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|author= Deborah O'ConnorWill Carver|title= The CaptivePsychopaths Anonymous|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows 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 cagegroups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, intimatelyand targets for her violent behaviour. It lurks 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 corner of groups she decides to set up her eyeown, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born. Soon|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it will being let. If she didn't get home, there would be occupiedtrouble. Then what? What if There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he speaks once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to her? What if leave: he escapes? What if wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he hurts her? What if she hurts him?was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18387726501784742775|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. 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 few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=1838887334B09HTWX47X|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Endless Obsession|author=Angela MarsonsDai Henley

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the course had been Met but now a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyonewell-respected private investigator. It was He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of Murder Squad but now working in a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherforensics laboratory. Stone Flood's daughters, Gemma and Bryant didn't realise Pippa, have flown the extent nest, Pippa to which this case was going Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours latermarried life. Her neck She's had been broken mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and it had all Laura hope that married life will provide the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do support she needs. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt able to a young mother out shopping with her child?turn down the case of Lisa Black.

|isbn=18387700461529379385|title=Body LanguageThe Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=A K TurnerLouise Penny

|summary=TwentyIn the Canadian village of Three Pines, we're post-five-year-old Cassie Raven pandemic: the scars are still there but life is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have starting to say get back to hernormal. It's not something she's inclined The villagers are beginning to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going return to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket Bistro and old Harrovianthe Auberge. HeThey're visiting each other's very conscious of his position homes and having friends and isn't even inclined relatives to ask stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a mistakebit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saint.

|isbn=1472255917183885410X|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Dark Remains|author=Quintin JardineWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner Bobby Carter was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner a lawyer and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known consigliere to the criminal fraternity one of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new manmajor crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at DC Jack Laidlaw is on the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into CID team charged with the new yearinvestigation. SkinnerI say 's tempted to let 'on the phone ring team'' but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at Laidlaw never really seems to be a crime scene in the centre part of Edinburghit. SkinnerHe does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains''s not technically with uncovers the police now - hetruth of why Bobby Carter's chairman body was found behind one of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experienceGlasgow's seedier pubs.

|isbn=18003211041942410255|title=The Body on the IslandTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Nick LouthMichael Pronko

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield''Zangyo: overtime work, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for often unpaid'' It's the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasnculture, isn't who he was. it? Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the murder of five boys between minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the ages satisfaction of ten and seventeenbullies like Shigeru Onizuka. He When he was being ghosted out found dead in front of Wakefield and into a new identity set up Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a deal whereby mild curiosity as to whether he divulged 'd jumped from the whereabouts roof of the body of one of building or been assisted in his victimsdescent. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. He appeared She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to be a reformed character but he had a list work an unreasonable amount of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeovertime.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0241425425|title=The Long Dark RoadMan Who Died Twice|author=P R BlackRichard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she walked along received the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeletter. There was It came from a furious storm going on man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and she'd already refused who had never existed but then this is the offer sort of help from one man in conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a big vehicleregular basis. WeWhen she visits the sender of the letter (he'll see - but s moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no one else will know surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offwho used to be her husband. There has been no sign He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of her - or her body a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty- million pounds in the two years sincediamonds and a few death threats. Georgia is back is FerngateHe's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, determined to find out what happened and shewho's not going to be stoppedhis MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David C MasonHackston (translator)|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5

|summary= John Cranston Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is a gardenerother human beings, although what he did before 's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he became 's not a gardenerteam-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he claimsfinds his brother has died, is classifiedhaving a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. That Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just as well because he an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is about so not what Henri wants to be caught occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a criminal / spy / terrorist plotsteady money-moving pace, where only he can save despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (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 dayactivities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan... |isbn=0956180523191319387X

|isbn=1838773169B0925KS87N|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=S J BennettNeil Lancaster|rating=54

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. Itwas a strange thing for Scotland's early 2016 premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Courtthere were things he wanted to do. She's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince CharlesOnly, whohis family didn's attempting to raise money t hear from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. Therehim again after he'd said that he'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to found the grave - the evening one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and one of the performers brought in his three sons began to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesworry. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to MoscowTam Junior, the Archbishop of Canterbury Frankie and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnDave wouldn't bear normally go to go down any of the police but they weren''those'' roadst certain where their father had been and they were worried.

|author=Roxanne BouchardDoug Johnstone|title=The Coral BrideGreat Silence

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanFor those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, making her living in I'll risk a manquick synopsis of who's worldwho – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. When her lobster trawler Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is found drifting off merely the coast surname of a family of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come undertakers. Undertakers and head the investigationprivate investigators. Although Dorothy is the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, matriarch – Californian by birth and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasinstinct, fishing histories she married a scot and secret ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family feudsfor generations. At the same time as trying to run his investigationRecently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, he also has his grown up son46, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to talk to his father about, which tie up graduate with Morales own marital difficultiesa first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=19131933221913193837

