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|isbnauthor=1472263936Tom Percival|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopWrong Shoes

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was Will's life is difficult, in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greecea multitude of ways. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birthHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', had left he has the family home wrong shoes because his dad can't work and refused to returndoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, but Mary and Hamish (Helenahis dad can's parents) felt that it would be t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment cash-in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visitshand job on a building site and had an accident. She grew to love her grandmother Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and the familyWill's maidlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - he still has a tiny amount of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannishope. He was proud is good at art, and clings to the moments of his close connections to joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Cody GoodfellowSylvie Cathrall|title=VerticalA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love are few greater joys than a good view from book which lives up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories talla compelling premise. So when I picked up And this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedis one of them.|isbn= 18033639910356522776

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold0008517061|title=Finding BearDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]Former Metropolitan Police detective, April had been on Bear IslandJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship little uncertainty about the future of his life with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back homehis vet girlfriend, things on the domestic Livia and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for herdaughter Diana, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For as moving in together would mean a bear doing very Bearlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-y things has been shot grid and wounded. Desperate relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to make sure he's OK, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her father return to daughter? For the Arctic and hope that moment they’re enjoying life in a world of very white the present and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that putting the future on the friendship can continueback burner.|isbn=0008582017

|isbn=18041832101786482126|title=No ReserveThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Felix FrancisElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ThirtyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -fourthe site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when they discovered the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his sessionbones of a child beneath a doorway. To say that he There was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatementno skull. A lovely animal - but three million pounds Was this a ritual killing or murder? Two men had been bidding against each otherInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Brian Kitman and Elliot It'Mitchs difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Mitchell were well-known and respected in t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that night they had insurance in placespent together some three months ago. The following morningHer condition will be obvious before long, the horse was dead in its stallnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Sarah Wilson0008551324|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line 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 the one struggling in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild prison and precious life?he'' I get s prepared to love that line so much because my answer tell the police where the body of a missing person is ''buried and who was responsible for her death. This! Precisely thisperson, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants.'' I'm lucky enough And what he wants is to be living my one wild transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and precious life the way I want toget an early parole date. Sarah Wilson Not much to ask, is equally lucky. it? In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I canThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't see that think so and she acknowledges the source) she pushes us 's even prepared to think about whether we really ''are'' living do the life we want – the best life other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that we could be living. Her answer DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care kept well away from what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are nothappening.|isbn=1785633848

|isbn=18399484930008405026|title=A World of DogsStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeJane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that IIt'm a sucker for dogss sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. In nearly eight decades, I've She was never met one I didn't trust found and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingsinvestigation ground to a halt. SoNow, her mother, any book about dogsHelena, I'm going to sit down and devourher father are dead in their bed. Then IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'm going to go back s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and read it properlyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. And so What looked as though it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninetygoing to be an open-six pages devoted entirely to my fourand-legged friendsshut case is now a complex double murder. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself Kerrigan is convinced that the accidental owner of an American Dingo - sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's learned quite a lot about dogs since thenboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=14059516800571379877|title=The Safe HouseKellerby Code|author=Cameron WardJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friendobsessed with his upper-class friends, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for Robert and Stanza. Robert's a couple of monthstheatre director. After the problems sheHe'd had at works also self-obsessed, demanding, it seemed like just the break she neededhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police Edward has been in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth love with Stanza since their university days - and in need of the space he's drunkenly confided how he feels to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with CharlesRobert. A few weeks 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 stumble upon the Otway Ranges two of them kissing in Victoria sounded like just the ticketa dark passageway.

|author=Rachel HarrisonJo Callaghan|title=Bad DollsLeave No Trace

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had When a couple man is found crucified on the top of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kinga hill in Nuneaton, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of case alongside her sidekick, the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! AI detective Lock. It doesn't have those jump scaress their first live case together, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But it when there is creepya second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and I found most a very high profile case that draws a lot of that feeling came from unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least case in parttime, or will Kat find herself taken off the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakupcase and, trying a new dieting apppotentially, going to a hen party and out of a coping with grief.career?|isbn=1803363932139851120X

|isbn=13941595441399613073|title=Recycling for DummiesMoral Injuries|author=Sarah WinklerChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=''Recycling one ton Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of oila century.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you send an apple core aim to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decomposebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As Laura is a just-post-WWII baby, I faced perfectionist and a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling trauma doctor. Anjali is part the free spirit of my DNAthe group and she becomes a GP. NEVER throw away anything that might When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'possiblys going to end in tragedy. We don'' come in handy now t know who suffered the tragedy or in the futureconsequences. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that would serve will impact the purposethree friends. Almost everything can be used one more This time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - Iit'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibles their teenage children who are involved.s

|authorisbn=Lauren St John0241636604|title=Finding WonderThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=RooIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's life has become almost impossibly difficultre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Her mum died when she A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was youngfamiliar with violence, poverty and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead injustice. There was no posh public school on his way CV - but he had been to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticketLondon School of Economics. When asked what other family she Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has, she a facility with numbers which most of us can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly ofenvy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. But she has no one elseIt was his ability at what was, essentially, and so off she goes to live a card game which got him an internship with her unreliable auntCitibank. Things continue to get worse for RooEventually, this turned into permanent employment as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169a trader.

