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|author=Joe ThomasTom Percival|title=White RiotThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereWill's always the danger life is difficult, in a multitude of making it too reactionary; too rawways. Knee-jerk observations He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and hot takes that dondoesn't age well or properly capture have enough money for even the spirit most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the moment. It takes college, was working a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of cash-in-hand job on a particular event or era of political historybuilding site and had an accident. Austerity Britain, Throw into that mix the student riotsfact that his mum and dad are separated, Donald Trumpand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Brexit – so much he still has a tiny amount of what hope. He isgood at art, and has beenclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, written in that feel like a light at the immediate aftermath end of these phenomena has been proven by time 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 be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivea compelling premise. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of And this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit one of a more objective viewthem.|isbn= 15294233760356522776

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett0008517061|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie loreFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, and she has travelled extensivelysettled 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 researched meticulously, to write her life's workdaughter Diana, the very first encyclopaedia as moving in together would mean a lot of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and speaking relaxing life to faeries, she move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, future she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem wants for herself and put her final investigations for her book back on daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome present and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going putting the future on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120back burner.

|isbn=18484584361786482126|title=Just the Nicest CoupleThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Mary KubicaElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Nicest Couplesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' is apartments - when they discovered the story bones of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayesa child beneath a doorway. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebraThere was no skull. The couples have mixed as Was this a foursome but it's not a regular thingritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they donIt't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasns difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't said anything yet, but that she's is pregnantwith his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She has a lengthy history Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publicsickness.

|isbn=19145854020008551324|title=Dashboard Elvis is DeadThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=David F RossNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I reviewed David F RossIt's book [[Thereunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] prepared to tell the police where the body of a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful missing person is buried and affecting it who wasresponsible for her death. It was a gripping This person, emotionally wounding readhe promises, is someone big and rereading my review it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it my main takeaway was ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that I might not have lavished enough praise on itDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=178563335X0008405026|title=Sea DefencesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Hilary TaylorJane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheIt's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects sixsixteen years since nine-year-old Hannah Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds the investigation ground to a sobbing parishionerhalt. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let Now, her see mother, Helena, and her grandsonfather are dead in their bed. HolthorpeInitially, on the Norfolk coast, is it looks like a lovely place, straightforward murder/suicide but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and shethere's in awe something about the positioning of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearsbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rachel What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Christopher hoped that -shut case is now a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they neededcomplex double murder. And then Hannah went missingKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Hadeer Elsbai0571379877|title=The Daughters of IzdiharKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more differentobsessed with his upper-class friends, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women Robert and weavers – those with magical abilities - in Stanza. Robert's a society pitted against themtheatre director. Nehal He's also self-obsessed, born into the upper classdemanding, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities handsome and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal entitled and feels great pressure uses Edward to provide run errands for her family him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenhe's rightsdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Giorgina also happens to be Most men in love with Nico. What follows 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 a story left to stumble upon the two of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms them kissing in a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesdark passageway.|isbn=0356520471

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJo Callaghan|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]], Alice Eclair had to prove herself as When a spy and as man is found crucified on the top of a master at all things French and fancy and fondanthill in Nuneaton, as the only way DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer on case alongside her sidekick, the French railwaysAI detective Lock. HereIt's their first live case together, we start on having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a bateau-mouche in Parisfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to Alice and her handlers that things are afoottheir AI Future Policing project. And there will never Will they be more feet than at able to solve the World's Faircase in time, reviving the huge expo that gave or will Kat find herself taken off the city the Eiffel Tower case and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the world. Once again Alice will have to present the front to the world , potentially, out of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stakecareer? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972139851120X

|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris1399613073|title=Beautiful PlaceMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= PadmaOlivia, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus Laura and Anjali met on the southern coast first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of her home countrya century. This Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a place she spent her formative yearsbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It Laura is not a place she was born into, but perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the one she thinks free spirit of as home. How she came to be at the Villa, how it became her home, group and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she becomes a GP. When we first arrived there provide the meet them they''score'' for this gentle re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and yet subtly violent novel. Padmait's present fails going to escape her past and much like end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the musical score of a film, consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at will impact the Villathree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1784631930

