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|isbnauthor=1848458428Will Carver|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=Eleven years agoMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar drinking continuously and lame excuses as also, curiously, addicted to why he was late - againattending numerous AA groups. His wife was in the habit of going out for She is also a run late at nightself-acknowledged psychopath. It was Whilst analysing and critiquing the only time AA steps she had is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for herself when she didn't have sexual encounters, targets to look after feed her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a mandesire to hear of people's misery, grateful and targets for the unquestioning affection he gave herviolent behaviour. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband Yet she also seems to look after her disabled baby. Ten days laterbe searching for others who think as she does, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and when she'd seemed s unable to be under some strain for find like-minded people in any of the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that groups she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that decides to set up her daughterown, Delilahhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, was safe and there was no point in looking for herthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1471196615|title=RabbitsIced|author=Felix Francis

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought Miles Pussett used to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and fast structurehe now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, and to the average person no obvious entry pointoccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. A bit like He was in St Moritz the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like same weekend as White Turf - that in 's high-class horseracing on the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K frozen lake and against his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for better judgement he gets talked into helping with the lists saddling of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shorthorses. However this time it It's differentseven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, the most broken itMiles can's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately t help but look for Kanswers, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing when it, is a very thin one indeed..puts him in danger.|isbn=1529016932

|isbn=1529124255147228612X|title=The WhispersLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Heidi PerksAlan Johnson

|summary=We all know straight away that therepeople like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven's going to be a bodyt taken much notice of them. It's on They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the beach under Crayneradar. In a city like London, that's Cliff near the town of Clearwater quite easy - and iteven Gary's new year's daythree flatmates largely ignore him. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has The highlight of his day is watching a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since beautiful young woman apply her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, makeup as shegoes to work on the train each morning: he's returned d love to ask her home town to livefor a date but he doesn't have the courage. Her husbandThen, Grahamon his homeward commute, works in Singapore Arina speaks to him and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's foundasks for his help. Grace's best friend, Anna RobinsonBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, is still in Clearwater Russian secret agents and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joiningMetropolitan police. It's perfect!

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0008433631|title=Girls Who LieNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=35

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all It was the dark corners sort of Iceland have featured 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 their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowa panic. You think, seeing on the map that weHe was supposed to be taking Max to school but he're set in Akranes, d been called into work and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftdelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. However just because As the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itschool was only five minutes out of Leila's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. way, could she drop him off? Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningOf course, she could and a sleeping Max was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for duly strapped into the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersher car. But it left our three detectives at On the way Leila took a quandary – mobile phone use call - there was panic at her work too, with a high level until it stopped all of problem which could put a suddenmulti-million-pound contract at risk.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, in Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one placeo'clock on the dot, despite the womanfact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn's car t get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was found miles away in a second place, paraplegic and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in confined to a thirdwheelchair, even more remote placebut don't be too quick to be understanding. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by He was also a confessional monologue from very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a mother disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionarrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and very little maternal feeling he was desperate to get in her bodybefore it was advertised as being available. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbnauthor=1529047315Teresa Driscoll|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexHer Perfect Family

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have The novel begins by introducing you to take them bothGemma, he saidwho at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the good and familiar horrifying realisation, at the badeleventh hour, and never turn your back on either one of themthat her graduation outfit is all wrong.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of CornwallSuddenly, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New YearHe is not who he says he is…''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, paving the weather such way for the sinister tone that ''remains throughout the boat [was] rocking novel. In a twist of events, and bobbing like after a bath toy over change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rockmidst of her graduation ceremony. It was broken into the next dayWith Gemma then in a coma, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for what follows is a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact complex whodunit with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened a list of suspects that continues to grow the menfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=18385950310008370982|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityRock Paper Scissors|author=Bronwen JohnAlice Feeney

