A Guardian review roundup assesses five recent crime and thriller novels, ranging from literary suspense and social satire to feminist revenge and psychological mystery.

– Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur follows a privileged golfer whose fatal accident reshapes her life and understanding of responsibility.
– Bella Mackie’s Claws Out! is a darkly comic satire about a suspected serial widow and a family fighting for an inheritance.
– Minyoung Kang’s Plant Lady centres on a traumatised shop owner who secretly helps women escape abusive men.
– Lawrence Osborne’s Children of Wolves follows an American investigator infiltrating a wealthy young woman’s circle in Turkey.
– Sally Hepworth’s Mad Mabel is included in the roundup, though no review details are provided in the supplied text.