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|isbnauthor=1786495902Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered There are few greater joys than a trauma book which she chooses not lives up to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefcompelling premise. Hardman dealt with And this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=30305130250008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= 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 her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Independent Director Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Society: Our current crisis Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of governance a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to dothe other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisJane Casey

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Independent Director: It''a job for which no s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one is qualified'' summer night. (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of She was never found and the board of directors who (1) do not have investigation ground to a material relationship with the companyhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, (2) is not part of the companyit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's executive team, and (3) is not involved with something about the day-to-day operations positioning of the companybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Filipe Morais feel -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (formerly known such as non-executive directorsDerwent's boss, Una Burt), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalancedare less convinced. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The function of the independent director Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is to have general oversight of the executive side of the board a working- to spot when and where things are going wrong class young man, obsessed with his upper- but all too often the relationship is too cosyclass friends, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge Robert and/or experience to understand whatStanza. Robert's happening or to know how to intervenea theatre director. Covid He's also self-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership obsessed, demanding, handsome and governance entitled and you might be tempted uses Edward to think that these are extraordinary times run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and that all will be well once we get back he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'normals position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningdark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQJo Callaghan|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to listen to now that Ithe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitys their first live case together, Pride and Prejudicehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels a very high profile case that draws a lot of Jane Austen]] for unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the second case in time on the trot she had , or will Kat find herself taken off the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles case and they were in my inbox in , potentially, out of a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow on.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=00082144681399613073|title=A Time to LieMoral Injuries|author=Simon BerthonChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=A workman has Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out quarter of an excavation on a building sitecentury. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a hand, severed above the wristbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearsLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - Anjali is Prime Ministerthe free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. HeWhen we first meet them they's married to heiress Carol van Koon re at a drug and they have two daughters, Becca alcohol-fuelled party and Bella. Sandfordit's determined going to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodend in tragedy. We don'' One of t know who suffered the tragedy or the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesconsequences. Henry MorlandTwenty-Cross, five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequerthree friends. This time, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementtheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B077K6BQFD0241636604|title=The Complete NovelsTrading Game: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion A Confession|author=Jane AustenGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=Yes If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- that's over eightystripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -one hours of listening for but he had been to the purchase London School of one audio bookEconomics. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and they're presented in the order in 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. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which they were publishedgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=02414535851035021803|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anne BodenC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the financial services sector: English country village where she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankgrew up. AIB was in the throes She's back now because of recovering a request for help from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she was one of the first circumstances seem suspicious, to realise that banks needed to do things differentlysay the least. AIB thought it Arthur was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to access their accounts via a terminalbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Boden took things After the split, she worked in a step furthercafe, realising that customers could access their accounts met and married James (on the rebound from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands love of peopleher life, would soon become redundantwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Lauren MartinAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Book of MoodsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of this book, and because sarcasm doesnthings to come.''t always translate well into writing, imagine the word  I've heard it said that 'greattechnology'is what happens after you' being delivered with an eye roll and a sighre eighteen. Well, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club technology in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed supportmy lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally advantageous to me but I'm happy toleft with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, but that day I could research the weather was miserable possibilities and I was miserable, the probabilities and it all came to a head that evening when end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I noticed on 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wowlatest conspiracy theorist. I had never needed this book morepeople I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1538733625

|author=Becky AlbertalliSunny Singh|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has The Hotel Arcadia is a great life. He luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a close terrorist group of friends. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a loving familywartime photographer and Abhi, and even an adorable dogthe hotel manager. But As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has forms a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found keeps on venturing out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itof her room to try to capture what's his own private universe without the fear of being judgedhappened through her photography. Until one day, these emails fall into Although they only ever talk over the wrong handsphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and everything Simon knows is turned upside downthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=014135609X086154742X

|isbn=31106411191529153298|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value List of Customer Journey MappingSuspicious Things|author=Jerry AngraveJennie Godfrey

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I had no idea mean, honestly...) She's not what 'journey mappings worrying Miv' was until I read this playbook s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but any business to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that engages with their customers will benefit from reading her father wants to move the book and acting on the contentsfamily 'Down South'. YouWhen you're going to learn how to run from Yorkshire, Down South is a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customersfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. At this pointFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, please donand she't say ll do anything to prevent that. She'oh (expletive deleted) s not another workshopworried about the dangers or that her Mum' because this is going s stopped talking - to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergesanyone.

