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|isbnauthor=1838952012Will Carver|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as Maeve is a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she washigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, after allcuriously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the daughter of AA steps she is mainly using the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been groups to this collegefind targets. Well..targets for sexual encounters, she wasn't ''actually'' Howelltargets to feed her desire to hear of people's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth misery, and had then adopted targets for herviolent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, so and when she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Stillhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timethus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|authorisbn=C A Sacha1471196615|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerIced|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Miles Pussett used to be a plan to increase his already startling wealth Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and ensure he now gets his legacy: to bring thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the worldsame weekend as White Turf - that's first emissionhigh-free car to market class horseracing on the frozen lake and dominate productionagainst his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses. The secret development project to enable this, Bucephalus, is already underway It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term he swore that he'd never go back to help him carry it out. Montgomery But when he sees that something suspicious is also looking going on, Miles can't help but look for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundationanswers, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..even when it puts him in danger.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=0008336830147228612X|title=Two WrongsThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Mel McGrathAlan Johnson

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the Clifton suspension bridgeradar. She talks to herIn a city like London, that's quite easy - and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smitheven Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. Nevis The highlight of his day is unworldly and rather reserved - and watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she cangoes to work on the train each morning: he't understand why Satnam hasnd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't shared her problems with herhave the courage. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to hospital him and Nevis calls her mother, Honorasks for his help. They've not been Before long he finds himself on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowrun from mobsters, Nevis needs her motherRussian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008433631|title=The Disappearing ActNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on It was the cusp sort of success. Great success. If the rumours are truething that happened every day, award season is going although not to treat Leila Syed. She'd never driven her wellnephew, acknowledging her for her latestMax, critically acclaimed production. She's going places to school before but sohis father, unfortunatelyAndrew Hanson, is had rung her partnerin a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. And As the places heschool was only five minutes out of Leila's going take way, could she drop him towards liesoff? Of course, deceit she could and a pretty young thing in sleeping Max was duly strapped into the form back of his new co-starher car. It's On the way Leila took a good time for Mia to escapephone call - there was panic at her work too, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusewith a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734281784165263|title=The Art of DeathInvite Me In|author=David FennellEmma Curtis

|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time itMartin Curran's not a depiction: these are wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the bodies of Billy Perrindot, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is despite the work fact that she was actually painting one of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksytheir properties prior to it being let. He If she didn's made a macabre promise: more will followt get home, there would be trouble. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by nameThere was some excuse: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air Martin was a paraplegic and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordanconfined to a wheelchair, and shebut don's explaining t be too quick to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagebe understanding. Actually, it doesnHe was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you't take re good at being a lot of explaining: Frankdisappointment's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. ThereAll this was in Eliza's someone onlinemind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, CassandraHunannounced, that at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the artist has his eye onlease of flat 2, too42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.

|author=Sarah SultoonTeresa Driscoll|title=The SourceHer Perfect Family|rating=2.5

|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated The novel begins by a military baseintroducing you to Gemma, struggling who at first instance appears to care for her baby sister while be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her mum sleeps off another bingegraduation outfit is all wrong. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsSuddenly, and offers Gemma receives an exclusive invitation to army partieseerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, things start to look and after a little less bleak.change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony.With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=19131935941542028752

|isbn=15293786480008370982|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Rock Paper Scissors|author=Mick HerronAlice Feeney

|summary=Someone Amelia Wright is killing secret service agents, past forty-two and present, from it was the Slough House teamstaff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Jackson Lamb canHer husband, Adam, isn't understand itso keen on the idea. WellLike Amelia, what he actually canknows that their marriage has been under strain: he't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up s a screenwriter and something needs he's never shy of making it clear to be done. After all Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he'when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Graylings hoping to adapt than with her.'' Over at RegentAmelia's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant annoyed that he never enquires about an operation which saw how her day has been - and working with the perpetrator dogs, many of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedwhom have been abused, is never easy. It isn't just the message that was sent: Still - she's also delighted that she managed to fund 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 operation off passenger seat - and then doing the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thissame thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=00083793000008421714|title=The Shadow ManMrs March|author=Helen FieldsVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heThe problem began just after the publication of George March's dyingmost successful novel to date. His body is giving up Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on him, his internal organs beginning the last page) seemed to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brothereither be reading it or had already done so. He's been 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 lookout for bread, ''but isn't this the perfect people and first time he's made certain preparations. based a character on you?'' The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsShe mentioned that Johanna, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandPerhaps this would not have mattered, Cal, had taken except for the fact that Johanna is the children whore of Nantes - ''a boy of seven and a girl of fiveweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, away for the weekendunloveable wretch. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.'

