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|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonTom Percival|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetWrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=JaydenWill's nose life is forever difficult, in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns multitude of the world, for exampleways. Aisha He is addicted to her new tabletbullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', where she he has the wrong shoes because his dad can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out theret work and doesn' themselves, exploring t have enough money for even the outside world most basic of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purposethings like food, and with a past involving Jaydenhis dad can's cousint work because he lost his job at the college, they find was working a magical world they never knew existedcash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. For many of those mythological creatures Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are realseparated, including the one Aisha thinks sheand Will's seen on life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a bit tiny amount of local footagehope. The crew of the boatHe is good at art, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed clings to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on boardmoments of joy when he is drawing, and her relative who lives as that feel like a figure in light at the end of a paintinglong, and become saviours of the unseen?dark tunnel.|isbn=02415734831398527122

|isbnauthor=1913839656Sylvie Cathrall|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmother, not least because she made the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to show his grandmothera compelling premise. She had promised to take him to the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about And this as he wanted to make new friends. At home, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked differentis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17873010360008517061|title=What July KnewDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Emily KochStig Abell|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years oldFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She's There’s perhaps a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss little uncertainty about the death future of his wifelife with his vet girlfriend, July's motherLivia and her daughter Diana, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of as moving in together would mean a Lesson. Other infractions lot of compromise: does Jake give up his requirements also lead off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to these Lessons and he's not even careful Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the injuries are visible. future she wants for herself and her daughter? July's teacher is concerned For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and brings up putting the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to future on the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himback burner.

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1786482126|title=Clara and OliviaThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The year is 1933. The place? SadlerBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's Wellsapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins There was no lessskull. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, eitherDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Because there It's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – disciplinedifficult as Ruth knows, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'but Nelson doesn't, that don't come from she is pregnant with his child as a result of the classroomone night they spent together some three months ago. A stage presence Her condition will be obvious before long, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a starnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=0861544080

|isbn=00084544930008551324|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Stacy WillinghamNeil Lancaster

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept s unusual for a year - well, apart anyone from the odd occasion when she lost track of time Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or drifted off has any respect for a momentthe other. ItBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's now prepared to tell the police where the body of a year since missing person is buried and who was responsible for her sondeath. This person, Masonhe promises, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing someone big and particularly about her relief in it will be worth the morning when she thought police doing what he wants. And what he was sleeping inwants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. In that year Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's done everything she could even prepared to raise awareness about do the 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 caseFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She does interviews was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and when we meet herfather are dead in their bed. Initially, sheit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's just been something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to TrueCrimeCon where she gave be an open-and-shut case is now a keynote presentationcomplex double murder. On Kerrigan is convinced that the plane back, sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's approached by a podcasterboss, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jeremy Dronfield Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and David Ziggy GreeneStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'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 university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Fritz and KurtLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start with When a man is found crucified on the pair top of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckersa hill in Nuneaton, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbourscase alongside her sidekick, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational schoolAI detective Lock. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at It's their first live case together, having previously been very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchsuccessful with several cold cases. But this when there is the time just before the Austrian leader a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is going to cave to Hitler's will, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and instead a very high profile case that draws a lot of having a national vote unwanted attention to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armstheir AI Future Policing project. ''Kristallnacht'' happened Will they be able to solve the case in Vienna just as much as in Germanytime, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or will Kat find herself taken off the US, while Fritz case and his father are, unknown initially to each otherpotentially, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant out of all this could come about…a career?|isbn=024156574X139851120X

|isbn=15294212411399613073|title=Stay BuriedMoral Injuries|author=Kate WebbChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a cold case unit and there are just two quarter of them doing the joba century. Lockyer's not unduly worriedOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something betterwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It was Laura is a bit perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder re at a drug and alcohol- fuelled party and it was Lockyer 's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who put her suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there, fourteen years agowill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. SheThis time, it's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadestheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF0241636604|title=Just LookingThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Matthew TreeGary Stevenson

|genre=Dystopian FictionAutobiography|summary=It was the summer If you were to bring up an image of 2035 and on a cruise ship city banker in Marseillesyour mind, Jim was celebrating his newyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-found wealth stripe suit and his background is the end of East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his marriage CV - not two celebrations generally found in but he had been to the same sentence by a man! London School of Economics. He's watching the tornado Stevenson is bright - they're more common in Europe these days extremely bright - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation he has a facility with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirtiesnumbers which most of us can only envy. He writes for a relatively new paperalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'card game which got him an internship with Citibank. His partnerEventually, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extentthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=057137493X1035021803|title=The Other HalfAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Charlotte VassellC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and 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 business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and 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 Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''The room was full Opening up new ways of thinking about the sort shape of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowthings to come.''

