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|isbnauthor=1529418100Tom Percival|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=IWill'm not usually s life is difficult, in a fan multitude of short stories - I find it all too easy to put ways. He is bullied because he has 'the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerwrong shoes's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so , he has the temptation to read wrong shoes because his dad can''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist t work and I'm rather glad that I didndoesn't have enough money for even try. For those new to the seriesmost basic of things like food, thereand his dad can's t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an excellent introduction accident. Throw into that mix the fact that will tell you all you need to know about whohis mum and dad are separated, and Will's who life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the background to why Bruno moments of joy when he is in St Denisdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFSylvie Cathrall|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by There are few greater joys than a pump attached book which lives up to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likecompelling premise. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0008517061|title=Without Death in a TraceLonely Place|author=Jane BettanyStig Abell

|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a divorce little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and right now it was raining hard. All she wanted was to get back to her new home daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasn't going relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to be though: when she went into Little Sky despite her bedroom reservations about whether or not this is the future she found a dead man on wants for herself and her bed with a knife daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in his chest. She'd no idea who he wasthe present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=18387748231786482126|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=S J BennettElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's 2016 and the Queenluxury's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and apartments - when they discovered the body bones of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poola child beneath a doorway. There was broken glass - no skull. Was this a crystal tumblerritual killing or murder? Inevitably, by the look at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she had bled outis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. StillHer condition will be obvious before long, it was a shock for Sir Simonnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=057136358X0008551324|title=April in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dave Letterfly Knoderer|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can.  Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join the circus Devil You Know (not a metaphorD S Max Craigie), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.|isbn=B0965V3LLN}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of HeavenNeil Lancaster

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle It'Shells unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he' Campion s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is fulfilling buried and who was responsible for her lifelong dream of going to spacedeath. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime This person, bound for the world of Bloodroothe promises, she is someone big and it will essentially be a babysitter for worth the ship's AI captainpolice doing what he wants. However, when she wakes up at And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the end remainder of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered his sentence and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it wouldget an early parole date. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up Not much to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhileask, former astronaut is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and friend of Shellshe's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle even prepared to Bloodroot, halfdo the other thing that Hardie demanded -alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking make certain that DS Max Craigie and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0008405026|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Lily loves eating fruit She was never found and vegetablesthe investigation ground to a halt. She likes carrots Now, her mother, broccoliHelena, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up father are dead in their nosesbed. Initially, Lily is keen it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to explain how good they are for you be an open-and how nice to eat-shut case is now a complex double murder. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her Kerrigan is convinced that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow explanation lies in the ground. Jordan saysRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor LilyUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X0571379877|title=Bad ApplesThe Kellerby Code|author=Will DeanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Edward Jevons is a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- class friends, Robert and heard the screams from deep inside the forestStanza. Determining the direction of Robert's a sound isntheatre director. He't easy when you need hearing aids s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way uses Edward to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manrun errands for him. HeEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'd been decapitateds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. He was Arne Gustav Persson, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a resident relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of Visbergthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJo Callaghan|title=Cold As HellLeave No Trace

|summary= In When a red suitcase as man is found crucified on the bottom top of a fissure hill in a lava fieldNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second bodyfound 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. And Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable case and, potentially, out of killing.a career?|isbn=1913193888139851120X

|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1399613073|title=FledglingMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decadesOlivia, Laura and now looking imperiously down Anjali met on the village first day of medical school and woods belowtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system Olivia is not as we'd know itruthlessly ambitious, the roof which is retractable, there a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, perfectionist and so ona trauma doctor. At Anjali is the free spirit of the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD group and she becomes a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch drug and sing opera loudly, alcohol-fuelled party and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or something elsethe consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, when crashing through Cassieit's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubtheir teenage children who are involved. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X

|isbn=18462767720241636604|title=The End of BiasTrading Game: How We Change Our MindsA Confession|author=Jessica NordellGary Stevenson

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Anyone who is not If you were to bring up an ableimage of a city banker in your mind, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent you're unlikely to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part think of everyday lifesomeone like Gary Stevenson. White men will always come first. The able will come before A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the disabledEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the preserve London School of the white manEconomics. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a part facility with numbers which most of an organisation it's rare us can only envy. He also realised that their views are heardmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, that their concerns are acknowledgedessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1035021803|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Gemmathe 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's close friend, who at first instance appears to be your average studentArthur Crockleford, faced with is dead and the familiar horrifying realisationcircumstances seem suspicious, at to say the eleventh hourleast. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, that let her graduation outfit is all wrongdown badly. Suddenly Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is she has not who he says he is…'', paving felt able to be near the way for man or pursue the sinister tone that remains throughout profession she loved. After the novel. In split, she worked in a twist of eventscafe, met and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in married James (on the rebound from the midst love of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comalife, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=8409290103AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=If OnlyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Matthew TreeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to ensure come.'' I've heard it said that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowance'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Patrick sent the money regularly and Well, I must confess that there have been more than a correspondence - few decades of sorts - sprang technology in my lifetime. I've kept up between the two although we hear more about reasonably well with what Lowry has 's advantageous to say than Patrick. It wasnme but I't m left with the feeling that Lowry senior didnit't care for his sons all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, it was that he didnI 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't care to have him re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayI could understand.

