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|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz0241678412|title=Into The FireProof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating=54

|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountantLife after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. Or ratherShe's back home, wasliving with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to keep him alivenothing. He was needed alive just long enough The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to give up his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a namethink tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. His cousin, MaxIt plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=00082971690008385068|title=The Guest ListMidnight Feast

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off It's midsummer on the Irish Dorset coast, might have been enough to put some and guests off, but gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it was into an impressive retreat for the wedding of the yearwealthy and famous. Will Slater (television personalityHer husband, Owen, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the islandsite. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid heat is oppressive and amongst the wedding planner and chef guests are Aoife and her husband, Freddyenemies as well as friends. They gave a huge discount Old scores are going to get the couple to the island, but surely be settled and it would won't be worth it for the publicity?long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=1529009677Saima Mir|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanVengeance

|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the usual growing apart after more than north of England run by a decade of marriageMuslim woman. Their son, Michael, The fact that it was killed the second in a car crash some months series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before: he was driving his father(on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's Audi and at sixteen good enough. And that wasn't legally entitled a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= 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 Las Vegas both a significant driveaway. Not only did he kill himself when much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the car rammed into a tree, main local employers but he also killed his girlfriendotherwise, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canthere't think about Michael without a sense s not much of shame note other than dive bars and guiltJoshua trees. Rachel Life is brokenquiet, but she wants to forgive Michaeluntil... To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|authorisbn=Chris Hauty1399613073|title=Deep StateMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary= Hayley Chill Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on 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 fighterbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She Laura is every kind of fighter, a perfectionist and well-trained in most a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of them. She's army infantry the group and she boxes for fun – and she winsbecomes a GP. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally When we first meet them they're at a drug and physically, alcohol-fuelled party and she knows how it's going to deal with end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the paintragedy or the consequences. She is not so much cold as controlled Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watchedtime, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1471185605

|isbnauthor=0241985153Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The House Hotel Arcadia is a 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, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Lakehotel 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 cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's 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|author=Nuala EllwoodCody Goodfellow|title=Vertical

|summary=We know There's something about tall buildings that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the house drabbest office building is taken away by the police, but somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|isbn= 19848906461804183210|authortitle=Catherine SteadmanNo Reserve|titleauthor=Mr NobodyFelix Francis

|summary= DonThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't you just hate it have been on the rostrum when people are multithe colt -talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writeras yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, with this her second novelso he continued his session. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'fight sceneMitch' at Mitchell were well-known and respected in the end racing industry. Jennings was somewhat unrealistic – you know in one of the cubicles in the kind where toilets when the hero has been hurt so many times two men came in and their conversation revealed that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic horse had been deliberately bid up to wrap everything up that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in the last few chaptersplace. It was almost as if The following morning, the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then horse was somewhat left with too much to do dead in the closing stagesits stall.

|isbn=1405951680|title=The Safe House|author=Will Dean 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 caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. 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 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|isbn=1448309743|title=Black River The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in In the village of Cronchie on the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifeWest coast of Scotland, returning her to the isolated town five members of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing best friend. With from the home is the Midsommar sun blocked out by Devil Stone: myth says that if the dark pines stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the forestbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Tuva fights DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to save her friend'shadow' him. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbn=1780894511B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Die AloneThe Last Person in the World|author=Simon KernickMatthew Tree

|summary=Ray Mason Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-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, vintage wines and a state-of-the-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 had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the End of the World|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in prison awaiting trial for murder a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and hesolitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and 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 vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop hename of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's something a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a target, but way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the unit is not night bus that will only go as secure far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a riotlong way short of her home. On 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 chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his way . There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|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 he. That's broken free by armed men where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and an offer is made whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to himher 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=David 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 assassinate be the man who consensus. Wat himself is likely keeping his cards close to become the countryhis chest, as he always does. }}{{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 he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's next prime minister a bordello and heEttore'll then be given a new identity so that s mother died when he can start afresh abroadwas born. His captors say that theyHe're MI6s not been short of mothers, though - but Mason has for someone of his doubtsbackground in late-eighteenth-century 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. His choices are limited though Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was deadeven saving some money.

