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|author=Sharon DoeringSylvie Cathrall|title=She Lies CloseA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her since, and no arrests have been madeare few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort one of information had come to light before they moved inthem.|isbn=17890941940356522776

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti0008517061|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Tabby Cat are minding their own business her daughter Diana, as moving in their own house when together would mean a very alarming thing happens. A creature lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- a large, dog-like creature - appears grid and relaxing life to move in their house. Black Cat, always one with Livia or does Livia move to take charge, challenges Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this fearsome creature with all is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from a rather safe distanceback burner. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbn=17124357281786482126|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Michael GallagherElly Griffiths

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's just being released from apartments - when they discovered the Southern General Hospitalbones of a child beneath a doorway. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has There was no intention of doing that: he's been there for skull. Was this a year, on the same ward where his brother died and nowritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his hair all shorn off, heDCI Harry Nelson. It's going home in his dead brotherdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's clothes. He wants to get outside and back t, that she is pregnant with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that child as a result of the fresh air one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will do him good and his mother tells him that he's be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0008551324|title=SolitaireThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringpolice. She Neither side likes or has one real friend; any respect for the rest are just people she sits near so sheother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's not prepared to tell the police where the body of a complete lonermissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenly This person, he promises, a blog called Solitaire has arrived is someone big and is pulling pranks throughout it will be worth the schoolpolice doing what he wants. And Michael Holden has appeared what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly think so and she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem even prepared to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isnkept well away from what't bored anymores happening.|isbn=9780007559220

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant0008405026|title=Voyage of A Stranger in the SparrowhawkFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Set in England in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the aftermath of World War Oneinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, this is the story of two childrenHelena, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of her father are dead in their last, tiny glimpses of hopebed. Ben is living on Initially, it looks like a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherstraightforward murder/suicide but there's imminent return from something about the battlefields to take care positioning of himthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is back at home; it's now a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forcomplex double murder. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) Kerrigan is convinced that the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's familyboss, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792730571379877|title=House of CorrectionThe Kellerby Code|author=Nicci FrenchJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, she's in prisonobsessed with his upper-class friends, on remandRobert and Stanza. SheRobert's sharing a cell with Michaela, whotheatre director. He's more caring than she first appearsalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. She delivers tough Edward has been in love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking with Stanza since their university days - and encourages her he's drunkenly confided how he feels to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might beRobert. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Most men in Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha 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 only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered two of them kissing in his blooda dark passageway.

|author=Darren ShanJo Callaghan|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Leave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This third and final book in When a man is found crucified on the first volume top of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the way to case alongside her sidekick, the CuckooAI detective Lock. It's Nesttheir first live case together, where the Vote having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of Alignment will be heldunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. But how will Will they get be able to solve the case intime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=B086LLWP4V139851120X

|isbn=00083147211399613073|title=Truth Be ToldMoral Injuries|author=Kia AbdullahChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to thank be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and this prompts a phone call in returntrauma doctor. There are two sons Anjali is the free spirit of the family, seventeen-yeargroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-old Kamran fuelled party and sixteen-year-old Adamit's going to end in tragedy. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnWe don't name them know who suffered the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off tragedy or the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'consequences. Sofia worries about Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that sort of thingwill impact the three friends. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolThis time, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from it's their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedteenage children who are involved.

|isbn=15098895150241636604|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Ann CleevesGary Stevenson

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the wrong turning as English country village where she drove home in the blizzardgrew up. If she hadnShe't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seats back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, particularly as the car door had been left openCarole. Vera took Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the boy and drove circumstances seem suspicious, to say the nearest habitationleast. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it Arthur was Brockburn, the ancestral home of reason why Freya had not been back to the Stanhopesvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her father had been the younger brother of down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man who inherited - and Hector was or pursue the black sheep of the familyprofession she loved. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassingAfter the split, but there was little else that she could do worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the circumstanceslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0241425441AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Thursday Murder ClubAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Richard OsmanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The first member ''Opening up new ways of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus thinking about the perfect person for Elizabeth shape of things to consult about how long come.'' I've heard it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms Well, I must confess that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could there have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpmore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. It didnI't put Joyce off her shepherdve kept up reasonably well with what's pie (which tells us advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it was a Monday) but 's all getting away from me. Some of it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubis - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, 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 latest conspiracy theorist. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagea way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1948124440Sunny Singh|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=The second book Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Justine Avery's Wonders series is an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - orterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, indeedthere is Sam, as we've found recentlya wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the world. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond withSam who refuses to be cowed by events, repurposedand 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, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and played with again?they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn= Samira Ahmed1529153298|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'In the end, we all become storiess not what's worrying Miv' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most peoples family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, especially art-loversthey've been murdered, but Khayyam canto have 'disappeared' doesn't relax and stop thinking about sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mess she left behind in Chicagofamily 'Down South'. On When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumasfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumasmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronshe'll do anything to prevent that. As the two teenagers travel the city they She's not only discover themselves, but uncover worried about the true story of the woman and why it was one dangers or that should never have been forgottenher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0349003556

