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|author=Ally WilkesTom Percival|title=All the White SpacesThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=In post-WWI EnglandWill's life is difficult, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanwrong shoes', this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and he has the opportunity to live life as wrong shoes because his authentic self dad can't work and true genderdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isndad can't the only one fleeing the confines of work because he lost his past and job at the shadow of the war hangs like college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a funeral shroud over the expeditionbuilding site and had an accident. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk Throw into that mix the party fact that his mum anddad are separated, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on landWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknesstiny amount of hope. If Jonathan He is good at art, and clings to make it out the moments of the Arctic winter alive, joy when he will have to face his demons once and for allis drawing, or risk making that feel like a light at the barrenend of a long, icy landscape his tombdark tunnel.|isbn=17890978351398527122

|author=Dean KoontzSylvie Cathrall|title=QuicksilverA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be There are few greater joys than a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go which lives up to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamcompelling premise. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's one of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=15420198850356522776

|isbn=00084416180008517061|title=Other ParentsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sarah StovellStig Abell|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure 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 the new head moving in together would mean a lot of West Burntridge First Schoolcompromise: if she didn't live does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of reservations about whether or not this is the town. future she wants for herself and her daughter? The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to For the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, moment they’re enjoying life in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence present and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions putting the future on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationback burner.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes1786482126|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things Builders were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up demolishing an old house in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns Norwich - the site was going to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he needs herthey discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. But now he can't find Rosie There was no skull. She hasn't come home when she said she would Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and she isn't answering her phoneDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. His parents won It't speak to him or when they dos difficult as Ruth knows, he but Nelson doesn't understand or take in what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they're sayingspent together some three months ago. Nothing seems to Her condition will be rightobvious before long, and the only way he feels he can find any peace not least because Ruth is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen prone to its song, as they do together every Springsudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1398510890

|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Red is My HeartNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black 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 white he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and read in my housewho was responsible for her death. And so was this one This person, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one washe promises, and is, black someone big and white and redit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Yes, And what he has wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an artistic collaborator on this pieceearly parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and I think itshe's possible even prepared to say not one page lacks do the influence of some striking visual ideasother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1913547183

|isbn=15291355670008405026|title=One Step Too FarA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lisa GardnerJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=It's five sixteen years since the stag weekendnine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who She was usually called Miggy), Neil never found and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed investigation ground to wander offa halt. The remaining four searched for him in vain Now, her mother, Helena, and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced her father are dead in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to townbed. Scott followed soon after Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was no sign 's something about the positioning of Timthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do -shut case is now acknowledge a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that theythe explanation lies in Rosalie're looking for s disappearance: others (such as Derwent'remains' rather than for Tims boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0571379877|title=Bitter FlowersThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=Varg Veum Edward Jevons is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and is now returning to workStanza. However, the quiet job he Robert's supposedly taken on caretaking someonea theatre director. He's house quickly turns into a murder investigationalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and a mystery around a missing womanuses Edward to run errands for him. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was never foundhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but what he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Kia AhankoobJo Callaghan|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsLeave No Trace

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersa man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, each with its own strength and weakenessDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyAI detective Lock. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad It's children and their descendantsfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But it didn't quite work out like when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out draws a lot of them and the eight countries went unwanted attention to wartheir AI Future Policing project. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding Will they be able to solve the cost of war too highcase in time, a solution is proposed. Each of or will Kat find herself taken off the eight countries will send their greatest warriorscase and, known as sentinelspotentially, to out of a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.career?|isbn=B09MMQJFPV139851120X

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1399613073|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet TomasOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Happy Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to work with his father in be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the blacksmithgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's forgegoing to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, heit's almost their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of the age to become a full apprenticecity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and help his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the new batch London School of dragonswords Economics. Stevenson is certainly neededbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Not He also realised that there are any dragonsmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, of course – they vanished centuries agoa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Except Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Strange signals She's back now because of a request for help from within her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the forge furnacecircumstances seem suspicious, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadsay the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, are things for Tom she has not felt able to puzzle over – until it all comes out in be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the washsplit, that yes dragons do still exist she worked in this worlda cafe, met and that Tom is rare in married James (on the rebound from the ability to summon them, share magical attributeslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and ride with them..James have now divorced.|isbn=1839940026

