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|isbn=17873017450241678412|title=ConfidenceThe Proof of My Innocence|author=Denise MinaJonathan Coe|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=WeLife after university hasn're back in t worked out quite the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]way that Phyl anticipated. It was Anna whoShe'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exs back home, Hamish, is now living with her best friend, Estelle parents and her children are living with themon 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. Fin (who was married The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to Estelle) is there too stay and it was Anna who invited introduces Phyl to his girlfriendadopted daughter, SofiaRashida. It's not long before everyone realises that was Christopher Swann (described by some as a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - lefty blogger) is investigating a lighthouse, think tank which originated at Cambridge University in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape1980s. This was something which Anna had intended It plans to tell push the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess government in a more extreme direction and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timeis ready to act.
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|isbn=178763566X0008385068|title=Listen to MeThe Midnight Feast|author=Tess GerritsenLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=WeIt're in Boston with Amys midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they It're going to be ruined - s their opening weekend and unsafe - in the snow thatsplendid celebrations are promised. It's now fallingall headed up by Francesca Meadows. As The Manor was her ancestral home and she crosses 's converted it into an impressive retreat for the road, a car comes out of nowhere wealthy and hits herfamous. It doesn't stop. Two months later Her husband, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane RizzoliOwen, was the architect and a keen defender work is still ongoing on parts of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livessite. Nothing gets past her The heat is oppressive and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has amongst the time guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to watch whatbe settled and it won's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionst be long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Saima Mir|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an escortorganised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: The fact that's her professional name but it is was the second in a nod to her Serbian heritage. Sheseries I hadn's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If yout read didn're thinking of t stop me – I'escortve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn' as being t be a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whohindrance if it's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget itgood enough. Dora is And that wasn't a professional in all senses of the wordproblem here. She has an agent, ElspethVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and CustomsI never felt lost. |isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=140595115XDavid Chadwick|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Right from the beginning, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht It''Escape'' to Antiguas September 1973 in Hicks, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the AtlanticCalifornia. Those Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear LA and Las Vegas both a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by onesignificant drive away. Some are already deadNot much happens in Hicks. They A silver mine and a defence contractor are three days from shore and the main local employers but otherwise, there is no way 's not much of making contactnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. But let's go back to when all this startedLife is quiet, in Southamptonuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbn=02419890271399613073|title=We All Have Our SecretsMoral Injuries|author=Jane CorryChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Harold Gentle advertised Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for live-in help as he was failing a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to cope at Willowmead House on his ownbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. His advert was fairly specific: he was Laura is a perfectionist and a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the ability to cook group and she becomes a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsGP. The When we first person who came meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to the house was Francoise, a French woman end in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlytragedy. She got the job but Francoise didnWe don't know about who suffered the tragedy or the advert: she was consequences. Twenty-five years later there for a completely different reasonwill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Emily Gentle is HaroldThis time, it's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel 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 problem in Londonwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. EmilyAs 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 a midwife and happened through her last shift had seen photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her lacking concentration keep safe and a complaint had been madethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbnauthor=0751581577Cody Goodfellow|title=Lying Beside You|author=Michael RobothamVertical|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to do get inside if it's 40 stories tall. Only two So when I picked up this book – about people survived the carnage - Elias, who scale tall buildings for fun – I was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until the police found himinstantly intrigued. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and he's been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?|isbn= 1803363991
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|isbn=14059409801804183210|title=The BirdcageNo Reserve|author=Eve ChaseFelix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=ItThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's t have been on the rostrum when the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the sea at Zennor in Cornwallchairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. We don't know whose body it isTo say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren Two men had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistbeen bidding against each other. The girls are actually ''halfBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch'Mitchell were well-sisters known and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closerespected in the racing industry. Finch Jennings was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since in one of the cubicles in the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at toilets when the time of two men came in and their conversation revealed that the total eclipse, something happenedhorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Kat and Flora Both were obviously involved but Lauren happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersdead in its stall.