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|isbnauthor=3110641119Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide Letter to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngraveLuminous Deep

|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the There are few greater joys than a book and acting on the contents. You're going to learn how which lives up to run a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customerscompelling premise. At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because And this is going to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergesone of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=31106412910008517061|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderStig Abell|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After allFormer Metropolitan Police detective, it's ''roughly'' workingJake Johnson, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought ithas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. You've also thought There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation future of your core business his life with cost efficiencies wherever possiblehis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, the extension as moving in together would mean a lot of your existing products into new areas compromise: does Jake give up his off- haven't really delivered grid and relaxing life to move in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. her daughter? You've merely kept For the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion moment they’re enjoying life in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for present and putting the twentieth century might not survive in future on the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovationback burner.

|isbn=14729620441786482126|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Andrew HampshireElly Griffiths

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was once told that going to hold seventy-five 'technologyluxury' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot apartments - when they discovered the bones of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had child beneath a typewriterdoorway. Times - thankfully - have moved onThere was no skull. Nowadays the problem is that someone running Was this a business doesn't have the time to keep up ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedDCI Harry Nelson. It's also a fact difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that no one develops she is pregnant with his child as a business because they have the knowledge result of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that one night they're at a disadvantagespent together some three months ago. They need helpHer condition will be obvious before long, but they frequently don't know what help they neednot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|author=Mark Lingane|title=Note to Self: An Education|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|isbn=18387700460008551324|title=Body LanguageThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=A K TurnerNeil Lancaster

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is It's unusual for anyone from the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk Hardie family to approach the dead, she also hears what they have to say to herpolice. ItNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's not something she's inclined prepared to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will beworth the police doing what he wants. She's certainly not going And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to share it with serve the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer remainder of a genuine Barbour jacket his sentence and old Harrovianto get an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's very conscious of his position t think so and isnshe't s even inclined prepared to ask for do the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that they have a lot more experience than DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeis kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=05787617180008405026|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Nancy CarverJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in recordsher bed one summer night. Sadly, the original church She was destroyed in never found and the Great Fire of London investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in 1666their bed. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from Initially, it looks like a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the fire positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and then survived for centuries until World War II, when her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitzgoing to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. But Kerrigan is convinced that wasnthe explanation lies in Rosalie't the end of its storys disappearance: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the churchothers (such as Derwent's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster Collegeboss, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston ChurchillUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B08NF79QXT0571379877|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueThe Kellerby Code|author=Brooke AdamsJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=ThirtyEdward Jevons is a working-oneclass young man, obsessed with his upper-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shopclass friends, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - Robert and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer AwardStanza. SheRobert's delighted and the two people shea theatre director. He's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonjaalso self-obsessed, her motherdemanding, is an ex-model handsome and entitled and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks fromuses Edward to run errands for him. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Liberty adores Jessicahe's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Avadrunkenly 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 to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from Diversity Awareness trainingher beloved aunt, Carole. The need for coffee overtook Stone - Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the course reason why Freya had not been a complete waste of time for back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she knew that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she was equally rude to everyoneloved. It was After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in rebound from the absence love of her motherlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Stone }}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Bryant didnStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''t realise Opening up new ways of thinking about the extent shape of things to which this case was going come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to occupy their minds as me but I'm left with the body feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of Katrina Nock it is discovered some hours later- frankly - quite frightening. Her neck had been broken Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and it had all end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who would do that to could deliver information in a young mother out shopping with her child?way I could understand.

|author=Roxanne BouchardSunny Singh|title=The Coral BrideHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Angel Roberts The Hotel Arcadia is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a man's worldterrorist group. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off 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 GeorgiaLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 's HealeyThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. There was a furious storm But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on ? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and sheBlade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''d already refused I can hear the offer song of the sea. The call of help from one man the deep, the answering beat in a big vehiclemy heart. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops ' Rosevear, a remote and Stephanie is bundled partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the car rocks and driven offplundering the wrecks. There has been no sign of Mira, like her - or mother before her body - in , 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 two years sinceisland's leader and Mira's father. Georgia Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is back as charming as he is Ferngatesecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, determined she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to find out unearth what happened and shemight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's not going territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be stoppedsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}

|author= Katharine OrtonJames Sherwood Metts|title= GlassheartPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni Things have lived together ever since been a bit sticky for the Blitz claimed the lives of her familyEarthlings. Now, in the aftermath of the warAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they travel were beginning to get used to all over the countrythis technological change and starting to think of other, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out new ways to the wilds of Dartmoorspend time, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldieralong with it, is hell-bent all the many daily social interactions on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14063852391736128426

|isbnauthor=B08KKQ85FNMatthew Tree|title=But We'll Never For Lunch|author=Sandra AragonaKnow|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=''If a woman approaching the menopause can Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstickdifferent from his father, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world being exceptional at any of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don'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 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 artistic passions all failed miserably and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife who had endless crises of Former Ambassadorself confidence... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather overstates the situation than his daydreams and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Susi Holliday A G Slatter|title= The Last Resort Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersFantasy|summary=A group '' There's a part of strangers gather on a private islandme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. They have been invited to an This secret magic of my own, all-expenses paid retreat mine, at last. I just want to test enjoy it for a while.'' Within a brand-new product remote mountain pass, far away from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes world, lies Silverton; a games designertown under the protection of the Briar's, social media influencer, gossip columnist a family of witches who protect the town and hedge fund managerthe wider world from the Darklands. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is a mystery. We follow the group first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as they explore the islandsuch since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and each otheradministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's histories and it cousin Audra becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downBriar Witch, these well-kept secrets are revealedthe town's leader, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cageEllie takes her place beside her. In a race against timeAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Amelia must struggle Ellie uncovers the rare ability to uncover communicate with the reason for dead, putting her attendance and protect at the rest heart of a maelstrom of the guests chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |isbn=15420200181803364548

