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|author= Susi Holliday Will Carver|title= The Last Resort Psychopaths Anonymous|rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on Maeve is a private islandhigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test She is also a brandself-new product from acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the mysterious Timeo Technology companyAA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets... The group includes a games designertargets for sexual encounters, social media influencertargets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, gossip columnist and hedge fund managertargets for her violent behaviour. Everyone Yet she also seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group be searching for others who think as they explore the islandshe does, and each otherwhen she's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As unable to find like-minded people in any of the clock ticks downgroups she decides to set up her own, these well-kept secrets are revealedhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat thus Psychopaths Anonymous is really a gilded cageborn. |isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In a race against time|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Amelia must struggle Eliza knew that she had to uncover be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the reason for her attendance and protect dot, despite the rest fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the guests from flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themlease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available. |isbn=1542020018}}  

|isbn=05713626721784742775|title=SnowA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=John BanvilleSusan Hill

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Drugs hadn''Wellt 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, at least you're to a Wexford mangreat extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford Children as young as nine were being recruited to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of transport the Keelmore Hounds drugs and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkoperation running the county lines was tight. The niceties had to A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits correct one) of his anatomy missing. Strafford the person who was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-running him but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornehe certainly wouldn's class and obviously Protestantt know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite police might catch a few of the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thererunners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=1787477630B09HTWX47X|title=The Postscript MurdersEndless Obsession|author=Elly GriffithsDai Henley

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a heart condition dies peacefully DCI in her armchairthe Met but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to Laura, it really shouldnformerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood't be suspicious s daughters, Gemma and that was Pippa, have flown the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she spoke has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to Peggy Smith's carermarried life. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more to PeggyShe's death than met the eye - particularly as had mental problems since she knew that there was no heart condition abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that Peggy had worried that married life will provide the support she was being followedneeds. Then there was the fact Flood's business is going well and that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need why he felt able to knowturn down the case of Lisa Black.

|isbn=14721270131529379385|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThe Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenLouise Penny

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit In the Canadian village of work on handThree Pines, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it therevillagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the Auberge. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to Australiastay. Then there was A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that his wifenot all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices known in the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Geneva. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was village as the murderAsshole Saint. 

|isbn=1408712288183885410X|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Dark Remains|author=Val McDermidWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=It Bobby Carter was the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster pot. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd lawyer and DS Daisy Mortimer consigliere to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that one of the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but major crime families in reality James Auld of Edinburghnineteen seventies Glasgow. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was DC Jack Laidlaw is on the prime suspect in CID team charged with the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldinvestigation. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been I say ''on the last person team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to review the case, be a couple part of years earlier it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and it seemed sensible to bring her into ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the case at an early stagetruth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1942410255|title=A Song of IsolationTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up ''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a career that is only beginning statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to hit get the heights to retire job done and done to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of all thingsregret or grief, even from his family, though but there was a mild curiosity as to his credit whether he would rather be working 'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in forestryhis descent. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateGossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, but things are starting had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to feel wrong between themwork an unreasonable amount of overtime. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254410241425425|title=The Thursday Murder ClubMan Who Died Twice

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. She used It came from a man whose body she had helped to be a nurse pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth sort of conundrum which retired spies have to consult about how long it would take deal with on a person who has been stabbed to bleed outregular basis. Details When she visits the sender of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it would have taken about forty's someone with whom she has a long professional history -five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpwho used to be her husband. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherdHe's pie (which tells us that it was made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a Monday) but it does get her interested missing twenty-million pounds in The Thursday Murder Clubdiamonds and a few death threats. They meet each Thursday (He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagebeing an incompetent waitress.

|isbnauthor=1509889515Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesRabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=It was Meet Henri. With a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the blizzard. If she hadninsurance company – until they decide he't the car might s not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to the toddler strapped into the car seatbe all open-plan, particularly holistic and keen on stupid-as the car door had been workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left openHenri everything. Vera took the boy Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and drove to the nearest habitationnothing else. She ''thoughtYouMeFun'' it would be is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the village but finances – it was Brockburnruns at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the ancestral home of amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the Stanhopes: her father had scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been the younger brother of the man who inherited - by Henri, and Hector was the black sheep activities of the familythese guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan.. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=1506909442B0925KS87N|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonNeil Lancaster

|summary=''The greatest hatred, like Tam Hardie had been determined to find the greatest virtue grave - and the worst dogsit took some finding, is silentin an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, his family didn' The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, is t hear from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidsonone which said that it shouldn's latest novel t be opened - and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way his three sons began to the very last worry. Tam Junior, Frankie and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all Dave wouldn't normally go to the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - police but it isnthey weren't: it's honestcertain where their father had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1542017432Doug Johnstone|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisGreat Silence|rating=34

|summary=It was For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a Friday quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in mid-September when without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillsurname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. The shooters at Dorothy is the butts were matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy scot and ended up helping to his friends) was run the owner of Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the moor family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a retired judgeblack Swedish police officer. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a bankerSwedish by nationality. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysScottish police. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyDaughter Jenny, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payviolent escaped prisoner. Other people had reason And grand-daughter is about to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy graduate with a first-class physics degree and very difficult to work forjoin the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=00083147210008269041|title=Truth Be ToldRisk of Harm|author=Kia AbdullahLucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyDCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. Flowers are sent for She might have been reinstated but the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts whole episode left a phone call nasty taste in returnher mouth. There are two sons of She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and sixteenher fifteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didndaughter have moved out of her parent't name them the other way round: s home into a rented house but there'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort s still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of thinghis way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. Both boys go He's married to the prestigious Hampton schoolNatalie, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran now and has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when young child but he was raped's still got it in for Robin.

