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|isbn=08615417740008517061|title=A Nye of PheasantsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Steve BurrowsStig Abell

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleagueFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Danny MaikJake Johnson, has taken settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a short holiday in Singapore to meet up little uncertainty about the future of his life with an old allyhis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved as moving in a street brawl - he together would later maintain that he was facing mean a man armed with a knife lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came relaxing life to light that suggested that he might have planned move in with Livia or does Livia move to murder Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man. future she wants for herself and her daughter? Now he could be facing For the moment they’re enjoying life in the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident present and wouldn't help Danny at allputting the future on the back burner.

|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1786482126|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as Builders were demolishing an alternative to all the online apps old house in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after Norwich - the business, as Ness is planning site was going to take hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a trip to Canada to get away for child beneath a whiledoorway. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to EdinburghThere was no skull. And so begins Was this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novelsa ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with some new characters who quickly begin to charmDCI Harry Nelson. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-makingIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and thereNelson doesn's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbourt, William, to lend that she is pregnant with his child as a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection result of knits from toys to blanketsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Some Her condition will be quick knits - others are of the 'obvious before long, cosy afternoons in front not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty 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's me being pickysickness.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008551324|title=The Bad Weather FriendDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad dayIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashedNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. Oh, But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and ithe's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is prepared to tell the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is police where the very last body of a missing person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice personburied and who was responsible for her death. A really nice This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the delivery to remainder of his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent sentence and to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good personget an early parole date. Spike is going Not much to take care of Bennyask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and will certainly take care of Bennyshe's enemies, if he, Benny, even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator anyone who finds herself roped into Bennyworks with him is kept well away from what's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they arehappening.|isbn=1662500491

|authorisbn=Adam Stower0008405026|title=Murray and BunA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers Crime|summary=Murray is supposed It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to be a humblehalt. Now, tidy and friendly cather mother, Helena, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the twoher father are dead in their bed. But he's Initially, it looks like a bad magicianstraightforward murder/suicide but there's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and something about the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into positioning of the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and whiffsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. This time round What looked as though it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, going to be honest, but hean open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's turned up and hedisappearance: others (such as Derwent'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B0C47LV1PC0571379877|title=FragilityThe Kellerby Code|author=Mosby WoodsJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Can you make Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you coulds also self-obsessed, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you diddemanding, would it land? The catch is that the answer handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for both could well behim. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert... no. ''Fragility Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' s not like most men: Edward is set as left to stumble upon the city two of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemicthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1529431735Jo Callaghan|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James HenryLeave No Trace

|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex When a man is bitingly coldfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the more surprising. He'd been exiled on case alongside her sidekick, the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decadeAI detective Lock. The return has come about because heIt's had a letter from his ex-wifetheir first live case together, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to livehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. It's hard to feel any sympathy But when Hopkins there is abducteda second body found crucified a few days later, stripped to his underwear Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and sent to a watery grave in the boot very high profile case that draws a lot of a stolen Ford Sierraunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a problem closer to homecareer?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh1399613073|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with himOlivia, Laura and in Anjali met on the evening first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runscentury. Eli lives with his lovely granOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, too – for there which is a generation missing in the familybonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, Laura is a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of perfectionist and a magical beasttrauma doctor. This has made Anjali is the race anathema to free spirit of the pair – but when group and she becomes a bad incident GP. When we first meet them they're at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to dare to enter what he most hates, with end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the sole aim tragedy or the prize of magic at consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the end – the only thing to possibly save his granthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=178763681X0241636604|title=Knife Skills for BeginnersThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Orlando MurrinGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at If you were to bring up an image of a residential cookery school city banker in Belgravia. He didnyour mind, you't really want re unlikely to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way think of getting both men and women to do what he wantedsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Paul ''somehow'' got A hoodie and jeans replaces the impression that he'd be at pin-stripe suit and his background is the school to assist PaulEast End, who had a broken armwhere he was familiar with violence, but it didn't turn out that waypoverty and injustice. The teaching There was no posh public school on his CV - and but he had been to the problems - are all his ownLondon School of Economics. The one thing Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up deadhas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider He also realised that person most rich people expect poor people to be the prime suspectstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Sarah Marsh1035021803|title=A Sign of Her OwnThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After a bout It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of scarlet fever as a childrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Ellen Lark loses her hearingCarole. Suddenly plunged into a world of silenceFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, everything about her life changesto say the least. Living in a time when Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the use of sign language was seen as something only savages dovillage: Arthur, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip readfeels, but physically restrained from signinglet her down badly. From hereEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching not felt able to be near the man or pursue the deaf and using a system called Visible Speechprofession she loved. At After the same timesplit, Bell is working she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on other inventions the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and ideas, Freya and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageJames have now divorced.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=1803816759AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The UnravellingAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Will GibsonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=It's 2038 and Joe 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York Citywhat happens after you're eighteen. Joe longs for Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of adventure and technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong me but I'm left with the AI system feeling that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spreadit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Finally Of course, Joe gets to do some real policing. In I could research the aftermath of possibilities and the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped probabilities and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't re talking about or the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the caseway I could understand. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbnauthor=1529421284Sunny Singh|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate WebbHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was one of those flash downpours The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the British weather often delivers in terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a heatwavewartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. In As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a gullybond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, a human skeleton came and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the surface phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and forensic testing proved the body they both wait to see if they will be Lee Gearyrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, who had disappeared nine years earlierhonestly... ) HeShe's not what's worrying Miv'd s family, though. Women have been a known drug user and had learning disabilitiesdisappearing. Well, so it could have they've been a simple case of misadventure murdered, but DI Matt Lockyer wasnto have 'disappeared' doesn't convincedsound quite so frightening. Geary was 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 towniefrightening, foreign place, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? best avoided. There are connections to For Miv, the suicide of Holly Gilbert move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the timeprevent that. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of She's not worried about the Major Crimes Review Unit (dangers or thather Mum's cold cases stopped talking - to you and me) investigateanyone.