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ1529900360|title=The Karma TrapGhost Orchid|author=Lisette BoydJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years oldIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, absolutely gorgeous Sturgis was reluctant to look at - and singleask for his help on difficult cases. She's not had sex for eight months His assertions that there were only open-and she-shut cases which didn's stuck in t need the karma trap: an awful lot help of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent psychologist only worked for attracting dramaa while. Her lifeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's chaotic: she dealt with partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the leak from the shower by putting involvement was something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then that the shower fell through the roof whilst man she was loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmanswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. She only has He was the heir to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her an Italian shoe empire and she is married to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - an extremely rich man and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around 's not the officeItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=00083331731529395224|title=HungryLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Memoir The Secret Life of Wanting Morea Vet|author=Grace DentSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ISiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'm always relieved t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when Grace Dent is one of he considered the judges strain that being on -call put on his father''Masterchef''s life. You know that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most 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 timejob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. You also ponder on how she can look It hadn't - as with so elegant with all that good food in front of hermany students - been his dream since he was a child. IIf anything, he've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is d wanted to be a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuresprofessional footballer.

|isbn=18387731690861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotA Nye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's early 2016 close friend and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Courtformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She's having Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a dine knife - and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectshe killed a Ghurka. There'd been Initially, he faced a distinctly Russian flavour charge of manslaughter but evidence came to the evening and one of the performers brought in light that suggested that he might have planned to play murder the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesman. The immediate reaction is that one of Now he could be facing the guests is responsibledeath penalty. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnwouldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadshelp Danny at all.

|author=Matt HaigAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Midnight LibraryPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= Between life and death there The Perfect Passion Company is a library. And sodating agency in Edinburgh, 38 minutes after Nora decided run by Ness and operating as an alternative to dieall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she finds herself in could come and look after the Midnight Librarybusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Her cat died And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she lost her jobbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, her brother won't speak thanks to her44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no longer cares about pianoexperience in running a business, or in match-making, she called off but Ness has full confidence in her weddingabilities, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that wouldthere've let s always her escape the wetvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22William, she realises that she isnto lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''t made InstaKnits for life and decides Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to dieblankets. But instead Some will be quick knits - others are of deaththe 'long, she finds cosy afternoons in front of the libraryfire' variety. Each infinite shelf is filled with books The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, each book providing a chance five to try another life she could have livedten hours, in a parallel timeten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday All the 18th of Aprilprojects are attractive, Nora Seed begins to live every life she couldmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'ves me being picky.|isbn=1786892731

|isbnauthor=0349423083Dean Koontz|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Crime (Historical)Paranormal|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, ably assisted by Jim Sykeshe loses his fiancee, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugdenhis house gets trashed. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his business home, and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his nephew and right-hand manhouse! The thing is, James Lofthouse, will be back from Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a trip to Germany before longnice person. A really nice person. James went to see what So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need delivery to make. William his house is worried that James a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is perhaps enjoying himself clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a little bit ''too'' much or good person. Spike is going to bring back take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a German bride but hewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnss wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Caroline ScottAdam Stower|title=When I Come Home AgainMurray and Bun

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers |summary=1918 and a young man Murray is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses supposed to give be a namehumble, no matter how hard they push he will not say tidy and friendly cat, one who he is. Eventuallyable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, they determine this isn't willful obstinancewell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he doesn't answer because he doesns a bad magician't know. He remembers being on the road for s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a long time and being frightenedhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and some of the faces from catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the roadregular back garden, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need into a name for the forms world of frightening adventure and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galileewhiffs. A fanciful name for This time round it drops them into a tired young man in Viking land, where a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he troll hunter isexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, where but he is or how 's turned up and he got there.'ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471192172B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15294103471529431735|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Winter Visitor|author=Helen CoxJames Henry

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistantFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken a place which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in DurhamCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedhad a letter from his ex-wife, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theysaying that she's ill and hasn've managed, somehow, t long to scrape together the moneylive. Grace, whoIt's 22hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, comes into the last category. Her parents agreed stripped to his underwear and sent to fund a watery grave in the course but told her that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with herboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for Is it a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of warning from a student from Spanish gang or a year ago.problem closer to home?

|author=Vincent PanettiereAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=These Thy GiftsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''2006 Eli is a tumultuous year for busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the future of evening a helper at the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout dessert cafe his church gran owns and hit closer to home than he ever imaginedruns.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking Eli lives with his beloved Catholic churchlovely gran, he discovers that one child too – for there is a generation missing in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopthe family. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve A few short years ago, Eli's grandson whose mother is parents were both lost to the offspring of titular race, a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and globe-trotting adventure where all children victimised by priests who entrants have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of navigate the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800321104|title=The Body on world in the Island|author=Nick Louth|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter company of his wifea magical beast. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for This has made the murder of five boys between race anathema to the ages of ten and seventeen. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into pair – but when a new identity set up in bad incident at the eatery leads to a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of confession from gran, Eli knows his victims. The Bogeyman was going only hope is to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared dare to be a reformed character but enter what he had a list most hates, with the sole aim the prize of people upon whom he wished magic at the end – the only thing to exact revengepossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231