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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSylvie Cathrall|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 5|genre= HorrorScience Fiction|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as There are few greater joys than a way book which lives up to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatablecompelling premise. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' And this is not like that. It is a collection one of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos0008517061|title=Delilah RecoveredDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a point when her little uncertainty about the future of his life isn't going as planned but things mightwith his vet girlfriend, just mightLivia and her daughter Diana, be about as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to look up. Out of work, about move in with Livia or does Livia move to lose Little Sky despite her flat, Dee reservations about whether or not this is up 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an accountantold house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's jobluxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But it It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to besudden bouts of sickness. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4. She survives 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the attack but not unscathedHardie family to approach the police. Witch hunters? What on earth Neither side likes or has that to do with Dee? Sheany respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers prepared to tell the police where the body of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and things it will never be worth the samepolice doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other 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=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=00084049760008405026|title=The Close A Stranger in the Family (DS Maeve Kerrigan11)

|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was because never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of Rula Jacques the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closesuspicious. If you're What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a regular reader of complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series explanation lies in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read that sentence twice and wondered if itRosalie's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very real. But disappearance: others (theresuch as Derwent's always a 'but'boss, isn't there?Una Burt) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertainare less convinced.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover0571379877|title=The Hidden FiresKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It Edward Jevons is always about the booka working-class young man, not the writerobsessed with his upper-class friends, but there are times when the authorRobert and Stanza. Robert's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the booka theatre director. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentageHe's also self-obsessed, was born in Kathmandudemanding, grew up in the Annapurna handsome and Himalayan entitled and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlanduses Edward to run errands for him. I can think of noEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -one better a combination and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to give us Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, relationship had begun between them but he's not so much in like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the shadow two of Shepherd, but them kissing in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famouslya dark passageway.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossJo Callaghan|title=The Nowhere ThiefLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=At last there When a man is new stock found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and case alongside her mother run in a seaside townsidekick, the AI detective Lock. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen itIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She also knows she should be free from worries about being But when there is a second body found out, because she has the ability to leave this worldcrucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and use an unworldly portal a very high profile case that draws a lot of kaleidoscope colours unwanted attention to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plundertheir AI Future Policing project. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything Will they be able to actually generate custom at solve the shop? Well yescase in time, is or will Kat find herself taken off the answercase and, potentially, but the fact out of a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…career?|isbn=1839943769139851120X

|isbn=15295047751399613073|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Moral Injuries|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyChristie Watson

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Elsie Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and her little brother David loved their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to go to the park be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and watch the red buses drive pasta trauma doctor. Elsie would race Anjali is the buses along the side free spirit of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy group and even just standing up was very difficultshe becomes a GP. One day Elsie spotted When we first meet them they're at a bus in the toy shop window which would help David drug and alcohol- fuelled party and was happy it's going to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at homeend in tragedy. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the bus for support, and walk behind itconsequences. Many decades Twenty-five years later, Elsie brought there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the bus, now damaged and rustedthree friends. This time, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=18479418340241636604|title=Atomic HabitsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=James ClearGary Stevenson

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that If you seek outwere to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, some books that you stumble across 're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, likewhere he was familiar with violence, right now! poverty and injustice. ''Atomic Habits'' There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is in the last categorybright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant1035021803|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of It''Voyage of s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Sparrowhawk''English country village where she grew up. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North She's back now because of Englanda request for help from her beloved aunt, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their livesCarole. They are part of a complexFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, extended family arrangementArthur Crockleford, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, dead and Raffy is there with his mumthe circumstances seem suspicious, and they are living together as a familyto say the least. They have grown up swimming in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the covevillage: Arthur, she feels, roaming through the treeslet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, completely at one with all of the nature around she has not felt able to be near the house and loving every inch of man or pursue the placeprofession she loved. But now After the house is under threatsplit, she worked in a cafe, as Leo is under pressure met and married James (on the rebound from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more love of her life, who was murdered) and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, Freya and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downJames have now divorced.|isbn=0571348785

|authorisbn=Nick BrooksAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Promise BoysAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=When ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the principal (headmaster) shape of Urban Promise Prep school things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspectswhat happens after you're eighteen. EachWell, seemingly, has I must confess that there have been more than a grudge few decades of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the time feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of his murderit is - frankly - quite frightening. But who killed himOf course, I could research the possibilities and why, the probabilities and if any of end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=G K HollowaySunny Singh|title=In the Shadows of CastlesHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary= We begin after The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the momentous battle in 1066 and terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position site, there is not secure Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the new king has many challengeshotel manager. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right As Abhi continues to try to worry. While care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the previous kinghotel, Haroldhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, is dead and the likelihood keeps on venturing out of more pitched battles is her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk overthe phone, the rebels their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are stirring and much of discovered by the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordterrorists.|isbn=1800422466086154742X

