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|isbn=05713423530008517061|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Peter SwansonStig Abell

|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. The store specialises in crime novelsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but Mal has given up reading crimesettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life's been pretty chaotic with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of latecompromise: It's five years since does Jake give up his wife, Claire Mallory, died off-grid and he's never really got over it. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just been relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to see Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man with whom Kershaw suspected future she was having an affair. wants for herself and her daughter? His interest For the moment they’re enjoying life in crime fiction comes the present and putting the future on the back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''burner.

|isbn=17868971481786482126|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever The Janus Stone (Harry McCoyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Alan ParksElly Griffiths

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was on his way going to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamie. Hehold seventy-five 'luxury'd had to get his father to sign apartments - when they discovered the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enoughbones of a child beneath a doorway. And his father had been reluctant - he'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for the regular moneyThere was no skull. By July 1973 Bobby is back in GlasgowWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The Beatkickers didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't survive and March , that she is on pregnant with his own, but hardly thrivingchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. There's an Her condition will be obvious drug habit. Meanwhilebefore long, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellynot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane The Devil You Know (editorsD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesNeil Lancaster

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=CursesIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. TheyBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're there throughout tales s prepared to tell the police where the body of faery a missing person is buried and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do thiswho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, or not is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be able transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder 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 thatDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. Children can be cursed}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, as can princesses on the verge of marryingHelena, and older people tooher father are dead in their bed. It seems in Initially, it looks like a way straightforward murder/suicide but there's no escaping it. Which is why something about the theme positioning of this book of short stories the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is such now a standout – we may well think we know all there complex double murder. Kerrigan is to know about this accursed character, convinced that demonised placethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1789091500

|authorisbn=Sara Holland0571379877|title=HavenfallThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Maddie Morrow Edward Jevons is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prisonworking-class young man, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncleobsessed with his upper-class friends, MarcusRobert and Stanza. It Robert's the only place she feels truly at homea theatre director. Maddie He's fatheralso self-obsessed, understandablydemanding, is not keen on Maddie spending time handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with her motherStanza since their university days - and he's family - because the crime Maddiedrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's mum is languishing on death row for committing not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the murder two of Maddie's brother..them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1547603798

|author=Baye HartshorneJo Callaghan|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyLeave No Trace

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job When a man is found crucified on ''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home to the village top of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shorea hill in Nuneaton, hoping to return DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newssidekick, the AI detective Lock. She It'll be staying s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with her grandmother - several cold cases. But when there is a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need of second body found crucified a hand. There's only one problem few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands draws a lot of unwanted attention to himselftheir AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn= B0829CP5BM139851120X}}

|isbn=06486848061399613073|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistMoral Injuries|author=John HollidayChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyThrillers|summary=The path Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USAmedical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailmentOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she wasn't allowed which is a bonus when you aim to sail with her parents and three brothersbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her Laura is a perfectionist and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of schooltrauma doctor. She was Anjali is the only child in free spirit of the household group and her childhood was gloriousshe becomes a GP. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the midWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-west of the United States fuelled party and life was hard, as Clara was it's going to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the familyconsequences. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen Twenty-five years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrivedlater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. As the eldest girlThis time, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick0241636604|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''9 Ways re unlikely to Empower Tweens'' think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a selfthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -help book for tweens, setting out but he had been to show them vital #lifeskillsthe London School of Economics. Don't groan! I know there Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a market glut facility with numbers which most of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults toous can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, but there is a needful space in card game which got him an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens toointernship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. |isbn= 0228818826

|authorisbn= Katie Fforde1035021803|title= A Springtime AffairThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= IIt've wanted s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to read author Katie Fforde the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for ages help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warmCarole's close friend, cosy read focused on romanceArthur Crockleford, family is dead and friendshipsthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. This provided two romances for Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the price of onevillage: Arthur, she feels, but it was actually the family element let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as opposed antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the romance that I really enjoyedprofession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=1780897561

|isbn=1838593187AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Victoria ThompsonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her faceshape of things to come. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ' I'hasve heard it said that 'technology' to try to guess is what she found in the playground todayhappens after you're eighteen. Well, although she concedes I must confess that he will never guessthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Dad wants I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to know how school was, me but I''obviously'' m left with the feeling thatit's not importantall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (IsnOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't that so much more sensible than a scrap m reading someone who knows what they''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. There are sequins, glittered paper I needed people I knew I could trust and all sorts of other things who could deliver information in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guessa way I could understand.

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedSunny Singh|title= Yes No Maybe So Hotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensThrillers |summary= ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has suddenly been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for violently taken over by a special electionterrorist group. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, he can't think of anything worse. Howeverthere is Sam, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician wartime photographer and decides there is no time like Abhi, the present hotel manager. As Abhi continues to conquer his fear of speaking try to care remotely for the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl residents who is having are still alive in the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through hotel, he forms a separationbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and keeps on venturing out of her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer room to try to buy capture what's happened through her a car if she agrees to go canvassingphotography. The pair could possibly be Although they only ever talk over the worst canvassing duo in historyphone, their friendship grows as neither of them really want Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be there, but as the campaign goes on rescued before they discover that they care, a lot, about are discovered by the election - and maybe even about each other?terrorists.|isbn=1471184668086154742X

