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|author= Adrian TchaikovskySylvie Cathrall|title= The Doors of EdenA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 4.5

|summary= Wow – There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this novel is gigantic, in every sense one of the wordthem. "Epic" is |isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a word that's thrown around a lot these daysLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but if has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a book ever earned little uncertainty about the name it's this one. It's future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a doorstopper full lot of big ideas, compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and at times it almost felt too big 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 my brainherself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1509865888

|authorisbn=Will Carver1786482126|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably,120Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westdifficult as Ruth knows, but this particular Hinton Hollow Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a small town in Berkshire, Englandresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereHer condition will be obvious before long, until something happened and he ran away to the city. He's running away again…only this time evil not least because Ruth is following him and is going prone to touch just about everyone in townsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1913193306

|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson0008551324|title=Love FrankieThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteenIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. Being nearly fourteen But Davie Hardie is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided struggling in prison and he's prepared to leave tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her for another womandeath. This person, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedhe promises, is someone big and, above all when Sally it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and her mates are bullying you at schoolto get an early parole date. Oh Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs she's even prepared to do the other thing that he might fancy you Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and you donanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't fancy him backs happening. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897

|isbn=17765728580008405026|title=How Do You Make a Baby?A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Jane Casey

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=It's more than sixty sixteen years since I asked how babies were madenine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. My mother She was deeply embarrassed never found and told me that she'd get me the investigation ground to a book about ithalt. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicsNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and I her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was told going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that it wouldnthe explanation lies in Rosalie't be discussed any further s disappearance: others (such as it Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'wasn't something which nice people talked abouts a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. I Most men in Robert''knew'' more, s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but was little he''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changeds not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1542017432Jo Callaghan|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisLeave No Trace|rating=34

|summary=It was When a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held man is found crucified on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were top of a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to his friends) was the owner of case alongside her sidekick, the moor and a retired judgeAI detective Lock. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since It's their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleyfirst live case together, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Rawnsley had But when there is a gripe second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car a potential serial killer and Fraser was being slow a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to paytheir AI Future Policing project. Other people had reason Will they be able to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeepersolve the case in time, Ian Davis thought he was stingy or will Kat find herself taken off the case and very difficult to work for., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=02414335681399613073|title=Eight DetectivesMoral Injuries|author=Alex PavesiChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=ItOlivia, 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 bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they's 1930 re at a drug and Megan alcohol-fuelled party and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house it's going to end in Spaintragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. ItTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunchtheir teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: heA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's going re unlikely to have a rest think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and then injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he wants had been to talk to Megan the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Henry about something serioushe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Only it never gets He also realised that far: when Bunny doesnmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter't emerge after his siesta his guests find that hes Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been murderedback to the English country village where she grew up. How can that have happened? She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ThereFreya's former mentor and Carole's no one else close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the houseprofession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, so one met and married James (on the rebound from the love of them must be the killerher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1526362759AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=DoshAll Tomorrow's Futures: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItFictions that Disrupt|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=What a relief! A book ''Opening up new ways of thinking about money, for children, with clear explanations the shape of what things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' iswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, why it matters, how to acquire I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what you can do with it when you've managed s advantageous to get hold of me but I'm left with the feeling that it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we s all need getting away from me. Some of it to some extentis - frankly - quite frightening. You might want to go into businessOf course, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and there might be something you end up down rabbit holes without really, understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'really'' want to buyre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. There's also the possibility of using to do good I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the worlda way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0008378363Sunny Singh|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=A husband The Hotel Arcadia is about to have his throat cut a luxury hotel in his own bedan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. To find out Hiding from the terrorists who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzieare rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Robin a wartime photographer and Lily met when they all went to the same college in MonroevilleAbhi, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friendshotel manager. When they first met they called themselves As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Spicier Girls as hotel, he forms a nod bond with Sam who refuses to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spicecowed by events, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her own lifephotography. She married OwenAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her college sweetheart keep safe and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529153298|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been doing murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so much of it frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that I'm a bit late her father wants to move the party with actual reviewingfamily 'Down South'. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series When you're from Bookbag favouriteYorkshire, Darren Shan? Archie Down South is very downa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. He's lost a dear For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend recently, in a tragic accidentSharon, and Archie blames himselfshe'll do anything to prevent that. He can She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderouss stopped talking -looking men in white suits. He watches, aghastto anyone. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten1398524085|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Tannash Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her brother Geb daughter, Etty. are waiting in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle to returnall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. They're hoping for a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the other warriors on a hunting party and take part in their deeds body of derring-do. But their Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the leader of river. It was an easy assumption for the village, thinks police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they also need an education; that knowledge is powercan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1939269679