|authorisbn=Nigel Baines0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Tricky Kind of MagicConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Emerging ReadersAutobiography|summary=Cooper loves If you were to perform magic tricksbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. His father A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a magicianfamiliar with violence, poverty and named Cooper after injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the great Tommy CooperLondon School of Economics. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to bestupid. And when It was his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got himan internship with Citibank. Eventually, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15420372391035021803|title=Death in HeelsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kitty MurphyC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Set against It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the backdrop of DublinEnglish country village where she grew up. She's drag sceneback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best s close friend, RobynArthur Crockleford, who is about dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to debut as drag queen Mae Bsay the least. What is meant Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenthe village: Arthur, she feels, Evelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, takes she has not felt able to be near the stage to mock Mae Bman or pursue the profession she loved. As if After the night could not get any worsesplit, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead worked in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communitycafe, met and married James (on the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve rebound from the mystery as she fears for love of her friendslife, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1800465270AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Lensky ConnectionAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Conrad DelacroixBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard itsaid that 'technology's June 1995 and heis what happens after you's at the Serafimov Cemetry re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in St Petersburgmy lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drugadvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -relatedquite frightening. Valeri Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and Timurend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's fatherre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=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 terrorists who are rampaging through, Ketokilling everyone on site, there is also Sam, a pallbearer wartime photographer and he's disgusted by what his son had becomeAbhi, the hotel manager. Valeri thinks differently: As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's determined forms a bond with Sam who refuses to make his own stand against organised crime be cowed by events, and avenge Timurkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's deathhappened through her photography. Within a matter of monthsAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, his obsession their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will have cost him his marriage to Marisha be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and created a dubious link with Natassja PetrovskayaMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, a journalisthonestly... ) She's determined not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to expose any and all corruption - and have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's less concerned than she ought overheard that her father wants to be about her own safetymove the family 'Down South'. To herWhen you're from Yorkshire, he's Down South is a good sourcefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For himMiv, itthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's a way stopped talking - to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleanyone.

|isbn=13997022891398524085|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise PennyNicci French

|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Inspector Jeanher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the murder body of her mother: heGreg'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guys father, Duncan Ackerley, it had always been in the other way aroundriver. Now they're both in It was an easy assumption for the village police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and neither can fathom whatthen committed suicide when he couldn's happeningt stand the guilt. Armand will soon find that The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they're not just in Three Pines can do but in his home get on with their lives and in his lifewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK1035906708|title=DukkhaDiva|author=Martin HydeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the injustice We tend to think of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of courseMaria Callas as Greek, he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning but she was born to join the community Greek parents in his old neighbourhoodManhattan, he knew his past would be hard New York, in December 1923 and only moved to escape Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but he hadnher father changed it to 'Callas't imagined to make it exploding into this new life more manageable in the States. When she was back in quite such Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a violent fashionmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYChristopher Edge|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Frederick (or FredLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, but never Freddy, please) couldna place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't sleep. A tuneAll big movie fans, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnthey't really wanted re looking forward to come; after alllots of exciting films, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? many, many snacks! All However, as the movie starts, they do very quickly realise that something about this new film format is tell the time. And time isnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bedeven imagine. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight But as they lurch from one film genre to the clock chimed only six times. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There was nothing for it but Will they ever get back to go the cinema, and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=3756228711Rachel Greenlaw|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The history call of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pagesdeep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Author Hans Bodmer Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is quite right about one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure thatlies within. He has chosen But when the Council Watch lays a trap to tell us about end the shortwrecking, but explosivethey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, history Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Control Data Companysea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, CDC, for whom he worked. Itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a fascinating taleterritory, told in a mixture Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of technological summary her home and wry anecdotethe ones she holds most dear. |isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529356660James Sherwood Metts|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, rather, the absence of the noise which was Things have been a constant in New York. Here it was silent and bit sticky for the heat was overwhelmingEarthlings. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan AI and his two Manx cats automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and she remembered other tasks that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last nighttook time to accomplish. She knew that she'd had quite a lot Just as they were beginning to get used to drink but how could she have got all this technological change and starting to the desert from New York? She had no memory think of getting on a plane but as she thought backother, a memory of sirensnew ways to spend time, flashing lights along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and of being pushed into a car snagged , along with it, all the many daily social interactions on the edge of her mindwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Christopher GoldenMatthew Tree|title=Road of BonesWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across SiberiaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge being exceptional at any of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, his artistic passions all failed miserably and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some had endless crises of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsself confidence. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beautySo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and fetch up at the guide's childhood villageset himself high but achievable ambitions. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1838776184A G Slatter|title=Her Majesty The Briar Book of the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettDead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=''The QueenThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, like the sunrise and the tidesall mine, was generally at last. I just want to enjoy it for a reliable way of marking timewhile.''

It seemed to begin as Within a cold. Hardly surprisingremote mountain pass, far away from the world, reallylies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, as Prince Philip had been suffering for a couple family of days but seemed to be getting betterwitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. HopefullyThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the Queen thoughtfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her cold would go the same waytraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. SheWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie'd probably caught it from one of s cousin Audra becomes the great-grandchildren. UnfortunatelyBriar Witch, it didnthe town't get better s leader, and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown fluEllie takes her place beside her. She As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the Duke were due rare ability to go to Sandringham by train that day but communicate with the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred that dead, putting her at the queen have heart of a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to be satisfied with do as the thought that Briar witches' legacy, everything they'd go by helicopter the following day. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like have sacrificed to disappointsurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|author=Peter Owen Jones|title=Conversations with Nature|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it's not very long. Having read the book twice over, I'm brought back inescapably to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broad. In this case I'm brought to the idea that the length of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19164599431529900360|title=Squeakily BabyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Beth WebbJonathan Kellerman