|isbn=05713795591398524085|title=The House of Broken BricksHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Fiona WilliamsNicci French

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess HembryCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, fiftieth birthday party but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricksnever turned up. Insubstantial as it might lookHer children, it's stood the passage of timesons Niall, storms Paul and floodsOllie and her daughter, Etty. Her are all worried but - strangely - her husband, RichardAlec, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient moneyis not. They have twin boys - Sonny Shortly afterwards, Etty and MaxGreg, find the rainbow twins. Sonnybody of Greg's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. People donIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't believe that they're related, much less twins and stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's an assumption when Max is out little else they can do but get on with his mother that she's his nannytheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15294258671035906708|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)Diva|author=Simon MasonDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In OxfordWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descentNew York, Balliol educated in December 1923 and always exquisitely dressedonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father of Ryan, is not. Hechanged it to 'Callas's not any of those thingsto make it more manageable in the States. He's white, originated from When 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 trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) mother who mercilessly exploited her and his wardrobe consists mainly made no secret of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written her preference for laughs. Wellher elder sister, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicJackie.

|author=Mosby WoodsChristopher Edge|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The West isnBlack Hole't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how All big movie fans, they're looking forward to mend this or even if mending it is lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war heremovie starts, a push for climate action there. A feeling they very quickly realise that nobody something about this new film format is in actual charge. Imagine thenvery different, there was a man with precognitionand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Imagine But as they lurch from one film genre to the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who next, can tell you they figure out what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, righton earth is going on? Perhaps Will they ever get back to the most valuable asset in history. Imagine thencinema, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do and to get it backtheir real lives?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R11839942738

|author=Alastair HumphreysRachel Greenlaw|title=LocalCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Travel Teens|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over ''I can hear the song of the worldsea. And then written about itThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. For this book he walked '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and cycled very close plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to home survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and then wrote about itany treasure that lies within. As he says in his introductionBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the book is an attempt island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to share what I have learnt about some big issues save him from death, Mira makes a year exploring bargain with a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and accesswith only coordinates to guide her, agricultureshe 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 food system, rewilding…'' One watched streets of foreign islands to the joys heart of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrongsmuggler's territory, that every upside is likely Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to have a downside for somebody save the future of her home and that there are some hard choices aheadthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17856336780008664730

|isbnauthor=1805141872James Sherwood Metts|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob KeeleyPlanet Storyland

|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s Things have been raideda bit sticky for the Earthlings. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police AI and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trailautomation have been proceeding apace, Miss Judson often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Ben go on the runother tasks that took time to accomplish. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness meJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage new ways to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find outspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Luckily for Miss JudsonLife was pretty much shut down and, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Benalong with it, all the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0760381267Matthew Tree|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it'We'. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Linganell Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to go to the party but be different from his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like father, a good opportunity to get out drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his room artistic passions all failed miserably and away from the online activities he makes a living atwho had endless crises of self confidence. So he makes Tim applied himself to his way therestudies, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1454955546A G Slatter|title=Sugarless|author=Nicole M AvenaThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=''This isnThere't s a diet bookpart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last thing anyone needs is another diet book. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

