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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to 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, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14711801581786482126|title=Maybe TomorrowThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Penny ParkesElly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jamie Matson works Builders were demolishing an old house in an upperNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-class grocery store, for a man whofive 'luxury's a control freak with all apartments - when they discovered the subtlety bones of a half brickchild beneath a doorway. Jamie's sonThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Bo, 'has his problems'Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. HeIt's asthmatic and the more you readdifficult as Ruth knows, the more youbut Nelson doesn'll suspect t, that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's is pregnant with his child as a frequent flier in result of the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to schoolone night they spent together some three months ago. Missed shifts or the need to Her condition will be away on time obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a headsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Harry Allen0008551324|title=Children of the SunThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a North Korean town missing person is buried and she who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is a talented singersomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Life And what he wants is hard to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and food is difficult to come byget an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses she's even prepared to supplement do the meagre rations of rice other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and kimchi at homeanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1805140493

|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez0008405026|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=WeIt're in childhood, and we're in Cubas sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The revolution has happened, She was never found and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough investigation ground to create a level playing field for allhalt. WellNow, her mother, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awayHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. Our narratorInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's family weren't in something about the happiest positioning of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as he would probably though it was going to be shipped off to some minor proan open-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon-shut case is now a complex double murder. The mother gets Kerrigan is convinced that the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but explanation lies in this sultry island countryRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell0571379877|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=VLEdward Jevons is a working-15class young man, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answersobsessed with his upper-class friends, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel Robert and RenadaStanza. Over half- Robert's a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuildtheatre director. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father He's legacyalso self-obsessed, building a world where machines demanding, handsome and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions entitled and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againuses Edward to run errands for him. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, Edward has his entire life turned upside down when been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselffeels to Robert. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn Most men in Robert't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexels position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1838954481Jo Callaghan|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonLeave No Trace

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed When a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was man is found crucified on the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of case alongside her sidekick, the officerAI detective Lock. And so lives must go onIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for But when there is a quieter life in the countryside but when second body found crucified a missing teenager few days later, Kat is found on her territory she's drawn into suddenly struggling with a wider investigation - potential serial killer and back into a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the orbit case and, potentially, out of Ryan Kennedy.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=10350252991399613073|title=Went to London, Took the DogMoral Injuries|author=Nina StibbeChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning to London Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsquarter of a century. She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isn't all that conducive is a bonus when you aim to writing, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The other side Anjali is the free spirit of the decision was sealed when group and she becomes a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) GP. When we first meet them they're at a very reasonable rent.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities drug and alcohol-fuelled party and busy human society, in the forests of Washingtonit's Olympic Peninsulagoing to end in tragedy. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the forest, broadcasting consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the strangethree friends. This time, wild and rarely heard voices he encountersit's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=16358662430241636604|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookTrading Game: A Confession|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Gary Stevenson

|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on If you were to bring up an image of a page wasncity banker in your mind, you't enoughre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, A hoodie and consistent required a great deal of trial jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and errorhis background is the East End, patiencewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneyinjustice. The first line There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches..Economics.'' It was clear that no good could come of this Stevenson is bright - the instructions didn't get any better extremely bright - and (finally) PayPal obliged he has a facility with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentnumbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. The pattern looked prettyIt was his ability at what was, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect essentially, a card game which got him an internship with her knittersCitibank. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1035021803|title=OscarThe Antique Hunter's LionGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a couple of times before he has to be ready request for schoolhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. But when he enters his parentsFreya' bedrooms former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their beddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysto say the least. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monthvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And it can shapeshiftEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, so he can take it she has not felt able to school and it can get him out of a problembe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And it's wonderful to have around After the house – not limiting his biscuit intakesplit, being much more lax about the rulesshe worked in a cafe, met and so married James (on. OKthe rebound from the love of her life, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0008596751

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMRAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Good Girls DieAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ayura AyiraBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyoneOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happenedI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. She was a very bright studentWell, I must confess that there have been more than a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to hug her in case me but I'm left with the feeling that it's contagiousall getting away from me. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin Some of it is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-yearfrankly -old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice herquite frightening. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math Of course, I could research the possibilities and Reggie asked if she would tutor himthe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house I needed people I knew I could trust and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her who could deliver information in a lift homeway I could understand.

