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|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHTom Percival|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The village is isolated and poor. ItWill's surrounded by life is difficult, in a Witching Forestmultitude of ways. And 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 villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants college, was working a cash- its breadin-like fruit provides nutrition hand job on a building site and its blossom provides herbal medicineshad an accident. The black wood of Throw into that mix the forest provides heat fact that his mum and warmth, roofs on homesdad are separated, and even gallowsWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, if neededhe still has a tiny amount of hope. The fear of being buried alive He is an existential superstition in good at art, and clings to the village and that moments of joy when he is the reason Volushkadrawing, that feel like a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout light at the end of a man is toleratedlong, dark tunnel. |isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=024162343XSylvie Cathrall|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schoolThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them. I was disruptive |isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessonsLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, it was probably worse stillhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Not too long after There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the end future of WWIIhis life with his vet girlfriend, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (Livia and occasional failuresher daughter Diana, but we didn't dwell on those) as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in what came with Livia or does Livia move to be called 'Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the colonies' as want to dispute what right future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the army had to be there moment they’re enjoying life in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked present and putting the maturity to approach 'future on the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''back burner.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1786482126|title=Three GracesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the statesite was going to hold seventy-offive 'luxury' apartments -when they discovered the-nation novelbones of a child beneath a doorway. Therewas no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture itdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig she is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous pregnant with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such his child as a gift for weaving the ongoing issues result of the day into the lives one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselvessickness.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbn=14483093790008551324|title=Flesh and Blood The Devil You Know (DS McAvoy 11D S Max Craigie)|author=David MarkNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=It's something of a surprise unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and children, but thathe's what happened prepared to DS Aector McAvoytell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Whilst he was relieved to find that This person, he was still, officially, alivepromises, is someone big and it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahwill be worth the police doing what he wants. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early hours of the morning when parole date. Not much to ask, is it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was not. ? Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's doppelganger even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and not everyone anyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aectorworks with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=09571811670008405026|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian LewisA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alan MarshallJane Casey

|genre=ArtCrime|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisinvestigation ground to a halt. I searched online Now, her mother, Helena, and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’her father are dead in their bed. OhInitially, dear - then it looks like a few doors down from straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack positioning of brand new books the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- and -shut case is now a framed print of complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the picture I wantedexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Simon Fox0571379877|title=DeadlockThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Edward Jevons is late back from a working-class young man, obsessed with his shift on the forceupper-class friends, Robert and then suddenly rings ArchieStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, handsome and join entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him on the run. They get together, Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father he's not like most men: Edward is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express left to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and stumble upon the bearer two of them kissing in a whole heap of questionsdark passageway.|isbn=1839944420

|author=Shalini BolandJo Callaghan|title=The Silent BrideLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice and Seth are When a man is found crucified on the top of a match made hill in heavenNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He is everything she has It's their first live case together, having previously been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-materialvery successful with several cold cases. She But when there is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successfulsecond body found crucified a few days later, confident… and so the inevitable proposal Kat is eagerly accepted by Alice suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the wedding is planned and seta very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. When Will they be able to solve the much-anticipated day arrivescase in time, Alice is walked down or will Kat find herself taken off the aisle by her father, beaming with pride case and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar ispotentially, who is waiting for her to become his wife.out of a career?|isbn=1662507089139851120X

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1399613073|title=Keep Her SecretMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary= Matthew Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. 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 the free spirit of the group and Helena are she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twentytragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-odd five years after they first metlater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The alien-landscape Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the lava fields pin-stripe suit and black beaches his background is breath-taking the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and Helena seems intent injustice. There was no posh public school on getting the perfect photograph his CV - but he had been to encapsulate the joy she London School of Economics. Stevenson is feeling in this momentbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, even if it kills her… a card game which it nearly does when got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the edge English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a ravine gives way request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Helena finds herself clinging the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the rockface with just reason why Freya had not been back to the snagged strap of village: Arthur, she feels, let her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowdown badly. Convinced Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is going has not felt able to diebe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping worked in a cafe, met and makes a panickedmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, cryptic declaration who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to Matthewcome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Just moments later their heroicWell, and I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly very well prepared- quite frightening. Of course, Icelandic tour guide swoops in I could research the possibilities and hauls Helena to safety the probabilities and Matthew is left wondering end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what he just learned they're talking about Helenaor the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=166250893X

