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|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZSylvie Cathrall|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get There are few greater joys than a permanent job with the newspaper and the case she was covering was her big chance. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off book which lives up to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysidecompelling premise. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member And this is one of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=18382268340008517061|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Ed BoxallStig Abell

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents doFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, so the trips out were always so much funhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. A young boy was going to There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the carnival future of his life with his Grandadvet girlfriend, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just rememberLivia and her daughter Diana, don't let go as moving in together would mean a lot of my handcompromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.''

|isbn=15291353621786482126|title=The Long WeekendJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat Builders were demolishing an old house in Northumbria, right up near Norwich - the Scottish borders and site was going to make it worse the three husbands had all hold seventy- for one reason or another five 'luxury' apartments - had to delay making when they discovered the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for bones of a long time but Emily was child beneath a bit of an outsiderdoorway. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she There was ten years younger than the other two womenno skull. The friendship of the group went back to school days. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Paul had coached rugby at the school where MarkInevitably, Toby and Rob were pupilsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Mark had married JaneIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and Toby that she is Ruth's husbandpregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And Rob? WellHer condition will be obvious before long, Rob's deadnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=gareth_steel0008551324|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gareth SteelNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donIt't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be appropriateapproach the police. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking Neither side likes or has any respect for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book But Davie Hardie is not suitable for younger readers struggling in prison and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it prepared to inform tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and provoke thoughtwho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, particularly amongst aspiring vetsis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. It deals with some uncomfortable And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and distressing issues but to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and eatinganyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17876348840008405026|title=The HerdA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Emily EdwardsJane Casey

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Our story opens in December 2019, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to be a major issuehalt. We're in Farley County CourtNow, her mother, Helena, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain her father are facing Bryony dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Ash Kohliher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. As they were best friends until just What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a few months ago we know that whatever has happened complex double murder. Kerrigan is major and convinced that, regardless of the outcomeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, this is not going to work out well for anyoneUna Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0571379877|title=The Language of FoodKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton Edward Jevons is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked working-class young man, obsessed with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirbyhis upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a local woman with a troubled home lifetheatre director. Together He's also self-obsessed, they testdemanding, craft, refine handsome and entitled and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and changing he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in 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 face two of cookery writing foreverthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1398502227

|author=Louie StowellJo Callaghan|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, so the other gods have decided thereAI detective Lock. It's only one thing for it – he must be banishedtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. And transformed – for Loki But when there is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of second body found crucified a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a giant potential serial killer and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month able to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing solve the right way againcase in time, or else, will Kat find herself taken off the case and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his liespotentially, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind out of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park...rightcareer?|isbn=1406399752139851120X

|isbn=00084544421399613073|title=A Flicker in the DarkMoral Injuries|author=Stacy WillinghamChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=It's May 2019 Olivia, Laura and Dr Chloe Davis, a Anjali met on the first day of medical psychologist, is completing school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a session with quarter of a new patientcentury. Lacey Olivia is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You seeruthlessly ambitious, Chloe knows what it's like which is a bonus when you aim to have be a traumatic childhoodcardiothoracic surgeon. Her father Laura is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agoa perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to Anjali is the free spirit of the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in group and she becomes a cupboard GP. When we first meet them they're at home a drug and she alcohol-fuelled party and her mother handed it 's going to the policeend in tragedy. Dick Davis is in We don't know who suffered the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for tragedy or the last twenty consequences. Twenty-five yearslater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Her mother is in a care homeThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge0241636604|title=Escape RoomThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=I've seen junior variants If you were to bring up an image of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped city banker in a specific locationyour mind, and have you're unlikely to solve problems in order to get their way outthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventurethe East End, where he was familiar with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Hereviolence, Ami poverty and four other tweenagers, all new injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to each other the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and booked into the game without any he has a facility with numbers which most of their friendsus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, are a team – starting out at the card game's main officeswhich got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are this turned into permanent employment as a world-changertrader. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987311035021803|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenAntique Hunter's Book for AdultsGuide to Murder|author=Michael Albanese C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He had She's back now because of a box request for everything help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnCarole't believe their luck! It began with art suppliess close friend, Arthur Crockleford, stuffed toys is dead and the like: all circumstances seem suspicious, to say the things which most children have in abundanceleast. The Boy's delight Arthur was in the sense of order in his roomreason why Freya had not been back to the village: it made him feel happyArthur, she feels, let her down badly. As he grew up and became a ManEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Look carefully at After the pictures split, she worked in a cafe, met and you'll see that one married James (on the rebound from the love of them has a padlock..her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B09MN1526WAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Liz MistryBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the third murder in the space shape of a few weeks and theythings to come.'' I've all heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been because more than a few decades of machetes used on teenagerstechnology in my lifetime. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to arrive on me but I'm left with the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this time, feeling that it's going to be differentall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, HaqibOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and she has a very public meltdown. It isnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't Haqib: there are similarities but re talking about or the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundlatest conspiracy theorist. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety I needed people I knew I could trust and depressionwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Ally WilkesSunny Singh|title=All the White SpacesHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an Arctic expedition led unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanterrorists who are rampaging through, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startkilling everyone on site, and the opportunity to live life as his authentic self and true genderthere is Sam, without the disapproval a wartime photographer and constraints of his parents. HoweverAbhi, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionhotel manager. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the party and, when disaster strikes and they residents who are forced to overwinter on landstill alive in the hotel, he forms a menacing presence waits bond with Sam who refuses to prey be cowed by events, and keeps on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the Arctic winter alivephone, he will have their friendship grows as Abhi tries to face his demons once help her keep safe and for all, or risk making they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the barren, icy landscape his tombterrorists.|isbn=1789097835086154742X

