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|isbnauthor=1526362759Sylvie Cathrall|title=Dosh: How A Letter to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpandethe Luminous Deep

|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=What There are few greater joys than a relief! A book about moneywhich lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, for childrenJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with clear explanations of what it ishis vet girlfriend, why it mattersLivia and her daughter Diana, how to acquire more as moving in together would mean a lot of it (nope compromise: does Jake give up his off- robbing banks is out) grid and what you can do relaxing life to move in with it when you've managed Livia or does Livia move to get hold of it. Your reasons Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') herself and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. her daughter? There's also For the possibility of using to do good moment they’re enjoying life in the worldpresent and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=00083783631786482126|title=One Perfect MorningThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Pamela CraneElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A husband is about Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who hold seventy- and why five 'luxury' apartments - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still discovered the best bones of friendsa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as Was this a nod to the famous girl band of the dayritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Lily would be Adventure SpiceIt's difficult as Ruth knows, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellbut Nelson doesn't, Mackenzie would be that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the supporting actress in her own lifeone night they spent together some three months ago. She married OwenHer condition will be obvious before long, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551324|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - IIt've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the party with actual reviewingpolice. Oops! And where better to start than with Neither side likes or has any respect for the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie other. But Davie Hardie is very down. Hestruggling in prison and he's lost prepared to tell the police where the body of a dear friend recentlymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, in a tragic accidenthe promises, is someone big and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so it will be worth the police doing what he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londonwants. As he strolls across a footbridge, And what he sees a girl who wants is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suitsto be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He watches Not much to ask, aghast. What is going onit?|isbn=B086LKBHD6 The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten0008405026|title=Season of A Stranger in the Mammoth Family (BigShortsMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Tannash It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle investigation ground to return. They're hoping for a feast of mammoth meathalt. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba Now, her mother, Helena, and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part her father are dead in their deeds of derring-dobed. But their father Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the leader positioning of the village, thinks bodies that they also need makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an education; open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that knowledge is powerthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1939269679

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May0571379877|title= Seven DevilsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris Edward Jevons is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordiaworking-class young man, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Cloobsessed with his upper-class friends, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortRobert and Stanza. Although she Robert's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empiretheatre director. Eris He's brother Damoclesalso self-obsessed, the runner-up heir to the Empiredemanding, is plotting handsome and entitled and uses Edward to disrupt peace talks between Tholos run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and the last of the free alien specieshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a race against time as relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions two of lives hanging them kissing in the balance…|isbn=1473231140a dark passageway.

|author=Non PrattJo Callaghan|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartLeave No Trace

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Freya was When a beautifulman is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old studentsidekick, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months awayAI detective Lock. But one day It's their first live case together, on January 1st, she justhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, But when her best friend Sophie receives there is a second body found crucified a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterfew days later, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but Kat is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to suddenly struggling with a complete stranger, potential serial killer and then another layer a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to another person and another, each containing an item unique their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and solve the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcelcase in time, a new layer of or will Kat find herself taken off the story case and , potentially, out of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leavea career?|isbn=1406366943139851120X

|isbn=178089922X1399613073|title=Invisible GirlMoral Injuries|author=Lisa JewellChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=''When you wear Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a hoodcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when youaim 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. When we first meet them they're invisibleat a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeent know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years-old and beautifullater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. By her own admissionThis time, sheit's a bit their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a boffincity banker in your mind, doing you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and enjoying mathsjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, physics poverty and biology at A levelinjustice. Life hasn't There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been easy for her: 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 who have 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's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been close back to her have died and the English country village where shegrew up. She's back now living with because of a request for help from her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatbeloved aunt, Carole. Something Freya's former mentor and Carole'reallys close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long timesay the least. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her therapistdown badly. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psycheEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but somehow managed she has not felt able to miss that 'something really, really bad'be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. When After the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftsplit, but she retained an interest worked in Roana cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1838951067AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Nothing ManAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Catherine Ryan HowardBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to get a shockcome. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who  I've heard it said that 'technology' is acting suspiciouslywhat happens after you're eighteen. She has Well, I must confess that there have been more than a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if shefew decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's planning advantageous to pay for me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Suddenly Some of it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsis - frankly - quite frightening. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve BlackOf course, is I could research the possibilities and the title. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'is'' - re talking about or the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killedlatest conspiracy theorist. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, I needed people I knew I could trust and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annawho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedSunny Singh|title=The Black KidsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Teens Thrillers |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel The Hotel Arcadia is set against a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a reaction wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the absolution of four police officers for beating residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a black manbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Rodney King, nearly and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to deathcapture what's happened through her photography. Told from Although they only ever talk over the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of racephone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to a woman finding help her voice keep safe and embracing her heritagethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1471188191086154742X

