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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Kerr -->0241678412|-title=The Proof of My Innocence| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jonathan Coe[[image:178429652X.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178429652X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Thrillers===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]=== [[image:RATEstar.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Set in Germany in 1957, Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She'Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is s back home, living with her parents and on a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories zero-hours contract serving sushi to insurance fraudtourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. Bernie Gunther is All those ideas of becoming a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and now, in this novelintroduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is working investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the morgue of a hospital1980s. He finds himself embroiled It plans to push the government in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him more extreme direction and is ready to Greece, and back into the dark times of the waract. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Sigurdardottir -->|isbn=0008385068|-title=The Midnight Feast| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473621569.jpg|linkLucy Foley|rating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1473621569/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Manor. It's their opening weekend and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]=== [[image:4splendid celebrations are promised.5star It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] [[ The Legacy: ChildrenManor was her ancestral home and she's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]]famous. Her husband, Owen, this series opened with a plot that derailed was the careers architect and work is still ongoing on parts of both its leads – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist Freyjasite. Demoted The heat is oppressive and stuck with a kind of love/hate connection, they amongst the guests are left staring into space for want of something enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off about, but still isnbe settled and it won't allowed to investigate them, so he settles for the drudge work involved in be long before a threat body is found left in a school's time capsule. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3. It's 5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the nature premise of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but how, we will be asking, will either relate to this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the prologue, where north of England run by a young girl Muslim woman. The fact that it was snatched ten years ago, and what is the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a modern family under threat to do with anything? [[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir few series before (on page and Victoria Cribb (translatorscreen)|Full Review]]<!-- Child -->and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|-isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm[[image:0356510700.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]=== [[image:4starIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the futurethere's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, your social feed is your entire existenceuntil. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, it keeps up to date with your friends Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and fulfils your wishestheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It Olivia is also stealing your jobs andruthlessly ambitious, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya which is unexpectedly given a beta testing version bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it, complete with a personality 's going to guide herend in tragedy. The problem is that We don't know who suffered the personality on tragedy or the glasses is consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that of her missing and presumed dead sisterwill impact the three friends. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this This time, it's their teenage children who are involved. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a different personality}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is like she's right therea luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and although she knows this killing everyone on site, there is just Ruby's dataSam, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accuratea wartime photographer and Abhi, it can't the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Rubycowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's data? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Review]] <!-- Goddard -->happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|-isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical[[image:0593076362.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co3.uk/dp/0593076362/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]=== [[image:5starThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Don Challenor Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is a down on his luck estate agent who gets tasked somewhere I'm intrigued to sell a house in Cornwall and upon meeting the live-in cleaner, Blake, finds his life utterly turned upside downget inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of a witch, professional heavies and a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complex. [[Panic Room by Robert Goddard|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve<!-- Laws -->|author=Felix Francis|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Thrillers[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagThirty-21]]  | style="verticalfour-align: top; textyear-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4starold Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] IA lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full oneMitchell were well-line known and respected in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece racing industry. Jennings was in one of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what their conversation revealed that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading horse had been deliberately bid up to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywaythat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. Certainly The following morning, not everyone the horse was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awaydead in its stall. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to pick caretake a luxury property in the last, barest threads Australian outback for a couple of months. After the story up and see problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just what did happen to himthe break she needed. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]] <!-- Parsons -->|-she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1448309743[[image:178089595X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/refThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=nosim?tagCaro Ramsay|rating=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Crime|summary===[[Girl In the village of Cronchie on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starthe West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered.jpg|link=Category The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulancedeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, the mess falls on a busy shopping centre and we are barely out that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the first chapterbody. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to catching those responsible. The rest of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family issues'shadow' him. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]}} <!-- Herron -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree[[image:Herron_London.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473657377/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Thrillers| stylesummary="verticalOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[London Rules by Mick Herron]]=== [[image:5starbased public school where he met Ralph Finns.