|isbn=1529346541AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Something to HideAll Tomorrow's Futures: An Inspector Lynley NovelFictions that Disrupt|author=Elizabeth GeorgeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out shape of things to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakercome. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ' I'London Voicesve heard it said that 'technology': the meeting is an exploration what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern technology in some communitiesmy lifetime. DeborahI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's uncertain about all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite how successful she frightening. Of course, I could be as research the problem seems to occur in Nigerian possibilities and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of 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. I needed people she speaks to I knew I could trust and photographswho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YSunny Singh|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the US Army during terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Vietnam Warhotel manager. He's not really that invested As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the fight against Communismhotel, nor is he particularly interested in forms a career in the military. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices and this one, at least, gets him keeps on venturing out of the rut heher room to try to capture what's inhappened through her photography. He's good in training Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1529153298|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is no mermaid in the millpondPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... That at least is ) She's not what Bess is telling herself's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids Well, they've been murdered, who but to have had their entire childhoods sold 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homefamily 'Down South'. Bess knows there When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouthfrightening, foreign place, every man for himself kind of existencebest avoided. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in For Miv, the slight little Dotmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and despite everything she'll do anything to prevent that life has taught her . She's not worried about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tireddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -out mill workersto anyone. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X

|isbn=17856330741398524085|title=Staggering HubrisHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Josh BerryNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (thatCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's for those of you who fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are Eton and Oxbridge educated) all worried but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS strangely - who are the driving force behind the governmenther husband, Alec, is not. We are in Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the privileged position body of having access to the memoirs of Rafe HubrisGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the man who river. It was behind an easy assumption for the skilful control of police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020guilt. You might The Salter children are not know the name now convinced but there's little else they can do but he will certainly be the man to watchget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09MYXSRV41035906708|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareDiva|author=Cordellya SmithDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=When the world We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was madeborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, the animals were given giftsin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Bear Her original surname was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''andKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use make it wellmore manageable in the States. He liked to trick other animals. He When she was also jealous which was how he came to be back in a race with Turtle. You might think Athens - supposedly so that's not she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a fair contest but wait mother who mercilessly exploited her and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Giovanna FletcherChristopher Edge|title=Walking on SunshineBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with Lucas and his friends are all booked in for seventeen yearsa movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has diedthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. And whilst he is dealing with his grief All big movie fans, so are their best friendsthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followmany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, knowing they very quickly realise that she was dying something about this new film format is very different, and that they would need help to carry on livingare swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such But as clearing out her wardrobe, another they lurch from one that Mike discovers one day encourages him film genre to take one of their trips awaythe next, and Vicky and Zazacan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own real lives, and go along with him.?|isbn=140593560X1839942738

|isbnauthor=1529393930Rachel Greenlaw|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easierI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

''If not nowRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, when?'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby survives on luring ships into a businessthe rocks and plundering the wrecks. There's a lot Mira, like her mother before her, is one of motivation the seven who swim out to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and there are any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a lot of people who have been delighted trap to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset end the costswrecking, which can be quite considerable they capture the island's leader and it could be fun to do, couldnMira't it? But where to start? What do I need s father. Desperate to think about? Wellsave him from death, the first thing anyone Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to read ''Making guide her, she sets off in search of a Living'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=0008664730

|author=Freya MarskeJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Marvellous LightPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into Things have been a job in bit sticky for the Civil ServiceEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, much often replacing jobs they're paid to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey do and learns other tasks that the streets of London are threaded with magictook time to accomplish. Desperate Just as they were beginning to get used to remove a curse that threatens all this technological change and starting to swallow himthink of other, Robin follows Edwin new ways to the countrysidespend time, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the people shimmer , along with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of it, all magicians in the British Islesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=15290808861736128426

|isbnauthor=0241480442Matthew Tree|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienWe'll Never Know

|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=EmotionallyTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, I am a vegandrunk 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. MentallySo Tim applied himself to his studies, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese set himself high but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentsachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=suppl_staflA G Slatter|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on The Briar Book of the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundDead|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceFantasy|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced 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 you need mine, at last. I just want to do now is get enjoy it published and the money will start rolling in?for a while.''

