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|isbnauthor=1472134710Will Carver|title=Agatha Raisin 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 Quiche 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 Deaththe 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=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=M C BeatonEmma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheMartin Curran's left South Moulton Street wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for a cottage in one o'clock on the dot, despite the Cotswold village fact that she was actually painting one of Carsleytheir properties prior to it being let. SheIf she didn's have preferred one of the more romantic names t get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringsdon't be too quick to be understanding. Now the problem is settling into He was also a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being pleasant to peoplea disappointment''. The All this was in Eliza's mind when she first move is met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to enter the village quiche-baking competition and leave: he wanted the beginning lease of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browneflat 2, 42 Linden Road and his wife Vera out he was desperate to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub get in the next village but this is necessary and before it's a good investment was advertised as she knows that she's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..being available.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1784742775|title= Fallen AngelsA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill|rating= 25|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg VeumDrugs 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, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending to a former friend's funeralgreat extent, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the sins of operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the past are exposed to name (although it probably wouldn't be the light correct one) of the presentperson who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to The police might catch a killerfew of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.|isbn=1913193063

|isbn=1529410347B09HTWX47X|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Endless Obsession|author=Helen CoxDai Henley

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistantsome years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken formerly a place on DCI in the Venerable Bede AcademyMet but now a well-respected private investigator. He's vocational library studies course married to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in Durhama forensics laboratory. ItFlood's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepteddaughters, Gemma and Pippa, so most of the people attending are scions of have flown the seriously richnest, scholarship students - or they've managedPippa to Australia, somehowfrom where she has very little contact with the family, and Gemma to scrape together the moneymarried life. Grace, whoShe's 22, comes into had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the last categorysupport she needs. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if Flood's business is going well and that was what she chose why he felt able to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started turn down the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance case of a student from a year agoLisa Black.

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529379385|title= The CaptiveMadness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows In the cageCanadian village of Three Pines, intimatelywe're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. It lurks in The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the corner of her eyeAuberge. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. Soon A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, it will be occupiedknown in the village as the Asshole Saint. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=1838887334183885410X|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Dark Remains|author=Angela MarsonsWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Kim Stone Bobby Carter was a lawyer and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingconsigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. The need for coffee overtook Stone - DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyoneinvestigation. It was in I say ''on the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence part of her motherit. Stone He does his own thing, goes his own way and Bryant didn't realise 'The Dark Remains'' uncovers the extent to which this case truth of why Bobby Carter's body was going to occupy their minds as the body found behind one of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterGlasgow's seedier pubs. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?

|isbn=18387700461942410255|title=Body LanguageTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=A K TurnerMichael Pronko

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead''Zangyo: overtime work, she also hears what they have to say to her. often unpaid'' It's not something shethe culture, isn's inclined to share with people as shet it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you's pretty certain about what their reaction will ll be. Sherequired to do: you's certainly not going ll work more hours to get the job done and done to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer satisfaction of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianbullies like Shigeru Onizuka. HeWhen he was found dead in front of Senden Central's very conscious headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his position and isnfamily, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he't even inclined to ask for d jumped from the view roof of the anatomical pathology technicians despite building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each bodyleft the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. That will prove She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to be a mistakework an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|isbn=14722559170241425425|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Man Who Died Twice|author=Quintin JardineRichard Osman

|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner Elizabeth Best was celebrating at a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner Thames and who had never existed but then this is the man sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with whom she shares on a house, Dominic Jacksonregular basis. Jackson would be better-known to When she visits the criminal fraternity sender of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but the letter (he's reformed and moved into the new name reflects Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse long professional history - and are dropped home not long into the new yearwho used to be her husband. SkinnerHe's tempted made a bad mistake - something to let do with a mask being removed within the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a crime scene missing twenty-million pounds in the centre of Edinburghdiamonds and a few death threats. SkinnerHe's not technically now in hiding with the police now - hea young woman called Polly, who's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experienceMI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|isbnauthor=1800321104Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthRabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillMeet Henri. Steve With a mind so much more focused on maths and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the manslaughter of his wife. Only insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that wasnthey't who he was. Sixtyd prefer everyone to be all open-threeplan, holistic and keen on stupid-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and seventeenhas left Henri everything. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and into a new identity set nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up in a deal whereby little when he divulged sees huge holes in the whereabouts of finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the body of one of his victimsamount vanished. The Bogeyman was going to be set free Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on 2 July 2019. He appeared the scene to be explain that missing money – it's been turned into a reformed character but he had a list gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of people upon whom he wished these guys are not conducive to exact revengegetting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB0925KS87N|title=The Long Dark RoadDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=P R BlackNeil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-yearTam Hardie had been determined to find the grave -and it took some finding, in an overgrown old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgecemetery. There It was a furious storm going on strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and shethere were things he wanted to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd already refused found the grave - the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. Wewhich said that it shouldn'll see - but no one else will know t be opened - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years sincehis three sons began to worry. Georgia is back is FerngateTam Junior, determined to find out what happened Frankie and sheDave wouldn's not going t normally go to be stoppedthe police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.