|isbn=14483097431035021803|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caro RamsayC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Cronchie on a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the West coast of Scotlandcircumstances seem suspicious, five members of a wealthy family are found murderedto say the least. The only item missing from Arthur was the home is reason why Freya had not been back to the Devil Stonevillage: myth says that if Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followprofession she loved. The only suspects are known Satanists but After the split, she worked in many waysa cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, thatwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's an easy conclusion given Futures: Fictions that two of them Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary='discovered' Opening up new ways of thinking about the bodyshape of things to come. The Senior Investigating Office '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'shadowm left with the feeling that it' hims all 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 who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author= Kay ChronisterSunny Singh|title= Desert CreaturesHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers |summary= With The Hotel Arcadia is a world luxury hotel in an unnamed 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 becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanitySam, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeoverwartime photographer and Abhi, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, this genre is he forms a way for humans bond with Sam who refuses to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' be cowed by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to find hopesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803364998086154742X

|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler1529153298|title=Word MonkeyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I decided mean, honestly...) She's not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The weather closed inWell, rain arrivedthey've been murdered, and I decided not but to do that eitherhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was Miv's upset because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want she's overheard that her father wants to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, move the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler family 'wasDown South' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and you know he actually is at she'll do anything to prevent that point, because he does. He didShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776991398524085|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ann CleevesNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=''ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all bloody peculiarworried but - strangely - her husband, isn't itAlec, Sir?'' Well yes, it isnot. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn galeShortly afterwards, stayed for about a month Etty and then turned upGreg, naked and deadfind the body of Greg's father, in a small boatDuncan Ackerley, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devonriver. Rosco It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor murdered Charlie and all round ''celebrity'then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' The Salter children are not convinced but as wethere'll find out, he could be more than a s little bit close else they can do but get on with money their lives and his background isn't exactly an open bookwonder about what really happened. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR1035906708|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorDiva|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning We tend to wonder whether it think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was better born to be at homeGreek parents in Manhattan, bored but warmNew York, or frozen cold in December 1923 and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach only moved to Athens when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelineshe was thirteen. On top of the ice Her original surname was a polar bear. As Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the iceStates. Kit When she was all back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear her voice - she was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on raised under the bus and given Nazi occupation by a good meal mother who mercilessly exploited her and somewhere to sleepmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. What else would you do?

|author=Claire NorthChristopher Edge|title=House of OdysseusBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent Black Hole''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus All big movie fans, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues they're looking forward to rule without her husbandlots of exciting films, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for many, many snacks! However, as the throne of the Western Islesmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Having survived – politically and physical – But as they lurch from one film genre to the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shoresnext, Queen Penelope can they figure out what on earth is going on ? Will they ever get back to the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenaecinema, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.to their real lives?|isbn=03565160751839942738

|isbnauthor=1529427045Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for exampleI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''.

Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the small town wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the area have sparked Council Watch lays a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salandertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's nieceleader and Mira's mother father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is the latest woman secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the area to have vanished without tracesea. It was With only with reluctance that Salander became nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her niecefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the part Salander played in her father's deathones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our narrator was Things have been a scholarship day boy at bit sticky for the London-based public school where he met Ralph FinnsEarthlings. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder AI and had money automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines do and a state-of-the-art sound systemother tasks that took time to accomplish. Both Just as they were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends beginning to get used to all this technological change and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention starting to think of going on other, new ways to Universityspend time, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious universityalong came an awful pandemic. Before going upLife was pretty much shut down and, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his homealong with it, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Dean KoontzMatthew Tree|title=The House at the End of the WorldWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your sideTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, you can either suck it up, saddle up a drunk and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of tiny dots on the map his artistic passions all failed miserably and live out your days in peace and solitudewho had endless crises of self confidence. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life So Tim applied himself to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockhis studies, the neighbouring island cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1662453159B0CVFXPGP8

|author=T KingfisherA G Slatter|title=ThornhedgeThe Briar Book of the Dead

|summary=''You had There's a right part of me that wants to retake your placekeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

T KingfisherWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's latest novella is , a lovely reimagining family of a fairytale that is well known witches who protect the town and well belovedthe wider world from the Darklands. But whilst there Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a princess trapped in a towersteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, sleeping under an eternal enchantmentthe town's leader, Thornhedge is not and Ellie takes her place beside her story. InsteadAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, our protagonist is Toadlingputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby to trust and secreted away determine what to do as the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to draw magic from her veins and cast spellssurvive, is under threat.|isbn=18033642381803364548

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1529900360|title=Stories 2The Ghost Orchid|author=Richard F WalkerJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's second volume of short storiesfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. There are thirteen in all His assertions that there were only open-and I took something from each -shut cases which didn't need the help of thema psychologist only worked for a while. There isn Finally, it was Robin, Delaware't a single one s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the overall qualityswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. It can be tricky He was the heir to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two an Italian shoe empire and she is married to talk about an extremely rich man and I think they give a general flavourit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17876366071529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The TrapSecret Life of a Vet|author=Catherine Ryan HowardSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morningSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for His father was a way to get home. Some are lucky GP and manage Rowlands didn't want to get one of follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus strain that will only go as far as one of the outlying villagesbeing on-call put on his father's life. The woman all regret When he was seventeen he took the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light opportunity of 'doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the missing women'job for him. For one young womanBefore long, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her homehe was at Liverpool University. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her It hadn't - as with so many students - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use been hisdream since he was a child. ThereIf anything, he's no option but d wanted to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=14059571740861541774|title=A Death at the PartyNye of Pheasants|author=Amy StuartSteve Burrows

|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshDCI Domenic Jejeune's party will not end wellclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The victim Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to call murder the ambulance he so desperately needsman. What we don't know is who Now he could be facing the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him diedeath penalty. I'd better give you Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a little more background so that you can understand whatdiplomatic incident and wouldn's happeningt help Danny at all.

|author=Tania UnsworthAlexander McCall Smith|title=Nowhere IslandThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, he is so determined run by Ness and operating as an alternative to escape the care system – all the system that constantly puts him online apps in futureless places that are not homes – and find providing a home for himselfmore personal, tailored service. He Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is en route planning to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him take a trip to Canada to his futureget away for a while. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag Katie is coming out of belongings – but that someone lives a break up with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaybad boyfriend, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough so jumps at the chance to come home to provide for their safety and seclusionEdinburgh. ThemAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and a mute girl also finding a home therethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, albeit so much more successfullybut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Over Katie has no experience in running a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combinebusiness, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=18045400801846976596

|isbn=00085300250811771741|title=Murder in the FamilyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Cara HunterMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and itMelissa Leapman's now the subject of ''InfamousInstaKnits for Baby'', gives us a true-crime showcollection of knits from toys to blankets. A group Some will be quick knits - others are of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the investigation furtherfire' variety. More to The projects are divided by the point, time they're going ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to do this live on cameraten hours, episode by episodeten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. There's no dump of All the whole box set - projects are attractive, modern and no shortage of cliffhangersuseable. ItI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's compelling viewingme being picky.

|author=Judith EagleDean Koontz|title=The Stolen SongbirdBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Caro's motherBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a worldreally weird, disturbing coffin-famous whistler, has failed sized object to return his home from her recent work trip abroad , and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is now missing. the thing that has trashed his house! Her other mother, RonnieThe thing is, Benny is having the very last person to go up North deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to take care of her sister his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is unwellclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. So who Spike is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamtake care of Benny, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans will certainly take care of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyBenny's houseenemies, along with an orphan boyif he, AlbieBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumroped into Benny's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=05713631481662500491

|isbnauthor=1529195977Adam Stower|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa JewellMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with Murray is supposed to be a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Shehumble, tootidy and friendly cat, was out celebrating her 45th birthdayone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, only she was just with her husbandwell, Walterwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary But he's hospital. Thata bad magician's where the similarities endcat, though: Alixso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, with her husbandand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Nathannot into the regular back garden, are in the midst of but into a joyful, monied group world of friends frightening adventure and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselveswhiffs. JosieThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, on the other handone much bigger than Murray was, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walterbe honest, but he's not too happy. Heturned up and he's not used ll have to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1803365110B0C47LV1PC|authortitle=Chuck TingleFragility|titleauthor=Camp DamascusMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=Love Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to the question should you make it a crime and, in ? Or is the USquestion if you did, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although would it land? The catch is that the answer for both a secular and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, could well be.... no. ''Camp DamascusFragility'', peels back is set as the skin city of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to show emerge from the reader restrictions imposed during the horror lurking within.covid pandemic

|isbn=18031363831529431735|title=Tin SoldiersThe Winter Visitor|author=David ChadwickJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a clouddecade. What actually happened out there is gossiped The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and nobody hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is sure exactly what took placeabducted, but an act of heroism leading stripped to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice his underwear and disgrace seems sent to be a watery grave in the consensusboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Wat himself is keeping his cards close Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to his chest, as he always does. }}home?