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|isbn=15291259600008517061|title=Unnatural HistoryDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jonathan KellermanStig Abell

|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. WellFormer Metropolitan Police detective, it was AdonisJake Johnson, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as has settled into his PA found him dead in his bedrustic life at Little Sky. Three shots were placed neatly through There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his heart. The PAvet girlfriend, Mel GornickLivia and her daughter Diana, is distraught as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and it falls relaxing life to psychologist Alex Delaware move in with Livia or does Livia move to calm Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries 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 establish whathold seventy-five 's happenedluxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Donny had just finished Was this a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt'd taken eight homeless people off s difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the streets and asked them what one night they'd really like to bespent together some three months ago. They were then dressed up as their fantasyHer condition will be obvious before long, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson0008551324|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JaydenIt's nose unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is forever struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a bookmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes promises, is someone big and unicorns of it will be worth the world, for examplepolice doing what he wants. Aisha And what he wants is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of anything that might be out therehis sentence and to get an early parole date. The problemNot much to ask, as their mothers see is it, is that they are never ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'out theret think so and she' themselves, exploring s even prepared to do the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a scienceother thing that Hardie demanded -minded, educational purpose, make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with a past involving Jaydenhim is kept well away from what's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existedhappening. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the one Aisha thinks sheFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's seen on sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a bit of local footagehalt. The crew of the boatNow, her mother, including a living gargoyleHelena, and her father are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join dead intheir bed. Dare they side with LeilaInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the woman on board, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her relative who lives boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a figure complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a paintingRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=19138396560571379877|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentThe Kellerby Code|author=Lainey DeeJonny Sweet

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his grandmotherupper-class friends, not least because she made the best beetle juiceRobert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He packed two pairs of dungarees 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and his favourite hat entitled and then gathered together his button collection uses Edward to show his grandmotherrun errands for him. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted 's drunkenly confided how he feels to make new friendsRobert. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because a relationship had begun between them but he looked different's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been 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 unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17873010361399613073|title=What July KnewMoral Injuries|author=Emily KochChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years oldday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a careful, meticulous childcardiothoracic surgeon. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who Laura is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, a perfectionist and any hint that the conversation a trauma doctor. Anjali is heading that way will lead to the necessity free spirit of the group and she becomes a LessonGP. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and heit's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblegoing to end in tragedy. JulyWe don's teacher is concerned and brings up t know who suffered the possibility of abuse with tragedy or the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the schoolthree friends. This time, has he not? The playground wouldnit't have been resurfaced but for hims their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe0241636604|title=Clara and OliviaThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=The year is 1933. The place? SadlerIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's Wellsre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Ballerinas Clara A hoodie and Olivia are sistersjeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, twins where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no less. Identical posh public school on the outside his CV - but not, we learn, on he had been to the insideLondon School of Economics. And not on stage, either. Because there's Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a lot that builds a dancerfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Some things He also realised that can most rich people expect poor people to be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroomstupid. A stage presence It was his ability at what was, a charmessentially, a ''joie de vivre''card game which got him an internship with Citibank. The difference between a hard-worker Eventually, and this turned into permanent employment as a startrader.|isbn=0861544080

|isbn=00084544931035021803|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Stacy WillinghamC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - well, apart from s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the odd occasion when English country village where she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentgrew up. ItShe's back now because of a year since request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, MasonCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing dead and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping incircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. In that year she's done everything she could Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to raise awareness about the casevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She does interviews and when we meet herEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she's just been has not felt able to TrueCrimeCon where be near the man or pursue the profession she gave a keynote presentationloved. On After the plane backsplit, she's approached by worked in a podcastercafe, Waylon Spencermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who points out that she could do a podcast was murdered) and Freya and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Fritz All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and KurtStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=We start with ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the pair shape of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when come.'' I've heard it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbourssaid that 'technology' is what happens after you' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchre eighteen. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willWell, and instead I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them technology in with open armsmy lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'Kristallnachts advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did s all the roundgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -ups of Jewsquite frightening. These in their turn leave Of course, I could research the younger Kurt at home with his mother possibilities and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the stone quarry therelatest conspiracy theorist. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could come about…|isbn=024156574Xunderstand.

|isbnauthor=1529421241Sunny Singh|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=DI Matt Lockyer 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, killing everyone on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually site, there is Sam, a cold case unit wartime photographer and there are just two of them doing Abhi, the jobhotel manager. Lockyer's not unduly worriedAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, though although 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 not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterhappened through her photography. It was a bit of a shock when he got Although they only ever talk over the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen their friendship grows as Abhi tries to see him help her keep safe and they both wait to tell him that see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1529153298|title=Just LookingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Matthew TreeJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It was the summer of 2035 's 1979 and on a cruise ship in MarseillesMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! honestly...) HeShe's watching the tornado - theynot what're more common in Europe these days - thats worrying Miv's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierrefamily, a French journalist in his thirtiesthough. Women have been disappearing. He writes for a relatively new paperWell, they've been murdered, the right-wing but to have 'disappeared'La Tribune Gauloisedoesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv' and hes upset because she's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as overheard that her father wants to move the difference between family 'FranceDown South' and . When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the Frenchmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. His partner, Helen, whoShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's English and Jewish, keeps him in check stopped talking - to some extentanyone.