|isbn=00085063371529153298|title=The Garnett GirlsList of Suspicious Things|author=Georgina MooreJennie Godfrey

|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett It's 1979 and poet Richard OMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Leary was all-consumings not what's worrying Miv's family, apparently on both sidesthough. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in loveWomen have been disappearing. Richard was twenty-one and described by MargoWell, they've been murdered, but to have 's mother as disappeared'an older mandoesn't sound quite so frightening. Her parents worried that RichardMiv's upset because she's influence would take overheard that her away from what they felt she could achieve - going father wants to Oxford and having a glittering careermove the family 'Down South'. In the eventWhen you're from Yorkshire, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become Down South is a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachelfrightening, foreign place, Imogen and Sashabest avoided. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at SandcoveFor Miv, the family home on the Isle of Wightmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Even then the doubts about RichardShe's drinking were never far from Margonot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's mind: ''she would never be able stopped talking - to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themanyone.

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1398524085|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd 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. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is approaching not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the start body of her maternity leave when there is a brutalGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinthe river. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt It was an easy assumption for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure police to make that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just canDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't let stand the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whatguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's actually happening, little else they can do but get on with their lives and the increasingly disturbing worry of just wonder about what might happen nextreally happened.|isbn=1914585577

|isbn=15291259601035906708|title=Unnatural HistoryDiva|author=Jonathan KellermanDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, it but she was Adonisborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, actuallyNew York, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught and Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware 'Callas' to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets make it more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedmanageable in the States. Donny had just finished When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a series mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of photographs called ''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyher preference for her elder sister, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsJackie.

|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonChristopher Edge|title=Secret Beast Black Hole Cinema Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Jayden's nose is forever Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a bookmovie marathon at their local cinema, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – place that has the phoenixes and unicorns nickname of the world, for example'The Black Hole'. Aisha is addicted All big movie fans, they're looking forward to her new tabletlots of exciting films, and many, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. many snacks! The problemHowever, as their mothers see itthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is that very different, and they are never 'out thereswept up into an adventure they couldn' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, Londont even imagine. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, as they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the lurch from one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of film genre to the boatnext, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. can they figure out what on earth is going on? Dare Will they side with Leila, ever get back to the woman on boardcinema, and her relative who to their real lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=02415734831839942738

|isbnauthor=1913839656Rachel Greenlaw|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeCompass and Blade

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Todd was excited about spending ''I can hear the weekend with his grandmothersong of the sea. The call of the deep, not least because she made the best beetle juiceanswering beat in my heart. He packed two pairs of dungarees '' Rosevear, a remote and his favourite hat partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and then gathered together his button collection plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to show his grandmothersurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She had promised to take him But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the Friday Night Club at wrecking, they capture the local community centre island's leader and Todd was pleased about this Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he wanted is secretive and with only coordinates to make new friends. At homeguide her, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why she sets off in search of a family secret that could belies buried deep in the sea. Grandma thought that it With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be because he looked differentdetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1787301036James Sherwood Metts|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's Things have been a careful, meticulous childbit sticky for the Earthlings. The care has AI and automation have been taught by her fatherproceeding apace, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared often replacing jobs they're paid to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, do and any hint other tasks that the conversation is heading that way will lead took time to the necessity of a Lessonaccomplish. Other infractions Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of his requirements also lead other, new ways to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblespend time, along came an awful pandemic. July's teacher is concerned Life was pretty much shut down and brings up the possibility of abuse , along with it, all the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Lucy AsheMatthew Tree|title=Clara and OliviaWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come different from the classroom. A stage presencehis father, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. The difference between a hard-workerSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and a starset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=0861544080B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008454493A G Slatter|title=All The Briar Book of the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy WillinghamDead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for a year - wellhowever long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off at last. I just want to enjoy it for a momentwhile. It's now ' Within a year since her sonremote mountain pass, Masonfar away from the world, was stolen from his bed in lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the middle Briar's, a family of witches who protect the night town and Izzy the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and particularly about her relief in the morning when as such since she thought he was sleeping inyoung, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. In that year sheWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's done everything she could to raise awareness about cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the casetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. She does interviews As challenges come her way left, right and when we meet hercentre, she's just been Ellie uncovers the rare ability to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On communicate with the plane backdead, she's approached by putting her at the heart of a podcaster, Waylon Spencermaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who points out that she could do a podcast to trust and get determine what to so many more people than she could by giving speeches do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to a few hundred people at conferencessurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene1529900360|title=Fritz and KurtThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's actually a cold case unit fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there are just two were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of them doing the joba psychologist only worked for a while. LockyerFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's not unduly worriedpartner, 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, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something better. It was a bit Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's remote property in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoBel Air. She's keen He was the heir to see him an Italian shoe empire and she is married to tell him that the an extremely rich man everyone thought sheand it'd murdered - but s not the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1529395224|title=Just LookingLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Matthew TreeSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Dystopian FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was the summer of 2035 a GP and on a cruise ship Rowlands didn't want to follow in Marseilleshis footsteps, Jim was celebrating his newparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-found wealth and the end of call put on his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! Hefather's watching life. When he was seventeen he took the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation opportunity of doing work experience with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirtiesfamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. He writes for a relatively new paperBefore long, the righthe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and been his dream since he's interesting if was a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'child. His partnerIf anything, Helen, whohe's English and Jewish, keeps him in check d wanted to some extentbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=057137493X0861541774|title=The Other HalfA Nye of Pheasants|author=Charlotte VassellSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two mens close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, both has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with what looks like the same surnamean old ally, Guy Trueman. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to Maik was involved in a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a catered-man armed witha knife -butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is he killed a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialGhurka. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when CaiusInitially, out for he faced a run, stumbles across charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriendman. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his partyNow he could be facing the death penalty. She was dead under Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a bushdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Joe ThomasAlexander McCall Smith|title=White RiotThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Knee-jerk observations Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture look after the spirit of the moment. It takes business, as Ness is planning to take a truly talented writer trip to be able Canada to capture the zeitgeist get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britainbreak up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the student riotschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Donald Trumpbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Brexit – so much of what isthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has beenno experience in running a business, written or in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena match-making, but Ness has been proven by time to be frothy full confidence in her abilities, and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably there's always her very helpful (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this naturerather handsome)neighbour, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of William, to lend a more objective view.hand…|isbn= 15294233761846976596