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Claude Whelan It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, Regent Park's First Desk has insurmountable problems. He's charged with protecting vintage wines and a lame duck prime minister, but he's under fire himself. There's state-of-the self-publicising MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who might just be looking to take had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the PMUK's job from himthird most prestigious university. The MP's wife is Before going up, he took up a columnist for one of the tabloids who's having a go loose invitation to visit Ralph at Whelan his home, Clouds Manor in print and who will do anything to promote her husband's interestsWest Dorset. Then there's }}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the PM's favourite Muslim who's running for mayor despite having a very dark secret himself. As if this wasn't enoughEnd of the World|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, Whelan's deputyyou can either suck it up, Lady Di Taverner is watching for his every stumble - saddle up and it's not so that she ride on or you can catch him and help him retreat to safetyyour own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. [[London Rules by Mick Herron|Full Review]]<!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10% That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:James_Righteousand all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]]1662453159}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]===Crime[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenIt's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]  In a scene replicated all too often in the crazy world early hours of Arthur Brown, he can be standing at the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minute, morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and wasting bad guys with his guns manage to get one of the nextfew taxis available. What's inspired this? Two low-lifes, way from the top of Others squash onto the crime ladder in this particular city, who stole millions from a shady casino, and stashed night bus that will only go as far as one of the money in his basementoutlying villages. Two other lowlifes The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', working for particularly in the drug lord who owns light of 'the casinomissing women'. For one young woman, come for the money, kill Arthur's family, and leave him so badly knifed final stop on his floor that he's taken for dead when he's discoveredthe bus leaves her a long way short of her home. But he She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's not dead, and nor is his God-given hope . The bus had driven off before she had the chance to redress beg the balance in bus driver to let her use his town, and to right some very big wrongs. Yes, truly is he the god of hell fire, and he will take some men There's no option but to burn… [[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James|Full Review]] <!start walking -unsuitably clothed and in high- Mariaffi -->heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1529195977| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]] Thrillers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]=== [[image:2On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair.5star She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads a seemingly pleasant life It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in America after a damaged childhood in war-torn EuropeSt Mary's hospital. She is a stay-at-home mother That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the wife midst of a successful psychiatristjoyful, monied group of friends and her everyday routine is pleasantly quietwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Then one afternoon her four-old-son befriends a young girl by Josie, on the lakeother hand, who vanishes suddenly under the water. Although Heike dives in after holds her, the girl is nowhere handbag close to be seen, leaving Heike wondering what happened to her. In an attempt to find answers, Heike seeks her tummy and you get the help of paranormal television writer Leo Dolan after her controlling husband refuses to believe hersense that Walter's not too happy. But then things take another turn when Heike He's son disappears, and not used to spending this much money on a meal - but itis Josie's her husband who was the last to see him alivebirthday after all. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]]}}<!-- Ellis -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1803136383| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[A Map Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4stara cloud.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood hereWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and her father preferred not disgrace seems to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protectionbe the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=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 you canhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore't waste any time s mother died when children go missinghe was born. [[A Map He's not been short of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]] <!mothers, though -but for someone of his background in late- Tudor eighteenth-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor Chalkcentury Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag Ettore was nothing if not resourceful -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre==[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]===Thrillers [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectreNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, conjured during one fateful summerhas been convicted of their murder. By the time We first meet Nancy outside the new term beginscourt, friendships will be fractured, and after Martin receives a girl will be deadlife sentence. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to home? Thirty years laterlive with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the poisoned, sinister memories most of The Chalk Manit. However, someone seems determined not to let him ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet 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 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]undoubtedly spoken.}}<!-- Robins -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1529135389| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008217548]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Crime|summary===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]===  [[image:4starNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home.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 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 spotlight, architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and is a moderately successful actresswere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Callie is awkward, suffering from a lifetime Some of acne, weight issues them fought with each other and comparing herself to her sister and her beautiful white bodydidn't work as reliably as they should. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, love, It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Tilda laps all they were still getting used to having that sort of these feelings upmoney, too. They are grown Eventually, and see each other Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new man, Felixwound to his head. He's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particular. At first Callie loves him, loves the way he includes her }}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in their relationshipJune|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, but after accidental death of a boating triphomeless man on the streets, fun turns into suddenly starts to feel like something more sinisteras another body is discovered, Callie begins to worry about this dynamicand then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, to obsess ... [[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]  <!