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|isbnauthor=0995647895Tom Percival|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=SadieWill's mother always said that she was life is difficult, in a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingmultitude of ways. She lives by He is bullied because he has 'the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Her class had gone one rainy afternoont work and doesn''<br>''When all t have enough money for even the houses cowered in the gloommost basic of things like food,and his dad can''<br>''To t work because he lost his job at the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination college, was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an ancient sailing ship and went back regularlyaccident. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's Throw into that mix the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches fact that his mum and dad are on show) and missed the closing bell separated, and the attendantWill's warning shoutlife seems bleak in every direction. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the midst moments of an adventure joy when he is drawing, that she could never have imagined in feel like a world light at the end of dolphinsa long, pirates, mermaids and treasuredark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}

|author=Kristen O'NealSylvie Cathrall|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her settled into his rustic lifeat Little Sky. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to There’s perhaps a bunch little uncertainty about the future of other teens living his life with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outhis vet girlfriend, while also providing an escape to just joke Livia and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and drive relaxing life to Brigid's house move in with Livia or does Livia move to check up on Little Sky despite her. But what reservations about whether or not this is the future she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the basement – present and for that werewolf to be putting the girl she has been talking to online for future on the past few monthsback burner.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1786482126|title=SlingshotThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to being lonelyhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As Was this a secret illegitimate daughter of a man ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a "real" familyDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is used to not being pregnant with his child as a priority in people's livesresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot Her condition will be obvious before long, her simple existence not least because Ruth is changed for goodprone to sudden bouts of sickness. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA0008551324|title=The Duke's ChildrenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anthony TrollopeNeil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The story opens It's 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's prepared to probably tell the worst news police where the body of all: Lady Glencora Palliser a missing person is deadburied and who was responsible for her death. Her husbandThis person, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumhe promises, is nearly paralysed by grief someone big and struggling - at it will be worth the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officepolice doing what he wants. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which And what he wants is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) sentence and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and get an early parole date. Not much to run up gambling debtsask, occasionally in eye-watering sums. is it? Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and wishes she's even prepared to marry do the other thing that Hardie demanded - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayhappening.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnIt't belongs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, was never found and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as investigation ground to a source of comforthalt. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Now, her mother, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleHelena, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed her father are dead in the competitiontheir bed. But as the pranks escalate Initially, and Rachel finally feels it looks like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the pranks, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and people begin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to get hurtbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too lateboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton0571379877|title=Fifty SoundsThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with where Barton herself startshis upper-class friends, with the question Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Why Japan?'' Japan s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been on my radar for a while in love with Stanza since their university days - and if the world hadnhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert't gone into melt-down I s position would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but I am he's not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect two of the question them kissing in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''a dark passageway.|isbn=1913097501

|author=Lucy HollandJo Callaghan|title=SistersongLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong When a man is part found crucified on the top of a genre I particularly enjoyhill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesAI detective Lock. These stories, for most of us It's their first live case together, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold having previously been very successful with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveseveral cold cases. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong But when there is a perfect example of second body found crucified a modern retelling done wellfew days later, the plot Kat is handled suddenly struggling with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to come their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to lifesolve the case in time, to feel real or will Kat find herself taken off the case and human, most importantly they feel relatable in potentially, out of a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.career?|isbn=1529039037139851120X

|isbn=15291242551399613073|title=The WhispersMoral Injuries|author=Heidi PerksChristie Watson

|summary=We know straight away that there's going Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a bodycardiothoracic surgeon. It's on Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the beach under Crayne's Cliff near free spirit of the town of Clearwater group and it's new year's dayshe becomes a GP. To understand what happened When wefirst meet them they're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has at a soft Australian accent drug and alcohol- she's lived there since her teens fuelled party and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit's returned going to her home town to liveend in tragedy. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lovely apartment she's foundconsequences. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightTwenty-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda five years later there will be joiningan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's perfect!their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241636604|title=The SourceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Essex A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Thirteen There was no posh public school on his CV -yearbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -old schoolgirl Carly lives in extremely bright - and he has a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe stupid. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats It was his ability at what was, essentially, and offers a card game which got him an exclusive invitation to army partiesinternship with Citibank. Eventually, things start to look this turned into permanent employment as a little less bleaktrader...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A1035021803|title=The Prime MinisterAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anthony TrollopeC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise back now because of Ferdinand Lopeza request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows dead and Lopez is not going the circumstances seem suspicious, to explainsay the least. The ladies of societyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, even Palliser's own wifeshe feels, Lady Glencoralet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionprofession she loved. The Duke's payment After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787332098AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Henry ManceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think Opening up new ways of thinking about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions the shape of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesthings to come.''

