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|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Teresa Driscoll|title=Girls Who LieHer Perfect Family|rating=35

|summary=You might The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You thinkyour average student, seeing on faced with the map that we're set in Akranesfamiliar horrifying realisation, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from at the capital cityeleventh hour, that this author her graduation outfit is clutching at the few final straws leftall wrong. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelSuddenly, itGemma receives an eerie message stating 's 'He is not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningwho he says he is…'', and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with paving the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked way for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopterssinister tone that remains throughout the novel. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at In a high level until it stopped all twist of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second placeevents, and now, after six monthsa change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the body has been discovered, midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhilecoma, this narrative what follows is interrupted by a confessional monologue from complex whodunit with a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption list of suspects that is so easy for the reader continues to make grow the right one?further you read.|isbn=191319373X1542028752

|isbn=15290473150008370982|title=The LamplightersRock Paper Scissors|author=Emma StonexAlice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having Amelia Wright is forty-two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and it was the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themstaff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland.'' In 1972 Her husband, fifteen miles off the coast of CornwallAdam, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in 'isn't so keen on the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''idea. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperLike Amelia, the weather such he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he''the boat [was] rocking s a screenwriter and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletshe's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he' but they were unable d prefer to get any response from spend time with the Maiden Rocknovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. It was broken into Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the next daydogs, but there was no sign many of the menwhom have been abused, is never easy. The table was set for a meal for two Still - and she's won the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the light had not been possible as passenger seat - and then doing the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened same thing to the mencome back a couple of days later.

|isbn=18385950310008421714|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityMrs March|author=Bronwen JohnVirginia Feito

|summary=The con had seemed like In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the new Banksy - estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and they should have made a decent profit from itBarclay. The problem was they were too successful: one boys are a bit of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelesshandful which is why she's making this trip on her own. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen The house would be perfect for a simple con and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatthem. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia  It'Ashs the same month but now we' Cox re in Wimbledon and Max we encounter the same young woman, only this time she'Colorados job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie' Ying needed to be got out of the country. In the course of bringing this abouts, Luke Gainesspare room, Ashwhere she's foster fatherbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, lost his lifeConnor.

|isbn=18389520121787634493|title=The FavourAll Her Fault|author=Laura VaughanAndrea Mara

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit It had seemed like one of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, after all, those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the daughter of the renowned authoropportunity would arise for her son, Anthony HowellMilo, who'd been to this collegego on a play date. Well, she wasnShe was concerned that he didn't ''actually'' Howellhave any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn'chosent know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she' rather than just 'made', which d been given for Jenny was better reallynot recognised. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandMilo had disappeared. Still, Ada And so had felt entitled and this was why her godmotherJenny's offer had come at such a brilliant timenanny.

|author=C A SachaClaire McGowan|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerI Know You

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has ''Then:'' Casey returns from a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring walk with the world's first emission-free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisbaby, BucephalusCarson, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into comes across three bodies, almost a second term to help him carry it outwhole family taken down. Montgomery  ''Now:'' Rachel is also looking out for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and walk with her foundationdog, Brandy, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..when she comes across a body in the woods. |isbn=18004619761542019974

|isbnauthor=0008336830Peter Papathanasiou|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Stoning|rating=43.5

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she saw 's been taped to a young woman looking tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as though if she was going to jump from were the Clifton suspension bridgeworld's tallest cricket stumps. She talks to herWhen she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to call her best friend . An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and flatmateit's only fair, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with herthe general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. She thought they shared Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everythingout. Satnam Because such an aggrieved, insular community is taken really going to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been on good terms since welcome a discovery Nevis made Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherlaw...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1787631869|title=The Disappearing ActRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the cusp of successaftermath. Great success. If the rumours are true She's now married to Daniel, award season is going to treat her wellwho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, acknowledging her for her latestand they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, critically acclaimed production. SheLucy's going places but sodaughter and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, unfortunatelysome caused by Nick Povey, is her Daniel's partnerand so-called best friend. And Nick and Daniel have a history together from the places hetime they both spent in a children's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. Ithome but it's a good time for Mia difficult to escapethink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseis concerned.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734281786332388|title=The Art First Day of DeathSpring|author=David FennellNancy Tucker

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidone such occasion. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton The writing is superb and 34-year-old Noel Tippingcompletely compelling. The installation characterisation is excellent and the work of @nonymous, underground artist plot grips you and extreme version of Banksy. Hewon's made a macabre promise: more will followt let go. In factSo, we've already met the artist although not by name: hewhat's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookproblem? Well, Maki-e fountain penthe problem is Chrissie, MacBook Air and iPhonethe main character. Elaine Kelly is there with When we first meet her son, Jordanshe's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagejust killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Actually, it doesnShe't take a lot of explaining: Franks completely cold about what she's attentions are obvious on done with her face despite the foundation main memory being that whilst she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counterwas killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's someone online, CassandraH, a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the artist has his eye onbook: when will Steven come back, too.she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Sarah SultoonB088YWF5BC|title=The SourceLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating=2.54

|summary=1996Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Essex It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. Thirteen-year When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-old schoolgirl Carly lives promised he'd be in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base. Her husband, Tom, struggling is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe going to work and he needs his sleep. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak..overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=1529378648Louise Candlish|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronThe Heights

