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|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQWill Carver|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was Maeve is a furious storm going on high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a big vehicleself-acknowledged psychopath. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops Whilst analysing and Stephanie critiquing the AA steps she is bundled into mainly using the car and driven offgroups to find targets... There has been no sign targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her - or her body - in the two years sinceviolent behaviour. Georgia is back is FerngateYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, determined to find out what happened and when she's not going unable to be stoppedfind 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

|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=00083301311471196615|title=The Stolen SistersIced|author=Louise JensenFelix Francis|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from Miles Pussett used to be a dreadful event they Steeplechase jockey but those days are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy in past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the physical sensethree-quarter-mile Cresta Run, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksoccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. They're He was in St Moritz the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteensame weekend as White Turf -yearsthat's high-old class horseracing on the frozen lake and she was in charge against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of her sisters, the eight-year-old twinshorses. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionit. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't shut properly and Brunohelp but look for answers, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after even when it puts him they were snatched by two menin danger.

|authorisbn=Will Carver147228612X|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan Johnson

|summary= Hinton HollowWe all know people like Gary Nelson, population 5although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiet,120uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radar. It sounds In a city like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaLondon, that's midquite easy -west, but this particular Hinton Hollow and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight of his day is watching a small town in Berkshirebeautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have the courage. Then, Englandon his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, until something happened Russian secret agents and he ran away to the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townMetropolitan police.|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=00083783630008433631|title=One Perfect MorningNext of Kin|author=Pamela CraneKia Abdullah|rating=3.5

|summary=A husband is about It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to have Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his throat cut father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in his own beda panic. To find out who - and why - we need He was supposed to be taking Max to go back nine days school but he'd been called into work and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college delay in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still getting there could lead to financial losses. As the best school was only five minutes out of friends. Leila's way, could she drop him off? When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as Of course, she could and a nod to sleeping Max was duly strapped into the famous girl band back of the dayher car. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin On the Homemaker and Mackenzie way Leila took a phone call - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in there was panic at her own life. She married Owenwork too, her college sweetheart and they have with a problem which could put a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteenmulti-yearmillion-oldpound contract at risk.

|isbn=07515674261784165263|title=The Wicked SisterInvite Me In|author=Karen DionneEmma Curtis

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham sheI's an inpatient at m not the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganfirst to point out how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thriller, so I's Upper Peninsula. Shell move on quickly – but this won's twenty-six and has been there t be winning any awards for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himselforiginality. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. RachelIt's an interesting plot with a good pace, but it does very bright little to differentiate itself and although sheI suspect before much time has passed I's ll have forgotten a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she rememberslot of it.|isbn=1838775242 }}

|isbnauthor=0008314721Teresa Driscoll|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahHer Perfect Family

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''effortfulHe is not who he says he is…'' family. Flowers are sent , paving the way for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a phone call in return. There are two sons twist of the familyevents, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherafter a change of outfit, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off Gemma is shot in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort midst of thingher graduation ceremony. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolWith Gemma then in a coma, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has what follows is a complex whodunit with a place at Oxford next year and all seemed list of suspects that continues to be going well until grow the night when he was rapedfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0008370982|title=The Seven DoorsRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest gave her a genre of any kind until we're weekend away in a full fifth of the way throughconverted chapel in Scotland. We start with our coupleHer husband, she a literature lecturerAdam, he big in medical provision and decisions at isn't so keen on the councilidea. Like Amelia, being forced to move out of he knows that their home, marriage has been under strain: he's a building screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyhe'd occupied for over thirty yearsprefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. The building heAmelia's inheritedannoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mothermany of whom have been abused, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'never easy. Now, at this stage you may wellStill - she's won the weekend away, even if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, passenger seat - and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until then doing the point where the evicted tenant is found same thing to have completely vanishedcome back a couple of days later.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792730008421714|title=House of CorrectionMrs March|author=Nicci FrenchVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheThe problem began just after the publication of George March's in prison, on remandmost successful novel to date. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first appearsname only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to have a showerbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, unpleasant as she was wrapping the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get herebread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you? '' WellShe mentioned that Johanna, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in principal character had 'her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithamannerisms''s house. So far as Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the police are concerned, Tabitha fact that Johanna is the only person who could have killed Rees whore of Nantes - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0241989094|title=The Lies You ToldPerfect Life|author=Harriet TyceNuala Ellwood|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start In August 2018 we meet a new school. Sheyoung woman called Imogen and she's left viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the school she loved in New York estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and now Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's going to Ashams in North Londonmaking this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hensthe same month but now we' teeth re in Wimbledon and as we encounter the pupils have all been there ''forever''same young woman, they have their established groups. Robinonly this time she's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Welljob hunting and living in her sister, over a matter of a few days her parentsGeorgie' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mothers, Sadie Roperspare room, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. Thatwhere she's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearssince she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1787634493|title= The CleanerAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless and coldly competent, John Milton is It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the British governmentopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn's best assets – t have 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 contract killer with lethal instinctslittle later. Now What could be better? Only, after ten yearswhen Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, he wants outwho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. But his job isn And so had Jenny't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xs nanny.

