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|isbnauthor=1838776184Sylvie Cathrall|title=Her Majesty A Letter to the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettLuminous Deep

|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The Queen, like apartments - when they discovered the sunrise and the tides, was generally bones of a child beneath a reliable way of marking timedoorway.'' It seemed to begin as a cold There was no skull. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for Was this a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. ritual killing or murder? HopefullyInevitably, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same wayDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. SheIt'd probably caught it from one of the great-grandchildren. Unfortunatelys difficult as Ruth knows, it didnbut Nelson doesn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due to go to Sandringham by train , that day but the doctor put she is pregnant with his foot down. He'd have preferred that the queen have child as a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with result of the thought that one night they'd go by helicopter the following dayspent together some three months ago. It was annoying: people would Her condition will be ready for her today and Her Majesty did obvious before long, not like least because Ruth is prone to disappointsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones0008551324|title=Conversations with NatureThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that itIt's not very longunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Having read Neither side likes or has any respect for the book twice over, Iother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'm brought back inescapably s prepared to tell the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortpolice where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, but is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is broadto be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. In this case I Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'm brought s even prepared to do the idea other thing that the length of life Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is not the point; the point is its depthkept well away from what's happening. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418

|isbn=19164599430008405026|title=Squeakily BabyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Beth WebbJane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereIt's something they all dread sixteen years since nine-year- old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a squeakily babyhalt. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go to sleep: insteadNow, her mother, Helena, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to helpher father are dead in their bed. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushInitially, hushit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there''. Think s something about the positioning of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and you have the sound perfectlyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The mermaids join in What looked as though it was going to be an open-and- ''la lou, la lay...'' And for shut case is now a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyescomplex double murder. Then a seagull Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'''shouts''' and we know exactly whats disappearance: others (such as Derwent's going to happen nextboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Robin Stevens0571379877|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=May Wong Edward Jevons is a long way from her family in Hong Kongworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. She’s stuck in her schoolHe's also self-obsessed, Deepdeandemanding, handsome and desperate to get away, entitled and do something useful uses Edward to help end the war run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to get homeRobert. She just knows that she Most men in Robert's position would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned stay away by the Ministry, she takes matters into her own hands, along with from Stanza or tell Edward that a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Eric. They both go undercover in a large country house, pretending to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove that someone there relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is passing secrets left to stumble upon the Nazis. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either two of them have imagined, and suddenly they find themselves kissing in the middle of a murder scene, with even more to try to unravel and solvedark passageway.|isbn=0241429862

|isbnauthor=1919635017Jo Callaghan|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt TownsendLeave No Trace

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isnWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It't s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a bad ladsecond body found crucified a few days later, so why Kat is he running around London committing suddenly struggling with a series potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of robberies? And how did he learn unwanted attention to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the first one: for his grandmother...case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=13985153881399613073|title=The Boy and the DogMoral Injuries|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Christie Watson

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=First of allOlivia, it was Laura and Anjali met on the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami first day of medical school and this, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdowntheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. The result was complete and utter devastationOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. The deaths were uncountable, Laura is a perfectionist and the loss of livelihoods was widespreada trauma doctor. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down Anjali is the list free spirit of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered group and she becomes a dog outside GP. When we first meet them they're at a convenience storedrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. He wasnWe don't a dog person but know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the convenience store ownerthree friends. This time, it's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped intheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=15291530500241636604|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Tim BensonGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming If you were to seem more and more like bring up an adrenaline sportimage of a city banker in your mind, I was nudged towards you''Britain's Best Political Cartoons re unlikely to think of 2022''someone like Gary Stevenson. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through A hoodie and jeans replaces the year: pin-stripe suit and his background is the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 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 31 August 2022the London School of Economics. Who Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can imagine only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1035021803|title=The Dark RoomAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt'd watched them die several s twenty years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed since Freya Lockwood has been back to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storythe English country village where she grew up. He is an ex-crime reporter She's back now because of a request for a newspaperhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and since leaving journalism heCarole's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, undeveloped rolls of film is dead and develops them the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in his own dark room at homebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. One of these photographs turns out to show After the murder scene of split, she worked in a young woman he cafe, met some years agoand married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and who he Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'thoughttechnology'is what happens after you' he had watched die in front re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of him one night technology in a hotelmy lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what'd felt guilty ever since s advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that night, and lost everything because it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - his fiancee frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't really died re talking about or the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithSunny Singh|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairHotel Arcadia