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1405951680|title=FacelessThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, several troubled people are thrown actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the same story thanks to just one mis-stepAustralian outback for a couple of months. Set in New ZealandAfter the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifebreak she needed. Then there’s Billy, She was no longer a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay data analyst for the materials Metropolitan police in London: she needs. And then we have Max, was Jess who is also living on was returning to the streets country of her birth and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell in need of a man, barely able the space to take any care get over the traumatic end of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowher relationship with Charles. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down A few weeks in the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the person he thought he was into someone very differentticket.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1448309743|title=The ClubDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Ellery LloydCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five 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, 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 body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.5}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4
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|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and Our narrator was a mile or so into scholarship day boy at the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was now known an unusual relationship as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs Ralph was a boarder and the opening weekend was going had money to be something special, even by Home's standards. throw around on a SpeedboatsRolex watch, helicopters vintage wines and blackeda state-of-the-out SUVs art sound system. Both were converging probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on the islandto University, which was linked to the mainland by unlike our storyteller who had a causeway that was inaccessible place at high tide. HomeWolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's CEOthird most prestigious university. Before going up, Ned Groomhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..Clouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Dean Koontz|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyHouse at the End of the World|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and Jess Hadley was keen ride on or you can retreat to get to her half-brother's flat your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in Paris. She'd come across from London a small chain of tiny dots on Eurostar, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till map and live out your days in the Copacabana Bar in Brightonpeace and solitude. It wasnThat't likely that the police would be on to s what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her yet but she'd like old life to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. Shestart afresh on Jacob'd phoned Ben s Ladder; and got all would have been the address - 12 Rue des Amants - aforementioned peace and he told her that solitude were it not for the apartment was on pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in touch with Benthe name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1787636607|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the third book in a series morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of stories featuring Alexander Blix, clubs and looking for a police officer, way to get home. Some are lucky and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistmanage to get one of the few taxis available. In this book we find Others squash onto the night bus that when will only go as far as one of Blixthe outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem's colleagues, Kovicparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, uncovers the final stop on the bus leaves her a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact long way short of her superior, Blixhome. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, She had intended to ring someone to come and Blixcollect her - but her phone's daughter Iselin who shares dead. The bus had driven off before she had the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toochance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenin high-heeled shoes. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1529195977|title=The Wedding MurdersNone of this is True|author=Sarah LinleyLisa Jewell|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a permanent job with crowd of friends in the newspaper and the case Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she was covering was her big chanceencountered Josie Fair. It She, too, was even more important to out celebrating her than the celebrity wedding 45th birthday, only she was to attend the following day just with her ex-rock star boyfriendhusband, MatthewWalter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonThat's where the similarities end, though: Alix, Patrick with her sisterhusband, EmmaNathan, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel are in the North Yorkshire countrysidemidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Daniel AcroydJosie, on the other hand, television presenter holds her handbag close to her tummy and former member of you get the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected sense that the wedding wasnWalter't s not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie'quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoness birthday after all.
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|isbn=15291353621803136383|title=The Long WeekendTin Soldiers|author=Gilly MacmillanDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningcloud. Jane What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Ruth had known each other for a long time nobody is sure exactly what took place, but Emily was an act of heroism leading to a bit of an outsider. She rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back disgrace seems to school days. Paul had coached rugby at be the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilsconsensus. Mark had married Jane, and Toby Wat himself is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellkeeping his cards close to his chest, Rob's deadas he always does.
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|isbn=1529095522B0C7J9D21B|title=The InterviewA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=C M EwanA J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Kate Harding When we first meet our hero, his name is going for an interview for her dream job Ettore and he lives at Edge CommunicationsThe House of Beautiful Swallows. It Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's the last interview of the day at one of Londonmother died when he was born. He's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of the building to be something special. Maggiehis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Kateit's recruitment agent, is keen difficult to see that Kate approaches obtain decent employment. The stint working with the interview in a good state preparation of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if Kate gets the job not resourceful - and determined - and she has to admit that life has it was not been easy long before he had a successful business as a guide for her recentlyvisitors. He was even saving some money.
