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|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence0008517061|title=NeedleDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=BraveFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Charlene There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'heroineluxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this piece is extremely hard for some people to likea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, characters and readers bothDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Kicked out of multiple homes and schoolsIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she's fostering is pregnant with his child as a pleasant yoga tutorresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, Annie, and not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has taken up residence any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her son Blake's old room while prison and he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need prepared to tell the police where the body of a comfort blanketmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, you might perhaps thinkhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the creation of one such item police doing what he wants. And what he wants is part to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of the plot herehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with no morehim is kept well away from what's happening. We see Charlene prove }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her belligerence with bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a store detectivehalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and then force people to give her two days off schoolfather are dead in their bed. Initially, when she shouts someone down it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as expletively ignorantDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. And then}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. well He's also self-obsessed, what exactly happens is not for me to saydemanding, only handsome and entitled and uses Edward to remark run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can behe feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway..|isbn=1800901011

|isbnauthor=1405940980Jo Callaghan|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseLeave No Trace

|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson

|summary=WeIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole're s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the 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 pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in Oldcastle 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Malcolm Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in troublemy lifetime. HeI'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, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an abandoned house unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, heforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's being threatened 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 see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by two young peoplethe terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. One When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is Allegra (wea frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll soon learn do anything to prevent that she. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's Allegra Deanfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -Edwards) strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and HugoGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It seems was an easy assumption for the police to make that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplethink of Maria Callas as Greek, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in it so that December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingthirteen. It wonHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't be long before to make it more manageable in the police realise States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that Malcolm she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was one raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Jennifer SaintChristopher Edge|title=ElektraBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells There's a part of 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 enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the story Briar's, a family of three women witches who live in protect the heavily male-dominated town and the wider world of Ancient Greecefrom the Darklands. CassandraThough she has always wished for magic, ClytemnestraEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and Elektra are all bit players in administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the story of Briar Witch, the Trojan Wartown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the silent women have dead, putting her at the most compelling stories heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the most extreme furiesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14722739151803364548

|isbn=15291498001529900360|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. The tiny hummingbird flew to She knew that the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into involvement was something that the fireman she loved needed. The animals laughed: what good was that doingnext case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. ''I'm doing He was the best I canheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'', said s not the hummingbirdItalian. And that, really, is But which of them was the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.primary target?

|isbn=17765743381529395224|title=LeilongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion 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 Too Long!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=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donDCI Domenic Jejeune't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s close friend and slide down his neck. It's perfectformer colleague, Danny Maik, isn't it? What could be has taken a more fun way of going short holiday in Singapore to school? There is a problemmeet up with an old ally, thoughGuy Trueman. Leilong isn't happy Maik was involved in the city: a street brawl - he's always having to be careful about where would later maintain that he puts his feet was facing a man armed with a knife - and – because he's longer than killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a tennis court – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he often causes damage without intending might have planned to and traffic regularly gets snarled upmurder the man. The school decides that Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the bus anymorehelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=303091657XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Disaster 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 operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understandbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, 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 lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=Boards must act Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the best interests of their stakeholders time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and ensure that they more than twenty hours. All the projects are wellattractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-managed worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and financially securehis house gets trashed. This might seem obvious but Oh, and someone has delivered a series of disasters really weird, disturbing coffin- some of which have resulted in death sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the collapse of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingnice person. Where were they? A really nice person. Occasionally So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the boards were unaware delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of what was happening or 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 preferred are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to turn be a blind eyehumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitywell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. The 21st century But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniathe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the South Sea Bubble regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and even tulip maniawhiffs. Over three centuries we seem This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have learned very little.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1529337968B0C47LV1PC|title=In Place of FearFragility|author=Catriona McPhersonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's July 1948 and Helen Crowther ' joke? And if you could, is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on question should you make it? Or is the day question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the NHS is born. She'll be working answer for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will both could well be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of the job will be Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to persuade people that emerge from the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of restrictions imposed during the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529431735|title=GalaxyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, who is an elite pilot with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Space Academy, barely makes it through Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a battle alivedecade. His co The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma wife, saying that lasted years, he remembers little she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is in no physical shape abducted, stripped to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat underwear and he must. Returned by his superiors sent to a watery grave in the space station, he finds himself amid boot of a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against stolen Ford Sierra. Is it, but also a warning from its own sins against itself. |isbn=B09X3NZ76Wa Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Lissa EvansAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=WishedThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with in the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for evening a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to ithelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. For one thingEli lives with his lovely gran, she thinks Wi-Fi too – for there is a special brand of biscuitgeneration missing in the family. They donA few short years ago, Eli't particularly take s parents were both lost to Willard either, the new kid next doortitular race, who seems a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to ebulliently take over everything and everywherenavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. But things soon change This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage a bad incident at the eatery leads to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise thatconfession from gran, having used up three of themEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, these should really be used for with the sole aim the wishes prize of someone two generations older than them?magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=178845202X0571382231

|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards178763681X|title=The Great Fox IllusionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a contest with residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a differenceway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. No singing, no dancing Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workhad a broken arm, and who can attempt to win but it didn't turn out that way. The Great Fox's magical legacy teaching - and the secrets to problems - are all of his tricks! Flick is determined to win, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested in just '' The onething he hadn'' trickt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the trick body and everyone knows that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find the police consider that trick then she will person to be able to bring her missing father homethe prime suspect.|isbn=1529501946