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Sunny Singh|title=The Rabbit FactorHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Meet Henri. With The Hotel Arcadia is a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-memberterrorists who are rampaging through, that they'd prefer killing everyone to be all open-planon site, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This there is when he finds his brother has diedSam, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, wartime photographer and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkAbhi, and nothing elsethe hotel manager. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants As Abhi continues to try to occupy his mindcare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, but he perks up forms a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideasbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly keeps on the scene venturing out of her room to try to explain that missing money – itcapture what's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henrihappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..terrorists.|isbn=191319387X086154742X

|isbn=14711793111529153298|title=The UnheardList of Suspicious Things|author=Nicci FrenchJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Tess, a teacher It's 1979 and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason Margaret Thatcher is now married to EmilyPrime Minister. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in She's not what was the 's worrying Miv's family home and another in the flat she shares with her mother, though. Women have been disappearing. It Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared'doesn'seemedt sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to be working well until move the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a tall building and she started swearingfrightening, foreign place, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homebest avoided. Her behaviour deteriorated For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and there were problems at nursery schoolshe'll do anything to prevent that. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then She's not worried about the dangers or that her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has Mum's stopped talking - to say seriouslyanyone.

|isbn=14711966151398524085|title=IcedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Felix FrancisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but those days never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling headall worried but -first down the threestrangely -quarter-mile Cresta Runher husband, Alec, occasionally reaching eighty miles an houris not. He was in St Moritz Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the same weekend as White Turf - thatbody of Greg's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with father, Duncan Ackerley, in the saddling of the horsesriver. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he swore that hecouldn'd never go back to itt stand the guilt. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can't help do but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=147228612X1035906708|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillDiva|author=Alan JohnsonDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelsontend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quietNew York, uneventful lives in December 1923 and stay mostly under the radaronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. In a city like London, thatHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's quite easy - and even GaryCallas's three flatmates largely ignore himto make it more manageable in the States. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her makeup as voice - she goes to work on was raised under the train each morning: he'd love to ask Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her for a date but he doesn't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks made no secret of her preference for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstersher elder sister, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeJackie.

|author=Claire McGowanChristopher Edge|title=I Know YouBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident 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'Then:. All big movie fans, they'' Casey returns from a walk with re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the babymovie starts, Carsonthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and comes across three bodiesthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel can they figure out what on earth is out for a walk with her doggoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.and to their real lives?|isbn=15420199741839942738

|isbnauthor=1529148251Rachel Greenlaw|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapecan hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itanswering beat in my heart.''

Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in Rosevear, a certain frame 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 mindthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. YouBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island're not going s leader and Mira's father. Desperate to read save him from death, Mira makes a book 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 essays or a self-help bookfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. You're going With only nine days to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to professionals within the television industry at heart of the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might smuggler's territory, Mira must be ''reading'' the book but you need determined to ''listen'' stop at nothing to save the words as though you're in future of her home and the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=0008433631James Sherwood Metts|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a bit sticky for the sort of thing that happened every dayEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, although not often replacing jobs they're paid to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, do and other tasks that took time to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicaccomplish. He was supposed Just as they were beginning to be taking Max get used to school but he'd been called into work all this technological change and the delay in getting there could lead starting to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out think of Leila's wayother, could she drop him off? Of coursenew ways to spend time, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her caralong came an awful pandemic. On the way Leila took a phone call - there Life was panic at her work toopretty much shut down and, along with a problem it, all the many daily social interactions on which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskthey depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaMatthew Tree|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesnWe't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtisll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be home to make different from his lunch for one o'clock on the dotfather, despite the fact that she was actually painting one a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understandingwho had endless crises of self confidence. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about So Tim applied himself to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2his studies, 42 Linden Road cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1784742775A G Slatter|title=A Change The Briar Book of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hillthe Dead

|summary=Drugs It hadn't really 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 ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that much of a problem in Lafferton there were only open-and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought -shut cases which didn't need the help of drugs ops as a bit of psychologist only worked for a waste of timewhile. They still were Finally, it was Robin, to a great extentDelaware's partner, but Serrailler who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something had to be donethat the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Children as young as nine Two lovers were being recruited to transport murdered in the drugs and the operation running the county lines swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was tight. A mule might know the name (although heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it probably wouldn't be s not the correct one) Italian. But which of the person who them was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.primary target?