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTSunny Singh|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=''Bill and Amanda are living The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a semi-detached houseterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom wartime photographer and disappointmentAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, when Terry and Fiona – glamoroushe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks keeps on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears venturing out of her room to try to improve for both pairscapture what's happened through her photography. But all is not what it seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their increasingly interconnected relationships they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are fated for tragedydiscovered by the terrorists.''|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17876360031529153298|title=The Girls List of SummerSuspicious Things|author=Katie BishopJennie Godfrey

|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she 's 1979 and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) Rachel wasnShe't exactly innocent but she wass not what's worrying Miv's family, perhapsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, naivethey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to take an interest in hermove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, she was flattered rather than warybest avoided. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and by she'll do anything to prevent that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on She's not worried about the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked dangers or partiedthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15291353891398524085|title=The FallHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gilly MacmillanNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning Charlotte Salter was expected at the county fair before she returned homeher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. There was no sign of Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her husband daughter, Etty. are all worried but opera was playing on the state-ofstrangely -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnher husband, Alec, is not. TheyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd not been s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula river. It was an easy assumption for long and were still getting used the police to all the high-tech systems Tom make that Duncan had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other murdered Charlie and didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't work as reliably as they shouldstand the guilt. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool can do but get on with a wound to his headtheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Alan Parks1035906708|title=To Die in JuneDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death We tend to think of a homeless man on the streetsMaria Callas as Greek, suddenly starts but she was born to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and then anotheronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but all her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the more States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so because his own father is a downthat she could get appropriate training for her voice -and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At she was raised under the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with Nazi occupation by a move to a different police station, mother who mercilessly exploited her and the arrival there made no secret of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingpreference for her elder sister, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundJackie. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|author=Laura NoakesChristopher Edge|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Cosima Unfortunatea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Or ratherAll big movie fans, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond 're looking forward to in the ledgerlots of exciting films, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesmany, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. many snacks! But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromHowever, as the first ever inmatemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes But as they lurch from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want film genre to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But whynext, and can they figure out what does that body entailon earth is going on? And could it possibly bring Cos closer Will they ever get back to the past she has so little link withcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=00085790591839942738

|author=Thomas D LeeRachel Greenlaw|title=Perilous TimesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= ''Hate is I can hear the path song of least resistancethe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Set in the near-distant futureRosevear, in a world remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the verge of climate collapsewrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Britain is in great perilone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The British Isles desperately needs But when the Council Watch lays a hero (or several) trap to save end the wrecking, they capture the day island's leader and rescue what little remainsMira's father. What no one expected was Desperate to save him from death, 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 one 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 Knights heart of the Round Table would answer smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the callones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565185230008664730

|author=Madelaine LucasJames Sherwood Metts|title=Thirst for SaltPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''LoveThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Ioften replacing jobs they'd read, was supposed re paid to be a light do and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship other tasks that once defined hertook time to accomplish. Overlaid with later wisdomJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – new ways to its sorrowful end the summer afterspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship Life was pretty much shut down and, along with her older loverit, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective the many daily social interactions on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablywhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615464901736128426

|isbnauthor=1529382823Matthew Tree|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemmabe different from his father, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his suit pocket artistic passions all failed miserably and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedwho had endless crises of self confidence. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity So Tim applied himself to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhilehis studies, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiacultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. It's going to be good, isn't it?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lex CroucherA G Slatter|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Who knew '' There's a part of me that what wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I really needed just want to read right now was enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlytown under the protection of the Briar's, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. In this storyThough she has always wished for magic, Gwen Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and Arthur have been betrothed as such since they were tinyshe was young, much to their mutual disgust! Gwenher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, you seeEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomtown's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, creating Ellie uncovers the subterfuge of falling in love rare ability to communicate with each otherthe dead, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. But Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as their impending wedding draws ever closerthe Briar witches' legacy, will everything they find a way in which they can both truly be themselveshave sacrificed to survive, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?is under threat.|isbn=15266517931803364548

