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|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08BC4D58S1784165263|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Invite Me In|author=Ragnar JonassonEmma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heMartin Curran's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left , Eliza knew that she had to go be home to Sweden make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to do a Masters degreeit being let. If she didn't get home, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herthere would be trouble. They were supposed There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to spend Christmas together a wheelchair, but Kristin cancelleddon't be too quick to be understanding. ItHe was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''s now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but All this was in Eliza's mind when he finally managed she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to get to sleep the phone ringsleave: he wanted the body lease of a young woman has been found on Adalgataflat 2, the main street of the town42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.

|isbn=178089905X1784742775|title=SerpentineA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Jonathan KellermanSusan Hill

|summary=It wasnDrugs hadn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had really been dreaming about: that much of a death from thirty-six years ago problem in Lafferton and the daughter Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of the woman who died wanted some answerstime. She They still were, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had money to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and money translated into clout and so the problem operation running the county lines was dropped onto Milo's toestight. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasnA mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't actually married to be the correct one) of the man with whom she'd left her daughter person who was running him but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his namecertainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing The police might catch a few of her the runners but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinethey'd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=000820831XB09HTWX47X|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenEndless Obsession|author=Stuart MacBrideDai Henley

|summary=At the coastal village of ClachmaraIt's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the headland is slowly eroding into the seaMet but now a well-respected private investigator. Storm Trevor speeds up He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the processMurder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see whatFlood's happening. Margaret runs after her son daughters, Gemma and as she grabs him Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to pull him back to safety Australia, from where she glances across at has very little contact with the newly-exposed cliff front family, and sees human bonesGemma to married life. Gordon SmithShe's home is falling into the North Sea had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the evidence of what hesupport she needs. Flood's been doing for decades business is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as well and that was why he later escapes felt able to turn down the tumbling ruincase of Lisa Black.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1529379385|title=The KhanMadness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating=4.5

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by In the Canadian village of Three Pines, we're post-pandemic: the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menscars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. This has served her well in her rise through The villagers are beginning to return to the criminal justice system Bistro and by the time she is called home for her sisterAuberge. They're visiting each other's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gamehomes and having friends and relatives to stay. Returning to A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the city of her birth, Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to old scars and fresh woundsbe around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for known in the village as the future with her sense of honour and dutyAsshole Saint.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=B08BTXSS84183885410X|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Dark Remains|author=Jenny O'BrienWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than Bobby Carter was a dribble lawyer and she's looking through cold cases for inspiration as consigliere to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests of the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock major crime families in 1995 and Gaby is intriguednineteen seventies Glasgow. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker DC Jack Laidlaw is on the Gt Orme in Llandudno CID team charged with the next dayinvestigation. She was wearing I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforepart of it. Bates hasnHe does his own thing, goes his own way and 't 'The Dark Remains'quite'' told uncovers the whole story: hetruth of why Bobby Carter's married to Kate Brock, Angelicabody was found behind one of Glasgow's younger sisterseedier pubs.

|isbn=14721347101942410255|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=M C BeatonMichael Pronko|rating=4.5

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of Carsley. culture, isn't it? SheThe hours for which you's have preferred one re paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more romantic names but at least Carsley is off hours to get the tourist trail with all job done and done to the problems that bringssatisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. Now When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk regret or grief, even being pleasant from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to peoplewhether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. The first move is to enter Gossip revolves around the village quiche-baking competition and fact that he left the beginning of roof at the campaign is taking the judgeexact same spot that an employee, Reginald Cummings-BrowneMayu Yamase, and his wife Vera out to dinnerhad committed suicide some three years earlier. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary d accused Onizuka of bullying her and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going forcing her to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..work an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0241425425|title= Fallen AngelsThe Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is backElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. After attending It came from a former friend's funeral, Veum catches up with old friends man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and then this is the sins sort of the past are exposed conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the light sender of the presentletter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation He's made a bad mistake - something to root out do with a mask being removed within the clues hidden range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in his own history diamonds and to catch a killerfew death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.|isbn=1913193063

|isbnauthor=1529410347|title=Death Awaits in Durham Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteriestranslator)|authortitle=Helen CoxThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=Kitt HartleyMeet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library perfect for his job and taken a place on in the Venerable Bede Academyinsurance company – until they decide he's vocational library studies course in Durham. Itnot a team-member, that they's an unusual place d prefer everyone to study be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as students with government grants are not acceptedworkshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously richhaving a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, scholarship students - and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or theyotherwise) that 'everything've managedis just an adventure park, somehowand nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, to scrape together but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money. Grace-moving pace, who's 22despite some desultory staff ideas, comes into but loans have been made out and the last categoryamount vanished. Her parents agreed Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to fund the course but told her explain that if missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that was what she chose to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started the coursehas also now been inherited by Henri, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a student from a year agocheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|authorisbn=B0925KS87N|title= Deborah ODead Man'Connors Grave (DS Max Craigie)|titleauthor= The CaptiveNeil Lancaster|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Tam Hardie had been determined to find the cagegrave - and it took some finding, intimatelyin an overgrown old cemetery. It lurks in the corner of her eyewas a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Soon Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it will shouldn't be occupiedopened - and his three sons began to worry. Then what? What if he speaks Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1838887334Doug Johnstone|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsThe Great Silence