|isbn=31106412911398524085|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderNicci French

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=SoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and quite a bit of money spenther daughter, Etty. Why not just leave it as it is? After are allworried but - strangely - her husband, it's ''roughly'' workingAlec, isn't it? You might is not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the smallShortly afterwards, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possibleEtty and Greg, find the extension body of your existing products into new areas - havenGreg't really delivered s father, Duncan Ackerley, in terms of ''growth''the river. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept was an easy assumption for the business ticking over police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and therethen committed suicide when he couldn's a nagging suspicion in t stand the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-firstguilt. What you need is innovation - The Salter children are not convinced but there''radical'' innovations little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=14729620441035906708|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessDiva|author=Andrew HampshireDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=I We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, so there's been a lot of technology in my lifeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant Her original surname was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriterKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Times When she was back in Athens - thankfully supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - have moved on. Nowadays she was raised under the problem is that someone running Nazi occupation by a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation mother who mercilessly exploited her and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's also a fact that made no one develops a business because they have the knowledge secret of the required technologyher preference for her elder sister, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they needJackie.

|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Edge|title=Note to Self: An EducationBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= In KryLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 's worldThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the discovery movie starts, they very quickly realise that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 itsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's found that radiation t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can return cells they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their regeneration state seven years beforereal lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=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 2035 itmy heart.'s possible to cure cancerous tumours but with ' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the side effect wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of erasing the seven years of memory, by 2045 who swim out to survey the cosmetics industry is using ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the same technique Council Watch lays a trap to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. In Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a society obsessed bargain with image a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and youthwith only coordinates to guide her, who needs memories?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=B08LY8J4KS0008664730}}

|isbnauthor=1838770046James Sherwood Metts|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is Things have been a bit sticky for the senior mortuary technician Earthlings. AI and not only does she talk to the deadautomation have been proceeding apace, she also hears what often replacing jobs they have 're paid to say do and other tasks that took time to heraccomplish. It's not something she's inclined Just as they were beginning to get used to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going all this technological change and starting to share it with the think of other, new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuffways to spend time, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianalong came an awful pandemic. He's very conscious of his position Life was pretty much shut down and isn't even inclined to ask for , along with it, all the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that many daily social interactions on which they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakedepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0578761718Matthew Tree|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverWe'll Never Know

|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of London from being exceptional at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire any of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire his artistic passions all failed miserably and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitzwho had endless crises of self confidence. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported So Tim applied himself to Fulton, Missouri. Therehis studies, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTA G Slatter|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop'' 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, the Cherry Blossom Boutiqueall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for just six months when shea while.''s nominated for - and wins -  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Retail Best Newcomer Award. SheBriar's delighted , a family of witches who protect the town and the two people she's brought with her to wider world from the event couldn't be more pleasedDarklands. Sonja, her motherThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is an exthe first non-model witch to be born into her family for generations and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got as such since she was young, her looks fromtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. JessicaWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's thirty-four and Libertycousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's best friend: they've known each other since university leader, and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, Charles right and their four-year-old daughtercentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Avaputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasnReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B08BTXSS841529900360|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's looking through cold 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 for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHis assertions that there were only open-yearand-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She canshut cases which didn't see any immediate failings in need the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from help of a room in psychologist only worked for a securely-locked housewhile. Finally, it was Robin, wearing her pyjamasDelaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno something that the man she loved needed. The next daycase did look simple, though. She was wearing Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeremote property in Bel Air. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told He was the whole story: he's heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Kate Brock, Angelicaan extremely rich man and it's younger sisternot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1529395224|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out Letting the Cat Out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, Bag: The Secret Life of a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{FrontpageVet|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She lives His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in Glasgowhis footsteps, alone. And she likes it particularly when he considered the strain that way. She works 9being on-5, 5 days a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and thatcall put on his father's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins family friend who was a journey to make herself vet and was convinced this was the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musicianjob for him. Then Before long, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy he was at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close to him in hospitalLiverpool University. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man It hadn's family and friends, t - as with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomondso many students - been his dream since he was a child. But just as her life seems to be looking up If anything, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up d wanted 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 alonea professional footballer.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=18388873340861541774|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Angela MarsonsSteve Burrows