|isbn=07515674261529153298|title=The Wicked SisterList of Suspicious Things|author=Karen DionneJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham sheIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganworrying Miv's Upper Peninsulafamily, though. Women have been disappearing. SheWell, they's twenty-six and has ve been there for fifteen yearsmurdered, convinced that but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and 's overheard that her father then took wants to move the gun and killed himselffamily 'Down South'. Her sisterWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, Dianaforeign place, just twenty-years-oldbest avoided. For Miv, was left at the family homemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling ll do anything to prevent that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, She's not worried about the circumstances are not as she remembersdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15069094421398524085|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The greatest hatreds fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, like the greatest virtue Paul and Ollie and the worst dogsher daughter, is silentEtty.'' The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is from German romantic writer Jean Paulnot. But who are Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidsonbody of Greg's latest novel and father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the very last guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and carefully plotted pages wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way throughshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It sounds uncomfortable - Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it isnto 'Callas't: to make it's honestmore manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Rob BakerChristopher Edge|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'"Go . All big movie fans, they're looking forward to Malilots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts," they said. "The music very quickly realise that something about this new film format is amazingvery different," and they are swept up into an adventure they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.'couldn' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologistt even imagine. ''A But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out whaton earth is going on?'' I hear you cry. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation Will they ever get back to culturethe cinema, so rather like a folklorist studies the oral and written story traditions relating to a culture.their real lives?|isbn=B089CSNFT71839942738

|author=James PattersonRachel Greenlaw|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Hawk has been waiting ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the same street cornerwrecks. Mira, every daylike her mother before her, for years. She is waiting for her parents one of the seven who swim out to come survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and get herany treasure that lies within. They left her there But when she was just tinythe Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and although sheMira's almost certain that they are never coming back for 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, she continues to head back there each day, just sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in casethe sea. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group as her journey takes her from the watched streets of other children, all with interesting characteristics foreign islands to the heart of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, theresmuggler's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought territory, Mira must be determined to the prison next door stop at nothing to where save the children live, future of her home and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaythe ones she holds most dear. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=15291200040008664730

|isbnauthor=1785765698James Sherwood Metts|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer', strangled three women in Things have been a fortnight. When he was arrested he admitted bit sticky for the killingsEarthlings. A fourth death was attributed AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to him - do and other tasks that of Holly Kemp - took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and on occasions, Masters admitted starting to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied it. He played with the policethink of other, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings new ways to put him away for a long spend time and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp case, along came an awful pandemic. There Life was no body pretty much shut down and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing along with it, all the case furthermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1473682401Matthew Tree|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Those who were with us Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the end any of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married his artistic passions all failed miserably and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms who had endless crises of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilverself confidence. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered So Tim applied himself to them twice beforehis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistibleachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSA G Slatter|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the school she loved in New York and now sheThere's going a part of me that wants to keep this just to Ashams in North Londonmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the pupils have all been there ''forever''world, they have their established groups. Robinlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter family of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartwitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Andrew Spence Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is staying in New York the first non- he works witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a securities firm - steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her mothergrandmother suddenly dies, Sadie RoperEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, has the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come back her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to London to pick up communicate with the dead, putting her practice as at the heart of a criminal barristermaelstrom of chaos. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the country - for more than ten yearsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=14087124151529900360|title=Cry BabyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Mark BillinghamJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's June 1996 fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and football's European Championships are about even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to start in Londonask for his help on difficult cases. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare His assertions that there were only open-and it-shut cases which didn's one he has regularlyt need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man Finally, it was guiltyRobin, but didn't take any action until the manDelaware's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Joshpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It's a happy combination in She knew that the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in involvement was something that the where and how they live - the women are best friendsman she loved needed. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek swimming pool of a remote property in Highgate WoodBel Air. Josh He was the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully heir to the women: Kieron never came an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find him an extremely rich man and now he canit't find Kierons not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B08CHJLNBS1529395224|title=Capturing EmiliaLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Brooke AdamsSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agentsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. SheHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's Emiliat want to follow in his footsteps, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in particularly when he considered the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved strain that being on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent -call put on someone elsehis father's philosophies, to something a little deeperlife. Charles is more When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get vet and was convinced this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friendswas the job for him. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficialityBefore long, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This he was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believeat Liverpool University. It wasnhadn't unkind: it - as with so many students - been his dream since he was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for hera child. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (sheIf anything, he's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough d wanted to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''professional footballer.