I've heard it said that 'The Other Half'technology' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surnamehappens after you're eighteen. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to Well, I must confess that there have been more than a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds few decades of technology in Camden Townmy lifetime. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced I've kept up reasonably well with what'Beechams advantageous to me but I'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector m left with the Metropolitan police and feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see itfrankly - quite frightening. The two encounter each other when CaiusOf course, out for a run, stumbles across I could research the possibilities and the body of Clemmie Oprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'Hara, Rupertm reading someone who knows what they's girlfriendre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a bushway I could understand.

|author=Joe ThomasSunny Singh|title=White RiotHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes has suddenly been violently taken over by a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyterrorist group. Austerity Britain, Hiding from the student riotsterrorists who are rampaging through, Donald Trumpkilling everyone on site, Brexit – so much of what there isSam, a wartime photographer and has beenAbhi, written the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be frothy cowed by events, and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Inevitably ( Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded discovered by the writer the benefit of a more objective viewterrorists.|isbn= 1529423376086154742X

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett1529153298|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia The List of FaeriesSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Emily Wilde It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is an expert academic scholar on faerie lorePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and she has travelled extensivelythough. Women have been disappearing. Well, and researched meticulouslythey've been murdered, but to write her lifehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's work, overheard that her father wants to move the very first encyclopaedia of faeriesfamily 'Down South'. Whilst she When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is brilliant at research and speaking to faeriesa frightening, foreign place, she is not so good with peoplebest avoided. So when she finds herself farFor Miv, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnikmove would mean leaving her best friend, having somehow offended the village matriarchSharon, and she is not sure what she has done, nor how 'll do anything to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackprevent that. Enter Wendell Bambleby, She's not worried about the dangers or that her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to EmilyMum's frustrationstopped talking - to anyone. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120

|isbn=18484584361398524085|title=Just the Nicest CoupleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Mary KubicaNicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The whole thing has spiralled out of controls fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, turning into someone I'm is not.''  ''Just Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the Nicest Couplebody of Greg'' is s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayesriver. The connection between It was an easy assumption for the two is police to make that Lily Duncan had murdered Charlie and Nina teach in then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebraguilt. The couples have mixed as a foursome Salter children are not convinced but itthere's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: little else they don't have much in common except can do but get on with their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publiclives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=19145854021035906708|title=Dashboard Elvis is DeadDiva|author=David F RossDaisy Goodwin

|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[ThereWe 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 's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|ThereCallas's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting to make it more manageable in the States. When she was. It back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a gripping, emotionally wounding read, mother who mercilessly exploited her and rereading my review made no secret of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on ither preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=178563335XChristopher Edge|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a trainee vicarmovie marathon at their local cinema, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're held when you need looking forward to pick the children up. Her husbandlots of exciting films, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brothermany, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. many snacks! HolthorpeHowever, on as the Norfolk coastmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is a lovely placevery different, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and shethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearst even imagine. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on But as they lurch from one film genre to the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they needed. And then Hannah went missing.ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiRachel Greenlaw|title=The Daughters of IzdiharCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''I can hear the song of the sea. The Daughters call of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more differentdeep, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a society pitted against them. Nehalremote and partially forgotten island, born survives on luring ships into the upper classrocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, wishes is one of the seven who swim out to attend survey the Weaving Academy ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to learn end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to control her abilities and then join the militarysave him from death, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage Mira makes a bargain with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and feels great pressure with only coordinates to provide for guide her , she sets off in search of a family and maintain their reputationsecret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, whilst secretly attending meetings as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the Daughters heart of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenthe smuggler's rights. Giorgina also happens territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story save the future of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy her home and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565204710008664730

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJames Sherwood Metts|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe Things have been a bit sticky for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Alice Eclair had often replacing jobs they're paid to prove herself as a spy do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as a master at they were beginning to get used to all things French this technological change and fancy and fondantstarting to think of other, as the only way new ways to save the day involved being spend time, along came an expert baker awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and icer on the French railways. Here, we start on a bateau-mouche in Paris, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success along with it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afoot. And there will never be more feet than at the World's Fair, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the world. Once again Alice will have to present the front to the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=18399409721736128426

