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|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQWill Carver|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was Maeve is a furious storm going on high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a big vehicleself-acknowledged psychopath. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops Whilst analysing and Stephanie critiquing the AA steps she is bundled into mainly using the car and driven offgroups to find targets... There has been no sign targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her - or her body - in the two years sinceviolent behaviour. Georgia is back is FerngateYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, determined to find out what happened and when she's not going unable to be stoppedfind 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

|authorisbn=David C Mason1784165263|title=Pandora's GardenerInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=34.5

|summary= John Cranston is 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 gardenerwheelchair, although what he did before but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he became once told Eliza ''you're good at being a gardenerdisappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, he claimsunannounced, is classified. That is at the flat just as well because he is Eliza was about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotleave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, where only 42 Linden Road and he can save the daywas 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 worldmarried to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the coast of Quebecfamily, Detective Morales is called in and Gemma to come married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and head Laura hope that married life will provide the investigationsupport she needs. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister Flood's business is going on, well and finds himself frustrated at every that was why he felt able to turn by hidden agendasdown the case of Lisa Black.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529379385|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, fishing histories we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and secret family feudsthe Auberge. At the same time as trying They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to run his investigation, he also stay. A young Sudanese woman who has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that he is unable not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to talk to his father aboutbe around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesknown in the village as the Asshole Saint.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 183885410X|title= The Last Resort Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on Bobby Carter was 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 lawyer and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems consigliere to have an area one of expertise that makes their attendance necessarythe major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. All except Amelia whose presence DC Jack Laidlaw is a mystery. We follow on the group as they explore CID team charged with the island, and each otherinvestigation. I say ''s histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As on the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a gilded cagepart of it. In a race against time He does his own thing, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance goes his own way and protect ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the rest truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themGlasgow's seedier pubs. |isbn=1542020018}}  

|isbn=05713626721942410255|title=SnowTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=John BanvilleMichael Pronko|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''WellZangyo: overtime work, at least you're a Wexford man.often unpaid''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced It'Sinjuns the culture, isn') Strafford to Ballyglass House t it? The hours for which you're paid are really just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master a statement of the Keelmore Hounds minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and had done something memorable with to the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirksatisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. The niceties had to be established even when When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was a Catholic priest dead on nothing in the library floor with some precious bits way of regret or grief, even from his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisfamily, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out there was a mild curiosity as of Osborneto whether he's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless d jumped from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the habit of spending time fact that he left the roof at Ballyglass Housethe exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. His horse was stabled thereShe'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|isbn=17874776300241425425|title=The Postscript MurdersMan Who Died Twice|author=Elly GriffithsRichard Osman|rating=4.5

|summary=When Elizabeth Best was a 90-year-old-woman with little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldn't be suspicious man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and that was who had never existed but then this is the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke sort of conundrum which retired spies have to Peggy Smith's carerdeal with on a regular basis. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more to PeggyWhen she visits the sender of the letter (he's death than met moved into the eye - particularly Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried surprise that it's someone with whom she was being followedhas a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. Then there was He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the fact that Peggy was range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. He'murder consultant' who helped authors s now in hiding with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly a young woman should need to knowcalled Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|isbnauthor=1472127013Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Meet Henri. With a bit of work mind so much more focused on hand. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his managing directorjob in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, Harold Cheesemanthat they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it thereholistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This was unusualis when he finds his brother has died, as having a heart attack while busy changing his wife had died before Cheeseman went to AustraliaVolvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced Unfortunately (or otherwise) that his wife'everything' is just an adventure park, Sheraton, was seeing another manand nothing else. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to instal listening devices occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff canteen: he wanted to know what ideas, but loans have been made out and the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Genevaamount vanished. ApparentlyFortunately (or otherwise) 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 staff called her The Swiss Rollactivities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan.. Then there was the murder.|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=1408712288B0925KS87N|title=Still Life Dead Man's Grave (DCI Karen PirieDS Max Craigie)|author=Val McDermidNeil Lancaster

|summary=It was Tam Hardie had been determined to find the middle of February grave - and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potit took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. It fell was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to DCI Charlie Todd do, but Tam was getting old and DS Daisy Mortimer there were things he wanted to investigate and it do. Only, his family didn't take too long to establish hear from him again after he'd said that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was d found the prime suspect in grave - the disappearance one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldthree sons began to worry. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes UnitTam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been the last person to review the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stagethey were worried.

|author=Michael J MaloneDoug Johnstone|title=A Song of IsolationThe Great Silence|rating=34

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a career that is only beginning to hit good job of bringing the heights to retire backstory in 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 highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant surname of a family of all thingsundertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, though she married a scot and ended up helping to his credit he would rather be working run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in forestrythe family for generations. They have found Recently widowed and now involved with a hideaway on a small black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish estatepolice. Daughter Jenny, 46, but things are starting is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to feel wrong between themgraduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term. |isbn=19131933651913193837

|isbn=02414254410008269041|title=The Thursday Murder ClubRisk of Harm|author=Richard OsmanLucie Whitehouse

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter DCI Robin Lyons is Joyce Meadowcroftback in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She used to be might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nurse and is thus nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person man who has been stabbed to bleed outhad broken her heart nearly twenty years before. Details of where She and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about fortyher fifteen-year-five minutes and that the victim could old daughter have been saved if moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she'd received prompt medical helpwas a young child. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherdHe's pie (which tells us that it was married to Natalie, now and has a Monday) young child but he's still got it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagefor Robin.