|authorisbn=1846975719|title=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger For Any Other Truth (translatorDCI Jim Daley)|titleauthor=The Seven DoorsDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=Come here for a thriller We learn that interestingly doesn't even try MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughawkward places. We start with our coupleBut that's London, she isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a literature lecturerlight aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, he big in medical provision DCI Jim Daley and decisions at the councilhis colleague, being forced to move out of their homeActing DI Brian Scott, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied head off for over thirty yearsthe airport straight away. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'off. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think itHow could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn's going to be a throwback t available to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nopaying public. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing And why have the man no identification on what happens here, and seeing how an olderthem -middle aged couple live or even labels in their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381clothes?

|isbn=14711792731409181669|title=House of CorrectionThe Maidens|author=Nicci FrenchAlex Michaelides

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she's thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in prison, on remandCambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's sharing a cell with Michaelaniece, Zoe, who's more caring than had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she first appearswas struggling to cope. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to have a showerCambridge, unpleasant as but she caught the whole processes might befirst fast train from King's Cross. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed more so by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithadeath of Mariana's househusband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. So far as Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the police are concerneddeath of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodEliza.

|isbn=14087124150241400120|title=Cry BabyThe Girl Who Died|author=Mark BillinghamRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4.5

|summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about to start Una was not thriving in London. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and Reykjavik: it's one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten was some years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any action until the manexplanation and since then she's wife d given up her medical studies and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himselfretrained as a teacher. Cat Coyne She was thirty years old and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Joshmoney was tight. It's Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a happy combination job in that Skalar on the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsLanganes Peninsula. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings There were only ten people in the park village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodaccommodation provided. Josh Una was the one doing only applicant and the hiding - but he returned tearfully to job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronwinter which her contract covered.

|isbn=15294022711529407249|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Perfect Lie|author=Helen CoxJo Spain|rating=34.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran It was July 2019 and Kitt HartleyErin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's relationship is developing nicely: theyalways a dangerous thing to do when you're even into married to a spot of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scantcop but she was hopeful. After a night of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morning. There They's d been married for six months and life was good with a murder decent apartment by the sea in IrendaleNewport, where Halloran used to live Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent and where his wifewhen it was opened, KamalaDanny's partner, Ben Mitchell was strangled five years agothere with a couple of other officers. There are sufficient details of Danny took one look, turned, walked to the current murder open window and jumped to make Halloran suspect that his death from the man who murdered his wife - and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prisonfourth floor. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrEighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1788549759|title=BetrayalThe Distant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Ursula, the standIt was December 1940 and twenty-four-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy -old Maple Greenhill had gone out for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. Youevening 'll meet with her ministryfriend Ida's cleanerleaving her three-year-old son, William, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader at home with her Tinder profileparents. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of Ursula, andillegitimacy, knowing her but Maple had high hopes of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside putting herlife (and William's) on a better footing. You'll She was going to meet the ministerial bodyguard her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and driver meet her family the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptfollowing week. But as for the first ministerial caseLater, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with body would be found in the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403bombed-out home where he had taken her.

|isbn=14091874380008404925|title=The First LieKilling Kind|author=A J ParkJane Casey|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On the second Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door opena surprise. His wife After all, it was in the bedroom in a state her cross-examination of shock and in the bathroom there was 'victim' which saved him from a dead man who had lengthy prison sentence. He'd been stabbed repeatedly in accused of stalking the neck with Paulwoman but it didn's papert take long to establish that - if anything -knifeit was the other way around. In that moment Paul takes Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he threat and Alice are not going was forced to ring remember that the police and tell officer at his trial had told her that this was the truth. Theybest chance they're going d had to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedput Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.

|isbn=1529401801walker14|title=Grave's End The Coldest Case (DS Alexandra CupidiA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=William ShawMartin Walker|rating=4.5

|summary=Gram HickmanIt was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, who worked for an estate agent, took his girlfriendchief of detectives Jalipeau, Angela Boothknown as J-J, to solve a house case which his firm was marketinghad haunted him for thirty years. Guildeford Hall The body of a young male was an old Kentish oast house and was on found in the market for millions of pounds. Gram woods but he was hoping that he could get Angela into bed never identified and he'd his killer never brought a bottle of prosecco alongto justice. It was when searching for somewhere to chill What if an artist could recreate the bottle that he found face from the body of a man in skull and the freezer in resulting publicity be used to identify the garage. young man? DS Alexandra Cupidi J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and DC Jill Ferriter are has a picture on the casehis door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.

|authorisbn=Anders de la Motte1471181405|title=End of SummerNighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary= In Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the summer body of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missinga young woman was discovered. He was chasing a rabbit, through It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the garden, earth for months and into the maize field behind. He has not could have been seen sinceundiscovered for years. In The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the present daytwo, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxietyvery rare, panic attacks, a scar gold aurei on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and she is barely hanging on to her jobfoot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. ItThey're joined by DS Guy Daley who's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closelyfrom extended sick leave. As well, Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he needs to's not fully recovered from his injuries.|isbn=1785768239