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|author=David C MasonWill Carver|title=Pandora's GardenerPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Crime, HumourThrillers|summary= John Cranston Maeve is a gardenerhigh functioning alcoholic, although what he did before he became a gardenerdrinking continuously and also, he claimscuriously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is classifiedalso a self-acknowledged psychopath. That Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is just 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 well because he 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 about born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the 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 caught up understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotEliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, where only at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he can save wanted the daylease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=18387731691784742775|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=S J BennettSusan Hill

|summary=ItDrugs hadn's early 2016 t really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter CourtDetective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. She's having They still were, to a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charlesgreat extent, who's attempting but Serrailler knew that something had to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsbe done. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the evening drugs and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one ) of the performers brought person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesorganisation. The immediate reaction is that one police might catch a few of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of 'runners but they'd never get anywhere near those'' roadshigher up.

|authorisbn=Roxanne BouchardB09HTWX47X|title=The Coral BrideEndless Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a female fisherwoman, making her living DCI in the Met but now a manwell-respected private investigator. He's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebecmarried to Laura, Detective Morales is called formerly his DS in to come and head the investigationMurder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onFlood's daughters, Gemma and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasPippa, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At have flown the same time as trying nest, Pippa to run his investigationAustralia, he also from where she has his grown up sonvery little contact with the family, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal and Gemma to married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well and that was why he is unable felt able to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesturn down the case of Lisa Black.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1529379385|title= The Last Resort Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from In 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 Canadian village of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandThree Pines, and each otherwe's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As re post-pandemic: the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets scars are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat still there but life is really a gilded cagestarting to get back to normal. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle The villagers are beginning to return to uncover the reason for her attendance Bistro and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themAuberge. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least you They're a Wexford man.visiting each other'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford s homes and having friends and relatives to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957stay. Osborne was master of A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Keelmore Hounds Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be established even when there was around - a Catholic priest dead on bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out village as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereAsshole Saint.

|isbn=1787477630183885410X|title=The Postscript MurdersDark Remains|author=Elly GriffithsWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=When Bobby Carter was a 90-year-old-woman lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldn't be suspicious and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smith's carerinvestigation. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more to PeggyI say ''s death than met on the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedteam'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. Then there was He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the fact that Peggy truth of why Bobby Carter's body was a found behind one of Glasgow'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knows seedier pubs.

|isbn=14721270131942410255|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenMichael Pronko

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of ''Zangyo: overtime work on hand. 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 there. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices 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 the murder.often unpaid''

|isbn=14087122880241425425|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Man Who Died Twice|author=Val McDermidRichard Osman|rating=4.5

|summary=It Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled letter. It came from a man whose body out she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the Firth of Forth instead sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a lobster potregular basis. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd 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's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and DS Daisy Mortimer who used to investigate and it didnbe her husband. He't take too long s made a bad mistake - something to establish that do with a mask being removed within the man was Paul Allardrange of a CCTV camera on a raid, ostensibly a Frenchman, but missing twenty-million pounds in reality James Auld of Edinburghdiamonds and a few death threats. A decade earlier heHe's gone missing when he was the prime suspect now in the disappearance and possible murder of hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auld. DCI Karen Pirie, MI5 handler as well 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 being an early stageincompetent waitress.

|author=Michael J MaloneAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=A Song of IsolationThe Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Meet Henri. With a career that mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is only beginning to hit other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the heights insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to retire to the highlands with be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as 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 Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an ordinary guy…an accountant of all thingsadventure park, though and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his credit mind, but he would rather be working perks up a little when he sees huge holes in forestrythe finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. They have found a hideaway Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a small Scottish estategambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, but things and the activities of these guys are starting not conducive to feel wrong between themgetting a cheap life insurance plan... |isbn=1913193365191319387X

|isbn=0241425441B0925KS87N|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Richard OsmanNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftTam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. She used to be It was a nurse and is thus the perfect person strange thing for Elizabeth Scotland's premier criminal to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to bleed out. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpdo. It Only, his family didn't put Joyce off her shepherdhear from him again after he's pie (d said that he'd found the grave - the one which tells us said that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubshouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagepolice but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1509889515Doug Johnstone|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesGreat Silence|rating=4.5

|summary=It was For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the wrong turning as she drove home backstory in the blizzardwithout being heavy handed about it. If she hadnSkelf isn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to the toddler strapped into the car seatbe, particularly as it is merely the car door had been left opensurname of a family of undertakers. Vera took the boy Undertakers and drove to the nearest habitationprivate investigators. She ''thought'' it would be Dorothy is the village but it was Brockburnmatriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the younger brother of the man who inherited - family for generations. Recently widowed and Hector was the now involved with a black sheep of the familySwedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Calling there unannouncedDaughter Jenny, particularly as they seemed 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the circumstancesacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=15069094420008269041|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryRisk of Harm|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonLucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=''The greatest hatred, like 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 greatest virtue and whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the worst dogs, is silentman who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there' The title s still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of this enjoyable crime procedural, is from German romantic writer Jean Paulhis way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson He's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way married to the very last Natalie, now and carefully plotted pages has a young child but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - 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=Itwas December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 's June 1996 and footballwith her friend Ida's European Championships are about to start in Londonleaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and itWilliam's one he has regularly) on a better footing. It relates She was going to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a man was guiltymeet her well-to-do fiancé, but didn't take any action until hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the man's wife and three children had been murdered and following week. Later, her body would be found in the man bombed-out home where he had killed himselftaken her.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. ItAfter all, it was her cross-examination of the 's victim' which saved him from a happy combination in that lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the boys are devoted woman but it didn't take long to each other and establish that - despite differences in the where and how they live if anything - it was the women are best friendsother way around. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings in the park Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then dash off she came to play hide see him as a threat and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was forced to remember that the one doing police officer at his trial had told her that this was the hiding - but he returned tearfully best chance they'd had to the womenput Webster away for a long time: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronwas a very dangerous man.

|isbn=1529402271walker14|title=Murder on the Moorland The Coldest Case (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Helen CoxMartin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleyIt was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes's relationship is developing nicely: they're even into a spot of bandage now, although work in the details are (mercifully) scant. After a night prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of passion Halloran is called away in police Bruno Courreges had the early hours idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of the morningdetectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. There's been The body of a murder young male was found in Irendale, where Halloran used to live the woods but he was never identified and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agokiller never brought to justice. There are sufficient details of What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the current murder resulting publicity be used to make Halloran suspect that identify the young man who murdered his wife ? J- J calls the skull 'Oscar' and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prison. The DI heads off has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to speak forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to Jeremy Kerrjustice.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1471181405|title=BetrayalNighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet UrsulaSheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, the stand-if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in minister, drafted in from outside what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the leading party to cover the post for body of a yearyoung woman was discovered. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and It had obviously been buried in one of the children beds but who are ignorant of just how she spent all would have started to dig her empathy for them on previous jobs up? It had been in the foreign aid charity sectorearth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. You'll meet The police need to establish who stabbed her ministry's cleaner, - and who bizarrely has fallen into left the task of helping a famous newsreader with two, very rare, gold aurei on her Tinder profileeyes. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herfoot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. YouThey're joined by DS Guy Daley who'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accepts just returned from extended sick leave. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterMina thinks he's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulaas obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403not fully recovered from his injuries.