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|isbnauthor=1471180158Tom Percival|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny ParkesThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man whoWill's life is difficult, in a control freak with all the subtlety multitude of a half brickways. JamieHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's son, Bo, 'he has the wrong shoes because his problemsdad can'. Het work and doesn's asthmatic and t have enough money for even the more you readmost basic of things like food, the more youand his dad can'll suspect that t work because he's on lost his job at the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice college, was working a cash-in- she's hand job on a frequent flier in the local A&E building site and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to schoolhad an accident. Missed shifts or Throw into that mix the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school fact that his mum and dad are occasions when Jamie can be controlled separated, and put Will's life seems bleak in the wrongevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. It was going to come 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 headlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Harry AllenSylvie Cathrall|title=Children of A Letter to the SunLuminous Deep

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Ra Eun Seo There are few greater joys than a book which lives in a North Korean town and she is up to a talented singercompelling premise. Life And this is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations one of rice and kimchi at homethem.|isbn=18051404930356522776

|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez0008517061|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=We're in childhoodFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, and we're in Cubahas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The revolution has happenedThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Castroher daughter Diana, first thought of as moving in together would mean a saviour 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 country, has proven himself a Communist, future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and not done nearly enough putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to create hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a level playing field for allchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. WellWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awayDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Our narratorIt's family werendifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't in the happiest , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmishobvious before long, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party least because Ruth is prone to ease some sudden bouts of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720sickness.

|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell0008551324|title=The Vital Link Devil You Know (A Spark in the AshesD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=VL-15, It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a prototype robot, missing person is desperate to understand buried and who she iswas responsible for her death. Unfortunately This person, before she could find any answershe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the world ended, consumed in police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an apocalyptic war between open prison to serve the nations remainder of Drexel his sentence and Renadato get an early parole date. Over half-a-century later Not much to ask, civilisation is starting it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to rebuilddo the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Dr Amelia Wong is determined She was never found and the investigation ground to continue a halt. Now, her father's legacymother, Helena, building a world where machines and humans can live together her father are dead in harmonytheir bed. Initially, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of looks like a group straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths 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 prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfcomplex double murder. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexels disappearance: others (such as Derwent's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=18389544810571379877|title=The MisperKellerby Code|author=Kate LondonJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Edward Jevons is a police officer: thereworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's no doubt about thata theatre director. He was the fifteen's also self-year-old holding the gun obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawuses Edward to run errands for him. He pulled the trigger but due Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officerRobert. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside relationship had begun between them but when a missing teenager is found on her territory shehe's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the orbit two of Ryan Kennedythem kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1035025299Jo Callaghan|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeLeave No Trace

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Nina Stibbe When a man is returning found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's their first live case together, having previously been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that conducive draws a lot of unwanted attention to writing, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expecttheir AI Future Policing project. The other side of Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy case and, potentially, out of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL1399613073|title=Radio Free OlympiaMoral Injuries|author=Jeffrey DunnChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strangeOlivia, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities Laura and busy human society, in Anjali met on the forests first day of Washington's Olympic Peninsulamedical 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. After Bear dies Laura is a perfectionist and a brief sojourn in human company, trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and armed with only she becomes a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on GP. When we first meet them they're at a journey through drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the forest, broadcasting tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the strangethree friends. This time, wild and rarely heard voices he encountersit's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=16358662430241636604|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookTrading Game: A Confession|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Gary Stevenson

|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on If you were to bring up an image of a page wasncity banker in your mind, you't enoughre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, A hoodie and consistent required a great deal of trial jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and errorhis background is the East End, patiencewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneyinjustice. The first line There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches..Economics.'' It was clear that no good could come of this Stevenson is bright - the instructions didn't get any better extremely bright - and (finally) PayPal obliged he has a facility with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentnumbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. The pattern looked prettyIt was his ability at what was, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect essentially, a card game which got him an internship with her knittersCitibank. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1035021803|title=OscarThe Antique Hunter's LionGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a couple of times before he has to be ready request for schoolhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. But when he enters his parentsFreya' bedrooms former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their beddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysto say the least. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monthvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And it can shapeshiftEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, so he can take it she has not felt able to school and it can get him out of a problembe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And it's wonderful to have around After the house – not limiting his biscuit intakesplit, being much more lax about the rulesshe worked in a cafe, met and so married James (on. OKthe rebound from the love of her life, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0008596751

