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|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00085300250008517061|title=Murder Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the Familyback burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Cara HunterElly Griffiths

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was in December 2003 that fifteengoing to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Maura Howard came home and found when they discovered the body bones of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homea child beneath a doorway. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken There was obviously deliberateno skull. Twenty years laterWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, no one has been charged Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his murder and itDCI Harry Nelson. It's now the subject of ''Infamous'difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a true-crime show. A group result of experts has been brought the one night they spent together to review the evidence and to take the investigation furthersome three months ago. More to the pointHer condition will be obvious before long, they're going not least because Ruth is prone to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage sudden bouts of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingsickness.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle0008551324|title=The Stolen SongbirdDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=CaroIt's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingapproach the police. Her Neither side likes or has any respect for the other mother, Ronnie, . But Davie Hardie is having struggling in prison and he's prepared to go up North to take care tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her sister who death. This person, he promises, is unwellsomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. So who And what he wants is going to look after Caro? Sent be transferred to an open prison to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated serve the remainder of his sentence and confused and worriedto get an early parole date. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought Not much to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albieask, who is living there too. it? But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called even prepared to do the Snakes are thieving artworks other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And anyone who works with him is kept well away from what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148happening.

|isbn=15291959770008405026|title=None of this is TrueA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lisa JewellJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fairhalt. SheNow, tooher mother, was out celebrating her 45th birthdayHelena, only she was just with and her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only father are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born dead in St Mary's hospitaltheir bed. ThatInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's where something about the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in positioning of the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvesher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close What looked as though it was going to her tummy be an open-and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy-shut case is now a complex double murder. HeKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josiedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's birthday after allboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=18033651100571379877|authortitle=Chuck TingleThe Kellerby Code|titleauthor=Camp DamascusJonny Sweet

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love; although humans continue with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be confused by this sentimentRobert. Gay conversion therapy Most men in 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 ongoingleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway. The UK government ruled out plans }}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to make it a crime andthe case alongside her sidekick, in the USAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, nearly 700 000 adults have received ithaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Although it But when there is both a secular second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a religious prejudicevery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, Chuck Tingleor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, in his new horrorpotentially, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin out of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking within.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=18031363831399613073|title=Tin SoldiersMoral Injuries|author=David ChadwickChristie Watson

|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a cloudcentury. What actually happened out there Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is gossiped about a perfectionist and nobody a trauma doctor. Anjali is sure exactly what took place, but an act the free spirit of heroism leading to the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice drug and alcohol-fuelled party and disgrace seems it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the consensusthree friends. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest This time, as he always doesit's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Confession|author=A J LewisGary Stevenson

|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=When we first meet our heroIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House you're unlikely to think of Beautiful Swallowssomeone like Gary Stevenson. Idyllic as this might soundA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when where he was bornfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. He's not been short of mothers, though There was no posh public school on his CV - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult he had been to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation London School of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsEconomics. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful Stevenson is bright - and determined extremely bright - and it was not long before he had has a successful business as a guide for visitorsfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was even saving some moneyhis ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1035021803|title=After DeathThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has happened been back to him – and only him – as he sits the English country village where she grew up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his sensesShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everythingCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisterss close friend, Juniper and ElodieArthur Crockleford, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter dead and trader in illicit magicthe circumstances seem suspicious, including relics from prior major wars left out in to say the Badlandsleast. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become Arthur was the child in line reason why Freya had not been back to inherit the power of the Watchervillage: Arthur, the closest to a ruler the district hasshe feels, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warlet her down badly. Being trained Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of man or pursue the whole familyprofession she loved. But After the split, she worked in finding something oddly magicala cafe, Juniper might just be able to gain some power met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her own – for goodlife, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Thiago de MoraesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when sheAll Tomorrow's being told Futures: Fictions that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}{{FrontpageDisrupt|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't DanceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=It's hard enough 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're having to navigate a life-changing disability tooeighteen. Well, but I must confess that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage there have been more than a few decades of technology in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her lifemy lifetime. But she comes back fighting, desperate I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to avoid me but I'm left with the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life feeling thatit's as normal as she can possibly manageall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outOf course, I could research the possibilities and just the day-to-day traumas of all probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatelatest conspiracy theorist. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way through instead?|isbn=0571373801I could understand.

