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|author=Lauren MartinSylvie Cathrall|title=The Book of MoodsA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= I was in There are few greater joys than a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came which lives up to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wowcompelling premise. I had never needed And this book moreis one of them.|isbn=15387336250356522776

|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli0008517061|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has a great settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. He has There’s perhaps a close group little uncertainty about the future of friendshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a loving family, lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in 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 her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and even putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an adorable dogold house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. But he has There was no skull. Was this a secret: heritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's gay. Only one person difficult as Ruth knows this, and thatbut Nelson doesn's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out t, that there was another closeted guy at she is pregnant with his school. Their emails are child as a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without result of the fear of being judgedone night they spent together some three months ago. Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands Her condition will be obvious before long, and everything Simon knows not least because Ruth is turned upside downprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=014135609X

|isbn=31106411190008551324|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jerry AngraveNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I had no idea what It'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit s unusual for anyone from reading the book and acting on Hardie family to approach the contentspolice. YouNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're going s prepared to learn how to run tell the police where the body of a workshop to discover missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what it feels like he wants is to be one transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of your own customershis sentence and to get an early parole date. At this pointNot much to ask, please donis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't say think so and she'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going s even prepared to be fun do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and youanyone who works with him is kept well away from what're going to be surprised by what emergess happening.

|isbn=31106412910008405026|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderJane Casey

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=So, why bother? It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Every time you set out She was never found and the investigation ground to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spenthalt. Why not just leave it as it is? After allNow, it's ''roughly'' workingher mother, isn't it? You might not have said itHelena, but you've probably thought itand her father are dead in their bed. YouInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - s something about the optimisation positioning of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's been manageable What looked as though it was going to be an open-and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes shut case is now a more radical approachcomplex double murder. You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind Kerrigan is convinced that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive explanation lies in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'radical'' innovations boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=14729620440571379877|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessThe Kellerby Code|author=Andrew HampshireJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I was once told that 'technology' Edward Jevons is anything that happens after you're eighteena working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, so thereRobert and Stanza. Robert's been a lot of technology in my lifetheatre director. I once worked He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriterhim. Times Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesnand he't have the time s drunkenly confided how he feels to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedRobert. ItMost men in Robert's also a fact position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that no one develops a business because they have relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the knowledge two of the required technology, so they start off them kissing in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they needdark passageway.

|author=Mark LinganeJo Callaghan|title=Note to Self: An EducationLeave No Trace

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= In Kry's world, When a man is found crucified on the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in top of a cascade of medical "advances": hill in 2030 itNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that radiation can return cells back draws a lot of unwanted attention to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to cure cancerous tumours but with solve the side effect of erasing seven years of memorycase in time, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using or will Kat find herself taken off the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image case and youth, who needs memoriespotentially, out of a career?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS139851120X}}

|isbn=18387700461399613073|title=Body LanguageMoral Injuries|author=A K TurnerChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the senior mortuary technician first day of medical school and not only does she talk to the deadtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she also hears what they have which is a bonus when you aim to say to herbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. It's not something Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will bebecomes a GP. SheWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianend in tragedy. He's very conscious of his position and isnWe don't even inclined to ask for the view of know who suffered the anatomical pathology technicians despite tragedy or the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each bodyconsequences. That Twenty-five years later there will prove to be a mistakean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=05787617180241636604|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipTrading Game: A Confession|author=Nancy CarverGary Stevenson

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=The church If you were to bring up an image of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the City of London from at least 1181East End, when it where he was first mentioned in recordsfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. Sadly, the original church There was destroyed in no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Great Fire London School of London in 1666Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it his ability at what was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fultonessentially, Missouria card game which got him an internship with Citibank. There, in the grounds of Westminster College Eventually, the church was rebuilt and today serves this turned into permanent employment as a memorial to Winston Churchilltrader.

|isbn=B08NF79QXT1035021803|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Brooke AdamsC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has had her shop, been back to the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when English country village where shegrew up. She's nominated back now because of a request for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's delighted former mentor and the two people sheCarole's brought with her close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the event couldn't be more pleasedleast. SonjaArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, her mothershe feels, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got let her looks fromdown badly. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: Even though they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandwere in business together as antique hunters, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Avashe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: After the split, she misses having worked in a man in cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B08BTXSS84AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jenny O'BrienBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the usual flood shape of cases has slowed things to less 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 dribble and shefew decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's looking through cold cases for inspiration as advantageous to which one she should have a good look atme but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder Some of eighteenit is -yearfrankly -old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedquite frightening. She can't see any immediate failings in Of course, I could research the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, possibilities and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the next daylatest conspiracy theorist. She was wearing I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterway I could understand.

