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|author=Joseph KnoxWill Carver|title=True Crime StoryPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary= Joseph KnoxMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitscuriously, has created addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"self-acknowledged psychopath. The story follows Whilst analysing and critiquing the disappearance AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of Zoe Nolan from people's misery, and targets for her university halls of residenceviolent behaviour. Split into four partsYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of Zoe through the eyes of groups she decides to set up her twin sisterown, other familyhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, friends and professionalsthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, such as Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the policefact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. The various accounts help the reader If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to know Zoea wheelchair, or but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at least the Zoe being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she presented to others. Howeverfirst met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the twists and turns at flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the end lease of each chapter leave you shockedflat 2, confused 42 Linden Road and unsure of what is true or fabricatedhe was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|isbn=14722761401784742775|title=What Will Burn A Change of Circumstance (Inspector McLeanSimon Serrailler)|author=James OswaldSusan Hill

|summary=When Cecily SlaterDrugs hadn's body was found, she'd already t really been dead for that much of a week - problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghbit of a waste of time. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceThey still were, to a great extent, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant Serrailler knew that something had to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidentbe done. There Children as young as nine were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the firecounty lines was tight. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the extent correct one) of doing something like that? She the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=000845552XB09HTWX47X|title=Where Ravens RoostEndless Obsession|author=Karin NordinDai Henley

|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, StenarIt's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, for more than formerly a decade DCI in the Met but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that henow a well-respected private investigator. He'd seen a murder s married to Laura, formerly his DS in the barn on his land he didnMurder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood't hesitate s daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to drop everything Australia, from where she has very little contact with the family, and go Gemma to Varsundmarried life. Actually, She'drop everything' rather overstates the situation. Nygaard s had mental problems since she was on suspension following abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquirysupport she needs. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, NygaardFlood's best friend. Still, business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south case of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimatedLisa Black.

|isbn=18387734281529379385|title=The Art Madness of DeathCrowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=David FennellLouise Penny

|summary=It was an art installation of In the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction Canadian village of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time itThree Pines, we's not a depictionre post-pandemic: these the scars are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tippingstill there but life is starting to get back to normal. The installation is villagers are beginning to return to the work of @nonymous, underground artist Bistro and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followthe Auberge. In fact, weThey've already met the artist although not by name: here visiting each other's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air homes and having friends and iPhonerelatives to stay. Elaine Kelly A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is there with her son, Jordan, one such visitor and she's explaining soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to her best friendbe around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, Jackie Morris about known in the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite village as the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooAsshole Saint.

|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R183885410X|title=The Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Remains|author=Liz MistryWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5

|summary=Peggy Dyson was in her sixties and hadn't worn well. She Bobby Carter was a drug addict lawyer and was living under consigliere to one of the arches in Forster Square Station major crime families in Bradford. Her killer thought that he was probably doing her a favour by putting her out of her miserynineteen seventies Glasgow. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are Jack Laidlaw is on the caseCID team charged with the investigation. Nikki canI say 't quite understand why she's been sent an anonymous letter with a press report of on the death. It had been impossible to make any progress in the case and the note seemed team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to taunt the police. Then another note arrived with be a report part of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridgeit. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The third death - in Dark Remains'' uncovers the street where Nikki lived as a child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki truth of why Bobby Carter's body was sure that there was something personal in the casefound behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.

|isbn=17874778001942410255|title=The Night Hawks Tokyo Zangyo (Dr Ruth GallowayDetective Hiroshi)|author=Elly GriffithsMichael Pronko

