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|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|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=B09MN1526W0008517061|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Liz MistryStig Abell

|summary=It's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts future of Bradford. Onlyhis life with his vet girlfriend, this timeLivia and her daughter Diana, it's going as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to be different. The body appears move in with Livia or does Livia move to Nikki to be that of Little Sky despite her beloved nephew, Haqib, reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and she has a very public meltdown. her daughter? It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but For the body is clad moment they’re enjoying life in designer clothes the present and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be putting the future on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe back burner.

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1786482126|title=All the White SpacesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In postBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. For Jonathan, There was no skull. Was this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the opportunity to live life Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as his authentic self and true genderRuth knows, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However, Jonathan isnbut Nelson doesn't the only one fleeing the confines of , that she is pregnant with his past and the shadow child as a result of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionone night they spent together some three months ago. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land Her condition will be obvious before long, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan not least because Ruth is prone to make it out sudden bouts of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombsickness.|isbn=1789097835

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008551324|title=QuicksilverThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeIt's not had unusual for anyone from the chance Hardie family to get to be a mercurial character yet, approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for he's lived the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a nun-run orphanage since prison and 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 prepared to sudden or unpredictable changes tell the police where the body of mood or mind'', a missing person is buried and who was responsible for something – call it unearthly intuitionher death. This person, call it mind-controlhe promises, call is someone big and it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he go wants is to be transferred to an open prison to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash serve the value of it out remainder of his bank sentence and prepare for going on the lamto get an early parole date. And all this Not much to ask, is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and suggest heshe's of interest even prepared to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by do the other instances of thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with 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 besideskept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1542019885

|isbn=00084416180008405026|title=Other ParentsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sarah StovellJane Casey

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didnIt't live up to s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townbed one summer night. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association She was never found and the funds which they raised were investigation ground to a considerable benefit to the schoolhalt. There was one difficultyNow, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable''her mother, with two membersHelena, and her father are dead in particular, causing problems for the headtheir bed. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to JoInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's restrictions on something about the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was just going to be an open-and-shut case is now a warm-up act for their real gripecomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: LGBTQ educationothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes0571379877|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper Edward Jevons is a little boy who has some strugglesworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and whilst weStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He're never told why exactlys also self-obsessed, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacksdemanding, handsome and has difficulty dealing with change entitled and big emotionsuses Edward to run errands for him. His big sister, Rosie, Edward has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, in love with Stanza since their university days - and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when 's drunkenly confided how he gets scared feels to help him calm downRobert. His parents seem completely caught up Most men in their business, and so it Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is Rosie he always turns left tostumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. Even though she has gone away }}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to University nowthe case alongside her sidekick, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs herthe AI detective Lock. But now he can It't find Rosies their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. She hasn't come home But when she said she wouldthere is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and she isn't answering her phonea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. His parents won't speak to him or when Will they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems be able to be right, and solve the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosiecase in time, and if they can or will Kat find herself taken off the nightingale case and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1398510890139851120X

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1399613073|title=Red is My HeartMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black Olivia, Laura and white Anjali met on the first day of medical school and read in my housetheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is, black the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and white alcohol-fuelled party and redit's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Yes, he has Twenty-five years later there will be an artistic collaborator on this pieceeerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideastheir teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1913547183

|isbn=15291355670241636604|title=One Step Too FarThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Lisa GardnerGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's five years since the stag weekendre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Five of them had set out: Tim (A hoodie and jeans replaces the groom) pin-stripe suit and his four groomsmen, Scotbackground is the East End, Miguel (who where he was usually called Miggy)familiar with violence, Neil poverty and Joshinjustice. The first night they There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had plenty been to the London School of alcohol Economics. Stevenson is bright - too much really extremely bright - and in the night Scot managed to wander offhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided He also realised that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back most rich people expect poor people to townbe stupid. Scott followed soon after but there It was his ability at what was no sign of Tim, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Every year, Tim's father, MartinEventually, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1035021803|title=Bitter FlowersThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning been back to workthe English country village where she grew up. However She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, the quiet job heCarole. Freya's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneformer mentor and Carole's house quickly turns into a murder investigationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and a mystery around a missing womanthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Varg finds himself Arthur was the reason why Freya had not only investigating thesebeen back to the village: Arthur, but also looking into an oldshe feels, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundlet her down badly. Somehow Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, these disparate cases appear she has not felt able to be linkednear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, but what is she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the linklove of her life, who was murdered) and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XFreya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Kia AhankoobAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Gold Lion All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Tournament of SentinelsStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsScience Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the hope they would complement each other and collaborateshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, creating I must confess that there have been more than a dynamic and prosperous societyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to one of eight countries led by Myriadme but I'm left with the feeling that it's children and their descendantsall getting away from me. But Some of it didn't is - frankly - quite work out like thatfrightening. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them Of course, I could research the possibilities and the eight countries went to war. Having fought themselves into an endless probabilities and ruinous stalemate and finding end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the cost of war too high, a solution is proposedlatest conspiracy theorist. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a single combat tournamentway I could understand. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsSunny Singh|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet TomasThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Happy to work with his father in Hiding from the blacksmith's forgeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, he's almost of the age to become a full apprenticewartime photographer and Abhi, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededhotel manager. Not that there As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except... Strange signals from within still alive in the forge furnacehotel, and he forms a peculiar invite bond with Sam who refuses to become an apprentice clerk insteadbe cowed by events, are things for Tom and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to puzzle capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and that Tom is rare in they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them..terrorists.|isbn=1839940026086154742X

