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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=15294103471913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Invite Me In|author=Helen CoxEmma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=Kitt HartleyMartin Curran's assistantwife, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken a place Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durham. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepteddot, so most of despite the people attending are scions fact that she was actually painting one of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehow, their properties prior to scrape together the moneyit being let. Grace, whoIf she didn's 22t get home, comes into the last categorythere would be trouble. Her parents agreed There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to fund the course a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told her that if that Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was what in Eliza's mind when she chose first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started leave: he wanted the courselease of flat 2, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - 42 Linden Road and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agohe was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1784742775|title= The CaptiveA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in the corner Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of her eyetime. SoonThey still were, to a great extent, it will but Serrailler knew that something had to be occupieddone. Then what? What if he speaks Children as young as nine were being recruited to her? What if 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 escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650certainly 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 Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigation. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of Evil why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1942410255|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Bob SkinnerDetective Hiroshi)|author=Quintin JardineMichael Pronko

|summary=On New Year''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifeculture, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would minimum you'll be better-known required to do: you'll work more hours to get the criminal fraternity job done and done to the satisfaction of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When hewas found dead in front of Senden Central's reformed and headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the new name reflects way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a new man. The Skinners donmild curiosity as to whether he't stay much after midnight at d jumped from the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into roof of the new yearbuilding or been assisted in his descent. Skinner's tempted to let Gossip revolves around the phone ring but knows fact that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence left the roof at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghexact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. Skinner's not technically with the police now - heShe's chairman d accused Onizuka of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge bullying her and experienceforcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|isbn=18003211040241425425|title=The Body on the IslandMan Who Died Twice|author=Nick LouthRichard Osman

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. Steve It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for never existed but then this is the manslaughter sort of his wifeconundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. Only When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that wasnit't who he was. Sixty-three-yearss someone with whom she has a long professional history -old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenwho used to be her husband. He was 's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being ghosted out removed within the range of Wakefield and into a new identity set up CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019few death threats. He appeared to be 's now in hiding with a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeyoung woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackRabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaMeet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's Healeyperfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's nineteennot a team-yearmember, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-old universityplan, holistic and keen on stupid-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeworkshopping. There was This is when he finds his brother has died, having a furious storm going on heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and shenothing else. 'd already refused 'YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the offer of help from one man in finances – it runs at a big vehicle. We'll see steady money- moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but no one else will know - that another car stops loans have been made out and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offamount vanished. There has been no sign of her - Fortunately (or her body - in otherwise) some people are quickly on the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined scene to find out what happened and sheexplain that 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 going conducive to be stoppedgetting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|authorisbn=David C MasonB0925KS87N|title=PandoraDead Man's GardenerGrave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston is a gardenerTam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, although what he did before he became in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a gardenerstrange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he claims, is classifiedwanted to do. That is just as well because Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he is about 'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotworry. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where only he can save the daytheir father had been and they were worried. |isbn=0956180523

|isbnauthor=1838773169Doug Johnstone|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettGreat Silence|rating=54

|summary=ItFor those who, like me, haven's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for t come across the Easter Court. SheSkelfs before, I's having ll risk a dine and sleep at the request quick synopsis of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one who – although Johnstone does a good job of his pet projectsbringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. ThereSkelf isn'd been a distinctly Russian flavour t some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the evening surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and one of private investigators. Dorothy is the performers brought in matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to play run the piano has Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesthe family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. The immediate reaction Daughter Jenny, 46, is that one of the guests is responsiblehaunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an exAnd grand-ambassador daughter is about to Moscow, graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard0008269041|title=The Coral BrideRisk of Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Angel Roberts DCI Robin Lyons is an oddity 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 female fisherwoman, making nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her living in parent's home into a manrented house but there's world. When still a difficult situation with her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast brother Luke who has gone out of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in his way to come and head the investigationmake life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. Although the signs seem He's married to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onNatalie, now and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that a young child but he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties's still got it in for Robin.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1846975719|title= The Last Resort For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyawkward places. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise But that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downLondon, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and isn't 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}} ? What's happening in Kinloch?