|author=Amanthi HarrisMatthew Tree|title=Beautiful PlaceWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary= PadmaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of as homeself confidence. How she came So Tim applied himself to be at the Villa, how it became her homehis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villaset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1784631930B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Nigel BainesA G Slatter|title=A Tricky Kind The Briar Book of Magicthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFantasy|summary=Cooper loves '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to perform myself for however long I can. This secret magic tricksof my own, all mine, at last. His father was I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a magicianremote mountain pass, far away from the world, and named Cooper after lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly CooperBriar's father died suddenly, a family of witches who protect the town and now Cooper doesn't quite know who the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to beborn into her family for generations and as such since she was young, or how to beher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. And when his dadWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's prop rabbit starts talking leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to himcommunicate with the dead, he ''really'' doesn't know putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine whatto do as the Briar witches's going on anymore!legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14449602611803364548

|isbn=15420372391529900360|title=Death in HeelsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Kitty MurphyJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's drag scenefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn''Death in Heels'' tells t need the story help of Fi McKinnery and her best frienda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, RobynDelaware's partner, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bnudged Milo into asking for help again. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to She knew that the involvement was something that the stage to mock Mae Bman she loved needed. As if the night could not get any worse The next case did look simple, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a gutterremote property in Bel Air. Fi is adamant that Eve He was murdered, yet the drag community, heir to an Italian shoe empire and the Guards, accept it as she is married to an accident. Fi takes extremely rich man and it upon herself to solve 's not the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18004652701529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Lensky ConnectionSecret Life of a Vet|author=Conrad DelacroixSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St PetersburgSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death His father was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer GP and heRowlands didn's disgusted by what t want to follow in his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: footsteps, particularly when he's determined to make considered the strain that being on-call put on his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timurfather's deathlife. Within a matter When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created doing work experience with a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, family friend who was a journalist. She's determined to expose any vet and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safetywas convinced this was the job for him. To herBefore long, hewas at Liverpool University. It hadn's t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a good sourcechild. For himIf anything, ithe's a way d wanted to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possiblea professional footballer.

|isbn=13997022890861541774|title=A World Nye of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Pheasants|author=Louise PennySteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=After DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a harsh wintershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springGuy Trueman. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québeche killed a Ghurka. Gamache had offered help to Initially, he faced a young woman after the murder charge of her mother: manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guy, it had always been might have planned to murder the other way aroundman. Now they're both in he could be facing the village and neither can fathom what's happeningdeath penalty. Armand will soon find that theyDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifet help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKAlexander McCall Smith|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained 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 basementmore personal, tailored service. He rails against his captor Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of coursebusiness, he knows whyas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Sam Katie is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and dirty life by going so jumps at the chance to come home to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monkEdinburgh. Recently returning And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to join an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the community Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in his old neighbourhoodrunning a business, or in match-making, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadnNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a violent fashion.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09XWSXSKY0811771741|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockInstaKnits for Baby|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiMelissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''t sleepgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. A tuneSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, rather like cosy afternoons in front of the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mindfire' variety. It happened every The projects are divided by the time he came they'll take to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted complete - less than five hours, five to come; after allten hours, he's ten now to twenty hours and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymoremore than twenty hours. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the timeprojects are attractive, modern and useable. And time isnI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't good for anything...social-media-worthy projects'' And but that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six timess me being picky. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

|isbnauthor=3756228711Dean Koontz|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryParanormal|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer Benny is quite right about thathaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has chosen delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to tell us about his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the shortthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but explosive, history of Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Control Data Companydelivery to his house is a new friend, CDCa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for whom he workedbeing a good person. It Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's a fascinating taleenemies, if he, Benny, told in and Harper (a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdotewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529356660Adam Stower|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - orMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, ratherwell, the absence whatever takes his fancy next of the noise which was two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a constant in New York. Here it was silent hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the heat was overwhelming. When she looked catflap they both use can chuck them out , not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the window all she could see was the desertfrightening adventure and whiffs. How did she get here? Zoey This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she, to be honest, but he'd been out with Franny s turned up and Rocco last night. She knew that shehe'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she ll have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge of her mind.do…|isbn=0008561249

{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the worldFragility's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above is set as the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one city of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-makerPortland, doing a recce with his cameraman buddyOregon, John Prentiss – who's mostly there cautiously begins to encourage emerge from the project to fruition to claw back some of restrictions imposed during the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476covid pandemic

|isbn=18387761841529431735|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Winter Visitor|author=S J BennettJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'The Queen, like return all the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking timemore surprising. He'' It seemed to begin d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering wanted drug smuggler for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterdecade. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. SheThe return has come about because he'd probably caught it s had a letter from one of the greathis ex-grandchildren. Unfortunatelywife, it didnsaying that she's ill and hasn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flulong to live. She and the Duke were due It's hard to go feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred that underwear and sent to a watery grave in the queen have boot of a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daystolen Ford Sierra. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to disappoint.}}home?