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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=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18387700461784165263|title=Body LanguageInvite Me In|author=A K TurnerEmma Curtis

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she talk had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the deaddot, despite the fact that she also hears what they have was actually painting one of their properties prior to say to herit being let. It's not something If shedidn's inclined t get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to share with people as shea wheelchair, but don's pretty certain about what their reaction will t be too quick to beunderstanding. SheHe was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's certainly not going mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to share it with leave: he wanted the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chufflease of flat 2, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket 42 Linden Road and old Harrovianhe was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available. He's very conscious }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784742775|title=A Change of his position and isnCircumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Drugs hadn't even inclined to ask for the view really been that much of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him problem in Lafferton and he has only Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a limited amount waste of time . They still were, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to spend on each bodybe done. That will prove Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the 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 person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a mistakefew of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=1472255917B09HTWX47X|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Endless Obsession|author=Quintin JardineDai Henley|rating=4.5

|summary=On New YearIt's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club some years since we last caught up with his wifeAndy Flood, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and formerly a DCI in the man with whom she shares Met but now a house, Dominic Jacksonwell-respected private investigator. Jackson would be better-known He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith Murder Squad but henow working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's reformed daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the clubhouse family, and are dropped home not long into the new yearGemma to married life. SkinnerShe's tempted to let the phone ring had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but knows Andy and Laura hope that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in married life will provide the centre of Edinburghsupport she needs. SkinnerFlood's not technically with business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the police now - he's chairman case of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experienceLisa Black.

|isbn=18003211041529379385|title=The Body on the IslandMadness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Nick LouthLouise Penny

|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldIn the Canadian village of Three Pines, heading for HMP Spring Hillwe're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wifeAuberge. Only that wasnThey're visiting each other't who he wass homes and having friends and relatives to stay. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and seventeen. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a new identity set up bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of village as the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeAsshole Saint.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ183885410X|title=The Long Dark RoadRemains|author=P R BlackWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|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 Bobby Carter was a furious storm going on lawyer and she'd already refused consigliere to one of the offer of help from one man major crime families in a big vehiclenineteen seventies Glasgow. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie DC Jack Laidlaw is bundled into on the CID team charged with the car and driven offinvestigation. There has been no sign I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of her - or her body - in the two years sinceit. Georgia is back is FerngateHe does his own thing, determined to find out what happened goes his own way and she''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's not going to be stoppedseedier pubs.

|authorisbn=David C Mason1942410255|title=Pandora's GardenerTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=34.5

|summary= John Cranston is ''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a gardenerstatement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the 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 regret or grief, although what even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he did before 'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he became a gardenerleft the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, he claimsMayu Yamase, is classifiedhad committed suicide some three years earlier. That is just as well because he is about She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the daywork an unreasonable amount of overtime. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=18387731690241425425|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotMan Who Died Twice|author=S J BennettRichard Osman|rating=4.5

|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for Best was a little surprised when she received the Easter Courtletter. She's having It came from a dine man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and sleep at who had never existed but then this is the request sort of Prince Charles, who's attempting conundrum which retired spies have to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsdeal with on a regular basis. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to When she visits the evening and one sender of the performers brought in to play letter (he's moved into the piano Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has been found dead in what can only a long professional history - and who used to be called embarrassing circumstancesher husband. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an exHe's made a bad mistake -ambassador something to Moscow, do with a mask being removed within the Archbishop range of Canterbury a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and Sir David Attenborougha few death threats. One couldnHe't bear to go down any of s now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who''those'' roadss his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|author=Roxanne BouchardAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Coral BrideRabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=Angel Roberts Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is an oddity - a female fisherwomanother human beings, making her living he's perfect for his job in a manthe insurance company – until they decide he's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebecnot a team-member, Detective Morales is called in that they'd prefer everyone to come be all open-plan, holistic and head the investigationkeen on stupid-as workshopping. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionThis is when he finds his brother has died, Morales feels something more sinister is going onhaving a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendashas left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, fishing histories and secret family feudsnothing else. At the same time as trying ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to run occupy his investigationmind, but he also has his grown perks up sona little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, Sebastien arriving at his doordespite some desultory staff ideas, weighed down with personal problems but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that he is unable missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesgetting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=1913193322191319387X

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday B0925KS87N|title= The Last Resort Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have Tam Hardie had been invited determined to an allfind the grave -expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerand it took some finding, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have in an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryovergrown old cemetery. All except Amelia whose presence is It was a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each otherstrange thing for Scotland'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 revealedpremier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle there were things he wanted to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themdo. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well Only, at least youhis family didn're a Wexford man.t hear from him again after he'' So d said Colonel Osborne when that he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjund found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn') Strafford t be opened - and his three sons began to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957worry. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds Tam Junior, Frankie and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had Dave wouldn't normally go to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-police but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornethey weren's class t certain where their father had been 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 therethey were worried.