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - For those who, like me, haven't come across the course had been Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a complete waste good job of time for her bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as she knew that she was equally rude though it ought to everyone. It was in be, it is merely the shopping centre that Stone caught sight surname of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence family of her motherundertakers. Stone Undertakers and Bryant didn't realise private investigators. Dorothy is the extent matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to which this case was going to occupy their minds as run the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been broken in the family for generations. Recently widowed and it had all the hallmarks of now involved with a quickblack Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, functional kill46, but who would do that is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a young mother out shopping with her child?first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=18387700460008269041|title=Body LanguageRisk of Harm|author=A K TurnerLucie Whitehouse

|summary=TwentyDCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-fivethan-year-old Cassie Raven is comfortable departure from the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to Met. She might have been reinstated but the dead, she also hears what they have to say to whole episode left a nasty taste in hermouth. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beShe was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. Sheand her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's certainly not going to share it still a difficult situation with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianyoung child. He's very conscious of his position and isn't even inclined married to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him Natalie, now and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeyoung child but he's still got it in for Robin.

|isbn=14722559171846975719|title=The Roots of Evil For Any Other Truth (Bob SkinnerDCI Jim Daley)|author=Quintin JardineDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=On New YearWe learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's EveLondon, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at the golf club with Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his wifecolleague, Professor Sarah GraceActing DI Brian Scott, daughter Alex Skinner and head off for the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonairport straight away. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new manplane were dead before take off. How could that be? The Skinners donsort of tech which would make that possible isn't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted available to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghpaying public. Skinner's not technically with And why have the police now man no identification on them - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.or even labels in their clothes?

|isbn=18003211041409181669|title=The Body on the IslandMaidens|author=Nick LouthAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who Mariana was 67 years old convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wifelooked likely to get away with them both. Only that wasn't who he wasShe needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. SixtyEverything -threeor so she thought -years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for begun with the murder death of five boys between Tara Hampton on the ages of ten and seventeenParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield She'd been brutally stabbed and into a new identity set up Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimsdistress. The Bogeyman Tara had been her best friend and she was going struggling to be set free on 2 July 2019cope. He appeared Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to be a reformed character go to Cambridge, but he she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a list swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeZoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0241400120|title=The Long Dark RoadGirl Who Died|author=P R BlackRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years ago Dr Georgiasince her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing d given up her medical studies and retrained as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgea teacher. There She was a furious storm going on thirty years old and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehiclemoney was tight. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the car and driven offLanganes Peninsula. There has been no sign of her - or her body - were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two years sincechildren: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she's not going to be stoppedcould let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.

|authorisbn=David C Mason1529407249|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Perfect Lie|author=Jo Spain|rating=34.5

|summary= John Cranston is It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a gardener, although what he did before he became 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 gardenerdecent apartment by the sea in Newport, he claims, is classifiedLong Island. That is just as well because he is about to be caught up in The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a criminal / spy / terrorist plotcouple of other officers. Danny took one look, where only he can save turned, walked to the dayopen window and jumped to his death from the fourth floor. |isbn=0956180523 Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.

|isbn=18387731691788549759|title=Her Majesty 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 evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the Queen Investigates: shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken her.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Windsor KnotKilling Kind|author=S J BennettJane Casey

|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter CourtDifficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. SheAfter all, it was her cross-examination of the 's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, whovictim's attempting to raise money which saved him from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsa lengthy prison sentence. ThereHe'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one accused of stalking the performers brought in woman but it didn't take long to play establish that - if anything - it was the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesother way around. The immediate reaction is Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out police officer at his trial had told her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, that this was the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnbest chance they't bear d had to go down any of ''those'' roadsput Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchardwalker14|title=The Coral BrideColdest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity 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 detectives Jalipeau, known as J- a female fisherwomanJ, making her living in to solve a man's worldcase which had haunted him for thirty years. When her lobster trawler is The body of a young male was found drifting off in the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to come justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and head the investigation. resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? Although J-J calls the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on, and finds himself frustrated at his door: he sees it every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has leaves his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that office: he is unable doesn't want to talk forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesjustice.|isbn=1913193322

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1471181405|title= The Last Resort Nighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private islandSheffield's [http://www.sbg. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyorg. The group includes a games designeruk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems if you'd like to have visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an area industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mysteryyoung woman was discovered. We follow It had obviously been buried in one of the group as they explore beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the island, earth for months and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all could have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenbeen undiscovered for years. As The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the clock ticks downtwo, these well-kept secrets are revealedvery rare, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for Investigating Officer and her attendance foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and protect the rest of the guests DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from the increasingly sinister accidents extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that befall themhe's not fully recovered from his injuries. |isbn=1542020018}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Well, at least you're a Wexford man.''