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|isbnauthor=1838773169Sunny Singh|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II The Hotel Arcadia is at Windsor for the Easter Courta luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She's having Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a dine wartime photographer and sleep at Abhi, the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to raise money from some rich Russians care remotely for one of his pet projects. There'd been the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a distinctly Russian flavour bond with Sam who refuses to the evening be cowed by events, and one keeps on venturing out of the performers brought in her room to try to play the piano has been found dead in capture what can only be called embarrassing circumstances's happened through her photography. The immediate reaction is that one of Although they only ever talk over the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerphone, an ex-ambassador their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury help her keep safe and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear they both wait to go down any of ''those'' roadssee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Matt Haig1529153298|title=The Midnight LibraryList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= Between life It's 1979 and death there Margaret Thatcher is a libraryPrime Minister. And so (A woman? I mean, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Libraryhonestly... Everything that could) She's not what've gone wrong in Noras worrying Miv's life hasfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Her cat died Well, she lost her jobthey've been murdered, her brother wonbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't speak sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to hermove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, her parents are deadDown South is a frightening, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about pianoforeign place, she called off her weddingbest avoided. For Miv, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that move would've let mean leaving her escape the wetbest friend, Sharon, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides ll do anything to dieprevent that. But instead of death, she finds She's not worried about the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to live every life she could'veanyone.|isbn=1786892731

|isbn=03494230831398524085|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Frances BrodyNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs Charlotte Salter was expected at her investigation agency from Batswing Cottagehusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, ably assisted by Jim Sykessons Niall, who lives in Woodhouse Paul and Ollie and her housekeeperdaughter, Mrs SugdenEtty. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Something is going wrong with his business Shortly afterwards, Etty and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: heGreg, find the body of Greg's hoping that his nephew and right-hand manfather, James LofthouseDuncan Ackerley, will be back from a trip to Germany before longin the river. James went to see what It was an easy assumption for the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need police to makethat Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a The Salter children are not convinced but there's little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride else they can do but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1035906708|title=When I Come Home AgainDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses We tend to give a namethink of Maria Callas as Greek, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventuallybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, they determine this isn't willful obstinanceNew York, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time in December 1923 and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has goneonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he Her original surname was found Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam GalileeStates. A fanciful name When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform mother who doesn't know who he ismercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, where he is or how he got thereJackie.|isbn=1471192172

|isbnauthor=1529410347Christopher Edge|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace EdwardsLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, has left her library job and taken a place on that has the Venerable Bede Academynickname of 'The Black Hole's vocational library studies course in Durham. ItAll big movie fans, they's an unusual place re looking forward to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most lots of the people attending are scions of the seriously richexciting films, scholarship students - or they've managedand many, somehowmany snacks! However, to scrape together as the money. Gracemovie starts, who's 22they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, comes and they are swept up into the last categoryan adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her parents agreed But as they lurch from one film genre to fund the course but told her that if that was next, can they figure out what she chose on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started the coursecinema, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year ago.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Vincent PanettiereRachel Greenlaw|title=These Thy GiftsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for I can hear the Catholic Churchsong of the sea. Reports The call of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of deep, the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imaginedanswering beat in my heart.''

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchRosevear, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the offspring of ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a long past relationship between Steve trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and a gangsterMira's widowfather. Steve Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is determined as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his churchguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But he With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must also face up be determined to his own failings, going right back stop at nothing to his breaking save the future of her home and the celibacy vowsones she holds most dear.|isbn=15031998860008664730}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104James Sherwood Metts|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading Things have been a bit sticky for HMP Spring Hillthe Earthlings. Steve AI and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only other tasks that wasn't who he wastook time to accomplish. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. He Life was being ghosted out of Wakefield pretty much shut down and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of , along with it, all the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going to be set free many daily social interactions on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengewhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1473692407Matthew Tree|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a death doula: that's someone drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to support their carers. It's a rewardinghis studies, caring occupation cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it set himself high but this wasn't always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologist, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published underachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Delia OwensA G Slatter|title=Where The Crawdads SingBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary= In 1952, Kya'' There's mother disappeared up the dirt track a part of me that wants to keep this just to townmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, wearing her alligator heelsall mine, and never came homeat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. Then one by one her siblings left'' Within a remote mountain pass, ran far away from the shack on world, lies Silverton; a town under the North Carolina marsh that served as home protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the life that would lead to nothing but sufferingwider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, leaving 7Ellie Briar is the first non-year-old Kya with witch to be born into her drunken father. Years pass family for generations and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for as such since she was young, her training as a mother that would never return steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor writepotions. Finally, one night When her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marsh. Eventuallygrandmother suddenly dies, as Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the years drift painfully byBriar Witch, the time comes when Kyatown's leader, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young womanEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, yearns for company besides the gulls right and centre, Ellie uncovers the land, yearning rare ability to be loved and to be held. Socommunicate with the dead, when 2 boys from putting her at the town heart of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way maelstrom of lifechaos. But in 1969Reeling from one family secret to another, the body of former star quarterback Ellie must decide who to trust and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in determine what to do as the mud of the marshBriar witches' legacy, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriouseverything they have sacrificed to survive, run-down Marsh-Girlis under threat. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=14721546651803364548

