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|isbnauthor=0008214468Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Time Letter to Lie|author=Simon Berthonthe Luminous Deep

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=A workman has There are few greater joys than a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined book which lives up to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodcompelling premise.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about And this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor one of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B077K6BQFD0008517061|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Death in a Lonely Place|author=Jane AustenStig Abell|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours 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 listening for the purchase his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of one audio book. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and they're presented relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the order future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in which they were publishedthe present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=02414535851786482126|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Anne BodenElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Anne Boden had Builders were demolishing an impressive track record old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at bones of a child beneath a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankdoorway. AIB There was in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlyno skull. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening Was this a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminalritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Boden took things a step further It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: she is pregnant with his child as a result of the old branch networkone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, employing thousands not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of people, would soon become redundantsickness.

|authorisbn=Lauren Martin0008551324|title=The Book of MoodsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I was It'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 a great mood when I first learnt of this book, prison and because sarcasm doesnhe't always translate well into writing, imagine s prepared to tell the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent police where the best part body of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone missing person is buried and who was racing needed supportresponsible for her death. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year This person, he promises, is someone big and normally I'm happy it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to, but that day serve the weather was miserable remainder of his sentence and I was miserableto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and it all came she's even prepared to a head do the other thing that evening when I noticed on the website Hardie demanded - make certain that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave DS Max Craigie and wife". Wowanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli0008405026|title= Simon vs. A Stranger in the Homo Sapiens AgendaFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= SixteenIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Simon Spier has Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a great lifehalt. He has a close group of friends Now, her mother, a loving familyHelena, and even an adorable dogher father are dead in their bed. But he has Initially, it looks like a secret: hestraightforward murder/suicide but there's gaysomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Only one person knows this, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one dayboss, these emails fall into the wrong hands, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=014135609X

|isbn=31106411190571379877|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingKellerby Code|author=Jerry AngraveJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I had no idea what Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'journey mappings a theatre director. He' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their customers will benefit from reading the book university days - and acting on the contents. Youhe're going to learn s drunkenly confided how to run a workshop to discover what it he feels like to be one of your own customersRobert. At this point, please donMost men in Robert't say s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'oh (expletive deleted) s not another workshop' because this like most men: Edward is going left to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergesstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=3110641291Jo Callaghan|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite When a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it man is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought found crucified on the smalltop of a hill in Nuneaton, incremental improvements which you have been able DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possiblecase alongside her sidekick, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been manageable 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 largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes very high profile case that draws a more radical approachlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. You've merely kept Will they be able to solve the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the back case and, potentially, out of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14729620441399613073|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessMoral Injuries|author=Andrew HampshireChristie Watson

|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenOlivia, so there's been a lot Laura and Anjali met on the first day of technology in my life. I once worked medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had quarter of a typewritercentury. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is that someone running a business doesn't have the time bonus when you aim to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expecteda cardiothoracic surgeon. It's also Laura is a fact that no one develops perfectionist and a business because they have trauma doctor. Anjali is the knowledge free spirit of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a disadvantagedrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. They need help, but they frequently We don't know what help they needwho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. 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.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0241636604|title=Note to SelfThe Trading Game: An EducationA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionAutobiography|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in If you were to bring up an image of a cascade of medical "advances": city banker in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years beforeyour mind, in 2035 ityou's possible re unlikely to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect think of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the cosmetics industry pin-stripe suit and his background is using the same technique East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to "dethe London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -age" their customers by seven yearsand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. In It was his ability at what was, essentially, a society obsessed card game which got him an internship with image and youthCitibank. Eventually, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KSthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}