|author=David C MasonDoug Johnstone|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Great Silence|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a gardenerfamily of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, although what he did before he became she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a gardenerblack Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, he claims46, is classifiedhaunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. That is just as well because he And grand-daughter is about to be caught up in graduate with a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save first-class physics degree and join the dayacademic staff next term. |isbn=09561805231913193837

|isbn=18387731690008269041|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotRisk of Harm|author=S J BennettLucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II DCI Robin Lyons is at Windsor for back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Easter CourtMet. She's having a dine and sleep at might have been reinstated but the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been whole episode left a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought nasty taste in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesher mouth. The immediate reaction is that one of She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the guests is responsibleman who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. The Queen mentally rules She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her racing manager, an ex-ambassador parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenboroughmake life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. One couldnHe't bear s married to go down any of Natalie, now and has a young child but he''those'' roadss still got it in for Robin.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1846975719|title=The Coral BrideFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=Angel Roberts We learn that MI5 is an oddity - a female fisherwomanhaving its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, making her living in a manisn't it? What's world. happening in Kinloch? When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebeca light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, Detective Morales is called in to come DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the investigationairport straight away. Although It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsplane were dead before take off. 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 How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that he is unable possible isn't available to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesthe paying public.|isbn=1913193322 And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1409181669|title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=SnowMaidens|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 It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. 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 hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a bit of work on handdecent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The chairman of Philpott Electronics knock on the door was insistent and when it was concerned about his managing directoropened, Harold CheesemanDanny's partner, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it Ben Mitchell was therewith a couple of other officers. This was unusual Danny took one look, turned, as walked to the open window and jumped to his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australiadeath from the fourth floor. Then there Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the Chadwick divorce: evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. Chadwick The boy thought that Maple was convinced that his wifesister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, Sheraton, was seeing another manbut Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footing. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations She was going to meet her well-to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted -do fiancé, hoping to know what the staff were saying about persuade him to come and his secretary, who was from Genevameet her family the following week. ApparentlyLater, her body would be found in the staff called bombed-out home where he had taken her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murder. 

|isbn=14087122880008404925|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Killing Kind|author=Val McDermidJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=It was the middle Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of 'victim' which saved him from a lobster potlengthy prison sentence. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he - if anything - it was the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldother way around. DCI Karen Pirie, as head Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person John Webster and then she came to review the case, see him as a couple of years earlier threat and it seemed sensible was forced to bring remember that the police officer at his trial had told her into that this was the case at an early stagebest chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.

|authorisbn=Michael J Malonewalker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Song Bruno, Chief of IsolationPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that is only beginning to hit chief of police Bruno Courreges had the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of all thingsdetectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, though to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his credit he would rather killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be working in forestry. used to identify the young man? They have found J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a hideaway picture on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to feel wrong between themjustice. |isbn=1913193365

|isbn=02414254411471181405|title=The Thursday Murder ClubNighthawking|author=Richard OsmanRuss Thomas

|summary=The first member 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 disrupted when the body of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcrofta young woman was discovered. She used It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to be a nurse dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and is thus the perfect person could have been undiscovered for Elizabeth years. The police need to consult about how long it would take a person establish who has been stabbed to bleed outher - and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. Details of where DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and how her foot soldiers are exchanged DS Adam Tyler and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpDC Mina Rabbani. It didnThey't put Joyce off her shepherdre joined by DS Guy Daley who's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubjust returned from extended sick leave. They meet each Thursday (Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.