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|isbnauthor=0861541774Onyi Nwabineli|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore Allow Me to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion CompanyIntroduce Myself

|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in EdinburghAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, run by Ness where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored servicebasically, monetary gain. Ness has asked Now Anuri is in her younger cousin Katie if twenties and she could come is slowly trying to regain her confidence and look after the businessto get her life back, as Ness is planning suing her step-mother to take a trip to Canada to get away for a whiledown the content about her. Katie Anuri is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriendbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall SmithMost importantly, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already loveshe is desperately worried about her little sister, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and who is the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charmfocus of Ophelia's online empire. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Can she save her abilitiessister, and there's always perhaps herself and her relationship with her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…father at the same time?|isbn=18469765960861546873

|isbnauthor=0811771741David Chadwick|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa LeapmanHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=Melissa LeapmanIt's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a collection few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of knits from toys to blanketsLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons Not much happens in front of the fire' varietyHicks. The projects A silver mine and a defence contractor are divided by the time theymain local employers but otherwise, there'll take to complete - less s not much of note other than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours dive bars and more than twenty hoursJoshua trees. All the projects are attractiveLife is quiet, modern and useableuntil... I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Dean KoontzTom Percival|title=The Bad Weather FriendWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary=Benny Will's life is having difficult, in a terrifically bad daymultitude of ways. He loses his jobis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he loses has the wrong shoes because his fianceedad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his house gets trashed. Ohdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, and someone has delivered was working a really weird, disturbing coffincash-in-sized object to his home, hand job on a building site and it's possible had an accident. Throw into that whoever or whatever was inside is mix the thing fact that has trashed his house! The thing ismum and dad are separated, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice personand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friendAnd yet, a bad weather friend called Spike, who he still has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good persontiny amount of hope. Spike He is going to take care of Bennygood at art, and will certainly take care clings to the moments of Benny's enemies, if joy when heis drawing, Bennythat feel like a light at the end of a long, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they aredark tunnel.|isbn=16625004911398527122

|author=Adam StowerSylvie Cathrall|title=Murray and BunA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers Science Fiction|summary=Murray is supposed There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, compelling premise. And this is one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. 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=00085612490356522776

|isbn=B0C47LV1PC0008517061|title=FragilityDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Mosby WoodsStig Abell

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Can you make Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you couldlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you didLivia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would it land? The catch 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 that the answer future she wants for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from present and putting the restrictions imposed during future on the covid pandemicback burner.

|isbn=15294317351786482126|title=The Winter VisitorJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=James HenryElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkinsluxury' return all apartments - when they discovered the more surprisingbones of a child beneath a doorway. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decadeThere was no skull. The return has come about because he's had Was this a letter from his ex-wiferitual killing or murder? Inevitably, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to liveDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is abducted, stripped to pregnant with his underwear and sent to child as a watery grave in result of the boot of a stolen Ford Sierraone night they spent together some three months ago. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to home?sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh0008551324|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in It's unusual for anyone from the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Hardie family to approach the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runspolice. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – Neither side likes or has any respect for there the other. But Davie Hardie is a generation missing struggling in the family. A few short years ago, Eliprison and he's parents were both lost prepared to tell the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure police where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company body of a magical beastmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This has made person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the race anathema police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to a confession from granask, Eli knows his only hope is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at do the end – the only other thing to possibly save his granthat Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=178763681X0008405026|title=Knife Skills for BeginnersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Orlando MurrinJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in BelgraviaIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He didn't really want She was never found and the investigation ground to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and women to do what he wantedher father are dead in their bed. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist PaulInitially, who had it looks like a broken arm, straightforward murder/suicide but it didnthere't turn out s something about the positioning of the bodies that way. The teaching - makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the problems - are all his ownher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The one thing he hadn't expected What looked as though it was for someone going to turn up deadbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows Kerrigan is convinced that the police consider that person to be the prime suspectexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Sarah Marsh0571379877|title=A Sign of Her OwnThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After Edward Jevons is a bout of scarlet fever as a childworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Ellen Lark loses her hearingRobert and Stanza. Suddenly plunged into Robert's a world of silence, everything about her life changestheatre director. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages doHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, Ellen is sent handsome and entitled and uses Edward to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signingrun errands for him. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who Edward has been teaching the deaf in love with Stanza since their university days - and using a system called Visible Speechhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. At 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 left to stumble upon the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up two of them kissing in a complicated tangle of espionagedark passageway.|isbn=1035401614

|isbnauthor=1803816759Jo Callaghan|title=The Unravelling|author=Will GibsonLeave No Trace

