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|isbnauthor=0241295955Sylvie Cathrall|title=Trio|author=William BoydA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year when YSK Films There are making a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon'', or ''Ladder the Moon'' as it's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in few greater joys than a production book which is proving lives up to be just a little bit racketycompelling premise. There are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ And this old actor friend for a couple is one of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B08B39QNRH0008517061|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Michael PritchardStig Abell

|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the written word''. I came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History future of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems his life with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest moving in the way that hands work. An exploration of the history of together would mean a problem which has defeated some lot of the best medical minds for some three-hundredcompromise: does Jake give up his off-years seemed liked excellent background reading grid and so it proved, relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the book being as much about future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the doctors treating moment they’re enjoying life in the sufferers present and putting the changing medical attitudes as future on the problem itselfback burner.

|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager1786482126|title=Child of GalaxiesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=What does it mean Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? hold seventy-five 'luxury'Child apartments - when they discovered the bones of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with all the big questionsDCI Harry Nelson. Written It's difficult as a poemRuth knows, the lyrical words donbut Nelson doesn't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the children you are reading toone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations not least because Ruth is prone to create a powerful, uplifting reading experiencesudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1912497425

|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=BetrayalNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in It's unusual for anyone from outside the leading party Hardie family to cover approach the post for a yearpolice. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy Neither side likes or has any respect for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorother. You'll meet her ministryBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into prepared to tell the police where the task body of helping a famous newsreader with missing person is buried and who was responsible for her Tinder profiledeath. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampThis person, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulahe promises, is someone big and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from it will be worth the devil posing beside herpolice doing what he wants. You'll meet And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the ministerial bodyguard remainder of his sentence and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptget an early parole date. But as for the first ministerial caseNot much to ask, of a woman demanding her daughteris it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's rape get looked at even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulaanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403happening.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth0008405026|title=The Time Traveller and A Stranger in the TigerFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgottenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She is quiet, was never found and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens investigation ground to hera halt. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of Now, hermother, Helena, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekfather are dead in their bed. Poor ElsieInitially, forgotten again, just decides to make it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the best positioning of things. On investigating the house she finds bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has to keep What looked as though it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, going to be an open-and he says it was the worst thing he ever did-shut case is now a complex double murder. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to Kerrigan is convinced that the time explanation lies in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years oldRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agoUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1788541707

|isbn=14721270130571379877|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThe Kellerby Code|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Edward Jevons is a bit of work on hand. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about working-class young man, obsessed with his managing directorupper-class friends, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it thereRobert and Stanza. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to AustraliaRobert's a theatre director. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifeHe's also self-obsessed, Sheratondemanding, was seeing another manhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices Edward has been in the staff canteen: love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he wanted feels to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from GenevaRobert. Apparently, 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 staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murdertwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. 

|isbnauthor=0008420386Jo Callaghan|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayLeave No Trace

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, Alain de BottonDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, Phoebe Waller-Bridgethe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slaterhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwardsAI Future Policing project. You'll Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the results case and, potentially, out of these discussions in ''Failosophy''a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=05713626721399613073|title=SnowMoral Injuries|author=John BanvilleChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=''WellOlivia, at least you're Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a Wexford mancentury.'' So said Colonel Osborne Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford you aim to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds Laura is a perfectionist and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirka trauma doctor. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on Anjali is the library floor with some precious bits free spirit of his anatomy missingthe group and she becomes a GP. Strafford was from Roslea When we first meet them they're at Bunclody a drug and this, along with his goodalcohol-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornefuelled party and it's class and obviously Protestantgoing to end in tragedy. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, We don't know who - despite suffered the tragedy or the different religions consequences. Twenty- was in five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the habit of spending time at Ballyglass Housethree friends. His horse was stabled thereThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17874776300241636604|title=The Postscript MurdersTrading Game: A Confession|author=Elly GriffithsGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with If you were to bring up an image of a heart condition dies peacefully city banker in her armchairyour mind, it really shouldnyou't be suspicious re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and that his background is the East End, where he was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smith's carerfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. Natalka Kolisnyk There was adamant that there was more no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to Peggy's death than met the eye London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that Peggy had worried that she was being followedmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Then there It was the fact that Peggy his ability at what was , essentially, a 'murder consultant' who helped authors card game which got him an internship with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowCitibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=00083301311035021803|title=The Stolen SistersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Louise JensenC L Miller