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008269041|title= The Last Resort Risk of Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an allDCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-expenses paid retreat to test a brandthan-new product comfortable departure from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyMet. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to She might have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow been reinstated but the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have whole episode left a dark secret they would rather keep hiddennasty taste in her mouth. As the clock ticks down, these well She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey -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 then the reason for man who had broken her attendance heart nearly twenty years before. She and protect the rest her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=her parent's home into a rented house but there'Well, at least you're s still a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had his way to be established even when there make life difficult for Robin since she was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingyoung child. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody He's married to Natalie, now and this, along with his good-has a young child but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osbornehe's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was still got it in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therefor Robin.

|isbn=17874776301846975719|title=The Postscript MurdersFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Elly GriffithsDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman We learn that MI5 is having its problems with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairenvironmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, isn't it really shouldn? What't be suspicious s happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that was both occupants of the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smith's carerplane were dead before take off. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that there was more possible isn't available to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedpaying public. Then there was And why have the fact that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines man no identification on them - or even labels in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to know.clothes?

|isbn=14721270131409181669|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThe Maidens|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5

|summary=Raisin Investigations Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had quite a bit 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 work Tara Hampton on handthe Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorShe'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Harold CheesemanZoe, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it theretelephoned her in distress. This Tara had been her best friend and she was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went struggling to Australiacope. Then there was Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the Chadwick divorce: first fast train from King's Cross. Chadwick was convinced that his wifeMariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, SheratonSebastian, was seeing another manin a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him death of Zoe's mother and his secretary, who was from Geneva. ApparentlyMariana's sister, the staff called her The Swiss RollEliza. Then there was the murder. 

|isbn=14087122880241400120|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Girl Who Died|author=Val McDermidRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb

|summary=It Una was the middle of February 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 bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of retrained as a lobster potteacher. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate She was thirty years old and it didn't take too long to establish that the man money was Paul Allardtight. Her friend, Sara, ostensibly showed her an advert for a Frenchman, but job in reality James Auld of EdinburghSkalar on the Langanes Peninsula. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect There were only ten people in the disappearance village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldaccommodation provided. DCI Karen PirieUna was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unithopefully, had been the last person to review save some money over the case, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring winter which her into the case at an early stagecontract covered.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529407249|title=A Song of IsolationThe Perfect Lie|author=Jo Spain|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a career few days away: that is only beginning 's always a dangerous thing to hit do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the heights to retire to sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the highlands door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with an ordinary guy…an accountant a couple of all thingsother officers. Danny took one look, though turned, walked to the open window and jumped to his credit he death from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themtrial for her husband's murder. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254411788549759|title=The Thursday Murder ClubDistant Dead|author=Richard OsmanLesley Thomson

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse It was December 1940 and is thus twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outevening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it would have taken about forty-five minutes was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and that the victim could have been saved if sheWilliam'd received prompt medical helps) on a better footing. It didn't put Joyce off She was going to meet her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubfamily the following week. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) Later, her body would be found in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagebombed-out home where he had taken her.

|isbn=15098895150008404925|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Killing Kind|author=Ann CleevesJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=It was Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardsurprise. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seatAfter all, particularly as it was her cross-examination of the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitation'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. She He''thought'' it would be d been accused of stalking the village woman but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited didn't take long to establish that - if anything - and Hector it was the black sheep of the familyother way around. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they Soon Ingrid never seemed to have guests be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was going forced to be embarrassing, but there remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was little else that she could do in the circumstancesbest chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.

|isbn=1506909442walker14|title=The Worst Dogs: Coldest Case (A Progressive Murder-MysteryBruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonMartin Walker

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes''The greatest hatred, like work in the greatest virtue and prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the worst dogsidea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, is silentto solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years.''  The title body of this enjoyable crime procedural, is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are a young male was found in the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson's latest novel woods but he was never identified and for whom is his killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the hatred? This mystery will last all face from the way to skull and the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will resulting publicity be thinking about unwarranted hatred all used to identify the way through. It sounds uncomfortable young man? J- but it isnJ calls the skull 'Oscar'tand has a picture on his door: he sees itevery time he leaves his office: he doesn's honestt want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.

|isbn=15420174321471181405|title=The Nidderdale MurdersNighthawking|author=J R EllisRuss Thomas|rating=34.5

|summary=It 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's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was a Friday in mid-September disrupted when the shoot body of a young woman was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgilldiscovered. The shooters at It had obviously been buried in one of the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy beds but who would have started to his friends) was dig her up? It had been in the owner of the moor earth for months and a retired judgecould have been undiscovered for years. James Symonds was a local landowner The police need to establish who stabbed her - and Henry Saunders was a bankerwho left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. He DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and Fraser had known each other since their school daysDC Mina Rabbani. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, They're joined by DS Guy Daley who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon's just returned from extended sick leave. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: Mina thinks he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment on Frasers as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's attitude to money: not fully recovered from his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work forinjuries.