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|isbnauthor=1529407249Will Carver|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was July 2019 Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and Erin was happyalso, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatcritiquing 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 always a dangerous thing misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to do when you're married to a cop but be searching for others who think as she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportdoes, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, Dannyshe's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple unable to find like-minded people in any of other officers. Danny took one lookthe groups she decides to set up her own, turnedhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, walked to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floorthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=17885497591784165263|title=The Distant DeadInvite Me In|author=Lesley ThomsonEmma Curtis

|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had gone out to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the evening fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sont get home, William, at home with her parentsthere would be trouble. The boy thought that Maple There was his sister - it some excuse: Martin was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacya paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamdon't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you's) on re good at being a better footingdisappointment''. She All this was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéin Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, hoping at the flat just as Eliza was about to persuade him to come and meet her family leave: he wanted the following week. Laterlease of flat 2, her body would be found 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in the bombed-out home where he had taken herbefore it was advertised as being available.

|isbn=00084049251784742775|title=The Killing KindA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Jane CaseySusan Hill

|summary=Difficult clients 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 nothing new , to barrister Ingrid Lewis a great extent, but John Webster came as Serrailler knew that something of a surprisehad to be done. After all, it Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines was her cross-examination of tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused t be the correct one) of stalking the woman person who was running him but it didnhe certainly wouldn't take long to establish that - if know anything - it was about those higher up in the other way aroundorganisation. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free The police might catch a few of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance runners but they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mannever get anywhere near those higher up.

|isbn=walker14B09HTWX47X|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Endless Obsession|author=Martin WalkerDai Henley

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work s some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI 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 JMet but now a well-J, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty yearsrespected private investigator. The body of a young male was found He's married to Laura, formerly his DS in the woods Murder Squad but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justicenow working in a forensics laboratory. What if an artist could recreate Flood's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the face nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with the skull family, and the resulting publicity be used Gemma to identify married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide the young man? support she needs. J-J calls the skull 'OscarFlood' s business is going well and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: that was why he doesn't want felt able to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justiceturn down the case of Lisa Black.

|isbn=14711814051529379385|title=NighthawkingThe Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Russ ThomasLouise Penny

|summary=SheffieldIn the Canadian village of Three Pines, we's [httpre post-pandemic://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) the scars are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city still there but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started life is starting to get back to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsnormal. The police need villagers are beginning to establish who stabbed her - return to the Bistro and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina RabbaniAuberge. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whovisiting each other's just returned from extended sick leavehomes and having friends and relatives to stay. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesall saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saint.

|isbn=0241985137183885410X|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Dark Remains|author=Cara HunterWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see one of the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsmajor crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor DC Jack Laidlaw is on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in CID team charged with the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? investigation. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''wasI say '' on the team'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just but Laidlaw never really seems to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is be a big name is Artificial Intelligencepart of it. She has an eight-year-old sonHe does his own thing, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes goes his own way and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''veryThe Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow' publics seedier pubs.

|isbn=19131935271942410255|title=Bound Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Sam ShephardHiroshi)|author=Vanda SymonMichael Pronko

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when ''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it heard ? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the murder minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffbullies like Shigeru Onizuka. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was forced to watch nothing in the murderway of regret or grief, with the scene being discovered by their soneven from his family, Declan, when but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he returned home 'd jumped from an evening outthe roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. The subsequent investigation would prove Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that John Henderson an employee, Mayu Yamase, had been involved in committed suicide some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalthree years earlier. His company, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed She''vitamin-type supplements d accused Onizuka of bullying her and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedovertime.

