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|isbnauthor=1529135389Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used are few greater joys than a book which lives up to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upona compelling premise. Some And this is one of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008517061|title=To Die Death in Junea Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=What first seems like the unfortunateFormer Metropolitan Police detective, accidental death of a homeless man on the streetsJake Johnson, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the more so because future of his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, life with no fixed abodehis vet girlfriend, Livia and he has been for years. At the same time her daughter Diana, as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with a Livia or does Livia move to a different police station, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of daughter? For the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with moment they’re enjoying life in the woman’s story but also with present and putting the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going future on?|isbn=1805300784the back burner.

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes1786482126|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number OneBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Or rather, Cosima UnfortunateThere was no skull. Or ratherWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, just Cos to her friendsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerIt's difficult as Ruth knows, and theybut Nelson doesn're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiest, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, is pregnant with his child as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from result of the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutenight they spent together some three months ago. But whyHer condition will be obvious before long, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer not least because Ruth is prone to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Thomas The Devil You Know (D LeeS Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Perilous TimesNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= 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'Hate is s prepared to tell the police where the path body of least resistance'' Set in a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the near-distant future, in a world on police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the verge remainder of climate collapsehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, Britain is in great peril. it? The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to save do the day other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and rescue anyone who works with him is kept well away from what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call's happening.|isbn=0356518523

|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas0008405026|title=Thirst for SaltA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= It''Love, I'd read, s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was supposed never found and the investigation ground to be a light halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and weightless feelingher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but I had always longed for gravitythere'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels s something about the positioning of the year-long relationship bodies that once defined makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and herboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer aftercomplex double murder. Set against Kerrigan is convinced that the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town explanation lies in Rosalie''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrators disappearance: others (such as Derwent's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming natureboss, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0861546490

|isbn=15293828230571379877|title=The Last PassengerKellerby Code|author=Will DeanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') Edward Jevons is middlea working-aged class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with PeteStanza. TheyRobert're off on s a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''theatre director. CazHe's sisteralso self-obsessed, Gemmademanding, reckons that Pete is going handsome and entitled and uses Edward to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ringrun errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether shehe's relieved or disappointeddrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. TheyMost men in Robert've not been a couple for s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Cazrelationship had begun between them but he's cafe as well as their mother who has dementianot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. It's going to be good, isn't it?

|author=Lex CroucherJo Callaghan|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveLeave No Trace

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Who knew that what I really needed When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlythe case alongside her sidekick, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful waythe AI detective Lock. In this storyIt's their first live case together, Gwen and Arthur have having previously been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! very successful with several cold cases. Gwen, you seeBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is in love suddenly struggling with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that Art discovers from her private diariesdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find themselves becoming reluctant alliesherself taken off the case and, creating potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the subterfuge first day of falling in love with each othermedical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsyou aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will When we first meet them they find 're at a way drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in which they can both truly tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be themselvesan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, or it's their teenage children who are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793involved.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0241636604|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move If you were to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyup an image of a city banker in your mind, as Edie is starting you're unlikely to lose her memorythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. However, Edie A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is tormented by the memory of her childhood friendEast End, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agowhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and the worry that there injustice. There was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the thing that reveals the truth London School of what happened all that time agoEconomics. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of memories coming back us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to herbe stupid. And yet as she remembers the pastIt was his ability at what was, essentially, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day lifea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her moveEventually, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1035021803|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Sorry to leave her bottles She's back now because of red wine behind her a request for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes help from her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionbeloved aunt, saying heCarole. Freya's populist trash former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and only writing what anyone could writethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Cue Arthur was the bet that reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she cannot live up to that accusationfeels, let her down badly. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to Iceland, where be near the man or pursue the profession she is put up for a wintry month away from it allloved. Just on After the point of despairing – about her writingsplit, she worked in a cafe, about met and married James (on the people and rebound from the lack love of stimulus for her plotlife, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1804545600AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The MonkAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Tim SullivanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The body in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped shape of things to a chair and dumped in a ditchcome. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish  I've heard it said that this 'technology' is Father Dominicwhat happens after you're eighteen. He'd Well, I must confess that there have been missing for more than a few days and certainly hadndecades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what't asked permission s advantageous to leave his abbey. As me but I'm left with the team gradually unpick the monkfeeling that it's past all getting away from me. Some of it becomes clear that he'd been wellis - frankly -loved as an investment bankerquite frightening. Of course, brother, neighbour I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and friendend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|author=Lauren BravoSunny Singh|title=PrelovedHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary= Gwen The Hotel Arcadia is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number luxury hotel in an unnamed city that starts with has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a four wartime photographer and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortyAbhi, the hotel manager. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the toss - Gwen finds herself having hotel, he forms a bit bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of a mid-life crisisher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is Although they only ever talk over the time phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to take back help her life'keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1398510629086154742X

