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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]<!-- Remove -->__NOTOC__<!-- Mariaffi -->[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]] ===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads a seemingly pleasant life in America after a damaged childhood in war-torn Europe. She is a stay-at-home mother, the wife of a successful psychiatrist, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quiet. Then one afternoon her four-old-son befriends a young girl by the lake, who vanishes suddenly under the water. Although Heike dives in after her, the girl is nowhere to be seen, leaving Heike wondering what happened to her. In an attempt to find answers, Heike seeks the help of paranormal television writer Leo Dolan after her controlling husband refuses to believe her. But then things take another turn when Heike's son disappears, and it's her husband who was the last to see him alive. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ellis -->[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] ===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]===Frontpage[[image:4star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]0241678412 FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tudor -->[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=title== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Robins -->[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008217548]] ===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie and Tilda are very different twins. Callie lives a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves the spotlight, and is a moderately successful actress. Callie is awkward, suffering from a lifetime of acne, weight issues and comparing herself to her sister and her beautiful white body. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, love, and Tilda laps all Proof of these feelings up. They are grown, and see each other with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new man, Felix. He's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particular. At first Callie loves him, loves the way he includes her in their relationship, but after a boating trip, fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins to worry about this dynamic, to obsess ... [[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->My Innocence|author=Rob Murphy|title=Rotten to the CoreJonathan Coe

|genre=Thrillers |summary=ItLife after university hasn's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded t worked out quite the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - way that is, until England stick their oar inPhyl anticipated. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France She's back home, who have to reciprocate living with the Russians who helped them get France '98, her parents and they have on a planzero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. At this stage the UEFA European championship All those ideas of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without becoming a brilliant connection from one writer seem to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim have come to soccer fame nothing. The situation improves when it 'Uncle' Chris comes to winning thingsstay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, are unlikely hostsRashida. But what if France could persuade the world it was Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the water, and Russia would win out1980s. And who's It plans to say push the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>more extreme direction and is ready to act.

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Paul Stidolph0008385068|title=Forests in the SaharaThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'Everyone I speak to thinks you s their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are going to come to some sort of sticky endpromised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she' Those are not s converted it into an impressive retreat for the most promising words a man can hear from his new partner, but she doesn't lie in this instancewealthy and famous. He is Jeffrey Harvey Her husband, a young Cambridge professorOwen, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular was the architect and work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities is still ongoing on parts of water purifiedthe site. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water The heat is still a scarce resource, oppressive and amongst the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a guests are enemies as well-respected global entrepreneuras friends. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready Old scores are going to accuse Jeffrey of murder be settled and theft of research data on it won't be long before a case reaching back several yearsbody is found. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny QuintanaSaima Mir|title= The Missing GirlVengeance|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= In I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the unseasonably warm autumn north of 1982, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. Her younger sister Anna is torn up England run by her sister's disappearance and for the next thirty years, no one knows what happened to Gabriella. Decades later, Anna has built a life for herself in Athens and has tried to put the past behind herMuslim woman. But The fact that it was the sudden death of her mother forces Anna to return to her childhood home second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and the village where she screen) and her sister grew up. Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her motherit needn't be a hindrance if it's possessions, and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasngood enough. And that wasn't dared think about in years – what happened a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Gabriella?speed, and I never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>0861541561

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsDavid Chadwick|title=Hurricane JusticeHeadload of Napalm

|summary=Finn Westlake was first amused It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and then horrified when he saw the attractive young woman jumping up and down Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in the road as his jeep turned the corner: the amusement came from the fact that she was wearing just soaking-wet bra Hicks. A silver mine and panties. It was when he saw a defence contractor are the tears streaming down her face that he realised that main local employers but otherwise, there was a serious problem. Diana McGuire's father's plane had crashed into the river not much of note other than dive bars and she had tried and failed to get him outJoshua trees. Sending her to get more help Finn dived into the river and managed to extract Chester McGuire and his business associateLife is quiet, Sandy Moseley, but whilst checking that there was no one else in the plane he was seriously injureduntil....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210493</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Perry1399613073|title= Can You Keep a Secret?Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Thornbury Hall is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the grand ancestral home first day of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter with his wistful wife Heather medical school and their two childrenfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Patrick which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and Rachela trauma doctor. It Anjali is also the setting for many secrets free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and tragedies all of which resurface twenty it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later as Patrick reunites childhood there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, Niall, Marcus, Hilary and main character Lindsey, for one final party before selling the houseit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brenda NovakSunny Singh|title= Hello AgainHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the trauma inflicted terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on her by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty years previouslysite, there is Sam, Evelyn Talbot works as a psychologist at Hanover Housewartime photographer and Abhi, a dumping ground the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for psychopathic criminals the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a remote corner bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Alaskaher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. A murder in Although they only ever talk over the nearby town seemed to indicate inmate involvementphone, but their friendship grows as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started Abhi tries to wonder whether Jasper might have returned to finally finish help her off. After a book full of false clues keep safe and misleading hints, it was a genuine shock they both wait to find out who was responsible after allsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Asa AvdicCody Goodfellow|title= The Dying GameVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=In There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a futuristic dystopian Swedengood view from up high, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except after all? Even the offer, drabbest office building is more of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and everything somewhere I'm intrigued to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Annaget inside if it's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the house. Once the experiment is finished, she will report her findings back to the chairman40 stories tall. However, while So when I picked up this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymorebook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Scoop of the YearNo Reserve|author=Tom ClaverFelix Francis

