My 2017 Top Picks

Jane Harper - The Dry / Adele Parks - The Stranger in my Home / Sarah J. Naughton - Tattletale / 

B.A. Paris - Breakdown / Kate Moore - The Radium Girls / Daniel Cole - Ragdoll

Affinity Konar - Mischling / Helen Fields - Perfect Remains / Samantha King - The Choice / 

Laurie Frankel - This Is How It Always Is / Fiona Cummins - Rattle / JP Delaney - The Girl Before

Sarah Pinborough - Behind her eyes / Sarah Hilary - Quieter than killing / Antonia Hayes - Relativity / 

Mark Hill - The Two O'clock Boy / Ronan Ryan - the fractured life of Jimmy Dice / Julia Crouch - Her husband's lover

SJI Holliday - the Damselfly / Michelle Adams - My Sister / Sophia Tobin - The Vanishing / 

Emma Kavanagh - The killer on the wall / Isabel Ashdown - Little Sister / Benjamin Percy - The Dark Net

Sarah Lotz - The White Road / Hannah Tinti - The Twelve lives of Samuel Hawley / 

Peter Swanson - Her Every Fear / K.L. Slater  - Blink / Tony Parsons - Die last / Sarah Schmidt - See what I have done

Rebecca Mascull - The Wild Air / Susan Wilkins - The Killer / Tony Schumacher - An Army of One /

Ali Land - Good Me, Bad Me / Georgia Hunter - We are the lucky ones / Erin Kelly - He Said, She Said

C.L. Taylor - The Escape / Murakami - Men Without Women / Paula Hawkins - Into the Water / 

Kate Hamer - The Doll Funeral / Emma Flint - Little Deaths / Pam Jenoff - the Orphan's tale

This is by no means a definitive list and I am also looking forward to reading many more from both new and established authors in 2017.

My 2016 top picks..

The Butcher's Hook - Janet Ellis / Rebound - Aga Lesiewicz / the Darkest Secret - Alex Marwood / the Girl You Lost - Kathryn Croft / Little Boy Blue - M.J. Arlidge

the Shadow Hour - Kate Riordan / Dead Secret - Ava McCarthy / the Secrets of Gaslight Lane - M.R.C. Kasabian / Behind Closed Doors - B.A. Paris / the One in a Million boy - Monica Wood
Beside Myself - Ann Morgan / Passenger 19 - Ward Larsen / Lost Kin - Steve Anderson / the Widow - Fiona Barton / Find Her - Lisa Gardner
A fever of the blood - Oscar de Muriel / the astonishing return of Norah Wells - Virginia Macgregor / the Poison Artist - Jonathan Moore / Shtum - Jem Lester / the Trap - Melanie Raabe
I See You - Clare Mackintosh / Untitled - Adele Parks / Baby Doll - Hollie Overton / the Crow Girl -Erik Axl Sund / the day I lost you - Fionnuala Kearney / Dear Amy - Helen Callaghan 
Once again this is by no means a definitive list and I'm sure there'll be many more to add!