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|author=Peter PapathanasiouWill Carver|title=The StoningPsychopaths Anonymous

|summary=In Maeve is a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonhigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleycuriously, and she's been taped addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a tree self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps sheis mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's had rocks bowled at misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When does, and when she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home unable to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires find like-minded people in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival any of George Manolis, a higher rank from the citygroups she decides to set up her own, hoping to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedencounter others who share similar obsessions, insular community and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..born.|isbn=15294169731913193756

|isbn=17876318691471196615|title=The Rising TideIced|author=Sam LloydFelix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but she'd built a good those days are past and decent life in he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the aftermaththree-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. SheHe was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Lockehigh-Povey Marine class horseracing on Penleith Beach, the frozen lake and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Danielsaddling of the horses. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, DanielIt's partner seven years since he put horseracing behind him and so-called best friendhe swore that he'd never go back to it. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can's home t help but look for answers, even when it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedputs him in danger.

|isbn=1786332388147228612X|title=The First Day of SpringLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Nancy TuckerAlan Johnson

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven''The First Day t taken much notice of Spring'' was one such occasionthem. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the plot grips you and won't let goradar. SoIn a city like London, whatthat's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age quite easy - and she readily tells us that sheeven Gary's just killed someone - a two-year-old boythree flatmates largely ignore him. She's completely cold about what The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as shegoes to work on the train each morning: he's done with d love to ask her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's for a clue that Chrissie isndate but he doesn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in have the book: when will Steven come backcourage. Then, on his homeward commute, she wonders? Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Hasn't Before long he been dead for long enough?finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0008433631|title=The Lies We TellNext of Kin|author=Jane CorryKia Abdullah|rating=45

|summary=Sarah Wallace said It was the sort of thing that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed happened every day, although not to have been a loving, stable familyLeila Syed. When we first meet her, she canShe't sleep because d never driven her sonnephew, FreddieMax, who's nearly sixteento school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised had rung her in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd be been called into work and the delay in bygetting there could lead to financial losses. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in As the morning but heschool was only five minutes out of Leila's still going to be going to work way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and he needs his sleepa sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. He wakesOn the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonewith a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1784165263|title=The HeightsInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnMartin Curran't expect s wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to see Kieran make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that dayshe was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. She If she didn's on sitet get home, visiting there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a client for paraplegic and confined to a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across Londonwheelchair, but this isndon't one Ellen expected that day or 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 fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsEliza'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 Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand he was desperate to get in his murderbefore it was advertised as being available.|isbn=1471183483

{{Frontpage|isbnauthor=1838853804Robert Peston |title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayWhistleblower |rating=43

|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 herthree children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without boys are a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, bit of a local woman and handful which is why she's making this trip on her six-year-old daughter disappearedown. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to The house would be under some strain perfect for them. It's the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found same month but now we're in a seedy motel - it appeared that Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that s job hunting and living in her daughtersister, DelilahGeorgie's, was safe and there was no point in looking for spare room, where she's been since she broke up with herboyfriend, Connor.

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1787634493|title=RabbitsAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to the world It had seemed like one of The Gamethose serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Or should Marissa Irvine had been hoping 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 opportunity would arise for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official sourceher son, no hard and fast structureMilo, and to the average person no obvious entry pointgo on a play date. A bit like the game of life then She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack Milo would go home from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that Kerryglen National School in the least Kafkaesque manner possiblean affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. K and his bezzies are trying to What could be historians of the gamebetter? Only, and have studied amongst many things when Marissa arrived at the most unique of high score boardshouse, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itexpecting to meet Jacob's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousmother, nay lethalJenny, the most broken itdoor was answered by Esther, who didn's ever t know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been – morally and otherwisegiven for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it And so had Jenny's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, 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.nanny..|isbn=1529016932

|isbnauthor=1529124255Claire McGowan|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's new yearThen:'s day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to Casey returns from a walk with the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to live. Her husbandbaby, GrahamCarson, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughtercomes across three bodies, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment shealmost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'s found. Grace's best friendRachel is out for a walk with her dog, Anna RobinsonBrandy, is still in Clearwater and when she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's comes across a body in the class Matilda will be joiningwoods. It's perfect! |isbn=1542019974

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Peter Papathanasiou|title=Girls Who LieThe Stoning|rating=3.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You thinkcomparison, seeing on the map that we're set a teacher has been transported across town at night in Akranesa shopping trolley, and finding itshe's been taped to a tree and she's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching had rocks bowled at her as if she were the few final straws leftworld's tallest cricket stumps. However just because When she's discovered by the book aims for town gossip everyone, including the usual small-town feellocal cops, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed An arson attack on that she could now live permanently with shows the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, feeling – 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 placeonly fair, and now, after six monthsis the general opinion, for the body has been discovered, occupants are often setting their own fires in a third, even more remote placeprotest at their conditions. MeanwhileCue the arrival of George Manolis, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue higher rank from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionthe city, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyto sort everything out. Is the assumption that Because such an aggrieved, insular community is so easy for the reader really going to make welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the right one?law...|isbn=191319373X1529416973

|isbn=15290473151787631869|title=The LamplightersRising Tide|author=Emma StonexSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn'A fisherman told him once about t been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the sea having two facesaftermath. You have She's now married to take them bothDaniel, he saidwho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, the good and the badthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and never turn your back on either one of themFin, the child she had with Daniel.'' In 1972 They have financial difficulties, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwallsome caused by Nick Povey, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in Daniel''the frigid pause between Christmas s partner and New Year''so-called best friend. Jory Martin had taken out Nick and Daniel have a relief keeper, history together from the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like time they both spent in a bath toy over the waveletschildren's home but it' but they were unable s difficult to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next daythink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menis concerned.

|isbn=18385950311786332388|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe First Day of Spring|author=Bronwen JohnNancy Tucker

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The con had seemed like a good First Day of Spring'' was one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - such occasion. The writing is superb and they should have made a decent profit from itcompletely compelling. The problem was they were too successful: one of characterisation is excellent and the marks had bought a few plot grips you and then discovered that they were valuelesswon't let go. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherSo, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesthe main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, was determined that he small for her age and his family could not lose face like she readily tells us thatshe's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. The grifters were going to payShe's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. Ashia There'Ashs a clue that Chrissie isn' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out of t completely responsible for her actions a little later in the country. book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? In the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, AshHasn's foster father, lost his life.t he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=1838952012B088YWF5BC|title=The FavourLies We Tell|author=Laura VaughanJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a bit of council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a shock to Ada Howell: she wasloving, after allstable family. When we first meet her, the daughter of the renowned authorshe can't sleep because her son, Anthony HowellFreddie, who'd been to this college. Wells nearly sixteen, she wasnhasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted herbe in by. Her husband, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made'Tom, which was better really. And whilst weis fast asleep: they're being honest, we might as well admit that moving house in the morning but he'renowned author' might s still going to be stretching the truth a little: going to work and he needs his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understandsleep. StillHe wakes, though, Ada had felt entitled when Freddie does come in and this was why her godmotheroverhears him tell his mother that he's offer had come at such a brilliant timekilled someone.

|author=C A SachaLouise Candlish|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Heights|rating=4.5

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan Ellen doesn't expect to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldsee Kieran that day. She's first emission-free car to market and dominate productionon site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. The secret development project to enable thisThere are lots of things, Bucephaluslots of people, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry it you might see when you look outacross London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Montgomery is also looking Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a legacy and one that does not involve fact, because she had a hand in his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..murder.|isbn=18004619761471183483