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|isbnauthor=1919635017Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Thief Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to Catch a Killercompelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Kitt TownsendStig Abell

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a bad ladlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, so why is he running around London committing as moving in together would mean a series lot of robberies? And how did he learn compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to crack safesLittle Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? You'll have to wait to get an answer to For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer future on the first one: for his grandmother..back burner.

|isbn=13985153881786482126|title=The Boy and the DogJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Elly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the ocean floor, which created site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the tsunami and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdownbones of a child beneath a doorway. The result There was complete and utter devastationno skull. The deaths were uncountableWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the loss of livelihoods was widespreadDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The fact It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that many pets were separated from their owners came far down she is pregnant with his child as a result of the list of priorities but - six one night they spent together some three months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience storeago. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped insudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=15291530500008551324|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Tim BensonNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Seeking some light relief It's unusual for anyone from the current political turmoil which Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is coming to seem more struggling in prison and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britainhe's Best Political Cartoons prepared to tell the police where the body of 2022''a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Sharp eyes This person, he promises, is someone big and it will have noted that we're not yet through be worth the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022police doing what he wants. Who can imagine And what there will he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to come in serve the 2023 editionremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray0008405026|title=The Dark RoomA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt'd watched them die several s sixteen years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storyhalt. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperNow, her mother, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldHelena, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them her father are dead in his own dark room at hometheir bed. One Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years ago, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotelher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of What looked as though it was going to be an open- his fiancee and his career - but shut case is now finds himself wondering if she hadna complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent't really died the night she was with hims boss, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535XUna Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Natasha Hastings and Alex T Smith0571379877|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleep.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely icedEdward Jevons is a working-over riverclass young man, like our heroine Thomasina's father obsessed with his gingerbread upper-class friends, Robert and confectionery shopStanza. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother wonRobert't, as he dies in Chapter Ones a theatre director. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – entitled and her bed-bound mother uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – been in the four years love with Stanza since, either. But into the dark, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powers, their university days - and a willingness he's drunkenly confided how he feels to help ThomasinaRobert. Not only can Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he introduce her 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end two of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has them kissing in a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its coredark passageway.|isbn=0008496056

|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Jo Callaghan|title=The Book of Hope Leave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Politics and Society Crime|summary= The done thing When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception herecase alongside her sidekick, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, I want to capture it as it hits mehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. And it But when there is hitting mea second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. This beautiful book has me Will they be able to solve the case in tears. time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=024147857X139851120X

|isbn=15295047671399613073|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)Moral Injuries|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and nervous about how she their friendship would be greeted keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when she got you aim to her final destinationbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. She needn't have worried though as she went to Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the home free spirit of Mr the group and Mrs Russell, who couldn't have been kinder to hershe becomes a GP. She even had her own room When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol- all to herself. Gradually she relaxed fuelled party and began it's going to enjoy her lifeend in tragedy. SheWe don'd help Mrs Russell with t know who suffered the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put tragedy or the decorations on consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Christmas treethree friends. The best surprise happened the following morningThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0241636604|title=Red as BloodThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, all the evidence seems you're unlikely to point towards her having been kidnappedthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the policeEast End, so instead where he enlists the help of Arorawas familiar with violence, a financial investigatorpoverty and injustice. She manages There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to persuade Flosi that they will need the help London School of the police, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearancehas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Together, they start He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse the suspicion of anyonebe stupid. It was his ability at what was, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might beessentially, yet the more they uncovera card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, the more confusing things becomethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1914585321

|isbn=08615419951035021803|title=Wolf PackThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Will DeanC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the road north of VisbergEnglish country village where she grew up. She sees blood on the road and 's back now because of a creature on its side near the pine treesrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. It will turn out to be BroncoFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, a Swedish ElkhoundArthur Crockleford, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco is dead and his owner, Bengt Nybergthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the vetleast. Bronco didn't make it but on Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the wayvillage: Arthur, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his nieceshe feels, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missinglet her down badly. She'd been working at Rose Farm and Moodyson's journalist's instincts are soon brought Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the foreprofession she loved. Rose Farm is now home to After the split, she worked in a group cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of survivalists but back in 1987 the then ownerher life, Johan Svenson who was murdered his wife, ) and his two eldest children Freya and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedJames have now divorced. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?