|authorisbn=Rory Clements0241996104|title=Hitler's SecretComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=SoNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, Hitler had a secret? has been convicted of their murder. TwoWe first meet Nancy outside the court, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in after Martin receives a certain sing-song aspersionlife sentence. But this is a secret The barrister tells her that is counter to that, and in fact is she's received a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, live with what happened for the girl is completely ignorant rest of her past, and the truth is a very rare thinglife. Martin BormannOf course, the it'gatekeepers made worse because Nancy' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from papers are making the Reichmost of it. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1838770275

|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Michael J MaloneGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|titlesummary=In 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 Absence 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 Miraclesthem 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=John DochertyCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's mother ) is middle-aged and has been taken into found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a nursing home following cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a massive strokering-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. It is thought unlikely They've not been a couple for that she long and the trip will ever be able an excellent opportunity to live independently againget to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Edwards|title=Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. Faced with having The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to sell encapsulate the family home joy she is feeling in order this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to pay for the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her nursing careand a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Docherty starts Helena must purge herself of the clear outshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. In the attic 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 finds a childhood picture just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of himselfDarkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, holding bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a toddler – book fair, she flukes her way into a toddler public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he knows nothing about's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. He also finds Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a blood-stained shoewintry month away from it all. Just 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 nephew has been found dead…|isbn=191237479X1914585615

|isbn=06928535450861544056|title=The Things We DoTwin Truths|author=Kay PfaltzJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=ItBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist been at the state penitentiary Bristol and she knows that her next patient is not going to be easyJess's in Exeter. It'Jane Does not only the first time they' has ve been convicted of the murder away from their parents for any length of two men time - one but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a police officerwhile. She pleaded guilty and since then has been silent: even Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her identity is in doubt? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but itIvo's apparently 'older': he's been proved twenty-four to be falseKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. There seem to And they'll be no family or friends who are missing hersharing a bedroom. Eleanor}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's task is work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to get Jane talkinghis reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to find out why oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menjob at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181

|isbnauthor=147117316XVanda Symon|title=Guilty Not Guilty|author=Felix FrancisExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The Honourable William Herbert Millgate Gordon-Russell (Bill Russell care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to those who knew him well) was acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of discuss the violent death of his much-loved wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. It would get worse though: the successful insurance actuary would be accused Other infractions of killing her his requirements also lead to these Lessons and hounded by he's not even careful about whether or not the mediainjuries are visible. Then he would lose his job July's teacher is concerned and his home. His best friends would turn against him, as they came brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to believe him guilty of the murder. school, has he not? Yet there was no really compelling evidence that he was guiltyThe playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" 0008454493<!-- Adele Parks -->|title=All the Dangerous Things|-author=Stacy Willingham| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4.5|genre=Crime[[image:0008284660.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment.amazon It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in.co In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case.uk/dp/0008284660/ref She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=nosim?tagJust the Nicest Couple|author=thebookbag-21]]Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Simon Barnes had his first taste of beer in 1976 when he was just six years old. Over the years it would become a habit and then a need. By 2016 and with a wife and child of his own he was a functioning alcoholic - a fact known by everybody except Simon. He's concentrating Move on wanting another child to complete his family. His wife, Daisy, isn't worried. They took a long time to conceive Millie, who's perfect in every way, so why tempt fate? Simon's not inclined to let matters rest though and it's at a fertility clinic that he receives the news that will change all their lives: he's sterile. [[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks|Full Review]] <!-- Nicci French -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471179230.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Travel Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]] <!-- Steve Burrows -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786075776.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786075776/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, the estrangement being of his making, not hers. He hasn't explained to her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parks. [[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Oates -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656775.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656775/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates|Full Review]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]] <!-- Paula Daly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787632105.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787632105/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Clear My Name by Paula Daly]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next case. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. Avril's in her mid twenties and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in it. One of the reasons they're now going to look at the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a woman: such impressions matter. [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}