Havoc by Christopher Bollen
Against the Grain by Peter Lovesey
Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen,
translated by Caroline Waight
Sherwood on Britbox

“What do I do? I liberate people who don’t know they’re stuck.... That’s one definition. Another? I sow chaos. I clean house.”

This sounds more like our president-elect than an octogenarian tourist from Wisconsin, but there’s nothing predictable about Maggie Burkhardt, the narrator and very anti-heroine of Christopher Bollen’s new psychological thriller, Havoc. She’s a variation on the character of the nosy older woman who uses her age as cover for her detecting skills, though Maggie’s way of solving problems isn’t exactly Miss Marple’s.