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|isbn=02414001200008517061|title=The Girl Who DiedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbStig Abell

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a teacher. She was thirty years old lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her an advert for a job in Skalar on reservations about whether or not this is the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required future she wants for two children: a salary would be paid herself and accommodation provided. her daughter? Una was For the only applicant moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over future on the winter which her contract coveredback burner.

|isbn=18469757191786482126|title=For Any Other Truth The Janus Stone (DCI Jim DaleyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Denzil MeyrickElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to awkward placeshold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But that's London, isn't itWas this a ritual killing or murder? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayHarry Nelson. It soon becomes evident though 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that both occupants she is pregnant with his child as a result of the plane were dead before take offone night they spent together some three months ago. How could that Her condition will be? The sort obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publicsickness. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Richard Brook0008551324|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose usIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. In my case, this Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is one struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of the lattera missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it This person, found some of it interestinghe promises, but is someone big and it would not have 'hit home' in will be worth the way that it does nowpolice doing what he wants. I believe it came And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to me not just because I was likely serve the remainder of his sentence and to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's uget an early parole date.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly Not much to ask, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't always turn out think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that wayHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nows happening.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0008405026|title=Autumn CampA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Barry FowlerJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was to be Brian's last campsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he She was leaving school never found and the time had come investigation ground to hand the reins to someone elsea halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. The obvious person was GaryInitially, whoit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd always been s something about the fun element positioning of the camps and Brian had said bodies that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and he'd just be there to observeher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The problem with this What looked as though it was that Gary wasn't really going to be an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight open-and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingshut case is now a complex double murder. He handed Kerrigan is convinced that the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'his'' camps boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=194812467X0571379877|title=The Farm ShopKellerby Code|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and her best friend Sam the cat decide uses Edward to go run errands for a walkhim. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Edward has been in her bright yellow wellies love with Stanza since their university days - and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsideRobert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a farm shop! But this relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsdark passageway. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buy?

|isbnauthor=0008404925Jo Callaghan|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something When a man is found crucified on the top of a surprise. After allhill in Nuneaton, it was DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her cross-examination of sidekick, the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceAI detective Lock. HeIt'd s their first live case together, having previously been accused very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of stalking the woman but it didn't take long unwanted attention to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundtheir AI Future Policing project. Soon Ingrid never seemed to Will they be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced able to remember that solve the police officer at his trial had told her that this was case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was case and, potentially, out of a very dangerous man.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=00083955941399613073|title=Both of YouMoral Injuries|author=Adele ParksChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=You could be forgiven Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresa quarter of a century. ThenOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, one Monday, she went which is a bonus when you aim to work be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and never came homea trauma doctor. Mark, Oli Anjali is the free spirit of the group and Seb are shatteredshe becomes a GP. Well, Mark When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Seb are but Oliit's sixteen and at going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookthree friends. HeThis time, it's been their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a bit off city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with Leigh for a while violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but she put it down he had been to him growing up the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and starting he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to become independentbe stupid. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him hardan internship with Citibank. Then Daan JanssenEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracetrader.

|isbn=14736857451035021803|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Katie MarshC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonIt's son, Jake, off his biketwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He wasnShe't hurt but Jake has historys back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. He has HLHS - thatFreya's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not former mentor and Carole''au fait'' with your medical acronymss close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. When he Arthur was bornthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldshe feels, let her down badly. SoEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, Simon she has every right not felt able to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Louie StowellAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=OtherlandAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the tiniest shape of thingsto come. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. And so Well, every year their families get together 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 celebrate me but I'm left with the twofeeling that it's birthday/deathdayall getting away from me. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa Some of it is taken by - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the fairy queen, they must journey to possibilities and the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, probabilities and Gods. Itend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's going to be re talking about or the worst night of their liveslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1788000463

|isbnauthor=walker14Sunny Singh|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies an unnamed city that chief of police Bruno Courreges had has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the idea which he thought might help his bossterrorists who are rampaging through, chief of detectives Jalipeaukilling everyone on site, known as J-Jthere is Sam, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearswartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. The body of a young male was found As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the woods but hotel, he was never identified forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and his killer never brought keeps on venturing out of her room to justicetry to capture what's happened through her photography. What if an artist could recreate Although they only ever talk over the face from the skull phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and the resulting publicity they both wait to see if they will be used to identify rescued before they are discovered by the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1529153298|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 5|genre= BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric(A woman? I mean, immediately recognisable upper middle class English honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Her father is a Cambridge don Well, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauthey've been murdered, his lifebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's workoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Her mother When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a concert pianist who practises for hours every dayfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Neither parent is hugely interested in For Miv, the practicalities of lifemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. There is love in She's not worried about the house but also darker undercurrents dangers or that a child does not fully understand but knows is thereher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1800460384

