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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].''' <! '''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}

|isbnauthor=1785785516David Chadwick|title=Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon GriffinHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=Manners maketh manIt's September 1973 in Hicks, they sayCalifornia. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by Hicks is a set Mojave desert town of conventions, some a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of which are ages old LA and other which have evolved over timeLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Manners are not about how Not much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult mattershappens in Hicks. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family A silver mine and friendsa defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, but itthere's best if we learn to distinguish between our public not much of note other than dive bars and private lives and to act appropriatelyJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0008324859Tom Percival|title=Fowl Twins|author=Eoin ColferThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=RelaxWill's life is difficult, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planetin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', but he has the baddies arenwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Fowl family to contend withcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Those cute little twins Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are now eleven (and, franklyseparated, cute no longer) and Will's life seems bleak in thisevery direction. And yet, their first independent adventurehe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, they meet a troll and without even trying manage clings to make two deadly enemies: the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the cost (Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to other people)a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, and an unusual interrogator-nunJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The boys are chased There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, kidnappedLivia and her daughter Diana, arrested as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and even killed (though 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 long), all with herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the help of one trainee fairyback burner.

|isbn=14722557981786482126|title=The Bad Fire Janus Stone (Bob SkinnerDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Quintin JardineElly Griffiths

|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of shoplifting from a local supermarketchild 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 always been assumed difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she couldn't live is pregnant with his child as a result of the shameone night they spent together some three months ago. People were surprised that she committed suicide just 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 court case when she had been adamant that she would fight Hardie family to clear her nameapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. She said that sheBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd been set up because she s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was hot on 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 trail remainder of corruption in the councilhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner Not much to ask, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired is it? The new Deputy Police Constable Bob Skinnerdoesn's daughter, t think so and asked that she look into clearing Brown's name: it's something which he feels that he has even prepared to do in memory of his son the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who was murdered recentlyworks with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=B07X6GLQ3Q0008405026|title=See Them RunA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Marion ToddJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St AndrewIt's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgowsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's left quite a lot behind including was never found and the investigation ground to a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when the chips were downhalt. She also left a nasty situation Now, of her own making but not her faultmother, Helena, and St Andrew's is a fresh starther father are dead in their bed. Not long into the job she's faced with Initially, it looks like a hit and run death and straightforward murder/suicide but there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - something about the card with positioning of the number five suggests murderbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Andy Robb What looked as though it was married going to Sandrabe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. You could say Kerrigan is convinced that they had an open marriage but there seemed to be a lot of the explanation lies in Rosalie'opens disappearance: others (such as Derwent' and very little of the 'marriage' left - on both sidess boss, but would she want him dead?Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17865409910571379877|title=The Impossible BoyKellerby Code|author=Ben BrooksJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=''Oleg and Emma entered their den to find Edward Jevons is a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually sat. Slowlyworking-class young man, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. And out stepped a boy, dressed in a long coat obsessed with an even longer scarfhis upper-class friends, wound around his neckRobert and Stanza. Robert''  ''"My names a theatre director. He's Sebastian Colealso self-obsessed," the boy saiddemanding, "But you already know thathandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him." Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'' And indeed they dos drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Ever since the summer, when their friend Sarah Most men in Robert's mother position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had moved her away, Oleg and Emma have been unable begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to find stumble upon the two of them kissing in a new friend to take her placedark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1447281357Jo Callaghan|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonLeave No Trace

