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|author=Mark EdwardsTom Percival|title=Keep Her SecretThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Matthew and Helena are Will's life is difficult, in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first meta multitude of ways. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches He is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting bullied because he has 'the perfect photograph to encapsulate wrong shoes', he has the joy she is feeling in this moment, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a ravine gives way cash-in-hand job on a building site and Helena finds herself clinging to had an accident. Throw into that mix the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her fact that his mum and dad are separated, and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Convinced she is going to dieAnd yet, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she he still has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewtiny amount of hope. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well preparedHe is good at art, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena clings to safety and Matthew the moments of joy when he is left wondering what he just learned about Helenadrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=166250893X1398527122

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTSylvie Cathrall|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda There are living in few greater joys than a semi-detached house, stuck in book which lives up to a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next doorcompelling premise. Despite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all And this is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyone of them.''|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17876360030008517061|title=The Girls of SummerDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Katie BishopStig Abell|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, There’s perhapsa little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, naiveLivia and her daughter Diana, so when thirtyas moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-four-year-old Alistair Wright started grid and relaxing life to take an interest move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her, reservations about whether or not this is the future she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to wants for herself and her and by that time she was obsessed by him. daughter? Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on For the moment they’re enjoying life in the island present and in particular in putting the bar where all future on the girls either worked or partiedback burner.

|isbn=15291353891786482126|title=The FallJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Gilly MacmillanElly Griffiths

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the morning at site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the county fair before she returned homebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnskull. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Some of them fought with each other and didnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't work as reliably , that she is pregnant with his child as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and result of the one night they were still getting used to having that sort of money, toospent together some three months ago. EventuallyHer condition will be obvious before long, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound not least because Ruth is prone to his headsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Alan Parks0008551324|title=To Die in JuneThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=What first seems like It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the streets, suddenly starts other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to feel like something more sinister as another tell the police where the body of a missing person is discovered, buried and then anotherwho was responsible for her death. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoyperson, he promises, but all the more so because his own father is a down-and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he has been for yearswants. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry And what he wants is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and be transferred to an open prison to serve the arrival there remainder of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, only no record of is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong other thing that Hardie demanded - not just make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just him is kept well away from what is going on?|isbn=1805300784's happening.

|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0008405026|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Number OneIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Or rather, Cosima UnfortunateShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Or ratherNow, just Cos to her friendsmother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. The practice in Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the home she lives in is for positioning of the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But Cosima bears the tag What looked as a surname because nothing else seems though it was going to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, an open-and unique in having no known family in the outside world-shut case is now a complex double murder. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from Kerrigan is convinced that the kitchen one afternoonexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his InstituteUna Burt) are less convinced. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee0571379877|title=Perilous TimesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= ''Hate Edward Jevons is the path of least resistancea working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He' Set in the nears also self-distant futureobsessed, in a world on the verge of climate collapsedemanding, Britain is handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in great perillove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. The British Isles desperately needs Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a hero (or several) relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of stumble upon the Knights two of the Round Table would answer the callthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=0356518523

|author=Madelaine LucasJo Callaghan|title=Thirst for SaltLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be When a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from man is found crucified on the top of a retrospective viewhill in Nuneaton, a young woman unravels DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the year-long relationship that once defined case alongside hersidekick, the AI detective Lock. Overlaid It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair Kat is suddenly struggling with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to its sorrowful end the summer aftertheir AI Future Policing project. Set against Will they be able to solve the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lovercase and, depicting its all-consuming naturepotentially, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.out of a career?|isbn=0861546490139851120X

|isbn=15293828231399613073|title=The Last PassengerMoral Injuries|author=Will DeanChristie Watson

|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') 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 cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is middle-aged the free spirit of the group and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Peteshe becomes a GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're off on at a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Cazdrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge end in his suit pocket and she doesntragedy. We don't know whether she's relieved who suffered the tragedy or disappointedthe consequences. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip Twenty-five years later there will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit bettereerily similar event that will impact the three friends. MeanwhileThis time, Gemma is looking after Cazit's cafe as well as their mother teenage children who has dementiaare involved. It's going to be good, isn't it?