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? The night hawks hours for which you're paid are metal detectorists and theyreally just a statement of the minimum you're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that therell be required to do: you's treasure ll work more hours to get the job done and done to be foundthe satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. Unfortunately, When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the youngest way of the groupregret or grief, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evanseven from his family, finds but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the body roof of a man floating on the incoming tidebuilding or been assisted in his descent. After pulling it ashore, they call Gossip revolves around the police. DCI Nelson thinks fact that it's probably he left the roof at the body of exact same spot that an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity to be employee, Mayu Yamase, had from the coastguardcommitted suicide some three years earlier. The dead man turns out She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonwork an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|isbn=00083793000241425425|title=The Shadow ManWho Died Twice|author=Helen FieldsRichard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dyingElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. His It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is giving up the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brotherregular basis. He's been on When she visits the lookout for sender of the perfect people and letter (he's made certain preparations. The flat where moved into the family will live is prepared and even windows Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with curtains, whom she has a long professional history - and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was who used to be his wifeher husband. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a boy mask being removed within the range of seven a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a girl of five, away for the weekendfew death threats. UnfortunatelyHe's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, it doesnwho't go according to plan and Angela diess his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|isbnauthor=B08BC4D58S|title=Winterkill Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (Dark Icelandtranslator)|authortitle=Ragnar JonassonThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=Ari Thor Arason Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and other human beings, he's still living perfect for his job in the house on Eyrargata which insurance company – until they decide he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do 's not a Masters degreeteam-member, taking threethat they'd prefer everyone to be all open-yearplan, holistic and keen on stupid-old Stefnir with heras workshopping. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. ItThis is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's now the Thursday of Holy Week radio channel, and his family has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoonjust an adventure park, and nothing else. Ari Thor ''YouMeFun'' is having trouble sleeping so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he finally managed to get to sleep 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 phone rings: amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the body of scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a young woman gambling debt that has also now been found on Adalgatainherited by Henri, and the main street activities of the townthese guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=178089905XB0925KS87N|title=SerpentineDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Jonathan KellermanNeil Lancaster|rating=54

|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis Tam Hardie had been dreaming about: a death from thirtydetermined to find the grave -six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted it took some answersfinding, in an overgrown old cemetery. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem It was dropped onto Miloa strange thing for Scotland's toes. Dorothy Swoboda premier criminal to do, but Tam was twenty-four years getting old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flamesthere were things he wanted to do. It turned out that she wasnOnly, his family didn't actually married to the man with whom shehear from him again after he'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and said that he took out adoption papers for Ellie 'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and she took his namethree sons began to worry. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker Tam Junior, Frankie and she has nothing of her Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but one photograph of her mother and they weren't certain where their father had been and a necklace made of serpentinethey were worried.

|isbnauthor=000820831XDoug Johnstone|title=The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBrideGreat Silence

|summary=At For those who, like me, haven't come across the coastal village of ClachmaraSkelfs before, the headland is slowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out I'll risk a quick synopsis of the house to see whatwho's happeningwho – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Margaret runs after her son and Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as she grabs him though it ought to pull him back to safety she glances across at be, it is merely the newly-exposed cliff front surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and sees human bonesprivate investigators. Gordon Smith's home Dorothy is falling into the North Sea matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the evidence of what he's Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been doing in the family for decades generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is going haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with it a first- except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes class physics degree and join the tumbling ruinacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008269041|title=The KhanRisk of Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menMet. This has served her well She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her rise through mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the criminal justice system man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top year-old daughter have moved out of her gameparent'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 make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. Returning He's married to the city of her birthNatalie, to old scars now and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions has a young child but he's still got it in for the future with her sense of honour and dutyRobin.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=B08BTXSS841846975719|title=Fallen Angel For Any Other Truth (Gaby Darin Book 3DCI Jim Daley)|author=Jenny O'BrienDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin We learn that MI5 is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to less than a dribble and sheawkward places. But that's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. London, isn't it? She canWhat't see any immediate failings s happening in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from Kinloch? When a room in a securely-locked houselight aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, wearing her pyjamasDCI Jim Daley and his colleague, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the next dayairport straight away. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead beforetake off. Bates hasnHow could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't ''quite'' told available to the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterpaying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|isbn=14721347101409181669|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Maidens|author=M C BeatonAlex Michaelides|rating=45