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0241425425|title=True Crime StoryThe Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created Elizabeth Best was a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"little surprised when she received the letter. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader Thames and who had never existed but then this is taken through the life and disappearance sort of Zoe through conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the eyes sender of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help letter (he's moved into the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she presented has a long professional history - and who used to othersbe her husband. However, He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the twists and turns at the end range of each chapter leave you shockeda CCTV camera on a raid, confused a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and unsure of what is true or fabricateda few 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. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|isbnauthor=1472276140|title=What Will Burn Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (Inspector McLeantranslator)|authortitle=James OswaldThe Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5

|summary=When Cecily SlaterMeet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's body was foundperfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, shethat they'd already been dead for a week prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid- in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghas workshopping. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceThis is when he finds his brother has died, but DI Tony McLeanhaving a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, demoted and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just returned from suspensionan adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is reluctant so not what Henri wants to accept occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he 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 this is nothing more than missing money – it's been turned into a careless accident. There were indications gambling debt that Slater had has also now been savagelyinherited by Henri, almost ritualistically beaten before and the fire. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman activities of these guys are not conducive to the extent of doing something like that? She was getting a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=000845552XB0925KS87N|title=Where Ravens RoostDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Karin NordinNeil Lancaster

|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard Tam Hardie had been estranged from his fatherdetermined to find the grave - and it took some finding, Stenarin an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, for more than a decade but when Tam was getting old and there were things he got the rather muddled phone call wanted to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him saying again after he'd said that he'd seen a murder in found the grave - the barn on his land he didnone which said that it shouldn't hesitate to drop everything be opened - and go his three sons began to Varsundworry. ActuallyTam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn'drop everything' rather overstates the situation. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out t normally go to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best friend. Still, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldnpolice but they weren't be underestimatedcertain where their father had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1838773428Doug Johnstone|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellGreat Silence|rating=4.5

|summary=It was an art installation For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of the type which who's who – although Johnstone does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction good job of three homeless men bringing the backstory in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidwithout being heavy handed about it. Only this time Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it's not sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a depiction: these are the bodies family of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton undertakers. Undertakers and 34-year-old Noel Tippingprivate investigators. The installation Dorothy is the work of @nonymousmatriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, underground artist she married a scot and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, we've already met ended up helping to run the artist although not by name: he's Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the Lumberyard Cafe family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with his Moleskine notebooka black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, Maki-e fountain pen46, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with haunted by her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take still-living husband – a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's appliedviolent escaped prisoner. Chau Ho And grand-daughter is behind about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, tooacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=B08NZ4LV2R0008269041|title=Dark Memories (DS Nikki Parekh 3)Risk of Harm|author=Liz MistryLucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Peggy Dyson was DCI Robin Lyons is back in her sixties and hadn't worn wellnative Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She was might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a drug addict and was living under the arches nasty taste in Forster Square Station in Bradfordher mouth. Her killer thought that he She was probably doing now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her a favour by putting heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her misery. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are on the case. Nikki canparent't quite understand why shes home into a rented house but there's been sent an anonymous letter still a difficult situation with a press report her brother Luke who has gone out of the death. It had been impossible his way to make any progress in the case and the note seemed to taunt the police. Then another note arrived with life difficult for Robin since she was a report of a seemingly unconnected death in Cambridgeyoung child. The third death - in the street where Nikki lived as He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child - brought another communication, with a further clue under the victim - and Nikki was sure that there was something personal but he's still got it in the casefor Robin.

|isbn=17874778001846975719|title=The Night Hawks For Any Other Truth (Dr Ruth GallowayDCI Jim Daley)|author=Elly GriffithsDenzil Meyrick|rating=43.5

|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that there's treasure to be found. London, isn't it? UnfortunatelyWhat's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, the youngest of the groupDCI Jim Daley and his colleague, twenty-one-year-old Troy EvansActing DI Brian Scott, finds the body of a man floating on head off for the incoming tideairport straight away. After pulling it ashore, they call It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the policeplane were dead before take off. DCI Nelson thinks How could that it's probably the body be? The sort of an asylum seeker but theretech which would make that possible isn's no evidence of any activity t available to be had from the coastguardpaying public. The dead And why have the man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|isbn=00083793001409181669|title=The Shadow ManMaidens|author=Helen FieldsAlex Michaelides|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and he knows that he's dyinglooked likely to get away with them both. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning She needed to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child think carefully about what she knew and a brotherdecide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. HeShe's d been on the lookout for the perfect people brutally stabbed and heMariana's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsniece, Zoe, and pictures had telephoned her in frames have been painted onto the wallsdistress. Angela Fernycroft Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to be his wifecope. Her husband, CalMariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had taken been made all the more so by the children - a boy death of seven and Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a girl of five, away for the weekendswimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Unfortunately, it doesnZoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe't go according to plan s mother and Angela diesMariana's sister, Eliza.

