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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Lelic|title= The House|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the house, despite the fact that it was crammed full of the seller's stuff and they had to take the whole lot as a job lot. The seller had run off to Australia apparently and was up for a quick sale, lock, stock and barrel. Jack wasn't so sure. He found the place creepy, and it wasn't just the stuffed birds, there was an air about the place that he just didn't like.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith0241678412|title= The Girl from Venice|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at the close Proof of the war is enticement enough. Add a backdrop of partisans, Mussolini and the desperate fight of the losing SS and my interest is certainly piqued, but present the aforementioned along with the mystery of a young woman found floating in the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMy Innocence|author=Marjorie Orr|title=By the Light of a LieJonathan Coe

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed in a hit-and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldnLife after university hasn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmithworked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She'd left s back home, living with her getting into parents and on a taxi zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at 11 oterminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'clock the night before outside the theatre in St MartinUncle's Lane Chris comes to stay and she was on her way home introduces Phyl to Hampstead to review papers ready for his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a court appearance think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way1980s. The police didn't seem likely It plans to pursue push the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious government in a more extreme direction and she wasn't going is ready to leave her friend unavengedact.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Jon Halasz0008385068|title=The Prancing JacanaMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|summary=Mabel PembroseIt's latest novel ''The Prancing Jacana'' has been midsummer on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for a couple of weeks: her husband, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything like as wellDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. He writes childrenIt's books their opening weekend and his editor is adamant that as hesplendid celebrations are promised. It's writing about Snake all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and Mouse, then Mouse has to be eaten by Snake, because thatshe's how converted it worksinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Mabel's not completely free from problems though: her novelHer husband, set in SenegalOwen, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky was the architect and he's gay in a country where same-sex sexual acts are outlawed and in consequence her book has been banned in work is still ongoing on parts of the countrysite. The fact that it's banned isn't harming her sales in heat is oppressive and amongst the US at all, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, guests are enemies as well as Mabel Pembrose is her pen name - isn't content with thisfriends. She's been Old scores are going to Senegal, loves the country be settled and sheit won'd like the book to t be long before a bestseller there toobody is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsSaima Mir|title= The VisitorsVengeance|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge north of England run by a northern seaside resortMuslim woman. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to shut out The fact that it was the shocking secret that John keeps second in the cellar. Until, suddenly, John has a heart attack series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and Marion is forced to go down to the cellar herself screen) and face the gruesome truth it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked and secrets unravel, maybe John isnwasn't the only one with a dark sideproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>0861541561

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma ViskicDavid Chadwick|title=Resurrection BayHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Caleb Zelic has just found his colleague and lifelong friend murderedIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. The two – and Hicks is a female police officer – were working as Mojave desert town of a private investigative group, tracking security flaws that led to few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a hugely costly warehouse robbery, significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and all have training in a defence contractor are the industrymain local employers but otherwise, so they should have seen anything coming. Caleb won't have heard it coming, however – hethere's pretty not much deaf, getting a cadence of speech note other than dive bars and noise from hearing aids but needing to lipread or signJoshua trees. The first signs that this murder Life is connected to the case are impossible to ignore – as indeed are hints that something really serious is going onquiet, when Caleb finds he can't even trust the police looking into the murderuntil.... The case will cause him to go a lot further than he would ever want – which includes to the door of his errant brother, and into the home of his recently-made-ex wife…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178227362X</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1399613073|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary=Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam StoneOlivia, Laura and figuring out what Anjali met on earth the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to do with be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Essex Witch Museum free spirit of the group and she's recently inheritedbecomes a GP. If Rosie had her way she When we first meet them they'd be selling the museum re at a drug and heading back to her flat in London alcohol- but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie fuelled party and Sam it's going to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled end in dark events once againtragedy. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, scrawled messages on We don't know who suffered the walls and apparitions walking through tragedy or the wallsconsequences. Before Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take Twenty-five years later there will be an even darker turn when a very real body is found in eerily similar event that will impact the restaurant - and the ownerthree friends. This time, it's daughter swears that a ghost was to blametheir teenage children who are involved...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jessica JarlviSunny Singh|title= When I Wake UpHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Anna The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a comaterrorist group. Only two people know Hiding from the terrorists who inflicted are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the severe injuries that lead hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to her lying there unmoving care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hospital bedhotel, the culprit he forms a bond with Sam who won’t talkrefuses to be cowed by events, and Anna who can’t. If, and it’s a big if, she wakes up, she may remember keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what 's happened, but of course there’s a chance she quite literally did not know what hit through herphotography. For her husband Erik, it’s an agonising wait. The police don’t seem that interested Although they only ever talk over the phone, but he has their friendship grows as Abhi tries to know who was responsible, help her keep safe and so he wonders whether he should do a bit of investigating himself. He shouldn’t, of course, because in a story like this there are secrets just waiting they both wait to see if they will be uncovered, and he may find that these rescued before they are things he would rather have never knowndiscovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786696096</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ParkinCody Goodfellow|title= The Winter's ChildVertical|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary=There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn'A modern Gothic tale of twisted t lovea good view from up high, secrets and hauntings'' it says on after all? Even the cover. drabbest office building is somewhere I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able m intrigued to tell the future, but that hasnget inside if it't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her sons 40 stories tall. Joel has been missing So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen sincefun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=K J Lawrence1804183210|title= The CossackNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54

