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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=18388873341784165263|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Invite Me In|author=Angela MarsonsEmma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were 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 way back from Diversity Awareness trainingproperties prior to it being let. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was equally rude a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to everyonebe understanding. It He was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of also a little girl clutching very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a teddy bear in the absence of her motherdisappointment''. Stone and Bryant didnAll this was in Eliza't realise s mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the extent to which this case flat just as Eliza was going about to occupy their minds as leave: he wanted the body lease of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?was advertised as being available.

|isbn=18387700461784742775|title=Body LanguageA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=A K TurnerSusan Hill|rating=4.5

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and not only does she talk Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, to the deada great extent, she also hears what they have to say to her. It's not but Serrailler knew that something she's inclined had to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will bedone. She's certainly not going Children as young as nine were being recruited to share it with transport the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket drugs and old Harrovianthe operation running the county lines was tight. He's very conscious of his position and isnA mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't even inclined to ask for be the view correct one) of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than person who was running him and but he has only certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a limited amount few of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakethe 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 Genevafor Robin. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846975719|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThen there was the murder|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch?

|isbn=14087122881409181669|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Maidens|author=Val McDermidAlex Michaelides|rating=45

|summary=It 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 middle death of February Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potMariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd Tara had been her best friend and DS Daisy Mortimer she was struggling to investigate and it didncope. Mariana wasn't take too long ''entirely'' happy about having to establish that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchmango to Cambridge, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghshe caught the first fast train from King's Cross. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the prime suspect in more so by the disappearance and possible murder death of his brotherMariana's husband, prominent civil servantSebastian, Iain Auldin a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the last person to review the case, a couple death of years earlier Zoe's mother and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stageMariana's sister, Eliza.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0241400120|title=A Song of IsolationThe Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=34

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws 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'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a career that is teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only beginning to hit ten people in the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would rather be working in forestrypaid and accommodation provided. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateUna was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, but things are starting to feel wrong between themsave some money over the winter which her contract covered. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254411529407249|title=The Thursday Murder ClubPerfect Lie|author=Richard OsmanJo Spain

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftIt was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She used and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to be a nurse cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months and is thus life was good with a decent apartment by the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outsea in Newport, Long Island. Details of where The knock on the door was insistent and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that when it would have taken about forty-five minutes was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window and that jumped to his death from the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpfourth floor. It didn't put Joyce off Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her shepherdhusband's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but 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 Villagemurder.

|isbn=15098895151788549759|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Distant Dead|author=Ann CleevesLesley Thomson

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the wrong turning as she drove evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home in the blizzardwith her parents. If she hadn't The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the car might not have been found until family than the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seatshame of illegitimacy, particularly as the car door but Maple had been left open. Vera took the boy high hopes of putting her life (and drove to the nearest habitationWilliam's) on a better footing. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: going to meet her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited well-to- do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and Hector was the black sheep of meet her family the familyfollowing week. Calling there unannouncedLater, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to her body would be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do found in the circumstancesbombed-out home where he had taken her.

|isbn=15069094420008404925|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryKilling Kind|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=''The greatest hatredDifficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, like it was her cross-examination of the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent.'victim' The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, is which saved him from German romantic writer Jean Paula lengthy prison sentence. But who are He'd been accused of stalking the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidsonwoman but it didn's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all t take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all police officer at his trial had told her that this was the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isnbest chance they'td had to put Webster away for a long time: it's honesthe was a very dangerous man.

|isbn=1542017432walker14|title=The Nidderdale MurdersColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=J R EllisMartin Walker|rating=34

|summary=It was a Friday when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to idea which he thought might help his friends) was the owner boss, chief of the moor and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a banker. He and Fraser case which had known each other since their school dayshaunted him for thirty years. The fourth member body of a young male was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt found in exclusive cars in nearby Riponthe woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him What if an expensive car artist could recreate the face from the skull and Fraser was being slow the resulting publicity be used to pay. identify the young man? Other people had reason to comment J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on Fraserhis door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn's attitude t want to money: forget Oscar until his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult killer has been brought to work forjustice.

|isbn=00083147211471181405|title=Truth Be ToldNighthawking|author=Kia AbdullahRuss Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what''effortful'' familys otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered. Flowers are sent for It had obviously been buried in one of the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent beds but who would have started to thank dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and this prompts a phone call in returncould have been undiscovered for years. There are The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamvery rare, gold aurei on her eyes. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them DCI Diane Jordan is the other way round: 'Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and KamranDC Mina Rabbani. They' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamre joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Sofia worries about Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles he's not fully recovered from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedhis injuries.