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|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=14722559171913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Invite Me In|author=Quintin JardineEmma Curtis

|summary=On New YearMartin Curran's Evewife, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Gracedot, daughter Alex Skinner and despite the man with whom fact that she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonwas actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. Jackson If she didn't get home, there would be better-known trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith a wheelchair, but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearbe too quick to be understanding. SkinnerHe was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''s tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: ityou's Mario McGuire asking for his presence re good at being a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghdisappointment''. SkinnerAll this was in Eliza's not technically with mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the police now - flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he's chairman wanted the lease of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge flat 2, 42 Linden Road and experiencehe was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.

|isbn=18003211041784742775|title=The Body on the IslandA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Nick LouthSusan Hill|rating=4.5

|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldDrugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, to a great extent, heading for HMP Spring Hillbut Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Steve and Aaron Children as young as nine were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old being recruited to transport the drugs and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wifeoperation running the county lines was tight. Only that wasnA mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for be the murder correct one) of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeen. He person who was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimsorganisation. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be police might catch a reformed character few of the runners but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengethey'd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB09HTWX47X|title=The Long Dark RoadEndless Obsession|author=P R BlackDai Henley

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt's Healey's nineteensome years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgerespected private investigator. There was a furious storm going on and sheHe'd already refused s married to Laura, formerly his DS in the offer of help from one man Murder Squad but now working in a big vehicleforensics laboratory. WeFlood'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops s daughters, Gemma and Stephanie is bundled into Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the car family, and driven offGemma to married life. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the two years sincesupport she needs. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and sheFlood's not business is going well and that was why he felt able to be stoppedturn down the case of Lisa Black.

|authorisbn=David C Mason1529379385|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating=34.5

|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, although what he did before he became a gardener, he claimsIn the Canadian village of Three Pines, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is classifiedstarting to get back to normal. That is just as well because he The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the Auberge. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is about one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be caught up in around - a criminal / spy / terrorist plotbit like Vincent Gilbert, where only he can save known in the village as the dayAsshole Saint. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=1838773169183885410X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotDark Remains|author=S J BennettWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5

|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Court. She's having Bobby Carter was a dine lawyer and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting consigliere to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought major crime families in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesnineteen seventies Glasgow. The immediate reaction DC Jack Laidlaw is that one of on the CID team charged with the guests is responsibleinvestigation. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to Moscow, the Archbishop be a part of Canterbury and Sir David Attenboroughit. One couldnHe does his own thing, goes his own way and 't bear to go down any of 'The Dark Remains'those'uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter' roadss body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1942410255|title=The Coral BrideTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4.5

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, making her living in isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a manstatement of the minimum you's worldll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When her lobster trawler is he was found drifting off dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the coast way of Quebecregret or grief, Detective Morales is called in even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to come and head whether he'd jumped from the roof of the investigationbuilding or been assisted in his descent. Although Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the signs seem to point to exact same spot that an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onemployee, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasMayu Yamase, fishing histories and secret family feudshad committed suicide some three years earlier. At the same time as trying She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultieswork an unreasonable amount of overtime.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0241425425|title= The Last Resort Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on Elizabeth Best was a private islandlittle surprised when she received the letter. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat It came from a man whose body she had helped to test a brand-new product pull from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist Thames and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is deal with on a mysteryregular basis. We follow When she visits the sender of the group as they explore letter (he's moved into the island, and each otherCooper's histories and Chase Retirement Village) it becomes clear comes as no surprise that they all have it's someone with whom she has a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenlong professional history - and who used to be her husband. As He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the clock ticks downrange of a CCTV camera on a raid, these wella missing twenty-kept secrets are revealed, million pounds in diamonds and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagefew death threats. In He's now in hiding with a race against timeyoung woman called Polly, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themwho's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress. |isbn=1542020018}}  

|isbnauthor=0571362672Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=Snow|author=John BanvilleThe Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he'Wells not a team-member, at least youthat they're a Wexford mand prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping.'' So said Colonel Osborne This is when he welcomed DI St John finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (pronounced or otherwise) that 'Sinjuneverything') Strafford to Ballyglass House is just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds an adventure park, and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirknothing else. The niceties had ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to be established even occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when there was he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with steady money-moving pace, despite some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisdesultory staff ideas, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him loans have been made out as of Osborneand the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's class been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit activities of spending time at Ballyglass Housethese guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan.. His horse was stabled there.|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=1787477630B0925KS87N|title=The Postscript MurdersDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Elly GriffithsNeil Lancaster

|summary=When a 90-yearTam Hardie had been determined to find the grave -and it took some finding, in an overgrown old-woman with cemetery. It was a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairstrange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, it really shouldn't be suspicious but Tam was getting old and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke there were things he wanted to Peggy Smith's carerdo. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that there was more to Peggyhe's death than met d found the eye grave - particularly as she knew the one which said that there was no heart condition it shouldn't be opened - and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedhis three sons began to worry. Then there was Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the fact that Peggy was a police but they weren'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in t certain where their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowfather had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1472127013Doug Johnstone|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenThe Great Silence|rating=4.5