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canEllen doesn't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs expect to be donesee Kieran that day. After all She''when things went awry s on Spook Streetsite, they generally went visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the full Chris Graylingway.'' Over at Regent's ParkThere are lots of things, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator lots of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It , you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted one Ellen expected that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought day or infact any other day. She won't always be so jubilant about Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows thisfor a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=00083793001838853804|title=The Shadow ManCursed Girls|author=Helen FieldsCaro Ramsay

|summary=Fergus Ariss Megan Melvick's earliest memory is in his late thirties and he knows of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dyingof anorexia. His body is giving up on himAs she dies, his internal organs beginning Melissa whispers 'sorry' to putrify Megan but before he dies he wants a wifewhat did she mean? There were lots of things, a child minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a brother. question? HeWas she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's been husband, Jago, on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. their wedding day? The flat where Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the family will live is prepared County and even windows with curtains, and pictures money was never in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was short supply - but there did seem to be his wifea curse. Her husbandIn addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, CalBeth, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekendleft suddenly three years before. Unfortunately, it doesnWould she come back for her elder daughter't go according to plan and Angela dies.s funeral?

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1409181669|title=The Other EmilyMaidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the two US coastsParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. ItShe'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's the western coast we're concerned withniece, a place he has to return toZoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and a place he has to be able she was struggling to leavecope. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoMariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, when but she vanished caught the first fast train from a remote road late at nightKing's Cross. HeMariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer nowhusband, who went a bit Hannibal LecterSebastian, and has in a dozen and more unfound Jane Does swimming accident on his recordNaxos some fourteen months earlier. David is trying to pry Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the connection between the murderer and his girl from the mandeath of Zoe's mind, but to no avail. Hemother and Mariana's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectionsister, of his loveEliza. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbnauthor=1529124417Sarah Langan|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerGood Neighbours

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseIf you're of a certain vintage, it's body in her car at hard to read the bottom of words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the lakeMelbourne suburbs. She knew that They're one of 18 households on the twenty-two-crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year-old waitress wouldnearlier. They't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was re not quite like all the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now other families (he's an ex rocker, she's moving on againa former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, this time to Boston where thereand it's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agoall going ok. Until it isn't. FrankieOne hot, middle-aged and whiteclammy, sticky, sweaty summer, gets a job and accommodation at Stoneysinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's bar a revolting mess of dirt and sets out to investigate chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the community which worst is just about exclusively blackyet to come.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0008395594|title=The TherapistBoth of You|author=B A ParisAdele Parks|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, a gated communityshe went to work and never came home. Mark, Alice Dawson was in VeniceOli and Seb are shattered. Leo wanted to move quickly on Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the property as it was on the market at such stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone bit off with Leigh for them a while but she put it down to be able him growing up and starting to afford itbecome independent. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationshipSeb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendsThen Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereShe too has vanished without trace.

|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system 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 of her game. Returning to the city 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 duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00082144681848458428|title=A Time to LieLocal Woman Missing|author=Simon BerthonMary Kubica|rating=54

|summary=A workman has Eleven years ago, a nasty surprise when man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he pulls a package was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out of an excavation on for a building siterun late at night. Itwas the only time she had for herself when she didn's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is t have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a handman, severed above grateful for the wristunquestioning affection he gave her. It's been there for about twenty-five The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to thirty-five yearslook after her disabled baby. Robin Sandford Ten days later, a local woman and her six- generally known as Robbie year- is Prime Ministerold daughter disappeared. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and Bella. Sandfordshe's determined d seemed to be a better type under some strain for the last couple of politician: he wants ''weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a government seedy motel - it appeared that is not just practically good, but morally good.she'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesd committed suicide. Henry Morland-CrossShe left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, the Deputy Prime Minister was safe and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been there was no point in agreementlooking for her.

|author= Gunnar StaalesenTerry Miles|title= Fallen AngelsRabbits|rating= 24.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Varg VeumWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, lone wolf detectivefor while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, is backit never leaves lower case throughout this book. After attending a former friendIt's funeralalso called Rabbits, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and wounds are opened fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the sins fan of the past conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are exposed trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the light lists of who has successfully won the game are in the presentmost peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and Veum how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is thrust into an investigation only to root find out that the line between observing and learning about the clues hidden in his own history game, and to catch playing it, is a killervery thin one indeed...|isbn=19131930631529016932