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|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst 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 misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471196615|title=Iced|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. 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 saddling of the horses. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in danger.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417147228612X|title=Before She DisappearedThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Lisa GardnerAlan Johnson

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseWe all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven's body in her car at the bottom t taken much notice of them. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the lakeradar. She knew In a city like London, that the twenty's quite easy -two-year-old waitress wouldnand even Gary't have left her s three-year-old daughter and run awayflatmates largely ignore him. Lani was The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the fourteenth missing person train each morning: he'd love to be located by Frankie and now sheask her for a date but he doesn's moving t have the courage. Then, on againhis homeward commute, this time Arina speaks to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agohim and asks for his help. FrankieBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, middle-aged Russian secret agents and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackMetropolitan police.

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0008433631|title=The TherapistNext of Kin|author=B A ParisKia Abdullah

|summary=When Leo Curtis found It was the house in The Circlesort of thing that happened every day, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicealthough not to Leila Syed. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnShe't have d never driven her nephew, Max, to sell school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her cottage in Harlestone for them a panic. He was supposed to be able taking Max to afford itschool but he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. Alice agreed - she As the school was tired only five minutes out of their long-distance relationship. Leila's way, could she drop him off? Now they would be able to spend most of Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the week together instead back of just the weekendsher car. Leo had some work done on On the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house way Leila took a phone call - there was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therepanic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1784165263|title=The KhanInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the motto fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be twice as good as men trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and four times as confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good as white menat being a disappointment''. This has served her well All this was in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterEliza's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilemind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, she is at the top of her game. Returning flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the city lease of her birthflat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyget in before it was advertised as being available.|isbn=1786079097

|isbnauthor=0008214468Teresa Driscoll|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonHer Perfect Family

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a handThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, severed above at the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is Prime Ministerall wrong. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughtersSuddenly, Becca and Bella. SandfordGemma receives an eerie message stating 's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that He is not just practically good, but morally good.who he says he is…'' One of , paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesnovel. Henry Morland-CrossIn a twist of events, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the Exchequermidst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, wishes what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that he'd been warned about this: it's easy continues to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementgrow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0008370982|title= Fallen AngelsRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg VeumAmelia 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, lone wolf detectiveAdam, is backisn't so keen on the idea. After attending Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a former friendscreenwriter and he's funeral, Veum catches up never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of the past are exposed novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the light dogs, many of the presentwhom have been abused, is never easy. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out Still - she's won the clues hidden weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in his own history the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to catch come back a killercouple of days later.|isbn=1913193063

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor0008421714|title= The CaptiveMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Hannah knows The problem began just after the cage, intimatelypublication of George March's most successful novel to date. It lurks in Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the corner of her eye. Soon, last page) seemed to either be reading it will be occupiedor had already done so. Then what? What if he speaks Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to her? What if buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he escapes's based a character on you? What if he hurts '' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650mannerisms''. 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.''

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0241989094|title=The Long Dark RoadPerfect Life|author=P R BlackNuala Ellwood

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's Healey's nineteenviewing a house in Goring-yearon-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along Thames and telling the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeestate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. There was The boys are a bit of a furious storm going on and handful which is why she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicles making this trip on her own. WeThe house would be perfect for them. It'll see - s the same month but no one else will know - that another car stops now we're in Wimbledon and Stephanie is bundled into we encounter the car same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and driven off. There has been no sign of living in her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatesister, Georgie's, spare room, determined to find out what happened and where she's not going to be stoppedbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1787634493|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=0008330131|title=The Stolen SistersHer Fault|author=Louise JensenAndrea Mara|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that twenty-years the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsplay date. Well, theyShe was concerned that he didn're healthy t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marie drinksMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. TheyWhat could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob're s mother, Jenny, the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly door was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sistersanswered by Esther, the eight-year-old twinswho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. Much as The phone number she loved them Carly 'd been given for Jenny was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionnot recognised. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which Milo had been left outsidedisappeared. The gate wasnAnd so had Jenny't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two mens nanny.