|isbn=057137493X1398524085|title=The Other HalfHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Charlotte VassellNicci French

|summary=''The room Charlotte Salter was full of the sort of people expected at her husband''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth s fiftieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townbut never turned up. Think Bollinger Her children, sons Niall, Paul and cocaineOllie and her daughter, Etty. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biare all worried but - strangely -racial. His surname her husband, Alec, is pronounced as you see itnot. The two encounter each other when CaiusShortly afterwards, out for a runEtty and Greg, stumbles across find the body of Clemmie OGreg'Haras father, Duncan Ackerley, Rupert's girlfriendin the river. Rupert thought that she It was being deliberately late an easy assumption for his partythe police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. She was dead under a bushThe 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.

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1035906708|title=White RiotDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger We tend to think of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It takes a truly talented writer Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be able 'Callas' to capture make it more manageable in the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyStates. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much of what is, and has been, written in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven Nazi occupation by time to be frothy a mother who mercilessly exploited her and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly made no secret of her preference for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)her elder sister, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewJackie.|isbn= 1529423376

|author=Heather FawcettChristopher Edge|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie loreLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, and she a place that has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia nickname of faeries'The Black Hole'. Whilst she is brilliant at research All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and speaking to faeriesmany, she is not so good with people. many snacks! So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of HrafvsnikHowever, having somehow offended as the village matriarchmovie starts, she they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is not sure what she has donevery different, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's frustrationt even imagine. But why is he here? What does he want? And as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what exactly on earth is going on with ? Will they ever get back to the faerie folk around Hravsnikcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=03565191201839942738

|isbnauthor=1848458436Rachel Greenlaw|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The whole thing has spiralled out call of controlthe deep, turning into someone I'm notthe answering beat in my heart.''

''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian Rosevear, a remote and Lily Scottpartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Nina and Jake Hayesplundering the wrecks. The connection between Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the two is that Lily and Nina teach in seven who swim out to survey the same school: Nina teaches English ruins – rescuing any survivors and Lily covers high school algebraany treasure that lies within. The couples have mixed as But when the Council Watch lays a foursome but ittrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's not leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a regular thing. Christian bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is a market research analyst secretive and Jake is with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a neurosurgeon: they don't have much family secret that lies buried deep in common except their wivesthe sea. Lily hasn't said anything yetWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, but sheas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's pregnant. She has a lengthy history territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of miscarriages so her home and the ones she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publicholds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1914585402James Sherwood Metts|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossPlanet Storyland

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] Things have been a couple of years back bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and affecting it wasother tasks that took time to accomplish. It was a grippingJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, emotionally wounding readnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and rereading my review of , along with it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise , all the many daily social interactions on itwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=178563335XMatthew Tree|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicarTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, sitting in on a PCC meeting drunk and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerwho had endless crises of self confidence. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling So Tim applied himself to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gailhis studies, but then she's been doing the job for more cultivated his abilities rather than thirty years. Rachel his daydreams and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy set himself high but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiA G Slatter|title=The Daughters Briar Book of Izdiharthe Dead|rating=45

|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters There's a part of Izdiharme 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.'' explores  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the lives of two women who could not be more differentworld, yet find themselves fighting for lies Silverton; a town under the rights protection of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper classBriar's, wishes to attend a family of witches who protect the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities town and then join the militarywider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, but instead she Ellie Briar is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure first non-witch to provide be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her family training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and maintain their reputationpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womentown's rightsleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Giorgina also happens As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be in love communicate with Nico. What follows is the dead, putting her at the heart of a story maelstrom of an unjust societychaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, filled with hypocrisy Ellie must decide who to trust and crueltydetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesis under threat.|isbn=03565204711803364548

