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|author=Louise BeechSylvie Cathrall|title=This Is How We Are HumanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Veronica is There are few greater joys than a devoted single mother book which lives up to her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than donea compelling premise. And it's starting to cause this is one of them both problems. |isbn=19131937130356522776

|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008517061|title=Cape Henry HouseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jolly Walker BittickStig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet BosnerFormer Metropolitan Police detective, orJake Johnson, to give him has settled into his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerrustic life at Little Sky. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely There’s perhaps a hint that he had little uncertainty about the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosher daughter Diana, as they were called) at moving in together would mean a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the age lot of twentycompromise: does Jake give up his off-one, there was always a way grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to work some fun (think drinking 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 eating) into his dayputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1786482126|title=For the WolfThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's family, luxury' apartments - when they discovered the first daughter becomes queenbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. To Red It's misfortunedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods pregnant with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is his child as a wolf, and he is result of the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomnight they spent together some three months ago. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods Her condition will be releasedobvious before long, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than not least because Ruth is prone to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are liessudden bouts of sickness. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard0008551324|title=TwitchThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch 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 tell the police where the body of a boy missing person is buried and who loves birdswas responsible for her death. He keeps pigeons at homeThis person, and chickenshe promises, is someone big and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! it will be worth the police doing what he wants. His time spent watching and helping birds And what he wants is easy compared to that be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his time in schoolsentence and to get an early parole date. But things are about Not much to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there ask, is a dangerous bank robber on the run, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and itshe's possible even prepared to do the other thing that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and Hardie demanded - make certain that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, DS Max Craigie and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=18388538040008405026|title=The Cursed GirlsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Caro RamsayJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan MelvickIt's earliest memory is of sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfbed one summer night. Twenty years later she's back home again She was never found and this time the occasion is no less sadinvestigation ground to a halt. She's there to say Now, her final farewells to her sistermother, MelissaHelena, who is dying of anorexiaand her father are dead in their bed. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of thingsInitially, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even looks like a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissastraightforward murder/suicide but there's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant something about the positioning of the County bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and money her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was never in short supply - but there did seem going to be an open-and-shut case is now a cursecomplex double murder. In addition to MelissaKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's health problemsboss, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeUna Burt) are less convinced. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=02414001200571379877|title=The Girl Who DiedKellerby Code|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and since then sheStanza. Robert'd given up her medical studies and retrained as s a teachertheatre director. She was thirty years old He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and money was tightuses Edward to run errands for him. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job Edward has been in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulalove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. There were only ten people Most men in the village Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but a teacher was required for two childrenhe's not like most men: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was Edward is left to stumble upon the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat two of them kissing in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covereda dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Jo Callaghan|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickLeave No Trace|rating=3.54

|summary=We learn that MI5 When a man is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to awkward placesthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. But thatIt's Londontheir first live case together, isn't it? having previously been very successful with several cold cases. What's happening in Kinloch? When But when there is a second body found crucified a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportfew days later, DCI Jim Daley Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though a very high profile case that both occupants draws a lot of the plane were dead before take offunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. How could that Will they be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available able to solve the paying public. And why have case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothescase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1399613073|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= I am Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and sometimes books choose usa trauma doctor. In my case, this Anjali is one the free spirit of the lattergroup and she becomes a GP. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I When we first meet them they'd have skimmed it, found some of re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' s going to end in the way that it does nowtragedy. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ We don''full disclosure The Bookbag's ut know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences.s.p. is Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like will impact the bookthree friends. This time, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nows their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0241636604|title=Autumn CampThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Barry FowlerGary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to be Brianbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's last campre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He'd founded A hoodie and jeans replaces the organisation some four years ago pin-stripe suit and had done all his background is the organisation since but East End, where he was leaving school familiar with violence, poverty and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseinjustice. The obvious person There was Gary, who'd always no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the fun element London School of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observeEconomics. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - so Brian stepped in and did the organisinghe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He handed the camp over - and then took it backalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And Gary determined to have It was his revengeability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. This should have been ''his'' campEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=194812467X1035021803|title=The Farm ShopAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle 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 her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and her best Carole's close friend Sam , Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the cat decide circumstances seem suspicious, to go for a walksay the least. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatdown badly. As Even though they walk were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the top of profession she loved. After the hillsplit, they see a big barn with she worked in a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowscafe, goats met and chickensmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle Freya and Sam go shoppingJames have now divorced. What will they buy?

