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|isbnauthor=0008214468Will Carver|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5

|summary=A workman has Maeve is a nasty surprise when he pulls high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a package out of an excavation on a building siteself-acknowledged psychopath. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is a hand, severed above mainly using the wristgroups to find targets. It's been there ..targets for about twenty-five sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Hehear of people's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughtersmisery, Becca and Bellatargets for her violent behaviour. Sandford's determined Yet she also seems to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically goodsearching for others who think as she does, but morally good.'' One of the ways heand when she's planning on going about this is unable to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morlandfind like-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor minded people in any of the Exchequergroups she decides to set up her own, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy hoping to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementencounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1471196615|title= Fallen AngelsIced|author=Felix Francis|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending Miles Pussett used to be a former friend's funeral, Veum catches up with old friends Steeplechase jockey but soon historic grievances and wounds those days are opened past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the sins of same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the past are exposed to frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the light saddling of the presenthorses. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and Veum he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in his own history and to catch a killerdanger.|isbn=1913193063

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor147228612X|title= The CaptiveLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan Johnson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cageWe all know people like Gary Nelson, intimatelyalthough we probably haven't taken much notice of them. It lurks in They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the corner of her eyeradar. Soon In a city like London, it will be occupiedthat's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. Then what? What if The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he speaks 'd love to ask her? What if for a date but he escapes? What if doesn't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0008433631|title=The Long Dark RoadNext of Kin|author=P R BlackKia Abdullah|rating=45

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridged never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic. There He was a furious storm going on and shesupposed to be taking Max to school but he'd already refused been called into work and the offer of help from one man delay in a big vehiclegetting there could lead to financial losses. WeAs the school was only five minutes out of Leila'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops s way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and Stephanie is bundled a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car and driven off. There has been no sign of On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi- or her body million- in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedpound contract at risk.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1784165263|title= The Last Resort Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to an all-expenses paid retreat be home to test a brand-new product from make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the mysterious Timeo Technology companyfact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. The group includes There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a games designerwheelchair, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems but don't be too quick to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessarybe understanding. All except Amelia whose presence is He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a mysterydisappointment''. We follow All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the group flat just as they explore Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the islandlease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and each other's histories and he was desperate to get in before it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenwas advertised as being available. As }}{{Frontpage |author=Robert Peston |title=The Whistleblower |rating=3 |genre=Thrillers|summary=I'm not the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and first to point out how fitting it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really for Robert Peston to write a gilded cagepolitical thriller, so I'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. In It's an interesting plot with a race against timegood pace, Amelia must struggle but it does very little to uncover the reason for her attendance differentiate itself and protect the rest I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themit. |isbn=15420200181838775242

|isbnauthor=0008330131Teresa Driscoll|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenHer Perfect Family|rating=3.5

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know 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 twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are her graduation outfit is all healthy adultswrong. WellSuddenly, theyGemma receives an eerie message stating 're healthy in 'He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. They're sinister tone that remains throughout the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolennovel. Carly was thirteen-years-old In a twist of events, and she was after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in charge the midst of her sisters, the eight-year-old twinsgraduation ceremony. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get With Gemma then in a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about coma, what follows is a lost ball and complex whodunit with a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As list of suspects that continues to grow the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Will Carver0008370982|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|summary= Hinton HollowAmelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, population 5Adam,120isn't so keen on the idea. It sounds like one Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in Americamaking it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, Englandhoping to adapt than with her. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and he ran away to working with the citydogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. HeStill - she's running won the weekend away again…only this time evil is following him , even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and is going then doing the same thing to touch just about everyone in towncome back a couple of days later.|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=00083783630008421714|title=One Perfect MorningMrs March|author=Pamela CraneVirginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241989094|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=4

|summary=A husband In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is about to have his throat cut in his why she's making this trip on her own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsThe house would be perfect for them.

Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to It's the same college month but now we're in Monroeville, Pennsylvania Wimbledon and twenty years later they're still we encounter the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spicesame young woman, Robin the Homemaker only this time she's job hunting and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress living in her own life. She married Owensister, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterGeorgie's, Ariaspare room, whowhere she's now fifteen-year-oldbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|isbn=07515674261787634493|title=The Wicked SisterAll Her Fault|author=Karen DionneAndrea Mara

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper PeninsulaIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. She's twenty-six and has Marissa Irvine had been there hoping that the opportunity would arise 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 himself. Her sisterson, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family homeMilo, to go on a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessplay date. RachelShe was concerned that he didn's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient t have any friends at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserveshis new school. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and this prompts Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a phone call in returnlittle later. There are two sons of What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the familyhouse, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their expecting to meet Jacob's mother, SofiaJenny, regrets that she the door was answered by Esther, who didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamknow Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Sofia worries about that sort of thingMilo had disappeared. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, 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 rapedAnd so had Jenny's nanny.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Claire McGowan|title=The Seven DoorsI Know You

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're Then:'' Casey returns from a full fifth of walk with the way through. We start with our couplebaby, she a literature lecturerCarson, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their homecomes across three bodies, almost a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearswhole family taken down. The building he '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 'take a hike, INow:'m moving in and you're moving Rachel is out'. Nowfor a walk with her dog, at this stage you may wellBrandy, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be when she comes across a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us body 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, 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 the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedwoods. |isbn=19131933811542019974

|isbnauthor=1471179273Peter Papathanasiou|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchThe Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, she's a teacher has been transported across town at night in prisona shopping trolley, on remand. Sheand she's sharing been taped to a cell with Michaela, whotree and she's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages had rocks bowled at her to have a shower, unpleasant as if she were the whole processes might beworld's tallest cricket stumps. And how did Tabitha get here? WellWhen she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, on 21 December including the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kanelocal cops, who was helping with are quite confident the culprit has come from the renovations immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to Tabitha. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's houseonly fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. So far as Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the police are concernedcity, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, Tabitha insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodlaw...|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1787631869|title=The Lies You ToldRising Tide|author=Harriet TyceSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnLucy Locke's early life hadn't happy about having to start been easy but she'd built a new schoolgood and decent life in the aftermath. She's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going married to Ashams in North London. ItDaniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth daughter and as Fin, the pupils child she had with Daniel. They have all been there ''forever''financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, they have their established groups. RobinDaniel's going to be an outsiderpartner and so-called best friend. And why is this happening? Well, over Nick and Daniel have a matter of history together from the time they both spent in a few days her parentschildren' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, s home but it's difficult to think that Nick has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. ThatDaniel's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsbest interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1786332388|title= The Cleaner|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless and coldly competent, John Milton is one First Day of the British government's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instincts. Now, after ten years, he wants out. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838951067|title=The Nothing ManSpring|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heSometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''s about to get a shock. HeThe First Day of Spring's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslywas one such occasion. She has a book tucked under her arm The writing is superb and he wonders if she's planning to pay for itcompletely compelling. Suddenly it drops to The characterisation is excellent and the floor with the spine splayed upwardsplot grips you and won't let go. So, what''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is s the title. Why is Jim shockedproblem? Well, Jim was - ''the problem is'' - Chrissie, the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killedmain character. The author of the book was twelve When we first meet her she's just eight years old when Jim raped , small for her mother, age and then she readily tells us that she's just killed her, her father and her sevensomeone - a two-year-old sisterboy. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, Anna.she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=178089922XB088YWF5BC|title=Invisible GirlThe Lies We Tell|author=Lisa JewellJane Corry|rating=54

|summary=''When you wear Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a hoodloving, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautifulstable family. By When we first meet her own admission, shecan't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying mathsnearly sixteen, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and shecome home by the time he sort of half-promised he's now living with her Uncle Aaron d be in an eighth-floor flatby. Something ''reallyHer husband, Tom, really bad happenedis fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he' s still going to be going to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help work and for three years Roan Fours was her therapisthe needs his sleep. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psychewakes, though, but somehow managed to miss when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roans killed someone.

|author=Sharon DoeringLouise Candlish|title=She Lies CloseThe Heights|rating=4.5

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she went missing, around 6 months agospies him in a building across the way. There has been no sign are lots of things, lots of her sincepeople, and no arrests have been made. And yetyou might see when you look out across London, but this book is not about Avaisn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Not really. This book is about GraceWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As and Ellen knows this for a single mother to two young childrenfact, because she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved a hand inhis murder.|isbn=17890941941471183483