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|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BSylvie Cathrall|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J LewisLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he There are few greater joys than a book which lives at The House of Beautiful Swallowsup to a compelling premise. Idyllic as And this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone is one of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneythem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008517061|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{FrontpageLonely Place|author=Jamie Littler|title=ArkspireStig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sistersFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Juniper and ElodieJake Johnson, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheesehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Juniper is an eager hunter There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and trader in illicit magicher daughter Diana, including relics from prior major wars left out as moving in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one together would mean a lot of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to become the child move in line with Livia or does Livia move to inherit Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, future she wants for herself and one of her daughter? For the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained moment they’re enjoying life in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change present and putting the status of future on the whole familyback burner. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1786482126|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought bones of a child beneath a young goddess of nuisancedoorway. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changesThere was no skull. SuddenlyWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, practically everything electronic stops Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolwith DCI Harry Nelson. It's in difficult as Ruth knows, but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonesNelson doesn't, and all that powers she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Internet, just for our convenience's sake)one night they spent together some three months ago. TrixieHer condition will be obvious before long, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksterssickness.|isbn=178845295X

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale0008551324|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=It's hard enough unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that youapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're having s prepared to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in tell the police where the middle body of a dance performance that missing person is buried and who was going to change responsible for her lifedeath. But she comes back fightingThis person, desperate to avoid the pity stareshe promises, is someone big and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manageit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece And what he wants is to be transferred to try an open prison to sort out, and just serve the day-to-day traumas remainder of all the challenges her body continues his sentence and to throw at her get an early parole date. Not much to navigate. ask, is it? So even though she canThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't dance anymore, might think so and she be able 's even prepared to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801do 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.

|authorisbn=Helen Peters0008405026|title=Friends and TraitorsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=England, WW2It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Two young girls are new at She was never found and the country pile called Stanbrookinvestigation ground to a halt. One is NancyNow, destined to be in service all her life it seemsmother, Helena, like the female generations before and herfather are dead in their bed. The other is SidneyInitially, it looks like a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed straightforward murder/suicide but there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed s something about the positioning of the bodies that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it somakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But something What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be now a rum 'uncomplex double murder. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk Kerrigan is made of meetings with Germans, and not only convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedUna Burt) are less convinced. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647

|isbn=02419961040571379877|title=Coming to Find YouThe Kellerby Code|author=Jane CorryJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Nancy's mother and stepEdward Jevons is a working-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her stepclass young man, obsessed with his upper-brotherclass friends, Martin, has been convicted of their murderRobert and Stanza. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives Robert's a life sentencetheatre director. The barrister tells her that sheHe's received a 'silent sentence' also self- she's not been found guilty of anything but will have obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to live with what happened run errands for the rest of her lifehim. Of course, itEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's made worse because Nancydrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's rich - she inherited five million pounds position would stay away from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might s not be printed but like most men: Edward is undoubtedly spokenleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1529413680Jo Callaghan|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season When a man is found crucified on the re-enactment top of the liberation of the town from the English a hill in 1370 and Bruno's there Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see the show with some friendscase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's all their first live case together, having previously been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong successful with several cold cases. But when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters there is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckilya second body found crucified a few days later, his doctor Kat is there suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the man is whisked away in a helicoptervery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employeeWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby case and another, who lives in Californiapotentially, is flying in with some out of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15291963881399613073|title=The TrialMoral Injuries|author=Rob RinderChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Grant Cliveden was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a hero: quarter of a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyonecentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, so there was public uproar which is a bonus when he was murdered in plain sight at you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the Old Baileygroup and she becomes a GP. ThereWhen we first meet them they's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight re at a drug and alcohol- fuelled party and it's not too long before Knight appears going to end in court, charged with Clivedentragedy. We don's murdert know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Knight was told Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himthree friends. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyThis time, despite all Taylor-Cameronit's recommendations to the contrarytheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0241636604|title=The FascinationTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as If you were to bring up an image of a setting for historical fiction (matched onlycity banker in your mind, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led you're unlikely to more than a few writers mishandling itthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. There's such a glut of media set in A hoodie and jeans replaces the era that pin-stripe suit and his background is the hallmarks we've come to associate East End, where he was familiar with it are familiar violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the point London School of being cliched, hackneyed evenEconomics. All this Stevenson is simply bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to illustrate that it would be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an easy thing to do poorlyinternship with Citibank. But despite that Eventually, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did turned into permanent employment as wella trader.|isbn=1914585526

