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|isbn=B09MN1526W0241636604|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Liz MistryGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It's the third murder in the space If you were to bring up an image of a few weeks and theycity banker in your mind, you've all been because re unlikely to think of machetes used on teenagerssomeone like Gary Stevenson. DS Nikki Parekh A hoodie and DC Sajid Malik are amongst jeans replaces the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on pin-stripe suit and his background is the outskirts of Bradford. OnlyEast End, this timewhere he was familiar with violence, it's going to be differentpoverty and injustice. The body appears There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Nikki to be that the London School of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownEconomics. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body Stevenson is clad in designer clothes bright - extremely bright - and comes from an obviously monied backgroundhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. What it does mean though is He also realised that Nikki is going most rich people expect poor people to be on sick leave for some time stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with anxiety and depressionCitibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1035021803|title=All the White SpacesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the famous Australis RandallEnglish country village where she grew up. For Jonathan, this adventure represents She's back now because of a chance request for a fresh starthelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the opportunity circumstances seem suspicious, to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without say the disapproval and constraints of his parentsleast. However, Jonathan isn't Arthur was the only one fleeing reason why Freya had not been back to the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guiltvillage: Arthur, mistrust and grief stalk the party andshe feels, when disaster strikes and let her down badly. Even though they are forced to overwinter on landwere in business together as antique hunters, a menacing presence waits she has not felt able to prey on their darknessbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. If Jonathan is to make it out of After the Arctic winter alivesplit, he will have to face his demons once she worked in a cafe, met and for all, or risk making married James (on the rebound from the barrenlove of her life, icy landscape his tombwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeAll Tomorrow's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him Futures: Fictions that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other ParentsDisrupt|author=Sarah StovellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Women's Science Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the new head shape of West Burntridge First School: if she didnthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you't live up to her retired predecessor re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there could well be have been more than a house price slump few decades of technology in that part of the townmy lifetime. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the schoolfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. There was one difficultyOf course, though - 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 were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for re talking about or the headlatest conspiracy theorist. Laura Spence I needed people I knew I could trust and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children who could bring deliver information in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationway I could understand.

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesSunny Singh|title=The Hunt for the Nightingale|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.|isbn=1398510890}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My HeartHotel Arcadia

|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been black and white and read in my houseviolently taken over by a terrorist group. And so was this one Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one waskilling everyone on site, and there isSam, black a wartime photographer and white and redAbhi, the hotel manager. Yes As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and I think itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's possible happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to say not one page lacks see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the influence of some striking visual ideasterrorists.|isbn=1913547183086154742X

|isbn=15291355671529153298|title=One Step Too FarThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Lisa GardnerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenA woman? I mean, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Neil and Joshthough. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offWomen have been disappearing. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimWell, who was experienced in survival techniquesthey've been murdered, would go for helpbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When help didnMiv's upset because she't come s overheard that her father wants to move the remaining three finally made their way back to townfamily 'Down South'. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of TimWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Every yearFor Miv, Tim's fatherthe move would mean leaving her best friend, MartinSharon, and the four friends have been back she'll do anything to continue prevent that. She's not worried about the search although they do now acknowledge dangers or that theyher Mum're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1398524085|title=Bitter FlowersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab Charlotte 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 worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is now returning to worknot. However Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the quiet job hebody of Greg's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and a mystery around a missing womanthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Varg finds himself The Salter children are not only investigating these, convinced but there's little else they can do but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night get on with their lives and was never foundwonder about what really happened. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1035906708|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, each with its own strength and weakenessNew York, in the hope they would complement each other December 1923 and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didnCallas't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding make it more manageable in the cost of war too high, a solution is proposedStates. Each of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to Nazi occupation by a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings mother who mercilessly exploited her and become the supreme ruler made no secret of Dunivaher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsChristopher Edge|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with Lucas and his father friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the blacksmithnickname of 's forgeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, hethey's almost re looking forward to lots of the age to become a full apprenticeexciting films, and help with many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new batch of dragonswords film format is certainly needed. Not that there very different, and they are any dragons, of course – swept up into an adventure they vanished centuries ago. Except..couldn't even imagine. Strange signals But as they lurch from within one film genre to the forge furnacenext, and a peculiar invite can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldcinema, and that Tom is rare in the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...their real lives?|isbn=18399400261839942738

