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|author= Gunnar StaalesenWill Carver|title= Fallen AngelsPsychopaths Anonymous|rating= 23.5

|summary=Varg VeumMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, lone wolf detectivecuriously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is backalso a self-acknowledged psychopath. After attending a former friendWhilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's funeralmisery, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and the sins of the past are exposed when she's unable to the light find like-minded people in any of the present. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation groups she decides to root out the clues hidden in his set up her own history , hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and to catch a killerthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=19131930631913193756

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1471196615|title= The CaptiveIced|author=Felix Francis|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the cagethree-quarter-mile Cresta Run, intimatelyoccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. It lurks He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the corner saddling of her eyethe horses. Soon, It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it will be occupied. Then what? What if But when he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him?|isbn=1838772650in danger.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ147228612X|title=The Long Dark RoadLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=P R BlackAlan Johnson|rating=4.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaWe all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridget taken much notice of them. There was a furious storm going on They live quiet, uneventful lives and she'd already refused stay mostly under the offer of help from one man in a big vehicleradar. WeIn a city like London, that'll see - but no one else will know s quite easy - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offeven Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. There has been no sign The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her - or makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her body - in for a date but he doesn't have the two years sincecourage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Georgia is back is FerngateBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, determined to find out what happened Russian secret agents and she's not going to be stoppedthe Metropolitan police.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008433631|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 Next of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen SistersKin|author=Louise JensenKia Abdullah|rating=3.5

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know It was the sort of thing that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultshappened every day, although not to Leila Syed. WellShe'd never driven her nephew, they're healthy in the physical senseMax, to school before but Carly has trust issueshis father, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksAndrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic. TheyHe was supposed to be taking Max to school but he're d been called into work and the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolendelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. Carly As the school was thirteen-years-old only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and she a sleeping Max was in charge duly strapped into the back of her sisters, the eight-year-old twinscar. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get On the way Leila took a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held call - there was panic at her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about work too, with a lost ball and problem which could put a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menmulti-million-pound contract at risk.

|authorisbn=Will Carver1784165263|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis

|summary= Hinton HollowI'm not the first to point out how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thriller, population 5,120so I'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westan interesting plot with a good pace, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, England. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened it does very little to differentiate itself and he ran away to the city. HeI suspect before much time has passed I's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townll have forgotten a lot of it.|isbn=19131933061838775242 }}

|isbnauthor=0008378363Teresa Driscoll|title=One Her Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneFamily|rating=3.5

|summary=A husband is about The novel begins by introducing you to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out Gemma, who - and why - we need at first instance appears to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziebe your average student, Robin and Lily met when they all went to faced with the same college in Monroevillefamiliar horrifying realisation, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still at the best of friendseleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. When they first met they called themselves Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the Spicier Girls as a nod to way for the famous girl band of sinister tone that remains throughout the daynovel. Lily would be Adventure SpiceIn a twist of events, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellafter a change of outfit, Mackenzie would be Gemma is shot in the supporting actress in midst of her own lifegraduation ceremony. She married OwenWith Gemma then in a coma, her college sweetheart and they have what follows is a complex whodunit with a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldlist of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=07515674260008370982|title=The Wicked SisterRock Paper Scissors|author=Karen DionneAlice Feeney

