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|isbnauthor=178763566XTom Percival|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=WeWill're s life is difficult, in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the library she knows that theywrong shoes're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in , he has the snow thatwrong shoes because his dad can's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere t work and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother have enough money for even the most basic of Detective Jane Rizzolithings like food, and a keen defender of his dad can't work because he lost his job at the suburb of Reverecollege, north of Boston, where she liveswas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Nothing gets past her Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and whilst her boyfrienddad are separated, Vince Korsakand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is in Californiagood at art, looking after his sister, she has the time and clings to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsthe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=0008395632Sylvie Cathrall|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of There are few greater joys than a prostitute, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks book which lives up to fund a drug habit, forget itcompelling premise. Dora And this is a professional in all senses one of the word. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customsthem. |isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=David Solomons0008517061|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin is being followedFormer Metropolitan Police detective, seemingly constantlyJake Johnson, by the new (very annoying) girl has settled into his rustic life at schoolLittle Sky. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. Because in this instanceThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, the girl as moving in question is Niki, together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a galactic princess (no, really, the future she is!) wants for herself and her daughter? So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled For the moment they’re enjoying life in a situation where, potentially, Earth the present and everyone putting the future on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935the back burner.

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1786482126|title=The Mermaid CallJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury't existapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eyeThere was no skull. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – Was this a far northern English resort – without them. ritual killing or murder? A hundred years and change ago, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsInevitably, but were forced to return to help out Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the Great War effortDCI Harry Nelson. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the townIt's tourism industrydifficult as Ruth knows, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success story. AliceNelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop result of the one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntnight they spent together some three months ago. When the shyHer condition will be obvious before long, doubting Thomasina that not least because Ruth is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=17398051000008551324|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Andrew MarchNeil Lancaster

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary= It''Loving s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Enemy'' tells police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew Marchother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went prepared to Dresden to teach in tell the police where the early days body of the Nazi regime in the 1930sa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Fred This person, he promises, a sensitive is someone big and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against it will be worth the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the timeremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Fred Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's attempts even prepared to separate individual people do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from ideology werenwhat't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetimes happening.

|isbn=B0B575J99N0008405026|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job A Stranger in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|title=Godmersham ParkFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gill HornbyJane Casey

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentlemanIt's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one sixteen years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelvesince nine-year-old Fanny AustenRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She had no experience of teaching but this was never found and the investigation ground to a case of necessityhalt. Until the death of Now, her mother, Anne had a comfortable life Helena, and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdare dead in their bed. When her mother diedInitially, her father cast her off it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and would have nothing more to do with herboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. No explanation What looked as though it was offered but she would receive going to be an annuity of £35 open-and-shut case is now a yearcomplex double murder. Her maidKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighboursUna Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 0571379877|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re Edward Jevons is a writer yourselfworking-class young man, or an aspiring writerobsessed with his upper-class friends, or someone who pretends to write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of booksRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. Some you read for fun He's also self-obsessed, some for distractiondemanding, some handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for vicarious emotion, some to learn from him. Edward has been in a random way, some for focussed research, love with Stanza since their university days - and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like he's drunkenly confided how he feels to writeRobert. Or, indeed, are actually trying Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to writestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1783966386

|isbnauthor=0751581577Jo Callaghan|title=Lying Beside You|author=Michael RobothamLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived When a man is found crucified on the carnage - Eliastop of a hill in Nuneaton, who was sent DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Ramptonthe case alongside her sidekick, and his thirteen-year-old brotherthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, Cyrus, who hid in having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a shed until the police second body found him. Twenty years crucified a few days later, Cyrus Kat is suddenly struggling with a forensic psychologist potential serial killer and he's been told a very high profile case that his brother is being releaseddraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having Will they be able to live on a daily basis with solve the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the same house? How will his lodgercase and, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormacpotentially, copeout of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=140595115X1399613073|title=A Stranger on BoardMoral Injuries|author=Cameron WardChristie Watson

|summary=Right from the beginningOlivia, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into Laura and Anjali met on the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes first day of medical school and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantic. Those their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by onecentury. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is no way of making contact. But let's go back a bonus when you aim to when all this started, in Southampton.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for be a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild foodcardiothoracic surgeon. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in Laura is a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit perfectionist and a pandemictrauma doctor. Wilde had a few advantages: Anjali is the area around her was a known habitat with a variety free spirit of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer the group and dehydrator. She had she becomes a car - and fuelGP. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not When we first meet them they're at a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, drug and More|author=Joy Howard|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''Think of it as noalcohol-whining dining.'' We know fuelled party and it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes going to show how versatile the tomato isend in tragedy. Then there are all We don't know who suffered the different types, not to mention tragedy or the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't loveconsequences. I'd argue with her Twenty-five years later there - I have no affection for will be an eerily similar event that will impact the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profitthree friends. PersonallyThis time, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. Sheit's not at all precious if you get the tastetheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=02419890270241636604|title=We All Have Our SecretsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in help as he was failing your mind, you're unlikely to cope at Willowmead House on his ownthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. His advert was fairly specific: A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steakfamiliar with violence, enjoy decent wine poverty and be free from any food fadsinjustice. The first person who came There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlyLondon School of Economics. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a completely different reasonfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to Willowmead House because she be stupid. It was running away from his ability at what was, essentially, a problem in Londoncard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a complaint had been madetrader.

