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|isbnauthor=1787631869Will Carver|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built Maeve is a good high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and decent life in the aftermathalso, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She's now married to Daniel, who cois also a self-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, critiquing the child AA steps she had with Danielis mainly using the groups to find targets... They have financial difficultiestargets for sexual encounters, some caused by Nick Povey, Danieltargets to feed her desire to hear of people's partner misery, and so-called best friendtargets for her violent behaviour. Nick Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenwhen she's home but it's difficult unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heartset up her own, particularly where Lucy, or moneyhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is concernedborn.|isbn=1913193756

|isbn=17863323881471196615|title=The First Day of SpringIced|author=Nancy TuckerFelix Francis

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head- and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasionfirst down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and He was in St Moritz the plot grips you and won't let go. So, whatsame weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the problem? Well, frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the problem is Chrissie, saddling of the main characterhorses. When we first meet her sheIt's just eight seven years old, small for her age since he put horseracing behind him and she readily tells us he swore that shehe's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyd never go back to it. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being But when he sees that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isnsomething suspicious is going on, Miles can't completely responsible help but look for her actions a little later answers, even when it puts him in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?danger.

|isbn=B088YWF5BC147228612X|title=The Lies We TellLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Jane CorryAlan Johnson|rating=4.5

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sistersWe all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. It seemed to have been a lovingThey live quiet, stable familyuneventful lives and stay mostly under the radar. When we first meet herIn a city like London, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, whothat's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of halfquite easy -promised heand even Gary'd be in bys three flatmates largely ignore him. Her husband, Tom, The highlight of his day is fast asleepwatching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: theyhe're moving house in the morning d love to ask her for a date but hedoesn's still going t have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to be going to work him and he needs asks for his sleephelp. He wakesBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, though, when Freddie does come in Russian secret agents and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonethe Metropolitan police.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0008433631|title=The HeightsNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She's on sited never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him had rung her in a building across the waypanic. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, He was supposed to be taking Max to school but this isnhe't one Ellen expected that day or d been called into work and the delay in fact any other daygetting there could lead to financial losses. Why As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years Of course, she could and Ellen knows this for a factsleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, because she had with a problem which could put a hand in his murdermulti-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=18388538041784165263|title=The Cursed GirlsInvite Me In|author=Caro RamsayEmma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.}}{{Frontpage |author=Robert Peston |title=The Whistleblower |rating=3

|summary=Megan MelvickI's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to m not the pond, only first to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion point out how fitting it is no less sad. She's there for Robert Peston to say her final farewells to her sisterwrite a political thriller, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers so I'sorryll move on quickly – but this won' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, t be winning any awards for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissaoriginality. It's husbandan interesting plot with a good pace, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition it does very little to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf differentiate itself and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years I suspect beforemuch time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of it. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=1838775242 }}

|isbnauthor=1409181669Teresa Driscoll|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesHer Perfect Family

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely The novel begins by introducing you to get away with them both. She needed Gemma, who at first instance appears to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun be your average student, faced with the death of Tara Hampton on familiar horrifying realisation, at the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's nieceeleventh hour, Zoe, had telephoned that her in distressgraduation outfit is all wrong. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''entirelyHe is not who he says he is…'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught paving the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all way for the more so by sinister tone that remains throughout the death novel. In a twist of Mariana's husbandevents, Sebastianand after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death midst of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sisterher graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, Elizawhat follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan0008370982|title=Good NeighboursRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, Amelia Wright is forty-two and it's hard to read was the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''converted chapel in Scotland. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street Her husband, thoughAdam, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. Theyisn're one of 18 households t so keen on the crescentidea. Like Amelia, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's an ex rocker, shea screenwriter and he's a former beauty queen) but theynever shy of making it clear to Amelia that he've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and itd prefer to spend time with the novels he's all going okhoping to adapt than with her. Until it isn Amelia't. One hots annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, clammymany of whom have been abused, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the wayis never easy. It Still - she's a revolting mess of dirt and chaoswon the weekend away, but even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the residents of Maple Street, passenger seat - and then doing the worst is yet same thing to comeback a couple of days later.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=00083955940008421714|title=Both of YouMrs March|author=Adele ParksVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You could The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has reading it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresor had already done so. ThenEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, one MondayPatricia asked, as she went to work and never came home. Markwas wrapping the bread, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are ''but Oliisn's sixteen and at t this the stage where first time he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been based a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. character on you?'' SebShe mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan JanssenPerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a wealthy Dutch businessmanweak, reports his wifeplain, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracedetestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|isbn=18484584280241989094|title=Local Woman MissingThe Perfect Life|author=Mary KubicaNuala Ellwood