|isbn=0008404925AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Killing KindAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CaseyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprisecome. After all, '' I've heard it was her cross-examination of the said that 'technology'victimis what happens after you' which saved him from re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lengthy prison sentencefew decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'd been accused of stalking m left with the woman but feeling that it didn't take long to establish that s all getting away from me. Some of it is - if anything frankly - it was the other way aroundquite frightening. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster Of course, I could research the possibilities and then she came to see him as a threat the probabilities and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd had to put Webster away for re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a long time: he was a very dangerous manway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0008395594Sunny Singh|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoressuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. ThenHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, one Mondaythere is Sam, she went to work a wartime photographer and never came home. MarkAbhi, Oli and Seb are shatteredthe hotel manager. Well, Mark and Seb As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are but Oli's sixteen and at still alive in the stage where hotel, he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been forms a bit off bond with Leigh for a while but she put it down Sam who refuses to him growing up be cowed by events, and starting keeps on venturing out of her room to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leightry to capture what's absence hits him hardhappened through her photography. Then Daan JanssenAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracetheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14736857451529153298|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Katie MarshJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle It's 1979 and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - wellMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simonhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's sonfamily, Jake, off his bikethough. Women have been disappearing. He wasnWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't hurt but Jake has historysound quite so frightening. He has HLHS - thatMiv's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'au faitDown South'' with your medical acronyms. When he was bornyou're from Yorkshire, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was Down South is a few days oldfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. SoFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Simon has every right and she'll do anything to be over-protective particularly when someone isnprevent that. She't looking where theys not worried about the dangers or that her Mum're drivings stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1398524085|title=OtherlandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Rohan her daughter, Etty. are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudall worried but - strangely - her husband, bright and hates rulesAlec, while Rohan is very politenot. Shortly afterwards, serious Etty and worries about Greg, find the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerbody of Greg's dayfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. And so, every year their families get together It was an easy assumption for the police to celebrate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the two's birthday/deathdayguilt. But when Rohan The Salter children are not convinced but there's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, else they must journey can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to the Otherland, a magical realm full think of fairiesMaria Callas as Greek, vampiresbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, dragonsNew York, in December 1923 and Godsonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's going to be make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the worst night Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of their livesher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1788000463

|isbnauthor=walker14Christopher Edge|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work Lucas and his friends are all booked in the prehistory museum for a movie marathon at Les Eyzies their local cinema, a place that chief has the nickname of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, chief they're looking forward to lots of detectives Jalipeauexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, known as J-Jthe movie starts, to solve a case they very quickly realise that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified something about this new film format is very different, and his killer never brought to justicethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. What if an artist could recreate the face But as they lurch from the skull and the resulting publicity be used one film genre to identify the young mannext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? J-J calls Will they ever get back to the skull 'Oscar' cinema, and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Martha LeighRachel Greenlaw|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= BiographyTeens|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in a slightly eccentricmy heart.'' Rosevear, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge donremote and partially forgotten island, forever clacking away survives on his typewriter as he edits luring ships into the rocks and plundering the complete correspondence wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauseven 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, his lifethey capture the island's workleader and Mira's father. Her mother is Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a concert pianist wreck survivor who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the practicalities sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of life. There is love in her home and the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is thereones she holds most dear.|isbn=18004603840008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Planet Storyland

|summary=SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Having done the impossible AI and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Cryptautomation have been proceeding apace, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'often replacing jobs they' re paid to think about. But before do and other tasks that, soireestook time to accomplish. Soirees! ArchieJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, much new ways to Inez's amusementspend time, doesn't even know what one of those isalong came an awful pandemic. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedLife was pretty much shut down and, even after an uncomfortable encounter along with Kurtisit, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in all the first volume of this seriesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=B093J9TF731736128426

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyMatthew Tree|title= Shards of EarthWe'll Never Know|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmierbe different from his father, a man genetically engineered to try drunk and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and the crew who had endless crises of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears self confidence. So Tim applied himself to be recent Architect activityhis studies, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and cultivated his abilities rather than his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police daydreams and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1529051886B0CVFXPGP8

|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18484584281529900360|title=Local Woman MissingThe Ghost Orchid|author=Mary KubicaJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years agoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, a man regularly came home Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his wife with lipstick marks help on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againdifficult cases. His wife was in assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the habit help of going out a psychologist only worked for a run late at nightwhile. It Finally, it was the only time she had for herself when she didnRobin, Delaware't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a mans partner, grateful who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the unquestioning affection he gave herman she loved needed. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a tracenext case did look simple, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babythough. Ten days later, Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedremote property in Bel Air. Meredith Dickey He was a birth doula the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she'd seemed is married to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - an extremely rich man and it appeared that she'd committed suicides not the Italian. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, But which of them was safe and there was no point in looking for her.the primary target?