|authorisbn=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)1035021803|title=Tasting SunlightThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Sally is a teenager who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicbeen back to the English country village where she grew up. She just wants space's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and for people to stop questioning herCarole's close friend, tiptoeing around herArthur Crockleford, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties dead and seems the circumstances seem suspicious, to live alonesay the least. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she isfeels, giving let her a room to sleep down badly. Even though they were inbusiness together as antique hunters, and the space she has not felt able to just benear the man or pursue the profession she loved. As they work together on After the farmsplit, she worked in a closeness develops between themcafe, becoming a beautifulmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, powerful friendshipwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1914585143

|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=PreposterousAll Tomorrow's Futures: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in Opening up new ways of thinking about the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-shape of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..things to come.''

This I've heard it said that 'technology' is just what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a sample 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 cast feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of characters and settings in Preposterousit is - frankly - quite frightening. As you can see Of course, some keeping I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this.down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=B09STS96HS

|author=Will BrookerSunny Singh|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=BiographyThrillers |summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Now meet Will BrookerHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each otherkilling everyone on site, as wellthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and shows how 2021 drew Abhi, the two closer and closer togetherhotel manager. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the words of her latest book she was recitinghotel, and her being in he forms a ''black lace mini-dress bond with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author Sam who refuses to be cowed by events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor and keeps on venturing out of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellher room to try to capture what's diverse outputhappened through her photography. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in Although they only ever talk over the published author's lifephone, working their friendship grows as Abhi tries to make a success of the latest title, help her keep safe and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the resultterrorists.|isbn=1529136024086154742X

|isbn=18011092651529153298|title=The CompanionList of Suspicious Things|author=Lesley ThomsonJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'a punctual man who was inexplicably never on times not what's worrying Miv' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sons family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Wilburthey've been murdered, for their but to have 'boysdisappeared' day outdoesn't sound quite so frightening. These were always days which appealed more to James than Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to Wilbur and, competing for move the boyfamily 'Down South's attention. When you're from Yorkshire, his motherDown South is a frightening, Annaforeign place, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedbest avoided. The dinner For Miv, the move would never be servedmean leaving her best friend, Sharon, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls she'll do anything to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeprevent that. She's feeling not worried about the pressure. You can always tell dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughto anyone.

|isbn=152941363X1398524085|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis Her children, sons Niall, Paul and much of the Vézère valley Ollie and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')her daughter, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneEtty. They're not just policemen are all worried but - they're both deeply committed to the wellstrangely -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceher husband, Alec, is not. The discovery of an oldShortly afterwards, stolen PeugeotEtty and Greg, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnfind the body of Greg't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullets father, with Russian letters stamped on the baseDuncan Ackerley, which they found in the carriver. Oh, It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was a golf ball too, which didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't belong to the owner of stand the carguilt. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThe Salter children are not convinced but there's weaponlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbn=02415424051035906708|title=Meredith AloneDiva|author=Claire AlexanderDaisy Goodwin

|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' was born to: Greek parents in factManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she so nearly doeswas thirteen. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she canCallas't. She simply can't force herself to leave make it more manageable in the safety of her homeStates. She's fortunate When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she has could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a good friend, Sadie, mother who visits regularly with mercilessly exploited her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full made no secret of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in preference for her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Handselder sister, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sJackie.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KChristopher Edge|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''Anything can happen Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a birthday party, particularly when place that has the birthday boy is the young Lord nickname of the Manor'The Black Hole'. But when an eerie signal is picked up in All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the early hoursmovie starts, George and his they very quickly realise that something about this new girlfriendfilm format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the vivacious Lady Antonianext, embark can they figure out what on earth is going on a quest ? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to uncover its incredible messagetheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets 5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the cat out sea. The call of the bag and deep, the world goes into a state of panicanswering beat in my heart.''

Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and contacted Earth? George any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Antonia find themselves lifted out Mira's father. Desperate to 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 their privileged lives a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into foreign islands to the world heart of advanced sciencethe smuggler's territory, secret agents.Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and politicians hungry for powerthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Planet Storyland

|summary= SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. WeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're back paid to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Loxother, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world new ways to anotherspend time, called along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We''Merge''ll Never Know|rating=4. Since 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his last adventurefather, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions artistic passions all failed miserably and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine who had endless crises of visiting Winstonself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' abilities rather than his daydreams and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of the Bornset himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZDB0CVFXPGP8

|author=John Henry PhillipsA G Slatter|title=The SearchBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=HistoryFantasy|summary=Archaeology cannot be child'' There's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking a part of me that wants to keep this just to find what you myself for however long I can find. This secret magic of my own, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whatall mine, at last. Archaeology must be I just want to enjoy it for a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thingwhile. This book is '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a case town under the protection of the latterBriar's, as our author promises to locate a family of witches who protect the town and the topic of wider world from the titular searchDarklands. And he really hasn't made it easy Though she has always wished for himself – magic, Ellie Briar is the search area is first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a wide onesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the target might not exist any more – ohBriar Witch, and itthe town's underwaterleader, when he cannot diveand Ellie takes her place beside her. Latching on As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to Franceanother, our author has promised Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to find do as the landing craft that delivered him to NormandyBriar witches' legacy, and that he was lucky everything they have sacrificed to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim , is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedunder threat. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=14721461821803364548

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1529900360|title=Looking for EmilyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Lily. She It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgeeven after Alex recovered, and everyone from said mother Sturgis was reluctant to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsask for his help on difficult cases. It turns out His assertions that she doesnthere were only open-and-shut cases which didn't have any say in need the matterhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for while pretending when phoning home help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was with someone called Emily, the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about married to make herself known, an extremely rich man and in a big wayit's not the Italian. But where does Emily come fromwhich of them was the primary target? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'Bag: The Museum Secret Life of Emily'a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, too, leaving particularly when he considered the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatstrain that being on-call put on his father's behind 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 intriguejob 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.|isbn=1839942754

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF0861541774|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Richard F WalkerSteve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back short holiday in time Singapore to correct meet up with an iconic quote; old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful man armed with his feeta knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, and awfully familiar…'' This collection he faced a charge of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to offer murder the eclectic readerman. Tying them together is Now he could be facing the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can happen do nothing to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesnhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming nexthelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1800901232Alexander McCall Smith|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be all the online apps in providing a fashion designermore personal, tailored service. Life in the rural village where she lived with Ness has asked her family was happy, younger cousin Katie if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man she could come and woman came to look after the village business, as Ness is planning to offer Hahn take a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not trip to Canada to be missedget away for a while. Some money changed hands Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Hanh was on so jumps at the mini-bus chance to come home to HanoiEdinburgh. OnlyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Hanh thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the other girls were not going Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to work charm. Katie has no experience in running a shopbusiness, they were to work or in virtual slavery match-making, but Ness has full confidence in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery her abilities, and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Itthere's quite possible that Hanh always her very helpful (and her co-workers made them.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0811771741|title=EmergencyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=The summary Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of this book doesn't come close knits from toys to explaining what is done with the premiseblankets.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight Some will be quick knits - others are of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death 'long, cosy afternoons in front of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumefire' variety. Her GP, diagnosing The projects are divided by the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction time they'll take to her griefcomplete - less than five hours, recommends she go five to stay at Nedeten hours, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening ten to Marianne twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kindprojects are attractive, modern and useable. As Marianne I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfme being picky.|isbn= 086154112X

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Little DrummerThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story Benny is having a mixture of police procedural terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and thrillerhis house gets trashed. Beginning with the death of Oh, and someone has delivered a young woman in a carparkreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that looks whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very much like an overdose, last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it unravels into turns out that the delivery to his house is a far-reaching investigation of murdernew friend, frauda bad weather friend called Spike, and international pharmaceutical dealingswho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich Spike is led going to Africa as they follow the twists take care of Benny, and turns will certainly take care of the investigation. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenaciousBenny's enemies, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficultif he, frustrating circumstancesBenny, trying hard to uncover the truth as and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going on.|isbn=19145851271662500491

|isbnauthor=0008541477Adam Stower|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It was Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hot summer day right at hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the beginning regular back garden, but into a world of the summer holidays frightening adventure and Clarice Bean whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was bored:, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'Nothing ever happens except ' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for sometimesboth could well be.... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly everno.''

There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricket. ThereFragility's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals is set as the batteries from Clarice's torchcity of Portland, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herOregon, rather than wanting cautiously begins to talk, but emerge from the restrictions imposed during the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''.covid pandemic

|isbn=07112662041529431735|title=The Secret Life of BirdsWinter Visitor|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)James Henry|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit It's February 1991 and watch Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a daily basisdecade. An hour can pass without my noticing. IThe return has come about because he've established which species feed s had a letter from the groundhis ex-wife, which pop saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablelive. It would have been wonderful if's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, as a child, I'd had access stripped to his underwear and sent to a book such as ''The Secret Life watery grave in the boot of Birds''a stolen Ford Sierra. So – what is Is ita warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}