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|isbnauthor=1529047315Will Carver|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them bothMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, he saidcuriously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the good and AA steps she is mainly using the badgroups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, and never turn your back on either one targets to feed her desire to hear of them.'people' In 1972s misery, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''targets for her violent behaviour. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletswhen she'' but they were s unable to get find like-minded people in any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign of the men. The table was groups she decides to set for a meal for two - up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=18385950311471196615|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityIced|author=Bronwen JohnFelix Francis

|summary=The con had seemed like Miles Pussett used to be a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the new Banksy three-quarter- and they should have made a decent profit from itmile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. The problem He was they were too successful: one of in St Moritz the marks had bought a few and then discovered same weekend as White Turf - that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con 's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that better judgement he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going to paygets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses. Ashia It'Ash' Cox s seven years since he put horseracing behind him and Max he swore that he'Colorado' Ying needed d never go back to be got out of the countryit. In the course of bringing this about, Luke GainesBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, AshMiles can's foster fathert help but look for answers, lost his lifeeven when it puts him in danger.

|isbn=1838952012147228612X|title=The FavourLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Laura VaughanAlan Johnson

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, after We allknow people like Gary Nelson, the daughter although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegeradar. WellIn a city like London, she wasnthat't ''actually'' Howells quite easy - and even Gary's daughterthree flatmates largely ignore him. 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'd married love to ask her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'madefor a date but he doesn't have the courage. Then, which was better really. And whilst we're being honeston his homeward commute, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth a little: Arina speaks to him and asks for his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandhelp. StillBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Ada had felt entitled Russian secret agents and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timethe Metropolitan police.

|authorisbn=C A Sacha0008433631|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=45

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a plan panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to increase his already startling wealth school but he'd been called into work and ensure his legacy: the delay in getting there could lead to bring financial losses. As the worldschool was only five minutes out of Leila's first emission-free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisway, Bucephaluscould she drop him off? Of course, is already underway she could and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery a sleeping Max was duly strapped into a second term to help him carry it outthe back of her car. Montgomery is also looking for On the way Leila took a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and phone call - there was panic at her foundationwork too, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368301784165263|title=Two WrongsInvite Me In|author=Mel McGrathEmma Curtis

|summary=Sondra was I'm not the first to point out how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thriller, so I'll move on her way home after work when she saw quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. It's an interesting plot with a young woman looking as though she was going good pace, but it does very little to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgedifferentiate itself and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of it. She talks |isbn=1838775242 }} {{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to herGemma, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam who at first instance appears to call be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her best friend and flatmategraduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Nevis Smith. Nevis Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is unworldly and rather reserved - and she cannot who he says he is…'t understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with her, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. She thought they shared everything. Satnam In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is taken to hospital and Nevis calls shot in the midst of her mothergraduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, Honor. They've not been on good terms since what follows is a complex whodunit with a discovery Nevis made list of suspects that continues to grow the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008370982|title=The Disappearing ActRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Amelia 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, Adam, isn't so keen on the cusp idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of success. Great success. If making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the rumours are true, award season is going novels he's hoping to treat her well, acknowledging adapt than with her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She Amelia's going places but soannoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, unfortunatelymany of whom have been abused, is her partnernever easy. And the places he Still - she's going take him towards lieswon the weekend away, deceit and a pretty young thing even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the form of his new copassenger seat -star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just then doing the excusesame thing to come back a couple of days later.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734280008421714|title=The Art of DeathMrs March|author=David FennellVirginia Feito

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|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 it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is problem began just after the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version publication of Banksy. HeGeorge March's made a macabre promise: more will followmost successful novel to date. In fact, Everyone but Mrs March (we've already met the artist although not by know her first name: he's been in only on the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhonelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, JordanPatricia asked, and as she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about was wrapping the state of her marriage. Actuallybread, it doesn''but isn't take a lot of explaining: Frankthis the first time he's attentions are obvious based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her face despite the foundation shemannerisms''s applied. Chau Ho Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is behind the counter. Therewhore of Nantes - ''s someone onlinea weak, plain, detestable, CassandraHpathetic, that the artist has his eye onunloved, toounloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241989094|title=The SourcePerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=2.54

|summary=1996. Essex. ThirteenIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-yearon-old schoolgirl Carly lives in Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a disenfranchised town dominated by bit of a military base, struggling to care handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingethem. When her squaddie brother brings food  It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and treatswe encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesliving in her sister, things start to look a little less bleak..Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=15293786481787634493|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)All Her Fault|author=Mick HerronAndrea Mara