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529153298|title=QuicksilverThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... He) She's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, for hethey's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingve been murdered, and now is starting a career on a needless magazinebut to have 'disappeared' doesn's stafft sound quite so frightening. But when this book starts he IS now Miv's upset because she'subject s overheard that her father wants to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, for something – call it unearthly intuitionforeign place, call it mind-controlbest avoided. For Miv, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict dinerthe move would mean leaving her best friend, find a gold coin worth a fortuneSharon, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamshe'll do anything to prevent that. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he She's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, not worried about the discovery dangers or that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1542019885

|isbn=00084416181398524085|title=Other ParentsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sarah StovellNicci French

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she Charlotte Salter was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnexpected at her husband't live s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. There was one difficultyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'find the body of Greg's father, with two membersDuncan Ackerley, in particular, causing problems for the headriver. Laura Spence It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Kate Monroe objected to Jothen committed suicide when he couldn's restrictions on t stand the toys guilt. The Salter children could bring in are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for with their real gripe: LGBTQ educationlives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1035906708|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Jasper is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a little boy who has some strugglesmovie marathon at their local cinema, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see a place that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. His All big sistermovie fans, Rosie, has been a huge support they're looking forward to himlots of exciting films, talking him down when things were difficultand many, encouraging himmany snacks! However, and writing a book with himas the movie starts, all they very quickly realise that something about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so it this new film format is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldvery different, and she isnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't answering her phoneeven imagine. His parents won't speak But as they lurch from one film genre to him or when the next, can they do, he doesn't understand or take in figure out what on earth is going on? Will they're saying. Nothing seems ever get back to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosiecinema, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.their real lives?|isbn=13985108901839942738

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=Red is My HeartCompass and Blade

|genre=Literary Fiction Teens|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my househeart. And so was this one'' Rosevear, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, isone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, black they capture the island's leader and white and redMira's father. YesDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and I think itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's possible territory, Mira must be determined to say not one page lacks stop at nothing to save the influence future of some striking visual ideasher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19135471830008664730

|isbnauthor=1529135567James Sherwood Metts|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's five years since Things have been a bit sticky for the stag weekendEarthlings. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) AI and his four groomsmenautomation have been proceeding apace, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Joshother tasks that took time to accomplish. The first night Just as they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - were beginning to get used to all this technological change and in the night Scot managed starting to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timthink of other, who was experienced in survival techniquesnew ways to spend time, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to townalong came an awful pandemic. Scott followed soon after but there Life was no sign of Tim. Every yearpretty much shut down and, Tim's fatheralong with it, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue all the search although they do now acknowledge that many daily social interactions on which they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timdepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Gunnar StaalesenMatthew Tree|title=Bitter FlowersWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to work. Howeverbe different from his father, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, drunk and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of an eight year old girl his artistic passions all failed miserably and who disappeared one night and was never foundhad endless crises of self confidence. Somehow, these disparate cases appear So Tim applied himself to be linkedhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?achievable ambitions.|isbn=191319308XB0CVFXPGP8

|author=Kia AhankoobA G Slatter|title=The Gold Lion and Briar Book of the Tournament of SentinelsDead|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsFantasy|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its '' 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 strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborateall mine, creating at last. I just want to enjoy it for a dynamic and prosperous societywhile. Each power is contained within '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a magical ring belonging to one town under the protection of eight countries led by Myriadthe Briar's children , a family of witches who protect the town and their descendantsthe wider world from the Darklands. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the eight countries went first non-witch to war. Having fought themselves be born into an endless her family for generations and ruinous stalemate as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and finding potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the cost of war too hightown's leader, a solution is proposedand Ellie takes her place beside her. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsAs challenges come her way left, known as sentinelsright and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a single combat tournamentmaelstrom of chaos. The winner will take possession of all the rings Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and become determine what to do as the supreme ruler of DunivaBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1803364548

