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|author=Rob BakerSylvie Cathrall|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary=''"Go There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to Mali," they saida compelling premise. "The music And this is amazing," they said. "And you get ten hours one of sunshine every day." So I didthem.'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''A what?'' I hear you cry. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to culture, so rather like a folklorist studies the oral and written story traditions relating to a culture. |isbn=B089CSNFT70356522776

|authorisbn=James Patterson0008517061|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerFormer Metropolitan Police detective, every dayJake Johnson, for yearshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tinyThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for herdaughter Diana, she continues to head back there each day, just as moving in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with together would mean a group lot of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought relaxing life to the prison next door move in with Livia or does Livia move to where Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the children live, future she wants for herself and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken away. daughter? Where have they been taken, For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=17857656981786482126|title=Shed No TearsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Caz FrearElly Griffiths

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the man who would become known as site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'apartments - when they discovered the roommate killer', strangled three women in bones of a child beneath a fortnightdoorway. When he There was arrested he admitted the killingsno skull. A fourth death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted to the Was this a ritual killingor murder? Inevitably, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. He played with the policeIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but there was sufficient evidence on Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the first one night they spent together some three killings to put him away for a long time and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp casemonths ago. There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prisonHer condition will be obvious before long, no hope not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of progressing the case furthersickness.

|isbn=14736824010008551324|title=The Turning Tide Devil You Know (Dandy GilverD S Max Craigie)|author=Catriona McPhersonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at It's unusual for anyone from the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged Hardie family to Mallory Dunnochapproach the police. TheyNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're now married s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Mallory who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is having twinssomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. When they arrive no one can doubt And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the charms remainder of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry his sentence and her brotherto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. is it? There are two drawbacks: theyThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn're noisy t think so and theyshe're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance s even prepared to look into a problem at do the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistibleother 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=B07WWSCGVS0008405026|title=The Lies You ToldA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Harriet TyceJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnIt't happy about having s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to start a new schoolhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. SheInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's left something about the positioning of the school she loved in New York bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and now she's her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to Ashams in North Londonbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. ItKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's very upmarket; places are rare disappearance: others (such as hensDerwent' teeth s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groupsStanza. RobinRobert's going to be an outsidera theatre director. And why is this happening? WellHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell aparthandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Andrew Spence is staying Edward has been in New York love with Stanza since their university days - and he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back 's drunkenly confided how he feels to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerRobert. ThatMost men in Robert's easier said than done when youposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he've been out s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1408712415Jo Callaghan|title=Cry Baby|author=Mark BillinghamLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to start in Londonthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and itIt's one he has regularlytheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. It relates to But when there is a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that second body found crucified a man was guiltyfew days later, but didn't take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are Kat is suddenly struggling with their sons Kieron a potential serial killer and Josh. It's a happy combination in very high profile case that the boys are devoted draws a lot of unwanted attention to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendstheir AI Future Policing project. The boys are seven-year-old and Will they play on be able to solve the swings case in the park and then dash time, or will Kat find herself taken off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him case and now he can't find Kieron., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B08CHJLNBS1399613073|title=Capturing EmiliaMoral Injuries|author=Brooke AdamsChristie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=He's Charles DevereauxOlivia, thirty-eight Laura and a partner at Wickham Jones, Anjali met on the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian first day of medical school and archivist in the heritage library next doortheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like thatOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which leave is a bonus when you dependent on someone else's philosophies, aim to something be a little deepercardiothoracic surgeon. Charles Laura is more a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's obvious going to his friendsend in tragedy. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by CharlesWe don's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. The relationship's obviously a nonTwenty-starterfive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, isnit't it?s their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=15043213830241636604|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again …The Trading Game: What Do You Do When Life Doesn't Go to Plan?A Confession|author=Louisa PatemanGary Stevenson

|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'You cans twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole't be happy s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and fulfilled on your ownthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. You are Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not complete until you find felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a mancafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