|isbn=15293465411529153298|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Elizabeth GeorgeJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's late July 1979 and Deborah St James Margaret Thatcher is at a meeting with Dominique ShawPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Undersecretary for the school systemhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, a representative from the NHSthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Mr Oh from Barnardosthey've been murdered, someone from Orchid House whose name she didnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakersound quite so frightening. It follows on from the success of DeborahMiv's book upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'London VoicesDown South'. When you': the meeting re from Yorkshire, Down South is an exploration of a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the possibility of the idea behind the book being used move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesprevent that. DeborahShe's uncertain not worried about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsanyone.

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1398524085|title=ShadebringerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Grayson W HooperNicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communism Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, nor is he particularly interested in a career in the militaryEtty. If he's honest are all worried but - strangely - which Clyde usually her husband, Alec, isnot. Shortly afterwards, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices Etty and this oneGreg, at least, gets him out find the body of the rut heGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, inthe river. He It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training courset stand the guilt. He The Salter children are not convinced but there's chuffed little else they can do but get on with himselftheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1035906708|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in the millpondDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeStates. Bess knows there is no time for friendship When she was back in a handAthens -tosupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a bit mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmpreference for her elder sister, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workersJackie. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X

|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4Christopher Edge|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When the world was madeLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, the animals were given gifts. Bear 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 place that he could see has the present ''andnickname of 'The Black Hole' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butAll big movie fans, unfortunatelythey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! not However, as the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think movie starts, they very quickly realise thatsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's not a fair contest but wait and seet even imagine. Things are not always But as they seem. lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? I'll tell you how it came about.Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Giovanna FletcherRachel Greenlaw|title=Walking on SunshineCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Mike's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he is dealing with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to follow, knowing that she was dying and that they would need help to carry on livingI can hear the song of the sea. Whilst some The call of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobedeep, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything the answering beat in their own lives, and go along with him.|isbn=140593560X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529393930|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easiermy 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 sonfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself Sturgis was reluctant to ask for what had happenedhis help on difficult cases. HeHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'd fallen asleep in t need the park whilst Theo help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was playing and when he wokeRobin, Delaware's partner, Theo had gonewho nudged Milo into asking for help again. It cost him his marriage and his homeShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyThe next case did look simple, though. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a long time since they've spokenremote property in Bel Air. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and he asks Jonah she is married to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''Therean extremely rich man and it's no one else I can trust'', he saysnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Hiding PlaceSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=HorrorAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and stepdaughter Rowlands didn't want to Whitbyfollow in his footsteps, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by particularly when he considered the name of Elder House. She hopes strain that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But therebeing on-call put on his father's something not quite right about Elder Houselife. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not friend who was a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are vet and was convinced this was the worse job for themhim. In this case I might make an exception Before long, he was at Liverpool University. We start It hadn't - as with Luca Pittman who is in so many students - been his dream since he was a hurrychild. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have If anything, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries 'd wanted to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes be a risk. It ends badlyprofessional footballer.|isbn=1913193942

|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear A Nye of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529418100|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesPheasants|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

|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529431735|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle It'Shells February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacereturn all the more surprising. As first officer aboard He'd been exiled on the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shipdecade. The return has come about because he's AI captain. Howeverhad a letter from his ex-wife, when saying that 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 wonill and hasn'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 long to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimelive. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell It's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle hard to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in towfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking his underwear 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 sent 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 a watery grave in the groundboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Jordan says, "I did try Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lily.|isbn= B09HHN541V}}home?