|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - accuratecame up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, dedicatedhadn't arrived, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoopso he continued his session. But Martin is also uninterested in To say that he was shocked when the culture that comes with reportingbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. He has a wife Brian Kitman and two daughters at home and he doesnElliot 'Mitch't want to waste time Mitchell were well-known and money respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the pub, talking macho nonsense with cubicles in the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab toilets when the limelight though - he also grabs two men came in and their conversation revealed that the promotion horse had been deliberately bid up to industrial correspondentthat figure. And Both were happy that is they had insurance in place. The following morning, the job Martin not only wanted, but neededhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1405951680|title= BonfireThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as Jess Walker accepted an environmental lawyer in Chicagooffer (OK, actually she has was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a thriving career, luxury property in the Australian outback for a modern apartment, and her pick couple of meaningless one-night standsmonths.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crackbreak she needed. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than She was no longer a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared data analyst for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies Metropolitan police in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as London: she tries desperately was Jess who was returning to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface the country of her birth and she begins in need of the space to doubt get over the traumatic end of her own observationsrelationship with Charles. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it will threaten A few weeks in the reputations, and lives, of Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume herticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Wilson1448309743|title= The Other WomanDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Based on In the blurb village of Cronchie on the backWest coast of Scotland, Sophie might not be the most likable heroinefive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She's a quote-unquote perfect woman, with The only item missing from the house, the husband, home is the children and Devil Stone: myth says that if the dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband stone is successfulremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch)in many ways, though therethat's a sort an easy conclusion given that two of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yesthem 'discovered' the body. So Sophie The Senior Investigating Office is the sort of womanDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, one imagines, who might rub other people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lackingDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen NormanB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Trading DownThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Chris Peters Our narrator was happy in his work for a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was promoted an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and sent back had money to London. throw around on a The job had it all: a hectic trading floorRolex watch, targets which were impossible vintage wines and some a state-of -the fastest computers in the world under his supervision-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. He's happy Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at home too: he and Olivia met Wolverton College in Hong Kong: now theyWellingford, the UK're married and thinking about starting a familys third most prestigious university. But ... has Before going up, he been promoted beyond took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his capabilities? There are those home, Clouds Manor in the bank who think so, particularly when things start to go badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sourWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon LelicDean Koontz|title= The Houseat the End of the World|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the houseWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, despite the fact that you can either suck it was crammed full of the seller's stuff up, saddle up and they had ride on or you can retreat to take your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the whole lot as a job lot. The seller had run off to Australia apparently map and was up for a quick sale, lock, stock live out your days in peace and barrelsolitude. Jack wasnThat's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob't so sure. He found s Ladder; and all would have been the place creepy, aforementioned peace and solitude were it wasn't just not for the stuffed birdspesky US Government occupying Ringrock, there was an air the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the place that he just didn't likeend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith1787636607|title= The Girl from VeniceTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= The romantic It's a scene replicated all too often in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at the close early hours of the war is enticement enoughmorning. Add Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a backdrop way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of partisans, Mussolini and the desperate fight few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the losing SS and my interest is certainly piquedoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but present particularly in the aforementioned along with light of 'the mystery of a missing women'. For one young woman found floating in , the Venice Lagoon in final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead of night . The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and resistance is futilein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=Marjorie OrrDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=By A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the Light preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a Liesuccessful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friendWhat first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, Ericawith no fixed abode, was killed in and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a hit-different police station, andthe arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong -run accident (ifnot just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, indeed, it was an accident) 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 really couldnprefers 't understand why she should have been Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in Hammersmithlove with Pete. SheThey'd left her getting into re off on a taxi at 11 ocruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn'clock the night before outside the theatre t spotted a ring-shaped bulge in St Martinhis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's Lane relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and she was on her way home the trip will be an excellent opportunity to Hampstead get to review papers ready for know him a court appearance the following morningbit better. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. The police didnIt't seem likely s going to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accidentbe good, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasnisn't going to leave her friend unavenged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Jon HalaszMark Edwards|title=The Prancing JacanaKeep Her Secret