|isbn=15098895151846975719|title=The Darkest Evening For Any Other Truth (D I Vera StanhopeDCI Jim Daley)|author=Ann CleevesDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=It was a mercy We learn that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardMI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. If she hadnBut that's London, isn't the car might not have been found until the morning it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seathis colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, particularly as head off for the car door had been left openairport straight away. Vera took It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the boy and drove to the nearest habitationplane were dead before take off. She ''thought'' it would How could that be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home ? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of paying public. And why have the man who inherited no identification on them - 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 or even labels in the circumstances.their clothes?

|isbn=15069094421409181669|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryMaidens|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonAlex Michaelides|rating=45

|summary=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 thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana'The greatest hatreds niece, Zoe, like the greatest virtue had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and the worst dogs, is silentshe was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralhappy about having to go to Cambridge, is but she caught the first fast train from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey DavidsonKing's latest novel Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last had been made all the way to more so by the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isndeath of Zoe't: its mother and Mariana's honestsister, Eliza.

|isbn=15420174320241400120|title=The Nidderdale MurdersGirl Who Died|author=J R EllisRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=34

|summary=It Una was a Friday not thriving in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixtureReykjavik: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) it was the owner of the moor some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a retired judgeteacher. James Symonds She was a local landowner thirty years old and Henry Saunders money was a bankertight. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyHer friend, Sara, who dealt showed her an advert for a job in exclusive cars in nearby RiponSkalar on the Langanes Peninsula. Rawnsley had There were only ten people in the village but a gripe with Fraserteacher was required for two children: he'd sold him an expensive car a salary would be paid and Fraser was being slow to payaccommodation provided. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he Una was stingy the only applicant and very difficult to work forthe job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.

|isbn=00083147211529407249|title=Truth Be ToldThe Perfect Lie|author=Kia AbdullahJo Spain|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you'effortful're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They' family. Flowers are sent d been married for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank six months and this prompts life was good with a phone call decent apartment by the sea in returnNewport, Long Island. There are two sons of The knock on the familydoor was insistent and when it was opened, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old AdamDanny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Their mother Danny took one look, Sofiaturned, regrets that she didn't name them walked to the other way round: 'Adam open window and Kamran' trips off jumped to his death from the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thingfourth floor. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolEighteen months later, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to Erin would be going well until the night when he was rapedon trial for her husband's murder.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1788549759|title=The Seven DoorsDistant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=Come here It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for a thriller that interestingly doesnthe evening 't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until wewith her friend Ida're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleleaving her three-year-old son, she a literature lecturerWilliam, he big in medical provision and decisions at home with her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the council, being forced to move out family than the shame of their homeillegitimacy, a building that but Maple had existed throughout high hopes of putting her life since childhood (and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building heWilliam's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to ) on a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'better footing. Now, at this stage you may She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going hoping to be a throwback persuade him to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in come and meet her family the 1980s, but nofollowing week. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyLater, her body would be found in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an olderthe bombed-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 the point out home where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedhe had taken her.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792730008404925|title=House of CorrectionThe Killing Kind|author=Nicci FrenchJane Casey

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyDifficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, sheit was her cross-examination of the 'victim's in which saved him from a lengthy prison, on remandsentence. SheHe's sharing a cell with Michaela, whod been accused of stalking the woman but it didn's more caring than she first appearst take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. She delivers tough love Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her then she came to have see him as a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who threat and was helping with the renovations forced to Tabitha's house. So far as remember that the police are concerned, Tabitha is officer at his trial had told her that this was the only person who could have killed Rees - and when best chance they arrived at her house she 'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was covered in his blooda very dangerous man.

|isbn=1408712415walker14|title=Cry BabyThe Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Mark BillinghamMartin Walker|rating=4.5

|summary=Itwas when he saw Elisabeth Daynes's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about to start work in London. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and it's one the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he has regularly. It relates thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case from ten which had haunted him for thirty years earlier when he ''knew'' that . The body of a man young male was guilty, found in the woods but didn't take any action until the man's wife he was never identified and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Joshhis killer never brought to justice. It's a happy combination in that What if an artist could recreate the face from the boys are devoted to each other skull and - despite differences in the where and how they live - resulting publicity be used to identify the women are best friends. young man? The boys are sevenJ-year-old J calls the skull 'Oscar' and they play has a picture on the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing the hiding - but his door: he sees it every time he returned tearfully to the womenleaves his office: Kieron never came to find him and now he candoesn't find Kieronwant to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.

|isbn=15294022711471181405|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Nighthawking|author=Helen CoxRuss Thomas|rating=34.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran and Kitt HartleySheffield's relationship is developing nicely[http: they//www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what're even into a spot s otherwise thought of bandage now, although as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the details are (mercifully) scantbody of a young woman was discovered. After a night of passion Halloran is called away It had obviously been buried in the early hours one of the morning. beds but who would have started to dig her up? There's It had been a murder in Irendale, where Halloran used to live the earth for months and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five could have been undiscovered for years ago. There are sufficient details of the current murder The police need to make Halloran suspect that the man establish who murdered his wife stabbed her - and others - who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is in some way involved, despite being in prisonthe Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrMina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.