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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008517061|title=The House at the End of the WorldDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your sideFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, you can either suck it uphas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, saddle up Livia and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a small chain lot of tiny dots on the map compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and live out your days relaxing life to move in peace with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and solitude. her daughter? That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old For the moment they’re enjoying life to start afresh in the present and putting the future on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were it not for demolishing an old house in Norwich - the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner bones of mischief in the name a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of science and quite possibly bringing about the end one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of all mankindsickness.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=T Kingfisher0008551324|title=ThornhedgeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=It''You had a right s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to retake your placeapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other.'' T KingfisherBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's latest novella is a lovely reimagining prepared to tell the police where the body of a fairytale that missing person is well known buried and well belovedwho was responsible for her death. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower This person, sleeping under an eternal enchantmenthe promises, Thornhedge is not her storysomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Instead Not much to ask, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was a new's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -born baby make certain that DS Max Craigie and secreted anyone who works with him is kept well away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spellswhat's happening.|isbn=1803364238

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX0008405026|title=Stories 2A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Richard F WalkerJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerIt's second volume of short storiessixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. There Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are thirteen dead in all and I took something from each of themtheir bed. There isn't Initially, it looks like a single one that doesnstraightforward murder/suicide but there't deserve to be among s something about the others or brings down positioning of the overall qualitybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It can What looked as though it was going to be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two to talk about an open-and I think they give -shut case is now a general flavourcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17876366070571379877|title=The TrapKellerby Code|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morningtheatre director. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and looking uses Edward to run errands for a way to get homehim. Some are lucky Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and manage he's drunkenly confided how he feels to get one of the few taxis availableRobert. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly Most men in the light of Robert'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a long way short of her home. She relationship had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - begun between them but her phonehe's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance not like most men: Edward is left to beg stumble upon the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and two of them kissing in high-heeled shoesa dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1405957174Jo Callaghan|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy StuartLeave No Trace

|summary=From When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the first pagecase alongside her sidekick, we know that Nadine Walshthe AI detective Lock. It's party will not end welltheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The victim - But when there is a man - second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is dying when we first meet him suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Nadine consciously makes no effort a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to call the ambulance he so desperately needstheir AI Future Policing project. What we don't know is who Will they be able to solve the man is case in time, or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1399613073|title=Nowhere IslandMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveOlivia, he is so determined to escape Laura and Anjali met on the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – first day of medical school and find their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a home for himselfcentury. He Olivia is en route to yet another fostererruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him you aim to his futurebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in Laura is a perfectionist and a camp on an island between trauma doctor. Anjali is the two directions free spirit of the group and she becomes a motorway, GP. When we first meet them they're at a place inaccessible drug and definitely ignored enough alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to provide for their safety and seclusionend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home Twenty-five years later there, albeit so much more successfullywill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combineThis time, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=00085300250241636604|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Cara HunterGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in December 2003 that fifteenyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-year-old Maura Howard came home stripe suit and found his background is the body of her stepfatherEast End, Luke Ryderwhere he was familiar with violence, in the garden of their West London homepoverty and injustice. He had an injury There was no posh public school on the back of his head which could have happened if CV - but he'd slipped down had been to the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberateLondon School of Economics. Twenty years later, no one Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has been charged a facility with his murder and it's now the subject numbers which most of ''Infamous'', a true-crime showus can only envy. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to take the investigation furtherbe stupid. More to the pointIt was his ability at what was, they're going to do this live on cameraessentially, episode by episodea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1035021803|title=The Stolen SongbirdAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=CaroIt's mother, a world-famous whistler, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has failed been back to return home the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingbeloved aunt, Carole. Her other motherFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, RonnieArthur Crockleford, is having dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwellsay the least. So who is going Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesthe village: Arthur, she feels frustrated and confused and worried, let her down badly. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst be near the man or pursue the profession she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there tooloved. But After the split, she soon finds herself caught up worked in a mysterycafe, as she discovers a painting met and married James (on the rebound from the love of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcaselife, who was murdered) and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks Freya and terrorising peopleJames have now divorced. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148

|isbn=1529195977AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=None of this is TrueAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lisa JewellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where Opening up new ways of thinking about the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst shape of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst theythings to come.'re not ' I'exactlyve heard it said that 'technology' rowdy, theyis what happens after you're enjoying themselveseighteen. Josie, on the other handWell, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense I must confess that Walter's not too happythere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's not used advantageous to spending this much money on a meal - me but I'm left with the feeling that it is Josie's birthday after allgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleSunny Singh|title=Camp DamascusHotel Arcadia

|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=Love The Hotel Arcadia is love; although humans continue to be confused a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by this sentimenta terrorist group. Gay conversion therapy Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it Sam, a crime wartime photographer andAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the UShotel, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both he forms a secular bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin keeps on venturing out of Christian her room to try to capture what''pray s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the gay away'' camps phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to show see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the reader the horror lurking withinterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18031363831529153298|title=Tin SoldiersThe List of Suspicious Things|author=David ChadwickJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about It's 1979 and nobody Margaret Thatcher is sure exactly Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what took place's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but an act of heroism leading to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and disgrace seems she'll do anything to be prevent that. She's not worried about the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to his chest, as he always doesanyone.