I was going to argue've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I meanWell, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then I realised 'm left with the feeling that I was quibbling for the sake it's all getting away from me. Some of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals is - frankly - and I consider myself an animal loverquite frightening. If Of course, I had to choose between could research the company of humans possibilities and the company of animals, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would probably choose 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animalslatest conspiracy theorist. I insisted that needed people I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but knew I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken could trust and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. who could deliver information in a way I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablecould understand.

|author=Jessie GreengrassSunny Singh|title=The High HouseHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Charles Darwin taught The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the implied belief that your progeny will then pass terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on theirs. Howeversite, that train of thought there is slowly seems Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation care remotely for the residents who are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child be cowed by events, and living in a world keeps on the precipice venturing out of catastrophe is her room to try to capture what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrasss happened through her photography. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is Although they only ever talk over the life our children phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their children they both wait to see if they will have to livebe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1800750072086154742X

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1529153298|title=Madame BurovaThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, all vaguely connectedthough. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would Women have been called then)disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, a girl in a humdrum job wanting but to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, have 'disappeared'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyantdoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv', s upset because she's overheard that her father wants to use her move the family's sea-front boothDown South'. The singerWhen you're from Yorkshire, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at Down South is a revamped holiday campfrightening, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallforeign place, best avoided. We also see her on For Miv, the move would mean leaving her last daybest friend, fifty years laterSharon, in possession of a pair of letters and she'll do anything to prevent that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered She's not worried about the secrets about dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xanyone.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud1398524085|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlawCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns Paul and Ollie and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britainher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveis not. But then she meets Albert Browne Shortly afterwards, a dark boy with dark powers Etty and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downGreg, they plan to flee to find the mythical Free Isles body of the London Lagoon. TogetherGreg's father, they must brave man-eating wildlifeDuncan Ackerley, in the cannibalistic Tainted and all river. It was an easy assumption for the horrors of post-apocalyptic society police to reach make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Free Isles, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but will they be any more accepted there than 's little else they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1035906708|title=Remy: A book about believing Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in yourselfManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and 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 States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalChristopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 's let himself down The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'again''. The school bully Jaydenre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! together with his sidekicks Ryan and BrandonHowever, have been laughing at Remyas the movie starts, calling him names because he they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is short very different, and has small eyes. They they are mean but swept up into an adventure they are not stupidcouldn't even imagine. They are careful But as they lurch from one film genre to wind up Remy when nobody the next, can see and then push him just that little bit further when they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the other kids are around. Socinema, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Rachel Greenlaw|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]'I can hear the song of the sea. Having succeeded The call of the deep, the answering beat in parliament my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and achieved a paying position he fell plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out with those who provided his income to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and returned any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Ireland where he married Maryend the wrecking, his childhood sweetheartthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. He was fortunate Desperate to get save him from death, Mira makes a job bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into search of a life of domesticityfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. To bring Finn backWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy her journey takes her from an aunt who died at just the right time watched streets of foreign islands to allow the move heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be possiblesave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Dean KoontzJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Other EmilyPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between Things have been a bit sticky for the two US coastsEarthlings. It's the western coast weAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're concerned with, a place he has paid to return do and other tasks that took time to, and a place he has accomplish. Just as they were beginning to be able get used to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen all this technological change and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying starting to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mindthink of other, but new ways to no availspend time, along came an awful pandemic. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageLife was pretty much shut down and, the very embodimentalong with it, all the virtual resurrection, of his lovemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199581736128426

|author=Charlie CarrollMatthew Tree|title=The LipWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to bedifferent from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and maybe that's the pointwho had endless crises of self confidence. To me the name sings of English folk musicSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetachievable ambitions. |isbn=1529334179B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellA G Slatter|title=The Day Briar Book of the Screens Went BlankDead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in togethermyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different thingsall mine, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankat last. And I just want to enjoy itfor a while.'s not just their home' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, but lies Silverton; a town under the entire south-western village protection of Mouseholethe Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not wider worldfrom the Darklands. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to get be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a screen back, steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and not what they were constantly doing on them beforepotions. Toasters can toastWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, but TVs cannot do Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their willBriar Witch, but no. For the family finally remember Stellatown's grandmaleader, and see if they can get across country to Ellie takes her place beside her. Hence this has As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatcommunicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a slapstick road-trip comedymaelstrom of chaos. And more than thatReeling from one family secret to another, too – for itEllie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's a slapsticklegacy, high-dramaeverything they have sacrificed to survive, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will loveis under threat.|isbn=14711968871803364548

