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|isbnauthor=1529378648Will Carver|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=Someone Maeve is killing secret service agentsa high functioning alcoholic, past drinking continuously and presentalso, from the Slough House teamcuriously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. Jackson Lamb can't understand itShe is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Well, what he actually can't understand Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But mainly using the deaths are mounting up and something needs groups to be donefind targets... After all ''when things went awry on Spook Streettargets for sexual encounters, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regenttargets to feed her desire to hear of people's Parkmisery, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedtargets for her violent behaviour. It isn't just the message that was sent: Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's also delighted that unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she managed decides to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thisset up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=00083793001471196615|title=The Shadow ManIced|author=Helen FieldsFelix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, now gets his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifethrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, a child and a brotheroccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. Hewas in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's been high-class horseracing on the lookout for the perfect people frozen lake and against his better judgement he's made certain preparations. The flat where gets talked into helping with the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto saddling of the wallshorses. Angela Fernycroft was It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to be his wifeit. Her husbandBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away Miles can't help but look for the weekend. Unfortunatelyanswers, even when it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesputs him in danger.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz147228612X|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man Late Train to do?|isbn=1542019958}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She DisappearedGipsy 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 All Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating= 34.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group It had seemed like one of strangers gather on a private islandthose serendipitous events which sometimes happen. They have Marissa Irvine had been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from hoping that the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designeropportunity would arise for her son, social media influencerMilo, 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 go on a mysteryplay date. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other She was concerned that he didn's histories and it becomes clear that they all t have a dark secret they any friends at his new school. Milo would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these wellgo home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a gilded cagelittle later. In a race against time What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, Amelia must struggle expecting to uncover meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the reason door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themJenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny. |isbn=1542020018}}

|isbnauthor=0008330131Claire McGowan|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenI Know You|rating=3.54

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen SistersThen:'' we know that twenty-years on Casey returns from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy in walk with the physical sensebaby, but Carly has trust issuesCarson, Leah has OCD and Marie drinkscomes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. They ''Now:''re the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of Rachel is out for a walk with her sistersdog, the eight-year-old twins. Much as Brandy, when she loved them Carly was desperate to get comes across a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As body in the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menwoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Will CarverPeter Papathanasiou|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Stoning|rating=43.5

|summary= Hinton HollowIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, population 5a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley,120and she's been taped to a tree and she'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, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. It sounds like one of those signs you see An arson attack on improbably wide highways in Americathat shows the feeling – and it's mid-westonly fair, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in Berkshire, Englandprotest at their conditions. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereCue the arrival of George Manolis, until something happened and he ran away to a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him and Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to touch just about everyone in townwelcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=19131933061529416973

|isbn=00083783631787631869|title=One Perfect MorningThe Rising Tide|author=Pamela CraneSam Lloyd|rating=3.54

|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in his own bedthe aftermath. To find out She's now married to Daniel, who co- and why owns Locke- we need to go back nine days and twenty years. MackenziePovey Marine on Penleith Beach, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroevillelive at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Pennsylvania Lucy's daughter and twenty years later they're still Fin, the best of friendschild she had with Daniel. 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 SpiceThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Robin the Homemaker Daniel's partner and Mackenzie so- well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifecalled best friend. She married Owen, her college sweetheart Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they have both spent in a daughterchildren's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, Ariaor money, who's now fifteen-year-oldis concerned.

|isbn=07515674261786332388|title=The Wicked SisterFirst Day of Spring|author=Karen DionneNancy Tucker

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. So, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet Rachel Cunningham her she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganjust eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's Upper Peninsulajust killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that completely cold about what she accidentally killed 's done with her mother when main memory being that whilst she was elevenkilling -yearssuffocating -old and that her father then took the gun and killed himselfhands seized up. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. RachelThere's very bright and although shea clue that Chrissie isn's t completely responsible for her actions a voluntary patient at little later in the Mental Health Center she remains therebook: when will Steven come back, feeling that this is what she deserves. wonders? Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembers.Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=0008314721B088YWF5BC|title=Truth Be ToldThe Lies We Tell|author=Kia AbdullahJane Corry|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familySarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent It seemed to thank and this prompts have been a phone call in return. There are two sons of the loving, stable family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, SofiaWhen we first meet her, regrets that she didncan't name them the other way round: sleep because her son, Freddie, who'Adam and Kamrans nearly sixteen, hasn' trips off t come home by the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that time he sort of thinghalf-promised he'd be in by. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolHer husband, Tom, where is fast asleep: they board, despite 're moving house in the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed morning but he's still going to be going well until the night to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he was raped's killed someone.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Louise Candlish|title=The Seven DoorsHeights|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly Ellen doesn't even try expect to suggest see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a genre of any kind until we're client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a full fifth of building across the way through. We start with our coupleThere are lots of things, she a literature lecturerlots of people, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move you might see when you look out of their homeacross London, a building but this isn't one Ellen expected that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over thirty two years. 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, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Now, at Ellen knows this stage you may well, if you know this is for a genre readfact, think it's going to be because she had a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, hand 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 vanishedhis murder.|isbn=19131933811471183483