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett0811771741|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her lifeMelissa Leapman's work, the very first encyclopaedia ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking knits from toys to faeries, she is not so good with peopleblankets. So when she finds herself farSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, far North cosy afternoons in front of the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended fire' variety. The projects are divided by the village matriarchtime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, she is not sure what she has donefive to ten hours, nor how ten to redeem herself twenty hours and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackmore than twenty hours. Enter Wendell BamblebyAll the projects are attractive, her dashingly handsome modern and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's frustrationme being picky. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120

|isbnauthor=1848458436Dean Koontz|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=''The whole thing Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has spiralled out of controldelivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'and it' s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. thing that has trashed his house! The connection between the two thing is, Benny is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebravery last person to deserve all this bad luck. The couples have mixed as He is a foursome but it's not a regular thingnice person. A really nice person. Christian So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a market research analyst and Jake new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wivesgood person. Lily hasn't said anything yetSpike is going to take care of Benny, but sheand will certainly take care of Benny's pregnant. She has enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesnwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publics wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1914585402Adam Stower|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=I reviewed David F RossMurray 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 two. But he's book [[Therea bad magician's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a couple world of years back frightening adventure and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding readto be honest, but he's turned up and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not he'll have lavished enough praise on it.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=178563335XB0C47LV1PC|title=Sea DefencesFragility|author=Hilary TaylorMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s a trainee vicarjoke? And if you could, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you need to pick did, would it land? The catch is that the children upanswer for both could well be.... no. Her husband ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, ChristopherOregon, collects six-year-old Hannah cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and her elder brotherEssex is bitingly cold, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. ThelmaHe's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, d been exiled on the Norfolk coast, is Costa del Sol as a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop wanted drug smuggler for a real bond with the parish - and shedecade. The return has come about because he's in awe of the vicarhad a letter from his ex-wife, Gail, but then saying that she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearsill and hasn't long to live. Rachel It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Christopher hoped that sent to a walk on watery grave in the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they neededboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. And then Hannah went missing.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Daughters Glorious Race of IzdiharMagical Beasts

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives of two women who could not be more differentwith his lovely gran, yet find themselves fighting too – for there is a generation missing in the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against themfamily. Nehal A few short years ago, born into Eli's parents were both lost to the upper classtitular race, wishes a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to attend navigate the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join world in the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nicocompany of a magical beast. Giorgina on This has made the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure race anathema to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar pair – but when a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens bad incident at the eatery leads to be in love with Nico. What follows a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is a story of an unjust societyto dare to enter what he most hates, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group the sole aim the prize of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=03565204710571382231