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1398524085|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Having done the impossible Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, from which the Departed communicate with the MergeAlec, Archie now has ''grop'' to think aboutis not. But before that Shortly afterwards, soirees. Soirees! ArchieEtty and Greg, much to Inezfind the body of Greg's amusementfather, doesnDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't even know what one of those isstand the guilt. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriestheir lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1035906708|title= Shards of EarthDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eighty years agoWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Earth but she was destroyedborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredNew York, constantly fleeing as world after world falls in December 1923 and only moved to the architect's reshaping. Then, just Athens when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanishedshe was thirteen. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered 'Callas' to try and communicate with make it more manageable in the Architects, does not want to be rememberedStates. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust When she was back into in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the spotlight. As he Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human made no secret police and rich slaversof her preference for her elder sister, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1848458428Christopher Edge|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to Lucas and his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was friends are all booked in the habit of going out for a run late movie marathon at nighttheir local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnAll big movie fans, they't have re looking forward to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a manlots of exciting films, and many, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. many snacks! The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedHowever, seemingly without a traceas the movie starts, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days laterthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed But as they lurch from one film genre to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughterWill they ever get back to the cinema, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Nicolas BouvierRachel Greenlaw|title=The Japanese ChroniclesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=TravelTeens|summary= It never does to start a review ''I can hear the song of a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidablesea. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would The call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as deep, the art of writinganswering beat in my heart. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much  Rosevear, a history of Japanremote and partially forgotten island, a mythology-primer for survives on luring ships into the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living rocks and travelling in plundering the countrywrecks. |isbn=1906011044}}{{Frontpage|author=Genevieve Gornichec|title=The Witch's Heart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Norse myths seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that centres around a witch named Angrbodalies within. She hides in But when the Council Watch lays a forest at the edge of trap to end the nine worldswrecking, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at they capture the stake three times because of Odinisland's leader and Mira's wrathfather. Her attempts Desperate to live in peacesave him from death, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her literal heart—the one , she sets off in search of a family secret that was cut from her chest before she was tied to lies buried deep in the stake—and refuses sea. With only nine days to leave unearth what might save her father, as her alone. After an initial period journey takes her from the watched streets of mistrust, Angrboda begins foreign islands to fall for Lokithe heart of the smuggler's charmsterritory, and Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the two start an unusual family made future of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, her home and another son that's a snakethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890970610008664730

|isbnauthor=1788549759James Sherwood Metts|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out Things have been a bit sticky for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsEarthlings. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyAI and automation have been proceeding apace, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (often replacing jobs they're paid to do and William's) on a better footingother tasks that took time to accomplish. She was going Just as they were beginning to meet her well-get used to-do fiancéall this technological change and starting to think of other, hoping new ways to persuade him to come spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in along with it, all the bombed-out home where he had taken hermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1529407249Matthew Tree|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months drunk and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple who had endless crises of other officersself confidence. Danny took one lookSo Tim applied himself to his studies, turned, walked to the open window cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and jumped to his death from the fourth floorset himself high but achievable ambitions. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1523092734A G Slatter|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''She brings There's a hug-kick-thunderclap part of me that every woman needs in her lifewants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Again and again and againThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''To claim space is to live s, a family of witches who protect the life of choosing unapologetically town and bravelythe wider world from the Darklands. It Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to live 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's cousin Audra becomes the life youBriar Witch, the town've always wanteds leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her.'' Sometimes As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the reviewing gods are generous: dead, putting her at the heart of a time when violence against women is much in maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the newsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn''A Woment been Lt Milo Sturgis's Guide fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskask for his help on difficult cases. Now His assertions that there were only open- to be clear and- this book is not shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's something far more effectivepartner, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''who nudged Milo into asking for help again. I've always thought She knew that the involvement was something that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own spacethe man she loved needed. If all women The next case did thislook simple, those few men who are violent though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to women would realise that we are not just an easy target Italian shoe empire and she is married to be used to prove that they are big menan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529395224|title=Archibald Lox and Letting the Cat Out of the Forgotten CryptBag: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Secret Life of 3a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The second trilogy Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in Shanhis footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in life. When he was seventeen he took the world opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Bornjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's not t - as with so many students - been easy, explaining to his foster parents where dream since he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestwas a child.... well If anything, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benhe's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbn=00084445010861541774|title=The Answer to EverythingA Nye of Pheasants|author=Luke KennardSteve Burrows