|authorisbn=Alison HughesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=FlyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=This ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a very impressive readwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, as it does I must confess that there have been more than a lot few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles 's advantageous to me but I'm left withthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Its focus Some of it is courtesy of the first-person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-on-herfrankly -luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on himquite frightening. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mindOf course, then I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they decide he's re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itway I could understand.|isbn=1525305832

|isbnauthor=3791388398Sunny Singh|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryThrillers |summary=This The Hotel Arcadia is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountereda luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It's built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches and pastries but Hiding from the recipes terrorists who are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing rampaging through, killing everyone on how bread - site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and baking - have changed in Abhi, the twentieth and early twenty-first centurieshotel manager. We start with As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the basics - residents who are still alive in the equipment you'll need (therehotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author is particularhappened through her photography. You might not have realised that different salts can change Although they only ever talk over the flavour phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and sensation on the tongue of they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the finished product but, apparently, they doterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Andrew Givler1529153298|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—its not what's worrying Miv's awfulfamily, though. It is Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so bad frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that Dan her father wants to move the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soulfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Poor Dan! I know, I knowre from Yorkshire, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demons. But he really Down South is a terrible salesmanfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He never hits his targets and For Miv, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted linemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, heand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's so desperate not worried about the dangers or that he simply forges Matther Mum's signaturestopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1958204021

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1398524085|title=Super GhostHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Paragon City has been lucky to have the great Doctor ExtraordinaryCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, their very own superhero taking care of themis not. Whenever Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot body of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief and save Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the dayriver. But one day It was an easy assumption for the Doctor police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, and committed suicide when he couldn't stand the hero and the villain are no moreguilt. Or The Salter children are they…?|isbn=0241470536not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0B7289HKQ1035906708|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaDiva|author=Kari LoyaDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, by the way) wanted but she was born to spend some time with his father Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time only moved to do itAthens when she was thirteen. The decision Her original surname was made Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia 'Callas' to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of make it - more manageable in 2015the States. They had 73 days to do it When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - slightly less than she was raised under the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of Nazi occupation by a challenge that it would be for most people mother who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old mercilessly exploited her and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'smade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Christopher BowdenEdge|title=Mr MagentaBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a patient untangling place that has the nickname of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that nephew Stephen had ever realised something about this new film format is very different, and it seems to him they are swept up into an obligation adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to find it all the next, can they figure out. what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1839942738

|isbnauthor=1739593901Rachel Greenlaw|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway Compass and Stephen Oram (Editors)Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expectedI can hear the song of the sea. Instead The call of flying carsthe deep, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandmathe answering beat in my heart.''

I've got Rosevear, a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen remote and partially forgotten island, survives on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories luring ships into the rocks and then forget to return plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the bookruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. There's got to be But when the Council Watch lays a very compelling hook trap to keep me engaged. Then thereend the wrecking, they capture the island's science fiction: far too often itleader and Mira's the technology which takes centre stage along father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with the world-building. It's human beings a wreck survivor who fascinate me: the technology is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the world scape are purely incidentalsea. SoWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, what did I think as her journey takes her from the watched streets of a book foreign islands to the heart of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Wellthe smuggler's territory, I loved itMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1405951184James Sherwood Metts|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, Things have been a figure appeared in bit sticky for the roadEarthlings. Olivia swerved to avoid him AI and the car smashed into a treeautomation have been proceeding apace, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, who lived in the woods helped her before the police often replacing jobs they're paid to do and ambulance arrivedother tasks that took time to accomplish. But what had happened Just as they were beginning to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole get used to all this technological change and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area starting to think of Wiltshireother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. It Life was thought of as Avebury's poor relationpretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=3949666079Matthew Tree|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is be different from his father, a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Grass encroaches further his artistic passions all failed miserably and further into Maya's forest homewho had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and food is becoming more and more scarceset himself high but achievable ambitions. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=194241028XA G Slatter|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=''You There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can't put 'good . This secret magic of my own, all mine, at golf' on your tombstone, can you?last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

When we meet Patrick Walsh heWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's outside his , a family's home in of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Azabu district of TokyoDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, hoping that his key will still work but prepared Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to break in if it doesn't. He's there to remove his daughtersbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, Jenna her training as a steward revolved around letters and Kiri, administration rather than spells and take them back to Honolulupotions. It's a quick day tripWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, with just one purpose in mind. PatrickEllie's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for cousin Audra becomes the past yearBriar Witch, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business hetown's inleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. His wifeAs challenges come her way left, Miyukiright and centre, hasn't been in Wyoming Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with him and is in the process dead, putting her at the heart of divorcing him after photographs sent a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful another, Ellie must decide who to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out trust and he finds himself on determine what to do as the run in Tokyo with the two girlsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529900360|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but his body he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was found dashed reluctant to pieces below ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the cliffs at Dunnett Headhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Was Finally, it suicidewas Robin, Delaware's partner, or did he - who nudged Milo into asking for some reason - climb over help again. She knew that the stone wall and fall to his death? Or involvement was he pushed? On balancesomething that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to though. Two lovers were murdered in the deaths swimming pool of others associated with hima remote property in Bel Air. Scott Paterson He was released after a the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentthe Italian. Paterson But which of them was Grigor's last client.the primary target?