|author=Helen PetersSunny Singh|title=Friends and TraitorsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other Hotel Arcadia is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsviolently taken over by a terrorist group. The girls Hiding from the terrorists who are chalk and cheeserampaging through, killing everyone on site, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something there is amissSam, a wartime photographer and first separately and then in combination they realise Abhi, the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'unhotel manager. Midnight deliveries As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are received under cover of secrecystill alive in the hotel, talk is made of meetings he forms a bond with GermansSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. But surely Although they only ever talk over the girls are wrongphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the upper class could never be so underhand?terrorists.|isbn=1788004647086154742X

|isbn=02419961041529153298|title=Coming to Find YouThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jane CorryJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=NancyIt's mother 1979 and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murderMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. We first meet Nancy outside the court(A woman? I mean, after Martin receives a life sentencehonestly... ) The barrister tells her that sheShe's received a not what'silent sentences worrying Miv' - shes family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they's not ve been found guilty of anything murdered, but will to have to live with what happened for the rest of her life'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Of course, itMiv's made worse upset because Nancyshe's rich - she inherited five million pounds from overheard that her mother - and father wants to move the papers are making the most of itfamily 'Down South'. When you''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' re from Yorkshire, Down South is one favourite epithet a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'rich bitchs not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15294136801398524085|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=45

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's there to see the show with some friendsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all been very carefully choreographed worried but goes badly wrong when- strangely - her husband, KerquelinAlec, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptnot. LuckilyShortly afterwards, his doctor is there Etty and Greg, find the man is whisked away body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a helicopterthe river. A local doctor (It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as then committed suicide when hecouldn's a senior government employee, t stand the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inguilt. One daughter The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaywonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15291963881035906708|title=The TrialDiva|author=Rob RinderDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and looked up only moved to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar Athens when he she was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileythirteen. ThereHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's just one man to make it more manageable in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderStates. Knight When she was told back in Athens - supposedly so that the best barrister she could get appropriate training for him her voice - she was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyher preference for her elder sister, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryJackie.

|author=Essie FoxChristopher Edge|title=The FascinationBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a setting for historical fiction (matched onlymovie marathon at their local cinema, perhaps, by a place that has the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itnickname of 'The Black Hole'. There All big movie fans, they's such a glut re looking forward to lots of media set in exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the era movie starts, they very quickly realise that the hallmarks wesomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn've come to associate with it are familiar t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the point of being clichednext, hackneyed even. All this can they figure out what on earth is simply going on? Will they ever get back to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatthe cinema, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.to their real lives?|isbn=19145855261839942738

|author=Andrew CartmelRachel Greenlaw|title=Death in Fine ConditionCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, and the answering beat in particular my heart.'' Rosevear, a series called Sleuth Houndremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. She spends Mira, like her mother before her time hunting , is one of the seven who swim out copies to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that she can sell on for profitlies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, sometimes they capture the island'tweakings leader and Mira' them, s father. Desperate to add valuesave him from death, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers Mira makes a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of bargain with a photograph on wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's off in search of a next-level step family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her petty crime careerfather, but has she reached too faras her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and what will happen when Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the owner future of her home and the collection comes looking for their books?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890989470008664730

|isbnauthor=1529507987James Sherwood Metts|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Planet Storyland

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard dayAI and automation have been proceeding apace, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what often replacing jobs they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth paid to the people who own them do and the memories other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they hold. No expense appears were beginning to get used to be spared all this technological change and the experts starting to think of other, new ways to spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result, along came an awful pandemic. Regular viewers know the experts Life was pretty much shut down and they're , along with it, all brilliant at explaining what it is the many daily social interactions on which they're doingdepend so heavily. But how did they start?|isbn=1736128426

|author=Nicole JarvisMatthew Tree|title=A Portrait in ShadowWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''I want all of Florence Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to know my name'' Cast out be different from Romehis father, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home drunk and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The his artistic passions all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art failed miserably and architecture for centuries and guard it above all elsewho had endless crises of self confidence. To themSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and their societyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1803362340B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHA G Slatter|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It'' There's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinespart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The black wood This secret magic of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homesmy own, and even gallowsall mine, if neededat last. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, I just want to enjoy it for a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedwhile. }}''

