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|isbn=05713658840008517061|title=My Mess is Death in a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyLonely Place|author=Georgia PritchettStig Abell

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has always been anxious, even as a childsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She would worry There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort future of his life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few with his vet girlfriend, Livia and far between. On a visit to a therapisther daughter Diana, as an adult, when she was completely unable moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to speak about what was wrong move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her it was suggested that reservations about whether or not this is the future she should write it down wants for herself and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believepresent and putting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1786482126|title=The House on the EdgeJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FaithBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's family home is teetering on apartments - when they discovered the edge bones of a cliff, literallychild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope Was this a littleritual killing or murder? And as the house seems to be falling apart Inevitably, so is FaithDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's family. Her dad has disappeareddifficult as Ruth knows, and her mum is struggling to copebut Nelson doesn't, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why she is he obsessed pregnant with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find his child as a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight result of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will hold togetherbe obvious before long, or how long she can keep on keeping onnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=00082690410008551324|title=Risk of HarmThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lucie WhitehouseNeil Lancaster

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure It's unusual for anyone from the Met. She might have been reinstated but Hardie family to approach the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouthpolice. She was now working Neither side likes or has any respect for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeother. She But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parenthe's home into prepared to tell the police where the body of a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with missing person is buried and who was responsible for her brother Luke who has gone out death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his way sentence and to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childget an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's married even prepared to Natalie, now do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and has a young child but heanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's still got it in for Robinhappening.

|isbn=17863323880008405026|title=The First Day of SpringA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Nancy TuckerJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly It's sixteen years since nine-year- and ''The First Day of Spring'' was old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one such occasionsummer night. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent She was never found and the plot grips you and won't let goinvestigation ground to a halt. SoNow, what's the problem? Wellher mother, the problem is ChrissieHelena, the main characterand her father are dead in their bed. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldInitially, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - it looks like a two-year-old boy. Shestraightforward murder/suicide but there's completely cold something about what she's done with the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her main memory being that whilst she boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was killing going to be an open- suffocating and- her hands seized upshut case is now a complex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a clue that Chrissie isndisappearance: others (such as Derwent't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backs boss, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0571379877|title=The Disappearing ActKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Edward Jevons is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are truea working-class young man, award season is going to treat her wellobsessed with his upper-class friends, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionRobert and Stanza. She Robert's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partnera theatre director. And the places he He's going take him towards liesalso self-obsessed, demanding, deceit handsome and entitled and a pretty young thing uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the form of his new colove with Stanza since their university days -starand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a good time for Mia relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to escape, and pilot season stumble upon the two of them kissing in LA provides just the excusea dark passageway.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerJo Callaghan|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretLeave No Trace

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against When a man is found crucified on the backdrop top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the English Civil Warcase alongside her sidekick, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. As But when there is a second body found crucified a loyal servant of the Kingfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Head a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the Secret Servicecase in time, it is Robert's duty to uncover or will Kat find herself taken off the details of the plan case and follow the clues to uncover one , potentially, out of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.a career?|isbn=B095HY8SXQ139851120X

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1399613073|title=The Jasmine ThroneMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= On the night of her sacred burningOlivia, Princess Malini defies her brother Laura and refuses to step Anjali met on to the pyrefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is immediately sent a bonus when you aim to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waterscardiothoracic surgeon. But now the temple Laura is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruina perfectionist and a trauma doctor. One day, Malini witnesses Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a girl kill someone with magicGP. Instead of reporting her for such When we first meet them they're at a gruesome crime, Malini claims that drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the girl saved her from consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an attacker and begs for eerily similar event that will impact the girl to become her own personal maidservantthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0241636604|title=The Lies We TellTrading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CorryGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew If you were to bring up on an image of a council estate city banker in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed your mind, you're unlikely to have been a loving, stable familythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by A hoodie and jeans replaces the time he sort of halfpin-promised stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he'd be in bywas familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning There was no posh public school on his CV - but he's still going had been to be going to work the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he needs his sleephas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He wakesalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, thoughessentially, when Freddie does come in and overhears a card game which got him tell his mother that he's killed someonean internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1035021803|title=True Crime StoryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"been back to the English country village where she grew up. The story follows the disappearance She's back now because of Zoe Nolan a request for help from her university halls of residencebeloved aunt, Carole. Split into four parts Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, the reader is taken through the life dead and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sistercircumstances seem suspicious, other family, friends and professionals, such as to say the policeleast. The various accounts help Arthur was the reader get reason why Freya had not been back to know Zoethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or at least pursue the Zoe profession she presented to othersloved. However After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the twists and turns at rebound from the end love of each chapter leave you shockedher life, confused who was murdered) and unsure of what is true or fabricatedFreya and James have now divorced. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=No, No, No!All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=They say ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer shape of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouritethings to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'Nois what happens after you're eighteen. Well, NoI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, No!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' is based around re talking about or the simplest text imaginablelatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}''No{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, nokilling everyone on site, no! Okaythere is Sam, okay. Yesa wartime photographer and Abhi, you maythe hotel manager.'' That's it! But, like all As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the best picture bookshotel, this tiny snippet of text is he forms a veritable tardis - so much bigger bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the inside that it appears on phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the outsideterrorists.|isbn=1638820457086154742X