|isbnauthor=1838951067Claire McGowan|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardI Know You|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and heThen:''s watching Casey returns from a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor walk with the spine splayed upwardsbaby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.  ''Nothing ManNow:'' by Eve Black, Rachel is the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellout for a walk with her dog, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man whoBrandy, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of when she comes across a body in the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annawoods. |isbn=1542019974

|isbnauthor=178089922XPeter Papathanasiou|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Stoning|rating=3.5

|summary=''When you wear In a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissiontown sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, she's a bit of teacher has been transported across town at night in a boffinshopping trolley, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasnshe't s been easy for her: most people who have been close taped to her have died a tree and she's now living with had rocks bowled at her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatas if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. Something When she''reallys discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, really bad happened'' are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for three years Roan Fours was her therapistthe occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. He gently unpeeled Cue the layers arrival of her psycheGeorge Manolis, a higher rank from the city, but somehow managed to miss that 'something reallysort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really bad'going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law.. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1787631869|title=She Lies CloseThe Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she went missing'd built a good and decent life in the aftermath. She's now married to Daniel, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sincewho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and no arrests Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have been made. And yetfinancial difficulties, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Gracesome caused by Nick Povey, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in AvaDaniel's disappearancepartner and so-called best friend. As Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come home but it's difficult to light before they moved inthink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.|isbn=1789094194

|isbn=14091874381786332388|title=The First LieDay of Spring|author=A J ParkNancy Tucker|rating=34.5

|summary=On the second Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the front door openplot grips you and won't let go. His wife was in So, what's the bedroom in a state of shock and in problem? Well, the bathroom there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in problem is Chrissie, the neck with Paulmain character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's paperjust killed someone - a two-year-knifeold boy. In She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that moment Paul takes whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a decision clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. Steven come back, she wonders? TheyHasn're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happened.t he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=1787301435B088YWF5BC|title=Dark WatersThe Lies We Tell|author=G R HallidayJane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when Sarah Wallace said that she opted to drive down the private road grew up on a council estate in Glen TurritKent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It was seemed to have been a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingloving, stable family. When the blond child stepped out in front of we first meet her , she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldncan't work out where she wassleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, but it obviously wasnhasn't a conventional hospitalcome home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. SheHer husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they'd made her first mistake some time ago, although re moving house in the realisation wouldnmorning but he't s still going to be obvious going to her for a long timework and he needs his sleep. SheHe wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4s killed someone.

|isbnauthor=1780899858Louise Candlish|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanThe Heights

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice Ellen doesn't expect to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodssee Kieran that day. Her four-year-old brotherShe's on site, Teddy, would have woken the house if visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she hadn't taken spies him with her. But in a building across the early hours way. There are lots of the morningthings, lots of people, Lucy returned home without Teddyyou might see when you look out across London, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadnbut this isn't and no one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to the police investigationbeen dead for over two years, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendand Ellen knows this for a fact, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policebecause she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483