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|isbnauthor=1529413680Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief 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 Police Novel)them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the man playing one future of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckilyhis life with his vet girlfriend, his doctor is there Livia and the man is whisked away her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend lot of Bruno) wonders about compromise: does Jake give up his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon off- the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby grid and another, who lives in California, is flying relaxing life to move in with some of Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her father's friends reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for a pre-arranged holidayherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=15291963881786482126|title=The TrialJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Rob RinderElly Griffiths

|summary=Grant Cliveden Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up going to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he was murdered in plain sight at they discovered the Old Baileybones of a child beneath a doorway. There's just one man in the frame for his was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court? Inevitably, charged Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Cliveden's murderDCI Harry Nelson. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it It's Taylor-Cameron and his pupildifficult as Ruth knows, Adam Greenbut Nelson doesn't, who eventually represent himthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Knight's determined to plead Her condition will be obvious before long, not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations least because Ruth is prone to the contrarysudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0008551324|title=The FascinationDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting It's unusual for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Second World War) which police. Neither side likes or has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itany respect for the other. ThereBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's such a glut of media set in prepared to tell the era that police where the hallmarks we've come to associate with body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it are familiar to will be worth the point of being cliched, hackneyed evenpolice doing what he wants. All this And what he wants is simply to illustrate that it would be transferred to an easy thing open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to do poorlyget an early parole date. But despite that Not much to ask, something about is it still grabs me – ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and something about this bookshe's description did as even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept wellaway from what's happening.|isbn=1914585526

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel0008405026|title=Death A Stranger in Fine Conditionthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and in particular the investigation ground to a series called Sleuth Houndhalt. She spends Now, her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitmother, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add valueHelena, and her father are dead in somewhat fraudulent waystheir bed. One day she discovers Initially, it looks like a near perfect collection straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of these books after seeing them in the background of a photograph on bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her drug dealer's living room wall, boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and so she sets about discovering where this collection -shut case is, and how she can steal it! now a complex double murder. ItKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a next-level step in her petty crime careerboss, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15295079870571379877|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookKellerby Code|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. ItHe's my goalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to programme when I want to be cheered uprun errands for him. After a hard day, thereEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. You see, the value is Most men in what these possessions are worth to the people who own Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as but he's not like most men: Edward is required left to achieve stumble upon the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doingtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. But how did they start?

|author=Nicole JarvisJo Callaghan|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The village When a man is isolated and poorfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's surrounded by their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition potential serial killer and its blossom provides herbal medicinesa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The black wood of Will they be able to solve the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallowscase in time, if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in or will Kat find herself taken off the village case and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgentpotentially, lazy lout out of a man is tolerated. career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=024162343X1399613073|title=Stolen HistoryMoral Injuries|author=Sathnam SangheraChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=I was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the bad company other people got into at first day of medical schooland their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a 'god'cardiothoracic surgeon. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Not too long after Anjali is the end free spirit of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armygroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's successes (re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and occasional failures, but we didnit't dwell on those) s going to end in what came to be called tragedy. We don't know who suffered the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in tragedy or the first placeconsequences. Looking back, I still believe I was right Twenty- but I regret five years later there will be an eerily similar event that I lacked the maturity to approach 'will impact the problem' politelythree friends. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraThis time, it's ''Stolen History''their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig0241636604|title=Three GracesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Few styles If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of contemporary fiction interest me someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the state-ofpin-stripe suit and his background is the-nation novelEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the atmosphere London School of the day Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and capture it, crafting an image he has a facility with numbers which most of the country as it stands in one particular momentus can only envy. To say He also realised that Amanda Craig is skilled most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the genre of contemporary social fiction at Citibank. Eventually, this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day turned into the lives of her characters in permanent employment as a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvestrader.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbn=14483093791035021803|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller

|summary=It's something twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a surprise to find that you're deadrequest for help from her beloved aunt, particularly when youCarole. Freya're thinking that yous former mentor and Carole're actually on a break with your wife s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and childrenthe circumstances seem suspicious, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoysay the least. Whilst he Arthur was relieved the reason why Freya had not been back to find that he was stillthe village: Arthur, officiallyshe feels, alivelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the partially clad man who'd dashed rebound from her flat in the early hours love of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carlife, who was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - murdered) and Freya and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorJames have now divorced.