|author=Nick Jones and Si ClarkSunny Singh|title=One Night in BeartownHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary= Many children have The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an obsession unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Sandy LaneAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who lives are still alive in Beartownthe hotel, is obsessed he forms a bond with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down Sam who refuses to be cowed by her grandmother. Every nightevents, she looks and keeps on venturing out of her bedroom window and says goodnight room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at help her schoolkeep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X086154742X}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1529153298|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary= Eleanor Oliphant It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is almost 30Prime Minister. She lives in Glasgow (A woman? I mean, alonehonestly.. And she likes it that way. ) She works 9-5's not what's worrying Miv's family, 5 days a weekthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, and spends the weekend not drunkthey've been murdered, but not soberto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. alone. And Miv's upset because she likes it 's overheard that wayher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. She lives by When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a routinefrightening, and that's fineforeign place, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything isbest avoided. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle For Miv, she sees the man she is sure will be move would mean leaving her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she canfriend, in order to secure this beautiful musician. ThenSharon, as 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 ll do anything to him in hospitalprevent that. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man She's family and friends, with Raymond 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 not worried about the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from dangers or that her childhood? EleanorMum's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows stopped talking - but maybe she doesn't have to do it aloneanyone.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=18388873341398524085|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Angela MarsonsNicci French|rating=45

|summary=DI Kim Stone Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingher daughter, Etty. The need for coffee overtook Stone are all worried but - strangely - the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyonehusband, Alec, is not. It was in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the shopping centre that Stone caught sight body of a little girl clutching a teddy bear Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the absence of her motherriver. Stone It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Bryant didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't realise the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as stand the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterguilt. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, The Salter children are not convinced but who would there's little else they can do that to a young mother out shopping but get on with her child?their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1035906708|title=The Coral BrideDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, making her living in a man's worldDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. When Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in to come and head the investigationStates. Although When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn Nazi occupation by hidden agendas, fishing histories a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret family feuds. At the same time as trying 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 to talk to his father aboutof her preference for her elder sister, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesJackie.|isbn=1913193322

|isbnauthor=1472134710Christopher Edge|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement Lucas and she's left South Moulton Street his friends are all booked in for a cottage in movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the Cotswold village nickname of Carsley'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, they'd have preferred one re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems movie starts, they very quickly realise that brings. Now the problem something about this new film format is settling into a very different way of life - , and Agatha has never done small talk or they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even being pleasant to peopleimagine. The first move is But as they lurch from one film genre to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Brownenext, and his wife Vera can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary cinema, and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. Howtheir real lives? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery...|isbn=1839942738

|author= Claire McGowanRachel Greenlaw|title=The PushCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''styleI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, but not survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the proper NCTwrecks. This bit Mira, like her mother before her, is important, but you have one of the seven who swim out to wait survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a little trap to see whyend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. This being LondonDesperate to save him from death, such Mira makes a class attracts bargain with a wide variety wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of peoplea 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 all sorts the watched streets of backgrounds, but for most foreign islands to the heart of the ladies the thing they have in common is itsmuggler's their first baby. Probably after territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down patones she holds most dear.|isbn=15420199900008664730

|isbnauthor=1472255917James Sherwood Metts|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardinePlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at Things have been a bit sticky for the golf club with his wifeEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner often replacing jobs they're paid to do and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonother tasks that took time to accomplish. Jackson would be better-known Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to the criminal fraternity think of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the other, new name reflects a new manways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. The Skinners don't stay Life was pretty much after midnight at the clubhouse shut down and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: , along with it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in , all the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQMatthew Tree|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|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 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a furious storm going on drunk and she'd already refused the offer chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops his artistic passions all failed miserably and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign who had endless crises of her - or her body - in the two years sinceself confidence. Georgia is back is FerngateSo Tim applied himself to his studies, determined to find out what happened cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and she's not going to be stoppedset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}

|author= Katharine OrtonA G Slatter|title= GlassheartThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= Nona '' 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 her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the lives of first non-witch to be born into her familyfor generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. NowWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, in the aftermath of Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the warBriar Witch, they travel all over the countrytown's leader, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsand Ellie takes her place beside her. Their latest job takes them out As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the wilds of Dartmoordead, where Nona discovers that putting her world is full at the heart of a maelstrom of ancient and powerful magicchaos. She also discovers that a mysterious entityReeling from one family secret to another, known only Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as The Soldierthe Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…under threat.|isbn=14063852391803364548