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1035021803|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth HoundIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She spends 's back now because of a request for help from her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitbeloved aunt, sometimes Carole. Freya'tweakings former mentor and Carole' thems close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayssay the least. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallvillage: Arthur, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isfeels, and how she can steal it! let her down badly. It's a next-level step Even though they were in her petty crime careerbusiness together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she reached too farworked in a cafe, met and what will happen when married James (on the owner rebound from the love of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529507987AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Walker Books Benjamin Greenaway and Sonia Albert Stephen Oram (IllustratorEditors)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair ShopOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I'. Itve heard it said that 's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, theretechnology's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning is what theyhappens after you're wortheighteen. You seeWell, the value is I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what these possessions are worth 's advantageous to me but I'm left with the people who own them and the memories they holdfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. No expense appears to be spared and Of course, I could research the experts spend as much time possibilities and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts probabilities and theyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I're all brilliant at explaining m reading someone who knows what it is they're doingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But how did they start?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Nicole JarvisSunny Singh|title=A Portrait in ShadowHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnateterrorist group. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition Hiding from the powerful Accademiaterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the self-proclaimed guardians of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the healing magics that through paintings have residents who are still alive in the power hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to protect the city be cowed by events, and its citizens from plagues and curseskeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power Although they only ever talk over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To themthe phone, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and change – has no place amongst them and their societythey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803362340086154742X

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1529153298|title=The Grave ListenersList of Suspicious Things|author=William FrankJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=The village It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is isolated and poorPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... It) She's not what's worrying Miv's surrounded by a Witching Forestfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesfamily 'Down South'. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth When you're from Yorkshire, roofs on homesDown South is a frightening, and even gallowsforeign place, if neededbest avoided. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in For Miv, the village move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that is . She's not worried about the reason Volushka, a drunken, selfdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedto anyone.

|isbn=024162343X1398524085|title=Stolen HistoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sathnam SangheraNicci French

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I Charlotte Salter was the bad company other people got into expected at schoolher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Where was the proof? In history lessonsare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, it was probably worse stillis not. Not too long after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the end body of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armyGreg's successes (and occasional failuresfather, Duncan Ackerley, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first placeriver. Looking back, I still believe I It was right - but I regret that I lacked an easy assumption for the maturity police to approach make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the problem' politelyguilt. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraThe Salter children are not convinced but there's ''Stolen History''little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1035906708|title=Three GracesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary= Few styles We tend to think of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novelMaria 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. There Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture to make it, crafting an image of more manageable in the country as it stands States. When she was back in one particular moment. To say Athens - supposedly so that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such Nazi occupation by a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers preference for social commentary but instead fully realised peopleher elder sister, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesJackie.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbnauthor=1448309379Christopher Edge|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's something of Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a surprise to find place that youhas the nickname of 're deadThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, particularly when youthey're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife looking forward to lots of exciting films, and childrenmany, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. many snacks! Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillHowever, officiallyas the movie starts, alivethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed But as they lurch from her flat in one film genre to the early hours of next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carcinema, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0957181167Rachel Greenlaw|title=Blue Skies Compass and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallBlade|rating=3.5|genre=ArtTeens|summary=There are few positive things which ''I can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timehear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in trying to avoid looking at my heart.'' Rosevear, a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the walls - rocks and was completely taken by plundering the work wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Brian Lewisthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. I searched online But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and could with only find ‘used’ versions coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of this book and a family secret that lies buried deep in the print I wanted was ‘not available’sea. OhWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, dear - then a few doors down as her journey takes her from the apartmentwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, I found a gift shop with a stack Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of brand new books - her home and a framed print of the picture I wantedones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Simon FoxJames Sherwood Metts|title=DeadlockPlanet Storyland

|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on Things have been a bit sticky for the force, Earthlings. AI and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret placeautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and join him on the runother tasks that took time to accomplish. They Just as they were beginning to get together, but barely begin used to all this technological change and starting to smell the whiff think of Southern trains when the father is arrestedother, leaving Archie on the late express new ways to Brightonspend time, toting a tin his father along came an awful pandemic. Life was determined to keep away from his colleaguespretty much shut down and, along with it, and all the bearer of a whole heap of questionsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399444201736128426