|isbn=19131935271529900360|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)The Ghost Orchid|author=Vanda SymonJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Dunedin It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was shocked when it heard of reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the murder help of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so She knew that she the involvement was forced to watch something that the murder, with the scene being discovered by their sonman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outthough. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalBel Air. His company, Eros Global, manufactured He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements she is married to an extremely rich man and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Hendersonit's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainednot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=15291091161529395224|title=Call Me RedLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Shepherd's JourneyThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Hannah JacksonSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''I t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the image of a British farmer to simply be 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 person family friend who is proudly employed in feeding was a vet and was convinced this was the nationjob for him. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer Before long, he was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationsat Liverpool University. HeIt hadn's probably grown up without giving much thought t - as to what with so many students - been his dream since he really wants to do: he knows that was a child. If anything, he'll d wanted to be a farmerprofessional footballer. It}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's not always the case thoughclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hannah Jackson Maik was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on involved in a commercial farm until she street brawl - he would later maintain that he was twenty although she'd always had facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a deep love of animalsGhurka. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr JacksonInitially, whale scientist' and she was well on her way he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Lake Districtman. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked Now he could be facing the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shepherd. With the determination that youdiplomatic incident and wouldn'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitiont help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0857527231Alexander McCall Smith|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=George Dempsey The Perfect Passion Company is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wife, Ellena dating agency in Edinburgh, died run by Ness and it's operating as an alternative to all the first time that she's let him downonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He's lost, bereft without Ness has asked her ( he ''needs his wifeyounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, like as Ness is planning to take a snail needs its shell'')trip to Canada to get away for a while. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have Katie is coming out of a good row break up with someone. He's particularly angry about a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the dachshund puppy which Helen brought chance to come home just three weeks before she diedto Edinburgh. She even dared And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to contradict him when he told her that an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies some new characters who are trying quickly begin to interfere in his lifecharm. Worst of all is BettyKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, who wonand there't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Luckys always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, her greyhound. Lucky spends to lend a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy them.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B003UH99X40811771741|title=The Eustace DiamondsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Anthony TrollopeMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didnMelissa Leapman's ''t live long enough InstaKnits for this Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to become a problemblankets. After his death, his wifeSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was cosy afternoons in possession front of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husbandthe fire's executorsvariety. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it The projects are divided by the time they'll take to her absolutelycomplete - less than five hours, although the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling five to telling. Lady Eustace was not a woman ten hours, ten to whom truth meant a great dealtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All that was important to her nowthe projects are attractive, she maintained, was her sonmodern and useable. And, of course, her diamondsI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1529047315Dean Koontz|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea Benny is having two facesa terrifically bad day. You have to take them bothHe loses his job, he saidloses his fiancee, the good and the badhis house gets trashed. Oh, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972someone has delivered a really weird, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwalldisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Yearit''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such s possible that ''the boat [whoever or whatever was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over inside is the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. thing that has trashed his house! It was broken into the next dayThe thing is, but there was no sign of Benny is the menvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. The table was set for He is a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8nice person.45 A really nice person. Contact with So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the light had not delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been possible as the radio was brokensent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. No explanation was ever found for what happened Spike is going to the mentake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Mary H K ChoiAdam Stower|title=YolkMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Jayne Baek Murray is supposed to be a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; humble, tidy and that's her charm. June, on the other handfriendly cat, one who is a complete contrast able to Jaynesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. She But he's a typical older sister: shebad magician's smartcat, thinks she knows it all, and so his favourite bun has been turned into a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choiceshyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the same city for the past two yearsregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is until June finds out sheexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together turned up and decide how far theyhe'll go have to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.do…|isbn= 03490036960008561249

|authorisbn=Saima MirB0C47LV1PC|title=The KhanFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through question should you make it? Or is the criminal justice system and by question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the time she is called home answer for her sisterboth could well be.... no. ''Fragility''s wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to set as the city of her birthPortland, Oregon, cautiously begins to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for emerge from the restrictions imposed during the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097covid pandemic

|isbn=00083368301529431735|title=Two WrongsThe Winter Visitor|author=Mel McGrathJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Clifton suspension bridgemore surprising. She talks to her, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis SmithHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex- and wife, saying that she can't understand why Satnam s ill and hasn't shared her problems with herlong to live. She thought they shared everything. Satnam It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is taken abducted, stripped to hospital his underwear and Nevis calls her mother, Honorsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. They've not been on good terms since Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mother.}}problem closer to home?