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|author=Louise CandlishWill Carver|title=The HeightsPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471196615|title=Iced|author=Felix Francis

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect Miles Pussett used to see Kieran be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that day's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses. She It's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies seven years since he put horseracing behind him in a building across the wayand he swore that he'd never go back to it. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see But when you look out across Londonhe sees that something suspicious is going on, but this isnMiles can't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead help but look for over two yearsanswers, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand even when it puts him in his murderdanger.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=1838853804147228612X|title=The Cursed GirlsLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Caro RamsayAlan Johnson|rating=4.5

|summary=Megan MelvickWe all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven's earliest memory is t taken much notice of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to them. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the pondradar. In a city like London, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again quite easy - and this time the occasion is no less sad. Sheeven Gary's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexiathree flatmates largely ignore him. As The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorrygoes to work on the train each morning: he' d love to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, ask her for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissadate but he doesn's husbandt have the courage. Then, Jagoon his homeward commute, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem Arina speaks to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County him and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curseasks for his help. In addition to Melissa's health problemsBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Megan was deaf Russian secret agents and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforethe Metropolitan police. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=14091816690008433631|title=The MaidensNext of Kin|author=Alex MichaelidesKia Abdullah

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana It was convinced the sort of thing that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed happened every day, although not 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 CambridgeLeila Syed. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecenever driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, ZoeAndrew Hanson, had telephoned rung her in distressa panic. Tara had been her best friend and she He was struggling supposed to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go be taking Max to Cambridge, school but she caught he'd been called into work and the first fast train from King's Crossdelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all As the more so by the death school was only five minutes out of MarianaLeila's husbandway, Sebastiancould she drop him off? Of course, in she could and a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliersleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after On the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sisterway Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, Elizawith a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1784165263|title=Good NeighboursInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis

|summary= If youI're of a certain vintage, m not the first to point out how fitting it's hard is for Robert Peston to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding write a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetpolitical thriller, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. Theyso I're one of 18 households ll move on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) quickly – but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isnthis won't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the waybe winning any awards for originality. It's an interesting plot with a revolting mess of dirt and chaosgood pace, but for the residents it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comeit.|isbn=17890982111838775242 }}

|isbnauthor=0008395594Teresa Driscoll|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary=You could The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be forgiven for thinking your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that Leigh Fletcher has it her graduation outfit is all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoreswrong. ThenSuddenly, one MondayGemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', she went to work and never came homepaving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. MarkIn a twist of events, Oli and Seb are shatteredafter a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. WellWith Gemma then in a coma, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom what follows is his best look. He's been a bit off complex whodunit with Leigh for a while but she put it down list of suspects that continues to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracegrow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=18484584280008370982|title=Local Woman MissingRock Paper Scissors|author=Mary KubicaAlice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar Amelia Wright is forty-two and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in the habit of going out for a run late at nightconverted chapel in Scotland. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnHer husband, Adam, isn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for so keen on the unquestioning affection he gave heridea. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedLike Amelia, seemingly without he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a trace, leaving her husband screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to look after adapt than with her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her six-yearday has been -old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for working with the last couple dogs, many of weeks or sowhom have been abused, is never easy. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel Still - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughters won the weekend away, Delilah, was safe and there was no point even if it does mean driving for eight hours in looking for her1978 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.

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008421714|title=RabbitsMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Welcome to The problem began just after the world publication of The GameGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Or should that be Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the game, for while it ought last page) seemed to either be capitalised to high heaven, reading it never leaves lower case throughout this bookor had already done so. 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 and fast structure, and Every day Mrs March went 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 conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the gameparticular morning, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardsPatricia asked, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in as she was wrapping the most peculiar placesbread, and are still very short. However ''but isn't this the first time ithe's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethalbased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the most broken itprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''s ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for K, in trying to sort out what the game fact that Johanna is doingthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, if it's even being playedplain, and how his loved ones might be kept safedetestable, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the gamepathetic, and playing itunloved, is a very thin one indeedunloveable wretch...|isbn=1529016932''

