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|author=Kristen O'NealSylvie Cathrall|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseThere 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|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to There’s perhaps a bunch little uncertainty about the future of other teens living his life with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outhis vet girlfriend, while also providing an escape to just joke Livia and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and drive relaxing life to Brigid's house move in with Livia or does Livia move to check up on Little Sky despite her. But what reservations about whether or not this is the future she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the basement – present and for that werewolf to be putting the girl she has been talking to online for future on the past few monthsback burner.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1786482126|title=SlingshotThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to being lonelyhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a secret illegitimate daughter of a man ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a "real" familyDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is used to not being pregnant with his child as a priority in people's livesresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot Her condition will be obvious before long, her simple existence not least because Ruth is changed for goodprone to sudden bouts of sickness. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA0008551324|title=The Duke's ChildrenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The story opens It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to probably tell the worst news police where the body of all: Lady Glencora Palliser a missing person is deadburied and who was responsible for her death. Her husbandThis person, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumhe promises, is nearly paralysed by grief someone big and struggling - at it will be worth the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officepolice doing what he wants. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which And what he wants is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) sentence and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and get an early parole date. Not much to run up gambling debtsask, occasionally in eye-watering sums. is it? Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and wishes she's even prepared to marry do the other thing that Hardie demanded - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayhappening.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnIt't belongs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, was never found and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as investigation ground to a source of comforthalt. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Now, her mother, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleHelena, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed her father are dead in the competitiontheir bed. But as the pranks escalate Initially, and Rachel finally feels it looks like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the pranks, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and people begin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to get hurtbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too lateboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton0571379877|title=Fifty SoundsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with where Barton herself startshis upper-class friends, with the question Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Why Japan?'' Japan s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been on my radar for a while in love with Stanza since their university days - and if the world hadnhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert't gone into melt-down I s position would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but I am he's not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect two of the question them kissing in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''a dark passageway.|isbn=1913097501

|author=Lucy HollandJo Callaghan|title=SistersongLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong When a man is part found crucified on the top of a genre I particularly enjoyhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesAI detective Lock. These stories, for most of us It's their first live case together, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold having previously been very successful with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveseveral cold cases. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong But when there is a perfect example of second body found crucified a modern retelling done wellfew days later, the plot Kat is handled suddenly struggling with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to come their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to lifesolve the case in time, to feel real or will Kat find herself taken off the case and human, most importantly they feel relatable in potentially, out of a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.career?|isbn=1529039037139851120X

|isbn=15291242551399613073|title=The WhispersMoral Injuries|author=Heidi PerksChristie Watson

|summary=We know straight away that there's going Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a bodycardiothoracic surgeon. It's on Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the beach under Crayne's Cliff near free spirit of the town of Clearwater group and it's new year's dayshe becomes a GP. To understand what happened When wefirst meet them they're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has at a soft Australian accent drug and alcohol- she's lived there since her teens fuelled party and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit's returned going to her home town to liveend in tragedy. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lovely apartment she's foundconsequences. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightTwenty-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda five years later there will be joiningan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's perfect!their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241636604|title=The SourceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Essex A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Thirteen There was no posh public school on his CV -yearbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -old schoolgirl Carly lives in extremely bright - and he has a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe stupid. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats It was his ability at what was, essentially, and offers a card game which got him an exclusive invitation to army partiesinternship with Citibank. Eventually, things start to look this turned into permanent employment as a little less bleaktrader...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A1035021803|title=The Prime MinisterAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anthony TrollopeC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise back now because of Ferdinand Lopeza request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows dead and Lopez is not going the circumstances seem suspicious, to explainsay the least. The ladies of societyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, even Palliser's own wifeshe feels, Lady Glencoralet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionprofession she loved. The Duke's payment After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787332098AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Henry ManceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think Opening up new ways of thinking about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions the shape of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesthings to come.''

