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|isbnauthor=1838853804Will Carver|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory Maeve is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the ponda high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, only addicted to find that he'd hanged himselfattending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Twenty years later she's back home again Whilst analysing and this time critiquing the occasion AA steps she is no less sadmainly using the groups to find targets. She's there ..targets for sexual encounters, targets to say feed her final farewells desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexiaviolent behaviour. As Yet she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' also seems to Megan but what did be searching for others who think as she mean? There were lots of thingsdoes, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was when she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem unable to have everything find like- Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant minded people in any of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem groups she decides to be a curse. In addition set up her own, hoping to Melissa's health problemsencounter others who share similar obsessions, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforethus Psychopaths Anonymous is born. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, 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, Eliza.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

|isbnauthor=1529124255Teresa Driscoll|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5

|summary=We know straight away that there's going The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be a bodyyour average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. ItSuddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating 's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and itHe is not who he says he is…'s new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to , paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the previous Septembernovel. Grace Goodwin has In a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens twist of events, and nowafter a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to livegraduation ceremony. Her husband, Graham, works With Gemma then in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinsona coma, what follows is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the class Matilda will be joiningfurther you read. It's perfect!|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0008370982|title=Girls Who LieRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=34.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowScotland. You thinkHer husband, seeing Adam, isn't so keen on the map idea. Like Amelia, he knows that wetheir marriage has been under strain: he're set in Akranes, s a screenwriter and finding ithe's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, never shy of making it clear to Amelia that this author is clutching at he'd prefer to spend time with the few final straws leftnovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itAmelia's not just in Akranes annoyed that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for he never enquires about how her date evening, day has been - and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently working with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl backdogs, and a couple many of delighted adopterswhom have been abused, is never easy. 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 womanStill - she's car was found miles won the weekend away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with heavy postAdam beside her in the passenger seat -natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for then doing the reader same thing to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xcome back a couple of days later.

|isbn=15290473150008421714|title=The LamplightersMrs March|author=Emma StonexVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March''A fisherman told him once about s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the sea having two faceslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. You have Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to take them bothbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, he saidPatricia asked, as she was wrapping the good and the badbread, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off but isn't this the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in first time he''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Years based a character on you?''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperShe mentioned that Johanna, the weather such that principal character had 'her mannerisms'the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next dayPerhaps this would not have mattered, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal except for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with fact that Johanna is the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menwhore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|isbn=18385950310241989094|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Perfect Life|author=Bronwen JohnNuala Ellwood|rating=4.5

|summary=The con had seemed like In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the new Banksy - estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and they should have made a decent profit from itBarclay. The problem was they were too successful: one boys are a bit of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelesshandful which is why she's making this trip on her own. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen The house would be perfect for a simple con and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thatthem. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia  It'Ashs the same month but now we' Cox re in Wimbledon and Max we encounter the same young woman, only this time she'Colorados job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie' Ying needed to be got out of the country. In the course of bringing this abouts, Luke Gainesspare room, Ashwhere she's foster fatherbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, lost his lifeConnor.

|isbn=18389520121787634493|title=The FavourAll Her Fault|author=Laura VaughanAndrea Mara

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit It had seemed like one of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, after all, those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the daughter of the renowned authoropportunity would arise for her son, Anthony HowellMilo, who'd been to this collegego on a play date. Well, she wasnShe was concerned that he didn't ''actually'' Howellhave any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn'chosent know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she' rather than just 'made', which d been given for Jenny was better reallynot recognised. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandMilo had disappeared. Still, Ada And so had felt entitled and this was why her godmotherJenny's offer had come at such a brilliant timenanny.

|author=C A SachaClaire McGowan|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerI Know You

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has ''Then:'' Casey returns from a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring walk with the world's first emission-free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisbaby, BucephalusCarson, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into comes across three bodies, almost a second term to help him carry it outwhole family taken down. Montgomery  ''Now:'' Rachel is also looking out for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and walk with her foundationdog, Brandy, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..when she comes across a body in the woods. |isbn=18004619761542019974

|isbnauthor=0008336830Peter Papathanasiou|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Stoning|rating=43.5

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she saw 's been taped to a young woman looking tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as though if she was going to jump from were the Clifton suspension bridgeworld's tallest cricket stumps. She talks to herWhen she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to call her best friend . An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and flatmateit's only fair, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with herthe general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. She thought they shared Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everythingout. Satnam Because such an aggrieved, insular community is taken really going to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been on good terms since welcome a discovery Nevis made Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherlaw...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1787631869|title=The Disappearing ActRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the cusp of successaftermath. Great success. If the rumours are true She's now married to Daniel, award season is going to treat her wellwho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, acknowledging her for her latestand they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, critically acclaimed production. SheLucy's going places but sodaughter and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, unfortunatelysome caused by Nick Povey, is her Daniel's partnerand so-called best friend. And Nick and Daniel have a history together from the places hetime they both spent in a children's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. Ithome but it's a good time for Mia difficult to escapethink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseis concerned.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734281786332388|title=The Art First Day of DeathSpring|author=David FennellNancy Tucker

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidone such occasion. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton The writing is superb and 34-year-old Noel Tippingcompletely compelling. The installation characterisation is excellent and the work of @nonymous, underground artist plot grips you and extreme version of Banksy. Hewon's made a macabre promise: more will followt let go. In factSo, we've already met the artist although not by name: hewhat's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookproblem? Well, Maki-e fountain penthe problem is Chrissie, MacBook Air and iPhonethe main character. Elaine Kelly is there with When we first meet her son, Jordanshe's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagejust killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Actually, it doesnShe't take a lot of explaining: Franks completely cold about what she's attentions are obvious on done with her face despite the foundation main memory being that whilst she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counterwas killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's someone online, CassandraH, a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the artist has his eye onbook: when will Steven come back, too.she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Sarah SultoonB088YWF5BC|title=The SourceLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating=2.54

|summary=1996Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Essex It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. Thirteen-year When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-old schoolgirl Carly lives promised he'd be in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base. Her husband, Tom, struggling is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe going to work and he needs his sleep. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak..overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=1529378648Louise Candlish|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronThe Heights

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canEllen doesn't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs expect to be donesee Kieran that day. After all She''when things went awry s on Spook Streetsite, they generally went visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the full Chris Graylingway.'' Over at Regent's ParkThere are lots of things, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator lots of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It , you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted one Ellen expected that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought day or infact any other day. She won't always be so jubilant about Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows thisfor a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483