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|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths 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=18003211041913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=The Body on the IslandInvite Me In|author=Nick LouthEmma Curtis

|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldMartin Curran's wife, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and Eliza knew that she had served six years to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the manslaughter fact that she was actually painting one of his wifetheir properties prior to it being let. Only that wasnIf she didn't who he wasget home, there would be trouble. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and seventeenconfined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up disappointment''. All this was in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman flat just as Eliza was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared about to be a reformed character but leave: he had a list wanted the lease of people upon whom flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he wished was desperate to exact revengeget in before it was advertised as being available.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1784742775|title=The Long Dark RoadA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=P R BlackSusan Hill|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaDrugs hadn's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing t really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer bit of help from one man in a big vehiclewaste of time. We'll see - They still were, to a great extent, but no one else will know - Serrailler knew that another car stops something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offoperation running the county lines was tight. There has been no sign A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of her - or her body - the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the two years sinceorganisation. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and sheThe police might catch a few of the runners but they's not going to be stoppedd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|authorisbn=David C MasonB09HTWX47X|title=Pandora's GardenerEndless Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston is It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a gardenerwell-respected private investigator. He's married to Laura, although what he did before he became formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a gardenerforensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, he claimsGemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, is classifiedand 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. That Flood's business is just as going well because and that was why he is about felt able to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save turn down the daycase of Lisa Black. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=18387731691529379385|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotMadness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=S J BennettLouise Penny|rating=4.5

|summary=ItIn the Canadian village of Three Pines, we's early 2016 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 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter CourtAuberge. SheThey're visiting each other's homes and having a dine friends and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting relatives to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsstay. There'd A young Sudanese woman who has been a distinctly Russian flavour to nominated for the evening Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and one of the performers brought in she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an exaround -ambassador to Moscowa bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsAsshole Saint.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard183885410X|title=The Coral BrideDark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - Bobby Carter was a female fisherwoman, making her living lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in a man's worldnineteen seventies Glasgow. When her lobster trawler DC Jack Laidlaw is found drifting off on the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head CID team charged with the investigation. Although I say ''on the signs seem team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsbe a part of it. At the same time as trying to run He does his investigationown thing, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to goes his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesway and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1942410255|title= The Last Resort Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|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 the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer''Zangyo: overtime work, 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 otheroften unpaid''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}}

|isbn=05713626720241425425|title=SnowThe Man Who Died Twice|author=John BanvilleRichard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least you're Elizabeth Best was a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne little surprised when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957she received the letter. Osborne was master of It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Keelmore Hounds Thames and who had done something memorable never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkon a regular basis. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on When she visits the library floor with some precious bits sender of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as of Osborneno surprise that it's class someone with whom she has a long professional history - and obviously Protestantwho used to be her husband. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who He's made a bad mistake - despite something to do with a mask being removed within the different religions range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty- was million pounds in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass Housediamonds and a few death threats. His horse was stabled thereHe's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|isbnauthor=1787477630Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Postscript Murders|author=Elly GriffithsRabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=When Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a 90team-yearmember, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-oldplan, holistic and keen on stupid-woman with as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairattack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, it really shouldn't be suspicious and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smith's carereverything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to Peggy's death than met occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the eye finances – it runs at a steady money- particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedthe amount vanished. Then there was Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the fact scene to explain that Peggy was missing money – it's been turned into a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to knowgetting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=1472127013B0925KS87N|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Raisin Investigations Tam Hardie had quite a bit of work on handbeen determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. The chairman of Philpott Electronics It was concerned about his managing directora strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it but Tam was getting old and therewere things he wanted to do. This was unusualOnly, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in he'd found the staff canteen: he wanted to know what grave - the staff were saying about him one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his secretary, who was from Genevathree sons began to worry. ApparentlyTam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murderpolice but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried. 

|isbnauthor=1408712288Doug Johnstone|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)|author=Val McDermidThe Great Silence

|summary=It was For those who, like me, haven't come across the middle Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of February and bitterly cold when who's who – although Johnstone does a fishing boat out good job of St Monans pulled a body out bringing the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potbackstory in without being heavy handed about it. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnSkelf isn't take too long some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to establish that be, it is merely the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly surname of a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld family of Edinburghundertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the prime suspect Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the disappearance family for generations. Recently widowed and possible murder of his brothernow involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, prominent civil servant46, Iain Auldis haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person And grand-daughter is about to review the case, graduate with a couple of years earlier first-class physics degree and it seemed sensible to bring her into join the case at an early stageacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0008269041|title=A Song Risk of IsolationHarm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that DCI Robin Lyons is only beginning to hit back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the heights to retire to Met. She might have been reinstated but the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he would rather be whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working in forestryfor Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. They She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have found moved out of her parent's home into a hideaway on rented house but there's still a small Scottish estatedifficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but things are starting to feel wrong between themhe's still got it in for Robin. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254411846975719|title=The Thursday Murder ClubFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Richard OsmanDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter We learn that MI5 is Joyce Meadowcrofthaving its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. She used to be But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a nurse light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and is thus his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would plane were dead before take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outoff. Details How could that be? The sort of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it tech which would have taken about forty-five minutes and make that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical help. It didnpossible isn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubavailable to the paying public. They meet each Thursday (as you might And why have guessed) the man no identification on them - or even labels in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.their clothes?

