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|author=Gunnar StaalesenSylvie Cathrall|title=Bitter FlowersA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.5|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has just finished settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, little uncertainty about the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case lot of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to be linked, but what Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the link, future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and how can Varg possibly unravel putting the truth?|isbn=191319308Xfuture on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1786482126|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the hope site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they would complement each other and collaborate, creating discovered the bones of a child beneath a dynamic and prosperous societydoorway. Each power is contained within There was no skull. Was this a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's children and their descendants. But it didndifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't quite work out like , that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out she is pregnant with his child as a result of them and the eight countries went to warone night they spent together some three months ago. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high Her condition will be obvious before long, a solution not least because Ruth is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, prone to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler sudden bouts of Dunivasickness.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps0008551324|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TomasIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Happy to work with his father Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the blacksmith's forge, prison and he's almost of prepared to tell the age to become a full apprentice, and help with police where the new batch body of dragonswords a missing person is certainly neededburied and who was responsible for her death. Not that there are any dragons This person, he promises, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Strange signals from within And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the forge furnace, remainder of his sentence and a peculiar invite to become get an apprentice clerk insteadearly parole date. Not much to ask, are things for Tom is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to puzzle over – until it all comes out in do the wash, other thing that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and Hardie demanded - make certain that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, DS Max Craigie and ride anyone who works with themhim is kept well away from what's happening...|isbn=1839940026

|isbn=15293465410008405026|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJane Casey

|summary=It's late July sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Deborah St James is at the investigation ground to a meeting with Dominique Shawhalt. Now, Undersecretary for the school systemher mother, a representative from the NHSHelena, Mr Oh from Barnardosand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't catch but would later turn out s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be Zawadi an open-and Narissa Cameron, -shut case is now a filmmakercomplex double murder. It follows on from Kerrigan is convinced that the success of Deborahexplanation lies in Rosalie's book disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'London Voicess a theatre director. He'': the meeting is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesrun errands for him. DeborahEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's uncertain about quite drunkenly confided how successful she could be as the problem seems he feels to occur Robert. Most men in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the trust two of the people she speaks to and photographsthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJo Callaghan|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperLeave No Trace

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for When a man is found crucified on the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the fight against Communismcase alongside her sidekick, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militaryAI detective Lock. If he It's honest - which Clyde usually their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and this one, at leastpotentially, gets him out of the rut he's in. He's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himself.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1399613073|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=There is no mermaid in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the millpondfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. That at least Olivia is what Bess ruthlessly ambitious, which is telling herself. Neither will there a bonus when you aim to be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecardiothoracic surgeon. Bess knows there Laura is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of existencethe group and she becomes a GP. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of When we first meet them they're at a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, drug and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal alcohol-fuelled party and how befriending people only leads it's going to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship end in the tired-out mill workerstragedy. But surely that doesn We don't mean know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there is any truth in will be an eerily similar event that will impact the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17856330740241636604|title=Staggering HubrisThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Josh BerryGary Stevenson

|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Members If you were to bring up an image of Parliament a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like us to believe that Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the country pin-stripe suit and his background is run by politiciansthe East End, headed by the Prime minister where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those London School of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality Economics. Stevenson is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers bright - the SPADS extremely bright - who are the driving force behind the governmentand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. We are in the privileged position of having access He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis a card game which was completely contained by the end of 2020got him an internship with Citibank. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=B09MYXSRV41035021803|title=OtterThe Antique Hunter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareGuide to Murder|author=Cordellya SmithC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the world was made, the animals were given giftsEnglish country village where she grew up. Bear was given strength so that he could become She's back now because of a protectorrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present 'Freya's former mentor andCarole'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - buts close friend, unfortunatelyArthur Crockleford, not is dead and the ability circumstances seem suspicious, to use it wellsay the least. He liked Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to trick other animalsthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He was also jealous which was how he came to be Even though they were in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always business together as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.}}{{Frontpage|author=Giovanna Fletcher|title=Walking on Sunshine|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen yearsantique hunters, she has diednot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And whilst he is dealing with his grief After the split, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followshe worked in a cafe, knowing that she was dying met and that they would need help to carry married James (on living. Whilst some the rebound from the love of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips awaylife, who was murdered) and Vicky Freya and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himJames have now divorced.|isbn=140593560X

|isbn=1529393930AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Making a LivingAll Tomorrow's Futures: How to Craft Your BusinessFictions that Disrupt|author=Sophie RochesterBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easierOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

I've heard it said that 'If not now, when?technology'is what happens after you' re eighteen. Well, I know must confess that I'm not alone there have been more than a few decades of technology in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesslifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's a lot of motivation advantageous to do so: me but I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot 'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Selling would offset Of course, I could research the costs, which can be quite considerable possibilities and the probabilities and it could be fun to do, couldnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't it? re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone needed people I knew I could trust and who is considering turning could deliver information in a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''way I could understand.