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we start It''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that s twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultssince Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Well, theyShe're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issuess back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksCarole. TheyFreya're the Sinclair sisters s former mentor and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she was in charge of her sistersthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the eight-year-old twinsleast. Much as she loved them Carly Arthur was desperate the reason why Freya had not been back to get a text from Dean Malden and the village: Arthur, she feels, let her mobile phone held her attentiondown badly. Leah and Marie Even though they were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsidein business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The gate wasn't shut properly and BrunoAfter the split, their boxer dogshe worked in a cafe, escaped. As met and married James (on the rebound from the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Stephen FabesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Signs of LifeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= I was brought ''Opening up on maps and first-person narratives new ways of tales thinking about the shape of far away placesthings to come. '' I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. UnfortunatelyWell, I didnmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I't inherit ve kept up reasonably well with what Dr's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do Some of itis - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I also didn't inherit could research the possibilities and the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers probabilities and basic practicality that would have meant that end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottlem reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. In order words I'm not the sort of person needed people I knew I could trust and who will get on could deliver information in a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thatway I could understand.|isbn=1788161211

|author=Arvin AhmadiSunny Singh|title=How It All Blew UpHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers | summary=18-year-old Amir 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 American IranianSam, a Muslimwartime photographer and Abhi, and gaythe hotel manager. He struggles with his identity, unable As Abhi continues to try to face telling his parents care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he really isforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..capture what's happened through her photography.to Italy! So begins a journey for AmirAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants both wait to see if they will berescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1471409929086154742X

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain1529153298|title=The Readers RoomList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5

|rating=3.5|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great success1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptshonestly... ) The three people who work in the ReadersShe' Room to sift through s not what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so it has provenfrightening. But there are several Miv'howeverss upset because she' s overheard that her father wants to thatmove the family 'Down South'. As inWhen you're from Yorkshire, however – Violaine herself Down South is not having life all her own waya frightening, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentforeign place, and starts this book coming round from a comabest avoided. And, however – despite all urgingFor Miv, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violainemove would mean leaving her best friend, her memorySharon, her staff – and how much is any of it due she'll do anything to the hit novel? prevent that. And just where She's not worried about the heck did dangers or that come from?|isbn=1910477974her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=19481245721398524085|title=Think Outside the BoxHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Whenever you s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find a problem <br>''Wherever therethe body of Greg's a puzzle to solve <br>''However you get stuck father, Duncan Ackerley, in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the box'river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' And so begins t stand the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiukguilt. It The Salter children are not convinced but there's a clarion call to children to use little else they can do but get on with their imaginations lives and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemswonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1035906708|title=The Seven DoorsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try We tend to suggest a genre think of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleMaria Callas as Greek, but she a literature lecturer, he big was born to Greek parents in medical provision and decisions at the councilManhattan, being forced to move out of their homeNew York, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood in December 1923 and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out only moved to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'Athens when she was thirteen. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasionCallas' thrillers Hollywood gave us to make it more manageable in the 1980s, but noStates. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, When she was back in case Athens - supposedly so that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an oldershe could get appropriate training for her voice -middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until she was raised under the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1913193381

|author=Michael J MaloneChristopher Edge|title=A Song of IsolationBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a career place that is only beginning to hit has the heights to retire nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the highlands with movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestryadventure they couldn't even imagine. They have found a hideaway But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on a small Scottish estate? Will they ever get back to the cinema, but things are starting and to feel wrong between them. their real lives?|isbn=19131933651839942738

|author= Christopher PaoliniRachel Greenlaw|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= On ''I can hear the song of the moon sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a distant gas giantremote and partially forgotten island, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with survives on luring ships into the efforts to make rocks and plundering the planet habitable to human lifewrecks. HoweverMira, like her mother before her, a discovery is one of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entityseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. After But when the entity bonded Council Watch lays a trap to her loses control and kills half the staff of end the research stationwrecking, they capture the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to take Kira in for examination. Things go save him from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is attacked secretive and destroyed by an alien shipwith only coordinates to guide her, and she has to flee to sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the 61 Cygnus star systemsea. She is revived aboard With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch watched streets of misfits, and foreign islands to the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed heart of the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacesmuggler's territory, and only a mythical weapon known as Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Staff future of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs her home and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than ones she could've possibly imagined…holds most dear.|isbn=15290465050008664730

|author=Carlie SorosiakJames Sherwood Metts|title=My Life as a CatPlanet Storyland

|summary=This is Things have been a bit sticky for the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humanEarthlings. ItAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's something re paid to do and other tasks that each member in the alien collective is allowed took time to do, for 1 month, once accomplish. Just as they reach a certain age. Leonard comes were beginning to get used to earth but gets distracted en route, all this technological change and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead starting to think of landing in Yellowstone Parkother, ready new ways to work as a park rangerspend time, he is instead in the body of a cat on the other side of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the wrong body, he is also in along with it, all the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! And many daily social interactions on which they depend so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardheavily.|isbn=17880060891736128426

|author= Tahi SaihateMatthew Tree|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonbe different from his father, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and often life-alteringset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= 1916277101B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Andrea StewartA G Slatter|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'There' In an empire controlled by s a bone shard magic part of me that powers animal-like constructs, an heir wants to keep this just to the thronemyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, a smugglerall mine, and at last. I just want to enjoy it for a warrior will fight to find their place in the worldwhile.''