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twentyAmelia Wright is forty-six two and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she it was eleven-years-old and the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her father then took the gun and killed himselfa weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her sisterhusband, DianaAdam, just twenty-years-old, was left at isn't so keen on the family homeidea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a lodge in screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the Upper Peninsula wildernessnovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. RachelAmelia's very bright annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and although she's a voluntary patient at working with the Mental Health Center she remains theredogs, many of whom have been abused, feeling that this is what she deservesnever easy. Perhaps, thoughStill - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the circumstances are not as she rememberssame thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=00083147210008421714|title=Truth Be ToldMrs March|author=Kia AbdullahVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The Hadids are an problem began just after the publication of George March''effortful'' familys most successful novel to date. Flowers are sent for Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the slightest problem last page) seemed to either be reading it or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in returnhad already done so. There are two sons of Every day Mrs March went to the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, SofiaPatricia asked, regrets that as she didnwas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't name them this the other way round: first time he'Adam and Kamrans based a character on you?' trips off ' She mentioned that Johanna, the tongue so much more easily than principal character had 'her mannerisms'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that sort Johanna is the whore of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, where they boardunloved, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedunloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0241989094|title=The Seven DoorsPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until In August 2018 we're meet a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, young woman called Imogen and she 's viewing a literature lecturer, he big house in medical provision Goring-on-Thames and decisions at telling the councilestate agent about her three children, being forced to move out Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and handful which theyis why she'd occupied for over thirty yearss making this trip on her own. The building hehouse would be perfect for them. It's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant the same month but now we'take a hike, I'm moving re in Wimbledon and you're moving out'. Nowwe encounter the same young woman, at only this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think ittime she's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us job hunting and living in the 1980sher sister, but no. We avoid genre completelyGeorgie's, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyspare room, in case that has any bearing on what happens herewhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesConnor. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731787634493|title=House of CorrectionAll Her Fault|author=Nicci FrenchAndrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, she's in prisonMilo, to go on remanda play date. Shewas concerned that he didn's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearst have any friends at his new school. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and encourages her to have Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might belittle later. And how did Tabitha get hereWhat could be better? WellOnly, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees door was discovered in her garden shed answered by Andrew KaneEsther, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithadidn's houset know Jenny or Jacob. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house The phone number she 'd been given for Jenny was covered in his bloodnot recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSClaire McGowan|title=The Lies I Know You Told|author=Harriet Tyce|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start 'Then:'' Casey returns from a new school. She's left walk with the school she loved in New York baby, Carson, and now she's going to Ashams in North Londoncomes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. It 's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. RobinNow:'s going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence Rachel is staying in New York - he works out for a securities firm - and walk with her motherdog, Sadie RoperBrandy, has come back to London to pick up her practice as when she comes across a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of body in the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearswoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author= Mark DawsonPeter Papathanasiou|title= The CleanerStoning|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless 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's been taped to a tree and coldly competentshe's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, John Milton are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is one of reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the British governmentfeeling – and it's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsonly fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. NowCue the arrival of George Manolis, after ten yearsa higher rank from the city, he wants to sort everything out. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=178739462X1529416973

|isbn=18389510671787631869|title=The Nothing ManRising Tide|author=Catherine Ryan HowardSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heLucy Locke's about to get a shock. Heearly life hadn't been easy but she's security at d built a supermarket good and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslydecent life in the aftermath. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning now married to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with the spine splayed upwards. Billie, Lucy''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blacks daughter and Fin, is the titlechild she had with Daniel. Why is Jim shocked? WellThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Jim was - ''is'Daniel' s partner and so- the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killedcalled best friend. The author of Nick and Daniel have a history together from the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mothertime they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, and then killed herparticularly where Lucy, her father and her seven-year-old sisteror money, Annais concerned.

|isbn=178089922X1786332388|title=Invisible GirlThe First Day of Spring|author=Lisa JewellNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'When you wear a hood, you're invisiblewas one such occasion.'' Saffyre Maddox The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is seventeen-years-old excellent and the plot grips you and beautifulwon't let go. By her own admissionSo, shewhat's a bit of a boffinthe problem? Well, doing and enjoying mathsthe problem is Chrissie, physics and biology at A levelthe main character. Life hasnWhen we first meet her she't been easy s just eight years old, small for her: most people who have been close to her have died age and she readily tells us that she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighthjust killed someone - a two-year-floor flatold boy. Something She's completely cold about what she'really, really bad happened'' to s done with her when main memory being that whilst she was ten and she selfkilling - suffocating -harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapisthands seized up. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss There's a clue that Chrissie isn'something really, really bad'. When t completely responsible for her actions a little later in the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftbook: when will Steven come back, but she retained an interest in Roan.wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Sharon DoeringB088YWF5BC|title=She The Lies CloseWe Tell|author=Jane Corry

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she went missinghad two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, around 6 months agostable family. There has been no sign of When we first meet her since, and no arrests have been made. And yetshe can't sleep because her son, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about GraceFreddie, who has just discovered her neighbour 's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in her new by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house is a suspect in Avathe morning but he's disappearancestill going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. As a single He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother to two young children, shethat he's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inkilled someone.|isbn=1789094194

|isbnauthor=1409187438Louise Candlish|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkHeights|rating=34.5

|summary=On Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the second way. There are lots of October 37-year-old barristerthings, Paul Reevelots of people, returned home at 9 pm to find his house you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in darkness and the front door openfact any other day. His wife was in the bedroom in a state of shock Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and in the bathroom there was Ellen knows this for a dead man who fact, because she had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paper-knife. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. They're going to bury the body hand in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedhis murder.|isbn=1471183483