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|isbn=147228612X0241678412|title=The Late Train Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to Gipsy Hillact.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Alan JohnsonLucy Foley

|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIt't taken much notice of them. They live quiet, uneventful lives s midsummer on the Dorset coast and stay mostly under the radarguests gather at The Manor. In a city like London, thatIt's quite easy - their opening weekend and even Garysplendid celebrations are promised. It's three flatmates largely ignore himall headed up by Francesca Meadows. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply Manor was her makeup as ancestral home and she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her s converted it into an impressive retreat for a date but he doesn't have the couragewealthy and famous. Then Her husband, on his homeward commuteOwen, Arina speaks to him was the architect and asks for his helpwork is still ongoing on parts of the site. Before long he finds himself on The heat is oppressive and amongst the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and the Metropolitan policeit won't be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=0008433631Saima Mir|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahVengeance|rating=3.5

|summary=It I was instantly intrigued by the sort premise of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a panicMuslim woman. He The fact that it was supposed to be taking Max to school but hethe second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'd been called ve jumped midway into work a few series before (on page and the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesscreen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaAnd that wasn's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and t a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carproblem here. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work tooVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=1784165263David Chadwick|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisHeadload of Napalm

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Martin CurranIt's wifeSeptember 1973 in Hicks, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of their properties prior to it being letLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. If she didn't get home, there would be troubleNot much happens in Hicks. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic A silver mine and confined to a wheelchairdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizathere's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease not much of flat 2note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

{{Frontpage |authorisbn=Robert Peston 1399613073|title=The Whistleblower Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=3 4.5

|summary=I'm not 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 bonus when you aim to point out how fitting it be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is for Robert Peston to write the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a political thriller, so Idrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'll move on quickly – but this wons going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be winning any awards for originalityan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. It's an interesting plot with a good pace This time, but it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of its their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=1838775242 }}

|author=Teresa DriscollSunny Singh|title=Her Perfect FamilyHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=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 terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, 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 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=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5

|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, There's something about tall buildings that her graduation outfit is all wrongjust captures my imagination. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…Who doesn'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In t love a twist of eventsgood view from up high, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in all? Even the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows drabbest office building is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues somewhere I'm intrigued to grow the further you readget 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.|isbn=15420287521803363991

|isbn=00083709821804183210|title=Rock Paper ScissorsNo Reserve|author=Alice FeeneyFelix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary=Amelia Wright is fortyThirty-two and it was four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husbandcolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, Adamthe chairman, isnhadn't arrived, so keen on the ideahe continued his session. Like Amelia, he knows To say that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with was shocked when the novels he's hoping to adapt than with herbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. AmeliaBrian Kitman and Elliot 's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been Mitch' Mitchell were well- known and working with respected in the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easyracing industry. Still - she's won Jennings was in one of the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours cubicles in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her the toilets when the two men came in the passenger seat - and then doing their conversation revealed that the same thing horse had been deliberately bid up to come back a couple of days laterthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.

|isbn=00084217141405951680|title=Mrs MarchThe Safe House|author=Virginia FeitoCameron Ward|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=The problem began just after Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the publication Australian outback for a couple of George March's most successful novel to datemonths. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on After the last page) problems she'd had at work, it seemed to either be reading it or had already done solike just the break she needed. Every day Mrs March went to She was no longer a data analyst for the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as Metropolitan police in London: she was wrapping Jess who was returning to the bread, ''but isn't this country of her birth and in need of the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, space to get over the principal character had 'traumatic end of her mannerisms''relationship with Charles. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for A few weeks in the fact that Johanna is Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchticket.''

|isbn=02419890941448309743|title=The Perfect LifeDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Nuala EllwoodCaro Ramsay

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-the village of Cronchie on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrenWest coast of Scotland, Lavenderfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, Freddie and Barclaydeath will follow. The boys only suspects are a bit of a handful which is why sheknown Satanists but in many ways, that's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for an easy conclusion given that two of them. It's discovered' the same month body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young womanwhen he disappears, only this time she's job hunting and living DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in her sister, Georgieto 's, spare room, where sheshadow's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorhim.

|isbn=1787634493B0CCCPJJ5B|title=All Her FaultThe Last Person in the World|author=Andrea MaraMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Marissa Irvine It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, money to go throw around on a play date Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. She was concerned that he didn't have any Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little latercertainly more than acquaintances. What could be better? OnlyFinns had no intention of going on to University, when Marissa arrived unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the house, expecting to meet JacobUK's motherthird most prestigious university. Before going up, Jennyhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyClouds Manor in West Dorset.

|author=Claire McGowanDean Koontz|title=I Know YouThe House at the End of the World

|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 a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob'Then:'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 name 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' Casey returns from s a walk with scene replicated all too often in the baby, Carson, early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and comes across three bodies, almost looking for a whole family taken downway to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages.  The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'Now:, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' Rachel is out for . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a walk with long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her dog, Brandy, when phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she comes across a body had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the woodshigh-heeled shoes. |isbn=1542019974