This was I've heard it said that 'technology' is what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believehappens after you're eighteen. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for hermy lifetime. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the girl (shefeeling that it's usually fairly young) all getting away from me. Some of it is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after- frankly - quite frightening. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up ''down rabbit holes withoutreally understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' re talking about or the expectation that they will marry and have childrenlatest conspiracy theorist. It was a belief I needed people I knew I could trust and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''who could deliver information in a belief is a choice''way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Sunny Singh|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Glen Turritan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It was Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a long road through some breath-taking scenery wartime photographer and she could push Abhi, the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedinghotel manager. When As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the blond child stepped out residents who are still alive in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work keeps on venturing out where she was, but it obviously wasnof her room to try to capture what't a conventional hospitals happened through her photography. She'd made her first mistake some time agoAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose keep safe and they both wait to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Suzanne Collins1529153298|title=The Ballad List of Songbirds and SnakesSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Coriolanus Snow It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is refinedPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, charminghonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familythough. But their world was destroyed by the war Women have been disappearing. Their riches gone Well, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsthey've been murdered, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the gamesbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. This is his chance to prove himself Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the world and secure his place in the Capitol for goodfamily 'Down South'. But when he When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is assigned a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are gonefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in his world For Miv, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for move would mean leaving her life in the arena - but behind the scenesbest friend, in the slySharon, complex and strangely dangerous world of she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life toodangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong1398524085|title=Hunter SchoolHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. ThatCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's possibly misleadingfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all upworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, or whether it is as not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the blurb goes on to say body of Greg''recollectionss father, Duncan Ackerley, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like in the latterriver. It feels like was an easy assumption for the stories police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and truecouldn't stand the guilt. But memory is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and The Salter children are not convinced but there 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1999791282

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1035906708|title=Harrow LakeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter We tend to legendary horror movie director Nolan Noxthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but she is saying goodbye was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York City - by sneaking out , in December 1923 and stealing from its residents. But only moved to Athens when she is found by was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her fatherchanged it to 'Callas's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying make it more manageable in his studythe States. And so, while he recovers, When she is sent off to live with her grandmother was back in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana Athens - supposedly so that served as the location she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's Nazi occupation by a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about mother who mercilessly exploited her mother and dark tales made no secret of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerher preference for her elder sister, and disturbing happenings plague LolaJackie. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=0241397049

|author= Helly ActonChristopher Edge|title= The ShelfBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary= When we meet AmyLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You canplace that has the nickname of 't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but sheThe Black Hole's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah All big movie fans, yes. Haventhey't we all been there? Things are re looking up when he tells her forward to pack for a surprise trip. Could lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this be it? Is he ''finally'new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn' t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going to get down on one knee? Was Will they ever get back to the work (cinema, and the wait) worth itto their real lives?|isbn=18387708791839942738

|author= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaRachel Greenlaw|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Compass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= For SharingTeens|summary=This Living Book is on a mission. What's the mission? To make you laugh! 'I can't think hear the song of the sea. The call of many better missions than thatthe deep, can you? Letthe answering beat in my heart.''s see how it does...

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.. wellDesperate to save him from death, it opens up 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 terrible jokefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. A groany jokeWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, an eye-roll jokeas her journey takes her from 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 and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. The joke isnAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't very funny but it is funny re paid to see how enthusiastic do and how generously other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this book wants technological change and starting to make you laugh - ''Ohthink of other, new ways to spend time, I'm terrible at jokesalong came an awful pandemic. Some books are Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so good at themheavily. I always wanted to help someone laugh.'' |isbn= 194812453X1736128426

|isbnauthor=1529402271Matthew Tree|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and Kitt Hartley's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into a spot chronic underachiever whose dreams of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scant. After a night being exceptional at any of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of the morningself confidence. There's been a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used So Tim applied himself to live and where his wifestudies, Kamala, was strangled five years ago. There are sufficient details of the current murder to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered cultivated his abilities rather than his wife - daydreams and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy Kerrset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Mark DawsonA G Slatter|title= The CleanerBriar Book of the Dead|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersFantasy|summary= Ruthless and coldly competent'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, John Milton is one lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the British governmentBriar's best assets – , a contract killer with lethal instinctsfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. NowThough she has always wished for magic, after ten yearsEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, he wants outher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. But his job isnWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town't s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one you can just walk away from…family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=178739462X1803364548