|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy Amelia Wright is forty- two and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a few and then discovered that they were valuelessweekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherHer husband, Adam, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesisn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, was determined he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox s a screenwriter and Max he'Colorados never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he' Ying needed d prefer to be got out of spend time with the countrynovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. In Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the course dogs, many of bringing this aboutwhom have been abused, Luke Gaines, Ashis never easy. Still - she's foster fatherwon the weekend away, lost his lifeeven if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=18389520120008421714|title=The FavourMrs March|author=Laura VaughanVirginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, problem began just after all, the daughter publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been last page) seemed to this collegeeither be reading it or had already done so. WellEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she wasnwas wrapping the bread, 't 'but isn'actuallyt this the first time he's based a character on you?' Howell's daughter: he She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was mannerisms'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honestPerhaps this would not have mattered, we might as well admit except for the fact that 'renowned author' might be stretching Johanna is the truth a little: his books degenerated into selfwhore of Nantes -published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=C A Sacha0241989094|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Perfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has In August 2018 we meet a plan to increase his already startling wealth young woman called Imogen and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldshe's first emissionviewing a house in Goring-on-free car to market Thames and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thistelling the estate agent about her three children, BucephalusLavender, is already underway Freddie and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into Barclay. The boys are a second term to help him carry it outbit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. Montgomery is also looking The house would be perfect for a legacy them. It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and one that does not involve his controlling mother we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her foundationsister, Georgie's, spare room, so grabs onto Finneganwhere she's Feed Africa programme been since she broke up with both handsher boyfriend, Connor...|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368301787634493|title=Two WrongsAll Her Fault|author=Mel McGrathAndrea Mara

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. She talks to Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for herson, Milo, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithgo on a play date. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she canShe was concerned that he didn't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with herhis classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. She thought they shared everything. What could be better? Satnam is taken Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to hospital and Nevis calls her meet Jacob's mother, HonorJenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. TheyThe phone number she've d been given for Jenny was not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherrecognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.

|author=Catherine SteadmanClaire McGowan|title=The Disappearing ActI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are truebaby, award season is going to treat her wellCarson, acknowledging her for her latestand comes across three bodies, critically acclaimed productionalmost a whole family taken down. She 's going places but so, unfortunately, 'Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her partner. And the places he's going take him towards liesdog, Brandy, deceit and when she comes across a pretty young thing body in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusewoods. |isbn=14711897831542019974

|isbnauthor=1838773428Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellStoning|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in Trafalgar Square: comparison, a depiction of three homeless men teacher has been transported across town at night in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrinshopping trolley, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. Heshe's made been taped to a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, wetree and she've already met s had rocks bowled at her as if she were the artist although not by name: heworld's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhonetallest cricket stumps. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and When she's explaining to her best frienddiscovered by the town gossip everyone, Jackie Morris about including the state of her marriage. Actuallylocal cops, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on her face despite that shows the foundation shefeeling – and it's applied. Chau Ho only fair, is behind the countergeneral opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. There's someone onlineCue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, CassandraHto sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, that insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the artist has his eye on, toolaw...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1787631869|title=The SourceRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=2.54

|summary=1996Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the aftermath. Essex. Thirteen She's now married to Daniel, who co-yearowns Locke-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military basePovey Marine on Penleith Beach, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesFin, things start to look a little less bleakthe child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=15293786481786332388|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)The First Day of Spring|author=Mick HerronNancy Tucker

|summary=Someone Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is killing secret service agents, past superb and present, from the Slough House teamcompletely compelling. Jackson Lamb canThe characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't understand itlet go. WellSo, what he actually can't understand s the problem? Well, the problem is why, having seen themChrissie, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be donemain character. After all When we first meet her she''when things went awry on Spook Streets just eight years old, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regentsmall for her age and she readily tells us that she's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of just killed someone - a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedtwo-year-old boy. It isnShe't just the message that was sent: s completely cold about what she's also delighted done with her main memory being that whilst she managed to fund the operation off the bookswas killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. Some private money was brought 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? She wonHasn't always be so jubilant about this.he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=0008379300B088YWF5BC|title=The Shadow ManLies We Tell|author=Helen FieldsJane Corry

|summary=Fergus Ariss is Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in his late thirties Kent and he knows that he's dyingshe had two brothers and two sisters. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning It seemed to putrify but before he dies he wants have been a wifeloving, a child and a brotherstable family. HeWhen we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's been on nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the lookout for the perfect people and time he sort of half-promised he's made certain preparationsd be in by. The flat where the family will live Her husband, Tom, is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures fast asleep: they're moving house in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his wifesleep. Her husbandHe wakes, Calthough, had taken the children - a boy of seven when Freddie does come in and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesnoverhears him tell his mother that he't go according to plan and Angela diess killed someone.

|author=Dean KoontzLouise Candlish|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 to do?|isbn=1542019958}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerHeights

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseEllen doesn's body in her car at the bottom of the laket expect to see Kieran that day. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on againsite, this time to Boston where there's visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agobuilding across the way. FrankieThere are lots of things, middle-aged and whitelots of people, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets you might see when you look out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CR3WNFT|title=The Therapist|author=B A Paris|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circleacross London, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnbut this isn't have to sell her cottage one Ellen expected that day or in Harlestone fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead 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 over two bedrooms into one years, and although Alice knew that the house was stunning Ellen knows this for a fact, because she just didn't feel comfortable therehad a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483