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1398524085|title=LovelessHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on Charlotte Salter was expected at her first year of university and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. Shehusband's always been in love with lovefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. With the idea of love Her children, sons Niall, the idea of falling madly for someone Paul and Ollie and finding blissher daughter, Etty. But the reality for are all worried but - strangely - her has always been differenthusband, Alec, is not. She Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's never had a crushfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate It was an easy assumption for the police to feel something make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and fall for someone. But then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the opportunity presents itself in any kind of real, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by itguilt. But isn't that what she The Salter children are not convinced but there's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone little else they can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412Xbut get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B086LLRZFH1035906708|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanDiva|author=Darren ShanDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with a fantastic vista. All We tend to think of the Born's most famous buildings and monuments - Big BenMaria Callas as Greek, the Taj Mahalbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherNew York, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez December 1923 and only moved to a venerable locksmith called WinstonAthens when she was thirteen.Winston is a darling Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but is afraid her father changed it to help - what is 'Callas' to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's placemake it more manageable in the States. And When she was back in Athens - supposedly so Archie embarks on that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a new, mother who mercilessly exploited her and even more dangerousmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, adventure...Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1408712288Christopher Edge|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)|author=Val McDermidBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was the middle of February Lucas and bitterly cold when his friends are all booked in for a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled movie marathon at their local cinema, a body out place that has the Firth nickname of Forth instead of a lobster pot'The Black Hole'. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnAll big movie fans, they't take too long re looking forward to establish that the man was Paul Allardlots of exciting films, ostensibly a Frenchmanand many, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. many snacks! A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect in However, as the disappearance and possible murder of his brothermovie starts, prominent civil servantthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Iain Auldand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. DCI Karen Pirie, But as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unitthey lurch from one film genre to the next, had been the last person can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to review the casecinema, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stage.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyRachel Greenlaw|title= The Doors of EdenCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in every sense my heart.'' 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 one of the wordseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. "Epic" is But when the Council Watch lays a word thattrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's thrown around father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot these daysbargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, but if she sets off in search of a book ever earned family secret that lies buried deep in the name it's this onesea. ItWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a doorstopper full territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of big ideas, her home and at times it almost felt too big for my brainthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15098658880008664730

|author=Will CarverJames Sherwood Metts|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is Things have been a small town in Berkshire, Englandbit sticky for the Earthlings. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereAI and automation have been proceeding apace, until something happened often replacing jobs they're paid to do and he ran away other tasks that took time to the cityaccomplish. He's running away again…only Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time evil is following him , along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and is going to touch just about everyone in town, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=19131933061736128426

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMatthew Tree|title=Love FrankieWe'll Never Know

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedbe different from his father, a drunk and, above chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all when Sally failed miserably and her mates are bullying you at schoolwho had endless crises of self confidence. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since foreverSo Tim applied himself to his studies, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and you don't fancy him backset himself high but achievable ambitions. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1776572858A G Slatter|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)The Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Home and FamilyFantasy|summary=It'' There's more than sixty years since 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 asked how babies were madejust want to enjoy it for a while. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a book about it. A couple town under the protection of days later I was handed the Briar's, a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the basicsDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and I as such since she was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further young, her training as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked abouta steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. I ''knew'' moreReeling from one family secret to another, but was little ''wiser'Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'. Thankfullylegacy, times everything they have changedsacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15420174321529900360|title=The Nidderdale MurdersGhost Orchid|author=J R EllisJonathan Kellerman|rating=34