|isbnauthor=1529346541Rachel Greenlaw|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Undersecretary for the school systemanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a representative from remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the NHSwrecks. Mira, Mr Oh from Barnardoslike her mother before her, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn is one of the seven who swim out to be Zawadi survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Narissa Cameronany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, a filmmaker. It follows on from they capture the success of Deborahisland's book leader and Mira''London Voices'': the meeting s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is an exploration secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the possibility watched streets of foreign islands to the idea behind heart of the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communities. Deborahsmuggler's uncertain about quite how successful she could territory, Mira must be as the problem seems determined to stop at nothing to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting save the trust future of her home and the people ones she speaks to and photographsholds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJames Sherwood Metts|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up Things have been a bit sticky for the US Army during the Vietnam WarEarthlings. HeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's not really re paid to do and other tasks that invested in the fight against Communism, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militarytook time to accomplish. If he's honest - which Clyde usually is, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and this onestarting to think of other, at leastnew ways to spend time, gets him out of the rut he's inalong came an awful pandemic. He's good in training Life was pretty much shut down and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed , along with himselfit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyMatthew Tree|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a friend for her in amongst drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all the other kids, failed miserably and who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeendless crises of self confidence. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-So Tim applied himself to-mouthhis studies, every man for cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workershigh but achievable ambitions. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1785633074A G Slatter|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=HumourFantasy|summary=Members '' There's a part of Parliament like us me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to believe that enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the country is run by politiciansworld, headed by lies Silverton; a town under the Prime minister - protection of the ''primus inter pares'' (thatBriar's for those , a family of you witches who are Eton protect the town and Oxbridge educated) but the reality wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is that the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie''prime'' movers are s cousin Audra becomes the special advisers - Briar Witch, the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmenttown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. We are in As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the privileged position of having access rare ability to communicate with the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisdead, putting her at the man who was behind the skilful control heart of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end a maelstrom of 2020chaos. You might not know Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the name now but he will certainly be the man Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to watchsurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B09MYXSRV41529900360|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareGhost Orchid|author=Cordellya SmithJonathan Kellerman

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that felt responsible and even fire could not burnafter Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Owl had excellent sight so His assertions that he could see the present ''there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' t need the futurehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Rabbit developed intelligence - butFinally, it was Robin, unfortunatelyDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. not She knew that the involvement was something that the ability to use it wellman she loved needed. He liked to trick other animalsThe next case did look simple, though. He was also jealous which was how he came to be Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a race with Turtleremote property in Bel Air. You might think thatHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not a fair contest but wait and seethe Italian. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Giovanna FletcherSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a 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 doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=Walking on SunshineA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeDCI Domenic Jejeune's wifeclose friend and former colleague, PiaDanny Maik, who he was has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with for seventeen yearsan old ally, has diedGuy Trueman. And whilst Maik was involved in a street brawl - he is dealing would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky a knife - and Zazahe killed a Ghurka. But Pia left them all some 'rules' Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to follow, knowing light that she was dying and suggested that they would need help he might have planned to carry on livingmurder the man. Whilst some of Now he could be facing the rules are around practicalities such death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as clearing out her wardrobe, any interference from another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=140593560X

|isbnauthor=1529393930Alexander McCall Smith|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=''Starting The Perfect Passion Company is a creative business has never been easier.'' ''If not nowdating agency in Edinburgh, when?'' I know that I'm not alone run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into providing a businessmore personal, tailored service. There's Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a lot of motivation trip to Canada to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are get away for a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftswhile. Selling would offset the costsKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun so jumps at the chance to do, couldn't it? But where come home to start? Edinburgh. What do I need And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to think about? Wellan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the first thing anyone Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who is considering turning a crafting hobby into quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business should do is , or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to read ''Making lend a Living''.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Freya Marske0811771741|title=A Marvellous LightInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a job in the Civil Service, much collection of knits from toys to his chagrinblankets. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that Some will be quick knits - others are of the streets 'long, cosy afternoons in front of London the fire' variety. The projects are threaded with magic. Desperate divided by the time they'll take to remove a curse that threatens complete - less than five hours, five to swallow himten hours, Robin follows Edwin ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the countrysideprojects are attractive, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations modern and the people shimmer with poweruseable. There they uncover a sinister plot I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles's me being picky. |isbn=1529080886

|isbnauthor=0241480442Dean Koontz|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienBad Weather Friend

|genre=CookeryParanormal|summary=Emotionally, I am Benny is having a veganterrifically bad day. MentallyHe loses his job, I am a veganhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. I read [[How to Love Animals in Oh, and someone has delivered a Humanreally weird, disturbing coffin-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was appalled by inside is the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Practically, I am not He is a vegannice person. It worked A really nice person. So fortunately for a while apart from Benny it turns out that the odd blip with regard delivery to cheese but then his house is a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to animal-based proteinhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It wasnSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't the taste - I know that I s wild adventure) can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsfigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=suppl_staflAdam Stower|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundMurray and Bun

|genre=ReferenceConfident Readers |summary=SoMurray is supposed to be a humble, you've finished writing your book tidy and you think the hard work friendly cat, one who is all done? You're convinced that all you need able to do now is get it published sleep and eat and the money will start rolling in? Wrong eat and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - sleep and you had a talent for delivering , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the written wordtwo. You knew your subject back to front. Now youBut he's a bad magician're going to have to get to grips with s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the book supply chaincatflap they both use can chuck them out, which even parts of not into the publishing industry believe to be wrong regular back garden, but it's too difficult to change into a world of frightening adventure and no one wants to be the first to trywhiffs. ThenThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, when you ''finally'' have where a copy of the book in your handstroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it be honest, but he's turned up and he'is'' going ll have to be down to you.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1398706906B0C47LV1PC|title=The LostFragility|author=Simon BeckettMosby Woods