|isbnauthor=1787477630Doug Johnstone|title=The Postscript Murders|author=Elly GriffithsGreat Silence

|summary=When For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a 90-year-old-woman with quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a heart condition dies peacefully good job of bringing the backstory in her armchair, without being heavy handed about it really shouldn. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be suspicious , it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and that was private investigators. Dorothy is the view taken matriarch – Californian by DS Harbinder Kaur until birth and instinct, she spoke married a scot and ended up helping to Peggy Smith's carer. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that there was more to Peggy's death than met had been in the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition family for generations. Recently widowed and that Peggy had worried that she was being followednow involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Then there was the fact that Peggy was Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowgraduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=14721270130008269041|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotRisk of Harm|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenLucie Whitehouse

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite 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 whole episode left a bit of work on handnasty taste in her mouth. The chairman of Philpott Electronics She was concerned about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it there. This was unusual, as his wife had died broken her heart nearly twenty years before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that 's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his wife, Sheraton, way to make life difficult for Robin since she was seeing another mana young child. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations He's married to instal listening devices Natalie, now and has a young child but he's still got it 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 murderfor Robin. 

|isbn=14087122881846975719|title=Still Life For Any Other Truth (DCI Karen PirieJim Daley)|author=Val McDermidDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=It 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 potWe learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnBut that's London, isn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. it? A decade earlier heWhat's gone missing when he was the prime suspect happening in the disappearance Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and possible murder of his brothercolleague, prominent civil servantActing DI Brian Scott, Iain Auldhead off for the airport straight away. DCI Karen Pirie, as head It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, a couple plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of years earlier and it seemed sensible tech which would make that possible isn't available to bring her into the case at an early stagepaying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1409181669|title=A Song of IsolationThe Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=35

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career Mariana was convinced that is only beginning Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to hit 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 heights Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to retire cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant more so by the death of all thingsMariana's husband, Sebastian, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestrya swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateZoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, but things are starting to feel wrong between themEliza. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254410241400120|title=The Thursday Murder ClubGirl Who Died|author=Richard OsmanRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftUna was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was 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 teacher. She used to be a nurse was thirty years old and is thus the perfect person money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outjob in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would have taken about forty-five minutes be paid and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpaccommodation provided. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us Una was the only applicant and the job meant that it was a Monday) but it does get she could let her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagewinter which her contract covered.

|isbn=15098895151529407249|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Perfect Lie|author=Ann CleevesJo Spain

|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a mercy few days away: that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as 's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she drove home in the blizzardwas hopeful. If she hadn They't the car might not have d been found until the morning married for six months and who knows what would have happened to life was good with a decent apartment by the toddler strapped into the car seatsea in Newport, particularly as the car door had been left openLong Island. Vera took The knock on the boy door was insistent and drove to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'' it would be the village but when it was Brockburnopened, the ancestral home Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - open window and Hector was jumped to his death from the black sheep of the familyfourth floor. Calling there unannouncedEighteen months later, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to Erin would be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstanceson trial for her husband's murder.

|isbn=15069094421788549759|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryDistant Dead|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonLesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida'The greatest hatredleaving her three-year-old son, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogsWilliam, is silentat home with her parents.''  The title boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of this enjoyable crime proceduralillegitimacy, is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidsonbut Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's latest novel ) on a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and for whom is meet her family the hatred? This mystery will last all the way to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will following week. Later, her body would be thinking about unwarranted hatred all found in the way through. It sounds uncomfortable bombed- but it isn't: it's honestout home where he had taken her.

|isbn=15420174320008404925|title=The Nidderdale MurdersKilling Kind|author=J R EllisJane Casey|rating=35

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts Difficult clients were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy nothing new to his friends) was the owner barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of the moor and a retired judgesurprise. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a bankerlengthy prison sentence. He and Fraser had known each 'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other since their school daysway around. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car threat and Fraser was being slow forced to pay. Other people remember that the police officer at his trial had reason to comment on Frasertold her that this was the best chance they's attitude d had to moneyput Webster away for a long time: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and a very difficult to work fordangerous man.

|isbn=0008314721walker14|title=Truth Be ToldThe Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Kia AbdullahMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=The Hadids are an It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to thank and this prompts solve a phone call in returncase which had haunted him for thirty years. There are two sons The body of a young male was found in the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran woods but he was never identified and sixteen-year-old Adamhis killer never brought to justice. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them What if an artist could recreate the face from the other way round: 'Adam skull and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go resulting publicity be used to identify the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite young man? J-J calls the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran skull 'Oscar' and has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to be going well forget Oscar until the night when he was rapedhis killer has been brought to justice.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1471181405|title=The Seven DoorsNighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnSheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you't even try d like to suggest a genre visit) are an oasis of any kind until wecalm in what're a full fifth s otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the way throughbody of a young woman was discovered. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big It had obviously been buried in medical provision and decisions at one of the council, being forced beds but who would have started to move out of their home, a building that dig her up? It had existed throughout her life since childhood been in the earth for months and which they'd occupied could have been undiscovered for over thirty years. The building he's inheritedpolice need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, meanwhilevery rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and youDC Mina Rabbani. They're moving outjoined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think itMina thinks he's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, as obnoxious as ever but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case suspects 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 the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedhe's not fully recovered from his injuries.|isbn=1913193381