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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|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.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=16358646740008517061|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Joy HowardStig Abell

|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=''Think of it as no-whining diningFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.'' We know it's a fruit rather than There’s perhaps a vegetable but little uncertainty about the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the different typesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, not to mention the cultivars as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and you begin relaxing life to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her there - I have no affection reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the ones you find moment they’re enjoying life in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from present and putting the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get future on the tasteback burner.

|isbn=02419890271786482126|title=We All Have Our SecretsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jane CorryElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for liveBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -in help as he the site was failing going to cope at Willowmead House on his ownhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. His advert was fairly specific: he There was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsno skull. The first person who came to the house was Francoise, Was this a French woman in her early twentiesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, who fit the bill perfectlyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She got the job It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Francoise didnNelson doesn't know about the advert: , that she was there for is pregnant with his child as a completely different reasonresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Emily Gentle Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is Harold's daughter and she came prone to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madesudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Tasting SunlightNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Sally 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 teenager missing person is buried and who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and was responsible for people to stop questioning herdeath. This person, tiptoeing around herhe promises, is someone big and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding herit will be worth the police doing what he wants. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who And what he wants is in her forties to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and seems to live aloneget an early parole date. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room Not much to sleep inask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and the space she's even prepared to just be. As they work together on do the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1914585143

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason0008405026|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It''A struggling poetry zine, a moms sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoodsinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympicsand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a womenstraightforward murder/suicide but there's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-something about the positioning ofthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-theand-art S&M dungeon, shut case is now a man serving a life sentence complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, KRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'sboss, xUna Burt), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of the cast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like thisare less convinced...|isbn=B09STS96HS

|authorisbn=Will Brooker0571379877|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readRobert and Stanza. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readRobert's a theatre director. This book starts with the two meeting each otherHe's also self-obsessed, as welldemanding, handsome and shows how 2021 drew the two closer entitled and closer togetheruses Edward to run errands for him. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being Edward has been in a ''black lace mini-dress love with gold brocade'' (certainly a getStanza since their university days -up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewelland he's diverse outputdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Brooker decides Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'd s not like nothing more than most men: Edward is left to follow her through a year in stumble upon the published author's life, working to make a success two of the latest title, and struggling with the next them kissing in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the resulta dark passageway.|isbn=1529136024

|isbnauthor=1801109265Jo Callaghan|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''When a punctual man who was inexplicably never is found crucified on time'' and he was - as usual - late the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to pick up his sonthe case alongside her sidekick, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'the AI detective Lock. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyIt's attention, his mother, Annatheir first live case together, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The dinner would never be servedBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, as James Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The very high profile case falls that draws a lot of unwanted attention to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policetheir AI Future Policing project. She's feeling Will they be able to solve the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the going gets tough.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=152941363X1399613073|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Moral Injuries|author=Martin WalkerChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=''Nobody knows what Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the truth first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is any morea perfectionist and a trauma doctor.'' Bruno Courrèges Anjali is the police chief for St Denis and much free spirit of the Vézère valley group and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogneshe becomes a GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're not just policemen at a drug and alcohol- theyfuelled party and it're both deeply committed s going to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceend in tragedy. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnWe don't normally have worried them so much had it not been for know who suffered the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in tragedy or the carconsequences. Oh, and Twenty-five years later there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of will be an eerily similar event that will impact the carthree friends. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThis time, it's weapontheir teenage children who are involved. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbn=02415424050241636604|title=Meredith AloneThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Claire AlexanderGary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's Wednesday 14 November 2018 re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and she's not left her home for 1his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence,214 dayspoverty and injustice. She'd ''like'' There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to: in fact, she so nearly doesthe London School of Economics. Her outdoor clothes are on Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and she's even considered he has a facility with numbers which shoes most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to wear if she's going to catch her trainbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. ThenEventually, she canthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter'ts Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3. She simply can5|genre=Crime|summary=It't force herself s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to leave the safety of her homeEnglish country village where she grew up. She's fortunate that she has back now because of a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with request for help from her two childrenbeloved aunt, James and MatildaCarole. SadieFreya's a cardiac nurse former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and full of sound common sensethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. In fact it Arthur was Sadie who gave Meredith the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her cat, Freddown badly. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith Even though they were in business together as JIGSAWGIRLantique hunters, so you can guess what she does in her spare timehas not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from Holding Handsthe love of her life, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'swho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B09Y451X9KAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Greetings, aliens!All Tomorrow's Futures: (do pop in for tea)Fictions that Disrupt|author=Richard F WalkerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= ''Anything can happen at a birthday party, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manor. But when an eerie signal is picked Opening up in the early hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out ways of thinking about the bag and the world goes into a state shape of panicthings to come.''