There was Within a timeremote mountain pass, not that long agofar away from the world, when it was thought that sugary food was better lies Silverton; a town 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 you than food with highmagic, Ellie Briar is the first non-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going witch to elevate your cholesterol be born into her family for generations and cause heart disease. Sugar as such since she was young, her training as a carbohydratesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, so good. ThereEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a problemleader, thoughand Ellie takes her place beside her. Sugar is addictive As challenges come her way left, right and can hijack your brain in much centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the same way heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? WellBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, it isn'tis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15211298861529900360|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)The Ghost Orchid|author=Keith RedfernJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Greg MasonIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just beginning fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get ask for his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargeshelp on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have psychologist only worked for a baby and theywhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware're both delighteds partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Joyce will be more delighted about She knew that the involvement was something that the baby when man she gets past the morning sicknessloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in-law appears to have killed himselfBel Air. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling He was the heir to make ends meet an Italian shoe empire and her son she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not thrivingthe Italian. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death But which of them was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.primary target?

|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561529395224|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ann MacarthurSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the 1990s close friend and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. He used to have Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a highknife -flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so and he's now set himself up as killed a private investigatorGhurka. 'Shades Initially, he faced a charge of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, manslaughter but where's the life experience evidence came to light that suggested that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked might have planned to look into somethingmurder the man. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingNow he could be facing the death penalty. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - Domenic Jejeune can't understand what she was doing there - or how she do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could come to fall in front of provoke a train. Gregdiplomatic incident and wouldn's been asked to investigatet help Danny at all.

|author=Katherine HoweAlexander McCall Smith|title=A True AccountThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Hannah Masury The Perfect Passion Company is living a dating agency in BostonEdinburgh, having been sent to live with a family who run by Ness and operating as an inn, and being made alternative to work there from all the online apps in providing a young agemore personal, tailored service. When Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she hears there could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to be take a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides trip to Canada to go and watchget away for a while. Enthralled Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death so jumps at the hands of two vicious pirateschance to come home to Edinburgh. She hides away, And so that they don't find and kill her toobegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and then bringing us to escape them completely she runs away an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to sea, dressing as a boy 44 Scotland Street and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She soon finds herself Katie has no experience in the thick of things when there is running a mutiny on boardbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and from there we are caught up in 's always her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=08615474381846976596

|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Tananarive DueMelissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty 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's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The ReformatoryBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary= GracetownBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Floridaand his house gets trashed. June 1950. After Oh, and someone has delivered a scuffle with a white boyreally weird, twelve yeardisturbing coffin-old Robbie Stephens Jr sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boysthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, otherwise known as Benny is the Reformatoryvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. It's He is a place with a brutal and dark reputationnice person. A really nice person. But So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the segregated reformatory delivery to his house is a chamber of horrorsnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, haunted by the boys that have died therewho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. In order Spike is going to survive the school governor take care of Benny, and his Funhousewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, Robert must enlist the help of the schooland Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's ghosts – only wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they have their own motivations..are.|isbn=18033665321662500491}}

|isbnauthor=1471180158Adam Stower|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny ParkesMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery storeMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, for a man one whois able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamiebad magician's soncat, Boso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you readcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Sometimes Jamie needs to take This time off at short notice - she's round it drops them into a Viking land, where a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Botroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo turned up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going he'll have to come to a head.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Harry AllenB0C47LV1PC|title=Children of the SunFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in Can you make a North Korean town and she ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is a talented singerthe question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Life  ''Fragility'' is hard and food is difficult to come byset as the city of Portland, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningOregon, looking for tree bark and edible grasses cautiously begins to supplement emerge from the restrictions imposed during the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez1529431735|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=WeIt're in childhoods February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, and wewhich made Bruce Hopkins're in Cubareturn all the more surprising. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a saviour of the country, wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has proven himself come about because he's had a Communistletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and not done nearly enough hasn't long to create a level playing field for alllive. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narratorIt's family weren't in the happiest of places herehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, an uncle refusing stripped to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off his underwear and sent to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and a watery grave in the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720home?

|author=K P O'DonnellAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=VL-15, Eli is a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, busy lad – by day an apprentice in the world endedwondrous library we start by visiting with him, consumed and in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Renadaruns. Over half-a-century later Eli lives with his lovely gran, civilisation too – for there is starting to rebuilda generation missing in the family. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father A few short years ago, Eli's legacyparents were both lost to the titular race, building a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of when a group of salvagers called bad incident at the Exhumerseatery leads to a confession from gran, has Eli knows his entire life turned upside down when only hope is to dare to enter what he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 yearsmost hates, her determination hasn't diminished in with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM0571382231

|isbn=1838954481178763681X|title=The MisperKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Kate LondonOrlando Murrin

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Chef Paul Delamare took a police officer: there's no doubt about thatteaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawwomen to do what he wanted. He pulled Paul ''somehow'' got the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system impression that he was found not guilty of both 'd be at the murder school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the manslaughter of the officerproblems - are all his own. And so lives must go onThe one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the capital body and hoping for a quieter life in everyone knows that the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into police consider that person to be the orbit of Ryan Kennedyprime suspect.