|author=Will CarverClaire McGowan|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary= Hinton Hollow''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, population 5and comes across three bodies,120almost a whole family taken down. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America ''Now:''s mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow Rachel is out for a small town in Berkshirewalk with her dog, England. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereBrandy, until something happened and he ran away to when she comes across a body in the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townwoods. |isbn=19131933061542019974

|isbnauthor=0008378363Peter Papathanasiou|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Stoning

|summary=A husband is about In a town sleazy enough to have his throat cut make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziecomparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, Robin and Lily met when they all went she's been taped to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania a tree and twenty years later theyshe're still s had rocks bowled at her as if she were the best of friendsworld's tallest cricket stumps. When they first met they called themselves she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the Spicier Girls as a nod to culprit has come from the famous girl band of immigrant detention centre the dayplace is reluctantly home to. Lily would be Adventure SpiceAn arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, Robin is the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellgeneral opinion, Mackenzie would be for the supporting actress occupants are often setting their own fires in her own lifeprotest at their conditions. She married OwenCue the arrival of George Manolis, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterhigher rank from the city, Ariato sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, who's now fifteeninsular community is really going to welcome a Greek-year-oldheritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=07515674261787631869|title=The Wicked SisterRising Tide|author=Karen DionneSam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she's an inpatient at d built a good and decent life in the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulaaftermath. She's twentynow married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-six Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and has been there for fifteen yearsthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old Lucy's daughter and that her father then took Fin, the gun and killed himselfchild she had with Daniel. Her sisterThey have financial difficulties, Dianasome caused by Nick Povey, just twentyDaniel's partner and so-years-old, was left at called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the family time they both spent in a children's home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachelbut it's very bright and although shedifficult to think that Nick has Daniel's a voluntary patient best interests at the Mental Health Center she remains thereheart, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhapsparticularly where Lucy, thoughor money, the circumstances are not as she remembersis concerned.

|isbn=00083147211786332388|title=Truth Be ToldThe First Day of Spring|author=Kia AbdullahNancy Tucker|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''effortfulThe First Day of Spring'' familywas one such occasion. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank The writing is superb and this prompts a phone call in returncompletely compelling. There are two sons of The characterisation is excellent and the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran plot grips you and sixteen-year-old Adamwon't let go. Their motherSo, Sofiawhat's the problem? Well, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off problem is Chrissie, the tongue so much more easily than main character. When we first meet her she'Kamran s just eight years old, small for her age and Adamshe readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Sofia worries She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that sort of thingwhilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. 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 There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until little later in the night book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he was raped.been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)B088YWF5BC|title=The Seven DoorsLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller Sarah Wallace said that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she grew up on a literature lecturer, he big council estate in medical provision Kent and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that she had existed throughout her life since childhood two brothers and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearstwo sisters. The building he's inheritedIt seemed to have been a loving, meanwhilestable family. When we first meet her, and which they let out to a single mothershe can't sleep because her son, is needed by their adult daughterFreddie, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hikes nearly sixteen, Ihasn'm moving t come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in and you're moving out'by. NowHer husband, at this stage you may wellTom, if you know this is a genre read, think itfast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be a throwback going to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nowork and he needs his sleep. We avoid genre completelyHe wakes, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedythough, when Freddie does come in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at overhears him tell his mother 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 vanishedhe's killed someone.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07WWSCGVSLouise Candlish|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceHeights|rating=4.5

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnEllen doesn't happy about having expect to start a new schoolsee Kieran that day. She's left the school on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she loved spies him in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londona building across the way. It's very upmarket; places There are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''lots of things, they have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter lots of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her motherpeople, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done you might see when youlook out across London, but this isn've t one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been out of the market place - and the country - dead for more than ten over two years.}}{{Frontpage|author= Mark Dawson|title= The Cleaner|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless , and coldly competentEllen knows this for a fact, John Milton is one of the British government's best assets – because she had a contract killer with lethal instincts. Now, after ten years, he wants outhand in his murder. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X1471183483