|author=Shalini BolandMatthew Tree|title=The Silent BrideWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total drunk and utter husband-material. She is chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… failed miserably and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setwho had endless crises of self confidence. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns So Tim applied himself to face his approaching bridestudies, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become cultivated his abilities rather than his wifedaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1662507089B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Mark EdwardsA G Slatter|title=Keep Her SecretThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland'' 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, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. The alien-landscape '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the lava fields town and black beaches the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is breaththe first non-taking witch to be born into her family for generations and Helena seems intent on getting 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 perfect photograph to encapsulate Briar Witch, the joy she is feeling in this momenttown's leader, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and Helena finds herself clinging centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the rockface with just dead, putting her at the snagged strap heart of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowmaelstrom of chaos. Convinced she is going Reeling from one family secret to dieanother, Helena Ellie must purge herself of decide who to trust and determine what to do as the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedBriar witches' legacy, cryptic declaration everything they have sacrificed to Matthew. Just moments later their heroicsurvive, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenaunder threat.|isbn=166250893X1803364548

|isbn=B0BYF82CXT1529900360|title=Semi-DetachedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Deborah StoneJonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Bill s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Amanda are living in 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't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a semi-detached housewhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, stuck though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a depressing rut remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of boredom the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and disappointmentRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life, . When he was seventeen he took the couples befriend each other opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and life appears to improve was convinced this was the job for both pairshim. But all is not what it seems Before long, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=17876360030861541774|title=The Girls A Nye of SummerPheasants|author=Katie BishopSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasformer colleague, perhapsDanny Maik, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take meet up with an interest in herold ally, she was flattered rather than waryGuy Trueman. It Maik was quite involved in a while before street brawl - he would later maintain that he made any sort was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of physical approach manslaughter but evidence came to her and by light that suggested that time she was obsessed by himhe might have planned to murder the man. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on Now he could be facing the island death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and in particular in the bar where wouldn't help Danny at all the girls either worked or partied.

|isbnauthor=1529135389Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long Edinburgh, run by Ness and were still getting used operating as an alternative to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upononline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Some of them fought with each other Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and didn't work look after the business, as reliably as they shouldNess is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. It had all come about through Katie is coming out of a break up with a ten-million-pound lottery win bad boyfriend, and they were still getting used so jumps at the chance to having that sort of money, toocome home to Edinburgh. EventuallyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Nicole found Tom dead in thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the swimming pool Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wound 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 his head.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Alan Parks0811771741|title=To Die in JuneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=What first seems like 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 unfortunate'long, accidental death cosy afternoons in front of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherfire' variety. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all The projects are divided by the more so because his own father is a down-andtime they'll take to complete -out alcoholicless than five hours, with no fixed abodefive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and he has been for yearsmore than twenty hours. At All the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police stationprojects are attractive, modern and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be founduseable. Something feels wrong I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- not just with the woman’s story worthy projects' but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784that's me being picky.

|author=Laura NoakesDean Koontz|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Meet Number OneBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Or ratherHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Cosima Unfortunateand his house gets trashed. Or ratherOh, just Cos and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to her friends. The practice in the his home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and theyit're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities s possible that whoever or suchlike whatever was inside is the thing that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. has trashed his house! But Cosima bears The thing is, Benny is the tag as a surname because nothing else seems very last person to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlddeserve all this bad luck. During He is a daring escapade nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonhis house is a new friend, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to want to adopt all the girls help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for his Institutebeing a good person. But whySpike is going to take care of Benny, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=00085790591662500491

|author=Thomas D LeeAdam Stower|title=Perilous TimesMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyConfident Readers |summary= ''Hate Murray is supposed to be a 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 path of least resistancetwo. But he's a bad magician' Set in s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the near-distant futureregular back garden, in but into a world on the verge of climate collapsefrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, Britain where a troll hunter is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to save the day be honest, but he's turned up and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.he'll have to do…|isbn=03565185230008561249

|authorisbn=Madelaine LucasB0C47LV1PC|title=Thirst for SaltFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'Love, I'd readjoke? And if you could, was supposed to be a light and weightless feelingis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, but I had always longed would it land? The catch is that the answer for gravity''both could well be.... no.

Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for SaltFragility'' details is set as the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lovercity of Portland, depicting its all-consuming natureOregon, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15293828231529431735|title=The Last PassengerWinter Visitor|author=Will DeanJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers It'Cazs February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petereturn all the more surprising. TheyHe're off d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''wanted drug smuggler for a decade. CazThe return has come about because he's sisterhad a letter from his ex-wife, Gemma, reckons saying that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasnshe't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket s ill and she doesnhasn't know whether shelong to live. It's relieved or disappointedhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. They've not been Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a couple for that long problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know wondrous library we start by visiting with him , and in the evening a bit betterhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. MeanwhileEli lives with his lovely gran, Gemma too – for there is looking after Caza generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiaparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. It's going This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to be goodenter what he most hates, isn't it?with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231