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|isbnauthor=000820831XWill Carver|title=The CoffinmakerPsychopaths 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 Gardenunable 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=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Stuart MacBrideEmma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=At Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the coastal village of Clachmaradot, despite the headland is slowly eroding into the seafact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. Storm Trevor speeds up the processIf she didn't get home, there would be trouble. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house confined to see whata wheelchair, but don's happeningt be too quick to be understanding. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesbeing a disappointment''. Gordon SmithAll this was in Eliza's home is falling into mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the North Sea and flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the evidence lease of what flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he's been doing for decades is going with was desperate to get in before it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab was advertised as he later escapes the tumbling ruinbeing available.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1784742775|title=The KhanA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto 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 twice done. Children as good young as men nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and four times as good as white menthe operation running the county lines was tight. This has served her well in her rise through A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the criminal justice system and by correct one) of the time she is called home for her sisterperson who was running him but he certainly wouldn's wedding after fifteen years t know anything about those higher up in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gameorganisation. Returning to the city The police might catch a few of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyrunners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=B08BTXSS84B09HTWX47X|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)Endless Obsession|author=Jenny O'BrienDai Henley

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests DCI in the murder of eighteen-yearMet but now a well-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedrespected private investigator. She canHe't see any immediate failings s married to Laura, formerly his DS in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room Murder Squad but now working in a securely-locked houseforensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, wearing her pyjamasGemma and Pippa, and was found dead by a dog walker on have flown the Gt Orme in Llandudno nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the next dayfamily, and Gemma to married life. She 's had mental problems since she was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeabducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Bates hasnFlood't s business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Black.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529379385|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the Auberge. They'quitere visiting each other'' told s homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the whole story: he's married Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to Kate Brockbe around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, Angelica's younger sisterknown in the village as the Asshole Saint.

|isbn=1472134710183885410X|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Dark Remains|author=M C BeatonWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement Bobby Carter was a lawyer and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage consigliere to one of the major crime families in the Cotswold village of Carsleynineteen seventies Glasgow. She's have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley DC Jack Laidlaw is off on the tourist trail CID team charged with all the problems that bringsinvestigation. Now I say ''on the problem is settling into team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a different way part of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peopleit. The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judgeHe does his own thing, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and goes his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary own way and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Well, The Dark Remains''heruncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..s seedier pubs.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1942410255|title= Fallen AngelsTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum''Zangyo: overtime work, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friendoften unpaid'' It's funeralthe culture, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are opened really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the sins 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 past are exposed way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the light roof of the presentbuilding or been assisted in his descent. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to catch a killerwork an unreasonable amount of overtime.|isbn=1913193063

|isbn=15294103470241425425|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Man Who Died Twice|author=Helen CoxRichard Osman|rating=4.5

|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken Elizabeth Best was a place on little surprised when she received the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamletter. It's an unusual place came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to study as students deal with government grants are not accepted, so most of on a regular basis. When she visits the people attending are scions sender of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theyletter (he've managed, somehow, to scrape together s moved into the money. Grace, whoCooper's 22, Chase Retirement Village) it comes into the last category. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her as no surprise that if that was what it's someone with whom she chose has a long professional history - and who used to do then they were finished with be herhusband. Not long after she started He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the courserange of a CCTV camera on a raid, Kitt Hartley came for a visit missing twenty- million pounds in diamonds and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from few death threats. He's now in hiding with a year agoyoung woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|author= Deborah O'ConnorAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title= The CaptiveRabbit Factor|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the cageinsurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, intimatelythat they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. It lurks in the corner of her eyeThis is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. SoonUnfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, it will be occupiedand nothing else. Then ''YouMeFun'' is so not what? What if he speaks Henri wants to her? What if occupy his mind, but he escapes? What if perks up a little when he hurts her? What if she hurts him?sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, 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 activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=1838772650191319387X

|isbn=1838887334B0925KS87N|title=Deadly Cry Dead Man's Grave (D I Kim StoneDS Max Craigie)|author=Angela MarsonsNeil Lancaster

|summary=DI Kim Stone Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingit took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been It was a complete waste of time strange thing for her as she knew that she Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was equally rude getting old and there were things he wanted to everyonedo. It was in Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the shopping centre one which said that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherit shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Stone Tam Junior, Frankie and Bryant didnDave wouldn't realise normally go to the extent to which this case was going to occupy police but they weren't certain where their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck father 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?they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1838770046Doug Johnstone|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Great Silence|rating=4.5