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1529900360|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]], Alice Eclair It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had to prove herself as a spy been badly injured but he felt responsible and as a master at all things French and fancy and fondanteven after Alex recovered, as the only way Sturgis was reluctant to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer ask for his help on the French railwaysdifficult cases. Here, we start on a bateauHis assertions that there were only open-mouche in Paris, and even though the espionage isn-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootwhile. And there will never be more feet than at the WorldFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's Fairpartner, reviving who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the huge expo involvement was something that gave the city man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Eiffel Tower heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time showing all her interwar glories off she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the worldItalian. Once again Alice will have But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting 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 present follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the front to strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the world opportunity of being doing work experience with a family friend who was a humble yet world-class cake decoratorvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, while seeking out clueshe was at Liverpool University. At stake? It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot If anything, he'd wanted to be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris0861541774|title=Beautiful PlaceA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= PadmaDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, a young Sri LankanDanny Maik, has returned taken a short holiday in Singapore to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home countrymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. This is Maik was involved in a place she spent her formative yearsstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. It is not Initially, he faced a place she was born into, charge of manslaughter but the one she thinks of as home. How she evidence came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, and the machinations light that suggested that he might have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide planned to murder the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novelman. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Padma's present fails Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to escape her past help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens wouldn't help Danny at the Villaall.|isbn=1784631930

|author=Nigel BainesAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to perform magic tricksall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. His father was a magician, Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and named Cooper look after the great Tommy Cooperbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenlyKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who so jumps at the chance to be, or how come home to beEdinburgh. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking 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 himcharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, he ''really'' doesn't know whator in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's going on anymore!always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=14449602611846976596

|isbn=15420372390811771741|title=Death in HeelsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Kitty MurphyMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinMelissa Leapman's drag scene, ''Death in HeelsInstaKnits for Baby'' tells the story gives us a collection of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about knits from toys to debut as drag queen Mae Bblankets. What is meant to Some will be a night quick knits - others are of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe 'long, Eve, takes to cosy afternoons in front of the stage to mock Mae Bfire' variety. As if The projects are divided by the night could not get any worsetime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutterten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet All the drag communityprojects are attractive, modern and the Guards, accept it as an accidentuseable. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperthat's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1800465270Dean Koontz|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad DelacroixBad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St PetersburgBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He's a pallbearer for loses his elder brotherjob, Timurhe loses his fiancee, whose death was drug-relatedand his house gets trashed. Valeri Oh, and Timur's fathersomeone has delivered a really weird, Ketodisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, is also a pallbearer and heit's disgusted by what possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his son had becomehouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within house is a matter of monthsnew friend, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskayabad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a journalistgood person. She's determined Spike is going to expose any take care of Benny, and all corruption - and shewill certainly take care of Benny's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To herenemies, if he's , Benny, and Harper (a good source. For him, itwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possiblewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1399702289Adam Stower|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=After Murray is supposed to be a harsh winterhumble, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines tidy and friendly cat, one who is enjoying the arrival of spring. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Sûreté du Québectwo. Gamache had offered help to But he's a young woman after the murder of her mother: hebad magician'd s cat, so his favourite bun has been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guyturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, it had always been and the other way around. Now catflap they're both in use can chuck them out, not into the village regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and neither can fathom what's happeningwhiffs. Armand will soon find that theyThis 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're not just in Three Pines but in his home s turned up and in his life.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B0BHR8KWSKB0C47LV1PC|title=DukkhaFragility|author=Martin HydeMosby Woods

|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained in Can you make a basement. He rails against his captor and the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?Yo birthing person''joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

But of course, he knows why. Sam ''Fragility'' is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging set as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning to join the community in his old neighbourhoodcity of Portland, Oregon, he knew his past would be hard cautiously begins to escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=B09XWSXSKY1529431735|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockThe Winter Visitor|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiJames Henry

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never FreddyIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, please) couldnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't sleepreturn all the more surprising. A tune, rather like He'd been exiled on the ticking of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a clock was playing over and over in his minddecade. It happened every time The return has come about because he came to visit 's had a letter from his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after allex-wife, hesaying that she's ten now ill and all those old clocks donhasn't appeal long to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bedlive. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the clock chimed only six timesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. There was nothing for Is it but a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockhome?

|isbnauthor=3756228711Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli''The history of s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the development company of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about thata magical beast. He This has chosen made the race anathema to tell us about the short, pair – but explosive, history of when a bad incident at the Control Data Companyeatery leads to a confession from gran, CDC, for whom Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he worked. It's a fascinating talemost hates, told in a mixture with the sole aim the prize of technological summary and wry anecdotemagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1529356660178763681X|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma Haughton|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, rather, the absence of the noise which was a constant in New York. Here it was silent and the heat was overwhelming. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting Knife Skills for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last night. She knew that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her mind.}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838776184|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalBeginners|author=S J BennettOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=''The Queen, like the sunrise and the tides, was generally Chef Paul Delamare took a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed to begin as teaching job at a coldresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hardly surprising, He didn't really, as Prince Philip want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been suffering for a couple way of days but seemed getting both men and women to be getting betterdo what he wanted. Hopefully, Paul ''somehow'' got the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. Sheimpression that he'd probably caught it from one of be at the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelyschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't get better turn out that way. The teaching - and when the doctor called he diagnosed fullproblems -blown fluare all his own. She and the Duke were due The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to go to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot downturn up dead. He'd have preferred Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had police consider that person to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappointprime suspect.