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMRAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Good Girls DieAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ayura AyiraBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyoneOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happenedI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. She was a very bright studentWell, I must confess that there have been more than a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to hug her in case me but I'm left with the feeling that it's contagiousall getting away from me. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin Some of it is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-yearfrankly -old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice herquite frightening. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math Of course, I could research the possibilities and Reggie asked if she would tutor himthe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house I needed people I knew I could trust and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her who could deliver information in a lift homeway I could understand.

|author=V CastroSunny Singh|title=The Haunting of AlejandraHotel Arcadia

|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=''This was The Hotel Arcadia is a part of her past luxury hotel in an unnamed city that had to stop with herhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She would be Hiding from the one to confront this.'' At some point during her lifeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, Alejandra lost herselfthe hotel manager. She feels as if she is playing parts As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for others the residents who are still alive in her life – her husband the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her children – without ever giving any thought room to try to capture what's happened through her own desires, her own future, her own identityphotography. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra Although they only ever talk over the phone, there is a darkness threatening their friendship grows as Abhi tries to consume help her. More keep safe and more she is visited they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wakethe terrorists.|isbn=1803365617086154742X

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey1529153298|title=The Pale House DevilList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Ford It's 1979 and Neuland are a couple ofMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, well, guys for hire I guesshonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! . Women have been disappearing. One of them is livingWell, you seethey've been murdered, and the other is undead, and but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so one of them kills the living, and the other kills the undeadfrightening. (Only not each other, obviously)Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. TheyWhen you're on from Yorkshire, Down South is a job in New York that goes badlyfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and find some other work she'll do anything to keep them goingprevent that. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill She's not worried about the 'something' dangers or that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentlemanher Mum's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper1398524085|title=The Taming of the CatHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. In this caseHer children, principallysons Niall, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – Paul and Ollie and in case you're seeing a connectionher daughter, they live in a cheese shop and therefore Etty. are all the names used here seem to be the names of cheesesworried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Anyway, Brie is shunnedShortly afterwards, scorned Etty andGreg, if you mustfind the body of Greg's father, mous-tracisedDuncan Ackerley, for the way his habits don't match in the other mice he lives withriver. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese It was an easy assumption for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And police to make that story-telling will come in handy one night, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he feels all alone and cast outcouldn't stand the guilt. ItThe Salter children are not convinced but there's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010

|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M1035906708|title=Super Short Stories: Flash FictionDiva|author=Mark C WallfischDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''Got a minute We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to be amusedGreek parents in Manhattan, entertainedNew York, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flashDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told to make it more manageable in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions States. When she was back in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we Athens - supposedly so that she could start get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of flash fiction but that her preference for this collectionher elder sister, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperbackJackie.

|isbnauthor=1732898766Christopher Edge|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Birpus Lucas and Bulbus they're running his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their lives in local cinema, a place that has the Forest nickname of Fine Repute'The Black Hole'. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. HeAll big movie fans, they's right behind themre looking forward to lots of exciting films, spewing hotand many, sour milk from his nostrils. many snacks! (Please don't try However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this at home: it wonnew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't end welleven imagine.) Fortunately, But as they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for themlurch from one film genre to the next, can they escaped. figure out what on earth is going on? They climbed up Will they ever get back to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Weescinema, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1472263936Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home Compass and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=VerticalBlade

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my imaginationheart. Who doesn't love ' Rosevear, a good view from up highremote and partially forgotten island, after all? Even survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the drabbest office building wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is somewhere Ione of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'm intrigued to get inside if its leader and Mira's 40 stories tallfather. So when I picked up this book – about people Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the 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 heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn= 18033639910008664730

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldJames Sherwood Metts|title=Finding BearPlanet Storyland

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had Things have been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect sticky for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left onEarthlings. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has AI and automation have been shot proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and woundedother tasks that took time to accomplish. Desperate Just as they were beginning to make sure he's OK, she get used to all this technological change and her father return starting to the Arctic and hope that in a world think of very white other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that along with it, all the friendship can continuemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=00085820171736128426

|isbnauthor=1804183210Matthew Tree|title=No Reserve|author=Felix FrancisWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairmanTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman a drunk and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in his artistic passions all failed miserably and their conversation revealed that the horse who had been deliberately bid up endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morninghis studies, the horse was dead in its stallcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Sarah WilsonA G Slatter|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: The Briar Book of the path back to connection in a fractured worldDead|rating=3.5|genre= LifestyleFantasy|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to do with your one wild and precious life?'' myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I get just want to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thisenjoy it for a while.'' I Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'm lucky enough to be living my one wild s, a family of witches who protect the town and precious life the way I want towider world from the Darklands. Sarah Wilson Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is equally luckythe first non-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 administration rather than spells and potions. In When her book that takes Olivergrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's words as leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the source) she pushes us rare ability to think about whether we really ''are'' living communicate with the life we want – dead, putting her at the best life that we could be livingheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Her answer is an unequivocal ''noReeling from one family secret to another, we are not''. Don't care Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what youto do as the Briar witches're doinglegacy, she thinks you (weeverything they have sacrificed to survive, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are notis under threat.|isbn=17856338481803364548