|isbn=05713626721409181669|title=SnowThe Maidens|author=John BanvilleAlex Michaelides

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana'Wells niece, Zoe, at least youhad telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn're a Wexford man.t '' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced entirely'Sinjun') Strafford happy about having to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds Mariana and Zoe were close and had done something memorable with been made all the more so by the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there was death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a Catholic priest dead swimming accident on the library floor with Naxos some precious bits of his anatomy missingfourteen months earlier. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of OsborneZoe's class mother and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from ScallanstownMariana's sister, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereEliza.

|isbn=17874776300241400120|title=The Postscript MurdersGirl Who Died|author=Elly GriffithsRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her armchair, it really shouldn't be suspicious beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until since then she spoke to Peggy Smith's carerd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. Natalka Kolisnyk She was adamant that there thirty years old and money was more to Peggy's death than met tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the eye - particularly as she knew that there village but a teacher was no heart condition required for two children: a salary would be paid and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedaccommodation provided. Then there Una was the fact only applicant and the job meant that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines she could let her flat in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowReykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.

|isbn=14721270131529407249|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotThe Perfect Lie|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenJo Spain

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on handIt was July 2019 and Erin was happy. The chairman of Philpott Electronics She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was concerned about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it therehopeful. This They'd been married for six months and life was unusualgood with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to AustraliaLong Island. Then there The knock on the door was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick insistent and when it was convinced that his wifeopened, SheratonDanny's partner, Ben Mitchell was seeing another manthere with a couple of other officers. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations Danny took one look, turned, walked to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted open window and jumped to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was death from Genevathe fourth floor. ApparentlyEighteen months later, the staff called Erin would be on trial for her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the husband's murder. 

|isbn=14087122881788549759|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Distant Dead|author=Val McDermidLesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=It was the middle of February December 1940 and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster pot. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didnevening 'with her friend Ida't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allardleaving her three-year-old son, ostensibly a FrenchmanWilliam, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghat home with her parents. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the prime suspect in family than the disappearance and possible murder shame of his brotherillegitimacy, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldbut Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footing. DCI Karen PirieShe was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person hoping to persuade him to review come and meet her family the casefollowing week. Later, a couple of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into body would be found in the case at an early stagebombed-out home where he had taken her.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0008404925|title=A Song of IsolationThe Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=35

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a career lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that is only beginning - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to hit the heights be free of John Webster and then she came to retire see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though best chance they'd had to his credit put Webster away for a long time: he would rather be working in forestry. They have found was a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themvery dangerous man. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=0241425441walker14|title=The Thursday Murder ClubColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Richard OsmanMartin Walker|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroftdetectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. She used to be The body of a nurse young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth his killer never brought to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outjustice. Details of where What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about fortythe resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-five minutes and that J calls the victim could have been saved if sheskull 'd received prompt medical help. It didnOscar't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was and has a Monday) but picture on his door: he sees 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 Villageevery time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.

|isbn=15098895151471181405|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Nighthawking|author=Ann CleevesRuss Thomas

|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardSheffield's [http://www. 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 seat, particularly as the car door had been left opensbg. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitationorg. She uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought'' it would be the village of as an industrial city but it this was Brockburn, disrupted when the ancestral home body of the Stanhopes: her father a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been the younger brother buried in one of the man beds but who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to would have guests was going started to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do dig her up? It had been in the circumstancesearth for months and could have been undiscovered for years.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1506909442|title= The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murderpolice need to establish who stabbed her -Mystery|author=Matthew de Lacey Davidson|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=''The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and who left the worst dogstwo, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is silentthe Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who' The title of this enjoyable crime procedural, is s just returned from German romantic writer Jean Paulextended sick leave. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidson Mina thinks he's latest novel and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way to the very last and carefully plotted pages as obnoxious as ever but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: itsuspects that he's honestnot fully recovered from his injuries.