|isbn=B09FS89KX91529395224|title=Fall On MeLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Penelope PottsSion Rowlands

|genre=Women's FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She His father was just going into a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the final year of her veterinary degree and strain that being on- three years later - was still working at BBcall put on his father's dinerlife. Bob - When he was seventeen he took the owner - regarded her fondly: he opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a good bossvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendBefore long, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his careerat Liverpool University. Hollie wasnIt hadn't quite - as with so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all many students - been his dream since he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerwas a child. Then there was the fact that If anything, he would 'd wanted to be violent, both to her and to other peoplea professional footballer.

|authorisbn=John Gwynne0861541774|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment A Nye of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09HTWX47X|title=Endless ObsessionPheasants|author=Dai HenleySteve Burrows

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's some years since we last caught close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Andy Floodan old ally, formerly Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a DCI in the Met but now street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a wellknife -respected private investigatorand he killed a Ghurka. He's married to LauraInitially, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad he faced a charge of manslaughter but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, evidence came to light that suggested that he might have flown the nest, Pippa planned to Australia, from where she has very little contact with murder the family, and Gemma to married lifeman. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide Now he could be facing the support she needsdeath penalty. FloodDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackt help Danny at all.

|author=Peter PapathanasiouAlexander McCall Smith|title=The StoningPerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In The Perfect Passion Company is a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous dating agency in comparisonEdinburgh, a teacher has been transported across town at night run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a shopping trolleymore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and she's been taped look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a tree bad boyfriend, and she's had rocks bowled so jumps at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpschance to come home to Edinburgh. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, including thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the local copsIsabel Dalhousie novels, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home but with some new characters who quickly begin tocharm. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair Katie has no experience in running a business, is the general opinionor in match-making, for the occupants are often setting their own fires but Ness has full confidence in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolisher abilities, a higher rank from the cityand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedWilliam, insular community is really going to welcome lend a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...hand…|isbn=15294169731846976596

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0811771741|title=The Mystery of HealingInstaKnits for Baby|author=A P McGrathMelissa Leapman

|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heMelissa Leapman's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on ''InstaKnits for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isnBaby''t high but the work gives the doctor us a feeling collection of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors knits from toys to liveblankets. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri Some will be quick knits - others are of the charge hands and when we first see them'long, they're sprinkling gold dust onto cosy afternoons in front of the lionsfire' manes to make them look more impressivevariety. The sagitarii projects are divided by the archers time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the beastiarii projects are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animalsattractive, modern and useable. Today, itI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's the crocodilesme being picky.

|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallDean Koontz|title=The Beatryce ProphecyBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=''Stories have joy Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and surprises in them'', we are told herehis house gets trashed. And none more so than in this wondrous story Oh, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it someone has in equal proportion. We start with delivered a group of monksreally weird, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the demonic goat thing that loves nothing more than upendinghas trashed his house! The thing is, trampling on and biting Benny is the poor Brothersvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Things change drastically when So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the beast takes delivery to his house is a totally maternal approach to new friend, a homeless girlbad weather friend called Spike, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from her memorynefarious forces for being a good person. Elsewhere sits Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a King in his castlewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, desperate one who is able to find sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the girltwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, for it is prophesied that so his favourite bun has been turned into a young child hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can unseat chuck them out, not into the throne regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and cause great changewhiffs. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can This time round it drops them into a simpleViking land, amnesiac lass ever prove where a threat troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to anyone?do…|isbn=15295008930008561249

|isbn=B09FFJF8YSB0C47LV1PC|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)Fragility|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''For Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the big, grownup girls out there, question should you make it? Or is the potty masters in trainingquestion if you did, "You Can't Wear Panties!" would it land? The catch is a cry (that the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty prideanswer for both could well be.... no.''

 And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that 'Fragility'she'' can wear super-duper proper pantsis set as the city of Portland, while they cannot. Neither can the flowersOregon, nor cautiously begins to emerge from the fish, nor restrictions imposed during the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!covid pandemic}}

|authorisbn=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett1529431735|title=Locked Out LilyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily It's February 1991 and Essex isbitingly cold, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief shewhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's d been told to stay with her grandma exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a few daysdecade. The parents need the relief as Lilyreturn has come about because he's baby sibling is just about to be born – had a child Lily swears letter from his ex-wife, saying that she hates already 's ill and wants nothing hasn't long to do withlive. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, already installed. These devilish interlopers need stripped to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – his underwear and all she has sent to help her a watery grave in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakeboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1471194833}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?