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|isbnauthor=1409181669Will Carver|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and looked likely also, curiously, addicted to get away with them bothattending numerous AA groups. She needed to think carefully about what she knew is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and decide how critiquing the AA steps she should proceedis mainly using the groups to find targets... Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Marianapeople's niecemisery, Zoe, had telephoned and targets for her in distressviolent behaviour. Tara had been her best friend and Yet she was struggling also seems to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridgebe searching for others who think as she does, but and when she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all unable to find like-minded people in any of the more so by the death of Mariana's husbandgroups she decides to set up her own, Sebastianhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizathus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1471196615|title=Good NeighboursIced|author=Felix Francis

|summary= If you're of Miles Pussett used to be a certain vintageSteeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, it's hard to read occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singsame weekend as White Turf -song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and Gertie live a world apart from against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the Melbourne suburbs. They're one saddling of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierhorses. They It're not quite like all the other families (s seven years since he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends put horseracing behind him and their kids have settled in, and ithe swore that he's all going ok. Until d never go back to it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. ItMiles can's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, t help but look for the residents of Maple Streetanswers, the worst is yet to comeeven when it puts him in danger.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=0008395594147228612X|title=Both of YouThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Adele ParksAlan Johnson|rating=4.5

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it We all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thenknow people like Gary Nelson, one Monday, she went to work and never came homealthough we probably haven't taken much notice of them. MarkThey live quiet, Oli uneventful lives and Seb are shatteredstay mostly under the radar. WellIn a city like London, Mark that's quite easy - and Seb are but Olieven Gary's sixteen and at three 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 stage where train each morning: he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh d love to ask her for a while date but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Sebhe doesn's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hardt have the courage. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessmanon his homeward commute, reports Arina speaks to him and asks for his wife, Kai missinghelp. She too has vanished without traceBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.

|isbn=18484584280008433631|title=Local Woman MissingNext of Kin|author=Mary KubicaKia Abdullah|rating=45

|summary=Eleven years agoIt was the sort of thing that happened every day, a man regularly came home although not to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againLeila Syed. His wife was She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in the habit of going out for a run late at nightpanic. It He was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have supposed to be taking Max to look after her baby - school but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for he'd been called into work and the unquestioning affection he gave herdelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. The locality As the school was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedonly five minutes out of Leila's way, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. could she drop him off? Ten days laterOf course, she could and a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey sleeping Max was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for duly strapped into the last couple back of weeks or soher car. Her body was eventually found in On the way Leila took a seedy motel phone call - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for panic at herwork too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1784165263|title=RabbitsInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to the world of The Game. Or should that be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the gamedot, for while it ought despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookbeing let. It If she didn's also called Rabbitst get home, although only as there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, paraplegic and confined to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracywheelchair, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying but don't be too quick to be historians of the game, and 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 understanding. He was also a very shortunpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. However All this time itwas in Eliza's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousmind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, nay lethalunannounced, at the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying flat just as Eliza was about to sort out what leave: he wanted the game is doing, if it's even being playedlease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only was desperate to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing get in before it, is a very thin one indeed..was advertised as being available.|isbn=1529016932

{{Frontpage|isbnauthor=1529124255Robert Peston |title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksWhistleblower |rating=4.53

|summary=We know straight away that thereI's going m not the first to be a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and point out how fitting it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back is for Robert Peston to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has write a soft Australian accent - shepolitical thriller, so I's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, shell move on quickly – but this won's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well t be in the lovely apartment she's foundwinning any awards for originality. GraceIt's best friendan interesting plot with a good pace, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater but it does very little to differentiate itself and she I suspect before much time has an eight-year-old child too. Ethanpassed I's in the class Matilda will be joiningll have forgotten a lot of it. It's perfect!|isbn=1838775242 }}

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Teresa Driscoll|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all 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 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 feel, it'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 for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. 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 woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in 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 body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529047315|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 overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a girl of five, away client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the weekendway. UnfortunatelyThere are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, it doesnbut this isn't go according to plan one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Angela diesEllen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483