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|isbnauthor=suppl_staflTom Percival|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceConfident Readers|summary=So, youWill've finished writing your book and you think the hard work s life is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling difficult, in? Wrong and wrong againa multitude of ways. You presumably wrote the book He is bullied because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering he has 'the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now youwrong shoes're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of he has the publishing industry believe to be wrong but itshoes because his dad can's too difficult to change t work and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'doesn' t have a copy enough money for even the most basic of the book in your handsthings like food, youand his dad can're going to have to t work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398706906|title=The Lost|author=Simon Beckett|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in lost his job at the park whilst Theo college, was playing working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and when he woke, Theo had gonean accident. It cost him Throw into that mix the fact that his marriage mum and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it dad are separated, and heWill's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneylife seems bleak in every direction. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's And yet, he still has a long time since they've spokentiny amount of hope. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he asks Jonah to meet him is drawing, that feel like a light at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust''the end of a long, he saysdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Amanda MasonSylvie Cathrall|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter A Letter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleLuminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary= I am not There are few greater joys than a fan of "the Prologue"book which lives up to a compelling premise. Most books are the worse for them. In And this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back one of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlythem.|isbn=19131939420356522776

|authorisbn=Will Carver0008517061|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is Death in a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529418100|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesLonely Place|author=Martin WalkerStig Abell

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=I'm not usually Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fan lot of short stories compromise: does Jake give up his off- I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories grid and forget relaxing life to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries move in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist future she wants for herself and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. her daughter? For those new to the series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the background to why Bruno is in St Denisfuture on the back burner.

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1786482126|title=Buried Lies The Janus Stone (Gaby Darin Book 5Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jenny O'BrienElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Hannah Thomas Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was having her first night away from her songoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Hunter had diabetes and Was this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ianritual killing or murder? Inevitably, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her friend, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, LiamIt's difficult as Ruth knows, for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldnNelson doesn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the opportunity to go in his placeone night they spent together some three months ago. She would return home Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missingsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0008551324|title=Without a TraceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jane BettanyNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Life hadnIt't been easy s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for Ruth Prendergast: shethe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd just come through s prepared to tell the police where the body of a divorce missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and right now it was raining hardwill be worth the police doing what he wants. All she wanted was And what he wants is to be transferred to get back an open prison to her new home serve the remainder of his sentence and settle down for a quiet eveningto get an early parole date. It wasnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't going think so and she's even prepared to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a knife in his chest. Shehim is kept well away from what'd no idea who he wass happening.

|isbn=18387748230008405026|title=Her Majesty A Stranger in the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=S J BennettJane Casey

|summary=It's 2016 sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting investigation ground to a strain on his waistbandhalt. SwimmingNow, her mother, he decidesHelena, 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 discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolher father are dead in their bed. There was broken glass - Initially, it looks like a crystal tumbler, by straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the look at it - probably one positioning of the young royals being careless - bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and it her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped it was going to be an open-and cut herself so badly that she had bled out-shut case is now a complex double murder. StillKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, it was a shock for Sir SimonUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=057136358X0571379877|title=April in SpainThe Kellerby Code|author=John BanvilleJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Terry Tice was Edward Jevons is a hitmanworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, although he didn't think of himself in those termsRobert and Stanza. He saw what he did as 'Robert's a matter of making things tidy''theatre director. I couldnHe't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobs also self-obsessed, demanding, something which occurred handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him when he was . Edward has been in Burma love with the army Stanza since their university days - and he''where s drunkenly confided how he got the chance feels to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''Robert. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldnMost men in Robert't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a swizzle stick - surely relationship had begun between them but he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the benefits two of taking up them kissing in a job in Spaindark passageway.

|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererJo Callaghan|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocLeave No Trace

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=How to summarise When a man is found crucified on the life top of Dave Letterfly Knodererv a hill in a pithy sentence Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowthe case alongside her sidekick, I really donthe AI detective Lock. It't think I cans their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases.  Dave But when there is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And second body found crucified a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran ministerfew days later, he's struggled Kat is suddenly struggling with a controlling father, run away potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to join solve the circus (not a metaphor)case in time, trained horsesor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, painted caravanspotentially, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.out of a career?|isbn=B0965V3LLN139851120X