Could I've heard it be? Could said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out 's all getting away from me. Some of their privileged lives of parties it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and drunken shenanigans the probabilities and catapulted into end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the world of advanced science, secret agentslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and politicians hungry for powerwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= SoThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. We're back Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Merge with the first chapter residents who are still alive in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Loxhotel, he forms a young man bond with Sam who can pick the locks refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of portals from our world her room to try to another, called the ''Merge'capture what's happened through her photography. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on Although they only ever talk over the topic of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonphone, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Bornterrorists. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD086154742X

|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips1529153298|title=The SearchList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=HistoryGeneral Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be childIt's play1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, when youhonestly...) She're scraping in the dirt looking to find s not what you can find's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thinghave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to locate move the topic of the titular searchfamily 'Down South'. And he really hasn When you't made it easy for himself – the search area re from Yorkshire, Down South is a wide onefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the target might not exist any more – ohmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and itshe's underwater, when he cannot divell do anything to prevent that. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man She's visit back to France, our author has promised to find not worried about the landing craft dangers or that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial her Mum's stopped talking - to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedanyone. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1398524085|title=Looking for EmilyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LilyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgedaughter, and everyone from said mother to her teacher Etty. are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware all worried but - strangely - her neighbourhusband, SamAlec, is just about to make herself knownnot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and in a big way. But where does Emily come from? WellGreg, Lily used that name because find the body of what sheGreg'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectss father, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorDuncan Ackerley, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'the river. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving It was an easy assumption for the two girls police to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatthat Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's behind t stand the intrigueguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened..|isbn=1839942754

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1035906708|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesDiva|author=Richard F WalkerDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle We tend to think of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back Manhattan, New York, in time December 1923 and only moved to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'Callas' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer make it more manageable in the eclectic readerStates. Tying them together is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the idea that remarkable Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and strange, even miraculousmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nextJackie.

|isbnauthor=1800901232Christopher Edge|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a fashion designerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyAll big movie fans, if not prosperousthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. many, many snacks! Some money changed hands and Hanh was on However, as the mini-bus to Hanoi. Onlymovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in are swept up into an illegal garment factoryadventure they couldn't even imagine. You know those jeans you really wanted: But as they lurch from one film genre to the ones with intricate embroidery and beading next, can they figure out what on earth is going on the legs? The ones with Will they ever get back to the artfully-placed rips cinema, and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched themto their real lives? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|isbn=1839942738

|author=Daisy HildyardRachel Greenlaw|title=EmergencyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=The summary ''I can hear the song of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premisesea.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight call of Loss the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''|rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is grievingone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Traumatised after But when the death of her sister, she awakes Council Watch lays a trap to find strangeend the wrecking, thick black hairs sprouting from they capture the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size island's leader and volumeMira's father. Her GPDesperate to save him from death, diagnosing the odd phenomenon Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as a physical reaction he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre sets off in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis search of a kindfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. As Marianne's memories threaten With only nine days to overwhelm unearth what might save herfather, Nede offers as her journey takes her release from this cycle the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of memory and pain—but only the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at a terrible price: that nothing to save the future of identity itselfher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn= 086154112X 0008664730

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)James Sherwood Metts|title=Little DrummerPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is Things have been a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with bit sticky for the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingsEarthlings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda AI and Frolichautomation have been proceeding apace, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to Africa accomplish. Just as they follow the twists were beginning to get used to all this technological change and turns starting to think of the investigationother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Gunnarstranda Life was pretty much shut down and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficultalong with it, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover all the truth as many daily social interactions on which they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going ondepend so heavily.|isbn=19145851271736128426

|isbnauthor=0008541477Matthew Tree|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a hot summer day right drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the beginning any of the summer holidays his artistic passions all failed miserably and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members who had endless crises of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketself confidence. There's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened So Tim applied himself to herhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than wanting to talk, his daydreams and set himself high but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0711266204A G Slatter|title=The Secret Life Briar Book of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)the Dead

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=I have recently discovered '' There's a great pleasure: part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I sit and watch the vast numbers can. This secret magic of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticingown, all mine, at last. Ijust want to enjoy it for a while.'ve established which species feed ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the groundworld, which pop to lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the feeders for Briar's, a quick snatch family of some food witches who protect the town and who settles in 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 a good munch but I wish I generations and as such since she was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful ifyoung, her training as a childsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, IEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town'd had access 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 book such as ''The Secret Life maelstrom of Birds''chaos. So – 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 it?under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17370309421529900360|title=Bag O'GoodiesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jolly Walker BittickJonathan Kellerman