|authorisbn=Angela Mack1529900360|title=I Am UnworthyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Isabel is determined It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to start freshask for his help on difficult cases. Start again His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn Finally, it was Robin, Delaware't go to Gilleford Secondary School anymores partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She can escape knew that the hurt, the fear, and involvement was something that the person man she becameloved needed. Josh is determined to keep going The next case did look simple, even through though. Two lovers were murdered in the rage, swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the pain, heir to an Italian shoe empire and using his fists to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten she is married to tear him an extremely rich man and his brothers apart. When Josh and Isabelit's worlds collide, can they make their relationship worknot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina1529395224|title=The Phone Box at Letting the End Cat Out of the WorldBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a man installed a telephone box GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his garden. ''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnectedfootsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that carries voices into being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the wind.'' It is opportunity of doing work experience with a real place, family friend who was a necessary place, vet and I am pleased to see was convinced this was the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her storyjob for him. Before long, that the place is not he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a tourist destination, it is a sacred placechild. If anything, he'd wanted to be a place that must be left to those who really need itprofessional footballer.|isbn=178658039X

|isbn=B0859115X50861541774|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Marion ToddSteve Burrows

|summary=When we DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrieran old ally, BenjyGuy Trueman. She's just had Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a postcard from Geoffrey Dark knife - and he's in Provincetown, Cape Codkilled a Ghurka. He wishes that she was thereInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Clare's struggling evidence came to think of what light that suggested that he ''actually'' is might have planned to her nowmurder the man. Is Now he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? could be facing the death penalty. She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably Domenic Jejeune can't either. Work's about do nothing to get very busy help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she canwouldn't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her first. They're off somewhere top secrethelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1780899858Alexander McCall Smith|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to watch all the pagan celebrations online apps in Stoke Woodsproviding a more personal, tailored service. Her four-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she hadn't taken him with hercould come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. But in the early hours Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the morning, Lucy returned chance to come home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herto Edinburgh. He hadn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's And so begins this new story was crucial from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the police investigationIsabel Dalhousie novels, but it keeps subtly changingwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Lucy is being advised by Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her imaginary friendabilities, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the police.'s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=00082147000811771741|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Roz WatkinsMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are dealing with of the case 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a missing teenagerthe fire' variety. Violet Armstrong is well-known as a vlogger - championing The projects are divided by the cause of meattime they'll take to complete -eatingless than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini All the projects are attractive, modern and has attracted the attention of animal rights activistsuseable. The meatI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined worthy projects' but that Meg Dalton 's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is corrupt and not running having a decent investigation (''obviously'' she only got the terrifically bad day. He loses his job because she's , he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a woman) because shereally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a vegetariannice person. A really nice person. As if So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the case wasn't enoughdelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, Meg's father who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is coming going to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years take care of Benny, and Jaiwill certainly take care of Benny's convinced that his girlfriendenemies, if he, SukiBenny, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but he doesnHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'ts wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1784385166Adam Stower|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger MoorhouseMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers |summary=What Murray is the first image that comes supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to mind when you think sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to two. But he's a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reichbad magician's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volumecat, Roger Moorhouse so his favourite bun has attempted to illustrate been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the period of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Third Reich through one hundred regular back garden, but into a world of its material artefactsfrightening adventure and 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 be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1409187438B0C47LV1PC|title=The First LieFragility|author=A J ParkMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=On Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the second of October 37-year-old barristerquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and would it land? The catch is that the front door openanswer for both could well be. His wife was in ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the bedroom in a state city of shock and in the bathroomPortland, Oregon, there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paper-knife. At that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going cautiously begins to ring emerge from the police and tell restrictions imposed during the truth. They're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happened.covid pandemic

|isbn=15294018011529431735|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)The Winter Visitor|author=William ShawJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela BoothIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, to a house which his firm was marketingmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house and was He'd been exiled on the market Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for millions of poundsa decade. Gram was hoping The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that he could get Angela into bed she's ill and hehasn'd brought a bottle of prosecco alongt long to live. It was 's hard to feel any sympathy when searching for somewhere Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to chill a watery grave in the bottle that he found the body boot of a man in the freezer in the garagestolen Ford Sierra. DS Alexandra Cupidi and DC Jill Ferriter are on the case.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All RightThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= The new novel Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Ukamaka Olisakwe is visiting with him, and in the evening a look helper at the trauma dessert cafe his gran owns and heartache of being runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a woman generation missing in 1980s Nigeriathe family. The title is ''Ogadinma Or A few short years ago, Everything Will Be All RightEli''. Ogadinma is s parents were both lost to the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the story, although Olisakwe writes world in the third personcompany of a magical beast. This provides has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a sense of detachment for bad incident at the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married dare to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to escapepossibly save his gran.|isbn=19116481600571382231