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|isbnauthor=1838773169Will Carver|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's early 2016 Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Courtalso, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She's having is also a dine self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and sleep at critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the request groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of Prince Charles, whopeople's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians misery, and targets for one of his pet projectsher violent behaviour. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour Yet she also seems to the evening be searching for others who think as she does, and one of the performers brought in when she's unable to play the piano has been found dead find like-minded people in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one any of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out groups she decides to set up her racing managerown, an ex-ambassador hoping to Moscowencounter others who share similar obsessions, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1784165263|title=The Coral BrideInvite 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 deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it would take 's someone with whom she has a person long professional history - and who has been stabbed used to bleed outbe her husband. Details He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of where a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and how are exchanged a few death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and Joyce confirms that calculations than it would have taken about fortyis other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-five minutes and member, that the victim could have been saved if shethey'd received prompt medical helpprefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherdThis is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's pie radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (which tells us or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it was runs at a Monday) steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubloans have been made out and the amount vanished. They meet each Thursday Fortunately (as you might have guessedor otherwise) in some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageactivities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=1509889515B0925KS87N|title=The Darkest Evening Dead Man's Grave (D I Vera StanhopeDS Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took the wrong turning as she drove home some finding, in the blizzardan overgrown old cemetery. If she hadnIt was a strange thing for Scotland't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened s premier criminal to the toddler strapped into the car seatdo, particularly as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy but Tam was getting old and drove there were things he wanted to the nearest habitationdo. She Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'thoughtd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn' it would t be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the village police but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her they weren't certain where their father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. 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 circumstanceswere worried.

|isbnauthor=1506909442Doug Johnstone|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-Mystery|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonGreat Silence

|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'The greatest hatredll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, like it is merely the greatest virtue surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the worst dogsmatriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is silentabout to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.''|isbn=1913193837}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008269041The |title =Risk of this enjoyable crime procedural, Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from German romantic writer Jean Paulthe Met. But who are She might have been reinstated but the worst dogs whole episode left a nasty taste in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel and her mouth. She was now working for whom is Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the hatred? This mystery will last all the way to the very last man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and carefully plotted pages her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way throughto make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. It sounds uncomfortable - He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but it isnhe't: s still got it's honestin for Robin.

|isbn=15420174321846975719|title=The Nidderdale MurdersFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=J R EllisDenzil Meyrick|rating=3.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near NiddersgillWe learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. The shooters But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his friends) was colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the owner airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the moor and a retired judgeplane were dead before take off. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. How could that be? The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: hesort of tech which would make that possible isn'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow t available to paythe paying public. Other people had reason to comment And why have the man no identification on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work for.them - or even labels in their clothes?

|isbn=00083147211409181669|title=Truth Be ToldThe Maidens|author=Kia AbdullahAlex Michaelides

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyMariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent She needed to thank think carefully about what she knew and this prompts a phone call in returndecide how she should proceed. There are two sons Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old AdamParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. Their motherShe'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, SofiaZoe, regrets that had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she didnwas struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than entirely'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries happy about that sort of thing. Both boys having to go to the prestigious Hampton schoolCambridge, where they board, despite but she caught the school being less than ten miles first fast train from their Belsize Park homeKing's Cross. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedmore so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0241400120|title=The Seven DoorsGirl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any kind until weexplanation and since then she're d given up her medical studies and retrained as a full fifth of the way throughteacher. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over She was thirty yearsold and money was tight. The building he's inheritedHer friend, meanwhileSara, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take showed her an advert for a hike, I'm moving job in and you're moving out'Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us There were only ten people in the 1980s, village but noa teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. We avoid genre completelyUna was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyhopefully, in case that has any bearing 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 – until save some money over the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedwinter which her contract covered.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731529407249|title=House of CorrectionThe Perfect Lie|author=Nicci FrenchJo Spain|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remandIt was July 2019 and Erin was happy. Sheand Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's sharing always a cell with Michaela, whodangerous thing to do when you's more caring than re married to a cop but she first appearswas hopeful. She delivers tough love They'd been married for six months and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have life was good with a showerdecent apartment by the sea in Newport, unpleasant as the whole processes might beLong Island. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, The knock on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees door was insistent and when it was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kaneopened, Danny's partner, who Ben Mitchell was helping there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the renovations open window and jumped to Tabitha's househis death from the fourth floor. So far as the police are concernedEighteen months later, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at Erin would be on trial for her house she was covered in his bloodhusband's murder.

|isbn=14087124151788549759|title=Cry BabyThe Distant Dead|author=Mark BillinghamLesley Thomson

|summary=It's June 1996 was December 1940 and footballtwenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 's European Championships are about to start in London. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and itwith her friend Ida's one he has regularlyleaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' The boy thought that a man Maple was his sister - it was guiltybetter for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but didn't take any action until the man's wife and three children Maple had been murdered high hopes of putting her life (and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. ItWilliam's ) on a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsbetter footing. The boys are sevenShe was going to meet her well-yearto-old do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and they play on meet her family the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Woodfollowing week. Josh was Later, her body would be found in the one doing the hiding bombed- but out home where he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronhad taken her.

|isbn=15294022710008404925|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Killing Kind|author=Helen CoxJane Casey|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt Hartley's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a spot of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scantsurprise. After a night all, it was her cross-examination of passion Halloran is called away in the early hours of the morning'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. ThereHe's d been a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years ago. There are sufficient details accused of stalking the current murder woman but it didn't take long to make Halloran suspect establish that the man who murdered his wife - and others if anything - is in some it was the other way involved, despite being in prisonaround. The DI heads off Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to speak remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to Jeremy Kerrput Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.

|authorisbn=walker14|title=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates The Coldest Case (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=BetrayalMartin Walker|rating=34

|summary=Meet UrsulaIt 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, the standchief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-in ministerJ, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post solve a case which had haunted him for a yearthirty years. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant The body of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs a young male was found in the foreign aid charity sectorwoods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into What if an artist could recreate the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving face from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard skull and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula resulting publicity be used to accept. identify the young man? But as for J-J calls the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterskull 'Oscar's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulahas a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn's meeting with the woman have t want to forget Oscar until his killer has been wiped…|isbn=1913193403brought to justice.

|isbn=14091874381471181405|title=The First LieNighthawking|author=A J ParkRuss Thomas|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=On the second of October 37-year-old barristerSheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm if you'd like to find his house visit) are an oasis of calm in darkness and what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the front door openbody of a young woman was discovered. His wife was in the bedroom It had obviously been buried in a state one of shock and in the bathroom there was a dead man beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paperearth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed her -knifeand who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and Alice her foot soldiers are not going to ring the police DS Adam Tyler and tell the truthDC Mina Rabbani. They're going to bury the body in woodland and go on joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as though nothing has happenedever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.