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is For those who, like me, haven't come across the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the deadSkelfs before, she also hears what they have to say to her. ItI's not something shell risk a quick synopsis of who's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about what their reaction will beit. SheSkelf isn's certainly not going t some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to share be, it with is merely the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer surname of a genuine Barbour jacket family of undertakers. Undertakers and old Harrovianprivate investigators. He's very conscious of his position Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and isn't even inclined ended up helping to ask for run the view of Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a lot more experience than him and he has only black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a limited amount of time to spend on each bodyviolent escaped prisoner. That will prove And grand-daughter is about to be graduate with a mistakefirst-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=14722559170008269041|title=The Roots Risk of Evil (Bob Skinner)Harm|author=Quintin JardineLucie Whitehouse

|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and Met. She might have been reinstated but the man with whom she shares whole episode left a house, Dominic Jacksonnasty taste in her mouth. Jackson would be betterShe was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey -known to then the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new manwho had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse She and are dropped home not long into the new her fifteen-year. Skinner-old daughter have moved out of her parent's tempted to let the phone ring home into a rented house but knows that he cannot: itthere's Mario McGuire asking still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for his presence at Robin since she was a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghyoung child. SkinnerHe's not technically with the police married to Natalie, now - and has a young child but he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencestill got it in for Robin.

|isbn=18003211041846975719|title=The Body on the IslandFor Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Nick LouthDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wifeWe learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. Only But that wasn's London, isn't who he was. it? Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years What'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 murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenairport straight away. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the body of one of his victimsplane were dead before take off. The Bogeyman was going to How could that be set free on 2 July 2019. ? He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list The sort of people upon whom he wished tech which would make that possible isn't available to exact revengethe paying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1409181669|title=The Long Dark RoadMaidens|author=P R BlackAlex Michaelides|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteenMariana 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 -yearor so she thought -old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the lonely A928 at Ferngate BridgeParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. There was a furious storm going on She'd been brutally stabbed and sheMariana'd already refused the offer of help from one man s niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in a big vehicledistress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. WeMariana wasn'll see - t ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into she caught the car and driven offfirst fast train from King's Cross. There has Mariana and Zoe were close and had been no sign made all the more so by the death of her - or her body - Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in the two years sincea swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and sheMariana's not going to be stoppedsister, Eliza.

|authorisbn=David C Mason0241400120|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=34

|summary= John Cranston is 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 gardenerteacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, although what he did before he became showed her an advert for a gardener, he claims, is classifiedjob in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. That is just as well because he is about to There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be caught up paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotReykjavik and, hopefully, where only he can save some money over the daywinter which her contract covered. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=18387731691529407249|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotPerfect Lie|author=S J BennettJo Spain|rating=4.5

|summary=It's early 2016 was July 2019 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter CourtErin was happy. Sheand Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's having always a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, whodangerous thing to do when you's attempting re married to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsa cop but she was hopeful. There They'd been married for six months and life was good with a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of decent apartment by the performers brought sea in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesNewport, Long Island. The immediate reaction is that one knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of the guests is responsibleother officers. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager Danny took one look, turned, an ex-ambassador walked to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury open window and Sir David Attenboroughjumped to his death from the fourth floor. One couldnEighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadss murder.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1788549759|title=The Coral BrideDistant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three- a female fisherwomanyear-old son, William, making at home with her living in a man's worldparents. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the coast shame of Quebecillegitimacy, Detective Morales is called in to come but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and head the investigationWilliam's) on a better footing. Although the signs seem She was going to point meet her well-to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret meet her family feudsthe following week. At Later, her body would be found in the same time as trying to run his investigation, bombed-out home where he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultieshad taken her.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008404925|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=SnowKilling Kind|author=John BanvilleJane Casey

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=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'Well, at least you're which saved him from a Wexford manlengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford t take long to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne establish that - if anything - it was master of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkother way around. The niceties had Soon Ingrid never seemed to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits free of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody John Webster and this, along with his good-but-shabby suit, marked then she came to see him out as of Osborne's class a threat and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite forced to remember that the different religions - police officer at his trial had told her that this was in the habit of spending best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time at Ballyglass House. His horse : he was stabled therea very dangerous man.

|isbn=1787477630walker14|title=The Postscript MurdersColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Elly GriffithsMartin Walker

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in her armchair, it really shouldn't be suspicious and the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that was chief of police Bruno Courreges had the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to Peggy Smith's carersolve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. Natalka Kolisnyk The body of a young male was adamant that there found in the woods but he was more never identified and his killer never brought to Peggy's death than met justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition skull and that Peggy had worried that she was being followed. the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? Then there was J-J calls the fact that Peggy was a skull 'murder consultantOscar' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their booksand has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to knowjustice.

|isbn=14721270131471181405|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotNighthawking|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenRuss Thomas

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite 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 a bit of work on handyoung woman was discovered. The chairman It had obviously been buried in one of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it therebeen in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went The police need to Australia. Then there was establish who stabbed her - and who left the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifetwo, Sheratonvery rare, was seeing another mangold aurei on her eyes. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in DCI Diane Jordan is the staff canteen: he wanted to know what the staff were saying about him Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and his secretary, DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who was 's just returned from Genevaextended sick leave. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murderMina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.