|isbn=0957181167AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blue Skies and Boat TripsAll Tomorrow's Futures: The Norfolk of Brian LewisFictions that Disrupt|author=Alan MarshallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ArtScience Fiction|summary=There are few positive ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things which can be to come.'' I've heard it said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timethat 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking must confess that there have been more closely at than a couple few decades of pictures on technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the walls feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisquite frightening. Of course, I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book research the possibilities and the print probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I wanted was ‘not available’'m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a framed print of the picture way I wantedcould understand.

|author=Simon FoxSunny Singh|title=DeadlockHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Late one night Graham Blake The Hotel Arcadia is late back a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from his shift the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the forcesite, and then suddenly rings Archiethere is Sam, demanding he fetch something from a secret placewartime photographer and Abhi, and join him on the runhotel manager. They get together, but barely begin As Abhi continues to try to smell care remotely for the whiff of Southern trains when residents who are still alive in the father is arrestedhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving Archie and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the late express to Brightonphone, toting a tin his father was determined their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep away from his colleagues, safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bearer of a whole heap of questionsterrorists.|isbn=1839944420086154742X

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1529153298|title=The Silent BrideList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35

|summary= Alice It's 1979 and Seth are a match made in heavenMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome(A woman? I mean, accomplishedhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialthough. Women have been disappearing. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulWell, successfulthey've been murdered, confident… and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setfamily 'Down South'. When the much-anticipated day arrivesyou're from Yorkshire, Alice Down South is walked down a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the aisle by move would mean leaving her fatherbest friend, Sharon, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled 'll do anything to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Aliceprevent that. She's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who not worried about the man at the altar is, who is waiting for dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to become his wifeanyone.|isbn=1662507089

|author=Mark Edwards|title=Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17876360031398524085|title=The Girls of SummerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Katie BishopNicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was the summer when Rachel Evans expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandup. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasHer children, perhapssons Niall, naivePaul and Ollie and her daughter, so when thirty-fourEtty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in herhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, she was flattered rather than waryfind the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach an easy assumption for the police to her make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and by that time she was obsessed by himthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on the island with their lives and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15291353891035906708|title=The FallDiva|author=Gilly MacmillanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign We tend to think of her husband Maria Callas as Greek, but opera she was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed born to Greek parents in The Glass Barn. They'd not been Manhattan, New York, in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long December 1923 and were still getting used only moved to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponAthens when she was thirteen. Some of them fought with each other and didnHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't work as reliably as they shouldto make it more manageable in the States. It had all come about through a tenWhen she was back in Athens -millionsupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -pound lottery win she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and they were still getting used to having that sort made no secret of money, too. Eventuallyher preference for her elder sister, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his headJackie.

|author=Alan ParksChristopher Edge|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}} {{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Cosima Unfortunatea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Or ratherAll big movie fans, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond 're looking forward to in the ledgerlots of exciting films, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesmany, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. many snacks! But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromHowever, as the first ever inmatemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes But as they lurch from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want film genre to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But whynext, and can they figure out what does that body entailon earth is going on? And could it possibly bring Cos closer Will they ever get back to the past she has so little link withcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=00085790591839942738

|author=Thomas D LeeRachel Greenlaw|title=Perilous TimesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= ''Hate is I can hear the path song of least resistancethe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Set in the near-distant futureRosevear, in a world remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the verge of climate collapsewrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Britain is in great perilone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The British Isles desperately needs But when the Council Watch lays a hero (or several) trap to save end the wrecking, they capture the day island's leader and rescue what little remainsMira's father. What no one expected was 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, she sets off in search of a family secret that one lies buried deep in the sea. 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 Knights heart of the Round Table would answer smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the callones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565185230008664730

|author=Madelaine LucasJames Sherwood Metts|title=Thirst for SaltPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''LoveThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Ioften replacing jobs they'd read, was supposed re paid to be a light do and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship other tasks that once defined hertook time to accomplish. Overlaid with later wisdomJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – new ways to its sorrowful end the summer afterspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship Life was pretty much shut down and, along with her older loverit, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective the many daily social interactions on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablywhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615464901736128426

|isbnauthor=1529382823Matthew Tree|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemmabe different from his father, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his suit pocket artistic passions all failed miserably and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedwho had endless crises of self confidence. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity So Tim applied himself to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhilehis studies, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiacultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. It's going to be good, isn't it?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lex CroucherA G Slatter|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Who knew '' There's a part of me that what wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I really needed just want to read right now was enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlytown under the protection of the Briar's, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. In this storyThough she has always wished for magic, Gwen Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and Arthur have been betrothed as such since they were tinyshe was young, much to their mutual disgust! Gwenher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, you seeEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomtown's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, creating Ellie uncovers the subterfuge of falling in love rare ability to communicate with each otherthe dead, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. But Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as their impending wedding draws ever closerthe Briar witches' legacy, will everything they find a way in which they can both truly be themselveshave sacrificed to survive, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?is under threat.|isbn=15266517931803364548

