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|isbnauthor=1529009677Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel There are having problems. It's not just the usual growing apart after more few greater joys than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled book which lives up to drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guiltcompelling premise. Rachel And this is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out one of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=02419851530008517061|title=The House on the LakeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nuala EllwoodStig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know that something Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has gone wrong settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- badly wrong - when grid and relaxing life to move in 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 her daughter? For the woman who was alone moment they’re enjoying life in the house is taken away by present and putting the future on the police, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedback burner.

|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac The Janus Stone (illustratorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Orphans of the TideElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= In Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy site was going to hold seventy- the god who drowned the world five 'luxury' apartments - who has come to wreak havoc on when they discovered the last bones of humanitya child beneath a doorway. When There was no skull. Was this a mysterious boy 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 pulled from the corpse pregnant with his child as a result of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterobvious before long, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares not least because Ruth is prone to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets...sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=0241384435

|isbn=00082971690008551324|title=The Guest ListDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Lucy FoleyNeil Lancaster

|summary=The boat trip out It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to Inis Amploir, off approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the Irish coast, might have been enough other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to put some guests off, but it was tell the police where the wedding body of the yeara missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules KeeganThis person, online magazine publisherhe promises, in is someone big and it will be worth the ruined chapel on police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the islandremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The bridenew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's sister, Olivia, would be even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her only bridesmaid bed one summer night. She was never found and the wedding planner investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and chef her father are Aoife and her husband, Freddydead in their bed. They gave Initially, it looks like a huge discount to get straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the couple to positioning of the island, but surely bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it would was going to be worth it for an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the publicity?explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B0571379877|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)The Kellerby Code|author=Marion ToddJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It was Edward Jevons is a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenStanza. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the raceRobert's a theatre director. TheyHe're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun runerrands for him. It was Lisa MitchellEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's scream which stopped everythingdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. ItMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a major incident when relationship had begun between them but he''any'' child s not like most men: Edward is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to livedark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1471180921Jo Callaghan|title=Firewatching|author=Russ ThomasLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that heAI detective Lock. It's lucky to be theretheir first live case together, given that he decked a superior officerhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. He's But when there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a scar on his face to prove it - potential serial killer and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and very high profile case that his current boss is keen to have draws a tame gay lot of unwanted attention to put on the town hall steps come Pridetheir AI Future Policing project. Either wayWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, he's therepotentially, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= A K Larkwood1399613073|title= The Unspoken NameMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone 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 is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet bonus when the opportunity arises, she chooses you aim to abandon everything she knows be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flee with her lifea trauma doctor. Who can blame her? Her god's reach Anjali is limited the free spirit of the group and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate is she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a funny thing drug and when circumstances bring her back within alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the reach of her god Csorwe learns consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that her god remembers herwill impact the three friends. This time, and blames her very much indeedit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1250238900

|authorisbn= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman0241636604|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers If you were to be calledbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, isnyou't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this background is the Highland FalconEast End, the royal trainwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to a museumthe London School of Economics. A number of high Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will 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 on this trainstupid. It was his ability at what was, so it is quite the event on the social calendar. Howeveressentially, when a card game which got him an expensive brooch is stoleninternship with Citibank. Eventually, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be turned into permanent employment as boring as he previously thoughta trader. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the line.|isbn=1529013062

|isbn=00082752461035021803|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen FieldsC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that 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 a request for help from her sonbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, BartArthur Crockleford, was missing he was already 200 miles away is dead and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Maggie knew straight away that something Arthur was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her knowdown badly. BesidesEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. It's not long before Bart realises that he's aloneAfter the split, trapped she worked in a shipping container cafe, met and married James (on his way to Francethe rebound from the love of her life, where his fate has already been decidedwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Alyssa SheinmelAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= What Kind of GirlAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Women's Science Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're notOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

When Mike ParkerI's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave ve heard it to hersaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, her whole world is tipped upside downI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Her relationship has just ended and now she I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the talk feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the school. Mike was possibilities and the most popular boy in school probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do knows what he did? Some they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people believe her I knew I could trust and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=0349003297

|author= Holly RiversSunny Singh|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= Demelza Clock The Hotel Arcadia is a scientistluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, often staying up late to work killing everyone on her various gadgetssite, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Howeverthere is Sam, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingwartime photographer and Abhi, the ability hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to summon care remotely for the ghosts of residents who are still alive in the recently deceased. Under the guidance hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins room to try to master capture what's happened through her newfound skillsphotography. However, there is a mysterious individual on Although they only ever talk over the prowlphone, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Demelza help her keep safe and her best friend Percy to get they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bottom of this..terrorists.|isbn=1912626039086154742X

|isbn=17874775331529153298|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)List of Suspicious Things|author=Elly GriffithsJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's no longer providing assistance not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to the police and isnhave 'disappeared' doesn't even working at the University of North Norfolksound quite so frightening. SheMiv's upset because she's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from overheard that her beloved Saltmarsh cottage father wants to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgemove the family 'Down South'. Her daughterWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, Katieforeign place, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking goodbest avoided. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry NelsonFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Katie's fatherSharon, because Katie sees him regularly and thereshe's a close relationship with his familyll do anything to prevent that. You might She''almost'' think s not worried about the dangers or that Ruthher Mum's life is settling downstopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=183895015X1398524085|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a PrisonerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Chris AtkinsNicci French

