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|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH0008517061|title=The Grave ListenersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=William FrankStig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I was the bad company other people got Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at schoolLittle Sky. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of There’s perhaps a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after little uncertainty about the end future of WWIIhis life with his vet girlfriend, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (Livia and occasional failuresher daughter Diana, but we didn't dwell on those) as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in what came with Livia or does Livia move to be called 'Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the colonies' as want to dispute what right future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the army had to be there moment they’re enjoying life in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked present and putting the maturity to approach 'future on the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''back burner.

|isbn=024162343X1786482126|title=Stolen HistoryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Sathnam SangheraElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I was Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the bad company other people got into at school. I site was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the existence bones of a 'god'child beneath a doorway. Where There was the proofno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? In history lessonsInevitably, it was probably worse stillDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armyIt's successes (and occasional failuresdifficult as Ruth knows, but we didnNelson doesn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' , that she is pregnant with his child as want to dispute what right a result of the army had to be there in the first placeone night they spent together some three months ago. Looking backHer condition will be obvious before long, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity not least because Ruth is prone to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig0008551324|title=Three GracesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the state-of-police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the-nation novelother. ThereBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of prepared to tell the police where the atmosphere body of the day a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and capture it, crafting will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an image open prison to serve the remainder of the country as it stands in one particular momenthis sentence and to get an early parole date. To say that Amanda Craig Not much to ask, is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's practically synonymous even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre of contemporary social fiction at this point=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She has such was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a gift for weaving straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the ongoing issues positioning of the day into the lives of bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her characters in boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a way complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that feels natural and lived-the explanation lies inRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbn=14483093790571379877|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)The Kellerby Code|author=David MarkJonny Sweet

|summary=It's something of Edward Jevons is a surprise to find that you're deadworking-class young man, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break obsessed with your wife his upper-class friends, Robert and children, but thatStanza. Robert's what happened to DS Aector McAvoya theatre director. Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillHe's also self-obsessed, officiallydemanding, alive, it was difficult handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahhim. Her protegee Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man whoand he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'd dashed s position would stay away from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious Stanza or tell Edward that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoya relationship had begun between them but he's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorlike most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=0957181167Jo Callaghan|title=Blue Skies 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 Boat Trips: The Norfolk , potentially, out of Brian Lewisa career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Alan MarshallChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=ArtThrillers|summary=There are few positive things Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which can be said about is a substandard apartment bonus when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying you aim to avoid looking at be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a problem I found myself looking more closely at perfectionist and a couple trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of pictures on the walls - group and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisshe becomes a GP. I searched online When we first meet them they're at a drug and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the print I wanted was ‘not available’consequences. Oh, dear Twenty- then a few doors down from five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the apartmentthree friends. This time, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wantedit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Simon Fox0241636604|title=DeadlockThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Late one night Graham Blake If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is late back from his shift on the forceEast End, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding where he fetch something from a secret placewas familiar with violence, poverty and join him on the runinjustice. They get together, There was no posh public school on his CV - but barely begin he had been to smell the whiff London School of Southern trains when the father Economics. Stevenson is arrestedbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightonessentially, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleaguescard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and the bearer of this turned into permanent employment as a whole heap of questionstrader.|isbn=1839944420

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1035021803|title=The Silent BrideAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heavenIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He is everything she has been searching She's back now because of a request for; handsome, accomplished, cleverhelp from her beloved aunt, funny; total and utter husband-materialCarole. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, successfulArthur Crockleford, confident… is dead and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and circumstances seem suspicious, to say the wedding is planned and setleast. When Arthur was the much-anticipated day arrivesreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, Alice is walked 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 aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as profession she surveys loved. After the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bridesplit, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the man at rebound from the altar islove of her life, who is waiting for her to become his wifewas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Mark EdwardsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Keep Her SecretAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph shape of things to encapsulate the joy she come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is feeling in this momentwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to the rockface me but I'm left with just the snagged strap feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowit is - frankly - quite frightening. Convinced she is going to dieOf course, Helena must purge herself of I could research the possibilities and the shocking secret she has been keeping probabilities and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Just moments later their heroic, I needed people I knew I could trust and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops who could deliver information in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenaa way I could understand.|isbn=166250893X