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1529153298|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her PhIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister.D (A woman? I mean, honestly. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. ) She went on a grant-supported trip's not what's worrying Miv's family, with a relatively specific objectivethough. Women have been disappearing. She wasn Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lasound quite so frightening. She wasn Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South't a mere tourist passing through. She went with When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they livedfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She also went For Miv, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in move would mean leaving her mindbest friend, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsSharon, and how she'll do anything to keep enough notes and files and photos to help prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of openMum's stopped talking -ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upanyone.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816691398524085|title=The MaidensHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alex MichaelidesNicci French

|summary=Mariana Charlotte Salter was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and decide how she should proceedher daughter, Etty. Everything are all worried but - or so she thought strangely - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeher husband, Alec, is not. She'd been brutally stabbed Shortly afterwards, Etty and MarianaGreg, find the body of Greg's niecefather, ZoeDuncan Ackerley, had telephoned her in distressthe river. Tara It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been her best friend murdered Charlie and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasnthen committed suicide when he couldn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught stand the first fast train from King's Crossguilt. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident little else they can do but get on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been with their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother lives and Mariana's sister, Elizawonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1035906708|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Danny is eleven years oldWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and what he really, really loves only moved to do is drawAthens when she was thirteen. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. DannyHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw it more manageable in secret and in peacethe States. But then one day his parents tell him they have 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 surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother mother who has come over from China to live with them, mercilessly exploited her and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk made no secret of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing preference for her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths projectelder sister, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..Jackie.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesChristopher Edge|title=RabbitsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, Lucas and his friends are all booked in for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavena movie marathon at their local cinema, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it place that has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game nickname of life then'The Black Hole'. Yes All big movie fans, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan they're looking forward to lots of the conspiracyexciting films, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the gamemany, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardssnacks! However, for as the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesmovie starts, and are still they very short. However quickly realise that something about this time it's new film format is very different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's ever been – morally and otherwiset even imagine. Unfortunately for K But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, in trying to sort can they figure out what the game on earth is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only going on? Will they ever get back to find out that the line between observing and learning about the gamecinema, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...to their real lives?|isbn=15290169321839942738

|author=C J CareyRachel Greenlaw|title=WidowlandCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend I can hear the state funeral song of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to sea. The call of the throne of Edward VIII with his wifedeep, Queen Wallisthe answering beat in my heart. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it' Rosevear, a remote and we are now a protectorate – wellpartially forgotten island, we share enough of survives on luring ships into the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''rocks and plundering the mainland''wrecks. But this is most certainly a different BritainMira, for Nazi-styled phrenologylike her mother before her, and ideas is one of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs the seven who swim out to survey the drudges, ruins – rescuing any survivors and beyond those, right on down any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the childlesswrecking, they capture the husbandless island's leader and the widowsMira's father. Female literacy Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, as charming as he is employed secretive and with the task of bowdlerising classical literature only coordinates to take all encouragement for female emancipation out guide her, she sets off in search of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards family secret that lies buried deep in the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintsea. That is With only nine days to unearth what might save her jobfather, at least, until as her journey takes her from the first emerging signs watched streets of female protest come foreign islands to lightthe heart of the smuggler's territory, with their potential Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to spoil Hitler's visitsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=152941198X0008664730

|author=Louise BeechJames Sherwood Metts|title=This Is How We Are HumanPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Veronica is Things have been a devoted single mother to her sonbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Sebastian - but she canoften replacing jobs they't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided re paid to do and other tasks that it's took time for him to have sexaccomplish. But Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an autistic 20 year-oldawful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, that's easier said than done. And along with it's starting to cause them both problems, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=19131937131736128426

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LMatthew Tree|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to give him be different from his full titlefather, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointendless crises of self confidence. He's simply Bosner So Tim applied himself to one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosstudies, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he was often working nights set himself high but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Hannah WhittenA G Slatter|title=For The Briar Book of the WolfDead

|summary=In Red'' There's familya part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the first daughter becomes queenall mine, and the second daughter becomes at last. I just want to enjoy it for a sacrificewhile. To Red's misfortune' Within a remote mountain pass, she is far away from the second daughter. Sent alone into world, lies Silverton; a town under the woods with nothing but protection of the cape on her backBriar's, Red knows what to expect: within a family of witches who protect the woods is a wolf, town and he is the one who will decide wider world from the fate of their kingdomDarklands. If Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained first non-witch to the woods will be releasedborn 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 fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so Briar Witch, the stories gotown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But when Red enters As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the woods, expecting nothing more than rare ability to be killed within communicate with the hourdead, she finds that putting her at the legends are liesheart of a maelstrom of chaos. The wolf Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is not a monster—he's a manunder threat.|isbn=03565163691803364548