|isbn=15291242550241989094|title=The WhispersPerfect Life|author=Heidi PerksNuala Ellwood|rating=4.5

|summary=We know straight away that thereIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's going to be viewing a bodyhouse in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. ItThe boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on the beach under Crayneher own. The house would be perfect for them. It's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened same month but now we're going to have to go back to in Wimbledon and we encounter the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - same young woman, only this time she's lived there since her teens job hunting and now, living in her mid-thirtiessister, sheGeorgie's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Grahamspare room, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment where she's found. Grace's best friendbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tooConnor. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1787634493|title=Girls Who LieAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=34.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners It had seemed like one of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthose serendipitous events which sometimes happen. You think, seeing on the map Marissa Irvine had been hoping that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityopportunity would arise for her son, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelMilo, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lieto go on a play date. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and She was never seen againconcerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a couple of delighted adopterslittle later. But it left our three detectives What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenthe house, in one place, the womanexpecting to meet Jacob's car was found miles away in a second placemother, and nowJenny, after six monthsthe door was answered by Esther, the body has who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been discovered, in a third, even more remote placegiven for Jenny was not recognised. 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 bodyMilo had disappeared. Is the assumption that is And so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xhad Jenny's nanny.

|isbnauthor=1529047315Claire McGowan|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexI Know You|rating=54

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the sea having two faces. You have to take them bothbaby, he saidCarson, the good and the badcomes across three bodies, and never turn your back on either one of themalmost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.

|isbnauthor=1838595031Peter Papathanasiou|title=Crooked: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen JohnThe Stoning|rating=43.5

|summary=The con had seemed like 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 good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - shopping trolley, and they should have made she's been taped to a decent profit from it. The problem was they tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherby the town gossip everyone, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesincluding the local cops, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and Max it'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out of s only fair, is the general opinion, for the countryoccupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. In Cue the course arrival of bringing this aboutGeorge Manolis, Luke Gainesa higher rank from the city, Ash's foster fatherto sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, lost his lifeinsular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=18389520121787631869|title=The FavourRising Tide|author=Laura Vaughan|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, after all, the daughter of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this college. Well, she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. 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 understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant time.}}{{Frontpage|author=C A Sacha|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerSam Lloyd

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a plan to increase his already startling wealth good and ensure his legacy: to bring decent life in the worldaftermath. She's first emissionnow married to Daniel, who co-free car to market owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and dominate productionFin, the child she had with Daniel. The secret development project to enable this They have financial difficulties, Bucephalussome caused by Nick Povey, is already underway Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into Daniel have a second term history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to help him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy and one think that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto FinneganNick has Daniel's Feed Africa programme with both hands..best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368301786332388|title=Two WrongsThe First Day of Spring|author=Mel McGrathNancy Tucker

|summary=Sondra Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' 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 bridgeone such occasion. She talks to her, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend The writing is superb and flatmate, Nevis Smithcompletely compelling. Nevis The characterisation is unworldly excellent and rather reserved - the plot grips you and she canwon't understand why Satnam hasnlet go. So, what't shared s the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her problems with she's just eight years old, small for herage and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She thought they shared everything's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her motheractions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, Honor. she wonders? TheyHasn've not t he been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mother.dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Catherine SteadmanB088YWF5BC|title=The Disappearing ActLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on the cusp of successa council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Great success It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. If the rumours are true When we first meet her, award season is going to treat she can't sleep because her wellson, acknowledging her for her latestFreddie, critically acclaimed production. Shewho's going places but sonearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, unfortunatelyTom, is her partner. And fast asleep: they're moving house in the places morning but he's still going to be going take him towards liesto work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, deceit when Freddie does come in and a pretty young thing in the form of overhears him tell his new co-star. Itmother that he's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusekilled someone.|isbn=1471189783

|isbnauthor=1838773428Louise Candlish|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellHeights

|summary=1996Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military basebuilding across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, struggling to care but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsover two years, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesEllen knows this for a fact, things start to look because she had a little less bleak..hand in his murder.|isbn=19131935941471183483