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1529153298|title=Into The FireList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Grant Merriweather It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a forensic accountantPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) Or ratherShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, wasthough. Women have been disappearing. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashWell, they've been murdered, his friend pleading with the medics but to keep him alivehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He was needed alive just long enough Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to give up move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a namefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. His cousinFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Maxand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=15291243951398524085|title=When You See MeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lisa GardnerNicci French|rating=45

|summary=For Janet Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and ChuckOllie and her daughter, it was a hiking break in Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the Appalachians body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stickriver. What he found It was a human bone an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D Warrenthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they also called can do but get on the services with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Keith EdgarMaria Callas as Greek, a computer analystbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Flora Dane who brought something unique only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the tableStates. Flora had been kidnapped When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and held made no secret of her preference for 472 days by the notorious killerher elder sister, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluableJackie.

|isbnauthor=1529009677Christopher Edge|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Tom Sullivan Lucas and his wife Rachel friends are having problems. It's not just all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the usual growing apart after more than a decade nickname of marriage'The Black Hole'. Their sonAll big movie fans, Michaelthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. many, many snacks! Not only did he kill himself when However, as the car rammed into a treemovie starts, but he also killed his girlfriendthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilteven imagine. Rachel is broken, but she wants But as they lurch from one film genre to forgive Michael. To give some spacethe next, Tom's moved can they figure out of what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the family homecinema, but stresses and to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0241985153Rachel Greenlaw|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodCompass and Blade

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the woman who was alone answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the house rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is taken away by one of the policeseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, but itthey capture the island's going leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a while before we learn exactly family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what has happenedmight save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)James Sherwood Metts|title=Orphans of the TidePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary= In Things have been a bit sticky for the last city on EarthEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to wreak havoc on the last of humanityaccomplish. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of a whaleother, the citizens immediately believe him new ways to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterspend time, a girl inventoralong came an awful pandemic. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boyLife was pretty much shut down and, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if along with it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=02413844351736128426

|isbnauthor=0008297169Matthew Tree|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyWe'll Never Know

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been enough to put some guests offbadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, but it Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the wedding help of the yeara psychologist only worked for a while. Will Slater (television personalityFinally, if not yet a celebrity) it was to marry Jules KeeganRobin, online magazine publisherDelaware's partner, in who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the ruined chapel on involvement was something that the islandman she loved needed. The bride's sisternext case did look simple, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and though. Two lovers were murdered in the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddyswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. They gave a huge discount He was the heir to get the couple an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the island, but surely it would be worth it for Italian. But which of them was the publicityprimary target?

|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B1529395224|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Marion ToddSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|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 opportunity 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=Steve Burrows|rating=4

|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a coincidence street brawl - he would later maintain that Detective Sergeant Chris West he was facing a man armed with a knife - and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenhe killed a Ghurka. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to disrupt murder the raceman. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to Now he could be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring facing the fun rundeath penalty. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's another police force could provoke a major diplomatic incident when and wouldn''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to livet help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1471180921Alexander McCall Smith|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police Edinburgh, run by Ness and there are those who think that he's lucky operating as an alternative to be thereall the online apps in providing a more personal, given that he decked a superior officertailored service. He's there because Tyler came off worse in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the exchange - there's business, as Ness is planning to take a scar on his face trip to prove it - Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the superior officer was forced chance to come home to take early retirementEdinburgh. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to have a tame gay an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to put on 44 Scotland Street and the town hall steps come PrideIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Either wayKatie has no experience in running a business, heor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's therealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn= A K Larkwood0811771741|title= The Unspoken NameInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= FantasyCrafts|summary= What does it mean Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would blankets. Some will be sacrificed quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to her god on her fourteenth birthdaycomplete - less than five hours, yet when the opportunity arisesfive to ten hours, she chooses ten to abandon everything she knows twenty hours and flee with her lifemore than twenty hours. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it All the projects are attractive, yet fate is a funny thing modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed's me being picky.|isbn=1250238900

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanDean Koontz|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersParanormal|summary= Harrison BeckBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, or Hal as he prefers to be calledloses his fiancee, isn't exactly pleased when and his parents send him off with his uncle Nathouse gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a travel writerreally weird, on a long train journey. Althoughdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, this isnand it't any old train; this s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Highland Falconthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the royal train, and very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is its last ever journey before a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it gets turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a museumgood person. A number Spike is going to take care of high-society figures, including film starsBenny, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this traincertainly take care of Benny's enemies, so it is quite the event on the social calendar. Howeverif he, when an expensive brooch is stolenBenny, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the lines wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15290130621662500491

|isbnauthor=0008275246Adam Stower|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen FieldsMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her sonMurray is supposed to be a humble, Barttidy and friendly cat, was missing he was already 200 miles away one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepand, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but But he was considerate of 's a bad magician's cat, so his mother favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and wouldn't have stayed the catflap they both use can chuck them out all night without letting her know, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. BesidesThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he didn't have his phone with him s turned up and he wouldn't ll have gone far without that. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decided.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Alyssa SheinmelB0C47LV1PC|title= What Kind of GirlFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' Doing something when joke? And if you could, is the question should you're scared make it? Or is braver than doing something when the question if you're not''did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world 'Fragility'' is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's set as the talk city of the school. Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don'tPortland, but one thing is for sureOregon, this isn't going cautiously begins to blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Holly Rivers1529431735|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Demelza Clock It's February 1991 and Essex is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgetsbitingly cold, much to her Grandma Maevewhich made Bruce Hopkins's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, return all the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceasedmore surprising. Under He'd been exiled on the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skillsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. However, there is The return has come about because he's had a mysterious individual on the prowlletter from his ex-wife, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorssaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's up hard to Demelza feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and her best friend Percy to get sent to a watery grave in the bottom boot of thisa stolen Ford Sierra...|isbn=1912626039}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?