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=In When a man is found crucified on the twenty-third centurytop of a hill in Nuneaton, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to changethe case alongside her sidekick, foreverthe AI detective Lock. Feriton Kane It's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight backtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, in order to carry us Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their god at the end of the universeAI Future Policing project. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, Will they be able to live in hiding amongst solve the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out case in time. But others refuse to break before , or will Kat find herself taken off the storm. As disaster loomscase and, potentially, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face out of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14711863931399613073|title=Photographer of the LostMoral Injuries|author=Caroline ScottChristie Watson

|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=May 1921Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Edie receives Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a photograph through the postbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. There Laura is no letter or note with ita perfectionist and a trauma doctor. There Anjali is nothing written on the back free spirit of the photographgroup and she becomes a GP. It is When we first meet them they're at a picture of her husband, Francisdrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. Francis has been missing for four yearsWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that is not something that a young widow can believewill impact the three friends. She hangs on the word This time, it'missing', disbelieving the word killeds their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17837843500241636604|title=This Golden FleeceThe Trading Game: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted HistoryConfession|author=Esther RutterGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in her office jobyour mind, writing you're unlikely to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheetsthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes A hoodie and she decided that she would travel jeans replaces the length pin-stripe suit and breadth of his background is the British Isles East End, where he was familiar with occasional forays abroadviolence, discovering poverty and telling injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the story London School of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscapeEconomics. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk Stevenson is bright - '' a free range child on the farm'' extremely bright - and learned he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to spinbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's frienda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. This was in her bloodEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=14012862081035021803|title=Black Canary: IgniteThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeC L Miller

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Dinah LanceIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Frustrated that She's back now because of a request for help from her policeman father will not allow her to try beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and follow in his footstepsCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at schoolthe circumstances seem suspicious, she is desperate to find her voicesay the least. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school feels, let her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singerdown badly. You could almost call it a weapon Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or a powerpursue the profession she loved. But After the split, she worked in order for her to call herself a superherocafe, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one met and married James (on the rebound from the love of which will be into her past…life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1789017977AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Ronnie and HildaAll Tomorrow's RomanceFutures: Towards a New Life after World War IIFictions that Disrupt|author=Wendy WilliamsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=Ronnie Williams was ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the son shape of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wallthings to come. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to  I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older more than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his agedecades of technology in my lifetime. For a while the family was quite I've kept up reasonably well-with what's advantageous to-do me but disaster struck in I'm left with the 1929 Depression and fivefeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is -yearfrankly -old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestylequite frightening. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and this would stay with him throughout his lifeend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He joined the army at eighteen I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in 1942a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1542015421Sunny Singh|title=The Royal Baths Murder|author=J R EllisHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage of suspects: he was The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a deeply unpleasant manterrorist group. In fact Hiding from the only surprising thing was that terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there wasn't more of is Sam, a queue waiting to do wartime photographer and Abhi, the dirty deedhotel manager. What was As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bit of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and that he was strangled in the midst keeps on venturing out of Harrogateher room to try to capture what's crime writing festivalhappened through her photography. He went for a swim at Although they only ever talk over the Royal Baths phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and never returned, his body being found they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the receptionist. DCI Jim Oldroyd was the man tasked with investigating the crime. It would not be the only death, and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeant, Andy Carter, that Oldroyd's was not one of themterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Daniel Kraus1529153298|title=Blood SugarThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=This It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a difficult readPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... And ) She's not because of the dark subject matter – thatwhat'll come later – but because of the way in which its worrying Miv's toldfamily, though. This might put a lot of readers off Women have been disappearing. Well, and to be honest it'd be hard to blame them. Kraus tells the story in a distinctive voice unlike any other Ithey've read; an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and distractingbeen murdered, and it takes some time but to feel naturalhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It Miv's a struggle to acclimatise to Jodyupset because she's voice, overheard that her father wants to get acquainted with his mannerisms, but move the story wouldnfamily 't be Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the same without itmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and somehow it worksshe'll do anything to prevent that. It shouldn She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum't, but it doess stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1789091934

|authorisbn=Don Behrend1398524085|title=Copernicus! What Have You DoneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?: |author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty.are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Other Interesting Questionsthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=TriviaGeneral Fiction|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOUWe 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. FIN Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'?! Because I didto make it more manageable in the States. And you will 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. |isbn=1789016770}}