|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what youThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn'd think of t have been on the rostrum when the colt - as hero material: yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he's a photographer of some merit and in continued his fifties session. To say that he has a settled life. It was shocked when the disappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everythingbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, A lovely animal - but missing an exhibition was a first for himthree million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. He Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch'd been distracted for a few days Mitchell were well- known and then there were respected in the strange papers which arrived, to be kept saferacing industry. The authorities, Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the form of a shadowy senior member of toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the security serviceshorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, confirmed the view that Ivan horse was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealingin its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clar Ni Chonghaile1405951680|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionThrillers|summary= It's Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a cliché that luxury property in the Irish have Australian outback for a picturesque turn couple of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're truemonths. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with After the problems she''Writing'' magazined had at work, when he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under it seemed like just the English''break she needed. However you express it, that art She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of expression is woven into every other line the space to get over the traumatic end of Clár's proseher relationship with Charles. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like ''A few weeks in the sickness that had come to roost Otway Ranges in her home Victoria sounded like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadnessjust the ticket. Or sometimes both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1448309743|title= From The ShadowsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that can't keep their timeline straightif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. I'll go with a prologue – even if itThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's becoming a bit an easy conclusion given that two of clichéd way of creating a mystery at them 'discovered' the beginning of a story – body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, howeverhe disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadowspulled in to 'shadow' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wes StuartB0CCCPJJ5B|title= My Name is SamThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary=Who is Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the real enemy? This is the question which confronts SamLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, the champion vintage wines and a state-of -the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and the main character in this storycertainly more than acquaintances. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and Finns had no memory intention of who he isgoing on to University, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus unlike our storyteller who, had a place at Wolverton College in seven daysWellingford, will destroy the planet and everyone on itUK's third most prestigious university. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien SereiaBefore going up, his mentors and guides, as he is forced took up a loose invitation to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be savedvisit Ralph at his home, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvesClouds Manor in West Dorset. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DibdinDean Koontz|title=The Room by House at the LakeEnd of the World|rating=4.5

|summary= What would life be like if When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you just packed can either suck it up , saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your things and left? This is a thought own private fortress on an island that the main protagonist Caitlyn has been mulling over for sits snugly in a while now but has never had small chain of tiny dots on the guts to do, until map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she reaches the final straw was doing when her father fails at sobriety once again. After throwing her phone in a river, Caitlyn takes herself to the airport where she ends up getting a plane to New York. From there shut down her old life completely changes as she meets Jake who seems to be just what she needs. As they grow closer she is invited to meet his family, but, in a house surrounded by forest that is miles away from civilisation, family takes start afresh on a whole new meaning. There you live by Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the motto ''we are here aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for each otherthe pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and we are nothing without each other''quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Brown1787636607|title= BroadcastThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers Crime|summary=When David Callow is offered It's a scene replicated all too often in the lead role in a revolutionary new online show, he snatches at early hours of the opportunitymorning. Rapidly becoming Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a viral sensation, David is propelled way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to stratospheric levels get one of celebritythe few taxis available. However, he soon realises Others squash onto the downside night bus that will only go as far as one of sharing every secret with the worldoutlying villages. A prisoner to both his fame and his own thoughts The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', David seeks to have particularly in the light of 'the chip removedmissing women'. For one young woman, only to discover the chilling secret lurking at final stop on the heart bus leaves her a long way short of MindCast, her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the terrifying ambition chance to beg the showbus driver to let her use his. There's creator has for himno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica1529195977|title= Every Last LieNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Clara is mother to pre-schooler Maisie and newborn FelixOn her 45th birthday, but now she has Alix Summer celebrated with a new label: widow. Her husband Nick is dead, killed crowd of friends in an awful car crash that thankfully spared his daughter's life the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when Felix is just a few days oldshe encountered Josie Fair. For Clara She, too, that's not the end of the nightmare. As she works was out celebrating her way through grief