|isbn=17873014350861541774|title=Dark WatersA Nye of Pheasants|author=G R HallidaySteve Burrows

|summary=Twenty-two-year-DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turritally, Guy Trueman. It Maik was involved in a long road through some breathstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedinghe killed a Ghurka. When the blond child stepped out in front Initially, he faced a charge of her she instinctively jerked manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the steering wheel and hit a treeman. When she came round after Now he could be facing the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitaldeath penalty. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the realisation Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4help Danny at all.

|author=Suzanne CollinsAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesPerfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Coriolanus Snow The Perfect Passion Company is refined, charminga dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and one of operating as an alternative to all the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familyonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and yet the facade must be maintained. As look after the 10th Hunger Games beginsbusiness, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This as Ness is his chance planning to take a trip to prove himself Canada to the world and secure his place in the Capitol get away for gooda while. But when he Katie is assigned coming out of a tribute break up with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her bad boyfriend, and for him) are goneso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be a spark in his worldan 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 way he could never have imagined. As the Games commencebusiness, Lucy Gray fights for her life or in the arena match- making, but behind the scenes, Ness has full confidence in the slyher abilities, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitolthere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?to lend a hand…|isbn=07023001791846976596

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong0811771741|title=Hunter SchoolInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us that it is a work collection of fiction. That's possibly misleadingknits from toys to blankets. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in Some will be quick knits - others are of the sense that Ahronglong made it all up'long, or whether it is as cosy afternoons in front of the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories'fire'variety. It feels like The projects are divided by the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a childtime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, as an adolescentfive to ten hours, as an adult are real ten to twenty hours and truemore than twenty hours. But memory is a fickle thingAll the projects are attractive, modern and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read ituseable. More people shouldI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1999791282

|author=Kat EllisDean Koontz|title=Harrow LakeThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she Benny is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentshaving a terrifically bad day. But when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home He loses his job, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of bloodhe loses his fiancee, and her father dying in his studyhouse gets trashed. And so Oh, while he recoversand someone has delivered a really weird, she is sent off disturbing coffin-sized object to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lakehis home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the small 1920s town in Indiana thing that served as has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about very last person to deserve all this place isn't rightbad luck. There's He is a darkness inside nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the people heredelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Secrets about her mother Spike is going to take care of Benny, and dark tales will certainly take care of the townBenny's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornerenemies, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hourif he, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at allBenny, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow LakeHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=02413970491662500491

|author= Helly ActonAdam Stower|title= The ShelfMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionConfident Readers |summary= When we meet AmyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, shewhatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's in a relationship with Jamiebad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. You can't really call This time round it drops them into a partnershipViking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, because things tend to get done on his termsbe honest, but shehe's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking turned up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is and he ''finally'' going ll have to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?do…|isbn=18387708790008561249

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria YudinaB0C47LV1PC|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh (Living Book)Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=This Living Book is on Can you make a mission. What's the mission'Yo birthing person'' joke? To make And if you laugh! I can't think of many better missions than thatcould, can is the question should youmake it? Let's see how Or is the question if you did, would it doesland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be....no.

.... well, it opens up with a terrible joke. A groany joke, an eye-roll joke. The joke isn't very funny but it is funny to see how enthusiastic and how generously this book wants to make you laugh - 'Fragility''Ohis set as the city of Portland, I'm terrible at jokes. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted Oregon, cautiously begins to help someone laugh.'' |isbn= 194812453Xemerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15294022711529431735|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Winter Visitor|author=Helen CoxJames Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyIt's relationship February 1991 and Essex is developing nicely: theybitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're even into a spot of bandage now, although return all the details are (mercifully) scantmore surprising. After He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morningdecade. ThereThe return has come about because he's been had a murder in Irendaleletter from his ex-wife, where Halloran used saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live . It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agosent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. There are sufficient details 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 wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the current murder to make Halloran suspect that evening a helper at the man who murdered dessert cafe his wife - gran owns and others - runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in some way involvedthe family. A few short years ago, despite being Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in prisonthe company of a magical beast. The DI heads off This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to speak dare to Jeremy Kerrenter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231