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529900360|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house he felt responsible and bring Edie even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to live with ask for his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryhelp on difficult cases. However, Edie is tormented by His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the memory help of her childhood frienda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lucyit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping nudged Milo into asking for Lucy help again. She knew that somehow might be the thing involvement was something that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. After 'seeing' Lucy Two lovers were murdered in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets swimming pool of memories coming back to hera remote property in Bel Air. And yet as she remembers He was the past, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forgetting more married to an extremely rich man and more in her day to day lifeit's not the Italian. Will she uncover But which of them was the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone foreverprimary target?|isbn=1804181250

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529395224|title=Thirty Days Letting the Cat Out of Darknessthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Thrillers Animals and Wildlife|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Sorry His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot follow in the world of crime fictionhis footsteps, saying particularly when heconsidered the strain that being on-call put on his father's populist trash life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and only writing what anyone could writewas convinced this was the job for him. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a wintry month away from it allchild. Just on the point of despairing – about her writingIf anything, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyhe's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615d wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18045456000861541774|title=The MonkA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tim SullivanSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=The body DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the woods near Bristol Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a nasty shock street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a monk strapped to man armed with a chair knife - and dumped in he killed a ditchGhurka. He'd been savagely beaten. It's Initially, he faced a while before D S George Cross and charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicman. He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyNow he could be facing the death penalty. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as an investment banker, brother, neighbour any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and friend. Hewouldn'd also been very wealthy but had given it t help Danny at all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|author=Lauren BravoAlexander McCall Smith|title=PrelovedThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a 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 Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. 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 hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortycollection of knits from toys to blankets. Having been made unexpectedly redundant Some will be quick knits - any HR officer worth their salt would argue others are of the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a mid-life crisisthe fire' variety. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to take back her lifetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'|isbn=1398510629s me being picky.

|author=Cath HoweDean Koontz|title=My Life on FireThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Ren's family home Benny is destroyed in having a fireterrifically bad day. SheHe loses his job, her parentshe loses his fiancee, and her little brother lose everythinghis house gets trashed. She doesn't have any of her clothesOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, or any of her special little knickdisturbing coffin-knacks from her cupboardsized object to his home, and now she is living at her grandmotherit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house where they can't touch anything! The thing is, or do anything, or even eat Benny is the foods they normally eatvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. When she goes back to school she discovers So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the class are doing delivery to his house is a special art projectnew friend, creating boxes of their livesa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to display things that are important to them and show who they are as help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But Ren has nothing Spike is going to put in a boxtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and so she Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they have so much alreadyare. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428351662500491

|isbnauthor=0008517010Adam Stower|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side who is able to sleep and eat and eat and he didn't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite to each other sleep and wished each other , well - but didn't wish to remain married, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. The perfect solution arrived in the form of But he's a legacy from Jakebad magician's Uncle Arthur. He'd cat, so his favourite bun has been left turned into a secluded property in hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the hamlet catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - frightening adventure and enough money whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to live there without the need be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to work.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=AtalantaFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Can you make a ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would get on board it land? The catch is that ship, I vowedthe answer for both could well be... I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, toono. Atalanta''

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, 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=CrimeAbandoned at birth |summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for being born a daughter rather than decade. The return has come about because he's had a sonletter from his ex-wife, Atalanta saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is raised under abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the protective eye boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the goddess Athemis wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and fashioned into in the evening a formidable huntresshelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, one who longs too – for adventurethere is a generation missing in the family. When the opportunity comes – A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to join the Argonautstitular race, a fierce band globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of warriors, descendent from a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the Gods themselves pair – Atalanta seizes but when a bad incident at the chance eatery leads 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 itconfession from gran, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marriesEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, it will be her undoingwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=14722921540571382231