|author=Freya MarskeSunny Singh|title=A Marvellous LightHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=Robin Blyth The Hotel Arcadia is nudged into a job luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the Civil Serviceterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey a wartime photographer and learns that Abhi, the streets of London are threaded with magichotel manager. Desperate As Abhi continues to try to remove care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a curse that threatens bond with Sam who refuses to swallow himbe cowed by events, Robin follows Edwin and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the countrysidephone, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the lives of all magicians in the British Islesterrorists. |isbn=1529080886086154742X

|isbn=02414804421529153298|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceList of Suspicious Things|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, I am a veganthough. Women have been disappearing. MentallyWell, I am a veganthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. I read [[How Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by move the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodfamily 'Down South'. PracticallyWhen you're from Yorkshire, I am not Down South is a veganfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. It worked for a while apart from For Miv, the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope donmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back ll do anything to animal-based proteinprevent that. It wasnShe't s not worried about the taste - I know dangers or that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom her Mum's stopped talking - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsanyone.

|isbn=suppl_stafl1398524085|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling inHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398706906|title=The Lost|author=Simon Beckett|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Mason|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleNicci French

|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue"Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in a hurrynot. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have Shortly afterwards, Etty and when he hurriesGreg, when he bundles things into find the back body of his car and tries Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to run make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then hears sirens behind him, which committed suicide when he should couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how convinced but there's little else they can do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlybut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1913193942

|authorisbn=Will Carver1035906708|title=Psychopaths AnonymousDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, drinking continuously and alsobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, curiouslyNew York, addicted in December 1923 and only moved to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps Athens when she is mainly using the groups to find targetswas thirteen...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her desire father changed it to hear of people's misery, and targets Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her violent behaviour. Yet voice - she also seems to be searching for others was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who think as she does, mercilessly exploited her and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any made no secret of the groups she decides to set up her ownpreference for her elder sister, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornJackie.|isbn=1913193756

|isbnauthor=1529418100Christopher Edge|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=I'm not usually Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put place that has the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan nickname of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's ChallengeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they' was hard re looking forward to resist lots of exciting films, and I'm rather glad many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that I didnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even tryimagine. For those new But as they lurch from one film genre to the seriesnext, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to know about who's who the cinema, and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFRachel Greenlaw|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. Hunter had diabetes '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomachplundering the wrecks. Mira, so like her over-protectiveness was understandable, but mother before her fiance, Ian, was pestering her is one of the seven who swim out to get married survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and she thought it would be any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a good idea for him trap to find out what parenting was ''reallyend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' likes father. Her friend, Milly, had arranged Desperate to take her boyfriendsave him from death, Liam, for Mira makes a night in bargain with a posh hotel but then wreck survivor who is as charming as he dumped is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her and , she couldn't get sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the money backsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so Hannah was offered as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the opportunity smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to go in his place. She would return save the future of her home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QJames Sherwood Metts|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadn't Things have been easy a bit sticky for Ruth Prendergast: shethe Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd just come through a divorce re paid to do and right now it was raining hardother tasks that took time to accomplish. All she wanted was Just as they were beginning to get back used to her all this technological change and starting to think of other, new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going ways to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestspend time, along came an awful pandemic. She'd no idea who he Life waspretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1838774823Matthew Tree|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private SecretaryTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning drunk and discovered the body chronic underachiever whose dreams of Cynthia Harris being exceptional at the side any of the pool. There was broken glass - a crystal tumbler, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - his artistic passions all failed miserably and it looked as though Mrs Harris who had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outendless crises of self confidence. StillSo Tim applied himself to his studies, it was a shock for Sir Simoncultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=057136358XA G Slatter|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as 'There's a matter part of making things tidy''me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version This secret magic of Marie Kondomy own, all mine, at last. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred I just want to him when he was in Burma with the army enjoy it for a while.''where he got  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the chance to kill world, lies Silverton; a lot town under the protection of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timeBriar''. He was spending s, a lot family of time with Percy Antrobus - witches who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the purpose of first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a swizzle stick - surely he wouldnsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't drink champagne with bubbles in s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the ''morning''? It was after Percytown's death that he saw 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 benefits heart of taking up a job in Spainmaelstrom 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

