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|isbn=15420174321786482126|title=The Nidderdale MurdersJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=J R EllisElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday Builders were demolishing an old house in midNorwich -September when the shoot site was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy going to his friends) was hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the owner bones of the moor and a retired judgechild beneath a doorway. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders There was a bankerno skull. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. Was this a ritual killing or murder? The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyInevitably, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payDCI Harry Nelson. Other people had reason to comment on FraserIt's attitude to money: difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his gamekeeperchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult not least because Ruth is prone to work forsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=02414335680008551324|title=Eight DetectivesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Alex PavesiNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spainunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. It's unbearably hot Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going prepared to have tell the police where the body of a rest missing person is buried and then who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to talk be transferred to Megan an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Henry about something seriousto get an early parole date. Only Not much to ask, is it never gets that far: when Bunny ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that hethink so and she's been murdered. How can even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that have happened? ThereDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killerhappening.

|isbn=15263627590008405026|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeJane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=What 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 a relief! halt. A book about moneyNow, for childrenher mother, with clear explanations of what it isHelena, why it mattersand her father are dead in their bed. Initially, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when youlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there've managed to get hold s something about the positioning of itthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need What looked as though it was going to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') open-and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy-shut case is now a complex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's also the possibility of using to do good in the worlddisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=00083783630571379877|title=One Perfect MorningThe Kellerby Code|author=Pamela CraneJonny Sweet

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A husband Edward Jevons is about to have a working-class young man, obsessed with his throat cut in his own bedupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. To find out who He's also self- obsessed, demanding, handsome and why - we need entitled and uses Edward to go back nine days and twenty yearsrun errands for him. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college Edward has been in Monroeville, Pennsylvania love with Stanza since their university days - and twenty years later theyhe're still the best of friendss drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a nod relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the famous girl band two of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress them kissing in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-olddark passageway.

|author=Darren ShanJo Callaghan|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much When a man is found crucified on the top of it that I'm a bit late hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the party with actual reviewingcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite It's their first live case together, Darren Shan? Archie is having previously been very downsuccessful with several cold cases. He's lost But when there is a second body found crucified a dear friend recentlyfew days later, in Kat is suddenly struggling with a tragic accident, potential serial killer and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londonvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. As he strolls across a footbridge Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, he sees out of a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going oncareer?|isbn=B086LKBHD6139851120X

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten1399613073|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Tannash Olivia, Laura and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for Anjali met on the hunting party led by first day of medical school and their uncle friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to returnbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. They're hoping for Laura is a perfectionist and a feast trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba group and the other warriors on she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a hunting drug and alcohol-fuelled party and take part it's going to end in their deeds of derring-dotragedy. But their father, We don't know who suffered the leader of tragedy or the village, thinks that they also need consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an education; eerily similar event that knowledge is powerwill impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1939269679

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May0241636604|title= Seven DevilsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionAutobiography|summary= Eris is one If you were to bring up an image of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit city banker in her past life as Princess Discordiayour mind, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although sheyou's less than pleased re unlikely to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this missionthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Things get more interesting as A hoodie and jeans replaces the mission commences; aboard pin-stripe suit and his background is the ship are three defectors East End, where he was familiar with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empireviolence, poverty and injustice. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner There was no posh public school on his CV -up heir but he had been to the Empire, London School of Economics. Stevenson is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos bright - extremely bright - and the last he has a facility with numbers which most of the free alien speciesus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It's was his ability at what was, essentially, a race against time card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140trader.

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1035021803|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya was Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a beautifulrequest for help from her beloved aunt, popular Carole. Freya's former mentor and complex girlCarole's close friend, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old studentArthur Crockleford, complete with best friend is dead and the promise of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the end of GCSEs just months awayleast. But one day Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, on January 1stshe feels, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from let her sincedown badly. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she expects it has not felt able to contain answers of some kindbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to she worked in a complete strangercafe, met and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and married James (on the promise of 'treasure' at rebound from the end love of it all. With each parcelher life, a new layer of the story who was murdered) and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldJames have now divorced. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|isbn=178089922XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Invisible GirlAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lisa JewellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisibleOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