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|isbn=00084544420241996104|title=A Flicker in the DarkComing to Find You|author=Stacy WillinghamJane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=ItNancy's May 2019 mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Dr Chloe Davisher step-brother, a medical psychologistMartin, is completing a session with a new patienthas been convicted of their murder. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through We first meet Nancy outside the traumacourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. You see, Chloe knows what itThe barrister tells her that she's like to have received a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but Chloe found some jewellery belonging will have to live with what happened for the girls rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - trophies taken she inherited five million pounds from their bodies her mother - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed the papers are making the most of it to the police. Dick Davis ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary one favourite epithet and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is in a care homeundoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291355671529135389|title=One Step Too FarThe Fall|author=Lisa GardnerGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the stag weekendcounty fair before she returned home. Five There was no sign of them had set out: Tim (her husband but opera was playing on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty state-of alcohol - too much really the- and art music system installed in the night Scot managed to wander offThe Glass Barn. The remaining four searched They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for him in vain long and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. When help Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come the remaining three finally made their way back about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign having that sort of Timmoney, too. Every yearEventually, Tim's father, Martin, and Nicole found Tom dead in the four friends have been back swimming pool with a wound to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timhis head.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Alan Parks|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of Metropolitan police firearms officera homeless man on the streets, Jonah Colley's young sonsuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, Theoand then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, just about finished himbut all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, particularly as and he blamed himself has been for what had happenedyears. He'd fallen asleep in At the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokesame time as facing these possible murders, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out Harry is also dealing with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenfound. He's obviously in some difficulty now Something feels wrong - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I has been stationed, but can trust'', he says.Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529382823|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X}}{{FrontpageThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=24.5
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|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeCaroline Riley (she prefers 's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heCaz's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three) is middle-day old foundling, aged and now is starting has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a career cruise to New York on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now 'Atlantica'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'. Caz's sister, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-controlGemma, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him reckons that he go Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of ring-shaped bulge in his bank suit pocket and prepare she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for going on that long and the lamtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. And all this Meanwhile, Gemma is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest helooking after Caz's of interest to themcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Helped It's going to escapebe good, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Mark Edwards|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tess, a teacher Matthew and Jason, a headmasterHelena are in Iceland, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable rekindling their university romance some twenty- odd years after they had just drifted apartfirst met. They coThe alien-parent threelandscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in what was this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the family home edge of a ravine gives way and another in Helena finds herself clinging to the flat she shares rockface with just the snagged strap of her motherrucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. It ''seemed'' Convinced she is going to be working well until die, Helena must purge herself of the day that Poppy came home with shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearingpanicked, using words she was unlikely cryptic declaration to have heard in either homeMatthew. Her behaviour deteriorated Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns hauls Helena to a therapist for help, then her doctor safety and finally the police but no one will take Matthew is left wondering what she has to say seriouslyhe just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|author=Will CarverJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThirty 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…
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|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously Belle and also, curiously, addicted David's twin daughters are just coming to attending numerous AA groupsthe end of their first term at university. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. Whilst analysing and critiquing It's not only the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsfirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other...targets for sexual encounters, targets Belle can't wait to feed her desire have them all to hear of people's misery, and targets herself for her violent behavioura while. Yet Then Kit rings up - can she also seems bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to be searching for others who think as she does, and when sheupset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's unable twenty-four to find like-minded people in any of the groups Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borncan cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Robert Dugoni|title=IcedHer Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= 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 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 job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Felix FrancisVanda 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. Suddenly she 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 increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.
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|isbn=1787301036
|title=What July Knew
|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Miles Pussett used to be When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runcareful, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourmeticulous child. He was in St Moritz The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the same weekend as White Turf - thatdeath of his wife, July's high-class horseracing on mother, and any hint that the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with conversation is heading that way will lead to the saddling necessity of the horsesa Lesson. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he swore that he'd never go back to its not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. But when he sees that something suspicious July's teacher is going onconcerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, Miles canhas he not? The playground wouldn't help have been resurfaced but look for answers, even when it puts him in danger.
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|isbn=147228612X0008454493|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillAll the Dangerous Things|author=Alan JohnsonStacy 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'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. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, although we probably haventurning into someone I'm not.'t taken much notice ' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of themtwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. They live quiet, uneventful lives The connection between the two is that Lily and stay mostly under Nina teach in the radarsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. In The couples have mixed as a city like London, thatfoursome but it's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himnot a regular thing. The highlight of his day Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morningneurosurgeon: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesnthey don't have the couragemuch in common except their wives. Then Lily hasn't said anything yet, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpbut she's pregnant. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the Metropolitan policeknowledge public.
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