|authorisbn=Lex Croucher0241636604|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Who knew that what I really needed If you were to read right now was bring up an image of a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlycity banker in your mind, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. In this storyA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, Gwen poverty and Arthur have injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! the London School of Economics. Gwen, you see, Stevenson is in love bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with Bridget (the kingdom's numbers which most of us can only female knight) - something envy. He also realised that Art discovers from her private diariesmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing It was his ability at what was, essentially, a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love card game which got him an internship with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsCitibank. But Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793trader.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1035021803|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=84 year old Edie It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has lived in been back to the same small town English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for almost help from her whole lifebeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house dead and bring Edie to live with his familythe circumstances seem suspicious, as Edie is starting to lose her memorysay the least. However, Edie is tormented by Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the memory of her childhood friendvillage: Arthur, Lucyshe feels, who went missing over 60 years agolet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might has not felt able to be near the thing that reveals man or pursue the truth of what happened all that time agoprofession she loved. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high streetsplit, just as she was worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the last time she saw love of herlife, she starts to find pockets who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of memories coming back things to hercome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. And yet as she remembers the pastWell, she is forgetting more and I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in her day to day lifemy lifetime. Will she uncover I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the truth about Lucyfeeling that it's disappearance before her moveall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Thirty Days of DarknessHotel Arcadia

|summary=Hannah presents as The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unlikeableunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, bitter womana wartime photographer and Abhi, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsthe hotel manager. Sorry As Abhi continues to leave her bottles of red wine behind her try to care remotely for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot residents who are still alive in the world of crime fictionhotel, saying heforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writehappened through her photography. Cue Although they only ever talk over the bet that she cannot live up phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to that accusation. Her publisher duly books help her flights from Denmark keep safe and they both wait to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615086154742X

|isbn=18045456001529153298|title=The MonkList of Suspicious Things|author=Tim SullivanJennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol Charlotte Salter was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He'd been savagely beatenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is Father Dominicnot. He'd been missing for a few days Shortly afterwards, Etty and certainly hadnGreg, find the body of Greg't asked permission to leave his abbeys father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As It was an easy assumption for the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friendt stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd also been very wealthy s little else they can do but had given it all up for his faithget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1035906708|title=PrelovedDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-Ifather changed it to 'Callas'm-nearly-fortyto make it more manageable in the States. Having been made unexpectedly redundant When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - any HR officer worth their salt would argue she was raised under the toss - Gwen finds herself having Nazi occupation by a bit mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of a mid-life crisisher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629

|author=Cath HoweChristopher Edge|title=My Life on FireBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a firemovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesnthey't have any of her clothes, or any re looking forward to lots of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardexciting films, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anythingmany, or do anythingmany snacks! However, or even eat as the foods movie starts, they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers very quickly realise that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their livessomething about this new film format is very different, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But Ren has nothing as they lurch from one film genre to put in a boxthe next, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when can they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds figure out what she on earth is doinggoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=18399428351839942738

|isbnauthor=0008517010Rachel Greenlaw|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain married. The perfect solution arrived in I can hear the form song of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurthe sea. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet The call of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to work.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipdeep, I vowed. I would take my place, not just the answering beat in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, tooheart. Atalanta''

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born Rosevear, a daughter rather than a sonremote and partially forgotten island, Atalanta is raised under survives on luring ships into the protective eye of rocks and plundering the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntresswrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who longs for adventureswim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. When But when the opportunity comes – Council Watch lays a trap to join end the wrecking, they capture the Argonautsisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a fierce band 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 warriorsa family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, descendent as her journey takes her from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the chance to fight in Artemissmuggler' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through its territory, Atalanta Mira must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her undoinghome and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14722921540008664730

|isbnauthor=152915118XJames Sherwood Metts|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonPlanet Storyland

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is Things have been a bit sticky for the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and GeorgianaEarthlings. Darley AI and George are sisters automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Sasha is married other tasks that took time to their brother Cordaccomplish. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if Just as they'd like were beginning to get used to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated all this technological change and downsized starting to another propertythink of other, a street or so awaynew ways to spend time, which they ownalong came an awful pandemic. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple StreetLife was pretty much shut down and, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominallyalong with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it depend so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0008551278Matthew Tree|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Affi Smith was snatched Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the bottom of Fyrishhis father, where she'd been doing her training. She'd been a bit drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku being exceptional at the age any of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyself confidence. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and anyone could get to herset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Emily TeshA G Slatter|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary=''While EarthThere's children livea part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the enemy shall fear usall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