|summary=DI Kim Stone DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude short holiday in Singapore to everyonemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It Maik was involved in the shopping centre a street brawl - he would later maintain that Stone caught sight of he was facing a little girl clutching man armed with a teddy bear in the absence of her motherknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to which this case was going light that suggested that he might have planned to occupy their minds as murder the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterman. Her neck had been broken and it had all Now he could be facing the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do that nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a young mother out shopping with her child?diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Roxanne BouchardAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Coral BridePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Angel Roberts The Perfect Passion Company is an oddity - a female fisherwomandating agency in Edinburgh, making her living run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a man's worldmore personal, tailored service. When Ness has asked her lobster trawler is found drifting off younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the coast of Quebecbusiness, Detective Morales as Ness is called in planning to take a trip to Canada to come get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and head so jumps at the investigationchance to come home to Edinburgh. Although the signs seem to point And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, fishing histories and secret family feudsbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. At the same time as trying to run his investigationKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, he also but Ness has his grown up sonfull confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, Sebastien arriving at his doorWilliam, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.lend a hand…|isbn=19131933221846976596

|isbn=14721347100811771741|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathInstaKnits for Baby|author=M C BeatonMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheMelissa Leapman's left South Moulton Street ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a cottage in the Cotswold village collection of Carsleyknits from toys to blankets. SheSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'd have preferred one long, cosy afternoons in front of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringsfire' variety. Now The projects are divided by the problem is settling into a different way of life time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplemore than twenty hours. The first move is to enter All the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browneprojects are attractive, modern and his wife Vera out to dinneruseable. She knows sheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..me being picky.

|author= Claire McGowanDean Koontz|title=The PushBad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionParanormal|summary= Six mumsBenny 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-be meet at a prenatal class. Ithis home, and it's NCT ''style''possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but not Benny is the proper NCTvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. This bit He is important, but you have a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to wait his house is a little to see why. This being Londonnew friend, such a class attracts a wide variety of peoplebad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from all sorts nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of backgroundsBenny, but for most and will certainly take care of the ladies the thing they have in common is itBenny's their first baby. Probably after the first oneenemies, if he, you don't have time for classesBenny, or think youand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny've got child-rearing down pats wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15420199901662500491

|isbnauthor=1472255917Adam Stower|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=On New Year's EveMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifeone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Professor Sarah Gracewell, daughter Alex Skinner and whatever takes his fancy next of the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksontwo. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but But he's reformed and the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners donbad magician't stay much after midnight at s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the clubhouse and are dropped home catflap they both use can chuck them out, not long into the new yearregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Skinner's tempted This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to let the phone ring be honest, but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - turned up and he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB0C47LV1PC|title=The Long Dark RoadFragility|author=P R BlackMosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along joke? And if you could, is the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused question should you make it? Or is the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - question if you did, would it land? The catch is that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offanswer for both could well be.... There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia  ''Fragility'' is back is Ferngateset as the city of Portland, Oregon, determined cautiously begins to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}

|authorisbn= Katharine Orton1529431735|title= GlassheartThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Nona It's February 1991 and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. NowEssex is bitingly cold, in the aftermath of the war, they travel which made Bruce Hopkins' return all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsmore surprising. Their latest job takes them out to He'd been exiled on the wilds of DartmoorCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, where Nona discovers saying that her world is full of ancient she's ill and powerful magichasn't long to live. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona It's innate magic for hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his own ends, underwear and will not stop until he has her…|isbn=1406385239sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=B08KKQ85FNAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra AragonaThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=''If Eli is a woman approaching busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the menopause can be likened to evening a Rottweiler in lipstickhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles too – for there is a pampered peacock about to be released into generation missing in the company of carrion crows orfamily. A few short years ago, more Eli's parents were both lost to the pointtitular race, about a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to discover navigate the real world in the company of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsa magical beast.'' 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 by Sandra Aragona|Sorting This has made the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like race anathema to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government pair – but when a bad incident at the time has come for HE eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to retires and for Sandra Aragona dare to become The Wife enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates magic at the end – the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231