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|author=Sarah LanganWill Carver|title=Good NeighboursPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary= If you're of Maeve is a certain vintagehigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, it's hard addicted to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding attending numerous AA groups. She is also a singself-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''acknowledged psychopath. Maple Street Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from mainly using the Melbourne suburbsgroups to find targets. They're one ..targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (hepeople's an ex rockermisery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inalso seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and itwhen she's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up unable to find like-minded people in any of the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaosgroups she decides to set up her own, but for the residents of Maple Streethoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, the worst and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is yet to comeborn.|isbn=17890982111913193756

|isbn=00083955941471196615|title=Both of YouIced|author=Adele ParksFelix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary=You could Miles Pussett used to be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thenhe now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeoccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but OliHe was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's sixteen high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and at against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the stage where he thinks boredom is his best looksaddling of the horses. HeIt's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she seven years since he put it down to horseracing behind him growing up and starting he swore that he'd never go back to become independentit. SebBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits t help but look for answers, even when it puts him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracein danger.

|isbn=1848458428147228612X|title=Local Woman MissingThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Mary KubicaAlan Johnson|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven years agoWe all know people like Gary Nelson, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit although we probably haven't taken much notice of going out for a run late at nightthem. 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 manThey live quiet, grateful for uneventful lives and stay mostly under the unquestioning affection he gave herradar. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without In a tracecity like London, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babythat's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. Ten days later, The highlight of his day is watching a local beautiful young woman and apply her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and makeup as shegoes to work on the train each morning: he'd seemed love to be under some strain ask her for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that shedate but he doesn'd committed suicidet have the courage. She left a note saying that her daughterThen, Delilahon his homeward commute, was safe Arina speaks to him and there was no point in looking asks for herhis help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008433631|title=RabbitsNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to It was the world sort of The Game. Or should thing that be the gamehappened every day, for while it ought to be capitalised although not to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookLeila Syed. It She's also called Rabbitsd never driven her nephew, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsMax, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yesschool before but his father, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyAndrew Hanson, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that had rung her in the least Kafkaesque manner possiblea panic. K and his bezzies are trying He was supposed to be historians of the game, taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are delay in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's differentgetting there could lead to financial losses. This time As the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itschool was only five minutes out of Leila's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for Kway, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being playedcould she drop him off? Of course, she could and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the line between observing and learning about back of her car. On the gameway Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, and playing it, is with a problem which could put a very thin one indeed..multi-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1529016932

|isbn=15291242551784165263|title=The WhispersInvite Me In|author=Heidi PerksEmma Curtis

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that thereMartin Curran's going wife, Eliza knew that she had to be a body. Ithome to make his lunch for one o's clock on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near dot, despite the town fact that she was actually painting one of Clearwater and their properties prior to itbeing let. If she didn's new year's dayt get home, there would be trouble. To understand what happened weThere was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don're going t be too quick to have to go back to the previous Septemberbe understanding. Grace Goodwin has He was also a soft Australian accent - shevery unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Graham, works All this was in Singapore and Eliza's mind when she and her eight-year-old daughterfirst met Dan Jones who arrived, Matildaunannounced, might at the flat just as well be in Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friendlease of flat 2, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater 42 Linden Road and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's he was desperate to get in the class Matilda will be joiningbefore it was advertised as being available. It's perfect!

{{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)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 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 EmilyHeights|rating=4.5

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. ItShe's the western coast we're concerned withon site, visiting a place he has to return to, and client for a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, lighting consultation when she vanished from spies him in a remote road late at nightbuilding across the way. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectThere are lots of things, a lifer nowlots of people, who went a bit Hannibal Lecteryou might see when you look out across London, 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 manbut this isn's mind, but to no availt one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. He's also having a recharge ready Why? Because Kieran has been dead for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageover two years, the very embodimentand Ellen knows this for a fact, the virtual resurrection, of because she had a hand in his lovemurder. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199581471183483