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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTWill Carver|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Veniceself-acknowledged psychopath. Leo wanted to move quickly on Whilst analysing and critiquing the property as it was on AA steps she is mainly using the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have groups to sell her cottage in Harlestone find targets...targets for them sexual encounters, targets to be able feed her desire to afford ithear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Alice agreed - Yet she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would also seems to be able searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to spend most find like-minded people in any of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therethus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1471196615|title=The KhanIced|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto Miles Pussett used to be twice as good as men a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and four times as good as white menhe now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. This has served her well He was in her rise through St Moritz the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sistersame weekend as White Turf - that's wedding after fifteen years in selfhigh-imposed exile, she is at class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the top saddling of her gamethe horses. Returning It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to the city of her birthit. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, to old scars and fresh woundsMiles can't help but look for answers, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyeven when it puts him in danger.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=0008214468147228612X|title=A Time The Late Train to LieGipsy Hill|author=Simon BerthonAlan Johnson|rating=4.5

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of an excavation on a building sitethem. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain They live quiet, uneventful lives and is a hand, severed above stay mostly under the wristradar. ItIn a city like London, that's been there for about twentyquite easy -five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Heand even Gary's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bellathree flatmates largely ignore him. Sandford's determined The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to be a better type of politicianwork on the train each morning: he wants ''d love to ask her for a government that is not just practically good, date but morally good.he doesn'' One of t have the ways he's planning courage. Then, on going about this is his homeward commute, Arina speaks to ban arms sales to dubious regimeshim and asks for his help. Henry Morland-CrossBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, the Deputy Prime Minister Russian secret agents and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementMetropolitan police.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0008433631|title= Fallen AngelsNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating= 25

|summary=Varg VeumIt was the sort of thing that happened every day, lone wolf detective, is backalthough not to Leila Syed. After attending a former friend She's funerald never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, Veum catches up with old friends had rung her in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened he'd been called into work and the sins of the past are exposed delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the light school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the presentback of her car. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out On the clues hidden in his own history and to catch way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a killermulti-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1913193063

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1784165263|title= The CaptiveInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the cagedot, intimately. It lurks in despite the corner fact that she was actually painting one of her eyetheir properties prior to it being let. Soon If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, it will but don't be too quick to be occupiedunderstanding. Then what? What if He was also a very unpleasant person: he speaks once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to her? What if leave: he escapes? What if wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQTeresa Driscoll|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student daughter went missing as she walked along , faced with the lonely A928 familiar horrifying realisation, at Ferngate Bridgethe eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. There was a furious storm going on and sheSuddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…''d already refused , paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the offer novel. In a twist of help from one man in events, and after a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie change of outfit, Gemma is bundled into shot in the car and driven off. There has been no sign midst of her - or her body - graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatea coma, determined to find out what happened and she's not going follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to be stoppedgrow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|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=00083301310008370982|title=The Stolen SistersRock Paper Scissors|author=Louise JensenAlice Feeney|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that twenty-years on from gave her a weekend away in a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsconverted chapel in Scotland. WellHer husband, Adam, theyisn're healthy in t so keen on the physical senseidea. Like Amelia, but Carly he knows that their marriage has trust issues, Leah has OCD been under strain: he's a screenwriter and Marie drinkshe's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. TheyAmelia're the Sinclair sisters and one s annoyed that he never enquires about how her day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteenhas been -years-old and she was in charge working with the dogs, many of her sisterswhom have been abused, the eight-year-old twinsis never easy. Much as Still - she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and 's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her mobile phone held 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball in the passenger seat - and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As then doing the three girls went same thing to chase after him they were snatched by two mencome back a couple of days later.