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTSunny Singh|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=''Bill and Amanda are living The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a semi-detached houseterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom wartime photographer and disappointmentAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, when Terry and Fiona – glamoroushe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks keeps on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears venturing out of her room to try to improve for both pairscapture what's happened through her photography. But all is not what it seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their increasingly interconnected relationships they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are fated for tragedydiscovered by the terrorists.''|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17876360031529153298|title=The Girls List of SummerSuspicious Things|author=Katie BishopJennie Godfrey

|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she 's 1979 and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) Rachel wasnShe't exactly innocent but she wass not what's worrying Miv's family, perhapsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, naivethey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to take an interest in hermove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, she was flattered rather than warybest avoided. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and by she'll do anything to prevent that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on She's not worried about the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked dangers or partiedthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15291353891398524085|title=The FallHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gilly MacmillanNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning Charlotte Salter was expected at the county fair before she returned homeher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. There was no sign of Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her husband daughter, Etty. are all worried but opera was playing on the state-ofstrangely -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnher husband, Alec, is not. TheyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd not been s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula river. It was an easy assumption for long and were still getting used the police to all the high-tech systems Tom make that Duncan had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other murdered Charlie and didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't work as reliably as they shouldstand the guilt. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool can do but get on with a wound to his headtheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Alan Parks1035906708|title=To Die in JuneDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death We tend to think of a homeless man on the streetsMaria Callas as Greek, suddenly starts but she was born to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and then anotheronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but all her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the more States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so because his own father is a downthat she could get appropriate training for her voice -and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At she was raised under the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with Nazi occupation by a move to a different police station, mother who mercilessly exploited her and the arrival there made no secret of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingpreference for her elder sister, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundJackie. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|author=Laura NoakesChristopher Edge|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Cosima Unfortunatea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Or ratherAll big movie fans, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond 're looking forward to in the ledgerlots of exciting films, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesmany, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. many snacks! But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromHowever, as the first ever inmatemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes But as they lurch from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want film genre to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But whynext, and can they figure out what does that body entailon earth is going on? And could it possibly bring Cos closer Will they ever get back to the past she has so little link withcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=00085790591839942738

|author=Thomas D LeeRachel Greenlaw|title=Perilous TimesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= ''Hate is I can hear the path song of least resistancethe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Set in the near-distant futureRosevear, in a world remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the verge of climate collapsewrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Britain is in great perilone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The British Isles desperately needs But when the Council Watch lays a hero (or several) trap to save end the wrecking, they capture the day island's leader and rescue what little remainsMira's father. What no one expected was Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that one lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the Knights heart of the Round Table would answer smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the callones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565185230008664730

|author=Madelaine LucasJames Sherwood Metts|title=Thirst for SaltPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''LoveThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Ioften replacing jobs they'd read, was supposed re paid to be a light do and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship other tasks that once defined hertook time to accomplish. Overlaid with later wisdomJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – new ways to its sorrowful end the summer afterspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship Life was pretty much shut down and, along with her older loverit, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective the many daily social interactions on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablywhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615464901736128426

|isbnauthor=1529382823Matthew Tree|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemmabe different from his father, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his suit pocket artistic passions all failed miserably and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedwho had endless crises of self confidence. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity So Tim applied himself to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhilehis studies, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiacultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. It's going to be good, isn't it?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lex CroucherA G Slatter|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Who knew '' There's a part of me that what wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I really needed just want to read right now was enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlytown under the protection of the Briar's, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. In this storyThough she has always wished for magic, Gwen Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and Arthur have been betrothed as such since they were tinyshe was young, much to their mutual disgust! Gwenher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, you seeEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomtown's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, creating Ellie uncovers the subterfuge of falling in love rare ability to communicate with each otherthe dead, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. But Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as their impending wedding draws ever closerthe Briar witches' legacy, will everything they find a way in which they can both truly be themselveshave sacrificed to survive, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?is under threat.|isbn=15266517931803364548

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529900360|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house he felt responsible and bring Edie even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to live with ask for his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryhelp on difficult cases. However, Edie is tormented by His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the memory help of her childhood frienda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lucyit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping nudged Milo into asking for Lucy help again. She knew that somehow might be the thing involvement was something that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. After 'seeing' Lucy Two lovers were murdered in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets swimming pool of memories coming back to hera remote property in Bel Air. And yet as she remembers He was the past, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forgetting more married to an extremely rich man and more in her day to day lifeit's not the Italian. Will she uncover But which of them was the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone foreverprimary target?|isbn=1804181250