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529900360|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house he felt responsible and bring Edie even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to live with ask for his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryhelp on difficult cases. However, Edie is tormented by His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the memory help of her childhood frienda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lucyit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping nudged Milo into asking for Lucy help again. She knew that somehow might be the thing involvement was something that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. After 'seeing' Lucy Two lovers were murdered in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets swimming pool of memories coming back to hera remote property in Bel Air. And yet as she remembers He was the past, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forgetting more married to an extremely rich man and more in her day to day lifeit's not the Italian. Will she uncover But which of them was the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone foreverprimary target?|isbn=1804181250

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529395224|title=Thirty Days Letting the Cat Out of Darknessthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Thrillers Animals and Wildlife|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Sorry His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot follow in the world of crime fictionhis footsteps, saying particularly when he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue considered the bet strain that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is being on-call put up for a wintry month away from it allon his father's life. Just on When he was seventeen he took the point opportunity of despairing – about her writing, about the people doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the lack of stimulus job for her plothim. Before long, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804545600|title=The Monk|author=Tim Sullivan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol he was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchat Liverpool University. He'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominic. He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave - as with so many students - been his abbeydream since he was a child. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that If anything, he'd been well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friendwanted to be a professional footballer. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo0861541774|title=PrelovedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on JakeDCI Domenic Jejeune's side close friend and he didn't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain marriedmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The perfect solution arrived Maik was involved in the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum street brawl - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to work.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I he would get on board later maintain that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It he was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born facing a daughter rather than man armed with a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis knife - and fashioned into he killed a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventureGhurka. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts Initially, he faced a fierce band charge of warriors, descendent from manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes man. Now he could be facing the chance death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is help as any interference from another police force could provoke a whirlwind of challenges diplomatic incident and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemiswouldn' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoingt help Danny at all.|isbn=1472292154

|isbnauthor=152915118XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=''Pineapple Street'' The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the story of three women: Sashaonline apps in providing a more personal, Darley and Georgianatailored service. Darley Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and George are sisters and Sasha look after the business, as Ness is married planning to take a trip to Canada to their brother Cordget away for a while. They're StocktonsKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth and so she isn't readily accepted into jumps at the tribechance to come home to Edinburgh. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarchAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Tildabringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like thanks to move into the Pineapple 44 Scotland Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to another property, a street or so away, which they owncharm. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple StreetKatie has no experience in running a business, so Sasha and Cord can move straight or in. Nominallymatch-making, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. Shethere's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to 'the GD'.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=00085512780811771741|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Neil LancasterMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Affi Smith was snatched Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the bottom 'long, cosy afternoons in front of Fyrish, where shethe fire'd been doing her trainingvariety. SheThe projects are divided by the time they'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadmore than twenty hours. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeAll the projects are attractive, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvemodern and useable. She was rescued I perhaps show my age when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later sheI wonder about 's happy with her foster family. Theresocial-media-worthy projects's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a childrenbut that's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herme being picky.

|author=Emily TeshDean Koontz|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=''While EarthBenny 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 children livepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the enemy shall fear us'' Following very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the destruction of the Earthdelivery to his house is a new friend, amongst a rare number of survivorsbad weather friend called Spike, Kyr who has been raised on Gaea Station – the home sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of the last scraps Benny, and will certainly take care of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her lifeBenny's enemies, if he, she has been conditioned to fall in lineBenny, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565218341662500491

|isbnauthor=0861544056Adam Stower|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Belle Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and David's twin daughters are just coming friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the end of their first term at universitytwo. KitBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been at Bristol turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Jess's in Exeter. It's the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not only into the first time they've been away from their parents for any length regular back garden, but into a world of time - but they've also been apart from each otherfrightening adventure and whiffs. Belle can't wait to have This time round it drops them all into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that be honest, but he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': turned up and he's twenty-four ll have to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1785633457B0C47LV1PC|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarFragility|author=Clive WilkinsonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Can you make a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the idea of exploring question should you make it? Or is the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In factquestion if you did, would it should land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, JoanOregon, shouldn't it?cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1529431735|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side It's February 1991 and Welsh Methodist on the otherEssex is bitingly cold, nobody really discussed religion and which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistmore surprising. Other than He'd been exiled on the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, I didnsaying that she's ill and hasn't think too much about faith or what people did or didnlong to live. It't believes hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?