Saffyre Maddox I've heard it said that 'technology' is seventeen-years-old and beautifulwhat happens after you're eighteen. By her own admissionWell, she's I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A leveltechnology in my lifetime. Life hasnI've kept up reasonably well with what't been easy for her: most people who have been close s advantageous to her have died and sheme but I'm left with the feeling that it's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighthall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -floor flatquite frightening. Something ''reallyOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really bad happenedunderstanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' to her when she was ten re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and she self-harmed for who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a long timeterrorist group. Aaron organised psychological help Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and for three years Roan Fours was her therapistAbhi, the hotel manager. He gently unpeeled As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the layers residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her psyche, but somehow managed room to try to miss that 'something really, really badcapture what's happened through her photography. When Although they only ever talk over the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftphone, but she retained an interest in Roantheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18389510671529153298|title=The Nothing ManList of Suspicious Things|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJennie Godfrey

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heIt's about to get a shock1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) HeShe's security at a supermarket and henot what's watching a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if sheworrying Miv's planning to pay for itfamily, though. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsWomen have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'Nothing Mandisappeared'doesn' by Eve Black, is the titlet sound quite so frightening. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'isDown South'. When you' - the Nothing Man whore from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, until eighteen years ago raped and killedbest avoided. The author of For Miv, the book was twelve years old when Jim raped move would mean leaving her motherbest friend, and then killed herSharon, her father and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her sevenMum's stopped talking -year-old sister, Annato anyone.

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1398524085|title=The Black KidsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Christina Hammonds ReedCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's debut novel 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 set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsnot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, a reaction to find the absolution body of four police officers for beating a black manGreg's father, Rodney KingDuncan Ackerley, nearly to deathin the river. Told from It was an easy assumption for the perspective of Ashley Bennett, police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with matters of race, to a woman finding her voice their lives and embracing her heritagewonder about what really happened.|isbn=1471188191

|isbn=07515674261035906708|title=The Wicked SisterDiva|author=Karen DionneDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twenty-six December 1923 and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother only moved to Athens when she was eleven-years-old and that thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father then took changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the gun and killed himselfStates. Her sister, Diana, just twentyWhen she was back in Athens -yearssupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -old, she was left at raised under the family home, Nazi occupation by a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel's very bright mother who mercilessly exploited her and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains theremade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersJackie.

|isbnauthor=1506909442Christopher Edge|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-Mystery|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident 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 Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'The greatest hatredre looking forward to lots of exciting films, like the greatest virtue and many, many snacks! However, as the worst dogsmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is silent.very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn'' The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, is from German romantic writer Jean Pault even imagine. But who are as they lurch from one film genre to the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel and for whom next, can they figure out what on earth is the hatredgoing on? This mystery will last all the way Will they ever get back to the very last cinema, and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honest.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Rob BakerRachel Greenlaw|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys Compass and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaBlade|rating=43.5|genre=TravelTeens|summary=''"Go to Mali," they saidI can hear the song of the sea. "The music is amazingcall of the deep," they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I didthe answering beat in my heart.''

Rob Baker 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 an ethnomusicologistone 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'A what?'' I hear you crys father. WellDesperate to save him from death, an ethnomusicologist studies music 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 relation 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 culturethe heart of the smuggler's territory, so rather like a folklorist studies Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the oral future of her home and written story traditions relating to a culturethe ones she holds most dear. |isbn=B089CSNFT70008664730

|author=James PattersonSherwood Metts|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hawk has Things have been waiting on a bit sticky for the same street corner, every day, for yearsEarthlings. She is waiting for her parents to come AI and get her. They left her there when she was just tinyautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and although she's almost certain other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they are never coming back for herwere beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, she continues new ways to head back there each dayspend time, just in casealong came an awful pandemic. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsLife was pretty much shut down and, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living along with a group of other childrenit, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together the many daily social interactions on which they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaydepend so heavily. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=15291200041736128426

|isbnauthor=1785765698Matthew Tree|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the man who would become known as Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''the roommate killerThere', strangled three women in s a fortnightpart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. When he was arrested he admitted the killingsThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. A fourth death was attributed I just want to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasionsenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, Masters admitted to far away from the killingworld, then he denied it - then admitted itlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, then denied ita family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. He played with the policeThough she has always wished for magic, but there was sufficient evidence on Ellie Briar is the first three killings non-witch to put him away be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a long time steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the CPS were not convinced about Briar Witch, the Holly Kemp casetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. There was no body As challenges come her way left, right and once Masters was murdered in prisoncentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, no hope putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of progressing chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the case furtherBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=14736824011529900360|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)Ghost Orchid|author=Catriona McPhersonJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Donald Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was engaged reluctant to Mallory Dunnochask for his help on difficult cases. TheyHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn're now married and Mallory is having twinst need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brotherFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilverwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and HughShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Dandy and her detective partnerThe next case did look simple, Alec Osborne, had not taken up though. Two lovers were murdered in the chance to look into swimming pool of a problem at remote property in Bel Air. He was the Cramond ferry when heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly 's not the possibility of being out Italian. But which of them was the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.primary target?