I was going to argue've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I meanWell, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then I realised 'm left with the feeling that I was quibbling for the sake it's all getting away from me. Some of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals is - frankly - and I consider myself an animal loverquite frightening. If Of course, I had to choose between could research the company of humans possibilities and the company of animals, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would probably choose 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animalslatest conspiracy theorist. I insisted that needed people I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but knew I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken could trust and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. who could deliver information in a way I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablecould understand.

|author=Jessie GreengrassSunny Singh|title=The High HouseHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Charles Darwin taught The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the implied belief that your progeny will then pass terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on theirs. Howeversite, that train of thought there is slowly seems Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation care remotely for the residents who are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child be cowed by events, and living in a world keeps on the precipice venturing out of catastrophe is her room to try to capture what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrasss happened through her photography. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is Although they only ever talk over the life our children phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their children they both wait to see if they will have to livebe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1800750072086154742X

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1529153298|title=Madame BurovaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, all vaguely connectedthough. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would Women have been called then)disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, a girl in a humdrum job wanting but to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, have 'disappeared'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyantdoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv', s upset because she's overheard that her father wants to use her move the family's sea-front boothDown South'. The singerWhen you're from Yorkshire, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at Down South is a revamped holiday campfrightening, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallforeign place, best avoided. We also see her on For Miv, the move would mean leaving her last daybest friend, fifty years laterSharon, in possession of a pair of letters and she'll do anything to prevent that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered She's not worried about the secrets about dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xanyone.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud1398524085|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of BritainHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's let himself down ''again''fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and BrandonHer children, have been laughing at Remysons Niall, calling him names because he is short Paul and Ollie and has small eyesher daughter, Etty. They are mean all worried but they are - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see Shortly afterwards, Etty and then push him just that little bit further when Greg, find the other kids are around. Sobody of Greg's father, when Remy reactsDuncan Ackerley, it looks as though he in the river. It was an easy assumption for the instigator. And police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he gets into trouble at school and couldn't stand the teachers donguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there't believe him when he tries to explain s little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B00474HVX41035906708|title=Phineas ReduxDiva|author=Anthony TrollopeDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income December 1923 and returned only moved to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartAthens when she was thirteen. He Her original surname was fortunate Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to get a job make it more manageable in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticitythe States. To bring Finn When she was back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt mother who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possiblemercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Dean KoontzChristopher Edge|title=The Other EmilyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, who shares his life between a place that has the two US coastsnickname of 'The Black Hole'. It's the western coast weAll big movie fans, they're concerned with, a place he has to return looking forward tolots of exciting films, and a place he has to be able to leave. many, many snacks! David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoHowever, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with as the man he thinks the only suspectmovie starts, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. David is trying But as they lurch from one film genre to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mindnext, but can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagecinema, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man and to dotheir real lives?|isbn=15420199581839942738

|author=Charlie CarrollRachel Greenlaw|title=The LipCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=''Melody Janie RoweI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' even  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the name rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is evocative of…probably one of whatever we want it the seven who swim out to besurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and maybe thatMira's the pointfather. To me the name sings of English folk musicDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, but even she sets off in my use search of a family secret that word Englishlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, I know Ias her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmets territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |isbn=15293341790008664730

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to Things have been a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankbit sticky for the Earthlings. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, AI and not just that, either, but the whole countryautomation have been proceeding apace, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping often replacing jobs they're first paid to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going other tasks that took time to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but noaccomplish. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if Just as they can were beginning to get across country used to her. Hence all this has technological change and starting to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatthink of other, new ways to spend time, a slapstick road-trip comedyalong came an awful pandemic. And more than thatLife was pretty much shut down and, too – for along with it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovethe many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14711968871736128426

|isbnauthor=1913193527Matthew Tree|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a wealthy drunk and apparently respectable businessman out chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Seacliff. His wife had been bound and gagged any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and placed so that she was forced to watch the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson who had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalendless crises of self confidence. His company, Eros GlobalSo Tim applied himself to his studies, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529109116A G Slatter|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=''I want the image There's a part of a British farmer me that wants to keep this just to simply be that myself for however long I can. This secret magic of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationmy own, all mine, at last. I don't think that is too much just want to askenjoy it for a while.''