|isbn=B08BC4D58S0241400120|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonassonand Victoria Cribb

|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector Una was not thriving in Siglufjordur Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and hesince then she's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin d given up her medical studies and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do retrained as a Masters degreeteacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, taking three-year-old Stefnir with showed heran advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. They There were supposed to spend Christmas together only ten people in the village but Kristin cancelleda teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. It's now Una was the Thursday of Holy Week only applicant and his family is due to arrive the job meant that she could let her flat in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on AdalgataReykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the main street of the townwinter which her contract covered.

|isbn=178089905X1529407249|title=SerpentineThe Perfect Lie|author=Jonathan KellermanJo Spain|rating=4.5

|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-six years ago was July 2019 and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answersErin was happy. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto MiloDanny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old always a dangerous thing to do when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasnyou't actually re married to the man with whom a cop but shewas hopeful. They'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barkerbeen married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, optometristDanny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a good man and he couple of other officers. Danny took out adoption papers for Ellie - one look, turned, walked to the open window and she took jumped to his namedeath from the fourth floor. Ellie was three when Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinehusband's murder.

|isbn=000820831X1788549759|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenDistant Dead|author=Stuart MacBrideLesley Thomson|rating=4.5

|summary=At It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the coastal village of Clachmaraevening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, the headland is slowly eroding into the seaat home with her parents. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on family than the rocks shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see whatWilliam's happening) on a better footing. Margaret runs after She was going to meet her son and as she grabs him well-to-do fiancé, hoping to pull persuade him back to safety she glances across at come and meet her family the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesfollowing week. Gordon Smith's home is falling into Later, her body would be found in the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it bombed- except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as out home where he later escapes the tumbling ruinhad taken her.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008404925|title=The KhanKilling Kind|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as good as men and four times as good as white mensomething of a surprise. This has served After all, it was her well in her rise through cross-examination of the criminal justice system and by 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the time she is called home for her sisterwoman but it didn's wedding after fifteen years in selft take long to establish that -imposed exile, she is at if anything - it was the top of her gameother way around. Returning Soon Ingrid never seemed to the city be free of her birth, John Webster and then she came to old scars see him as a threat and fresh wounds, Jia must confront was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her past and reconcile her visions that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for the future with her sense of honour and dutya long time: he was a very dangerous man.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=B08BTXSS84walker14|title=Fallen Angel The Coldest Case (Gaby Darin Book 3A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Jenny O'BrienMartin Walker

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the usual flood prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of cases has slowed police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to less than solve a dribble and she's looking through cold cases case which had haunted him for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look atthirty years. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder The body of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock a young male was found in 1995 the woods but he was never identified and Gaby is intriguedhis killer never brought to justice. She can't see any immediate failings in What if an artist could recreate the original investigation: Angelica disappeared face from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, the skull and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno resulting publicity be used to identify the next day. young man? She was wearing a handJ-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasnJ calls the skull 't Oscar''quite'' told the whole storyand has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: hedoesn's married t want to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterforget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.

|isbn=14721347101471181405|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathNighthawking|author=M C BeatonRuss Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and sheSheffield's left South Moulton Street for a cottage [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 Cotswold village body of Carsleya young woman was discovered. She's have preferred It had obviously been buried in one of the more romantic names beds but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. who would have started to dig her up? Now It had been in the problem is settling into a different way of life - earth for months and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplecould have been undiscovered for years. The first move is police need to enter the village quicheestablish who stabbed her -baking competition and who left the beginning of the campaign two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and his wife Vera out to dinnerDC Mina Rabbani. She knows sheThey're joined by DS Guy Daley who's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and itjust returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's a good investment as she knows obnoxious as ever but suspects that shehe's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming not fully recovered from a Chelsea Bakery..his injuries.