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|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel0008517061|title=Death in Fine Conditiona Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=34

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionFormer Metropolitan Police detective, and in particular a series called Sleuth HoundJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She spends There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add valuedaughter Diana, as moving in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers together would mean a near perfect collection lot of these books after seeing them compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in the background of a photograph on with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets reservations about discovering where whether or not this collection is, the future she wants for herself and how she can steal it! her daughter? It's a next-level step For the moment they’re enjoying life in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, the present and what will happen when putting the owner of future on the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947back burner.

|isbn=15295079871786482126|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Elly Griffiths

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I love ''The Repair ShopBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered upThere was no skull. After Was this a hard dayritual killing or murder? Inevitably, thereDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what theydifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn're worth. You seet, the value that she is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and pregnant with his child as a result of the memories one night they holdspent together some three months ago. No expense appears to Her condition will be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as obvious before long, not least because Ruth is required prone to achieve the desired resultsudden bouts of sickness. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?

|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis0008551324|title=A Portrait in ShadowThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=It''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out s unusual for anyone from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power Hardie family to protect approach the city and its citizens from plagues and cursespolice. The all-male Accademia Neither side likes or has hoarded power over art and architecture any respect for centuries and guard it above all elsethe other. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village But Davie Hardie is isolated struggling in prison and poor. Ithe's surrounded by prepared to tell the police where the body of a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition missing person is buried and its blossom provides herbal medicineswho was responsible for her death. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth This person, roofs on homeshe promises, is someone big and even gallows, if neededit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The fear of being buried alive And what he wants is to be transferred to an existential superstition in open prison to serve the village remainder of his sentence and that to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the reason Volushka, a drunken, selfother thing that Hardie demanded -indulgent, lazy lout of a man make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is toleratedkept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=024162343X0008405026|title=Stolen HistoryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sathnam SangheraJane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schoolIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. I She was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed never found and the existence of investigation ground to a 'god'halt. Where was the proof? In history lessonsNow, her mother, Helena, it was probably worse stilland her father are dead in their bed. Not too long after the end of WWIIInitially, I didnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't so much want to learn s something about the British army's successes (positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as want to dispute what right the army had though it was going to be there in the first placean open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret Kerrigan is convinced that I lacked the maturity to approach explanation lies in Rosalie'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sangheras disappearance: others (such as Derwent's ''Stolen History''boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig0571379877|title=Three GracesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the stateEdward Jevons is a working-ofclass young man, obsessed with his upper-the-nation novelclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. There He's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in one particular momentlove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. To say Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: shea relationship had begun between them but he's practically synonymous with not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the genre two of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters them kissing in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesdark passageway.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbnauthor=1448309379Jo Callaghan|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkLeave No Trace|rating=3.54

|summary=It's something When a man is found crucified on the top of a surprise hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to find that youthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It're deads their first live case together, particularly having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when you're thinking that you're actually on there is a second body found crucified a break few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with your wife a potential serial killer and children, but a very high profile case that's what happened draws a lot of unwanted attention to DS Aector McAvoytheir AI Future Policing project. Whilst he was relieved Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find that he was still, officiallyherself taken off the case and, alivepotentially, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoah. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours out of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=09571811671399613073|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisMoral 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=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 business, 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=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortycollection of knits from toys to blankets. Having been made unexpectedly redundant Some will be quick knits - any HR officer worth their salt would argue others are of the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a mid-life crisisthe fire' variety. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to take back her lifetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'|isbn=1398510629s me being picky.

|author=Cath HoweDean Koontz|title=My Life on FireThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Ren's family home Benny is destroyed in having a fireterrifically bad day. SheHe loses his job, her parentshe loses his fiancee, and her little brother lose everythinghis house gets trashed. She doesn't have any of her clothesOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, or any of her special little knickdisturbing coffin-knacks from her cupboardsized object to his home, and now she is living at her grandmotherit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house where they can't touch anything! The thing is, or do anything, or even eat Benny is the foods they normally eatvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. When she goes back to school she discovers So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the class are doing delivery to his house is a special art projectnew friend, creating boxes of their livesa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to display things that are important to them and show who they are as help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But Ren has nothing Spike is going to put in a boxtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and so she Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they have so much alreadyare. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428351662500491

|isbnauthor=0008517010Adam Stower|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side who is able to sleep and eat and eat and he didn't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite to each other sleep and wished each other , well - but didn't wish to remain married, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. The perfect solution arrived in the form of But he's a legacy from Jakebad magician's Uncle Arthur. He'd cat, so his favourite bun has been left turned into a secluded property in hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the hamlet catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - frightening adventure and enough money whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to live there without the need be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to work.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=AtalantaFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Can you make a ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would get on board it land? The catch is that ship, I vowedthe answer for both could well be... I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, toono. Atalanta''

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta ''Fragility'' is raised under set as the protective eye city of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntressPortland, Oregon, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – cautiously begins to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent emerge from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes restrictions imposed during the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154covid pandemic

|isbn=152915118X1529431735|title=Pineapple StreetThe Winter Visitor|author=Jenny JacksonJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'Pineapple Street'' is return all the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianamore surprising. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother CordHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. TheyThe return has come about because he're Stocktonss had a letter from his ex-wife, only Sasha isnsaying that she't a Stockton by birth so she isns ill and hasn't readily accepted into the tribelong to live. The problemIt's exacerbated hard to feel any sympathy when the clan matriarchHopkins is abducted, Tilda, asks Cord stripped to his underwear and Sasha if they'd like sent to move into a watery grave in the Pineapple Street propertyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, Is it a warning from a street Spanish gang or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start problem closer to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.?

|isbnauthor=0008551278Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the bottom of Fyrishwondrous library we start by visiting with him, where she'd been doing her trainingand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She'd been Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for generation missing in the national squadfamily. ThatA few short years ago, Eli's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeparents were both lost to the titular race, Affo came a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at navigate the world in the age company of twelvea magical beast. She was rescued This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterbad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Melodi Eli knows his only hope is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herdare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Emily Tesh178763681X|title=Some Desperate GloryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul 'While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear ussomehow'' Following got the destruction of impression that he'd be at the Earthschool to assist Paul, amongst who had a rare number of survivorsbroken arm, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the world that should have been hersproblems - are all his own. All her life, she has been conditioned The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to fall in lineturn up dead. Unfortunately, to fulfil her duty he was the person who discovered the body and ensure everyone knows that the police consider that humanity perseveresperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn=0356521834