|isbn=18387700461035021803|title=Body LanguageThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=A K TurnerC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to her. It's not something she's inclined twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to share with people as the English country village where she's pretty certain about what their reaction will begrew up. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer back now because of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. HeFreya's very conscious of his position former mentor and isnCarole't even inclined s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to ask for say the view of least. Arthur was the anatomical pathology technicians despite reason why Freya had not been back to the fact that village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they have a lot more experience than him and he were in business together as antique hunters, she has only a limited amount of time not felt able to spend on each bodybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. That will prove to be After the split, she worked in a mistakecafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0578761718AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nancy CarverBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=The church ''Opening up new ways of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in thinking about the City shape of London from at least 1181, when things to come.'' I've heard it was first mentioned in recordssaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Sadly Well, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of London technology in 1666my lifetime. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when feeling that it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz's all getting away from me. But that wasn't the end Some of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the stones from possibilities and the churchprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's walls were transported to Fulton, Missourire talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. There, I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTSunny Singh|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has had her shopsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, the Cherry Blossom Boutiquethere is Sam, for just six months when she's nominated for - a wartime photographer and wins - Abhi, the Retail Best Newcomer Awardhotel manager. She's delighted and As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the two people she's brought hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to the event couldncapture what't be more pleaseds happened through her photography. SonjaAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her mother, is an ex-model keep safe and Brazilian: you can they both wait to see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: if they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would will be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her liferescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=B08BTXSS841529153298|title=Fallen Angel The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (Gaby Darin Book 3A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jenny O'BrienNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling Charlotte Salter was expected at her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and shehusband's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby her husband, Alec, is intriguednot. She canShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked houses father, wearing her pyjamasDuncan Ackerley, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayriver. She It was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had never seen before. Bates hasnmurdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't ''quite'' told stand the whole story: heguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Nick Jones Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and Si Clarkmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=One Night in BeartownBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Many children have an obsession Lucas and Sandy Lane, who lives his friends are all booked in Beartownfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, is obsessed with bearsa place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. She collects books All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about bears. Her favourite toy this new film format is Berisfordvery different, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmotherand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Every night But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, she looks can they figure out of her bedroom window and says goodnight what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello cinema, and to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that their real lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!?|isbn=B08NFH7H9X1839942738}}

|author=Gail HoneymanRachel Greenlaw|title=Eleanor Oliphant Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in 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 Completely Fineone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days Things have been a week, and spends bit sticky for the weekend not drunk, but not soberEarthlings. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routineAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that's fine, thankyouverymuchtook time to accomplish. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey Just as they were beginning to make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order get used to secure all this beautiful musician. Thentechnological change and starting to think of other, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close ways to him in hospitalspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family Life was pretty much shut down and friends, along with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking upit, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=00081721451736128426

|isbnauthor=1838887334Matthew Tree|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been his father, a complete waste drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyone. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight being exceptional at any of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of her motherself confidence. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent So Tim applied himself to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, set himself high but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Roxanne BouchardA G Slatter|title=The Coral BrideBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - '' There's 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 female fisherwomanremote mountain pass, making her living in far away from the world, lies Silverton; a mantown under the protection of the Briar's , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider worldfrom the Darklands. When her lobster trawler Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is found drifting off the coast of Quebecfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, Detective Morales is called in to come her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and head the investigationpotions. Although When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionBriar Witch, Morales feels something more sinister is going onthe town's leader, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, fishing histories right and secret family feuds. At centre, Ellie uncovers the same time as trying rare ability to run his investigationcommunicate with the dead, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving putting her at his doorthe heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable Ellie must decide who to talk trust and determine what to his father aboutdo as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesis under threat.|isbn=19131933221803364548

|isbn=14721347101529900360|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Ghost Orchid|author=M C BeatonJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of Carsley. She'd have preferred one of the more romantic names fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - he felt responsible and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to peopleask for his help on difficult cases. The first move is to enter the village quicheHis assertions that there were only open-baking competition and -shut cases which didn't need the beginning help of the campaign is taking the judgea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Reginald Cummings-BrowneDelaware's partner, and his wife Vera out to dinnerwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knows knew that the involvement was something that the man she's being ripped off at loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the pub swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the next village but this heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is necessary married to an extremely rich man and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to winnot the Italian. HowBut which of them was the primary target? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery...

