance to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel timechild. And so If anything, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins he'd wanted to live every life she could'vebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1786892731

|isbn=03494230830861541774|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Frances BrodySteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, ably assisted by Jim SykesDanny Maik, who lives has taken a short holiday in Woodhouse and her housekeeperSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Mrs SugdenGuy Trueman. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery Maik was involved in Mashama street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Something is going wrong with his business and Initially, he'd like Kate faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to look into it discreetly: light that suggested that he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand might have planned to murder the man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what Now he could be facing the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to makedeath penalty. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to bring back help as any interference from another police force could provoke a German bride but hediplomatic incident and wouldn'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnst help Danny at all.

|author=Caroline ScottAlexander McCall Smith|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1918 and The Perfect Passion Company is a young man is arrested dating agency in Durham Cathedral. He refuses Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to give all the online apps in providing a namemore personal, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he istailored service. Eventually Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't knowas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He remembers being on the road for Katie is coming out of a break up with a long time and being frightenedbad boyfriend, and some of so jumps at the faces chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the roadIsabel Dalhousie novels, but other than that – everything that came before has gonewith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. They need Katie has no experience in running a name for the forms and so they call him Adam andbusiness, because he was found or in the Galilee Chapelmatch-making, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man but Ness has full confidence in a dishevelled uniform who doesnher abilities, and there't know who he iss always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, where he is or how he got there.to lend a hand…|isbn=14711921721846976596

|isbn=15294103470811771741|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Helen CoxMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Kitt HartleyMelissa Leapman's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a place on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamcollection of knits from toys to blankets. ItSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedlong, so most cosy afternoons in front of the people attending fire' variety. The projects are scions of divided by the seriously rich, scholarship students - or time they've managedll take to complete - less than five hours, somehowfive to ten hours, ten to scrape together the moneytwenty hours and more than twenty hours. GraceAll the projects are attractive, who's 22, comes into the last categorymodern and useable. Her parents agreed to fund the course I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year ago's me being picky.

|author=Vincent PanettiereDean Koontz|title=These Thy GiftsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=''2006 Benny is having a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubledterrifically bad day. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly soloses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church Oh, and hit closer someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home than he ever imagined., and it'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the child sexual abuse scandal thing that has trashed his house! The thing is rocking his beloved Catholic church, he discovers Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that one child in the delivery to his own parish house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been abused by sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a priest sent by his bishopgood person. And this isn't just any boy: this Spike is Stevegoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a gangsterwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests wild adventure) can figure out 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 vowsexactly they are.|isbn=15031998861662500491}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104Adam Stower|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldMurray is supposed to be a humble, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve tidy and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright friendly cat, one who was 67 years old is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and had served six years for , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the manslaughter of his wifetwo. Only that wasnBut he't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for s a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the murder of five boys between catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the ages regular back garden, but into a world of ten frightening adventure and seventeenwhiffs. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and This time round it drops them into a new identity set up in Viking land, where a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of troll hunter is expected – well, one of his victims. The Bogeyman much bigger than Murray was going , to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character honest, but he had a list of people upon whom 's turned up and he wished 'll have to exact revenge.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1473692407B0C47LV1PC|title=The Book of Two WaysFragility|author=Jodi PicoultMosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Can you make a death doula: that's someone who 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is there for the person who question should you make it? Or is dyingthe question if you did, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carerswould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. It ''Fragility's a rewarding, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: is set as an Egyptologistthe city of Portland, she was working with her supervisorOregon, Professor Ian Dumphries, on cautiously begins to emerge from the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on restrictions imposed during the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published under.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Delia Owens1529431735|title=Where The Crawdads Sing|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. 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 but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – 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 the marsh. Eventually, as 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 to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girl. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665}}{{FrontpageWinter Visitor|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's GardenerJames Henry|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston 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 gardener, although what decade. The return has come about because he did before he became 's had a gardenerletter from his ex-wife, he claims, is classifiedsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. That It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is just as well because he is about abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to be caught up a watery grave in the boot of a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the daystolen Ford Sierra. |isbn=0956180523 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Once and Future WitchesGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, but too – for there used to beis a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli'' In 1893s parents were both lost to the titular race, after a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the purges and world in the burnings, witching company of a magical beast. This has been reduced made the race anathema to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to hold power in their handsa confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to have their voices hearddare to enter what he most hates, it is now through women's suffragewith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231