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|author=Roxanne BouchardWill Carver|title=The Coral BridePsychopaths 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=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanMartin Curran's wife, making her living in a manEliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o's worldclock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of QuebecIf she didn't get home, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationthere would be trouble. Although the signs seem There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to point a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to an obvious conclusionbe 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, Morales feels something more sinister is going onunannounced, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time flat just as trying Eliza was about to run his investigation, leave: he also has his grown up sonwanted the lease of flat 2, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that 42 Linden Road and he is unable was desperate to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesget in before it was advertised as being available.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1784742775|title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group Change of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=SnowCircumstance (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 shethought - had begun with the 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 prison, on remanddistress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. SheMariana wasn't ''entirely''s sharing a cell with Michaelahappy about having to go to Cambridge, whobut she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more caring than she first appearsso by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. She delivers tough love Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and gets Tabitha eating Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and drinking - Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and encourages since then she'd given up her to have medical studies and retrained as a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might beteacher. And how did Tabitha get here? She was thirty years old and money was tight. WellHer friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who the village but a teacher was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's houserequired for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. So far as Una was the police are concerned, Tabitha is only applicant and the only person who job meant that she could have killed Rees - let her flat in Reykjavik and when they arrived at , hopefully, save some money over the winter which her house she was contract covered in his blood.

|isbn=14087124151529407249|title=Cry BabyThe Perfect Lie|author=Mark BillinghamJo Spain

|summary=It's June 1996 was July 2019 and football's European Championships are about to start in LondonErin was happy. DS Tom Thorne is having She and Danny Ryan were planning a nightmare and itfew days away: that's one he has regularly. It relates always a dangerous thing to a case from ten years earlier do when he you''knew'' that re married to a man cop but she was guilty, but didn't take any action until the manhopeful. They's wife and three children had d been murdered married for six months and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are life was good with their sons Kieron and Josh. It's a happy combination in that decent apartment by the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences sea in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsNewport, Long Island. The boys are seven-year-old and they play knock on the swings in the park door was insistent and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodwhen it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Josh was the Danny took one doing look, turned, walked to the hiding - but he returned tearfully open window and jumped to his death from the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he canfourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband't find Kierons murder.

|isbn=15294022711788549759|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Distant Dead|author=Helen CoxLesley Thomson|rating=34.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran It was December 1940 and Kitt Hartleytwenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 's relationship is developing nicely: theywith her friend Ida're even into a spot of bandage nowleaving her three-year-old son, William, although the details are (mercifully) scantat home with her parents. After a night The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of the morning. Thereputting her life (and William's been ) on a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agobetter footing. There are sufficient details of the current murder She was going to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife meet her well- and others to- is in some way involveddo fiancé, despite being in prisonhoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrLater, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken her.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0008404925|title=BetrayalThe Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=35

|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party Difficult clients were nothing new to cover the post for barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a yearsurprise. You might get to meet After all, it was her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant cross-examination of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministryvictim's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping which saved him from a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilelengthy prison sentence. YouHe'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image d been accused of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the devil posing beside herother way around. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula then she came to accept. But see him as for a threat and was forced to remember that the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding police officer at his trial had told her daughterthat this was the best chance they's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, d had to put Webster away for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403a long time: he was a very dangerous man.

|isbn=1409187438walker14|title=The First LieColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=A J ParkMartin Walker|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the second idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of October 37detectives Jalipeau, known as J-year-old barristerJ, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in darkness the woods but he was never identified and the front door openhis killer never brought to justice. His wife was in What if an artist could recreate the face from the bedroom in a state of shock skull and in the bathroom there was a dead resulting publicity be used to identify the young man who had been stabbed repeatedly in ? J-J calls the neck with Paulskull 'Oscar's paper-knife. In that moment Paul takes and has a decision that will be irrevocablepicture on his door: he decides that sees it every time he leaves his office: he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. Theydoesn're going t want to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing forget Oscar until his killer has happenedbeen brought to justice.

|isbn=15294018011471181405|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)Nighthawking|author=William ShawRuss Thomas

|summary=Gram Hickman, who worked for an estate agent, took his girlfriend, Angela BoothSheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to a house which his firm was marketing. Guildeford Hall was visit) are an old Kentish oast house and was on the market for millions oasis of pounds. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed and hecalm in what'd brought a bottle s otherwise thought of prosecco along. It as an industrial city but this was disrupted when searching for somewhere to chill the bottle that he found the body of a man young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the freezer beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the garageearth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Alexandra Cupidi Adam Tyler and DC Jill Ferriter are on the caseMina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.