|author=V CastroSunny Singh|title=The Haunting of AlejandraHotel Arcadia

|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=''This was The Hotel Arcadia is a part of her past luxury hotel in an unnamed city that had to stop with herhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She would be Hiding from the one to confront this.'' At some point during her lifeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, Alejandra lost herselfthe hotel manager. She feels as if she is playing parts As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for others the residents who are still alive in her life – her husband the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her children – without ever giving any thought room to try to capture what's happened through her own desires, her own future, her own identityphotography. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra Although they only ever talk over the phone, there is a darkness threatening their friendship grows as Abhi tries to consume help her. More keep safe and more she is visited they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wakethe terrorists.|isbn=1803365617086154742X

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey1529153298|title=The Pale House DevilList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Ford It's 1979 and Neuland are a couple ofMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, well, guys for hire I guesshonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! . Women have been disappearing. One of them is livingWell, you seethey've been murdered, and the other is undead, and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so one of them kills the living, and the other kills the undeadfrightening. (Only not each other, obviously)Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. TheyWhen you're on from Yorkshire, Down South is a job in New York that goes badlyfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and find some other work she'll do anything to keep them goingprevent that. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill She's not worried about the 'something' dangers or that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentlemanher Mum's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper1398524085|title=The Taming of the CatHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. In this caseHer children, principallysons Niall, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – Paul and Ollie and in case you're seeing a connectionher daughter, they live in a cheese shop and therefore Etty. are all the names used here seem to be the names of cheesesworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Anyway, Brie is shunnedShortly afterwards, scorned Etty andGreg, if you mustfind the body of Greg's father, mous-tracisedDuncan Ackerley, for the way his habits don't match in the other mice he lives withriver. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese It was an easy assumption for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And police to make that story-telling will come in handy one night, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he feels all alone and cast outcouldn't stand the guilt. ItThe Salter children are not convinced but there's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010

|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M1035906708|title=Super Short Stories: Flash FictionDiva|author=Mark C WallfischDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''Got a minute We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to be amusedGreek parents in Manhattan, entertainedNew York, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flashDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told to make it more manageable in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions States. When she was back in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we Athens - supposedly so that she could start get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of flash fiction but that her preference for this collectionher elder sister, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperbackJackie.

|isbnauthor=1732898766Christopher Edge|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Birpus Lucas and Bulbus they're running his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their lives in local cinema, a place that has the Forest nickname of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it wonThe Black Hole't end well.) FortunatelyAll big movie fans, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder 're looking forward to lots of moss exciting films, and vines was lowered for themmany, they escaped. many snacks! They climbed up to However, as the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where movie starts, they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 very quickly realise that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birthsomething about this new film format is very different, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helenathey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritaget even imagine. Her trip But as they lurch from one film genre to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? She grew Will they ever get back to love her grandmother and the family's maidcinema, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Cody GoodfellowRachel Greenlaw|title=VerticalCompass and Blade

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my imaginationheart. Who doesn't love ' Rosevear, a good view from up highremote and partially forgotten island, after all? Even survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the drabbest office building wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is somewhere Ione of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'm intrigued to get inside if its leader and Mira's 40 stories tallfather. So when I picked up this book – about people Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn= 18033639910008664730

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldJames Sherwood Metts|title=Finding BearPlanet Storyland

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had Things have been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect sticky for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left onEarthlings. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has AI and automation have been shot proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and woundedother tasks that took time to accomplish. Desperate Just as they were beginning to make sure he's OK, she get used to all this technological change and her father return starting to the Arctic and hope that in a world think of very white other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that along with it, all the friendship can continuemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=00085820171736128426

|isbnauthor=1804183210Matthew Tree|title=No Reserve|author=Felix FrancisWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairmanTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman a drunk and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in his artistic passions all failed miserably and their conversation revealed that the horse who had been deliberately bid up endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morninghis studies, the horse was dead in its stallcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Sarah WilsonA G Slatter|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: The Briar Book of the path back to connection in a fractured worldDead|rating=3.5|genre= LifestyleFantasy|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to do with your one wild and precious life?'' myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I get just want to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thisenjoy it for a while.'' I Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'm lucky enough to be living my one wild s, a family of witches who protect the town and precious life the way I want towider world from the Darklands. Sarah Wilson Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is equally luckythe first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. In When her book that takes Olivergrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's words as leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the source) she pushes us rare ability to think about whether we really ''are'' living communicate with the life we want – dead, putting her at the best life that we could be livingheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Her answer is an unequivocal ''noReeling from one family secret to another, we are not''. Don't care Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what youto do as the Briar witches're doinglegacy, she thinks you (weeverything they have sacrificed to survive, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are notis under threat.|isbn=17856338481803364548

