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|isbnauthor=1787636607Tom Percival|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan HowardWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's life is difficult, in a scene replicated all too often in the early hours multitude of the morningways. Drunken revellers spilling out 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 clubs things like food, and looking for his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a way to get homebuilding site and had an accident. Some Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are lucky separated, and manage to get one of the few taxis availableWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the outlying villageshope. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'He is good at art, particularly in and clings to the light moments of 'the missing women'. For one young womanjoy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the final stop on the bus leaves her end of a long way short of her home, dark tunnel. She had intended to ring someone |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to beg the bus driver to let her use hisa compelling premise. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=14059571740008517061|title=A Death at the Partyin a Lonely Place|author=Amy StuartStig Abell

|summary=From the first pageFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end wellhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The victim - 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 man lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- is dying when we first meet him grid and Nadine consciously makes no effort relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to call Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the ambulance he so desperately needs. future she wants for herself and her daughter? What we don't know is who For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happeningback burner.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1786482126|title=Nowhere IslandThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to escape hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find bones of a child beneath a home for himselfdoorway. There was no skull. He is en route to yet another fostererWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his futureDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that someone lives she is pregnant with his brother in child as a camp on an island between result of the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusionone night they spent together some three months ago. ThemHer condition will be obvious before long, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullynot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080

|isbn=00085300250008551324|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Cara HunterNeil Lancaster

|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found 's unusual for anyone from the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in Hardie family to approach the garden of their West London homepolice. He had an injury on Neither side likes or has any respect for the back of his head which could have happened if other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd slipped down s prepared to tell the steps but police where the vicious beating his face had taken body of a missing person is buried and who was obviously deliberateresponsible for her death. Twenty years laterThis person, no one has been charged with his murder he promises, is someone big and it's now will be worth the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime showpolice doing what he wants. A group of experts has been brought together And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to review serve the evidence remainder of his sentence and to take the investigation furtherget an early parole date. More Not much to the pointask, theyis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn're going t think so and she's even prepared to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and no shortage of cliffhangers. Itanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's compelling viewinghappening.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle0008405026|title=The Stolen SongbirdA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=CaroIt's mother, a worldsixteen years since nine-year-famous whistler, has failed to return home old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingbed one summer night. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having She was never found and the investigation ground to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwella halt. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with GamNow, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated Helena, and confused and worriedher father are dead in their bed. All her summer holiday plans Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of building herself some equipment to practise the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her gymnastics are brought boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with be an orphan boy, Albie, who open-and-shut case is living there toonow a complex double murder. But she soon finds herself caught up Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in a mystery, Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumDerwent's old suitcaseboss, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes Una Burt) are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleless convinced. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148

|isbn=15291959770571379877|title=None of this is TrueThe Kellerby Code|author=Lisa JewellJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On her 45th birthdayEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Alix Summer celebrated obsessed with a crowd of his upper-class friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair, Robert and Stanza. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St MaryRobert's hospitala theatre director. ThatHe's where the similarities endalso self-obsessed, though: Alixdemanding, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends handsome and entitled and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvesuses Edward to run errands for him. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and you get the sense that Walterhe's not too happydrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. HeMost men in Robert's not used to spending this much money on position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a meal - relationship had begun between them but it is Josiehe's birthday after allnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleJo Callaghan|title=Camp DamascusLeave No Trace|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love When a man is love; although humans continue found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be confused by this sentimentthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Gay conversion therapy But when there is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime andsecond body found crucified a few days later, in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it Kat is both suddenly struggling with a secular 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= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want all of Florence to know my nameenjoy it for a while.''

Cast out from RomeWithin a remote mountain pass, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition far away from the powerful Accademiaworld, lies Silverton; a town under the self-proclaimed guardians protection of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to Briar's, a family of witches who protect the city town and its citizens the wider world from plagues and cursesthe Darklands. The allThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-male Accademia has hoarded power over art witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and architecture for centuries administration rather than spells and guard it above all elsepotions. To themWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no Ellie takes her place amongst them beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and their societycentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18033623401803364548

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1529900360|title=The Grave ListenersGhost Orchid|author=William FrankJonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The village is isolated and poor. Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's surrounded by a Witching Forestfault 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. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants His assertions that there were only open- its breadand-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth Finally, roofs on homesit was Robin, and even gallowsDelaware's partner, if who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The fear next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of being buried alive a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an existential superstition extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the village and strain that is being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the reason Volushka, opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a drunkenvet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, selfhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -indulgentbeen his dream since he was a child. If anything, lazy lout of he'd wanted to be a man is toleratedprofessional footballer.

|isbn=024162343X0861541774|title=Stolen HistoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Sathnam SangheraSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schoolDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I Maik was disruptive involved in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Where was the proof? In history lessonsInitially, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end he faced a charge of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, manslaughter but we didn't dwell on those) in what evidence came to be called 'the colonies' as want light that suggested that he might have planned to dispute what right murder the army had to man. Now he could be there in facing the first placedeath penalty. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Amanda CraigAlexander McCall Smith|title=Three GracesThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and capture it, crafting operating as an image of alternative to all the country as it stands online apps in one particular momentproviding a more personal, tailored service. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she's practically synonymous with could come and look after the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such business, as Ness is planning to take a gift trip to Canada to get away for weaving the ongoing issues a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the day into chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the lives of her Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a way that feels natural and livedbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence inher abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised peopleWilliam, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.to lend a hand…|isbn= 140871468X1846976596

|isbn=14483093790811771741|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)InstaKnits for Baby|author=David MarkMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's something of a surprise to find that you're dead, particularly when you're thinking that youInstaKnits for Baby''re actually on gives us a break with your wife and children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. Whilst he was relieved collection of knits from toys to find that he was still, officially, alive, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahblankets. Her protegee Some will be quick knits - McAvoy - was still alive but others are of the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat long, cosy afternoons in the early hours front of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her car, was notfire' variety. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyThe projects are divided by the time they's doppelganger ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindlyuseable. It had always been suspected I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that Pharoah was sweet on Aector's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=0957181167Dean Koontz|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ArtParanormal|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about Benny is having a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timeterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, in trying to avoid looking at and someone has delivered a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls really weird, disturbing coffin- sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was completely taken by inside is the work of Brian Lewis. thing that has trashed his house! I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’bad luck. Oh, dear - then He is a few doors down from nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the apartmentdelivery to his house is a new friend, I found a gift shop with bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a stack good person. Spike is going to take care of brand new books - Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a framed print of the picture I wantedwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Simon FoxAdam Stower|title=DeadlockMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one night Graham Blake who is late back from able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his shift on fancy next of the forcetwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and then suddenly rings Archiethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, demanding he fetch something from not into the regular back garden, but into a secret place, world of frightening adventure and join him on the runwhiffs. They get togetherThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father where a troll hunter is arrestedexpected – well, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightonone much bigger than Murray was, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleaguesbe honest, but he's turned up and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.he'll have to do…|isbn=18399444200008561249

|authorisbn=Shalini BolandB0C47LV1PC|title=The Silent BrideFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=34|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are Can you make a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding question should you make it? Or is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrivesquestion if you did, Alice would it land? The catch is walked down that the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins 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 emerge from the man at restrictions imposed during the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1529431735|title=Keep Her SecretThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew It's February 1991 and Helena are in IcelandEssex is bitingly cold, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent He'd been exiled on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of Costa del Sol as a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and wanted drug smuggler for a 500 foot drop to certain death belowdecade. Convinced she is going to dieThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret saying that she has been keeping 's ill and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration hasn't long to Matthewlive. Just moments later their heroicIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops sent to a watery grave in and hauls Helena the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}home?