|isbn=09897153371529395224|title=Papa Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the Moonopportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Marco NorthSteve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant waters close friend and former colleague, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around himDanny Maik, sticky gray pearls has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with tadpoles inside theman old ally, Guy Trueman. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as Maik was involved in a street brawl - he filled them.'' How is would later maintain that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct he was facing a man armed with a knife - and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on he killed a sixpenceGhurka. And author Marco North Initially, who has he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as man. Now he means could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to go onhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=140639131XAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as she tried an alternative to cross all the Old Oak Roadonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She wrote 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 the mayor about the problem but didn't even get away for a replywhile. Philippa wasn't Katie is coming out of a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was break up with a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herselfchance to come home to Edinburgh. Her uniform And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and lollipop stick were both a little amateur the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to start with but the benefits were obviouscharm. All the animals used the crossing 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 Hedgehog was even trained up rather handsome) neighbour, William, to provide lend a safe path overnight.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=000837936X0811771741|title=The Last Girl to DieInstaKnits for Baby|author=Helen FieldsMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeMelissa Leapman's family moved ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to Tobermory, on blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the Isle of Mull'long, cosy afternoons in search of a new life. It was a bit front of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedfire' variety. The local police demonstrated little interest in projects are divided by the case (could it have been because Adrianatime they's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersmore than twenty hours. BrandonAll the projects are attractive, Adriana's twin, was upset modern and surlyuseable. FourI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-yearmedia-old Luna just knew worthy projects' but that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1509889612Dean Koontz|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It's fifty years since Benny is having a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Islandterrifically bad day. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenhis house gets trashed. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide Oh, and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, someone has returned with the group each year as her husbanddelivered a really weird, Kendisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was one of inside is the original teenagers. thing that has trashed his house! Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of The thing is, Benny is the man he used very last person to bedeserve all this bad luck. Philip Robson now He is a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelnice person. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the areaA really nice person.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473680883|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin Kelly|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back delivery to you!'' Nell didn't want his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit help him since Benny is clearly under attack from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was nefarious forces for being a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churchergood person. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some Spike is going to take care of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words Benny, and pictures will certainly take care of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvis. As with such questsBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Holly WebbAdam Stower|title=The Story of GreenriverMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Silken Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Sedgefriendly cat, for all their differencesone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, have a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder well, whatever takes his fancy next of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenrivertwo. Unfortunately she is also But he's a kind of runt figurebad magician's cat, and as so his favourite bun has been turned into a result is patronisedhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands catflap they both use can chuck them out for , not into the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singregular back garden, but he too, as the son into a world of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless frightening adventure and more attentive to classwhiffs. HeThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, after allwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the mostone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.he'll have to do…|isbn=15101096250008561249

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David WyattB0C47LV1PC|title=Into Goblyn WoodFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as Can you make a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends nowYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, until a chance for them both to escape, and enter is the outside world, does not go to plan. There had always been question should you make it? Or is the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsquestion if you did, Goblyn Wood, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of would it land? The catch is that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museumanswer for both could well be.... no. But life with him  ''Fragility'' is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to set as the Woodscity of Portland, restore her friendship with Pete – and Oregon, cautiously begins to work out just what is going on in emerge from the forest, both restrictions imposed during the light and the shade, and the deathly dark...|isbn=1398503835covid pandemic

|isbn=02419901651529431735|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the householdermore surprising. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body been exiled on the floor: the head had been blown off with Costa del Sol as a shotgun and the corpse was holding wanted drug smuggler for a knife in its right handdecade. Richard Swann told the police The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that heshe'd heard sounds of an intruder s ill and had come downstairs hasn't long to investigatelive. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and come at him with sent to a watery grave in the boot of a knifestolen Ford Sierra. Swann had shot him in self-defence.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author= Kit De WaalAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 4|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind familyruns. This book Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a memoir focussing on generation missing in the author’s formative family. A few short years as ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a teenager living globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in a lower class area the company of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black manmagical beast. This intersectionality plays has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a large role in bad incident at the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to her raceenter what he most hates, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind sole aim the prize of anger magic at the end – the only a child can express thing to their parentspossibly save his gran.|isbn=14722848360571382231