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1035906708|title= Seven DevilsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eris is one We tend to think of the foremost operatives of the NovantaeMaria Callas as Greek, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire but she was destined born to inherit Greek parents in her past life as Princess DiscordiaManhattan, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. CloNew York, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft in December 1923 and only moved to gather information vital Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased Callas' to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get make it more interesting as manageable in the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runnerget appropriate training for her voice -up heir to she was raised under the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and the last made no secret of the free alien speciesher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140

|author=Non PrattChristopher Edge|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular Lucas and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable his friends are all booked in her existence as for a queen bee 16-year-old studentmovie marathon at their local cinema, complete with best friend and a place that has the promise nickname of the end of GCSEs just months away'The Black Hole'. But one day All big movie fans, on January 1stthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. Soand many, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months aftermany snacks! However, she expects it to contain answers of some kindas the movie starts, but they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangervery different, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing they are swept up into an item unique adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcelnext, a new layer of the story and of Freya can they figure out what on earth is unwrapped - and painful truths come going on? Will they ever get back to light that threaten to break bondsthe cinema, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leaveto their real lives?|isbn=14063669431839942738

|isbnauthor=178089922XRachel Greenlaw|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''When you wear a hoodI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, you're invisiblethe answering beat in my heart.''

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissionRosevear, she's a bit of a boffin, doing remote and enjoying mathspartially forgotten island, physics survives on luring ships into the rocks and biology at A levelplundering the wrecks. Life hasn't been easy for Mira, like her mother before her: most people , is one of the seven who have been close swim out to her have died 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 sheMira's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatfather. Something ''reallyDesperate to save him from death, really bad happened'' Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her when , she was ten and she self-harmed for sets off in search of a long timefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her therapist. He gently unpeeled from the layers watched streets of her psyche, but somehow managed foreign islands to miss that the heart of the smuggler'something reallys territory, really bad'. When Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but ones she retained an interest in Roanholds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1838951067James Sherwood Metts|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get Things have been a shockbit sticky for the Earthlings. He's security at a supermarket AI and heautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's watching a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm re paid to do and he wonders if she's planning other tasks that took time to pay for itaccomplish. Suddenly it drops Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blackthink of other, is the title. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man whonew ways to spend time, until eighteen years ago raped and killedalong came an awful pandemic. The author of the book Life was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, pretty much shut down and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sisteralong with it, Annaall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Christina Hammonds ReedMatthew Tree|title=The Black KidsWe'll Never Know

|genre=Teens Literary Fiction|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a reaction to the absolution drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the perspective being exceptional at any of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of raceself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, to a woman finding her voice cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and embracing her heritageset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1471188191B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0751567426A G Slatter|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she'' There's an inpatient a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long 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 protection of the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in MichiganBriar's Upper Peninsula, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. She's twenty-six and Though she has been there always wished for fifteen yearsmagic, convinced that she accidentally killed Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her mother when family for generations and as such since she was eleven-years-old young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and that potions. When her father then took grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the gun Briar Witch, the town's leader, and killed himselfEllie takes her place beside her. Her sisterAs challenges come her way left, Dianaright and centre, just twenty-years-oldEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, was left putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family homesecret to another, a lodge in Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Upper Peninsula wilderness. RachelBriar witches's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains therelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15069094421529900360|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryGhost Orchid|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJonathan Kellerman

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'The greatest hatreds fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, like the greatest virtue 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 worst dogshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, is silentwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed.''  The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralnext case did look simple, is from German romantic writer Jean Paulthough. But who are Two lovers were murdered in the worst dogs swimming pool of a remote property in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and for whom she is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way married to the very last an extremely rich man 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 honestnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Rob Baker1529395224|title=Toubab TalesLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Joys and Trials Secret Life of Expat Life in Africaa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''"Go t want to Malifollow in his footsteps," they saidparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. "The music is amazing," they said. "And you get ten hours When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of sunshine every daydoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him." So I did Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologistt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he''A what?'' I hear you cry. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation d wanted to culture, so rather like be a folklorist studies the oral and written story traditions relating to a cultureprofessional footballer. |isbn=B089CSNFT7

