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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=15291498001398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=Things You Can Do: How A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Wastea compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsStig Abell

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. All There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the birds future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of them stood compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and watched, unable relaxing life to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the river and began taking tiny amounts of water future she wants for herself and flying back to drop them into the fire. her daughter? The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing For the best I can'', said moment they’re enjoying life in the hummingbird. And that, really, is present and putting the only way that we will solve future on the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beback burner.

|isbn=17765743381786482126|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the city, picking up children as he goesbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neckWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's perfectdifficult as Ruth knows, isnbut Nelson doesn't it? , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. What could Her condition will be a more fun way obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of going sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to school? approach the police. There Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy struggling in the city: prison and he's always having prepared to be careful about tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he puts his feet promises, is someone big and – because it will be worth the police doing what he's longer than a tennis court – wants. And what he often causes damage without intending wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and traffic regularly gets snarled upto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The school decides that he cannew Deputy Police Constable doesn't be think so and she's even prepared to do the bus anymoreother 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=303091657X0008405026|title=Disaster A Stranger in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonJane Casey

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the best interests of their stakeholders investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and ensure that they her father are well-managed and financially securedead in their bed. This might seem obvious Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or there's something about the collapse positioning of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what What looked as though it was happening or they preferred going to turn be an open-and-shut case is now a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitycomplex double murder. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened Kerrigan is nothing newconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through others (such major debacles as railway maniaDerwent's boss, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15293379680571379877|title=In Place of FearThe Kellerby Code|author=Catriona McPhersonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is borntheatre director. SheHe'll be working s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their GP surgery university days - and her job will be he's drunkenly confided how he feels to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthRobert. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the services she offers really are free and that they dona relationship had begun between them but he't have s not like most men: Edward is left to do anything to qualify for stumble upon the two of them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has kissing in a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummateddark passageway.

|author=Mark LinganeJo Callaghan|title=GalaxyLeave No Trace

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, who is an elite pilot with DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Space Academycase alongside her sidekick, barely makes it through a battle alivethe AI detective Lock. His co-pilot was not so fortunate It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Waking from But when there is a coma that lasted yearssecond body found crucified a few days later, he remembers little Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and is in no physical shape a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to resume his dutiestheir AI Future Policing project. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors Will they be able to solve the space stationcase in time, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - or will Kat find herself taken off the case and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. potentially, out of a career?|isbn=B09X3NZ76W139851120X

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1399613073|title=WishedMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Olivia, Laura and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with Anjali met on the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a week quarter of half-terma century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, they're not looking forward which is a bonus when you aim to itbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi Laura is a special brand of biscuitperfectionist and a trauma doctor. They don't particularly take to Willard either, Anjali is the free spirit of the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything group and everywhereshe becomes a GP. But things soon change when When we first meet them they find some tiny old birthday candles, 're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and manage it's going to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come trueend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. How Twenty-five years later there will things change for a second time when they realise be an eerily similar event that, having used up will impact the three of themfriends. This time, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xit's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards0241636604|title=The Great Fox IllusionTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is If you were to bring up an image of a contest with a difference. No singingcity banker in your mind, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks work, and who can attempt to win The Great Foxyou's magical legacy - the secrets re unlikely to all think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his tricks! Flick background is determined to winthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but not because she wants he had been to own the tricksLondon School of Economics. She Stevenson is interested in just ''one'' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her fatherbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. And she's hoping if she can find He also realised that trick then she will most rich people expect poor people to be able to bring her missing father homestupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1529501946

|authorisbn=Jason Rohan1035021803|title=S.T.E.A.The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L.T.H.: Access DeniedMiller

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Arun and Sam have had little It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to do with Donna, a girl at their schoolthe English country village where she grew up. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint She's back now because of a novelrequest for help from her beloved aunt, when she insists ArunCarole. Freya's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers former mentor and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not DonnaCarole's idea of companyclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, but he is dead and the computer buffcircumstances seem suspicious, Donna seems to know all say the criminal ins and outs and survival skillsleast. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, and Arun? Welllet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it's his lot she has not felt able to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6After the split, kidnappersshe worked in a cafe, people able to keep met and married James (on the rebound from the truth about themselves secret for decadeslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and so much more?|isbn=1839943386James have now divorced.

|isbn=1638485216AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black ManTomorrow's Odyssey in Life and Law EnforcementFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Frederick ReynoldsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder Opening up new ways of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in thinking about the US city shape of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ|title=The Club|author=Ellery Lloyd|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decadethings to come.''