|authorisbn=M G Leonard1529900360|title=TwitchThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and chickenseven after Alex recovered, and even has swallows nesting in Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his bedroom! help on difficult cases. His time spent watching assertions that there were only open-and helping birds is easy compared to that -shut cases which didn't need the help of his time in schoola psychologist only worked for a while. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runFinally, and itwas Robin, Delaware's possible partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back swimming pool of his hand! a remote property in Bel Air. Can Twitch solve He was the mystery, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and find it's not the missing millionsItalian. But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=1406389374

|isbn=18388538041529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Cursed GirlsSecret Life of a Vet|author=Caro RamsaySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Megan MelvickSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the pond, only to find strain that hebeing on-call put on his father'd hanged himselfs life. Twenty years later she's back home again When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this time was the occasion is no less sadjob for him. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterBefore long, Melissa, who is dying of anorexiahe was at Liverpool University. As she dies, Melissa whispers It hadn'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have t - as with so many students - been sorry - or his dream since he was it even a question? child. Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with MelissaIf anything, he's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem d wanted to be a curseprofessional footballer. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=02414001200861541774|title=The Girl Who DiedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbSteve Burrows

|summary=Una DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was not thriving involved in Reykjavik: it a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any explanation interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and since then shewouldn'd given up her medical studies t help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and retrained operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a teachermore personal, tailored service. She was thirty years old Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and money was tight. Her friendlook after the business, Sara, showed her an advert as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulawhile. There were only ten people in the village but Katie is coming out of a teacher was required for two children: break up with a salary would be paid bad boyfriend, and accommodation providedso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Una was 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 only applicant Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and the job meant that she could let there's always her flat in Reykjavik very helpful (andrather handsome) neighbour, hopefullyWilliam, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18469757190811771741|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Denzil MeyrickMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to awkward placesblankets. But thatSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's Londonlong, isncosy afternoons in front of the fire't it? variety. WhatThe projects are divided by the time they's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, DCI Jim Daley ten to twenty hours and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awaymore than twenty hours. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of All the plane were dead before take offprojects are attractive, modern and useable. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that possible isn't available to the paying publics me being picky. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|author=Richard BrookDean Koontz|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary= I am Benny is having a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and sometimes books choose ushis house gets trashed. In my caseOh, this is one of the latter. Not so very long agoand someone has delivered a really weird, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed itdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, found some of and it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the way thing that it does nowhas trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it He is a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's unice person.s.p A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlya new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, so there who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a predisposition towards expecting good person. Spike is going to like the booktake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, even if it doesnhe, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't always turn s wild adventure) can figure out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowwho exactly they are.|isbn=18004616821662500491

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNAdam Stower|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=It was Murray is supposed to be Brian's last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school a humble, tidy and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else. The obvious person was Garyfriendly cat, one who'd always been the fun element of the camps is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as well, whatever takes his fancy next of the leader and two. But he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasns a bad magician't really an organisers cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, an administrator if you like. He was and the entertainercatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and did the organisingwhiffs. He handed the camp over - and then took This time round it back. And Gary determined drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to have his revenge. This should have been be honest, but he's turned up and he'his'' camp.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=194812467XB0C47LV1PC|title=The Farm ShopFragility|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for Can you make a walk. Kirelle ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam the question should you make it? Or is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hillquestion if you did, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this would it land? The catch is a farm shop with a difference: all that the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsanswer for both could well be... There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingno.

|isbn=00084049251529431735|title=The Killing KindWinter Visitor|author=Jane CaseyJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencemore surprising. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was exiled on the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him Costa del Sol as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away wanted drug smuggler for a long time: decade. The return has come about because he was 's had a very dangerous man.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking letter from his ex-wife, saying that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen ill and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. Hehasn's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down t long to him growing up and starting to become independentlive. Seb's only twelve and LeighIt's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssento feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missingwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She too has vanished without trace.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1473685745Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang Eli is a busy lad – Myra is loudby day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about in the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying evening a helper at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's daydessert cafe his gran owns and runs. And so Eli lives with his lovely gran, every year their families get together to celebrate too – for there is a generation missing in the two's birthday/deathdayfamily. But when Rohan A few short years ago, Eli's little sister Shilpa is taken by parents were both lost to the fairy queentitular race, they must journey a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the Otherland, world in the company of a magical realm full of fairiesbeast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, vampiresEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be with the sole aim the worst night prize of their livesmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17880004630571382231

|isbn=walker14178763681X|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin

|summary=It was when 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 a way of getting both men and women to do what he saw Elisabeth Dayneswanted. Paul ''somehow'' work in got the prehistory museum impression that he'd be at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bossschool to assist Paul, chief of detectives Jalipeauwho had a broken arm, known as Jbut it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems -J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsare all his own. The body of a young male was found in the woods but one thing he hadn't expected was never identified and his killer never brought for someone to justiceturn up dead. What if an artist could recreate Unfortunately, he was the face from person who discovered the skull body and everyone knows that the resulting publicity police consider that person to be used to identify 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 justiceprime suspect.