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|isbn=14087122880008517061|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Val McDermidStig Abell

|summary=It was Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the middle future of February his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and bitterly cold when her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a fishing boat out lot of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster pot. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and DS Daisy Mortimer relaxing life to investigate and it didn't take too long move in with Livia or does Livia move to establish that Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. future she wants for herself and her daughter? A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was For the prime suspect moment they’re enjoying life in the disappearance present and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auld. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been putting the last person to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into future on the case at an early stageback burner.

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1786482126|title= The Doors of EdenJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, Builders were demolishing an old house in every sense Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of the worda child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. "Epic" is Was this a word thatritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's thrown around a lot these daysdifficult as Ruth knows, but if Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a book ever earned result of the name it's this onenight they spent together some three months ago. It's a doorstopper full Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brainsickness.|isbn=1509865888

|authorisbn=Will Carver0008551324|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hinton HollowIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, population 5he promises,120is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. It sounds like one And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of those signs you see on improbably wide highways his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's 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 Americathe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's midsixteen years since nine-year-westold Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but this particular Hinton Hollow there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a small town complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in BerkshireRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, EnglandUna 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's a theatre director. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, until something happened handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he ran 's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the citytwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 AI detective Lock. HeIt's running away again…only this time evil their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is following him suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and is going a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to touch just about everyone solve the case in town.time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1913193306139851120X

|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1399613073|title=Love FrankieMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= Frankie 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 nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen ruthlessly ambitious, which is not easy a bonus when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided you aim to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the girliest girl who ever lived, group and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at school. Oh, a drug and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you alcohol- fuelled party and you it's going to end in tragedy. We don't fancy him backknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17765728580241636604|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madere unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. My mother A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was deeply embarrassed familiar with violence, poverty and told me that she'd get me a book about itinjustice. A couple of days later I There was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which no posh public school on his CV - but he had never been used in our house before) to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and I was told he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that it wouldn't most rich people expect poor people to be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''stupid. I ''knew'' moreIt was his ability at what was, essentially, but was little ''wiser''a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. ThankfullyEventually, times have changedthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15420174321035021803|title=The Nidderdale MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=J R EllisC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the grouse moor near NiddersgillEnglish country village where she grew up. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner She's back now because of the moor and a retired judgerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. James Symonds was a local landowner Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Henry Saunders was a bankerthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. He and Fraser Arthur was the reason why Freya had known each other since their school daysnot been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Rawnsley had After the split, she worked in a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car cafe, met and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment married James (on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeperthe rebound from the love of her life, Ian Davis thought he who was stingy murdered) and very difficult to work forFreya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0241433568AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Eight DetectivesAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Alex PavesiBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only  I've heard it never gets said that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge technology' is what happens after his siesta his guests find that heyou's been murderedre eighteen. How can Well, I must confess that there have happened? been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's no one else in advantageous to me but I'm left with the housefeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, so one of them must be I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the killerlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1526362759Sunny Singh|title=Dosh: How 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 terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to Earn Itcare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Save Ithe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Spend Itand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Grow It, Give Ittheir 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeJennie Godfrey

|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=What a relief! It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A book about moneywoman? I mean, for children, with clear explanations of honestly...) She's not what it is's worrying Miv's family, why it mattersthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when youthey've managed been murdered, but to get hold of ithave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Your reasons for wanting money donMiv's upset because she't matter: we all need it s overheard that her father wants to some extentmove the family 'Down South'. You might want to go into businessWhen you're from Yorkshire, be Down South is a clever shopperfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, she''really'' want ll do anything to buyprevent that. ThereShe's also not worried about the possibility of using dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to do good in the worldanyone.

|isbn=00083783631398524085|title=One Perfect MorningHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Pamela CraneNicci French|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. To find out who - Her children, sons Niall, Paul and why - we need to go back nine days Ollie and twenty yearsher daughter, Etty. Mackenzieare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in MonroevilleAlec, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friendsis not. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the famous girl band body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the dayriver. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin It was an easy assumption for the Homemaker police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the supporting actress in her own lifeguilt. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whoThe Salter children are not convinced but there's now fifteen-year-oldlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1035906708|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Time We tend to catch you all up with some think of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favouriteGreek parents in Manhattan, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He's lost a dear friend recentlyNew York, in a tragic accident, December 1923 and Archie blames himselfonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He can Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't face school to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so he takes himself that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl mother who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesmercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, aghastJackie. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6

|author=Antony WoottenChristopher Edge|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Tannash Lucas and her brother Geb his friends are waiting all booked in great excitement for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the hunting party led by their uncle to returnnickname of 'The Black Hole'. They All big movie fans, they're hoping for a feast looking forward to lots of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the other warriors on a hunting party movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and take part in their deeds of derring-dothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But their father, as they lurch from one film genre to the leader of the villagenext, thinks that can they also need an education; that knowledge figure out what on earth is power.going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=19392696791839942738

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayRachel Greenlaw|title= Seven DevilsCompass and Blade|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years3. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Non Pratt|title=Every Little Piece of My Heart|rating=45

|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and ''I can hear the promise song of the end of GCSEs just months awaysea. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers The call of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerdeep, 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 the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089922X|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisibleanswering 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=ItMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's June 1996 and footballa bad magician's European Championships are about to start in Londoncat, 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. DS Tom Thorne This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is having a nightmare and itexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's one turned up and he has regularly. It relates 'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a case from ten years earlier when he ''knewYo birthing person'' that a man was guiltyjoke? And if you could, but didn't take any action until is the question should you make it? Or is the man's wife and three children had been murdered and question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the man had killed himselfanswer for both could well be.... no.

Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. It's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friends. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on 'Fragility'' is set as the swings in the park and then dash off city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing emerge from the hiding - but he returned tearfully to restrictions imposed during the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieron.covid pandemic

|isbn=B08CHJLNBS1529431735|title=Capturing EmiliaThe Winter Visitor|author=Brooke AdamsJames Henry|rating=34|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=HeIt's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight February 1991 and a partner at Wickham JonesEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Mayfair letting agentsmore surprising. SheHe's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in d been exiled on the heritage library next doorCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Emilia The return has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but shecome about because he's moved on had a letter from new age books like his ex-wife, saying that, which leave you dependent on someone elseshe's philosophies, ill and hasn't long to something a little deeperlive. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, heIt's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatiblehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, so why can Charles not get this woman out of stripped to his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious underwear and sent to his friendsa watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't ithome?

|isbnauthor=1504321383Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=''You can't be happy Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and fulfilled on your ownruns. You are not complete until you find Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believegeneration missing in the family. It wasnA few short years ago, Eli't unkind: it was simply s parents were both lost to the adults in her life advising her as titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where navigate the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by world in the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever aftercompany of a magical beast. Few girls are lucky enough This has made the race anathema to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was pair – but when a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''bad incident at the eatery leads to a belief confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is a choice''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