and struggles to carry on for the children45th birthday, only she is faced was just with some new worriesher husband, Walter. Maisie isn't talking much about the accident, but she's having nightmares It turns out that make Clara question the police story of events. There not only are things Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in NickSt Mary's personal possessions that are odd, things she has never seen beforehospital. What That's morewhere the similarities end, though: Alix, it turns out with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a lot was going on at Nickjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly''s work that he hadnrowdy, they't shared with his wifere enjoying themselves. And Josie, on the more she starts other hand, holds her handbag close to look, her tummy and you get the more she wishes she could unsense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal -see and go back to how things werebut it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1803136383|title= All The Wicked GirlsTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In the small town Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missinga cloud. A model student with exceptional musical talent What actually happened out there is gossiped about and beloved by all that know her, the incident rocks the entire town. It nobody is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the yearsure exactly what took place, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners but an act of Briar County. The kidnapper heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and murderer responsible for disgrace seems to be the disappearance of these girls consensus. Wat himself is nicknamed Bird by law enforcementkeeping his cards close to his chest, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst as he roams the streets, no one is safealways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim WeaverB0C7J9D21B|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=David Raker When we first meet our hero, his name is an investigator, specialising in missing persons casesEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Over the course of his work Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when hewas born. He's seen plenty not been short of unusual thingsmothers, though - but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that someone of his request is quite unusual. You seebackground in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Richard Kite isnit't trying s difficult to locate a missing personobtain decent employment. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at The stint working with the mouth preparation of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he cananchovies didn't remember anything about his lifework out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. He's Ettore was nothing if not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news resourceful - and press coverage of his case, determined - and without a National Insurance number, it was not long before he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get had a job, pay tax or own successful business as a homeguide for visitors. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth He was even saving some money. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Jewell0241996104|title= Then She Was GoneComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= One day Ellie went to the library for some last minute GCSE study Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and she never returnedher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. There are We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a lot of life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'what ifs?silent sentence'- she': s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what if her sister hadn't had a noisy friend over, forcing her to seek out somewhere quieter to study? What if there had been more CCTV on happened for the high street so rest of her journey could have been traced? What iflife. Of course, taking it back a bit, 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she had never met Theo, never fallen for him, never drifted into competition against him inherited five million pounds from her mother - and never felt the need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none papers are making the most of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going to happen, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one way or another?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896417</amazonuk>favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caz Frear1529135389|title= Sweet Little LiesThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= In 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in IrelandNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. In 2017 a woman called Alice is found dead There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in LondonThe Glass Barn. In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but she They's more worried by the fact her father is too. And he cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes d not been in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and removedwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. The police are at It had all come about through a loss ten-million-pound lottery win and so it falls they were still getting used to courtesan and professional detectivehaving that sort of money, Heloise Chancey, to investigatetoo. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid Eventually, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated Nicole found Tom dead in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes againswimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)Alan Parks|title=Three Days and a LifeTo Die in June

|summary=Christmas weekWhat first seems like the unfortunate, 1999accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situationsthen another. Some of This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his friends have parted company own father is a down and out alcoholic, with him because of no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the new-fangled Playstationsame time as facing these possible murders, which his mother refuses Harry is also dealing with a move to let him waste his time on. He's built a treehouse all by himselfdifferent police station, and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he lovesarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, but she's rejected itonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. And his best company, Something feels wrong - not just with the dog from woman’s story but also with the other house next doorofficers where he has been stationed, was injured but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a hit and run, and shot cruise to be put out of its miseryNew York on ''Atlantica''. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, heCaz's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighboursister, Gemma, the dogreckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn's sixt spotted a ring-year-old owner, shaped bulge in his suit pocket and Antoineshe doesn't know whether she's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweeprelieved or disappointed. As They've not been a couple for that long and the title suggests, there trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edgebit better. Meanwhile, where any false move could lead Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>be good, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Riley SagerMark Edwards|title=Final GirlsKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=A 'final girl' Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the last girl alive at perfect photograph to encapsulate the end of a horror moviejoy she is feeling in this moment, a gruesome description even if it kills her… which has defined it nearly does when the life of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differently. Quincy, the sole survivor edge of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to put the past behind her. But when another 'final girl' dies, the media, who have always been obsessed rockface with just the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon snagged strap of her rucksack between herand a 500 foot drop to certain death below. And Convinced she is going to make matters worse for Quincydie, Helena must purge herself of the other 'final girl' a survivor from another massacre, who shocking secret she has been in hiding for yearskeeping and makes a panicked, appears on her doorstepcryptic declaration to Matthew. Suddenly Just moments later their heroic, Quincy is not only able to move past her pastand frankly very well prepared, her past starts Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to intermingle with her present safety and she Matthew is drawn back in. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And left wondering what isn't Quincy telling us he just learned about her own massacre? Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785034022</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah StovellJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= ExquisiteThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= I was looking forward to reading ''Exquisite'' ever since I first heard about itHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, and it didn't disappointan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. It's Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a murkybook fair, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; it's she flukes her way into a compulsive, attention-grabbing read that had me hunched up public argument with the latest hot shot in bed till 1amthe world of crime fiction, desperate to finish it as soon as I could. Itsaying he's clever, excellently-paced, populist trash and uncannily realisticonly writing what anyone could write.It's just a pity Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that I managed accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to figure out Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the ending point of despairing – about a quarter her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the way in.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633747</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annemarie Neary0861544056|title= The OrphansTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Jess Belle and Sparrow (Ro) David's twin daughters are just children when they are playing on coming to the beach one day and turn round to find end of their parents vanished first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and their whole life changed Jess's in an instantExeter. It's not only the sort first time they've been away from their parents for any length of childhood trauma that effects people in different waystime - but they've also been apart from each other. Jess goes Belle can't wait to have them all to one extreme, studying hard, becoming herself for a successful lawyer, building the kind of stability for while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her new family ? Belle would prefer that she craved ever since that day. And Ro….he didn't come but doesn'twant to upset Kit. He does almost the opposite, never putting down roots, floating from place Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to place, woman to woman, free as the windKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. The lives of the siblings don And they't cross much, but when an item belonging to their mother resurfaces, so does the case and the interest in her disappearancell be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonRobert Dugoni|title=The FriendHer Deadly Game

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for coffee, wine, gossip and momentary escape from their respective lives. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne is found battered and half-dead no holds barred courtroom performances in the playgrounddefence of his clients. Three weeks later Cece moves into Along with an indisputable talent for the arealaw, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the orbit of Maxie, Anaya and Hazel and hears what happened latter was beginning to overshadow the still comatose Yvonneformer. Two questions still hang Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the air though: who did it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is one hideous position of asking her father for a job at the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them family firm because a romantic entanglement with their enquiries… a very dangerous position to be insenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham HurleyVanda Symon|title= AuroreExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=History has taught us that wars can be won or lost on Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the strength start of her maternity leave when there is a country's intelligence and on the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control that intelligence in a myriad brutal, shocking murder of game-changing ways. Who better then to drop into Nazi-occupied France as an agent than a thirty mission veteran of Bomber Command whose pre-war incarnation as actor and Quaker have shaped a man with guile enough to ''make believe'' and trust enough to see his mission through to the end? Enter stage left, Billy Angellexpectant woman in Dunedin. Soon to be ''injured'' airman stranded Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the French countryside and tasked with befriending hunt for a local woman responsible for the safety of resistants and killer targeting pregnant women, with necessary ties to all the upper echelons of the occupying German forceextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. What Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's left for us t let the case go and she starts to find out is whether Billy has talent enough follow every thread to succeed in his new role as agent ''Thesp'uncover what' s actually happening, and make it back alivethe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Dionne1787301036|title=The Marsh King's DaughterWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=Helena Pelletier was having When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a normal afternoon: making deliveries careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of jams his wife, July's mother, and jellies any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to her sales outlets the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and taking brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her younger daughter Marigold worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to play at the side school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of the laketime or drifted off for a moment. It 's now a year since her son, Mason, was on stolen from his bed in the journey back to meet her older daughter from middle of the school bus night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the news: morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the notorious child abductor case. She does interviews and rapist Jacob Holbrookwhen we meet her, known as she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the Marsh Kingplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, had escaped from prisonWaylon Spencer, killing two guards in the process. Helena knew who points out that she was in danger: Jacob Holbrook was her father could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she was could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the daughter Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the woman he had abducted when she was fifteen years oldstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. She'd been brought up until The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the age of twelve same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a captivefoursome but it's not a regular thing. There was another problem tooChristian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so shedoesn'd never actually got around t want to telling her husband about her backgroundtempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567388</amazonuk>