|authorisbn=David C Mason1529900360|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston is It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a gardenerwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, although what he who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did before he became look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a gardener, he claims, is classifiedremote property in Bel Air. That He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is just as well because he is about married to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save an extremely rich man and it's not the dayItalian. |isbn=0956180523 But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=03565124791529395224|authortitle= Alix E HarrowLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesSion Rowlands|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Theret want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's no such thing as witches, but there used to belife.'' In 1893, after When he was seventeen he took the purges opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the burningsjob for him. Before long, witching has he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spellshis dream since he was a child. If women want to hold power in their handsanything, he'd wanted to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffragebe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Onjali Q Rauf0861541774|title=The Night Bus HeroA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other childrenDCI Domenic Jejeune's sweetsclose friend and former colleague, harasses and threatensDanny Maik, plays pranks at schoolhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and gets into trouble at every turnhe killed a Ghurka. Yet Initially, he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, faced a charge of manslaughter but then evidence came to light that suggested that he isn't believed as everyone expects him might have planned to be telling liesmurder the man. Nothing seems fairNow he could be facing the death penalty. His parents are barely home, and seem Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him help as any interference from another police force could provoke a lost causediplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?|isbn=1510106774

|isbnauthor=1849767343Alexander McCall Smith|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=The title Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and format of this book might lead you operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's take a basic 1-2-3 book trip to Canada to get away for those just starting a while. Katie is coming out on of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the numbers journeychance to come home to Edinburgh. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to mathscharm. ItKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's about why maths is so wonderful always her very helpful (and how you meet it in everyday life.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18497669200811771741|title=Everything is MINEInstaKnits for Baby|author=Andrea D'AquinoMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that heMelissa Leapman's kind, clever and loyal. You'll also need to know that everything is '''MINE'InstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. And he means ''everythingSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire'variety. It begins with The projects are divided by the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing thatthan twenty hours. Then it was All the pork chopprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Well, did you see anyone's name on it? I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'And'' he left the carrots for Leo. Thatbut that's another example of Marcello's generosityme being picky. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?

|isbnauthor=1849767009Dean Koontz|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie HaineThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches Benny 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 really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to the choirhis home, and it': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know s possible that nudity whoever or whatever was inside is OK and the ones who ''know'' thing that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the hot-and-bothered very last person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustdeserve all this bad luck. ButHe is a nice person. A really nice person.. Rosie Haines makes So fortunately for Benny it into something so much more than turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a book about not wearing clothesgood person. It's a celebration Spike is going to take care of bodies: bodies large and small Benny, and will certainly take care of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and markings. TheyHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny're fine. In fact, s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they're wonderfulare.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0241295955Adam Stower|title=Trio|author=William BoydMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=It was 1968: 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 year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedtwo. ItBut he's also the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton. Itbad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to Bun, and the Moon''catflap they both use can chuck them out, or ''Ladder not into the Moon'' as it's known on setregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Anny Viklund is the female star in This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a production which troll hunter is proving expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on the producerhonest, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because but he's turned up and he needs the money, allow a fading star 'll have to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B08B39QNRHB0C47LV1PC|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemFragility|author=Michael PritchardMosby Woods

|genre=Popular ScienceLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Society Yo birthing person'' 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 based on speech but civilisation requires that the written word''answer for both could well be.... no.

I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History of Writer's CrampFragility'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to is set as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration city of the history of a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it provedPortland, Oregon, with the book being as much about cautiously begins to emerge from the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as restrictions imposed during the problem itself.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager1529431735|title=Child of Galaxies|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? ''Child of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals with all the big questions. Written as a poem, the lyrical words don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to the children you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experience.|isbn=1912497425}}{{FrontpageThe Winter Visitor|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=BetrayalJames Henry|rating=34