Lin is Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the emperorBriar's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace family of secrets witches who protect the town and closed doorsthe wider world from the Darklands. When her father refuses Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to recognise be born into her family for generations and as heir to the thronesuch since she was young, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving her training as a dying empire steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and in secretpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, she begins to unlock one door after anotherEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, searching for the mysteries of town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her past way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the forbidden art dead, putting her at the heart of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costmaelstrom of chaos. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer Reeling from one family secret to the gates of the palaceanother, Lin Ellie must decide just how far she will who to trust and determine what to go do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to become a catalyst of change and save her peoplesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=03565149431803364548

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1529900360|title=She Lies CloseThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone 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 five years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. There has been no sign His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of her sincea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, and no arrests have been made. And yetDelaware's partner, this book is not about Avawho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Not really She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. This book is about Grace The next case did look simple, who has just discovered her neighbour though. Two lovers were murdered in her new house is the swimming pool of a suspect remote property in AvaBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's disappearancenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. As His father was a single mother GP and Rowlands didn't want to two young childrenfollow in his footsteps, sheparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's really wishing life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this sort of information had come was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to light before they moved inbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti0861541774|title=The Adventures A Nye of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Tabby Cat are minding their own business former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a large, dogknife -like creature - appears in their houseand he killed a Ghurka. Black Cat Initially, always one he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all murder the courage man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - diplomatic incident and wouldn''I'm not a dogt help Danny at all. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbnauthor=1712435728Alexander McCall Smith|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, he's just being released from run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Southern General Hospitalonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. The nurse thinks he'll Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come back and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of doing that: he's been there for a yearbreak up with a bad boyfriend, on and so jumps at the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going chance to come home in his dead brother's clothesto Edinburgh. He wants And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get outside 44 Scotland Street and back the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with his friends: his brothersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, Forbesor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that hethere's not to mention TB always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0811771741|title=SolitaireInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the worldfire' variety. Nothing is interesting. People The projects are stupid divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and boringmore than twenty hours. She has one real friend; All the rest projects are just people she sits near so sheattractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's not me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a complete lonerterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She hates Oh, and someone has delivered a lot of things really weird, disturbing coffin- including herselfsized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. But suddenly So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a blog bad weather friend called Solitaire Spike, who has arrived and been sent to help him since Benny is pulling pranks throughout the schoolclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And Michael Holden has appeared Spike is going to take care of Benny, and is showing up everywhere in Toriwill certainly take care of Benny's life. Tori doesn't know enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (or care) why shea waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's involvedwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, but suddenly she one who isable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. What does Solitaire want? Who But he's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Toria bad magician's life cat, so badly his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and who is hethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, really? Things are only getting stranger but into a world of frightening adventure and darkerwhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, and only one thing where a troll hunter is certain expected – Tori isnwell, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he't bored anymore.s turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=97800075592200008561249

|authorisbn=Natasha FarrantB0C47LV1PC|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben question should you make it? Or is living on a narrowboat on the canalquestion if you did, lying to the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and would it land? The catch is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship the answer forboth could well be. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the beginning city of a deepPortland, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each other's familyOregon, and undertake a perilous trip cautiously begins to France, in emerge from the boat, to try to find out restrictions imposed during the truth of the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769covid pandemic

|isbn=14711792731529431735|title=House of CorrectionThe Winter Visitor|author=Nicci FrenchJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheIt's in prisonFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on remandthe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. SheThe return has come about because he's sharing had a cell with Michaelaletter from his ex-wife, whosaying that she's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love ill and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her hasn't long to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might belive. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to TabithaIt's house. So far as the police are concernedhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - stripped to his underwear and when they arrived at her house she was covered sent to a watery grave in his bloodthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Darren ShanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote The Glorious Race of Alignment Magical Beasts

|summary=This third 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 final book runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the first volume of Darren Shanfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the way company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the Cuckoo's Nestpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, where with the sole aim the Vote prize of Alignment will be heldmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V0571382231