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in its sleepan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group.'' And thus Hiding from the Frost Fair could happen – people trading terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tsite, as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forthere is Sam, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – wartime photographer and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesAbhi, more or less – in the four years since, eitherhotel manager. But into As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the dark, frosted London comes Inigohotel, he forms a bond with supreme magical powersSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a willingness keeps on venturing out of her room to try to help Thomasinacapture what's happened through her photography. Not Although they only can he introduce her to ever talk over the fantastical Other Frost Fairphone, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her world keep safe and they both wait to its coresee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=0008496056086154742X

|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 1529153298|title=The Book List of Hope Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Politics and Society General Fiction|summary= The done thing It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A 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 read a book all have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the way through before family 'Down South'. When you sit down to review it're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. I’m making an exception here For Miv, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, I want and she'll do anything to capture it as it hits meprevent that. And it is hitting me She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X

|isbn=15295047671398524085|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyNicci French

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Susan Charlotte Salter was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to expected at her final destinationhusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She needn't have worried though as she went to the home of Mr Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Mrs Russellher daughter, who couldn't have been kinder to herEtty. She even had are all worried but - strangely - her own room - all to herselfhusband, Alec, is not. Gradually she relaxed Shortly afterwards, Etty and began to enjoy her lifeGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. She'd help Mrs Russell with It was an easy assumption for the baking police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put he couldn't stand the decorations on the Christmas treeguilt. The best surprise Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened the following morning.

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir 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 Quentin Bates (translator)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 made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Red as BloodBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, Lucas and his friends are all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the policebooked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, so instead he enlists a place that has the help nickname of Arora'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, a financial investigator. She manages they're looking forward to persuade Flosi that they will need the help lots of the policeexciting films, and she calls her detective friendmany, Danielmany snacks! However, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Togetheras the movie starts, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearancevery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, trying not and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to arouse the suspicion of anyonenext, since can they have no idea who figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the kidnappers might becinema, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.and to their real lives?|isbn=19145853211839942738

|isbnauthor=0861541995Rachel Greenlaw|title=Wolf Pack|author=Will DeanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on ''I can hear the road north song of Visbergthe sea. She sees blood on The call of the road and a creature on its side near deep, the pine treesanswering beat in my heart. It will turn out to be Bronco'' Rosevear, a Swedish Elkhoundremote and partially forgotten island, who has been attacked by a wolfsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Tuva takes Bronco and his ownerMira, Bengt Nyberglike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the vetruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Bronco didn't make it but on But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the waywrecking, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nyberg, who had gone missing. Shethey capture the island'd been working at Rose Farm s leader and MoodysonMira's journalist's instincts are soon brought father. Desperate to the fore. Rose Farm save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is now home secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a group of survivalists but back family secret that lies buried deep in 1987 the then ownersea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Johan Svenson murdered his wifeas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survived. Does this have any connection Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the disappearance future of Elsa Nyberg?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Alison HughesJames Sherwood Metts|title=FlyPlanet Storyland

|summary=This is Things have been a very impressive readbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as it does a lot of what mainstream teen they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy starting to think of the first-person narration from Flyother, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsynew ways to spend time, a along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away along with calling him Flyit, all the many daily social interactions on which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itthey depend so heavily.|isbn=15253058321736128426

|isbnauthor=3791388398Matthew Tree|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel KratochvilaWe'll Never Know

|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for breadsTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, brioches a drunk and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centurieswho had endless crises of self confidence. We start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredientsSo Tim applied himself to his studies, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that different salts can change the flavour cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and sensation on the tongue of the finished product set himself high but, apparently, they doachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Andrew GivlerA G Slatter|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Briar Book 1)of the Dead|rating=45

|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—itThere's awfula part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a blissful life in exchange for his soulwhile.''

Poor Dan! I knowWithin a remote mountain pass, I knowfar away from the world, we shouldnlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar't feel sorry s, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for soulmagic, Ellie Briar is the first non-catching demonswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But he really is As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a terrible salesmanmaelstrom of chaos. He never hits his targets andReeling from one family secret to another, when he fails Ellie must decide who to get even Matt trust and determine what to sign on do as the dotted lineBriar witches' legacy, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signatureeverything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=19582040211803364548

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1529900360|title=Super The GhostOrchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Paragon City has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been lucky badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to have ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the great Doctor Extraordinaryhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, their very own superhero taking care of themwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Whenever She knew that the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief and save involvement was something that the dayman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. But one day Two lovers were murdered in the Doctor and swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, heir to an Italian shoe empire and the hero she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the villain are no moreItalian. Or are they…But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=0241470536

|isbn=B0B7289HKQ1529395224|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along Letting the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture Cat Out of the Soul Bag: The Secret Life of Americaa Vet|author=Kari LoyaSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, by particularly when he considered the way) wanted to spend some time with strain that being on-call put on his father 's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do itjob for him. The decision Before long, he was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015at Liverpool University. They had 73 days to do it It hadn't - slightly less than the recommended time as with so many students - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of been his dream since he was a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it onchild. Merv Loya was 75 years old and If anything, he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'sd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Christopher Bowden0861541774|title=Mr MagentaA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Christopher BowdenDCI Domenic Jejeune's latest novel is close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifeshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, carried out by her nephew after she has diedGuy Trueman. The aunt who always provided Maik was involved in a safe harbour street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a little bit charge of indulgence manslaughter but evidence came to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than light that suggested that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems he might have planned to him an obligation murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to find it help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all out. |isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW

|isbnauthor=1739593901Alexander McCall Smith|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''Our future will be The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more complex than we expectedpersonal, tailored service. Instead of flying carsNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets as Ness is planning to track grandma.'' I've got take a couple of confessions trip to Canada to makeget away for a while. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read Katie is coming out of a break up with a few stories bad boyfriend, and then forget so jumps at the chance to return come home to the bookEdinburgh. There's got And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be a very compelling hook an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's 44 Scotland Street and the technology which takes centre stage along Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the world-buildingsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. ItKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's human beings who fascinate me: the technology always her very helpful (and the world scape are purely incidental. Sorather handsome) neighbour, William, what did I think of to lend a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=14059511840811771741|title=The Girls Who DisappearedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Claire DouglasMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a night outcollection of knits from toys to blankets. As she passed through Some will be quick knits - others are of the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridorlong, a figure appeared cosy afternoons in front of the roadfire' variety. Olivia swerved The projects are divided by the time they'll take to avoid him and the car smashed into a treecomplete - less than five hours, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middletonfive to ten hours, who lived in the woods helped her before the police ten to twenty hours and ambulance arrivedmore than twenty hours. But what had happened to Sally ThorneAll the projects are attractive, Tamsin Cole modern and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area of Wiltshireuseable. It was thought of as AveburyI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's poor relationme being picky.

|isbnauthor=3949666079Dean Koontz|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it''This 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 story about some things nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that happened the delivery to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya his house is a young girl living in new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic eragood person. Climate change Spike is occurringgoing to take care of Benny, the Sea and will certainly take care of Grass encroaches further and further into MayaBenny's forest homeenemies, if he, Benny, and food is becoming more and more scarce. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, Harper (a spiritual waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=194241028XAdam Stower|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesn't. He's there to remove his daughters, Jenna Murray and Kiri, and take them back to Honolulu. It's a quick day trip, with just one purpose in mind. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's in. His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girls.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09SGWCXQ8|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterBun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Fergus Grigor went out for Murray is supposed to be a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicidehumble, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall tidy and fall friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his death? Or was fancy next of the two. But he pushed? On balance's a bad magician's cat, it looked like an accident but then so his 'accident' was linked to 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 deaths regular back garden, but into a world of others associated with himfrightening adventure and whiffs. Scott Paterson This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland, to be honest, but he's most notorious criminal wasnturned up and he't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last client.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0989715337B0C47LV1PC|title=Papa on the MoonFragility|author=Marco NorthMosby Woods

|summary=Can you make a ''Some frogs had gotten into Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could wellbe.... no.''

''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.Fragility'' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in set as the form city of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musingPortland, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco NorthOregon, who has cautiously begins to emerge from the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=140639131X1529431735|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Winter Visitor|author=Briony May SmithJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried to cross the Old Oak Road. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get a reply. Philippa wasn't a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herself. Her uniform and lollipop stick were both a little amateur to start with but the benefits were obvious. All the animals used the crossing and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnight.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=000837936X|title=The Last Girl to Die|author=Helen Fields|rating=5

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeIt's family moved to TobermoryFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, on which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Isle of Mull, in search of a new lifemore surprising. It was a bit of He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing wanted drug smuggler for a social life - until she disappeareddecade. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been return has come about because Adrianahe's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque had a letter from Banffhis ex-wife, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers. Brandon, Adrianasaying that she's twin, was upset ill and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sisterhasn't long to live. It took four days's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but Sadie found Adriana stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in Mackinnon's Cavethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. She'd been murdered and Is it looked like a ritual killing.warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1509889612Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's fifty years since Eli is a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island. Some of them found busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Only Connect course transformative wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and they've been coming back for in the evening a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy helper at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide dessert cafe his gran owns and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned runs. Eli lives with the group each year as her husbandhis lovely gran, Ken, was one of too – for there is a generation missing in the original teenagersfamily. Ken now has AlzheimerA few short years ago, Eli's and he's a shadow of parents were both lost to the man he used to be. Philip Robson now titular race, a priest, always gets there early as he likes globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to have some quiet time alone navigate the world in the chapelcompany of a magical beast. Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of This has made the food: her deli is famous in race anathema to the area.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473680883|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin Kelly|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for pair – but when a bad incident at the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all eatery leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to go dare to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - in factenter what he most hates, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around with the country. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in sole aim the words and pictures prize of magic at the book - and all end – the parts were discovered except for the pelvis. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231