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, past and presentMilo, from the Slough House teamto go on a play date. Jackson Lamb canShe was concerned that he didn't understand ithave any friends at his new school. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would botherpick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to What could be done. better? After all ''Only, when things went awry on Spook StreetMarissa arrived at the house, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regentexpecting to meet Jacob's Parkmother, Jenny, 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) dispatcheddoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. It isnThe phone number she't just the message that d been given for Jenny was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the booksnot recognised. Some private money was brought inMilo had disappeared. She wonAnd so had Jenny't always be so jubilant about thiss nanny.

|isbnauthor=0008379300Claire McGowan|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsI Know You

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him'Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeCarson, a child and comes across three bodies, almost a brotherwhole family taken down. He ''Now:'s been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live Rachel is prepared and even windows out for a walk with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandher dog, CalBrandy, had taken the children - when she comes across a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for body in the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dieswoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Dean KoontzPeter Papathanasiou|title=The Other EmilyStoning|rating=43.5

|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, In a place he has to return town sleazy enough tomake sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, and a place he teacher has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agobeen transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, when and she vanished from 's been taped to a remote road late tree and she's had rocks bowled at nighther as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. HeWhen she's paying for contact with discovered by the man he thinks town gossip everyone, including the only suspectlocal cops, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and are quite confident the culprit has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David come from the immigrant detention centre the place is trying reluctantly home to pry . An arson attack on that shows the connection between the murderer feeling – and his girl from the manit's mindonly fair, is the general opinion, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the sheer spitting imagearrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the very embodimentcity, the virtual resurrectionto sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, of his love. What insular community is really going to welcome a man to do?Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=15420199581529416973

|isbn=15291244171787631869|title=Before She DisappearedThe Rising Tide|author=Lisa GardnerSam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseLucy Locke's body early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in her car at the bottom of the lakeaftermath. She knew that the twenty's now married to Daniel, who co-twoowns Locke-year-old waitress wouldnPovey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy't have left her three-year-old s daughter and run awayFin, the child she had with Daniel. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located They have financial difficulties, some caused by Frankie and now she's moving on againNick Povey, this time to Boston where thereDaniel's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agopartner and so-called best friend. Frankie, middle-aged Nick and white, gets Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a job and accommodation at Stoneychildren's home but it's bar and sets out difficult to investigate the community which think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is just about exclusively blackconcerned.

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT1786332388|title=The TherapistFirst Day of Spring|author=B A ParisNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson First Day of Spring'' was in Veniceone such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. Leo wanted to move quickly on The characterisation is excellent and the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnplot grips you and won't have to sell let go. So, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her cottage in Harlestone she's just eight years old, small for them to be able to afford ither age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Alice agreed - She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was tired of their longkilling - suffocating -distance relationshipher hands seized up. Now they would be able to spend most of There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the housebook: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning when will Steven come back, she just didnwonders? Hasn't feel comfortable there.he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Saima MirB088YWF5BC|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008214468|title=A Time to LieLies We Tell|author=Simon BerthonJane Corry|rating=54

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a building sitecouncil estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is seemed to have been a handloving, severed above the wriststable family. ItWhen we first meet her, she can's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Het sleep because her son, Freddie, who's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughtersnearly sixteen, Becca and Bella. Sandfordhasn's determined to be a better type t come home by the time he sort of politician: half-promised he wants ''a government that d be in by. Her husband, Tom, is not just practically good, but morally good.fast asleep: they'' One of re moving house in the ways morning but he's planning on still going about this is to ban arms sales be going to dubious regimeswork and he needs his sleep. Henry Morland-CrossHe wakes, though, the Deputy Prime Minister when Freddie does come in and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes overhears him tell his mother that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementkilled someone.

|author= Gunnar StaalesenLouise Candlish|title= Fallen AngelsThe Heights|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is backEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. After attending a former friendShe's funeralon site, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are opened and the sins lots of the past are exposed to the light things, lots of the present. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root people, you might see when you look out the clues hidden across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in his own history fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and to catch Ellen knows this for a killer.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cagefact, intimately. It lurks because she had a hand in the corner of her eye. Soon, it will be occupiedhis murder. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501471183483