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1398524085|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=A J LewisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives Charlotte Salter was expected at The House of Beautiful Swallowsher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Idyllic as this might soundHer children, it's a bordello sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Ettore's mother died when he was bornher daughter, Etty. He's not been short of mothers, though - are all worried but for someone of his background in late-eighteenthstrangely -century Amalfiher husband, it's difficult to obtain decent employmentAlec, is not. The stint working with Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the preparation body of anchovies didnGreg't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatss father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Ettore It was nothing if not resourceful - an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and determined - and it was not long before then committed suicide when he had a successful business as a guide for visitorscouldn't stand the guilt. He was even saving some moneyThe 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=Dean Koontz1035906708|title=After DeathDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary= Michael Mace, Head We tend to think of SecurityMaria Callas as Greek, at a top secret biological research facilitybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryNew York, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – December 1923 and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleaguesmoved to Athens when she was thirteen. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'feel'' everythingto make it more manageable in the States. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymoreWhen she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1662500467}}

|author=Jamie LittlerChristopher Edge|title=ArkspireBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Two sisters, Juniper Lucas and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, his friends are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader all booked in illicit magicfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, including relics from prior major wars left out in a place that has the Badlandsnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Elodie is intent on getting closer All big movie fans, they're looking forward to power in one lots of the religious districts of Arkspireexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of as the Watchermovie starts, the closest to a ruler the district hasthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Being trained in But as they lurch from one film genre to the magic that only five people next, can use would definitely change the status of they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the whole family. But in finding something oddly magicalcinema, Juniper might just be able and to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…their real lives?|isbn=02415861431839942738

|author=Thiago de MoraesRachel Greenlaw|title=Old Gods New TricksCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. 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 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 heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|summary=Meet TrixieThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Forever getting into scrapes, larks AI and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powderautomation have been proceeding apace, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when sheoften replacing jobs they's being told re paid to do and other tasks that by her one-last-chance-giving headteachertook time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, the world changesnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. SuddenlyLife was pretty much shut down and, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-outalong with it, even of electric cars, hits not just all the town the schoolmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's in but the entire planet (apart ll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from mobile phoneshis father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power failed miserably and who had endless crises of power from usself confidence. And so she begins her epic quest, So Tim applied himself to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giantshis studies, half-gods cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and so on known as the trickstersset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=178845295XB0CVFXPGP8

|author=Alexia CasaleA G Slatter|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but thatThere's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle a part of a dance performance me that was going wants to keep this just to change her lifemyself for however long I can. But she comes back fightingThis secret magic of my own, all mine, desperate at last. I just want to avoid enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the pity staresworld, and desperate to get back to lies Silverton; a life thattown under the protection of the Briar's , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as normal such since she was young, her training as she can possibly managea steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Meanwhile thereWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a new (cute!) boy in schoolleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outway left, right and just centre, Ellie uncovers the day-rare ability to-day traumas of all communicate with the challenges dead, putting her body continues at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to throw at her another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to navigate. So even though she cando as the Briar witches't dance anymorelegacy, might she be able everything they have sacrificed to sing her way through instead?survive, is under threat.|isbn=05713738011803364548

|authorisbn=Helen Peters1529900360|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=EnglandIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, WW2Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Two young girls are new at His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the country pile called Stanbrookhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. One is NancyFinally, destined to be in service all her life it seemswas Robin, like the female generations before herDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school She knew that the involvement was something that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsthe man she loved needed. The girls are chalk and cheesenext case did look simple, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sothough. But something is amiss, and first separately and then Two lovers were murdered in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be swimming pool of a rum 'unremote property in Bel Air. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is made of meetings with Germans, married to an extremely rich man and it's not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedthe Italian. But surely which of them was the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhandprimary target?|isbn=1788004647

|isbn=02419961041529395224|title=Coming to Find YouLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jane CorrySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Nancy's mother and step-Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse was a GP and her step-brotherRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside particularly when he considered the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her strain that she's received a 'silent sentence' being on- shecall put on his father's not been found guilty life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of anything but will have to live doing work experience with what happened a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for the rest of her lifehim. Of courseBefore long, ithe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's made worse because Nancy's rich t - she inherited five million pounds from her mother as with so many students - and the papers are making the most of itbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, he''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not d wanted to be printed but is undoubtedly spokena professional footballer.