|isbn=18399484931529900360|title=A World of DogsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In the interests of full disclosureIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, I must tell you that I'm a sucker Sturgis was reluctant to ask for dogshis help on difficult cases. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't trust and I've loved most need the help of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingsa psychologist only worked for a while. SoFinally, any book about dogsit was Robin, IDelaware'm going to sit down and devours partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Then I'm going to go back and read it properlyShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs''The next case did look simple, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friendsthough. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself Two lovers were murdered in the accidental owner swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an American Dingo - Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's learned quite a lot about dogs since thennot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=14059516801529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Safe HouseSecret Life of a Vet|author=Cameron WardSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged Siôn Rowlands fell into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of monthsveterinary science accidentally. After the problems sheHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn'd had at workt want to follow in his footsteps, it seemed like just particularly when he considered the break she neededstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. She When he was no longer seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess family friend who was returning to the country of her birth a vet and in need of was convinced this was the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with Charlesso many students - been his dream since he was a child. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison0861541774|title=Bad DollsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's been some time since I've read any horrorclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I had Maik was involved in a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly man armed with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry a knife - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! he killed a Ghurka. But it is creepyInitially, and I found most he faced a charge of that feeling manslaughter but evidence came from the fact to light that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and suggested that at least in part, he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the horrors arises death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to another police force could provoke a hen party diplomatic incident and a coping with griefwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1803363932

|isbnauthor=1394159544Alexander McCall Smith|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an apple core alternative to landfillall the online apps in providing a more personal, it will take between 6 months tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and 2 years look after the business, as Ness is planning to decompose. A glass bottle will take up a trip to Canada to 1 million yearsget away for a while. As Katie is coming out of a just-post-WWII baby, I faced break up with a dilemma: reducingbad boyfriend, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' so jumps at the chance to come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purposehome to Edinburgh. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is And so begins this absolutely essential?' On the other handnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) thanks to 44 Scotland Street and dropping it in the kerbside binIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. YesKatie has no experience in running a business, I could go searching on the internet or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a recycling bible.shand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Lauren St John0811771741|title=Finding WonderInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=RooMelissa Leapman's life has become almost impossibly difficult''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Her mum died when she was youngSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, and now she finds herself awoken cosy afternoons in the middle front of the night fire' variety. The projects are divided by the police banging on her door time they'll take to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way complete - less than five hours, five to the corner shop ten hours, ten to buy a lottery tickettwenty hours and more than twenty hours. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one elseAll the projects are attractive, modern and so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntuseable. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as I perhaps show my age when she and Joni leave London in JoniI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1448309743Dean Koontz|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, five members of a wealthy family are found murderedand his house gets trashed. The only item missing from the Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home , and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Devil Stone: myth says thing that if has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the stone very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is removed from Otterburn House, death will followa nice person. A really nice person. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given So fortunately for Benny it turns out that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office delivery to his house is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsa new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, DCI Christine Caplan who has been sent to help him since Benny is pulled in clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny'shadows enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny' hims wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author= Kay ChronisterAdam Stower|title= Desert CreaturesMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionConfident Readers |summary= With Murray is supposed to be a world that humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanityable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Whether it is But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a robotic takeoverhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world devoid of water or frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a nuclear holocaustViking land, this genre where a troll hunter is a way for humans expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to cathartically experience their most existential fears. be honest, but he's turned up and he'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages ll have to find hope.do…|isbn=18033649980008561249

|authorisbn=Christopher FowlerB0C47LV1PC|title=Word MonkeyFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's ' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the first of August in question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the middle of a cool wet summer in East Angliaanswer for both could well be.. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackno. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler  ''Fragility'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingset as the city of Portland, and you know he actually is at that pointOregon, because he does. He did.|isbn=0857529625cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15290776991529431735|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Winter Visitor|author=Ann CleevesJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=''It's all bloody peculiarFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, isnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it isreturn all the more surprising. Jem Rosco blew into He'd been exiled on the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devondecade. Rosco The return has come about because he's had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurerletter from his ex-wife, round the world sailor saying that she's ill and all round ''celebrity'hasn't long to live. I It''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find outs hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, he could be more than stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open bookstolen Ford Sierra. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the tripIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}