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s young sonjoke? And if you could, Theois the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself would it land? The catch is that the answer for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had goneboth could well be. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayno.  ''There's no one else I can trustFragility''is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, he says.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1529431735|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageWinter Visitor|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleJames Henry|rating=54

|summary= I am not a fan of "It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Prologue"more surprising. Most books are He'd been exiled on the worse Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurrydecade. He The return has to hurry come about because he has children 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that he should not have, she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when he hurriesHopkins is abducted, when he bundles things into the back of stripped to his car underwear and tries sent to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a riskwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Will CarverAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Maeve Eli is a high functioning alcoholicbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, drinking continuously and alsoin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She too – for there is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using generation missing in the groups to find targets.family..targets for sexual encounters A few short years ago, targets to feed her desire to hear of peopleEli's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems parents were both lost to be searching for others who think as she doesthe titular race, and when she's unable a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to find like-minded people navigate the world in any the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the groups she decides eatery leads to set up her owna confession from gran, hoping Eli knows his only hope is to dare to encounter others who share similar obsessionsenter what he most hates, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=19131937560571382231

|isbn=1529418100178763681X|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget t really want to pick it up again - but I am celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a fan way of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation getting both men and women to read do what he wanted. Paul ''Brunosomehow's Challenge'got the impression that he' was hard d be at the school to resist and Iassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn'm rather glad t turn out that I didnway. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't even tryexpected was for someone to turn up dead. For those new to Unfortunately, he was the series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the background police consider that person to why Bruno is in St Denisbe the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFSarah Marsh|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her sonhearing. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Suddenly plunged into a pump attached to his stomachworld of silence, so everything about her over-protectiveness life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was understandableseen as something only savages do, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her Ellen is sent to get married and a school where she thought it would be a good idea for him is taught to find out what parenting was ''really'' likelip read, but physically restrained from signing. Her friendFrom here, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a posh hotel but then he dumped her system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and she couldn't get the money backideas, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missinga complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1803816759|title=Without a TraceThe Unravelling|author=Jane BettanyWill Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Life hadnIt't been easy s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through a divorce bit of adventure and right to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now it was raining hardruns everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. All she wanted was Finally, Joe gets to get back do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her new home and settle down for a quiet evening. It wasnJoe isn't going the only one trying to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found save Suki - Dylan, a dead man British superfan and tech nerd, is also on her bed with a knife in his chestthe case. SheWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki'd no idea who he was.s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=18387748231529421284|title=Her Majesty Laying Out the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemBones|author=S J BennettKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 2016 and was one of those flash downpours that the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting British weather often delivers in a strain on his waistbandheatwave. SwimmingIn a gully, he decides, is a human skeleton came to the way to go surface and he can use forensic testing proved the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came body to be there early one morning Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and discovered the body had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of Cynthia Harris at the side of the poolmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. There Geary was broken glass - a crystal tumblertownie, by so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the look suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at it - probably one the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonme) investigate.

|isbn=057136358X0571379559|title=April in SpainThe House of Broken Bricks|author=John BanvilleFiona Williams

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of himself in those termsfour people. He saw what he did as Tess Hembry''a matter s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of making things tidy''broken bricks. I couldnInsubstantial as it might look, it't resist s stood the thought that he was an extreme version passage of Marie Kondotime, storms and floods. He enjoyed Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his jobvegetables, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with complete the army ''where he got the chance delivery rounds - and to kill a lot of bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the little yellow fellows and had a fine old timerainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldnPeople don't understand why Terry didnbelieve that they't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldnre related, much less twins and there't drink champagne s an assumption when Max is out with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percyhis mother that she's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainhis nanny.

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1529425867|title=Speedy: Hurled Through Havoc|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can.  Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker Lost and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, he's struggled with a controlling father, run away to join the circus Never Found (not a metaphorA D I Wilkins Mystery), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took over.|isbn=B0965V3LLN}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of HeavenSimon Mason

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spaceNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime D I Ryan Wilkins, bound for the world son of Ryan and father of BloodrootRyan, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipis not. He's AI captainnot any of those things. However He's white, originated from a trailer park, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimebarely educated (reading's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission wonnot ''really''t be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin his thing) and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimewardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell They's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter re usually in tow, lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to see why the Ragtime has gone quieta police procedural written for laughs. Well, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosyou're not. What the five The two men are just different sides of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially same policing coin. Sometimes the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Rob KeeleyMosby Woods|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetablesThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily Nobody in the West is keen quite sure how to explain how good they mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for you and how nice to eatclimate action there. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her A feeling that carrots grow on treesnobody is in actual charge. InfuriatedImagine then, Lily checks there was a man with precognition. Imagine the teacher, strategic advantage in this asset; a man who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablescan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, like carrots, grow right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the groundhistory. Jordan saysImagine then, "I did try that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.get it back?|isbn= B09HHN541VB0C9SNG8R1