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|isbnauthor=0008395594Will Carver|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thenalso, one Mondaycuriously, she went addicted to work and never came homeattending numerous AA groups. Mark, Oli and Seb are shatteredShe is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen Whilst analysing and at critiquing the stage where he thinks boredom AA steps she is his best lookmainly using the groups to find targets... Hetargets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's been a bit off with Leigh misery, and targets for a while but her violent behaviour. Yet she put it down also seems to him growing up be searching for others who think as she does, and starting to become independent. Sebwhen she's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssenunable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, a wealthy Dutch businessmanhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceand thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=18484584281471196615|title=Local Woman MissingIced|author=Mary KubicaFelix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven years ago, Miles Pussett used to be a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and lame excuses as to why he was late now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter- againmile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. His wife He was in St Moritz the habit 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 going out for a run late at nightthe horses. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection s seven years since he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman put horseracing behind him and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and shehe swore that he'd seemed never go back to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying But when he sees that her daughtersomething suspicious is going on, DelilahMiles can't help but look for answers, was safe and there was no point even when it puts him in looking for herdanger.

|authorisbn=Terry Miles147228612X|title=RabbitsThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan Johnson

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to the world We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of The Gamethem. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven They live quiet, 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 uneventful lives and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like stay mostly under the game of life thenradar. Yes, this is the game of life for In a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People city like our hero, KLondon, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. K and The highlight of his bezzies are trying day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to be historians of work on the game, and train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortcourage. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousThen, nay lethalon his homeward commute, the most broken it's ever been – morally Arina speaks to him and otherwise. Unfortunately asks for K, 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, help. Before long he is only to find out that finds himself on the line between observing run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.Metropolitan police..|isbn=1529016932

|isbn=15291242550008433631|title=The WhispersNext of Kin|author=Heidi PerksKia Abdullah|rating=4.5

|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near was the town sort of Clearwater and it's new year's thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. To understand what happened weShe're going d never driven her nephew, Max, to have school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic. He was supposed to go back be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the previous Septemberdelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - sheAs the school was only five minutes out of Leila's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirtiesway, could she's returned to her home town to live. drop him off? Her husbandOf course, Graham, works in Singapore and she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's foundcar. Grace's best friendOn the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightwith a problem which could put a multi-yearmillion-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joiningpound contract at risk. It's perfect!

|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and Victoria Cribb (translator)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 at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.}}{{Frontpage |author=Robert Peston |title=Girls Who LieThe Whistleblower |rating=3

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all I'm not the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding first to point out how fitting it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelRobert Peston to write a political thriller, itso I'll move on quickly – but this won's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and 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 t be winning any awards for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersoriginality. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanIt's car was found miles away in an interesting plot with a second placegood pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself and now, after six months, the body I suspect before much time has been discovered, in passed I'll have forgotten a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodylot of it. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X1838775242 }}

|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 is whys the problem? Well, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Streetproblem is Chrissie, they generally went the full Chris Graylingmain character.'' Over at RegentWhen we first meet her she's Parkjust eight years old, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured small for her age and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message she readily tells us that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought injust killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She won't always be so jubilant s completely cold about this.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008379300|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that hewhat she's dying. His body is giving done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. HeThere's been on the lookout a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family book: when will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsSteven come back, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. she wonders? Unfortunately, it doesnHasn't go according to plan and Angela dies.he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB088YWF5BC|title=The Other EmilyLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two US coastssisters. It's the western coast we're concerned with, seemed to have been a place he has to return toloving, and a place he has to be able to leavestable family. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoWhen we first meet her, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. Hecan's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectt sleep because her son, a lifer nowFreddie, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter's nearly sixteen, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordhasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. David Her husband, Tom, is trying to pry fast asleep: they're moving house in the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manmorning but he's mind, but still going to be going to no availwork and he needs his sleep. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagewakes, the very embodimentthough, the virtual resurrection, of when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his lovemother that he's killed someone. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbnauthor=1529124417Louise Candlish|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerThe Heights

|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, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this time to Boston where thereisn's a strong Haitian community t one Ellen expected that was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agoday or in fact any other day. FrankieWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, middle-aged and whiteEllen knows this for a fact, gets because she had a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483