Just off LittleseaI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandmy lifetime. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home GroupI've kept up reasonably well with what's exclusive clubs and advantageous to me but I'm left with the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Homefeeling that it's standardsall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. SpeedboatsOf course, helicopters I could research the possibilities and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Homeprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's CEO, Ned Groom, is determined that everything, m reading someone who knows what they''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for re talking about or the weekendlatest conspiracy theorist. Those I needed people I knew I could trust and who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Melissa Fu Sunny Singh|title=Peach Blossom Spring Hotel Arcadia

|genre=Historical Fiction Thrillers |summary= I loved the prelude to Peach Blossom Spring, a short chapter entitled ''Origins''. Unfortunately it The Hotel Arcadia is the only truly poetic part of a book luxury hotel in an unnamed city that I expected more fromhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Covering Chinese history Hiding from 1938 to 2005 as viewed the terrorists who are rampaging through one family's perspective. When their home city , killing everyone on site, there is set ablaze during the war with JapanSam, a young mother (Meilin) wartime photographer and her four-year-old son (Renshu) Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are among those still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who flee. The story follows them on their journey across Chinarefuses to be cowed by events, and in Renshukeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's case eventually happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Americahelp her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. |isbn=1472277538086154742X

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529153298|title=FacelessThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-stephonestly... ) Set in New ZealandShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, the first of our characters is Bradleythough. Women have been disappearing. Well, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing bossthey've been murdered, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to pay for move the materials she needsfamily 'Down South'. And then we have MaxWhen you're from Yorkshire, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He Down South is a shell of a manfrightening, barely able to take any care of himselfforeign place, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowbest avoided. One nightFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostituteshe'll do anything to prevent that. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from She's not worried about the person he thought he was into someone very differentdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1914585046

|isbn=07603735311398524085|title=Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the WorldHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sue FlandersNicci French

|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Just occasionally you encounter a book of knitting patterns which seems to meet your every needCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Right nowHer children, sons Niall, it's bitterly cold Paul and Ollie and we're in the sandwich filling between two storms: I need socksher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, scarvesAlec, hats and mittensis not. They have to look stylishShortly afterwards, keep me warm Etty and be so cheerful that they make me feel betterGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. If It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sounds like a lot to ask, have a look at ''Cozy Knits'': it has thirty designs for those necessary items Duncan had murdered Charlie and I don't think that there was one of them which I then committed suicide when he couldn't see myself wearing. We start with an introduction by Nancy Bush which gives some of stand the history of knittingguilt. It's The Salter children are not essential convinced but itthere's a nice extralittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17765740281035906708|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeDiva|author=David ElliottDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=I love a good board book! We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' is aimed at quite a niche market: Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can 'Callas'play'' with words and to make something quite different from each oneit more manageable in the States. We have When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes Nazi occupation by a ''balletphant''. The buffalo mother who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) mercilessly exploited her and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a ''sm.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

|isbnauthor=B09V1NQ5SXChristopher Edge|title=Death at Friar's Inn|author=Rob KeeleyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Nat Webber Lucas and Tom Barton were his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the finals nickname of the Moots to take place at 'The Honourable Society of FriarBlack Hole's Inn. For aspiring barristersAll big movie fans, moots test the participantsthey' knowledge re looking forward to lots of several areas of law exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as well as their advocacy skills: itthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedt even imagine. Tom and Nat are But as they lurch from 'a provincial university' and one film genre to the next, can they're ''almost'' looked down figure out what on earth is going on because of this. ? The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton Will they ever get back to the cinema, and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca has an abundance of confidence. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any better.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1529125944Rachel Greenlaw|title=City of the Dead|author=Jonathan KellermanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=When you drive large vehicles for ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a livingremote and partially forgotten island, you're careful survives on luring ships into the rocks and it's not just about plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the way ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that you drivelies within. You restrict your alcohol intake But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and if itMira's a trip that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleepfather. When you're taking Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a removals truck through bargain with a residential neighbourhood you head wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off at 5 in search of afamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea.m. when 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 roads are quietersmuggler's territory, even if you have Mira must be determined to wait up when you get stop at nothing to where you're going. And it was going well until save the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood future of Los Angeles. The man was stark naked her home and couldn't be identifiedthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)James Sherwood Metts|title=I May Be WrongPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= When Things have been a bit sticky for the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispieceEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Ioften replacing jobs they'm inclined re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds other, new ways to your book. I know, having read the book in questionspend time, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thoughtalong came an awful pandemic. He knows (Life was pretty much shut down and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to this book, because along with it tells the truth as it is, in all the early 21st centurymany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15266448271736128426

|isbnauthor=B0949Q1DC1Matthew Tree|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)|author=Tim SullivanWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably Asperger's Syndrome. He can Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be rudedifferent from his father, difficult a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and awkward with people, although it's never intentionalwho had endless crises of self confidence. It's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply don't occur So Tim applied himself to him. There's a reason why he's in Bristol's Major Crime Unit his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it's that he has the best conviction rate with cases, ever. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (not an emotion he would recognise, or welcome being attached to set himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Cross's behaviourhigh but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529151600A G Slatter|title=Give Unto Others|author=Donna LeonThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changed. The ''pandemiaThere'' stripped the city s a part of its tourists me that wants to keep this just to myself for nearly two years and a lot however long I can. This secret magic of businesses have closedmy own, all mine, most never at last. I just want to reopenenjoy it for a while. There'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's now , a cascade family of money witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as life begins again but even 125such since she was young,000 deaths have not put an end to greedher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all the money which is coming their way? Whilst heWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's thinking about thiscousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Brunetti encounters someone hethe town's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a childmaelstrom of chaos. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and shedetermine what to do as the Briar witches'd like Brunetti's advicelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1529900360|title=WrathThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he wants, to go where he wants felt responsible and with whom he wantseven after Alex recovered, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his best friend, Cassiehelp on difficult cases. They His assertions that there were half only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a desultory school bandpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, but Cassie it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was also one hundred per cent something that the enigmatic – saying man she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earthloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying Two lovers were murdered in the end swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the world heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is already a done deal? Is married to an extremely rich man and it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming not the Italian. But which of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out them was the truthprimary target? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899