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1529195977|title=The StoningNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=3.5

|summary=In On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous crowd of friends in comparisonthe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleywas out celebrating her 45th birthday, and only she's been taped to a tree was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she Josie birthday twins, they were the worldboth born in St Mary's tallest cricket stumpshospital. When she That's discovered by where the town gossip everyonesimilarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, including the local copsNathan, are quite confident in the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and itwhilst they're not ''exactly''s only fairrowdy, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsthey're enjoying themselves. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Josie, a higher rank from on the cityother hand, holds her handbag close to sort everything outher tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going He's not used to welcome spending this much money on a Greekmeal -heritaged city boy laying down the law..but it is Josie's birthday after all.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=17876318691803136383|title=The Rising TideTin Soldiers|author=Sam LloydDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a good and decent life in the aftermathcloud. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, What actually happened out there is gossiped about and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billienobody is sure exactly what took place, Lucy's daughter but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and Fin, disgrace seems to be the child she had with Danielconsensus. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult Wat himself is keeping his cards close to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or moneyhis chest, is concernedas he always does.

|isbn=1786332388B0C7J9D21B|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 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 First Day stint working with the preparation of Springanchovies 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 successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Nancy TuckerJane Corry

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly Nancy's mother and step- father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and ''The First Day her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Spring'' was one such occasiontheir murder. The writing is superb and completely compellingWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The characterisation is excellent and 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 plot grips you and won't let gorest of her life. SoOf course, whatit's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the problem? papers are making the most of it. Well, ''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 problem is Chrissie, morning at the main charactercounty fair before she returned home. When we first meet There was no sign of her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone husband but opera was playing on the state- a twoof-yearthe-old boyart music system installed in The Glass Barn. SheThey's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing d not been in the architect- suffocating designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high- her hands seized uptech systems Tom had insisted upon. ThereSome of them fought with each other and didn's t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a clue ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backsort of money, she wonders? too. Hasn't he been Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead for long enough?in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCAlan Parks|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryTo Die in June

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that Caroline Riley (she grew up on a council estate prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisterslove with Pete. It seemed They're off on a cruise to have been a loving, stable familyNew York on ''Atlantica''. When we first meet herCaz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she candoesn't sleep because her son, Freddie, whoknow whether she's nearly sixteen, hasnrelieved or disappointed. They't come home by ve not been a couple for that long and the time he sort of half-promised he'd trip will be in byan excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Her husband, TomMeanwhile, Gemma is fast asleep: theylooking after Caz're moving house in the morning but hes cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakesgood, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that heisn's killed someone.t it?

|author=Louise CandlishMark Edwards|title=The HeightsKeep Her Secret

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that dayMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She's The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on sitegetting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, visiting a client for a lighting consultation even if it kills her… which it nearly does when she spies him in the edge of a building across ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the wayrockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. There are lots of things Convinced she is going to die, lots Helena must purge herself of peoplethe shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other daycryptic declaration to Matthew. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years Just moments later their heroic, and Ellen knows this for a factfrankly very well prepared, because she had a hand Icelandic tour guide swoops in his murderand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1471183483166250893X

|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-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 only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to 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 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=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18388538040861544056|title=The Cursed GirlsTwin Truths|author=Caro RamsayJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=Megan MelvickBelle and David's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down twin daughters are just coming to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfend of their first term at university. Twenty years later sheKit's back home again been at Bristol and this time the occasion is no less sadJess's in Exeter. SheIt's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of anorexiatime - but they've also been apart from each other. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorryBelle can' t wait to have them all to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, herself for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? while. Was Then Kit rings up - can she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping bring her boyfriend home with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding dayher? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - Belle would prefer that he didn't come but there did seem doesn't want to be a curseupset Kit. In addition Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to MelissaKit's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeeighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. Would she come back for her elder daughterAnd they's funeral?ll be sharing a bedroom.

|isbnauthor=1409181669Robert Dugoni|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesHer Deadly Game

|summary=Mariana Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his 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 oblivion and inevitably the latter was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely beginning to get away with them bothovershadow the former. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and decide how she should proceedproven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous 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.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Everything - or so Suddenly she thought - had begun finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the death increasingly disturbing worry of Tara Hampton just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecea careful, Zoe, had telephoned her in distressmeticulous child. Tara had The care has been taught by her best friend father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and she was struggling any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to copethe necessity of a Lesson. Mariana wasnOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he't s not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn'entirelyt have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It' happy about having to go to Cambridges now a year since her son, Mason, but was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she caught heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the first fast train from Kingmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's Crossdone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. Mariana She does interviews and Zoe were close and had when we meet her, she's just been made all 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 so people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the death Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of Marianacontrol, turning into someone I's husband, Sebastianm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierfoursome but it's not a regular thing. Zoe had been Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoewives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's mother and Marianapregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn's sister, Elizat want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.