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement 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's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in thought - had begun with the Cotswold village death of CarsleyTara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringsniece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - Tara had been her best friend and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant she was struggling to peoplecope. The first move is Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to enter Cambridge, but she caught the village quiche-baking competition first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the beginning more so by the death of the campaign is taking the judgeMariana's husband, Reginald Cummings-BrowneSebastian, and his wife Vera out to dinnerin a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. She knows sheZoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary mother and itMariana's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Wellsister, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..Eliza.

|author= Gunnar Staalesen|title= Fallen Angels|rating= 2|genre=Thrillers|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friend's funeral, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of the past are exposed to the light of the present. 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 catch a killer.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15294103470241400120|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Girl Who Died|author=Helen CoxRagnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb

|summary=Kitt HartleyUna was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left d given up her library job medical studies and taken retrained as a place on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamteacher. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehow, to scrape together the She was thirty years old and moneywas tight. GraceHer friend, who's 22Sara, comes into showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the last categoryLanganes Peninsula. Her parents agreed to fund There were only ten people in the course village but told her that if that a teacher was what she chose to do then they were finished with herrequired for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Not long after Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she started could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agowinter which her contract covered.

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529407249|title= The CaptivePerfect Lie|author=Jo Spain|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows 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 decent apartment by the cagesea in Newport, intimatelyLong Island. It lurks in The knock on the corner door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of her eyeother officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floor. Soon Eighteen months later, it will Erin would be occupiedon trial for her husband's murder. 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=18388873341788549759|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Distant Dead|author=Angela MarsonsLesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=DI Kim Stone It was December 1940 and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone twenty-four-year- the course old Maple Greenhill had been a complete waste of time gone out for the evening 'with her as she knew friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The boy thought that she Maple was equally rude to everyone. It his sister - it was in better for the family than the shopping centre that Stone caught sight shame of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her motherlife (and William's) on a better footing. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case She was going to occupy their minds as meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterfollowing week. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quickLater, functional kill, but who her body would do that to a young mother be found in the bombed-out shopping with home where he had taken her child?.

|isbn=18387700460008404925|title=Body LanguageThe Killing Kind|author=A K TurnerJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk Difficult clients were nothing new to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to her. It's not barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beof a surprise. She's certainly not going to share After all, it with was her cross-examination of the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of 'victim' which saved him from a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianlengthy prison sentence. He's very conscious d been accused of his position and isnstalking the woman but it didn't even inclined take long to ask for establish that - if anything - it was the view other way around. 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 the anatomical pathology technicians despite police officer at his trial had told her that this was the fact that best chance they have 'd had to put Webster away for a lot more experience than him and long time: he has only was a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakevery dangerous man.

|isbn=1472255917walker14|title=The Roots Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Evil (Bob SkinnerPolice Novel)|author=Quintin JardineMartin Walker|rating=4.5

|summary=On New YearIt was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the golf club with idea which he thought might help his wifeboss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, Professor Sarah Graceknown as J-J, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares to solve a house, Dominic Jacksoncase which had haunted him for thirty years. Jackson would be better-known to The body of a young male was found in the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith woods but he's reformed was never identified and the new name reflects a new manhis killer never brought to justice. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at What if an artist could recreate the face from the clubhouse skull and are dropped home not long into the new year. resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? SkinnerJ-J calls the skull 's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he cannot: sees it's Mario McGuire asking for every time he leaves his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - office: hedoesn's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value t want to forget Oscar until his knowledge and experiencekiller has been brought to justice.

|isbn=18003211041471181405|title=The Body on the IslandNighthawking|author=Nick LouthRuss Thomas

|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldSheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was 67 years old and had served six years for disrupted when the manslaughter body of his wifea young woman was discovered. Only that wasn't It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who he was. would have started to dig her up? Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston It had served thirty years been in the earth for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten months and seventeencould have been undiscovered for years. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield The police need to establish who stabbed her - and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged who left the whereabouts of two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the body of one of his victimsInvestigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. He appeared to be a reformed character Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revenge's not fully recovered from his injuries.