Following Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the destruction protection of the EarthBriar's, amongst a rare number family of survivorswitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – Ellie Briar is the home of the last scraps of humanity – first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and trained relentlessly to avenge as such since she was young, her people training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the world that should have been hersBriar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. All As challenges come her lifeway left, she has been conditioned right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to fall in lineanother, Ellie must decide who to fulfil her duty trust and ensure that humanity perseveresdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03565218341803364548

|isbn=08615440561529900360|title=Twin TruthsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle and DavidIt hadn's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kitt been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been at Bristol badly injured but he felt responsible and Jess's in Exetereven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's not t need the help of a psychologist only the first time they've been away from their parents worked for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each othera while. Belle canFinally, it was Robin, Delaware't wait to have them all to herself s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for a whilehelp again. Then Kit rings up - can She knew that the involvement was something that the man she bring her boyfriend home with her? loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset KitTwo lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Kitan extremely rich man and it's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with thatnot the Italian. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17856334571529395224|title=Charging AroundLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: Exploring the Edges The Secret Life of England by Electric Cara Vet|author=Clive WilkinsonSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a history 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 travelling by unconventional means doing work experience with a preference family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for slow travelhim. As Before long, he neared was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car dream since he was not totally outrageousa child. In fact If anything, it should he'd wanted to be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager0861541774|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading Nye of the New TestamentPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= 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. I Maik was brought up involved in a family where religion played little or no partstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other Initially, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to agnostic light that suggested that he might have planned to atheistmurder the man. Other than Now he could be facing the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didndeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believehelp Danny at all.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y

|isbnauthor=0571370977Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvillePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in [[April in Spain Edinburgh, run by John Banville|April in Spain]] Ness and Dr Quirke is now back operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Dublin providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterlook after the business, Phoebeas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. The worst Katie is coming out of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened a break up with a bad boyfriend, and this has made so jumps at the already strained relationship between them more difficultchance to come home to Edinburgh. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a youngAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Jewish scholarbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Rosa Jacobsthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, is found but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a lockbusiness, or in match-up. At firstmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, it looked as though sheand there'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder s always her very helpful (and rather than suicide.handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz0811771741|title=The Writing RetreatInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary= Roza ValloMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Anyone Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in the world front of publishing knows the namefire' variety. Writers want The projects are divided by the time they'll take to be hercomplete - less than five hours, agents want five to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressiveten hours, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is ten to twenty hours and more than a little obsessed with Rozatwenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and is stunned useable. I perhaps show my age when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her monthI wonder about 'social-media-long writersworthy projects' but that' retreats me being picky.|isbn=0861544439

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixDean Koontz|title=Different for BoysThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Teens Paranormal|summary=Ant Benny is in Year Eleven at quite having a standard schoolterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and is surprised his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to find his geography class (within which home, and it seems absolutely nothing about geography 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is ever learnt) the thing that has been restructuredtrashed his house! The thing is, so his desk Benny is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they very last person to deserve all go back to primary school days togetherthis bad luck. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only He is a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sexnice person. A really nice person. Which is confusing So fortunately for Ant, as he doesn't know what Benny it turns out that the delivery to his score house is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshipnew friend, a secret onebad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for several months nowbeing a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether thatwill certainly take care of Benny's set in stoneenemies, if he can't be sure. And that, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's mostly because of wild adventure) can figure out who he's been having the relationship and the sex withexactly they are.|isbn=15295094911662500491

|author=M R CareyAdam Stower|title=Infinity GateMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers |summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes Murray is supposed to science fiction. Not because it's be a genre I dislike – nothing 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 sorttwo. My standards are high precisely because it But he's a hard genre to get right – and when itbad magician's badcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, it's often terrible. But not into the premise regular back garden, but into a world of Infinity Gate had me hookedfrightening adventure and whiffs. A concept this intriguing felt like This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a high-stakes gamble: if it troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was done well, itto be honest, but he'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum s turned up that premise.and he'll have to do…|isbn=03565180430008561249

|isbn=1398509582B0C47LV1PC|title=The FavourFragility|author=Nicci FrenchMosby Woods

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was 2 amCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, not long after A levelsis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, when would it land? The catch is that the car crash happened. It would cause problems answer for Liam Birch but then no one both could really understand why he and Jude Winter were togetherwell be... She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was the reverseno. He just acted  ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him alongFragility''. A bit is set as the city of weed herePortland, Oregon, a few drinks there: cautiously begins to emerge from the legal effects of restrictions imposed during the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.covid pandemic

|isbn=08570517411529431735|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationWinter Visitor|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)James Henry|rating=54

|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson February 1991 and Essex is going to investigate bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the case of Costa del Sol as a body found in wanted drug smuggler for a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicdecade. The problem is that the case return has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without come about because he's had a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyletter from his ex-year-old case on which wife, saying that she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying man's wishill and hasn't long to live. The situation changes It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, watery grave in the dead alcoholic, was also murderedboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is there it a warning from a Spanish gang or a connection between the two deathsproblem closer to home?}}