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereIt hadn's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. Het been Lt Milo Sturgis's so tired fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he can't - or won't - go felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to sleep: instead, he just lies ask for his help on his blanket difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn''wails''. The sea offers to t need the helpof a psychologist only worked for a while. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing Finally, it was Robin, Delaware''hushs partner, hush''who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have She knew that the involvement was something that the sound perfectlyman she loved needed. The mermaids join in - ''la lounext case did look simple, la lay..though.'' And for Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyesremote property in Bel Air. Then a seagull '''shouts''' He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and we know exactly whatit's going to happen nextnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Robin Stevens1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Ministry Secret Life of Unladylike Activitya Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=May Wong is a long way from her family in Hong KongSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She’s stuck in her school, Deepdean, His father was a GP and desperate Rowlands didn't want to get awayfollow in his footsteps, and do something useful to help end particularly when he considered the war and to get homestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. She just knows that she would make When he was seventeen he took the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministry, she takes matters into her own hands, along opportunity of doing work experience with a boy she meets outside family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Ministryjob for him. Before long, Eriche was at Liverpool University. They both go undercover in It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a large country housechild. If anything, pretending he'd wanted to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets to the Nazis. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder scene, with even more to try to unravel and solveprofessional footballer.|isbn=0241429862

|isbn=19196350170861541774|title=A Thief to Catch a KillerNye of Pheasants|author=Kitt TownsendSteve Burrows

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Solomon Klyne isnDCI Domenic Jejeune't s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has 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 he killed a bad ladGhurka. Initially, so why is he running around London committing faced a series charge of robberies? And how did manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he learn to crack safes? You'll might have planned to wait to get an answer to murder the second question because I avoid spoilersman. But I'll answer Now he could be facing the first one: for his grandmother.death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1398515388Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Perfect Passion Company

|summary=First of all, it was the earthquake, deep The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in the ocean floorEdinburgh, which created run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the tsunami and this, online apps in turnproviding a more personal, caused the nuclear meltdowntailored service. The result was complete Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and utter devastationlook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. The deaths were uncountableKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the loss of livelihoods was widespreadchance to come home to Edinburgh. The fact that many pets were separated And so begins this new story from their owners came far down Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the list of priorities Isabel Dalhousie novels, but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience storewith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. He wasn't Katie has no experience in running a dog person business, or in match-making, but the convenience store ownerNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15291530500811771741|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022InstaKnits for Baby|author=Tim BensonMelissa Leapman

|genre=HumourCrafts|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards Melissa Leapman's 'Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022InstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Sharp eyes Some will have noted that webe quick knits - others are of the 're not yet through long, cosy afternoons in front of the year: fire' variety. The projects are divided by the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to 31 August 2022twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Who can imagine what there will be to come in All the 2023 edition?projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Lisa GrayDean Koontz|title=The Dark RoomBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=What if you knew someone was deadBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, because you'd watched them die several years agoand his house gets trashed. Oh, but then you come across and someone has delivered a photograph that seemed really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to show their murder happened in a different place his home, and time? it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! This The thing is, Benny is what happens the very last person to Leonard in deserve all this storybad luck. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaper, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homenice person. A really nice person. One of these photographs So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to show the murder scene of his house is a new friend, a young woman he met some years agobad weather friend called Spike, and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of has been sent to help him one night in since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a hotelgood person. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightSpike is going to take care of Benny, and lost everything because will certainly take care of it - his fiancee Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and his career - but now Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds himself wondering if she hadnherself roped into Benny't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=154203535X1662500491

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithAdam Stower|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''The River Thames had frozen Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to death in its sleep.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iced-over riverand eat and eat and sleep and, well, like our heroine Thomasina's father with whatever takes his gingerbread and confectionery shopfancy next of the two. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother wonBut he't, as he dies in Chapter One. It was s a tragedy she feels no small guilt forbad magician's cat, and which so his favourite bun has made her father been turned into a sullenhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – in into the four years sinceregular back garden, eitherbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. But This time round it drops them into the darka Viking land, frosted London comes Inigowhere a troll hunter is expected – well, with supreme magical powersone much bigger than Murray was, and a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only can be honest, but he introduce her to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters 's turned up and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world 'll have to its core.do…|isbn=00084960560008561249

|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams B0C47LV1PC|title=The Book of Hope Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and Society Literary Fiction|summary= The done thing Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is to read a book all the way through before question should you sit down to review make it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of ? Or is the experience of reading this amazing bookquestion if you did, I want to capture would it as it hits meland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be... And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearsno. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529504767|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie Hickey|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destination. She needn't have worried though 'Fragility'' is set as she went to the home city of Mr and Mrs RussellPortland, Oregon, who couldn't have been kinder cautiously begins to her. She even had her own room - all to herself. Gradually she relaxed and began to enjoy her life. She'd help Mrs Russell with the baking and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan and Mr Russell put the decorations on emerge from the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened restrictions imposed during the following morning.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1529431735|title=Red as BloodThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the evidence seems to point towards her having more surprising. He'd been kidnappedexiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the police, so instead return has come about because he enlists the help of Arora's had a letter from his ex-wife, a financial investigatorsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. She manages It's hard to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met feel any sympathy when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. TogetherHopkins is abducted, they start stripped to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not his underwear and sent to arouse a watery grave in the suspicion boot of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things becomea stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1914585321}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?