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241989094|title=The Other EmilyPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast In August 2018 we're concerned with, meet a place he has to return to, young woman called Imogen 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 viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the man he thinks the only suspectestate agent about her three children, a lifer nowLavender, who went Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has of a dozen and more unfound Jane Does handful which is why she's making this trip on his recordher own. David is trying to pry The house would be perfect for them. It's the connection between the murderer same month but now we're in Wimbledon and his girl from we encounter the mansame young woman, only this time she's mindjob hunting and living in her sister, but to no avail. HeGeorgie's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodimentspare room, the virtual resurrectionwhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, of his loveConnor. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244171787634493|title=Before She DisappearedAll Her Fault|author=Lisa GardnerAndrea Mara

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the lakeopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She knew was concerned that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnhe didn't have left her threeany friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -year-old daughter and run awayMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. Lani was What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the fourteenth missing person house, expecting to be located by Frankie and now shemeet Jacob's moving on againmother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, this time to Boston where therewho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she's a strong Haitian community which d been given for Jenny was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agonot recognised. Milo had disappeared. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at StoneyAnd so had Jenny's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blacknanny.

|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTClaire McGowan|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisI Know You|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the house in The Circlebaby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicewhole family taken down. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such  ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell walk with her cottage dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therewoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Saima MirPeter Papathanasiou|title=The KhanStoning|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and four times she's had rocks bowled at her as good as white menif she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. This When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has served her well in her rise through come from the criminal justice system and by immigrant detention centre the time she place is called reluctantly home for her sisterto. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileonly fair, she is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the top arrival of her game. Returning to George Manolis, a higher rank from the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh woundssort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the future with her sense of honour and dutylaw...|isbn=17860790971529416973

|isbn=00082144681787631869|title=A Time to LieThe Rising Tide|author=Simon BerthonSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. ItLucy Locke's wrapped early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wristaftermath. ItShe's been there for about twenty-five now married to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford Daniel, who co- generally known as Robbie owns Locke- is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they have two daughterslive at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Becca and Bella. SandfordLucy's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically gooddaughter and Fin, but morally goodthe child she had with Daniel.'' One of the ways heThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimespartner and so-called best friend. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick and Chancellor of Daniel have a history together from the Exchequer, wishes that hetime they both spent in a children'd been warned about this: s home but it's easy difficult to see think that he wouldnNick has Daniel't have been in agreements best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1786332388|title= Fallen AngelsThe First Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, 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 backexcellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. After attending a former friend So, what's funeralthe problem? Well, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of problem is Chrissie, the past are exposed to the light of the presentmain character. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a killertwo-year-old boy.|isbn=1913193063 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, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn= Deborah O'ConnorB088YWF5BC|title= The CaptiveLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cageSarah 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 loving, intimatelystable family. It lurks in When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the corner time he sort of her eyehalf-promised he'd be in by. Soon Her husband, it will Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks going to her? What if work and he escapes? What if needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650's killed someone.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQLouise Candlish|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackHeights|rating=4.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaEllen doesn's Healeyt expect to see Kieran that day. She's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she walked along spies him in a building across the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeway. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer are lots of things, lots of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll people, you might see - when you look out across London, but no this isn't one else will know - Ellen expected that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offday or in fact any other day. There Why? Because Kieran has been no sign of her - or her body - in the dead for over two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she's not going to be stoppedhad a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483