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Documentary filmmakers donCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband't usually get s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the run body of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel GroupGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, but after getting involved in the river. It was an illegal tax scheme easy assumption for the police to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year staymake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and most dysfunctional prison in Europewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=12501685461035906708|authortitle=Sarah KozloffDiva|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasureWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, thenNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to get a novel with world-building you actually want Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain Callas' to have make it more to tap, and manageable in the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedStates. But it's 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 world I could – mother who mercilessly exploited her and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle made no secret of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1543987877Christopher Edge|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a book about love relationships rather than movie marathon at their local cinema, a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is place that has the opposite nickname of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve'The Black Hole'. Your love relationships begin the moment youAll big movie fans, they're born looking forward to lots of exciting films, and end only when you die. many, many snacks! Whilst we all come into However, as the world hoping to give movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and receive love there they are many people for whom love is not quite so simpleswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating But as they lurch from one film genre to the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? For people who are making Will they ever get back to the same mistakes repeatedlycinema, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Chris HautyRachel Greenlaw|title=Deep StateCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter''I can hear the song of the sea. She is every kind The call of fighterthe deep, and well-trained the answering beat in most of themmy heart. She's army infantry ' Rosevear, a remote and she boxes for fun – partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and she winsplundering the wrecks. Always. She wins because she Mira, like her mother before her, is focussedone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She works hardBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, mentally they capture the island's leader and physicallyMira'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 knows how to deal with sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the painsea. She is not so much cold With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected 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 beat. And save the future of her home and the ones she is being watchedholds most dear.|isbn=14711856050008664730

|author=H G Parry James Sherwood Metts|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley Things have struggled to see eye to eye been a bit sticky for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - Earthlings. AI and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he canautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't fully control - one which allows him re paid to do and other tasks that took time to bring literary characters into the real worldaccomplish. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants Just as they were beginning to get used to discharge his duties all this technological change and leave Charley starting to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out think of both their hands. As literary characters begin other, new ways to appear everywherespend time, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsalong came an awful pandemic. Rob Life was pretty much shut down and Charley must team up to stop , along with it, all the madness - in a battle to win before many daily social interactions on which they, the characters and the world reach The End…depend so heavily.|isbn=03565137771736128426

|isbnauthor=1444776185Matthew Tree|title=HavenWe't they Grown|author=Sophie Hannahll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actuallybe different from his father, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the woods very often his artistic passions all failed miserably and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agoendless crises of self confidence. And it might have gone no further So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas his daydreams and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - set himself high but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeenachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529123763A G Slatter|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=It'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the letters which she and other members protection of the extensive Austen Briar's, a family had exchanged with or about her sister Janeof witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. What Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is not known is ''why'' the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she did this was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and at this stage - more administration rather than two hundred years after Janespells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's death - a definitive answer is unlikely leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us communicate with some possible answers in the dead, putting her at the heart of a book that proved maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingsurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Rory ClementsJonathan Kellerman|titlerating=4|genre=Crime|summary=HitlerIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The SecretLife of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=SoSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, Hitler had 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 secret? family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. TwoBefore long, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a certain sing-song aspersionchild. But this is If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a secret that is counter short holiday in Singapore to thatmeet up with an old ally, and Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in fact is a secret street brawl - he would later maintain that Hitler himself doesn't even know abouthe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. His neice, Geli RaubalInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the attractive young woman man. Now he seemed to could be very close facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The 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 early 1930sonline apps in providing a more personal, had had his daughter behind his backtailored service. Protected under 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 false identity ever since, the girl while. Katie is completely ignorant coming out of her pasta break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the truth is a very rare thingchance to come home to Edinburgh. Martin BormannAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, the 'gatekeeper' bringing us to Hitler and his right hand manan Edinburgh we already love, knows – thanks to 44 Scotland Street and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean 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 removing all connected with there's always her existence very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend 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 of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the Reichfire' variety. So itThe projects are divided by the time they's down ll take to Tom Wildecomplete - less than five hours, an American history professor at Oxbridgefive to ten hours, ten to go in twenty hours and extract hermore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, in this most shadowy race against timemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1838770275

|isbnauthor=0241985110Dean Koontz|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=A very beautifulBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of Oxfordand his house gets trashed. She didnOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it't want to go to the police station s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. thing that has trashed his house! The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policething is, which Benny is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking the very last person to Faith Appleford and her motherdeserve all this bad luck. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongHe is a nice person. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter any furtherA really nice person. Fawley and So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his team weren't prepared house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to leave it at that and they began investigatinghelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem Spike is going to have much take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a historywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529400279Adam Stower|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainMurray and Bun

|summary=It was early summer 2018 's February 1991 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in factEssex is bitingly cold, thatwhich made Bruce Hopkins's what return all the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themmore surprising. He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, if not happy, to be home. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen exiled on the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happenedCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings The return has come about his return, but his father is delighted. In fact, because he's determined to have had a party. Onlyletter from his ex-wife, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - itsaying that she's nine years since Kathleen died ill and hehasn's been lonelyt long to live. HeIt's met Anahard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedstolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Penny ChrimesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Tiger HeartThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=''Fly never meant to end up Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the cage wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a man-eating tigerhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. She just saw her chance A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to skedaddlethe titular race, and she took ita globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. And even This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the cloud of soot cleared and she saw sole aim the golden eyes prize of a killer staring into hers, she still didn't turn round and climb back up magic at the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on end – the roofonly thing to possibly save his gran.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=15101070450571382231