|authorisbn=Will Carver0008421714|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120The 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. It sounds like one of those signs you see Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on improbably wide highways in Americathat particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''s mid-west, but isn't this particular Hinton Hollow is the first time he's based a small town in Berkshire, England. character on you?'' Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereShe mentioned that Johanna, until something happened and he ran away to the cityprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. He's running away again…only Perhaps this time evil would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|isbn=1913193306''

|isbn=00083783630241989094|title=One The Perfect MorningLife|author=Pamela CraneNuala Ellwood|rating=3.54

|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 It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulaopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. Shewas concerned that he didn's twentyt have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -six and has been there for fifteen yearsMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took Marissa arrived at the gun and killed himself. Her sisterhouse, Dianaexpecting to meet Jacob's mother, just twenty-years-oldJenny, the door was left at the family homeanswered by Esther, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernesswho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. Rachel's very bright and although The phone number she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deservesd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersAnd so had Jenny's nanny.

|isbnauthor=0008314721Claire McGowan|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahI Know You|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortfulThen:'' family. Flowers are sent for Casey returns from a walk with the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank baby, Carson, and this prompts comes across three bodies, almost a phone call in return. There are two sons of the whole family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamtaken down. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn ''t name them the other way roundNow: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolRachel is out for a walk with her dog, where they boardBrandy, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has when she comes across a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until body in the night when he was rapedwoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Seven DoorsStoning|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for In a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try town sleazy enough to suggest make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a genre of any kind until we're teacher has been transported across town at night in a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleshopping trolley, and she 's been taped to a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision tree and decisions she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyworld'd occupied for over thirty yearss tallest cricket stumps. The building heWhen she's inheriteddiscovered by the town gossip everyone, meanwhileincluding the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and which they let out to a single motherit's only fair, is needed by the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their adult daughterconditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hikehigher rank from the city, I'm moving in and you're moving to sort everything out'. Now, at this stage you may wellBecause such an aggrieved, if you know this insular community is a genre read, think it's really going to be welcome a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the 1980s, but nolaw. 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 vanished.|isbn=19131933811529416973

|isbn=14711792731787631869|title=House of CorrectionThe Rising Tide|author=Nicci FrenchSam Lloyd|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she's d built a good and decent life in prison, on remandthe aftermath. She's sharing a cell now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with MichaelaBillie, whoLucy's more caring than daughter and Fin, the child she first appearshad with Daniel. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and drinking so- called best friend. Nick and encourages her to Daniel have a shower, unpleasant as history together from the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered time they both spent in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations a children's home but it's difficult to Tabithathink that Nick has Daniel's house. So far as the police are concernedbest interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodconcerned.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1786332388|title=The Lies You ToldFirst Day of Spring|author=Harriet TyceNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnSometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring''t happy about having to start a new schoolwas one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. She's left The characterisation is excellent and the school she loved in New York plot grips you and now shewon's going to Ashams in North Londont let go. ItSo, what's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, they have their established groupsthe main character. RobinWhen we first meet her she's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Welljust eight years old, over a matter of a few days small for her parentsage and she readily tells us that she' marriage fell aparts just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Andrew Spence is staying in New York She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - he works for a securities firm suffocating - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick hands seized up her practice as a criminal barrister. ThatThere's easier said than done a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when youwill Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn've t he been out of the market place - and the country - dead for more than ten years.long enough?

|authorisbn= Mark DawsonB088YWF5BC|title= The CleanerLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and coldly competentthat she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. 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-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, Tom, John Milton is one of fast asleep: they're moving house in the British governmentmorning but he's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsstill going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. Now He wakes, after ten yearsthough, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he wants out's killed someone. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X

|isbnauthor=1838951067Louise Candlish|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardHeights|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heEllen doesn's about t expect to get a shocksee Kieran that day. HeShe's security at on site, visiting a supermarket and he's watching client for a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has lighting consultation when she spies him in a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor with building across the spine splayed upwardsway. ''Nothing ManThere are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn'' by Eve Black, is the titlet one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen Because Kieran has been dead for over two years ago raped and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed herEllen knows this for a fact, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annabecause she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483