|summary=Eleven years ago, In August 2018 we meet a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar young woman called Imogen and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby s viewing a house in Goring-on- but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for Thames and telling the unquestioning affection he gave estate agent about her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a tracethree children, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days laterLavender, a local woman Freddie and her six-year-old daughter disappearedBarclay. Meredith Dickey was The boys are a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple bit of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that handful which is why she'd committed suicides making this trip on her own. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking The house would be perfect for herthem.}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and 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 that same month but now we're in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K Wimbledon and his bezzies are trying to be historians of we encounter the gamesame young woman, 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 very short. However only this time itshe's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethaljob hunting and living in her sister, the most broken itGeorgie's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doingspare room, if itwhere she's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safebeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.Connor..|isbn=1529016932

|isbn=15291242551787634493|title=The WhispersAll Her Fault|author=Heidi PerksAndrea Mara

|summary=We know straight away It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that there's going the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to be go on a bodyplay date. ItShe was concerned that he didn's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's t have any friends at his new year's dayschool. To understand what happened we're going to have to Milo would go back to the previous Septemberhome 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. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and nowWhat could be better? Only, in her mid-thirtieswhen Marissa arrived at the house, sheexpecting to meet Jacob's returned to her home town to live. Her husbandmother, GrahamJenny, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughterthe door was answered by Esther, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment shewho didn's foundt know Jenny or Jacob. GraceThe phone number she's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tood been given for Jenny was not recognised. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joiningMilo had disappeared. ItAnd so had Jenny's perfect!nanny.

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Claire McGowan|title=Girls Who LieI Know You|rating=34

|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 Then:'' Casey returns 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 walk with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl backbaby, Carson, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our comes across three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenbodies, 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 almost a third, even more remote placewhole family taken down. Meanwhile, this narrative  ''Now:'' Rachel is interrupted by a confessional monologue from out for a mother who found herself walk with heavy post-natal depressionher dog, and very little maternal feeling Brandy, when she comes across a body in her bodythe woods. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one? |isbn=191319373X1542019974

|isbnauthor=1529047315Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexStoning|rating=3.5

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have In a town sleazy enough to take them bothmake sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, he saida teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, the good and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themworld's tallest cricket stumps.When she'' In 1972s discovered by the town gossip everyone, fifteen miles off including the coast of Cornwalllocal cops, three men disappeared without trace are quite confident the culprit has come from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such An arson attack on that ''shows the boat [was] rocking feeling – and bobbing like a bath toy over it's only fair, is the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from general opinion, for the Maiden Rockoccupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. It was broken into Cue the next dayarrival of George Manolis, but there was no sign of a higher rank from the mencity, to sort everything out. The table was set for Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a meal for two Greek- and heritaged city boy laying down the clocks were stopped at 8law.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=18385950311787631869|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Rising Tide|author=Bronwen JohnSam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary=The con had seemed like Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from itlife in the aftermath. The problem was She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they were too successful: one of live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the marks child she had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelesswith Daniel. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherThey have financial difficulties, celebrity criminal Harry Holmessome caused by Nick Povey, was determined that he Daniel's partner and his family could not lose face like thatso-called best friend. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox Nick and Max Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children'Colorados home but it' Ying needed s difficult to be got out of the country. In the course of bringing this aboutthink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, Luke Gainesparticularly where Lucy, Ash's foster fatheror money, lost his lifeis concerned.

|isbn=18389520121786332388|title=The FavourFirst Day of Spring|author=Laura VaughanNancy Tucker

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The rejection by Oxford came as a bit First Day of a shock to Ada Howell: she Spring'' wasone such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. So, after allwhat's the problem? Well, the daughter of problem is Chrissie, the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegemain character. Well, When we first meet her she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after just eight years old, small for her birth age and had then adopted her, so she was readily tells us that she'chosen' rather than s just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She'mades completely cold about what she', which s done with her main memory being that whilst she was better reallykilling - suffocating - her hands seized up. And whilst weThere're being honest, we might as well admit s a clue that Chrissie isn'renowned author' might be stretching the truth t completely responsible for her actions a littlelater in the book: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldnwhen will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant time.he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=C A SachaB088YWF5BC|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Lies We Tell|author=Jane Corry

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a plan council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacyhave been a loving, stable family. 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-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: to bring they're moving house in the worldmorning but he's first emission-free car still going to be going to market work and dominate productionhe needs his sleep. The secret development project to enable this He wakes, Bucephalusthough, is already underway when Freddie does come in and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help overhears him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy and one that does not involve tell his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finneganthat he's Feed Africa programme with both hands..killed someone.|isbn=1800461976

|isbnauthor=0008336830Louise Candlish|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Heights

|summary=Sondra was Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on her way home after work site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she saw spies him in a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from building across the Clifton suspension bridgeway. She talks to herThere are lots of things, lots of people, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmateyou might see when you look out across London, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasnbut this isn't shared her problems with herone Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Nevis calls her motherEllen knows this for a fact, Honor. They've not been on good terms since because she had a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483