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN1529900360|title=But Never For LunchThe Ghost Orchid|author=Sandra AragonaJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipsticks fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about Sturgis was reluctant to be released into the company of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying ask for his own gas billshelp on difficult cases.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency assertions that there were only open-and The Ambassador-shut cases which didn's Wife in [[Sorting t need the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the Italian Government but involvement was something that the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become man she loved needed. The Wife of Former Ambassador..next case did look simple, though. They have left The Career and settled Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in RomeBel Air. Well 'settled' rather overstates He was the situation heir to an Italian shoe empire and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen she is married to an extremely rich man and deafit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1529395224|title= Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Last Resort Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private islandSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test His father was a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist GP and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems Rowlands didn't want to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the group as they explore the island, and each otherstrain that being on-call put on his father's histories life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenwas convinced this was the job for him. As the clock ticks down Before long, these wellhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really been his dream since he was a gilded cagechild. In a race against time If anything, Amelia must struggle he'd wanted to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall thembe a professional footballer. |isbn=1542020018

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ0861541774|title=The Karma TrapA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lisette BoydSteve Burrows

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oldally, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and singleGuy Trueman. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck Maik was involved in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and she has he killed a real talent for attracting dramaGhurka. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom Initially, he faced a charge of the stairs manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to absorb murder the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at man. Now he could be facing the pervy postmandeath penalty. She only has Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to take her mother's dog out for help as any interference from another police force could provoke a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - diplomatic incident and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officewouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0008333173Alexander McCall Smith|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace DentThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent The Perfect Passion Company is one of a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the judges on ''Masterchef''online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. You know that you're going Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the timechance to come home to Edinburgh. You also ponder on how she can look And so elegant 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 all that good food some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in front of her. Iabilities, and there've often wondered about the woman behind the media image s always her very helpful (and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measures.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18387731690811771741|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotInstaKnits for Baby|author=S J BennettMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor ''InstaKnits for the Easter Court. SheBaby''s having gives us a dine and sleep at the request collection of Prince Charles, who's attempting knits from toys to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsblankets. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one Some will be quick knits - others are of the performers brought 'long, cosy afternoons in to play front of the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesfire' variety. The immediate reaction is that one of projects are divided by the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managertime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, an ex-ambassador five to Moscowten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the Archbishop of Canterbury projects are attractive, modern and Sir David Attenboroughuseable. One couldnI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't bear to go down any of social-media-worthy projects'but that'those'' roadss me being picky.

|author=Matt HaigDean Koontz|title=The Midnight LibraryBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= Between life and death there Benny is having a libraryterrifically bad day. And so He loses his job, 38 minutes after Nora decided to diehe loses his fiancee, she finds herself in the Midnight Libraryand his house gets trashed. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life Oh, and someone has. Her cat dieddelivered a really weird, she lost her jobdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, her brother wonand it't speak to her, her parents are deads possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the boy she teaches piano very last person to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction A really nice person. So at 23:22, she realises fortunately for Benny it turns out that she isn't made for life and decides the delivery to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf his house is filled with booksa new friend, each book providing a chance bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to try another life she could have lived, in help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a parallel timegood person. And so Spike is going to take care of Benny, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th and will certainly take care of AprilBenny's enemies, Nora Seed begins to live every life she couldif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'ves wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17868927311662500491

|isbnauthor=0349423083Adam Stower|title=Death Murray and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyBun

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageMurray is supposed to be a humble, ably assisted by Jim Sykestidy and friendly cat, one who lives in Woodhouse is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamtwo. Something is going wrong with his business and But he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: hes a bad magician's hoping that cat, so his nephew favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and right-hand manthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, James Lofthousenot into the regular back garden, will be back from but into a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing world of frightening adventure and what changes Barleycorn might need to makewhiffs. William This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' expected – well, one much or is going bigger than Murray was, to bring back a German bride be honest, but he'd like the business s turned up and he'll have to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Caroline ScottB0C47LV1PC|title=When I Come Home AgainFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=1918 and Can you make a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesnYo birthing person''t know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightenedjoke? And if you could, and some of is the faces from question should you make it? Or is the roadquestion if you did, but other than would it land? The catch is that – everything that came before has gonethe answer for both could well be.... They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galileeno. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn ''Fragility''t know who he isset as the city of Portland, Oregon, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172cautiously 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 assistant, Grace EdwardsFebruary 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 decade. The return has left her library job and taken come about because he's had a place on the Venerable Bede Academyletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's vocational library studies course in Durhamill and hasn't long to live. It's an unusual place hard to study as students with government grants are not acceptedfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, so most stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of the people attending are scions a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the seriously richwondrous library we start by visiting with him, scholarship students - or they've managedand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, somehow, to scrape together too – for there is a generation missing in the moneyfamily. GraceA few short years ago, whoEli's 22parents were both lost to the titular race, comes into a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the last categorycompany of a magical beast. Her parents agreed This has made the race anathema to fund the course pair – but told her that if that was when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what she chose to do then they were finished he most hates, with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance sole aim the prize of a student from a year agomagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231