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, you deserve a treat and mine Sturgis was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of what happens when five young men find a base psychologist only worked for their partyinga while. Right nowFinally, it was Robin, I didnDelaware't want a full-length novels partner, 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, so I turned to this anthology though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of verse and short storiesa remote property in Bel Air. BittickHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's writing has matured - and so have his charactersnot the Italian. Well... most But which of them!was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1529395224|title=SeedLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His grandfather runs an allotment, father was a GP and manages Rowlands didn't want to stink the entire town out from it follow in his footsteps, particularly when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise considered the strain that being on-call put on his vegetablesfather's life. His mother somehow combines When he was seventeen he took the dual roles opportunity of housebound failure doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasn't left was convinced this was the building in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim with junkjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. What Marty's classmates don It hadn't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, - as with so many students - been his one school uniform built from lost propertydream since he was a child. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction If anything, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of 'd wanted to be a solitary plant seedprofessional footballer.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0861541774|title=Our Sister, AgainA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After IslaDCI Domenic Jejeune's older sister Flora diesclose friend and former colleague, her family struggle to find a way forward. In particularDanny Maik, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto has taken a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able short holiday in Singapore to help. But actually, it turns out they are part of meet up with an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back againold ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in robot form. But this won't just be a lookstreet brawl -he would later maintain that he was facing aman armed with a knife -likeand he killed a Ghurka. They use all Initially, he faced a charge of Flora's online history, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblemanslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. But what will it really mean for Now he could be facing the family, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to have Flora back? And is it really Flora help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all?|isbn=1788953916.

|isbnauthor=1398507504Alexander McCall Smith|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and for operating as an alternative to all the last sixteen years he's been searching for evidence to prove that he's rightonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, there was as Ness is planning to take a link back trip to Canada to get away for a cold case from 2002while. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection Katie is coming out of a break up with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the case his father was investigating before he diedIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Above all Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=07278505470811771741|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)InstaKnits for Baby|author=David MarkMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnMelissa Leapman't even had time s ''InstaKnits for breakfast when the call came throughBaby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. A body had been found Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the roots of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullfire' variety. When he gets The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to the sceneten hours, he will find what greets him is even worse ten to twenty hours and more than he could have imaginedtwenty hours. A young man's corpse is entangled with All the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – projects are attractive, modern and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesuseable. It would seem I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyme being picky.

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireDean Koontz|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary= Early comments on Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, bad luck. He is a delightnice person. A really nice person. I will agree with So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the first – tremendous delivery to his house is no understatement – but 'a delight' new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is perhaps using the expression in clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a way I'm not familiar withgood person. I have Spike is going to confess my ignorance take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (in translation, I dona waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't read Spanishs wild adventure) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismcan figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=08615419011662500491

|author= Ann Sei LinAdam Stower|title= Rebel SkiesMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers |summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Murray is supposed to be a servant on the Midorihumble, tidy and friendly cat, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come one who is able to drink sleep and eat and eat and sleep and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himwell, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across takes his fancy next of the Empiretwo. He asks her to come with him But he's a bad magician's cat, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she so his favourite bun has known. Wellbeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, soon Kurara won't have any say in and the mattercatflap they both use can chuck them out, because not into the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigamiregular back garden, and she is forced to flee out but into the a worldof frightening adventure and whiffs. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a sky-ship whose express purpose troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to hunt down shikigamibe honest, but he's turned up and a whole world of adventure awaits her…he'll have to do…|isbn=14063995900008561249

|authorisbn=Patrice LawrenceB0C47LV1PC|title=NeedleFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=34|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the Can you make a 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son BlakeYo birthing person's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, joke? And if you might perhaps thinkcould, and is the creation of one such item question should you make it? Or is part of the plot herequestion if you did, as Charlene would it land? The catch is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love that the answer for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no moreboth could well be. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then..no. well ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, what exactly happens is not for me to sayOregon, only cautiously begins to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=14059409801529431735|title=The BirdcageWinter Visitor|author=Eve ChaseJames Henry

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 February 1991 and we know that a body has been pulled out of Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the sea at Zennor in Cornwallmore surprising. We donHe't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at d been exiled on the request of their father, Charlie Finch, Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a famous artistdecade. The girls are actually return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'halfs ill and hasn''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityt long to live. It's been hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a long time since watery grave in the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time boot of the total eclipse, something happeneda stolen Ford Sierra. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1787634906Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We're Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Oldcastle the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Malcolm is in troublethe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He's Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peoplethe family. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that sheA few short years ago, Eli's Allegra Deanparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-Edwards) and Hugotrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a new coat bad incident at the eatery leads to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplea confession from gran, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he was sleeping. It won't be long before most hates, with the sole aim the police realise that Malcolm was one prize of their own: not many other people are going magic at the end – the only thing to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backspossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231