-- Murphy -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Murphy_Rottenbut all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546282998/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rotten to At the Core by Rob Murphy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]same time as facing these possible murders, [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] It's 2009Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the ohboy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong -so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have to reciprocate not just with the Russians who helped them get France '98, and they have a plan. At this stage woman’s story but also with the UEFA European championship of 2016 other officers where he has not been awardedstationed, 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 a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostsbut can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4. But what if France could persuade the world it was a good idea 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle- aged and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with all the while the French around Pete. They're off on a cruise to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England New York on ''Atlantica''18 would be dead in the water, and Russia would win out. And who Caz's to say the Britssister, with their devolution habitsGemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves? [[Rotten she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to the Core by Rob Murphy|Full Review]] <!-- Stidolph -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stidolph_Forestsknow him a bit better.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia.uk/dp/1546282351/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forests in the Sahara by Paul Stidolph]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] It's going to be good, [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words a man can hear from his new partner, but she doesn'isn't lie in this instance. He is Jeffrey Harvey, a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. 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 to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends... [[Forests in the Sahara by Paul Stidolph|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Jenny Quintana|title= The Missing Girl|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= In the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. Her younger sister Anna is torn up 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 her. But the sudden death of her mother forces Anna to return to her childhood home and the village where she and her sister grew up. Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her mother's possessions, and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasn't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriellait?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsMark Edwards|title=Hurricane JusticeKeep Her Secret

|summary=Finn Westlake was Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first amused met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and then horrified Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when he saw the attractive young woman jumping up edge of a ravine gives way and down in Helena finds herself clinging to the road as his jeep turned rockface with just the corner: snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the amusement came from the fact that shocking secret she was wearing has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just soakinglearned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-wet bra regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and pantiesonly writing what anyone could write. It was when he saw Cue the tears streaming down her face bet that he realised she cannot live up to that there was accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a serious problemwintry month away from it all. Diana McGuireJust on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's fathernephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's plane had crashed into twin daughters are just coming to the river end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she had tried and failed bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to get him outupset Kit. Sending her Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to get more help Finn dived into Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the river and managed life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to extract Chester McGuire and his business associatereputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Sandy MoseleyPatsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, but whilst checking that there was no one else former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the plane he was seriously injuredhideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210493</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen PerryVanda Symon|title= Can You Keep a Secret?Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Thornbury Hall Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the grand ancestral home start of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter with his wistful wife Heather and their two childrenher maternity leave when there is a brutal, Patrick and Rachelshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. It is also Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the setting hunt for many secrets and tragedies a killer targeting pregnant women, with all of the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which resurface twenty years later as Patrick reunites childhood friendsshe rails against, Niall, Marcusshe just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, Hilary and main character Lindsey, for one final party before selling the houseincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak1787301036|title= Hello AgainWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred by the trauma inflicted When we first meet July Hooper on her 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty years previouslyfather, Evelyn Talbot works as a psychologist at Hanover HouseMick Hooper, a dumping ground for psychopathic criminals in a remote corner who is not prepared to discuss the death of Alaska. A murder in his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the nearby town seemed conversation is heading that way will lead to indicate inmate involvement, but as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to wonder these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether Jasper might have returned to finally finish her offor not the injuries are visible. After a book full July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of false clues and misleading hintsabuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, it was a genuine shock to find out who was responsible after allhas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Asa Avdic0008454493|title= The Dying GameAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=In Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a futuristic dystopian Swedenyear - well, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer apart from the formidable chairmanodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Except It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the offer, is more middle of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose the night and everything to gain, Anna accepts. She Izzy is taken to an isolated Island consumed with other ''candidates'' for a job guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the super-secret organisationmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. Anna In that year she's objective is simple, done everything she is could to ''die'' raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and then observe when we meet her fellows through hidden chambers of the house, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Once On the experiment is finishedplane back, she will report her findings back to the chairman. However's approached by a podcaster, while this starts off smoothly at firstWaylon Spencer, other contestants start disappearing who points out that she could do a podcast and Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a game anymorefew hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Scoop of Just the YearNicest Couple|author=Tom ClaverMary Kubica

|summary=Martin ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Reviewstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Martin The connection between the two is good at his job - accurate, dedicated, hardworking that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and with Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a good nose for foursome but it's not a scoopregular thing. But Martin Christian is also uninterested in the culture that comes with reporting. He has a wife market research analyst and two daughters at home and he doesnJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't want to waste time and money have much in the pubcommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, talking macho nonsense with the other hacksbut she's pregnant. He is She has a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion want to industrial correspondent. And that is tempt fate by making the job Martin not only wanted, but neededknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>