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Lies You ToldSecret Life of a Vet|author=Harriet TyceSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new schoolSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She's left the school she loved in New York His father was a GP and now sheRowlands didn's going t want to Ashams follow in North London. Ithis footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and as was convinced this was the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groupsjob for him. Robin's going to be an outsiderBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parentsIt hadn' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York t - as with so many students - been his dream since he works for was a securities firm - and her motherchild. If anything, Sadie Roper, has come back he'd wanted to London to pick up her practice as be a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsprofessional footballer.

|isbn=14087124150861541774|title=Cry BabyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Mark BillinghamSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's June 1996 close friend and football's European Championships are about former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to start in Londonmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. DS Tom Thorne is having Maik was involved in a nightmare and it's one street brawl - he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when would later maintain that he ''knew'' that was facing a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are armed with their sons Kieron and Josh. It's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other and knife - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendshe killed a Ghurka. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding - Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never evidence came to find him and now light that suggested that he can't find Kieron.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, might have planned to murder the Mayfair letting agentsman. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in Now he could be facing the heritage library next doordeath penalty. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something another police force could provoke a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, hediplomatic incident and wouldn's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not t help Danny at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?

|isbnauthor=1504321383Alexander McCall Smith|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=''You can't be happy The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believemore personal, tailored service. It wasn't unkind: it was simply Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the adults in her life advising her business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to what they thought would be best get away for hera while. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) Katie is rescued by coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever afterchance to come home to Edinburgh. Few girls are lucky enough And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to be brought up ''without'' 44 Scotland Street and the expectation that they will marry and have childrenIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. It was Katie has no experience in running a belief business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that 'there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a belief is a choice''.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=17873014350811771741|title=Dark WatersInstaKnits for Baby|author=G R HallidayMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to drive down the private road in Glen Turritblankets. It was a long road through some breathSome will be quick knits -taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear others are of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out 'long, cosy afternoons in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treefire' variety. When she came round after The projects are divided by the accident she couldntime they't work out where she wasll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitalten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. She'd made her first mistake some time agoAll the projects are attractive, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long timemodern and useable. SheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Suzanne CollinsDean Koontz|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesBad Weather Friend

|genre=TeensParanormal|summary= Coriolanus Snow Benny is refinedhaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, charminghe loses his fiancee, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familyhis house gets trashed. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his parents dead - home, and yet it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Coriolanus and other students of Benny is the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the gamesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. This He is his chance a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to prove himself to the world and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he house is assigned a tribute with no hope - new friend, a girl bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both nefarious forces for her and for him) are gonebeing a good person. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself Spike is going to be a spark in his worldtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, in a way if he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the slyBenny, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life tooHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791662500491

|author=Sakinu AhronglongAdam Stower|title=Hunter SchoolMurray and Bun

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers |summary= The flyleaf Murray is supposed to this little collection tells us that it be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is a work able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of fictionthe two. That But he's possibly misleadinga bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. I am not sure whether This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all upexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say be honest, but he's turned up and he'recollections, folklore and autobiographical storiesll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''. It feels like joke? And if you could, is the latter. It feels like question should you make it? Or is the stories he tells about his experiences as a childquestion if you did, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and true. But memory would it land? The catch is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read itthe answer for both could well be.... More people shouldno.|isbn=1999791282''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1529431735|title=Harrow LakeThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when she is found by her fatherIt's assistant February 1991 and forced to come homeEssex is bitingly cold, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying in his studywhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, He'd been exiled on the small 1920s town in Indiana that served Costa del Sol as the location a wanted drug smuggler for the film that made her parents famousa decade. But something The return has come about this place isn't right. Therebecause he's had a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the townletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's cannibal monster ill and hasn'Mister Jitterst long to live. It' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hours hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, secrets long buried come painfully stripped to light his underwear and she begins sent to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks a watery grave in Harrow Lakethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=0241397049 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author= Helly ActonAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The ShelfGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary= When Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we meet Amystart by visiting with him, she's and in the evening a relationship helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with Jamiehis lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. You can't really call it a partnership A few short years ago, because things tend to get done on his terms, but sheEli's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ahparents were both lost to the titular race, yesa globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when he tells her a bad incident at the eatery leads to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the work (and end – the wait) worth it?only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=18387708790571382231