|authorisbn=Cath Howe1529153298|title=My Life on FireThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=RenIt's family home 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is destroyed in a firePrime Minister. She(A woman? I mean, her parents, and her little brother lose everythinghonestly... ) She doesn't s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have any of her clothesbeen disappearing. Well, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardthey've been murdered, and now she is living at her grandmotherbut to have 'disappeared's house where they candoesn't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatsound quite so frightening. When Miv's upset because she goes back 's overheard that her father wants to school she discovers that move the class are doing family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a special art projectfrightening, creating boxes of their livesforeign place, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personbest avoided. But Ren has nothing to put in a boxFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and so she finds herself starting 'll do anything to steal thingsprevent that. Small things, things She's not worried about the dangers or that people might not really miss, not when they have so much alreadyher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835

|isbn=00085170101398524085|title=Death Under a Little SkyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Stig AbellNicci French

|summary=The marriage had run its courseCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but no one else was involved - certainly strangely - her husband, Alec, is not on Jake. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's side and he didn't think there father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for Faye either. They were still polite the police to each other make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and wished each other well - but didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't wish to remain marriedstand the guilt. The perfect solution arrived in the form of a legacy from JakeSalter children are not convinced but there's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - little else they can do but get on with their lives and enough money to live there without the need to workwonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1035906708|title=AtalantaDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''I We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, I vowed. I would take my placeNew York, not just in the name of the goddessDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It Her original surname was for the sake of my name, too. AtalantaKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' Princessto make it more manageable in the States. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is her voice - she was raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into Nazi occupation by a formidable huntress, one mother who longs mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through itelder sister, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoingJackie.|isbn=1472292154

|isbnauthor=152915118XChristopher Edge|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley Lucas and George his friends are sisters and Sasha is married to all booked in for a movie marathon at their brother Cord. They're Stocktonslocal cinema, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isnplace that has the nickname of 't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if theyBlack Hole'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so awayAll big movie fans, which they own. They won't need any re looking forward to lots of the furniture from Pineapple Streetexciting films, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. many, many snacks! NominallyHowever, as the movie starts, they had a choice but very quickly realise that wasnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't the realityeven imagine. Darley and Georgiana start But as they lurch from one film genre to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they abbreviate it ever get back to 'the GD'.cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0008551278Rachel Greenlaw|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from ''I can hear the bottom song of Fyrishthe sea. The call of the deep, where shethe answering beat in my heart.'d been doing her training. She'd been  Rosevear, a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and it now looks as though she could be heading for plundering the national squadwrecks. That's quite an achievement for someone with Mira, like her mother before her background: you see, Affo came is one of the seven who swim out to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at survey the age of twelveruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She was rescued But when she was carrying the Council Watch lays a kilo of drugs trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and three years later sheMira's happy father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her foster , she sets off in search of a familysecret that lies buried deep in the sea. There's just one cloud on With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her horizon: journey takes her little sister, Melodi is in a childrenfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Emily TeshJames Sherwood Metts|title=Some Desperate GloryPlanet Storyland

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst Things have been a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – bit sticky for the home of the last scraps of humanity – Earthlings. AI and trained relentlessly automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to avenge her people do and the world other tasks that should have been herstook time to accomplish. All her lifeJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, she has been conditioned new ways to fall in linespend time, to fulfil her duty along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and ensure that humanity perseveres, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=03565218341736128426

|isbnauthor=0861544056Matthew Tree|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Belle Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end chronic underachiever whose dreams of their first term at university. Kit's been being exceptional at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them his artistic passions all to herself for a whilefailed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want So Tim applied himself to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1785633457A G Slatter|title=Charging Around: Exploring The Briar Book of the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonDead

|genre=TravelFantasy|summary=Clive Wilkinson has '' There's a history part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of travelling by unconventional means with my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a preference for slow travelwhile. As he neared his eightieth birthday '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the idea protection of exploring the edges Briar's, a family of England in an electric car was not totally outrageouswitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. In factThough she has always wished for magic, it should Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a pleasant holiday for Clive steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and his wifecentre, JoanEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, shouldnEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches't it?legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1529900360|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= I 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 brought up in a family where religion played little or no partreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side His assertions that there were only open-and Welsh Methodist on -shut cases which didn't need the otherhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, nobody really discussed religion and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Other than Two lovers were murdered in the odd church wedding or baptism or swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the school nativity play, I didnheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believes not the Italian.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=05713709771529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Lock-UpSecret Life of a Vet|author=John BanvilleSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Animals and Wildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's six months since the dramatic events which we read about t want to follow in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterfootsteps, Phoebeparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. The worst When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this has made was the already strained relationship between them more difficultjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. TheyIt hadn're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-upchild. At firstIf anything, it looked as though shehe'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicidewanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz0861541774|title=The Writing RetreatA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. SheDCI Domenic Jejeune's something of close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a legend short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an impressiveold ally, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she Guy Trueman. Maik was barely out of childhood. Alex, involved in a writerstreet brawl -slash-editor, is more than he would later maintain that he was facing a little obsessed man armed with Roza, a knife - and is stunned whenhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, following he faced a series charge of unexpected events, she is invited manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be part of her month-long writersfacing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn' retreatt help Danny at all.|isbn=0861544439

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixAlexander McCall Smith|title=Different for BoysThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Teens General Fiction|summary=Ant The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolEdinburgh, run by Ness and is surprised operating as an alternative to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from all the football team, and two other old muckers – online apps in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only providing a single-sex school can formmore personal, the talk in class and out often turns to sextailored service. Which is confusing for AntNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as he doesn't know what his score Ness is, where his achievements in that regard lieplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He's had Katie is coming out of a casual relationship, break up with a secret one, for several months nowbad boyfriend, and so has effectively progressed up jumps at the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be surechance to come home to Edinburgh. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the sex Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes some new characters who quickly begin to science fictioncharm. Not because it's Katie has no experience in running a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because itbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's a hard genre to get right – always her very helpful (and when it's badrather handsome) neighbour, William, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like to lend a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.hand…|isbn=03565180431846976596

|isbn=13985095820811771741|title=The FavourInstaKnits for Baby|author=Nicci FrenchMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was 2 am, not Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long after A levels, when cosy afternoons in front of the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherfire' variety. She was utterly driven The projects are divided by her determination the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to go ten hours, ten to medical schooltwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Liam was All the reverseprojects are attractive, modern and useable. He just acted I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'as if life just rolled him over and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after but that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any mores me being picky.

|isbnauthor=0857051741Dean Koontz|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Lars Pohjanen Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has only delivered a few weeks really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to live but hehis home, and it's determined possible that Rebecka Martinsson whoever or whatever was inside is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. thing that has trashed his house! The problem thing is, Benny is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Raimo Koskela disappeared without He is a trace in 1962nice person. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje StromA really nice person. Rebecka wants nothing So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to do with his house is a new friend, a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is that this clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is a dying mangoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarienemies, if he, the dead alcoholicBenny, was also murderedand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. Is there a connection between the two deaths?|isbn=1662500491

|author=Robert DugoniAdam Stower|title=Her Deadly GameMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due Murray 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 reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence fancy next of his clientsthe two. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawBut he's a bad magician's cat, Patsy also so his favourite bun has been turned into a gift for drinking himself to oblivion hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the formerregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Enter Keera DugganThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for where a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleaguetroll hunter is expected – well, Miller Ambroseone much bigger than Murray was, had goneto be honest, rather spectacularly, south.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=16625001810008561249

|authorisbn= Rob KeeleyB0C47LV1PC|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is back with a return to the short story format! question if you did, would it land? The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new talescatch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, each as fun cautiously begins to read as his previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1Gemerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus1529431735|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsreturn all the more surprising. And I He'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change itd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she' ''Beautiful Shining Peoples ill and hasn't long to live. It' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means s hard to be human. Of what feel any sympathy when Hopkins is real and what is artificialabducted, stripped to his underwear and whether sent to a watery grave in the development boot of technology is exciting a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or frightening.|isbn=191458564Xa problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=B09BLBP3P8Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic SeagerThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the scrubbing from wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the popular imagination of evening a helper at the early days of World War II from 1939-40dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, known as too – for there is a generation missing in the ''Phoney War''family. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler A few short years ago, war breaking outEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, and Churchill coming a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to save the day. Very little time pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yetto dare to enter what he most hates, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was with the sole aim the prize of vital significance in how magic at the end – the war played outonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231