|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1399613073|title=Far From the Light of HeavenMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the world a quarter of Bloodroota century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she will essentially which is a bonus when you aim to be a babysitter for the ship's AI captaincardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. However, when she wakes up at Anjali is the end free spirit of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered the group and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her becomes a GP. When we first mission wonmeet them they't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin re at a drug and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut alcohol-fuelled party and friend of Shellit's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle going to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter end in tow, to see why tragedy. We don't know who suffered the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind tragedy or the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosconsequences. What the Twenty-five of them discover on years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodrootthree friends. This time, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0241636604|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary= If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Lily loves eating fruit A hoodie and vegetables. She likes carrotsjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, broccoliwhere he was familiar with violence, cabbage poverty and auberginesinjustice. When her friends at There was no posh public school turn up their noses, Lily on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is keen to explain how good they are for you bright - extremely bright - and how nice he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to eatbe stupid. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan It was his ability at what was, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedessentially, Lily checks a card game which got him an internship with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the groundCitibank. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her Eventually, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilythis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X1035021803|title=Bad ApplesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Will DeanC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the road. Wondering if someone needed She's back now because of a request for help she got out of the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the foresther beloved aunt, Carole. Determining the direction of a sound isnFreya't easy when you need hearing aids s former mentor and dampness Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is causing interference but Tuva made her way dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to where a woman say the least. Arthur was holding the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her coat over down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the body of a manor pursue the profession she loved. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav PerssonAfter the split, she worked in a resident cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Visbergher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{Frontpage|author=Lilja Sigurdadottir|title=Cold As Hell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= In I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a red suitcase as few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the bottom feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a fissure in a lava field, there it is a body- frankly - quite frightening. And Of course, 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're talking about or the man latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingcould deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1913193888

|author=Lucy HopeSunny Singh|title=FledglingHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene The Hotel Arcadia is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by bit over a terrorist group. Hiding from the decadesterrorists who are rampaging through, and now looking imperiously down killing everyone on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric housesite, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system there is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractableSam, there is a steam-poweredwartime photographer and Abhi, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so onthe hotel manager. At As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for residents who are still alive in the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyhotel, he forms a woman bond with Sam who does nothing but quibblerefuses to be cowed by events, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma keeps on venturing out of her room to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has try to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but itcapture what's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing happened through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubher photography. And 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 you think such a heavenly arrival is going to they will be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=183994188X086154742X

|isbn=18462767721529153298|title=The End List of Bias: How We Change Our MindsSuspicious Things|author=Jessica NordellJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=Anyone who It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not an ablewhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent 've been murdered, but to which they suffer from it: ithave 'disappeared' doesn's simply a part of everyday lifet sound quite so frightening. White men will always come first. The able will come before Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the disabledfamily 'Down South'. JobsWhen you're from Yorkshire, promotionsDown South is a frightening, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manforeign place, best avoided. Even when those who wouldn't pass For Miv, the medical become a part of an organisation itmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she's rare ll do anything to prevent that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. ItShe's personally appalling and degrading for not worried about the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but itdangers or that her Mum's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedstopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1398524085|title=Her Perfect FamilyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who Charlotte Salter was expected at first instance appears to be your average studenther husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationsons Niall, at the eleventh hourPaul and Ollie and her daughter, that Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her graduation outfit husband, Alec, is all wrongnot. Suddenly Shortly afterwards, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, paving in the way river. It was an easy assumption for the sinister tone police to make that remains throughout Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the novelguilt. In a twist of events, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, wonder about what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readreally happened.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=84092901031035906708|title=If OnlyDiva|author=Matthew TreeDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, Mr PatrickNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick Athens when she was to send him a monthly allowancethirteen. Patrick sent the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didnCallas't care for his son, to make it was that he didn't care to have him more manageable in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other childrenthe States. The alcohol problem When she was obvious even before Patrick managed to back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the young man on his wayNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Christopher Edge|title=The Rabbit FactorBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths Lucas and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the insurance company – until they decide henickname of 'The Black Hole's not a team-member. All big movie fans, that they'd prefer everyone re looking forward to be all open-planlots of exciting films, holistic and keen on stupid-many, many snacks! However, as workshopping. This the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelvery different, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just they are swept up into an adventure park, and nothing elsethey couldn't even imagine. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants But as they lurch from one film genre to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacenext, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made can they figure out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly what on earth is going on ? Will they ever get back to the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henricinema, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...their real lives?|isbn=191319387X1839942738

|isbnauthor=1471179311Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Tess''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a teacher remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Jasonplundering the wrecks. Mira, a headmasterlike her mother before her, have split up: she and Poppy have moved is one of the seven who swim out of to survey the family home ruins – rescuing any survivors and Jason is now married any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Emily. The separation was amicable - end the wrecking, they had just drifted apartcapture the island's leader and Mira's father. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who has is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her bedroom , she sets off in what was the search of a family home and another secret that lies buried deep in the flat she shares with sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her mother. It ''seemed'' from the watched streets of foreign islands to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing heart of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearingthe smuggler's territory, using words she was unlikely Mira must be determined to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems stop at nursery school. Tess turns nothing to a therapist for help, then save the future of her doctor home and finally the police but no one will take what ones she has to say seriouslyholds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1471196615James Sherwood Metts|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Things have been a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down bit sticky for the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourEarthlings. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake AI and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses. Itautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's seven years since he put horseracing behind him re paid to do and he swore other tasks that he'd never go back took time to itaccomplish. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, Miles can't help but look for answersalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, even when along with it puts him in danger, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=147228612XMatthew Tree|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radar. In a city like London, that's quite easy - drunk and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have the courage. Thenhis studies, on cultivated his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him abilities rather than his daydreams and asks for his help. Before long he finds set himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policehigh but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Claire McGowanA G Slatter|title=I Know YouThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''Then:'There' Casey returns from s a walk with the babypart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, Carsonall mine, and comes across three bodies, almost at last. I just want to enjoy it for a whole family taken downwhile.''

Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''Now:'' Rachel s, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is out the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a walk with steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her dogway left, Brandyright and centre, when she comes across Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a body in maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the woodsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=15420199741803364548

|isbn=15291482511529900360|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoThe Ghost Orchid|author=Michaela CoelJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'How am I able s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to be so transparent ask for his help on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? difficult cases. It's as though I His assertions that there were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.only open-and-shut cases which didn'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you t need to be in a certain frame the help of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or psychologist only worked for a self-help bookwhile. You're going to read writing which Finally, it was inspired by Michaela CoelRobin, Delaware's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the television industry at involvement was something that the Edinburgh TV Festivalman she loved needed. You might be ''reading'' The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the book but you need heir to ''listen'' an Italian shoe empire and she is married to the words as though youan extremely rich man and it're in s not the lecture theatreItalian. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud But which of exquisite writing.them was the primary target?

|isbn=00084336311529395224|title=Next Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of Kina Vet|author=Kia AbdullahSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila SyedSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. SheHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn'd never driven her nephewt want to follow in his footsteps, Max, to school before but particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic's life. He When he was supposed to be taking Max to school but seventeen he'd been called into took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesjob for him. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's wayBefore long, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max he was duly strapped into the back of her carat Liverpool University. On the way Leila took a phone call It hadn't - as with so many students - there been his dream since he was panic at her work tooa child. If anything, with a problem which could put he'd wanted to be a multi-million-pound contract at riskprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0861541774|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, trumpsDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, fartsGuy Trueman. Whatever your word for them, find us Maik was involved in a child street brawl - he would later maintain that doesn't find them irresistibly funnyhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Funny Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to talk about and joke about, light that suggested that ishe might have planned to murder the man. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at Now he could be facing the wrong timedeath penalty. In class, say, when everyone will hear it Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Averywouldn's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim t help Danny at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normalall. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbnauthor=1784165263Alexander McCall Smith|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Martin Curran's wifeThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, Eliza knew that she had run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on all the dotonline apps in providing a more personal, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being lettailored service. If Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she didn't could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get home, there would be troubleaway for a while. There was some excuse: Martin was Katie is coming out of a break up with a paraplegic bad boyfriend, and confined so jumps at the chance to come home to a wheelchairEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but don't be too quick with some new characters who quickly begin to be understandingcharm. He was also 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 unpleasant person: he once told Eliza helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'you're good at being InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a disappointmentcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire'variety. All this was in ElizaThe projects are divided by the time they's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivedll take to complete - less than five hours, unannouncedfive to ten hours, at the flat just as Eliza was about ten to leave: he wanted twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the lease of flat 2projects are attractive, 42 Linden Road modern and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being availablepicky.

|isbnauthor=1784742775Dean Koontz|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of Benny is having a problem in Lafferton terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timehis house gets trashed. They still were Oh, to and someone has delivered a great extentreally weird, but Serrailler knew that something had disturbing coffin-sized object to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the operation running thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the county lines was tightvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A mule might know the name (although really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it probably wouldn't be turns out that the correct one) of the person delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was running has been sent to help him but he since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly wouldntake care of Benny't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch s enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a few of the runners but waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Adam Stower|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers |summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and - three years later - was still working at BB's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendfriendly cat, Marcus: her mother thought he was great one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and he was doing , well in , whatever takes his careerfancy next of the two. Hollie wasnBut he's a bad magician't quite s cat, so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and most the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerfrightening adventure and whiffs. Then there This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was the fact that he would , to be violenthonest, both to her but he's turned up and he'll have to other people.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=John GwynneB0C47LV1PC|title=The Shadow Of The GodsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the first installment of question should you make it? Or is the Bloodsworn Sagaquestion if you did, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when would it land? The catch is that the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered answer for all to seeboth could well be.... no. This story  ''Fragility'' is set as the ultimate in High Fantasycity of Portland, and John Gwynne certainly does justice Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during 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=0356514218covid pandemic

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529431735|title=Endless ObsessionThe Winter Visitor|author=Dai HenleyJames Henry

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, formerly a DCI in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Met but now a well-respected private investigatormore surprising. He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in d been exiled on the Murder Squad but now working in Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a forensics laboratorydecade. FloodThe return has come about because he's daughtershad a letter from his ex-wife, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where saying that she has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy ill and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needshasn't long to live. FloodIt's business hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is going well abducted, stripped to his underwear and that was why he felt able sent to turn down a watery grave in the case boot of Lisa Blacka stolen Ford Sierra.}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?