|isbn=18399484931529900360|title=A World of DogsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In the interests of full disclosureIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, I must tell you that I'm a sucker Sturgis was reluctant to ask for dogshis help on difficult cases. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't trust and I've loved most need the help of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingsa psychologist only worked for a while. SoFinally, any book about dogsit was Robin, IDelaware'm going to sit down and devours partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Then I'm going to go back and read it properlyShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs''The next case did look simple, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friendsthough. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself Two lovers were murdered in the accidental owner swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an American Dingo - Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's learned quite a lot about dogs since thennot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=14059516801529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Safe HouseSecret Life of a Vet|author=Cameron WardSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged Siôn Rowlands fell into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of monthsveterinary science accidentally. After the problems sheHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn'd had at workt want to follow in his footsteps, it seemed like just particularly when he considered the break she neededstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. She When he was no longer seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess family friend who was returning to the country of her birth a vet and in need of was convinced this was the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with Charlesso many students - been his dream since he was a child. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison0861541774|title=Bad DollsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's been some time since I've read any horrorclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I had Maik was involved in a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly man armed with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry a knife - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! he killed a Ghurka. But it is creepyInitially, and I found most he faced a charge of that feeling manslaughter but evidence came from the fact to light that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and suggested that at least in part, he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the horrors arises death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to another police force could provoke a hen party diplomatic incident and a coping with griefwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1803363932

|isbnauthor=1394159544Alexander McCall Smith|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an apple core alternative to landfillall the online apps in providing a more personal, it will take between 6 months tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and 2 years look after the business, as Ness is planning to decompose. A glass bottle will take up a trip to Canada to 1 million yearsget away for a while. As Katie is coming out of a just-post-WWII baby, I faced break up with a dilemma: reducingbad boyfriend, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' so jumps at the chance to come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purposehome to Edinburgh. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is And so begins this absolutely essential?' On the other handnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) thanks to 44 Scotland Street and dropping it in the kerbside binIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. YesKatie has no experience in running a business, I could go searching on the internet or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a recycling bible.shand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Lauren St John0811771741|title=Finding WonderInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=RooMelissa Leapman's life has become almost impossibly difficult''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Her mum died when she was youngSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, and now she finds herself awoken cosy afternoons in the middle front of the night fire' variety. The projects are divided by the police banging on her door time they'll take to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way complete - less than five hours, five to the corner shop ten hours, ten to buy a lottery tickettwenty hours and more than twenty hours. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one elseAll the projects are attractive, modern and so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntuseable. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as I perhaps show my age when she and Joni leave London in JoniI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1448309743Dean Koontz|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, five members of a wealthy family are found murderedand his house gets trashed. The only item missing from the Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home , and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Devil Stone: myth says thing that if has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the stone very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is removed from Otterburn House, death will followa nice person. A really nice person. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given So fortunately for Benny it turns out that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office delivery to his house is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsa new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, DCI Christine Caplan who has been sent to help him since Benny is pulled in clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny'shadows enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' hims wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author= Kay ChronisterAdam Stower|title= Desert CreaturesMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionConfident Readers |summary= With Murray is supposed to be a world that humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanityable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Whether it is But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a robotic takeoverhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world devoid of water or frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a nuclear holocaustViking land, this genre where a troll hunter is a way for humans expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to cathartically experience their most existential fears. be honest, but he's turned up and he'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages ll have to find hope.do…|isbn=18033649980008561249

|authorisbn=Christopher FowlerB0C47LV1PC|title=Word MonkeyFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's ' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the first of August in question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the middle of a cool wet summer in East Angliaanswer for both could well be.. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackno. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler  ''Fragility'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingset as the city of Portland, and you know he actually is at that pointOregon, because he does. He did.|isbn=0857529625cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15290776991529431735|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Winter Visitor|author=Ann CleevesJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=''It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all bloody peculiar, isnthe more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he't its had a letter from his ex-wife, Sir?saying that she's ill and hasn' Well yes, it ist long to live. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the middle boot of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and then turned upTim 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 wondrous library we start by visiting with him, naked and dead, in the evening a small boathelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, anchored too – for there is a generation missing in Scully Cove close the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the village of Greystonetitular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in Devon. Rosco had the status company of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''magical beast. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' This has made the race anathema to the pair – but as we'll find outwhen a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he could be more than a little bit close most hates, with money and the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his background isn't exactly an open bookgran. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?|isbn=0571382231