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529900360|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to work with ask for his father in help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the blacksmith's forgehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, heDelaware's almost of the age to become a full apprenticepartner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help with again. She knew that the new batch of dragonswords is certainly involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Not that there are any dragons The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..a remote property in Bel Air. Strange signals from within He was the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite heir to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, Italian shoe empire and that Tom she is rare in the ability married to summon them, share magical attributes, an extremely rich man and ride with it's not the Italian. But which of them...|isbn=1839940026was the primary target?

|isbn=15293465411529395224|title=Something to HideLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Elizabeth GeorgeSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's late July Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she Rowlands didn't catch but would later turn out want to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameronfollow in his footsteps, a filmmaker. It follows particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on from the success of Deborahhis father's book ''London Voices'': life. When he was seventeen he took the meeting is an exploration opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. DeborahIt hadn's uncertain about quite how successful she could be t - as the problem seems with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0861541774|title=ShadebringerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Grayson W HooperSteve Burrows

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. HeDCI Domenic Jejeune's not really that invested close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the fight against CommunismSingapore to meet up with an old ally, nor is he particularly interested Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a career in the military. If street brawl - he would later maintain that he's honest - which Clyde usually is, was facing a man armed with himself at least a knife - and he hasn't got many choices and this onekilled a Ghurka. Initially, at least, gets him out he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the rut man. Now he's incould be facing the death penalty. He's good in training Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Hewouldn's chuffed with himselft help Danny at all.

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There The Perfect Passion Company is no mermaid a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the millpondonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. That at least Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is what Bess planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is telling herself. Neither will there be coming out of a break up with a friend for her in amongst all bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the other kidschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, who have had their entire childhoods sold bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to call homecharm. Bess knows there is Katie has no time for friendship experience in running a handbusiness, or in match-to-mouthmaking, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit but Ness has full confidence in the slight little Dother abilities, and despite everything that life has taught there's always her about betrayal very helpful (and how befriending people only leads rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to harm, there might blankets. Some will be a glimmer quick knits - others are of companionship the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the tiredfire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete -out mill workersless than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. But surely I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xs me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1785633074Dean Koontz|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country Benny is run by politicianshaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, headed by the Prime minister and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- the sized object to his home, and it''primus inter pares'' (s possible that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but whoever or whatever was inside is the reality thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. We are in So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the privileged position of having access delivery to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrishis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. You might not know the name now but he Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly be the man to watchtake care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Adam Stower|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise Murray and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=When the world was madeMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the animals were given giftstwo. Bear was given strength so that But he could become 's a protector. Water Spider received bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a strong web that even fire could hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see into the present ''regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and'' the futurewhiffs. Rabbit developed intelligence - butThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, unfortunatelywhere a troll hunter is expected – well, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He one much bigger than Murray was also jealous which was how he came , to be in a race with Turtle. You might think thathonest, but he's not a fair contest but wait turned up and see. Things are not always as they seem. Ihe'll tell you how it came about.have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Giovanna FletcherB0C47LV1PC|title=Walking on SunshineFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=MikeCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s wifejoke? And if you could, Piais the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, who he was with would it land? The catch is that the answer for seventeen years, has diedboth could well be. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some 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 away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easierno.''

''If not now, when?Fragility'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a business. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make is set as gifts. Selling would offset the costscity of Portland, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to doOregon, couldn't it? But where cautiously begins to start? What do I need to think about? Well, emerge from the restrictions imposed during the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Freya Marske1529431735|title=A Marvellous LightThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth It's February 1991 and Essex is nudged into a job in bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Civil Service, much to his chagrinmore surprising. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that He'd been exiled on the streets of London are threaded with magicCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Desperate to remove The return has come about because he's had a curse letter from his ex-wife, saying that threatens she's ill and hasn't long to swallow himlive. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Robin follows Edwin stripped to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations his underwear and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover sent to a sinister plot that threatens watery grave in the lives boot of all magicians in the British Islesa stolen Ford Sierra. |isbn=1529080886 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0241480442Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=Emotionally, I am Eli is a vegan. Mentallybusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals and in the evening a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodruns. PracticallyEli lives with his lovely gran, I am not a vegan. It worked too – for there is a while apart from generation missing in the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinfamily. It wasnA few short years ago, Eli't s parents were both lost to the taste titular race, a globe- I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the animal kingdom - it was world in the ease company of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsmagical beast.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|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 This has made the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need race anathema to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote pair – but when a bad incident at the book because you wanted eatery leads to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to get dare to grips enter what he most hates, with the book supply chain, which even parts sole aim the prize of magic at the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be end – the first only thing 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 youpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231