|authorisbn=James Patterson0861541774|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, every dayDanny Maik, for years. She is waiting for her parents has taken a short holiday in Singapore to come and get hermeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. They left her there when she Maik was just tiny, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just involved in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary a street urchin though...she has wings, and can fly! Since she brawl - he would later maintain that he was abandoned she's been living facing a man armed with a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own knife - and together they've made their own familyhe killed a Ghurka. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualInitially, there's he faced a mysterious child-killer who has been brought charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the prison next door to where man. Now he could be facing the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaydeath penalty. Where have they been taken, Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and can Hawk rescue them before itwouldn's too late?|isbn=1529120004t help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1785765698Alexander McCall Smith|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, the man who would become known run by Ness and operating as 'an alternative to all the roommate killer', strangled three women online apps in providing a fortnightmore personal, tailored service. When he was arrested he admitted Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the killingsbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. A fourth death was attributed to him - that Katie is coming out of Holly Kemp - a break up with a bad boyfriend, and on occasionsso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Masters admitted bringing us to the killingan Edinburgh we already love, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied it. He played with thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the policeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings with some new characters who quickly begin to put him away for a long time and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp casecharm. There was Katie has no body experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and once Masters was murdered in prisonthere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, no hope of progressing the case further.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=14736824010811771741|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Catriona McPhersonMelissa Leapman

|genre=Crime (Historical)Crafts|summary=Those who were with Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us at the end a collection of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged knits from toys to Mallory Dunnochblankets. TheySome will be quick knits - others are of the 're now married and Mallory is having twinslong, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. When The projects are divided by the time they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry 'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilvermore than twenty hours. There All the projects are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy attractive, modern and Hughuseable. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry I perhaps show my age when it was offered to them twice before, I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but suddenly the possibility of that's me being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistiblepicky.

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSDean Koontz|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about Benny is having to start a new schoolterrifically bad day. She's left the school she loved in New York He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and now she's going to Ashams in North Londonhis house gets trashed. ItOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the pupils have all been there ''forever''thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, they have their established groups. Robin's going Benny is the very last person to be an outsiderdeserve all this bad luck. And why He is this happening? a nice person. Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartA really nice person. Andrew Spence So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mothernew friend, Sadie Ropera bad weather friend called Spike, who has come back been sent to London to pick up her practice as help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a criminal barristergood person. ThatSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's easier said than done when youenemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny've been s wild adventure) can figure out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearswho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1408712415Adam Stower|title=Cry Baby|author=Mark BillinghamMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about Murray is supposed to start in London. DS Tom Thorne is having be a nightmare humble, tidy and it's friendly cat, one he has regularly. It relates who is able to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until the man's wife sleep and three children had been murdered eat and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne eat and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron sleep and Josh, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. ItBut he's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and - despite differences in the where and how catflap they live - both use can chuck them out, not into the women are best friends. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings in the park regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodwhiffs. Josh This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was the one doing the hiding - , to be honest, but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him 's turned up and now he can't find Kieron.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B08CHJLNBSB0C47LV1PC|title=Capturing EmiliaFragility|author=Brooke AdamsMosby Woods|rating=34|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=HeCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jonesjoke? And if you could, is the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in question should you make it? Or is the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave question if you dependent on someone else's philosophiesdid, to something a little deeper. Charles would it land? The catch is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads the answer for both could well be.... no. ''The GuardianFragility''. They're obviously not at all compatibleis set as the city of Portland, 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 superficialityOregon, why does she feel drawn cautiously begins to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15043213831529431735|title=Single, Again, and Again, and AgainThe Winter Visitor|author=Louisa PatemanJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'You canreturn all the more surprising. He't be happy and fulfilled d been exiled on your ownthe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. You are not complete until you find The return has come about because he's had a manletter from his ex-wife, saying that she''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasns ill and hasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as long to what they thought would be best for herlive. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to be brought up ''without'' a watery grave in the expectation that they will marry and have childrenboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It was Is it a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''warning from a belief is Spanish gang or a choice''.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1787301435Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the private road wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Glen Turrit. It was the evening a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When helper at the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel dessert cafe his gran owns and hit a treeruns. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she wasEli lives with his lovely gran, but it obviously wasn't too – for there is a conventional hospitalgeneration missing in the family. She'd made her first mistake some time A few short years ago, although Eli's parents were both lost to the realisation wouldn't be obvious titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to her for navigate the world in the company of a long timemagical beast. She'd This has made it the race anathema to the pair – but when she chose a bad incident at the eatery leads to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231