|isbnauthor=1925820025Christopher Edge|title=Once, I was Loved|author=Belinda LandsberryBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=TockLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the toy rabbit, is in a box nickname of toys going to the charity shop'The Black Hole'. He realises that heAll big movie fans, they's not wanted any morere looking forward to lots of exciting films, but muses and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that it wasnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't always this wayeven imagine. ''Once''But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, he says, ''I was loved''. can they figure out what on earth is going on? And he tells us of all Will they ever get back to the children who have loved him over the years.cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Literary Fiction Teens|summary= ''It Would Be Night I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in Caracasmy heart.'' illuminates  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the everyday horrors rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of modern day Venezuelathe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. It begins with But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the death of Adelaida Falconisland's mother leader and chronicles AdelaidaMira's coming father. Desperate to terms save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her new solitude , she sets off in this world and 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 attempts from the watched streets of foreign islands to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where heart of the establishment is crumblingsmuggler's territory, who can you turn Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to? save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=00629368670008664730

|isbnauthor=0349423067James Sherwood Metts|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyPlanet Storyland

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=From Christmas to Easter Things have been a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so that bit sticky for the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent GardenEarthlings. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a manAI and automation have been proceeding apace, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end often replacing jobs they're paid to do and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope other tasks that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they neededtook time to accomplish. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her Just as a child they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and could not come starting to terms with the fact that she think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was now a woman experienced in dealing pretty much shut down and, along with murder. He was reluctant to give her it, all the information many daily social interactions on which the police heldthey depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author= Stephen BaxterMatthew Tree|title= World Engines: DestroyerWe'll Never Know|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= Hundreds Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of years in the futureDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, on at last. I just want to enjoy it for a stagnating and almost empty Earthwhile.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a space shuttle pilot from town under the protection of the early days Briar's, a family of witches who protect the 21st century town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a devastating accidentsteward 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. As he comes to terms with this new worldchallenges come her way left, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - right and that only he may be able centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to stop communicate with the coming catastrophe destined to destroy dead, putting her at the planetheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Until he meets a young woman Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who seems to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have a drive of her ownsacrificed to survive, and a plan..is under threat.|isbn=14732231721803364548

|isbn=14063893311529900360|title=In the Key of CodeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Aimee LucidoJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across AmericaIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to follow her fatherask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's dreams t need the help of a big break in his music careerpsychologist only worked for a while. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsin Finally, it was Robin, and moves to CaliforniaDelaware's partner, knowing only what who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she has heard loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in songsBel Air. Her struggle He was the heir to settle into her new life, make friends an Italian shoe empire and feel happy and confident again, she is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate married to. There are many new opportunities an extremely rich man and setbacks, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongss not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=15294022551529395224|title=A Body in Letting the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Helen CoxSion Rowlands

|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious of the scars on her faceDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. They were acquired when she Maik was rescued from involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a car in the River Ouse by Inspector HalloranGhurka. She’d been suspected Initially, he faced a charge of the manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder of her boyfriend, Owen, and in the process of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detectionman. Kitt developed a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking it slowlyNow he could be facing the death penalty. Well, sort of slowlyDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author= Alexandra ChristoAlexander McCall Smith|title= Into the Crooked PlaceThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= In The Perfect Passion Company is a world thriving with black magicdating agency in Edinburgh, four young crooks embark on run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a quest more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take down their criminal leader after they discover a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the plot behind his dangerous Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new magiccharacters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=12503183781846976596

|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Kathlaine C Gill Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and D Clark Gillmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=Madness Between Light and DarkThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary=ItBenny 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's 1912possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and at New Hope SanatoriumBenny 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 delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, Christine Agnes Tupper who has been sent to help him since Benny is fast growing upclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of her hunchbackBenny's enemies, sheif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's nevertheless grown up wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to an intelligent girl with be a good heart. Her encounters with the inhabitants humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the asylum swiftly take her on two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a fascinatinghyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, thrilling and sometimes terrifying journey of self discoverythe catflap they both use can chuck them out, allowing Agnes to prove thatnot into the regular back garden, even with but into a twisted spineworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, her heart where a troll hunter is in the right place!expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=16411107080008561249