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's 2038 and Joe their first live case together, having previously been 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 bored cop policing the wealthy potential serial killer and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit very high profile case that draws a lot of adventure and unwanted attention to get stuck into some really gritty crime detectiontheir AI Future Policing project. But then something goes horribly wrong with Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the AI system that now runs everythingcase and, potentially, making life easier for manyout of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and riots start to spreadtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Finally Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Joe gets which is a bonus when you aim to do some real policingbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. In Anjali is the aftermath free spirit of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Joe is assigned it's going to bring her homeend in tragedy. Joe isn We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the only one trying to save Suki consequences. Twenty- Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the casethree friends. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was This time, it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=15294212840241636604|title=Laying Out the BonesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Kate WebbGary Stevenson

|summary=It was one 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwaverequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. In a gullyFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, a human skeleton came to the surface is dead and forensic testing proved the body circumstances seem suspicious, to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earliersay the least. He'd Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been a known drug user and had learning disabilitiesback to the village: Arthur, she feels, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convincedlet her down badly. Geary was a townieEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections she has not felt able to be near the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at man or pursue the timeprofession she loved. Lockyer After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and DC Gemma Broad married James (on the rebound from the love of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you her life, who was murdered) and Freya and me) investigateJames have now divorced.

|isbn=0571379559AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The House of Broken BricksAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Fiona WilliamsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=''The House Opening up new ways of Broken Bricksthinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is the story what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of four peopletechnology in my lifetime. Tess HembryI've kept up reasonably well with what's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, advantageous to me but instead, she lives in I'm left with the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, feeling that it's stood the passage all getting away from me. Some of time, storms and floodsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Her husbandOf course, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete I could research the delivery rounds - possibilities and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny the probabilities and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonnyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's colouring reflects his motherm reading someone who knows what they's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his fatherre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins I needed people I knew I could trust and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nannywho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1529425867Sunny Singh|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon MasonHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=In OxfordThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descentSam, Balliol educated a wartime photographer and always exquisitely dressedAbhi, the hotel manager. D I Ryan WilkinsAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, son of Ryan and father keeps on venturing out of Ryan, is not. Heher room to try to capture what's not any of those thingshappened through her photography. He's whiteAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder they both wait to see if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men they will be rescued before they are just different sides of discovered by the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Mosby Woods1529153298|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= The West isnIt't the dominant force it once wass 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Governments are flailing Women have been disappearing. A war here Well, they've been murdered, a push for climate action therebut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. A feeling Miv's upset because she's overheard that nobody is in actual chargeher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Imagine then When you're from Yorkshire, there was Down South is a man with precognitionfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Imagine For Miv, the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man move would be valuablemean leaving her best friend, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine thenSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that this man loses this ability. What would governments do She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1anyone.

|authorisbn=Alastair Humphreys1398524085|title=LocalHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Travel Crime|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the worldCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. And then written about it. For this book he walked Her children, sons Niall, Paul and cycled very close to home Ollie and then wrote about ither daughter, Etty. As he says in his introductionare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small mapnot. Nature lossShortly afterwards, pollution, land use Etty and accessGreg, agriculturefind the body of Greg's father, the food systemDuncan Ackerley, rewilding…'' One of in the joys of river. It was an easy assumption for the book for me was police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody s little else they can do but get on with their lives and that there are some hard choices aheadwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1785633678

|isbn=18051418721035906708|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchDiva|author=Rob KeeleyDaisy Goodwin

|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled All big movie fans, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacherthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, Miss Judsonand many, is really a safecrackermany snacks! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail However, Miss Judson and Ben go on as the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness memovie starts, they very quickly realise that Miss Judson something about this new film format is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed very different, and they are swept up with a bad into an adventure they couldn'un like Al? We'll find outt even imagine. Luckily for Miss Judson But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret can they figure out what on earth is Ben, going on? Will they ever get back to the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some daycinema, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0760381267Rachel Greenlaw|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoCompass and Blade

|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The most important part call of a garden is the one who enjoys itdeep, the answering beat in my heart.''.