|isbn=16358640701529395224|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Safiyyah TalleySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=If youSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn've ever started knitting a pair of sockst want to follow in his footsteps, finished particularly when he considered the first one and either got bored by strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the idea opportunity of doing the same thing all over again, or started on the second sock work experience with a family friend who was a vet and lost the first before you finished it, was convinced this is was the book job for youhim. Where is it that single socks go to hide? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you to knit two socks in one Before long, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of sockshe was at Liverpool University. Sounds good? Ithadn's clever and wellt -thoughtas with so many students -outbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Olivie Blake0861541774|title=The Atlas SixA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= DarkDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, sharphas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and highly inquisitivehe killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn''The Atlas Six'' makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensationt help Danny at all.|isbn=1529095239

|isbnauthor=0008384983Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyPerfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was The Perfect Passion Company is a Friday dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Jess Hadley was keen operating as an alternative to get to her half-brother's flat all the online apps in Parisproviding a more personal, tailored service. She'd Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come across from London on Eurostarand look after the business, courtesy as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightonchance to come home to Edinburgh. It wasn't likely that the police would be on And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to her yet but she'd like an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to be somewhere safe 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with food and drink inside hersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. Shethere's outside what's obviously a always her very upmarket building but she hasn't been able helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to get in touch with Ben.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=07603735580811771741|title=Nordic KnitsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Sue FlandersMelissa Leapman

|summary=I was so delighted by Sue FlandersMelissa Leapman' [[Cozy Knits: 30 Hat, Mitten, Scarf and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didns 't need any persuading at all to pick up her ''Nordic KnitsInstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. This delivers fortySome will be quick knits -four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. There others are a few sweaters or jackets but of the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens'long, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosy.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1916072038|title=The House afternoons in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie Cresswell|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=We meet part front of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811fire' variety. TwentyThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete -seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklingtonless than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to the house in the hollowtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. The two women All the projects are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths attractive, modern and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath a facade of respectability, the deplorable truth''useable. Hester is furious I perhaps show my age when I wonder about Jocelyn's refusal to do as she was asked, which has precipitated social-media-worthy projects'but that'this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshires me being picky.

|author=Matthieu AikinsDean Koontz|title=The Naked Don't Fear the WaterBad Weather Friend

|genre=Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary=ItBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's easy to forget at times possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The Naked Don't Fear thing is, Benny is the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a well-paced thriller at timesnice person. A really nice person. This So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is not by any means a criticismnew friend, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen bad weather friend called Spike, who decided has been sent to accompany his friend as a refugee help him since Benny is clearly under attack from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts nefarious forces for being a vast and at times painful journeygood person. There are tense moments Spike is going to take care of Benny, and gripping accounts will certainly take care of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But itBenny's written with enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people describedwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn= B09N9157T61662500491

|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerAdam Stower|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix Murray and Ramm)Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=This Murray is the third book in supposed to be a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixhumble, a police officertidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. In this book we find that when one of BlixBut he's a bad magician's colleaguescat, Kovic, uncovers so his favourite bun has been turned into a connection between several Oslo caseshyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, she tries to contact her superior, Blix. Before she and the catflap they both use can reach himchuck them out, however, she is murderednot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toowhiffs. We then find ourselves This time round it drops them into a few days later with Blix and RammViking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someoneto be honest, but he's turned up and Ramm saw it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led he'll have to Blix killing someone?do…|isbn=19145850030008561249

|author=Daniel Abraham|title=Age of Ash|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, she has a knife in her hand and a meeting that she dreads. Meanwhile, the City of Kithamar is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible. It is the night between the funeral of a Prince and the coronation of his successor. For a night the Kithamar is un-ruled.|isbn=0356515427}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529095522B0C47LV1PC|title=The InterviewFragility|author=C M EwanMosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Kate Harding Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is going that the answer for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsboth could well be.... no. It ''Fragility's the last interview of ' is set as the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part city of the building to be something special. MaggiePortland, Kate's recruitment agentOregon, is keen cautiously begins to see that Kate approaches emerge from the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets restrictions imposed during the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recently.covid pandemic

|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529431735|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Winter Visitor|author=Neil LancasterJames Henry

|summary=Loch Torridon 'It's February 1991 and Essex isbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'' return all the back of beyond: theremore surprising. He's not even any light pollution which is why it was d been exiled on the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Jimmy McLeish thought that The return has come about because he was onto 's had a nice little earnerletter from his ex-wife, only saying that she's ill and hasn't long to find that Macca, the man he thought he was working with, is deadlive. His remains would never be found. The delivery It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is hijacked by Davie abducted, stripped to his underwear and Callumsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. As the story progresses we'll get Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to know them quite well.}}home?