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529395224|title=Thirty Days Letting the Cat Out of Darknessthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Thrillers Animals and Wildlife|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Sorry His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot follow in the world of crime fictionhis footsteps, saying particularly when heconsidered the strain that being on-call put on his father's populist trash life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and only writing what anyone could writewas convinced this was the job for him. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a wintry month away from it allchild. Just on the point of despairing – about her writingIf anything, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyhe's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615d wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18045456000861541774|title=The MonkA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tim SullivanSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=The body DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the woods near Bristol Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a nasty shock street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a monk strapped to man armed with a chair knife - and dumped in he killed a ditchGhurka. He'd been savagely beaten. It's Initially, he faced a while before D S George Cross and charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicman. He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyNow he could be facing the death penalty. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as an investment banker, brother, neighbour any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and friend. Hewouldn'd also been very wealthy but had given it t help Danny at all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|author=Lauren BravoAlexander McCall Smith|title=PrelovedThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= Gwen The Perfect Passion Company is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and ends with operating as an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortyalternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the toss - Gwen finds herself having business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a bit while. Katie is coming out of a mid-life crisisbreak up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Catharsis is key And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Gwen has decided now is the time Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to take back charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her lifeabilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=13985106291846976596

|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00085170100811771741|title=Death Under a Little SkyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Stig AbellMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadnMelissa Leapman't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jakes 's side and he didn't think there was InstaKnits for Faye either. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didnBaby''t wish to remain married. The perfect solution arrived in the form gives us a collection of a legacy knits from Jake's Uncle Arthurtoys to blankets. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet Some will be quick knits - others are of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to work.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my placelong, not just cosy afternoons in the name front of the goddessfire' variety. It was for The projects are divided by the sake of my name, too. Atalantatime they'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather ll take to complete - less than a sonfive hours, five to ten hours, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis ten to twenty hours and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventuremore than twenty hours. When All the opportunity comes – to join the Argonautsprojects are attractive, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name modern and carve out her own legendary place in historyuseable. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' fatal warning: but that if she marries, it will be her undoing's me being picky.|isbn=1472292154

|isbnauthor=152915118XDean Koontz|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=''Pineapple Street'' Benny is the story of three women: Sashahaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Darley and Georgianahis house gets trashed. Darley Oh, and George are sisters someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and Sasha it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is married the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to their brother Corddeserve all this bad luck. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't He is a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribenice person. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street propertyA really nice person. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to another propertyhis house is a new friend, a street or so awaybad weather friend called Spike, which they ownwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. They won't need any Spike is going to take care of the furniture from Pineapple StreetBenny, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominallywill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, they had and Harper (a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. Shewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they abbreviate it to 'the GD'are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0008551278Adam Stower|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her trainingtwo. SheBut he's a bad magician'd s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seecatflap they both use can chuck them out, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at not into the age of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying regular back garden, but into a kilo world of drugs frightening adventure and three years later she's happy with her foster familywhiffs. There's just This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one cloud on her horizon: her little sistermuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, Melodi is in a childrenbut he's home in Tirana - turned up and anyone could get he'll have to her.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Emily TeshB0C47LV1PC|title=Some Desperate GloryFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'While Earth's children livejoke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the enemy shall fear us''question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

Following ''Fragility'' is set as the destruction city of the EarthPortland, amongst a rare number of survivorsOregon, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – cautiously begins to emerge from the home of restrictions imposed during the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=0356521834covid pandemic

|isbn=08615440561529431735|title=Twin TruthsThe Winter Visitor|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJames Henry|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle It's February 1991 and DavidEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's twin daughters are just coming to return all the end of their first term at universitymore surprising. KitHe's d been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only exiled on the first time they've been away from their parents Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each othera decade. Belle canThe return has come about because he't wait to have them all to herself for s had a while. Then Kit rings up letter from his ex- can wife, saying that she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesns ill and hasn't want long to upset Kitlive. IvoIt's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with thata watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. And they'll be sharing Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a bedroom.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1785633457Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges The Glorious Race of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Eli is a history of travelling busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by unconventional means visiting with him, and in the evening a preference helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for slow travelthere is a generation missing in the family. As he neared his eightieth birthday A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the idea of exploring world in the edges company of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousa magical beast. In fact This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and Eli knows his wifeonly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, Joan, shouldn't it?with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager178763681X|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= I was brought up Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in a family where religion played little or no partBelgravia. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody He didn't really discussed religion want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and the adults around me ranged from lapsed women to agnostic to atheistdo what he wanted. Other than Paul ''somehow'' got the odd church wedding or baptism or impression that he'd be at the school nativity playto assist Paul, who had a broken arm, I but it didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didnturn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't believeexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y