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1529900360|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really donIt hadn't think I can.  Dave is an author been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and an artisteven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. An inspirational speaker His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a professional horseman. And psychologist only worked for a recovering alcoholicwhile. The son of a Lutheran minister Finally, it was Robin, heDelaware's struggled with a controlling fatherpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, run away to join though. Two lovers were murdered in the circus (not swimming pool of a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and painted theatre sets, she is married to an extremely rich man and hit rock bottom when it's not the bottle took overItalian.|isbn=B0965V3LLN But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529395224|title=Far From Letting the Cat Out of the Light Bag: The Secret Life of Heavena Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Michelle Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going t want to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtimefollow in his footsteps, bound for particularly when he considered the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipstrain that being on-call put on his father's AI captainlife. However, when she wakes up at When he was seventeen he took the end opportunity of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivejob for him. Before long, she begins to realise that her first mission wonhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't be going - as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and with so many students - been his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimedream since he was a child. Meanwhile If anything, former astronaut and friend of Shellhe's father Lawrence Biz takes d wanted to be a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosprofessional footballer. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0861541774|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Lily loves eating fruit DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and vegetables. She likes carrotsformer colleague, broccoliDanny Maik, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up their noseswith an old ally, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and how nice to eathe killed a Ghurka. One day Initially, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that carrots grow on treeshe might have planned to murder the man. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in Now he could be facing the grounddeath penalty. Jordan says, "I did try Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to tell her, Miss!" help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and everyone laughs wouldn't help Danny at poor Lilyall.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbnauthor=178607981XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Bad Apples|author=Will DeanThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up The Perfect Passion Company is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an Audi 4x4 parked at alternative to all the side of the roadonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Wondering Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if someone needed help she got could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of the car - a break up with a bad boyfriend, and heard so jumps at the screams chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from deep inside Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the forestIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Determining the direction of Katie has no experience in running a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference business, or in match-making, but Tuva made Ness has full confidence in her way to where a woman was holding abilities, and there's always her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssonvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a resident of Visberg.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0811771741|title=Cold As HellInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary= In Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a red suitcase as collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the bottom 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a fissure in a lava fieldthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, there is a bodyten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. And All the man who has put her there has just discovered projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that he is capable of killing's me being picky.|isbn=1913193888

|author=Lucy HopeDean Koontz|title=FledglingThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Benny is having a most peculiar hilltop houseterrifically bad day. He loses his job, built bit by bit over the decadeshe loses his fiancee, and now looking imperiously down on the village his house gets trashed. Oh, and woods below. It's an eccentric housesomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to host eccentricshis home, so and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the library shelving system thing that has trashed his house! The thing is not as we'd know it, Benny is the roof is retractable, there very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it, and so on. At turns out that the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and delivery to his house is a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermynew friend, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroinebad weather friend called Spike, Cassie, a young lass who has been sent to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Oh but it's also Spike is going to house someone or something elsetake care of Benny, when crashing through Cassieand will certainly take care of Benny's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And enemies, if you think such he, Benny, and Harper (a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=183994188X1662500491

|isbnauthor=1846276772Adam Stower|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica NordellMurray and Bun

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers |summary=Anyone Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobssleep and eat and eat and sleep and, promotionswell, higher salaries are the preserve whatever takes his fancy next of the white mantwo. Even when those who wouldnBut he't pass the medical become s a part of an organisation itbad magician's rare that their views are heardcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the receiving end regular back garden, but into a world of the bias frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but ithe's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Teresa DriscollB0C47LV1PC|title=Her Perfect FamilyFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=The novel begins by introducing Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you to Gemmacould, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with is the familiar horrifying realisation, at question should you make it? Or is the eleventh hourquestion if you did, would it land? The catch is that her graduation outfit is all wrongthe answer for both could well be.... no. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating  ''He is not who he says he is…Fragility'', paving the way for is set as the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist city of eventsPortland, and after a change of outfitOregon, Gemma is shot in cautiously begins to emerge from the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow restrictions imposed during the further you read.|isbn=1542028752covid pandemic

|isbn=84092901031529431735|title=If OnlyThe Winter Visitor|author=Matthew TreeJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the young man got more surprising. He'd been exiled on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a monthly allowancedecade. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more The return has come about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasnbecause he't that Lowry senior didn't care for s had a letter from his sonex-wife, it was saying that he didnshe's ill and hasn't care long to live. It's hard to have him in this country where he might be a danger feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his wife underwear and other childrensent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The alcohol Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem was obvious even before Patrick managed closer to get the young man on his way.home?

|author=Antti Tuomainen Alex Bell and David Hackston (translator)Tim McDonagh|title=The Rabbit FactorGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Meet Henri. With Eli is a mind so much more focused on maths busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not evening a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and keen on stupid-as workshoppingruns. This is when he finds Eli lives with his brother has diedlovely gran, having too – for there is a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everythinggeneration missing in the family. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park A few short years ago, and nothing else. Eli''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants s parents were both lost to occupy his mindthe titular race, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the finances company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – it runs but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a steady money-moving paceconfession from gran, despite some desultory staff ideasEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, but loans have been made out and with the sole aim the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on prize of magic at the scene to explain that missing money end – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive only thing to getting a cheap life insurance plan..possibly save his gran.|isbn=191319387X0571382231