The stereotypical farmer was probably born on Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. HeBriar's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be , a farmerfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. It's not Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the case though. Hannah Jackson was first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until as such since she was twenty although she'd always had young, her training as a deep love of animalssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Her original intention was that she would become When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'Dr Jacksons cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, whale scientistthe town' s leader, and she was well on Ellie takes her way to achieving this when place beside her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born As challenges come her way left, right andcentre, although 'Hannah JacksonEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, farmer' lacked putting her at the kudos heart of her original intentiona maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, she knew that she wanted Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to be a shepherd. With do as the determination that youBriar witches'll soon realise legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=08575272311529900360|title=Dog DaysThe Ghost Orchid|author=Ericka WallerJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. Ithadn's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and itt been Lt Milo Sturgis's the first time fault that she's let him down. He's lostAlex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, bereft without her ( he ''needs Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his wife, like a snail needs its shell'')help on difficult cases. He misses their ordered life His assertions that there were only open-and rather than bringing him meals to leave on -shut cases which didn't need the doorstep, he'd much rather have help of a psychologist only worked for a good row with someonewhile. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She even dared to contradict him when he told her knew that the involvement was something that the dog wasn't stayingman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Now he's lumbered with Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere remote property in his lifeBel Air. Worst of all He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is Betty, who wonmarried to an extremely rich man and it't take no for an answers not the Italian. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot But which of time trying to escape from and destroy them.was the primary target?

|isbn=B003UH99X41529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Eustace DiamondsSecret Life of a Vet|author=Anthony TrollopeSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he a GP and Rowlands didn't live long enough for this want to become a problem. After follow in his deathfootsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his wife, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - father's life. When he was in possession seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a very valuable diamond necklace family friend who was a vet and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executors. She convinced this was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to tellingjob for him. Lady Eustace Before long, he was not a woman to whom truth meant a great dealat Liverpool University. All that It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was important to her now, she maintained, was her sona child. AndIf anything, of course, her diamondshe'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=15290473150861541774|title=The LamplightersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Emma StonexSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them boths close friend and former colleague, he saidDanny Maik, the good and the badhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, and never turn your back on either one of themGuy Trueman.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse Maik was involved in ''the frigid pause between Christmas a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and New Year''he killed a Ghurka. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperInitially, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like he faced a bath toy over the wavelets'' charge of manslaughter but they were unable evidence came to get any response from light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Maiden Rockman. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign of Now he could be facing the mendeath penalty. The table was set for Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a meal for two - diplomatic incident and the clocks were stopped wouldn't help Danny at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menall.

|author=Mary H K ChoiAlexander McCall Smith|title=YolkThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Jayne Baek The Perfect Passion Company is a fashion student that's barely getting dating agency in Edinburgh, run byNess and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; could come and that's her charm. June, on look after the other handbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a complete contrast trip to JayneCanada to get away for a while. She's Katie is coming out of a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has break up with a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two yearschance to come home to Edinburgh. This is until June finds out she's sick And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Jayne is the only person she can turn Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin tocharm. The two sisters have to come together Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and decide how far theythere'll go s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.lend a hand…|isbn= 03490036961846976596

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0811771741|title=The KhanInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well 'long, cosy afternoons in her rise through front of the criminal justice system and fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time she is called home for her sisterthey's wedding after fifteen years in selfll take to complete -imposed exileless than five hours, she is at the top of her game. Returning five to the city of her birthten hours, ten to old scars twenty hours and fresh woundsmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, Jia must confront her past modern and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1786079097

|isbnauthor=0008336830Dean Koontz|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw Benny is having a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She talks to herOh, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to call her best friend his home, and flatmateit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Nevis SmithBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Nevis He is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with hera nice person. She thought they shared everythingA really nice person. Satnam So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is taken a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honorhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. TheySpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny've not been on good terms since s enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Adam Stower|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsMurray and Bun

|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaCan 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, but one would it land? The catch is that left me a little conflictedthe answer for both could well be.... no. We start  ''Fragility'' is set as our hero arrives at Bucharest airportthe city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and before we even know his gender or Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the nature of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the person Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's addressing in had a letter from his second person monologue of a narrationex-wife, we see him picked up by his mothersaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's chauffeurhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and carted off sent to do all a watery grave in the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following dayboot of 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 mother was Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a businesswomanbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and feelings of abandonment are still strongruns. And so we flit from current (well Eli lives with his lovely gran, this came out too – for there is a generation missing in the original Italian in 2007family. A few short years ago, so moderately current) BucharestEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the lad's childhoodcompany of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, and see just Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he has most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to tell her as a private farewell addresspossibly save his gran.|isbn=19398109650571382231