|isbn=15098895151409181669|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Maidens|author=Ann CleevesAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5

|summary=It Mariana was a mercy convinced that DI Vera Stanhope took 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 wrong turning as she drove home death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in the blizzardCambridge. If she hadnShe't the car might not have d been found until the morning brutally stabbed and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seatMariana's niece, Zoe, particularly as the car door had been left opentelephoned her in distress. Vera took the boy Tara had been her best friend and drove she was struggling to the nearest habitationcope. She Mariana wasn't ''thoughtentirely'' it would be the village happy about having to go to Cambridge, but it was Brockburn, she caught the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the younger brother of more so by the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep death of the family. Calling there unannouncedMariana's husband, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassingSebastian, but there was little else that she could do in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the circumstancesdeath of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|isbn=15069094420241400120|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryGirl Who Died|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she''The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue d given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and the worst dogsmoney was tight. Her friend, is silent.'' The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralSara, is from German romantic writer Jean Paulshowed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. But who are There were only ten people in the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and for whom is accommodation provided. Una was the hatred? This mystery will last all only applicant and the way to the very last job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all , hopefully, save some money over the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honestwinter which her contract covered.

|isbn=15420174321529407249|title=The Nidderdale MurdersPerfect Lie|author=J R EllisJo Spain|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot July 2019 and Erin was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillhappy. The shooters at the butts She and Danny Ryan were planning a strange mixturefew days away: Alexander Fraser (Sandy that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to his friends) a cop but she was the owner of the moor hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a retired judgedecent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. James Symonds The knock on the door was a local landowner insistent and Henry Saunders when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a banker. He and Fraser had known each couple of other since their school daysofficers. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley Danny took one look, turned, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car walked to the open window and Fraser was being slow jumped to payhis death from the fourth floor. Other people had reason to comment Eighteen months later, Erin would be on Frasertrial for her husband's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work formurder.

|isbn=00083147211788549759|title=Truth Be ToldThe Distant Dead|author=Kia AbdullahLesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank It was December 1940 and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeentwenty-four-year-old Kamran and sixteenMaple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old Adamson, William, at home with her parents. Their mother, Sofia, regrets The boy thought that she didn't name them Maple was his sister - it was better for the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off family than the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and AdamWilliam's) on a better footing. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go She was going to meet her well-to the prestigious Hampton school-do fiancé, where they board, despite hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homefollowing week. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to Later, her body would be going well until found in the night when bombed-out home where he was rapedhad taken her.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0008404925|title=The Seven DoorsKilling Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try Difficult clients were nothing new to suggest a genre barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughsurprise. We start with our coupleAfter all, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at it was her cross-examination of 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 thirty years. The building hevictim's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to saved him from 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'lengthy prison sentence. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think He'd been accused of stalking the woman but itdidn's going t take long to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in establish that - if anything - it was the 1980s, but noother way around. We avoid genre completely, Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case a threat and was forced to remember that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until the police officer at his trial had told her that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until this was the point where the evicted tenant is found best chance they'd had to have completely vanishedput Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=1471179273walker14|title=House The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of CorrectionPolice Novel)|author=Nicci FrenchMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheIt was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes's work in prisonthe prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaelachief of detectives Jalipeau, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking known as J- and encourages her J, to have solve a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might becase which had haunted him for thirty years. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the The body of Stuart Robert Rees a young male was discovered found in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who the woods but he was helping with the renovations never identified and his killer never brought to Tabitha's housejustice. So far as What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the police are concerned, Tabitha is resulting publicity be used to identify the only person who could have killed Rees young man? J- J calls the skull 'Oscar' and when they arrived at her house she was covered in has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his bloodkiller has been brought to justice.

|isbn=14087124151471181405|title=Cry BabyNighthawking|author=Mark BillinghamRuss Thomas

|summary=ItSheffield's June 1996 and football[http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you's European Championships d like to visit) are about to start an oasis of calm in London. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and itwhat's one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when he ''knew'' that the body of a man young woman was guilty, but didn't take any action until the man's wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Joshdiscovered. It's a happy combination had obviously been buried in that one of the boys are devoted beds but who would have started to each other and - despite differences dig her up? It had been in the where earth for months and how they live - the women are best friendscould have been undiscovered for years. The boys are sevenpolice need to establish who stabbed her -year-old and they play who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the swings in the park Investigating Officer and then dash off to play hide her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and seek in Highgate WoodDC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Josh was the one doing the hiding - Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kierons not fully recovered from his injuries.