|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had The Perfect Passion Company is a lovely husbanddating agency in Edinburgh, Stevenrun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, who was a speech therapisttailored service. We'll pass over Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the fact that they rarely speak business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to each other and don't even sleep in the same bedCanada to get away for a while. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing Katie is coming out of a bed break up with one of her children as it's a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the only way chance to get him come home to sleep during the nightEdinburgh. Arthur And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Matty are gorgeous the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but they are a handful and Emily has a job with some new characters who quickly begin to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekcharm. They've not long moved into Katie has no experience in running a new home business, or in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that match-making, but Ness has been gentrified full confidence in her abilities, and itthere's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars always her very helpful (and rather than owning their own.handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=02419851370811771741|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Cara HunterMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=DI Adam FawleyMelissa Leapman's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsblankets. There had been an accusation Some will be quick knits - others are of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the room before theyfire'd even got the details from the victim? variety. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' projects are divided by the time they'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just ll take to complicate matters furthercomplete - less than five hours, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MPfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligencemore than twenty hours. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by All the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddprojects are attractive, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes modern and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersuseable. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'verybut that'' publics me being picky.

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerDean Koontz|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyParanormal|summary=Alzheimer's Benny is having a disease that slowly wears away your identity terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and sense of selfhis house gets trashed. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease Oh, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like someone has delivered a statue over time affected really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the elements. It seems as if nature wants thing that final victory over you and your dignityhas trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. This He is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablea nice person. A really nice person. Daniel Gibbs So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a neurologist new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was diagnosed with Alzheimers has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brainwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=11088389361662500491

|isbnauthor=1635862353Adam Stower|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryMurray and Bun

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers |summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedtwo. Then she realised that she couldnBut he't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create s a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a few people her first pair hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a pairworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. A new career This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was born., to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1787332098B0C47LV1PC|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldFragility|author=Henry ManceMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. ' joke? And we assign them places in society: cows go on platesif you could, dogs on sofasis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on would it land? The catch is that the next David Attenborough seriesanswer for both could well be.... no.''

I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and 'Fragility'' is set as the company city of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheesePortland, eggsOregon, chicken and fish and I needed cautiously begins to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making emerge from the restrictions imposed during the decision would not be comfortable.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529431735|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, called there by Jancis Appleby to see which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsmore surprising. There had He'd been an accusation of sexual assault by exiled on the Costa del Sol as a professor on wanted drug smuggler for a studentdecade. When Fawley arrived The return has come about because he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details s had a letter from the victim? The problem was his ex-wife, saying that Caleb Morgan she's ill and hasn'was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishert long to live. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt's mother hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Petra Newsonabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the local MP, and Professor Fisher is boot of a big name is Artificial Intelligencestolen Ford Sierra. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Is it a warning from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Spanish gang or a problem closer to be ''very'' public.home?

|isbnauthor=0753558378Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''The marginal return of working harder wasEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in factthe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnistoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. ItA few short years ago, Eli's no exaggeration parents were both lost to say that he devoted his life the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for of a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little valuemagical beast. He This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a bargain with God; if he survivedconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There ismost hates, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.''|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1471181405178763681X|title=NighthawkingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you He didn'd like t really want to visit) are an oasis but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of calm in getting both men and women to do whathe wanted. Paul ''somehow''s otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when got the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of impression that he'd be at the beds but school to assist Paul, who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsa broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The police need to establish who stabbed her teaching - and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers problems - are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniall his own. TheyThe one thing he hadn're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leavet expected was for someone to turn up dead. Mina thinks Unfortunately, he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesperson to be the prime suspect.