|isbn=15294136800861541774|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoDCI Domenic Jejeune's there close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see the show meet up with some friendsan old ally, Guy Trueman. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when armed with a knife - and he departs from the scriptkilled a Ghurka. LuckilyInitially, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in he faced a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances charge of survival manslaughter but - as evidence came to light that suggested that he's a senior government employee, might have planned to murder the man who runs Frenchelon - . Now he could be facing the military has stepped indeath penalty. One daughter lives nearby Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her fatherwouldn's friends for a pre-arranged holidayt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1529196388Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Trial|author=Rob RinderPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden was The Perfect Passion Company is a hero: 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 policeman who stood trip to Canada to get away for all that was good and honest and looked a while. Katie is coming out of a break up to by just about everyonewith a bad boyfriend, and so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight jumps at the Old Baileychance to come home to Edinburgh. There's just one man in 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 frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in courtIsabel Dalhousie novels, charged but with Cliveden's murdersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and itthere's Taylor-Cameron always her very helpful (and his pupilrather handsome) neighbour, Adam GreenWilliam, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0811771741|title=The FascinationInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led collection of knits from toys to more than a few writers mishandling itblankets. There Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's such a glut long, cosy afternoons in front of media set in the era that fire' variety. The projects are divided by the hallmarks wetime they've come ll take to associate with it are familiar complete - less than five hours, five to the point of being clichedten hours, hackneyed eventen to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatthe projects are attractive, something about it still grabs me – modern and something useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about this book'social-media-worthy projects' but that's description did as wellme being picky.|isbn=1914585526

|author=Andrew CartmelDean Koontz|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Cordelia Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really loves classic paperback crime fictionweird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and in particular it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a series called Sleuth Houndnice person. A really nice person. She spends her time hunting So fortunately for Benny it turns out copies that she can sell on for profitthe delivery to his house is a new friend, sometimes 'tweaking' thema bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayshelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. One day she discovers a near perfect collection Spike is going to take care of these books after seeing them in the background Benny, and will certainly take care of a photograph on her drug dealerBenny's living room wallenemies, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isif he, Benny, and how she can steal it! ItHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17890989471662500491

|isbnauthor=1529507987Adam Stower|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books Murray and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Bun

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want Murray is supposed to be cheered up. After a hard dayhumble, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seetidy and friendly cat, the value one who is in what these possessions are worth able to the people who own them sleep and eat and eat and sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the memories they holdtwo. No expense appears to be spared But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the experts spend as much time catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultwhiffs. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is theyexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he're doing. But how did they start?ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Nicole JarvisB0C47LV1PC|title=A Portrait in ShadowFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''I want all of Florence to know my nameYo 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.

Cast out 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 ''Fragility'' is set as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademiacity of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the self-proclaimed guardians of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect restrictions imposed during the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340covid pandemic

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1529431735|title=The Grave ListenersWinter Visitor|author=William FrankJames Henry

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching ForestFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. And He'd been exiled on the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homesreturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and even gallows, if neededhasn't long to live. The fear of being buried alive It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is an existential superstition abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the village and that is the reason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout boot of a man is toleratedstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=024162343XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I was Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of evening a 'god'helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Where was Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse stillfamily. Not too long after the end of WWIIA few short years ago, I didnEli't so much want s parents were both lost to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failurestitular race, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to dispute what right navigate the army had to be there world in the first placecompany of a magical beast. Looking back, I still believe I was right - This has made the race anathema to the pair – but I regret that I lacked when a bad incident at the maturity eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to approach 'dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig178763681X|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift Knife Skills for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters 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 themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309379|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Beginners|author=David MarkOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54

|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's something t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of a surprise getting both men and women to find that youdo what he wanted. Paul 're dead, particularly when you're thinking that yousomehow're actually on a break with your wife and children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Whilst he was relieved to find got the impression that he was still, officially, alive, 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 be at the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carschool to assist Paul, 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 a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorway.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls teaching - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisproblems - are all his own. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted The one thing he hadn't expected was ‘not available’for someone to turn up dead. OhUnfortunately, dear - then a few doors down from he was the person who discovered the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - body and a framed print of everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the picture I wantedprime suspect.