Wrong 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 town and wrong againthe wider world from the Darklands. You presumably wrote Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the book because you wanted first non-witch to - be born into her family for generations and you had as such since she was young, her training as a talent for delivering the written wordsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. You knew your subject back to front. Now youWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie're going to have to get to grips with s cousin Audra becomes the book supply chainBriar Witch, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but ittown's too difficult to change leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and no one wants centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be communicate with the first to try. Thendead, when you ''finally'' have putting her at the heart of a copy maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the book in your handsBriar witches' legacy, you're going to everything they have sacrificed to work out how to sell it - because it ''survive, is'' going to be down to youunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=13987069061529900360|title=The LostGhost Orchid|author=Simon BeckettJonathan Kellerman

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing felt responsible and when he wokeeven after Alex recovered, Theo had gone. It cost him Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his marriage and his homehelp on difficult cases. Ten years later he's largely come through it His assertions that there were only open-and he-shut cases which didn's out with his team when he gets t need the help of a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's psychologist only worked for a long time since they've spokenwhile. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear Finally, it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''Therewas Robin, Delaware's no one else I can trust''partner, he says.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Mason|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder Housewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She hopes knew that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's involvement was something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that the man she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=loved needed. The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this next case I might make an exceptiondid look simple, though. We start with Luca Pittman who is Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a hurryremote property in Bel Air. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into was the back of his car and tries heir to run an Italian shoe empire and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this she is New Zealand married to an extremely rich man and that is it's not how they do things there, he takes a riskthe Italian. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529395224|title=Psychopaths AnonymousLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Maeve is Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously GP and alsoRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a selfparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-acknowledged psychopathcall put on his father's life. Whilst analysing and critiquing When he was seventeen he took the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear opportunity of people's misery, doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and targets was convinced this was the job for her violent behaviourhim. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does Before long, and when shehe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's unable to find liket - as with so many students -minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her ownbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, hoping he'd wanted to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=15294181000861541774|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=IDCI Domenic Jejeune'm not usually s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget holiday in Singapore to pick it meet up again with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - but I am he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a fan charge of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation manslaughter but evidence came to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard light that suggested that he might have planned to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trymurder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. For those new Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to the series, therehelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's an excellent introduction that will tell you t help Danny at all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.

|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFAlexander McCall Smith|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas was having The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her first night younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away from her sonfor a while. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by Katie is coming out of a break up with a pump attached to his stomachbad boyfriend, and so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her jumps at the chance to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him come home to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeEdinburgh. Her friendAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Millybringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, had arranged thanks to take her boyfriend44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, Liambut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, for a night or in a posh hotel match-making, but then he dumped Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and she couldnthere't get the money backs always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his place. She would return home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0811771741|title=Without a TraceInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jane BettanyMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Life hadnMelissa Leapman't been easy s ''InstaKnits for Ruth Prendergast: sheBaby''d just come through gives us a divorce and right now it was raining hardcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. All she wanted was The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to get back ten hours, ten to her new home twenty hours and settle down for a quiet eveningmore than twenty hours. It wasn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chestAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. SheI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'd no idea who he wass me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1838774823Dean Koontz|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog Problem|author=S J BennettThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private SecretaryBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandhouse gets trashed. SwimmingOh, he decidesand someone has delivered a really weird, is the way disturbing coffin-sized object to go his home, and he can use it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Buckingham Palace pool which thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is how he came the very last person to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the pooldeserve all this bad luck. There was broken glass - He is a crystal tumbler, by the look at nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it - probably one of turns out that the young royals delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being careless - a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and cut Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself so badly that she had bled roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure outwho exactly they are. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simon.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=057136358XAdam Stower|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=Terry Tice was Murray is supposed to be a hitmanhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, although he didn't think whatever takes his fancy next of himself in those termsthe two. He saw what But he did as ''s a matter of making things tidybad magician''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed s cat, so his jobfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with and the army ''where he got catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the chance to kill regular back garden, but into a lot world of the little yellow fellows frightening adventure and had a fine old time''whiffs. He was spending This time round it drops them into a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of Viking land, where a swizzle stick - surely troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that turned up and he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.'ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly KnodererB0C47LV1PC|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=How to summarise Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoirquestion should you make it? Do Or is the question if you knowdid, I really don't think I canwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

 Dave ''Fragility'' is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son set as the city of a Lutheran ministerPortland, he's struggled with a controlling fatherOregon, run away cautiously begins to join emerge from the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when restrictions imposed during the bottle took over.|isbn=B0965V3LLNcovid pandemic

|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoli, cabbage and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eat. One day, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordan, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178607981X1529431735|title=Bad ApplesThe Winter Visitor|author=Will DeanJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the side of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the roadCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Wondering if someone needed help The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she got out of the car - 's ill and heard the screams from deep inside the foresthasn't long to live. Determining the direction of a sound isnIt't easy s hard to feel any sympathy when you need hearing aids Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way sent to where a woman was holding her coat over watery grave in the body boot of a manstolen Ford Sierra. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Persson, Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a resident of Visberg.}}problem closer to home?