|summary=Meet UrsulaIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she canwhich made Bruce Hopkins't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent return all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectormore surprising. YouHe'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into d been exiled on the task of helping Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a famous newsreader with her Tinder profiledecade. YouThe return has come about because he'll certainly meet s had a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, andletter from his ex-wife, knowing her of old, decided saying that she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard s ill and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula hasn't long to acceptlive. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterIt's rape get looked at hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and pronto, nobody can say, for all records sent to a watery grave in the boot of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Tania UnsworthAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=Elsie Eli is a busy lad – by day an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and forgottenin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is quiet, and compliant, and makes a generation missing in the best of whatever happens to herfamily. So when her A few short years ago, Eli's parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free were both lost to take care of herthe titular race, they a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make navigate the world in the best company of thingsa magical beast. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, and he This has an enormous tiger rug on made the floor of one of race anathema to the rooms. When Elsie asks him about pair – but when a bad incident at the rug he seems unhappyeatery leads to a confession from gran, and he says he has Eli knows his only hope is to dare to keep it because enter what he was most hates, with the sole aim the one who shot prize of magic at the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was end – the worst only thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agopossibly save his gran.|isbn=17885417070571382231

|isbn=1472127013178763681X|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotKnife Skills for Beginners|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Raisin Investigations Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had quite a bit way of work on handgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing director, Harold CheesemanPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had apparently returned from Australia because a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his wife did not like it thereown. This The one thing he hadn't expected was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went for someone to Australiaturn up dead. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wife, SheratonUnfortunately, he was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted to know what person who discovered the staff were saying about him body and his secretary, who was from Geneva. Apparently, everyone knows that the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was police consider that person to be the murderprime suspect. 

|isbnauthor=0008420386Sarah Marsh|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DaySign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Alain de BottonEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Phoebe Waller-Bridgeeverything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Lemn SissayEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syalbut physically restrained from signing. From here, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have she ends up in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures teaching the deaf and how life worked out for them afterwardsusing a system called Visible Speech. You'll find At the results same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of these discussions in ''Failosophy''espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=05713626721803816759|title=SnowThe Unravelling|author=John BanvilleWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It''Well, at least you're s 2038 and Joe is a Wexford manbored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds and had done But then something memorable goes horribly wrong with the Inniskilling Dragoons at DunkirkAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. The niceties had Finally, Joe gets to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on do some real policing. In the library floor with some precious bits aftermath of his anatomy missingthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-butJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki -shabby suitDylan, marked him out as of Osborne's class a British superfan and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstowntech nerd, who - despite is also on the different religions - was in case. What went wrong? Did the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse system fail or was stabled there.it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=17874776301529421284|title=The Postscript MurdersLaying Out the Bones|author=Elly GriffithsKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=When It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a 90-year-old-woman with heatwave. In a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairgully, it really shouldn't be suspicious a human skeleton came to the surface and that was forensic testing proved the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke body to Peggy Smithbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's carert convinced. Natalka Kolisnyk Geary was adamant that there a townie, so what was more he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition suicide of Holly Gilbert and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Then there was Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the fact Major Crimes Review Unit (that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need s cold cases to knowyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=00083301310571379559|title=The Stolen SistersHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Louise JensenFiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we start ''The Stolen SistersHouse of Broken Bricks'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsis the story of four people. Well, theyTess Hembry're healthy s roots are in the physical senseJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but Carly has trust issuesinstead, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksshe lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. TheyInsubstantial as it might look, it're s stood the Sinclair sisters passage of time, storms and one day they were all stolenfloods. Carly was thirteenHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds -yearsand to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -old Sonny and she was in charge of her sistersMax, the eight-year-old rainbow twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsideMax takes after his father. The gate wasnPeople don't shut properly believe that they're related, much less twins and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes1529425867|title=Signs of LifeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= In Oxford, there are two D I was brought up on maps Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and first-person narratives always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of tales Ryan and father of far away placesRyan, is not. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity He's not any of those things. UnfortunatelyHe's white, originated from a trailer park, I didnbarely educated (reading's not ''really''t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and do ittrackies. I also didnThey't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottleyou're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. In order words IWell, you'm re not . The two men are just different sides of the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six yearssame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Fabes did precisely thatSometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1788161211

|author=Arvin AhmadiMosby Woods|title=How It All Blew UpA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian, a Muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.|isbn=1471409929}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain|title=The Readers Room|genre=General Fiction|rating=3.5|summary=ViolaineWest isn's publishing house has had a great success, and t the dominant force it once was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work Nobody in the Readers' Room West is quite sure how to sift through what mend this or even if mending it is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenbest course of action. But there Governments are several 'howevers' to thatflailing. As inA war here, however – Violaine herself a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is not having life all her own wayin actual charge. Imagine then, for she has been involved there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from asset; a comaman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. And, however – despite all urgingThat man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers most valuable asset in personhistory. Imagine then, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailthat this man loses this ability. What is going would governments do to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of get it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come fromback?|isbn=1910477974B0C9SNG8R1