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The PushSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Six mums-Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want tofollow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-be meet at a prenatal class. Itcall put on his father's NCT ''style'', but not life. When he was seventeen he took the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait opportunity of doing work experience with a little to see why. This being London, such family friend who was a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but vet and was convinced this was the job for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first babyhim. Probably after the first one Before long, you donhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't have time for classes- as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, or think youhe've got child-rearing down patd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=14722559170861541774|title=The Roots A Nye of Evil (Bob Skinner)Pheasants|author=Quintin JardineSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=On New YearDCI Domenic Jejeune's Eveclose friend and former colleague, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifeDanny Maik, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with whom she shares a housean old ally, Dominic JacksonGuy Trueman. Jackson Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but later maintain that he's reformed and the new name reflects was facing a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse armed with a knife - and are dropped home not long into the new yearhe killed a Ghurka. Skinner's tempted Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to let the phone ring but knows light that suggested that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in might have planned to murder the centre of Edinburghman. Skinner's not technically with the police now - Now he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police value his knowledge force could provoke a diplomatic incident and experiencewouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was The Perfect Passion Company is a furious storm going on dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she'd already refused operating as an alternative to all the offer of help from one man online apps in providing a big vehiclemore personal, tailored service. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Stephanie look after the business, as Ness is bundled into the car and driven offplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. There has been no sign Katie is coming out of her - or her body - in a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the two years sincechance to come home to Edinburgh. Georgia is back is FerngateAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, determined bringing us to find out what happened and she's not going an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to be stopped.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona 44 Scotland Street and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her familyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Now Katie has no experience in running a business, or in the aftermath of the warmatch-making, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows but Ness has full confidence in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoorher abilities, where Nona discovers that and there's always her world is full of ancient very helpful (and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entityrather handsome) neighbour, known only as The SoldierWilliam, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…to lend a hand…|isbn=14063852391846976596

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN0811771741|title=But Never For LunchInstaKnits for Baby|author=Sandra AragonaMelissa Leapman

|genre=Short StoriesCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'If ' gives us a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be released into the company quick knits - others are of carrion crows or, more to the point'long, about to discover cosy afternoons in front of the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsfire' variety.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy projects are divided by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE ten hours, ten to retires twenty hours and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..more than twenty hours. They have left The Career All the projects are attractive, modern and settled in Romeuseable. Well I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'settledsocial-media-worthy projects' but that' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite s me being sixteen and deafpicky.

|author= Susi Holliday Dean Koontz|title= The Last Resort Bad Weather Friend|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersParanormal|summary=A group of strangers gather on Benny is having a private islandterrifically bad day. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer He loses his job, social media influencerhe loses his fiancee, gossip columnist and hedge fund managerhis house gets trashed. Everyone seems Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandhis home, and each otherit's histories and it becomes clear possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that they has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all have this bad luck. He is a dark secret they would rather keep hiddennice person. A really nice person. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and So fortunately for Benny it soon becomes clear turns out that this luxury retreat the delivery to his house is really a gilded cage. In new friend, a race against timebad weather friend called Spike, Amelia must struggle who has been sent to uncover the reason help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for her attendance being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and protect the rest will certainly take care of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=15420200181662500491

|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZAdam Stower|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers |summary=George Jackson Murray is thirty-three years oldsupposed to be a humble, absolutely gorgeous tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to look at - sleep and singleeat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. SheBut he's not had sex for eight months and shea bad magician's stuck in cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the karma trap: an awful lot regular back garden, but into a world of bad luck is being visited on her frightening adventure and she has a real talent for attracting dramawhiffs. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in This time round it and left herdrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, stark nakedone much bigger than Murray was, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her motherbe honest, but he's dog out for a walk for her to end turned up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0008333173B0C47LV1PC|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreFragility|author=Grace DentMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=ICan you make a 'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on 'Yo birthing person'Masterchef''. You know that joke? And if you could, is the question should you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom make it? Or is the question if you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of did, would it land? The catch is that the timeanswer for both could well be. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her. I.. no. 've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreFragility'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measures.set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=18387731691529431735|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotWinter Visitor|author=S J BennettJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=It's early 2016 February 1991 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Essex is at Windsor bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the Easter Courta decade. SheThe return has come about because he's having had a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charlesletter from his ex-wife, whosaying that she's attempting ill and hasn't long to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectslive. ThereIt'd been a distinctly Russian flavour s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to the evening his underwear and one of the performers brought in sent to play the piano has been found dead a watery grave in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop boot of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborougha stolen Ford Sierra. One couldn't bear Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to go down any of ''those'' roads.home?

|author=Matt HaigAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Midnight LibraryGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Between life and death there Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous librarywe start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. And so Eli lives with his lovely gran, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself too – for there is a generation missing in the Midnight Libraryfamily. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora A few short years ago, Eli's life has. Her cat died, she parents were both lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about pianotitular race, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the things that would've let her escape world in the wet, cold town company of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directiona magical beast. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't This has made for life and decides the race anathema to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing pair – but when a chance bad incident at the eatery leads to try another life she could have liveda confession from gran, in a parallel time. And soEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, just after midnight on Tuesday with the 18th sole aim the prize of April, Nora Seed begins magic at the end – the only thing to live every life she could'vepossibly save his gran.|isbn=17868927310571382231