I've 'gardened' in Rosevear, a vagueremote and partially forgotten island, indefinite sort of way for more than half a centurysurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. I know (most Mira, like her mother before her, is one of) the basics but life has changed seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and I needed any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'projectss leader and Mira' rather than s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a general commitment bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to gardeningguide 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''Verdura'' with its promise s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of projects her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for both indoors the Earthlings. AI and outdoors automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of varying complexity seemed like the answerother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. SoLife was pretty much shut down and, how did along with it stack up?, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0CP95J1CGMatthew Tree|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark LinganeWe'll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to go to the party but be different from his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like father, a good opportunity to get out drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his room artistic passions all failed miserably and away from the online activities he makes a living atwho had endless crises of self confidence. So he makes Tim applied himself to his way therestudies, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1454955546A G Slatter|title=Sugarless|author=Nicole M AvenaThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=''This isnThere't s a diet bookpart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last thing anyone needs is another diet book. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

There was Within a timeremote mountain pass, not that long agofar away from the world, when it was thought that sugary food was better lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for you than food with highmagic, Ellie Briar is the first non-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going witch to elevate your cholesterol be born into her family for generations and cause heart disease. Sugar as such since she was young, her training as a carbohydratesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, so good. ThereEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a problemleader, thoughand Ellie takes her place beside her. Sugar is addictive As challenges come her way left, right and can hijack your brain in much centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the same way 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 drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? WellBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, it isn'tis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15211298861529900360|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)The Ghost Orchid|author=Keith RedfernJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Greg MasonIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just beginning fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get ask for his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargeshelp on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have psychologist only worked for a baby and theywhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware're both delighteds partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Joyce will be more delighted about She knew that the involvement was something that the baby when man she gets past loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the morning sicknessswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Greg He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is approached by married to an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himselfextremely 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. StuartHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's concerned about t want to follow in his sisterfootsteps, Lucy, whoparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's struggling to make ends meet life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and her son is not thrivingwas convinced this was the job for him. LucyBefore long, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasnwas at Liverpool University. It hadn't in - as with so many students - been his naturedream since he was a child. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide If anything, but Stuarthe's prepared d wanted to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil diedbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=B0CK3MYJ560861541774|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Ann MacarthurSteve Burrows

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the 1990s close friend and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. He used to have Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a highknife -flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so and he's now set himself up as killed a private investigatorGhurka. 'Shades Initially, he faced a charge of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, manslaughter but where's the life experience evidence came to light that suggested that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked might have planned to look into somethingmurder the man. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingNow he could be facing the death penalty. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - Domenic Jejeune can't understand what she was doing there - or how she do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could come to fall in front of provoke a train. Gregdiplomatic incident and wouldn's been asked to investigatet help Danny at all.

|author=Katherine HoweAlexander McCall Smith|title=A True AccountThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Hannah Masury The Perfect Passion Company is living a dating agency in BostonEdinburgh, having been sent to live with a family who run by Ness and operating as an inn, and being made alternative to work there from all the online apps in providing a young agemore personal, tailored service. When Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she hears there could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to be take a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides trip to Canada to go and watchget away for a while. Enthralled Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death so jumps at the hands of two vicious pirateschance to come home to Edinburgh. She hides away, And so that they don't find and kill her toobegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and then bringing us to escape them completely she runs away an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to sea, dressing as a boy 44 Scotland Street and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She soon finds herself Katie has no experience in the thick of things when there is running a mutiny on boardbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and from there we are caught up in 's always her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=08615474381846976596

|author=Tananarive Due|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=14711801580811771741|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, InstaKnits for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.}}{{FrontpageBaby|author=Harry Allen|title=Children of the Sun|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life 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 of rice and kimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyMelissa Leapman

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrafts|summary=WeMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as gives us a saviour collection of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough knits from toys to create a level playing field for allblankets. Well, those hoursSome will be quick knits -long speeches others are of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narratorthe 's family weren't long, cosy afternoons in the happiest front of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier fire' variety. The projects are divided by the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off time they'll take to some minor procomplete -Communism skirmishless than five hours, such as Angola) five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the father being watched and watchedprojects are attractive, modern and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponuseable. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720that's me being picky.

|author=K P O'DonnellDean Koontz|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=VL-15, Benny is having a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she isterrifically bad day. Unfortunately He loses his job, before she could find any answershe loses his fiancee, the world endedand his house gets trashed. Oh, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-someone has delivered areally weird, disturbing coffin-century latersized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, civilisation Benny is starting the very last person to rebuilddeserve all this bad luck. Dr Amelia Wong He is determined a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to continue her father's legacy, building his house is a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Andersonnew friend, leader of a group of salvagers bad weather friend called the ExhumersSpike, who has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfgood person. Even after being buried for 65 years Spike is going to take care of Benny, her determination hasnand will certainly take care of Benny't diminished in the slightests enemies, if he, and no errant machineBenny, no savage human tribe and not even DrexelHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM1662500491

|isbnauthor=1838954481Adam Stower|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Murray is supposed to be a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun humble, tidy and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due friendly cat, one who is able to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder sleep and eat and eat and sleep and the manslaughter , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the officertwo. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for But he's a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory shebad magician's drawn cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a wider investigation - hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into the orbit a world of Ryan Kennedyfrightening adventure and whiffs. 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