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a Friday in mid-September when psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the shoot involvement was held on something that the grouse moor near Niddersgillman she loved needed. The shooters at next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the butts were swimming pool of a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his friends) an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the owner primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the moor Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and a retired judgeWildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. James Symonds His father was a local landowner GP and Henry Saunders Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a banker. He family friend who was a vet and Fraser had known each other since their school dayswas convinced this was the job for him. The fourth member Before long, he was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponat Liverpool University. Rawnsley had a gripe It hadn't - as with Fraser: so many students - been his dream since he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to paya child. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeperIf anything, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult 'd wanted to work forbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=02414335680861541774|title=Eight DetectivesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Alex PavesiSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's 1930 close friend and Megan and Henry are staying former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Bunny at his house in Spainan old ally, Guy Trueman. It's unbearably hot Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have killed a rest and then Ghurka. Initially, he wants faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to talk light that suggested that he might have planned to Megan and Henry about something seriousmurder the man. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that Now he's been murderedcould be facing the death penalty. How Domenic Jejeune can that have happened? Theredo nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killert help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1526362759Alexander McCall Smith|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=What The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a relief! more personal, tailored service. A book about moneyNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, for children, with clear explanations of what it as Ness is, why it matters, how planning to take a trip to Canada to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks get away for a while. Katie is coming out) of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and what you can do with it when you've managed so jumps at the chance to come home to get hold of itEdinburgh. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we all need it already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some extentnew characters who quickly begin to charm. You might want to go into Katie has no experience in running a business, be a clever shopperor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to do good in the world.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=00083783630811771741|title=One Perfect MorningInstaKnits for Baby|author=Pamela CraneMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=A husband is about Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to have his throat cut blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in his own bedfront of the fire' variety. To find out who The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - and why - we need less than five hours, five to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzieten hours, Robin and Lily met when they all went ten to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania twenty hours and more than twenty years later they're still the best of friendshours. When they first met they called themselves All the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spiceprojects are attractive, Robin the Homemaker modern and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifeuseable. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whoI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's now fifteensocial-yearmedia-oldworthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Darren ShanDean Koontz|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Time Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - Ihis home, and it've been doing so much of it s possible that I'm a bit late to whoever or whatever was inside is the party with actual reviewing. Oopsthing that has trashed his house! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite The thing is, Darren Shan? Archie Benny is the very downlast person to deserve all this bad luck. He's lost is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a dear new friend recently, in a tragic accidentbad weather friend called Spike, and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a truanting wander around Londongood person. As Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he strolls across a footbridge, he sees Benny, and Harper (a girl waitress slash Private Investigator who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suitsfinds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. He watches, aghast. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD61662500491

|author=Antony WoottenAdam Stower|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Tannash Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the hunting party led by their uncle to returntwo. They But he's a bad magician're hoping for s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the day he catflap they both use can join his uncle Gagba and chuck them out, not into the other warriors on regular back garden, but into a hunting party world of frightening adventure and take part in their deeds of derring-dowhiffs. But their father This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, the leader of the villageto be honest, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=19392696790008561249

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayB0C47LV1PC|title= Seven DevilsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= Eris Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is one of the foremost operatives of question should you make it? Or is the Novantaequestion if you did, a resistance movement fighting against would it land? The catch is that 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 answer for yearsboth could well be. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she.. no. ''Fragility''s less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting set as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damoclescity of Portland, the runner-up heir to the EmpireOregon, is plotting cautiously begins to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and emerge from the last of restrictions imposed during 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=1473231140covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1529431735|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular It's February 1991 and complex girlEssex is bitingly cold, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the end of GCSEs just months awaymore surprising. But one day, He'd been exiled on January 1st, she justthe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade... 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 The return has come about because he's had a mysterious parcel letter from her 5 months afterhis ex-wife, saying that she expects it 's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to contain answers of some kind, but feel any sympathy when Hopkins is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangerabducted, and then another layer stripped to another person his underwear and another, each containing an item unique sent to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and a watery grave in the promise of 'treasure' at the end boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leavehome?|isbn=1406366943

|isbnauthor=178089922XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''When you wear Eli is a hoodbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, you're invisibleand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs.'' Saffyre Maddox Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is seventeen-years-old and beautifula generation missing in the family. By her own admissionA few short years ago, sheEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron navigate the world in an eighth-floor flatthe company of a magical beast. Something ''really, really bad happened'' This has made the race anathema to her the pair – but when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled bad incident at the layers of her psycheeatery leads to a confession from gran, but somehow managed Eli knows his only hope is to dare to miss that 'something reallyenter what he most hates, really bad'. When with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roanonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231