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a bit quick synopsis of work on hand. The chairman who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of Philpott Electronics was concerned bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it there. This was unusualSkelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as his wife had died before Cheeseman went though it ought to Australiabe, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Then there was Dorothy is the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifematriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations she married a scot and ended up helping to instal listening devices run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him family for generations. Recently widowed and his secretarynow involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, who was from Geneva. Apparently46, the staff called is haunted by her The Swiss Rollstill-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. Then there was And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the murderacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=14087122880008269041|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)Risk of Harm|author=Val McDermidLucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=It DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the middle of February man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and bitterly cold when a fishing boat her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of St Monans pulled her parent's home into a body rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out the Firth of Forth instead of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a lobster potyoung child. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnHe't take too long s married to establish that the man was Paul AllardNatalie, ostensibly now and has a Frenchman, young child but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect still got it in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auld. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stagefor Robin.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1846975719|title=A Song of IsolationFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career We learn that MI5 is only beginning having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to hit awkward places. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the heights to retire to airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of all things, though tech which would make that possible isn't available to his credit he would rather be working in forestrythe paying public. They And why have found a hideaway the man no identification on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365- or even labels in their clothes?

|isbn=02414254411409181669|title=The Thursday Murder ClubMaidens|author=Richard OsmanAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftMariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She used needed to be a nurse think carefully about what she knew and is thus decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to bleed outcope. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about forty-five minutes and that having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the victim could have been saved if shefirst fast train from King'd received prompt medical helps Cross. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherdMariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's pie (which tells us that it was husband, Sebastian, in a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubswimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagedeath of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|isbn=15098895150241400120|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Girl Who Died|author=Ann CleevesRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4.5

|summary=It Una was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home not thriving in the blizzard. If Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning d given up her medical studies and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly retrained as the car door had been left opena teacher. Vera took the boy She was thirty years old and drove to money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the nearest habitationLanganes Peninsula. She ''thought'' it would be There were only ten people in the village but it a teacher was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopesrequired for two children: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - a salary would be paid and Hector accommodation provided. Una was the black sheep of only applicant and the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else job meant that she could do let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the circumstanceswinter which her contract covered.

|isbn=15069094421529407249|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryPerfect Lie|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJo Spain|rating=4.5

|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue d been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the worst dogssea in Newport, is silentLong Island.''  The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralknock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey DavidsonDanny's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the very last open window and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all jumped to his death from the way throughfourth floor. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's honestmurder.

|isbn=15420174321788549759|title=The Nidderdale MurdersDistant Dead|author=J R EllisLesley Thomson|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday in midDecember 1940 and twenty-four-year-September when old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillevening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to boy thought that Maple was his friends) sister - it was better for the owner family than the shame of the moor illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a retired judgebetter footing. James Symonds She was a local landowner going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and Henry Saunders was a bankermeet her family the following week. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyLater, who dealt her body would be found in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: the bombed-out home where he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work fortaken her.

|isbn=00083147210008404925|title=Truth Be ToldThe Killing Kind|author=Kia AbdullahJane Casey

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyDifficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. Flowers are sent for After all, it was her cross-examination of the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts 'victim' which saved him from a phone call in returnlengthy prison sentence. There are two sons He'd been accused of stalking the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she woman but it didn't name them take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'around. Sofia worries about that sort Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of thing. Both boys go John Webster and then she came to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has see him as a place at Oxford next year threat and all seemed was forced to be going well until remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the night when best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was rapeda very dangerous man.

|authorisbn=walker14|title=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger The Coldest Case (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=The Seven DoorsMartin Walker

|summary=Come here for a thriller It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth chief of police Bruno Courreges had the way through. We start with our coupleidea which he thought might help his boss, she a literature lecturerchief of detectives Jalipeau, he big in medical provision and decisions at the councilknown as J-J, being forced to move out of their home, solve a building that case which had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied haunted him for over thirty years. The building body of a young male was found in the woods but he's inherited, meanwhile, was never identified and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says his killer never brought to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'justice. Now, at this stage you may well, What if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be a throwback used to those identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'home invasionOscar' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that and has any bearing a picture on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until the point where the evicted tenant is found his killer has been brought to have completely vanishedjustice.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731471181405|title=House of CorrectionNighthawking|author=Nicci FrenchRuss Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardySheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, sheif you's d like to visit) are an oasis of calm in prison, on remand. Shewhat's sharing otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a cell with Michaela, young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who's more caring than she first appearswould have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking The police need to establish who stabbed her - and encourages who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might beeyes. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December DCI Diane Jordan is the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in Investigating Officer and her garden shed foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by Andrew Kane, DS Guy Daley who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's housejust returned from extended sick leave. So far Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his bloodinjuries.