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Japanese ChroniclesSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary= It never does to start Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a review of a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes itGP and Rowlands didn's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this bookt want to follow in his footsteps, at some point, with particularly when he considered the words ''what the old master craftsmen would strain that being on-call a masterpiece.put on his father'' It is precisely thats life. A masterpiece in When he was seventeen he took the sense opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the craft as well as the art of writingjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I It hadn'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is t - as much with so many students - been his dream since he was a history of Japanchild. If anything, he'd wanted to be a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countryprofessional footballer. |isbn=1906011044

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0861541774|title=The Witch's HeartA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a witch named Angrbodashort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She hides Maik was involved in a forest at the edge of the nine worldsstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, remembering nothing he faced a charge of her past life manslaughter but evidence came to light that fact suggested that she was survived burnt at he might have planned to murder the stake three times because of Odin's wrathman. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to Now he could be facing the stake—and refuses to leave her alonedeath penalty. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a son that's a wolf, diplomatic incident and another son thatwouldn's a snaket help Danny at all.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=1788549759Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was December 1940 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for operating as an alternative to all the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, Williamonline apps in providing a more personal, at home with her parentstailored service. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the family than the shame of illegitimacybusiness, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a better footingwhile. She was going Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to meet her well-come home to-do fiancéEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, hoping bringing us to persuade him an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to come 44 Scotland Street and meet her family the following weekIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. LaterKatie has no experience in running a business, her body would be found or in the bombedmatch-out home where he had taken making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15294072490811771741|title=The Perfect LieInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jo SpainMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatMelissa Leapman's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married InstaKnits for six months and life was good with Baby'' gives us a decent apartment by collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the sea 'long, cosy afternoons in Newport, Long Islandfront of the fire' variety. The knock on projects are divided by the door was insistent and when it was opened, Dannytime they's partnerll take to complete - less than five hours, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one lookfive to ten hours, turned, walked ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the open window projects are attractive, modern and jumped to his death from the fourth flooruseable. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's murderme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1523092734Dean Koontz|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary=''She brings Benny is having a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her lifeterrifically bad day. Again He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and again his house gets trashed. Oh, and again.'' (Alma Derrickssomeone has delivered a really weird, former CMOdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, Cirque du Soleil RSD) and it''To claim space s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. thing that has trashed his house! It The thing is, Benny is the very last person to live the life you've always wanteddeserve all this bad luck.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at He is a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''nice person. A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskreally nice person. Now - So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be clear - this book his house is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectivenew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, but discussion at the moment seems who has been sent to be about how women can be ''protected''help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. I've always thought that women need Spike is going to rise above thistake care of Benny, to be people who donand will certainly take care of Benny't need protections enemies, if he, Benny, people and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that exactly they are big men.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title=Archibald Lox Murray and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Archiewell, back in London in the world whatever takes his fancy next of the Borntwo. It But he's a bad magician's not been easycat, explaining to so his foster parents where he's favourite bun has beenturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, or slipping not into the regular back garden, but into ordinary life a world of frightening adventure and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergewhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, but Archie has done his best.... where a troll hunter is expected – well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's clock tower turned up and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.'ll have to do…|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008561249

|isbn=0008444501B0C47LV1PC|title=The Answer to EverythingFragility|author=Luke KennardMosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Life Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should have been good you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for Emilyboth could well be. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We.. no. 'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isnFragility't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children is set as it's the only way city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to get him to sleep emerge from the restrictions imposed during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.covid pandemic

|isbn=02419851371529431735|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, called there by Jancis Appleby to see which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsmore surprising. There had He'd been an accusation of sexual assault by exiled on the Costa del Sol as a professor on wanted drug smuggler for a studentdecade. When Fawley arrived The return has come about because he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details s had a letter from the victim? The problem was his ex-wife, saying that Caleb Morgan she's ill and hasn'was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishert long to live. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt's mother hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Petra Newson, the local MPabducted, stripped to his underwear and Professor Fisher is sent to a big name watery grave in Artificial Intelligencethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Is it a warning from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Spanish gang or a problem closer to be ''very'' public.home?

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Alzheimer's Eli is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by this cruel diseasevisiting with him, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like in the evening a statue over time affected helper at the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you dessert cafe his gran owns and your dignityruns. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey generation missing in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''the family.|isbn=1108838936}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635862353|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary= A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe itfew short years ago, mainly because IEli'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than s parents were both lost to the average home was likely titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - navigate the world in the company of a small fire destroyed some of her shoesmagical beast. One This has made the race anathema to the pair had come apart and she could see how – but when a bad incident at the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford eatery leads to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to know how dare to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was bornenter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231