{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=ChildrenWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's Non, a family of 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-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got witch to be born into at school. I her family for generations and as such since she was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of young, her training as a 'god'steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Where was the proof? In history lessonsWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, it was probably worse still. Not too long after Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the end of WWIIBriar Witch, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armytown's successes (leader, and occasional failuresEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'right and centre, Ellie uncovers the colonies' as want rare ability to dispute what right communicate with the army had to be there in dead, putting her at the first placeheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Looking backReeling from one family secret to another, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to approach 'do as the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1529900360|title=Three GracesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the stateIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-ofand-shut cases which didn't need the-nation novelhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. There Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's something so utterly compelling about any writer partner, who can catch hold of nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the atmosphere of involvement was something that the day and capture itman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, crafting an image though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of the country as it stands a remote property in one particular momentBel Air. To say that Amanda Craig He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: shemarried to an extremely rich man and it's practically synonymous with not the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointItalian. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues But which of them was the day into the lives 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 themselves.|isbn= 140871468Xprimary target?

|isbn=14483093791529395224|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=David MarkSion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's something of a surprise t want to find that you're deadfollow in his footsteps, particularly when you're thinking he considered the strain that you're actually being on-call put on a break with your wife and children, but thathis father's what happened to DS Aector McAvoylife. Whilst When he was relieved to find that seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was still, officially, alive, it a vet and was convinced this was difficult the job for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahhim. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carBefore long, he was notat Liverpool University. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyIt hadn's doppelganger t - as with so many students - and not everyone who commented on this been his dream since he was doing so kindlya child. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=09571811670861541774|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk A Nye of Brian LewisPheasants|author=Alan MarshallSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ArtCrime|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a substandard apartment when you’re on short holiday but this timein Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a couple of pictures on the walls knife - and was completely taken by he 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 work of Brian Lewisman. I searched online and Now he could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and be facing the print I wanted was ‘not available’death penalty. Oh, dear - then a few doors down Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from the apartment, I found a gift shop with another police force could provoke a stack of brand new books - diplomatic incident and a framed print of the picture I wantedwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Simon FoxAlexander McCall Smith|title=DeadlockThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Late one night Graham Blake The Perfect Passion Company is late back from his shift on a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the forceonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and then suddenly rings Archielook after the business, demanding he fetch something from 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 secret placebad boyfriend, and join him on so jumps at the runchance to come home to Edinburgh. They get togetherAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but barely with some new characters who quickly begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrestedcharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightonor in match-making, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleaguesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and the bearer of there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a whole heap of questions.hand…|isbn=18399444201846976596

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland0811771741|title=The Silent BrideInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Alice and Seth are Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a match made in heavencollection of knits from toys to blankets. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, cleverSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want cosy afternoons in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so front of the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setfire' variety. When The projects are divided by the muchtime they'll take to complete -anticipated day arrivesless than five hours, Alice is walked down the aisle by her fatherfive to ten hours, beaming with pride ten to twenty hours and excitement as she surveys more than twenty hours. All the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, AliceI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wifeme being picky.|isbn=1662507089

|author=Mark EdwardsDean Koontz|title=Keep Her SecretThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Matthew Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and Helena are in Icelandsomeone has delivered a really weird, rekindling their university romance some twentydisturbing coffin-odd years after they first met. sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The alien-landscape of thing is, Benny is the lava fields and black beaches very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the perfect photograph delivery to encapsulate the joy she his house is feeling in this momenta new friend, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a 500 foot drop to certain death belowgood person. Convinced she Spike is going to dietake care of Benny, Helena must purge herself and will certainly take care of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedBenny's enemies, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroicif he, and frankly very well preparedBenny, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about HelenaHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=166250893X1662500491

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTAdam Stower|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in Murray is supposed to be a semi-detached househumble, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom tidy and disappointmentfriendly cat, when Terry one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in well, whatever takes his fancy next doorof the two. Despite their different outlooks on life But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for catflap they both pairs. But all is use can chuck them out, not what it seemsinto the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedywhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1787636003B0C47LV1PC|title=The Girls of SummerFragility|author=Katie BishopMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It was Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen question if you did, would it land? The catch is that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandanswer for both could well be. Rachel wasn... no. 't exactly innocent but she was'Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, perhapsOregon, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started cautiously begins to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in emerge from the bar where all restrictions imposed during the girls either worked or partied.covid pandemic

|isbn=15291353891529431735|title=The FallWinter Visitor|author=Gilly MacmillanJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the morning at the county fair before she returned homemore surprising. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. TheyHe'd not been in the architect-designed house exiled on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work Costa del Sol as reliably as they shoulda wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It had all The return has come about through because he's had a tenletter from his ex-million-pound lottery win wife, saying that she's ill and they were still getting used hasn't long to having that sort of money, toolive. EventuallyIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Nicole found Tom dead stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the swimming pool with boot of a wound stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to his head.}}home?