|summary=Mabel Pembrose's latest novel ''The Prancing Jacana'' has been on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for a couple of weeks: her husbandMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything like as wellrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. He writes children's books The alien-landscape of the lava fields and his editor black beaches is adamant that as he's writing about Snake breath-taking and Mouse, then Mouse has Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to be eaten by Snakeencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, because that's how even if it kills her… which it works. Mabel's not completely free from problems though: nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her novel, set in Senegal, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky and he's gay in a country where same-sex sexual acts are outlawed and in consequence her book has been banned in the country500 foot drop to certain death below. The fact that it's banned isn't harming her sales in Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the US at allshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, as Mabel Pembrose is her pen name - isn't content with thiscryptic declaration to Matthew. She's been to SenegalJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, loves the country Icelandic tour guide swoops in and she'd like the book hauls Helena to be a bestseller there toosafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= The VisitorsThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brotherHannah presents as an unlikeable, Johnbitter woman, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge an author of a northern seaside resortfailing if well-regarded literary short novels. A timid spinster in Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bearsfor an afternoon at a book fair, Marion does she flukes her best to shut out way into a public argument with the shocking secret that John keeps latest hot shot in the cellar. Untilworld of crime fiction, suddenly, John has a heart attack saying he's populist trash and Marion is forced only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to go down that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the cellar herself people and face the gruesome truth that lack of stimulus for her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked and secrets unravelplot, maybe John isnmore or less about everything – word comes that the landlady't the only one with a dark side.s nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Viskic0861544056|title=Resurrection BayTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=Caleb Zelic has Belle and David's twin daughters are just found his colleague and lifelong friend murderedcoming to the end of their first term at university. The two – Kit's been at Bristol and a female police officer – were working as a private investigative group, tracking security flaws that led to a hugely costly warehouse robbery, and all have training Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the industry, so first time they should have seen anything coming've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Caleb wonBelle can't wait to have heard it coming, however – them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that hedidn's pretty much deaf, getting a cadence of speech and noise from hearing aids t come but needing doesn't want to lipread or signupset Kit. The first signs that this murder is connected Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to the case are impossible to ignore – as indeed are hints Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that something really serious is going on, when Caleb finds he she can't even trust the police looking into the murdercope with that. The case will cause him to go And they'll be sharing 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227362X</amazonuk>bedroom.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreRobert Dugoni|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)Her Deadly Game|rating= 5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary=Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and figuring out what on earth to do with Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the Essex Witch Museum shelife's recently inherited. If Rosie had her way shework of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler'd be selling the museum and heading back to her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and Sam due to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in dark events once againdefence of his clients. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers Along with an indisputable talent for the law, scrawled messages on Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the walls and apparitions walking through latter was beginning to overshadow the wallsformer. Before Rosie Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the restaurant - and hideous position of asking her father for a job at the owner's daughter swears that family firm because a romantic entanglement with a ghost was to blame..senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jessica JarlviVanda Symon|title= When I Wake UpExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Anna Detective Sam Shepherd is in a coma. Only two people know who inflicted approaching the severe injuries that lead to start of her lying maternity leave when there unmoving is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hospital bedhunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the culprit who won’t talk, and Anna who can’textra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. If, and it’s a big if Finding herself put on desk duties, which she wakes uprails against, she may remember what happened, but of course there’s a chance just can't let the case go and she quite literally did not know starts to follow every thread to uncover what hit her. For her husband Erik, it’s an agonising wait. The police don’t seem that interested, but he has to know who was responsible's actually happening, and so he wonders whether he should do a bit of investigating himself. He shouldn’t, the increasingly disturbing worry of course, because in a story like this there are secrets just waiting to be uncovered, and he may find that these are things he would rather have never knownwhat might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786696096</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Parkin1787301036|title= The Winter's Child|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary=''A modern Gothic tale of twisted love, secrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the future, but that hasn't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWhat July Knew|author=K J Lawrence|title= The CossackEmily Koch

|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what youWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she'd think of as hero material: hes just ten years old. She's a photographer of some merit and in his fifties he careful, meticulous child. The care has a settled life. It was been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the disappearance death of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenkowife, which disrupted everything. It wasnJuly't unknown for him to disappear occasionallys mother, but missing an exhibition was a first for him. He'd been distracted for a few days - and then there were any hint that the strange papers which arrived, conversation is heading that way will lead to be kept safe. The authorities, in the form necessity of a shadowy senior member Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the security services, confirmed injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the view that Ivan was probably dead, because possibility of some supposed connections abuse with organised crime and drug dealingthe head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clar Ni Chonghaile0008454493|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= ItIsabelle Drake hasn's t really slept for a cliché that year - well, apart from the Irish have odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a picturesque turn of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're truemoment. Roddy Doyle put it differently It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in a recent interview the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with ''Writing'' magazine, guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he said was sleeping in. In that ''With Irish, thereyear she's another language bubbling under done everything she could to raise awareness about the English''case. However you express itShe does interviews and when we meet her, that art of expression is woven into every other line of Clárshe's prosejust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like ''On the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was Godplane back, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or 'she's approached by a low sobbingpodcaster, slow Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and inevitable as rain on get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear few hundred people at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothconferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1848458436|title= From The ShadowsJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can.''t keep their timeline straight. I 'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at Just the beginning of a story – but switching between Nicest Couple'now' is the story of two couples: Christian and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazyLily Scott, a way of creating tension when all else failsand Nina and Jake Hayes. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Wes Stuart|title= My Name is Sam|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who is connection between the real enemy? This two is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia that Lily and Nina teach in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, same school: Nina teaches English and the main character in this storyLily covers high school algebra. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on itnot a regular thing. This Christian is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors a market research analyst and guides, as he Jake is forced to confront this hazardous task. They a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their own reasons for wanting Earth to be savedwives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but are too weak she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to challenge tempt fate by making the Gibbus themselvesknowledge public. 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>