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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams0241678412|title=The Rain-Soaked Bride|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The last thing that the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman in white. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen to be in top government jobs. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (in the form Proof of August Shining and Toby Greene) is there to find out. This may not be the full extent of the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and August's sister April wanting to get in on the act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Phoenix YearMy Innocence|author=David L BlondJonathan Coe|rating=34
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|summary=I was really looking forward to reading thisLife after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, marketed as a thriller that spans the globe living with her parents and centres on rich, powerful individuals trying 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 change the worldnothing. The cover is reminiscent of the opening titles of ''House of Cards'' and ''Damagessituation 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 fact that each chapter bears government in a title was appealing more extreme direction and is ready to me as wellact.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908959282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams0008385068|title=The Clown ServiceMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonaldIt's hemidsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'd be sacked for ineptitudes their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Unfortunately for the nation he cost thousands of pounds more to train than your average burger-flipper so heIt's off to Section 37 insteadall headed up by Francesca Meadows. The SectionManor was her ancestral home and she's label mentions anti-terrorism butconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, as his former boss told Toby ''If was the security service architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the circus, then Section 37 us where we keep the clownssite.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy The heat is coming to oppressive and amongst the UK with enough power to destroy Londonguests are enemies as well as friends. This may only Old scores are going to be Tobysettled and it won's first job for 37 and will include t be long before a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>body is found.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry StiastnySaima Mir|title=Acts of OmissionVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas I was a recently-appointed minister in instantly intrigued by the Foreign Office, determined to do his best, but not yet long enough premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the job to have abandoned his principles and beliefsnorth of England run by a Muslim woman. It's these The fact that are tested when it was the second in a disc containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has fallen series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into government hands. Understandably the Germans want the information back so that they can complete their opening up of the Stasia few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's archivegood enough. Lucas believes And that the Germans should be accommodated on this: he was elected on wasn't a platform of transparency and openness - handing the information back seems right problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to him - but there are those within the governmentspeed, both politicians and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happenI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>0861541561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kill in the MorningDavid Chadwick|authortitle=Graeme ShimminHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Nazis are amongst the most infamous group that has ever walked the planet. They may have been evilIt's September 1973 in Hicks, but there was something pantomime about them that has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films and pulp fictionCalifornia. To enjoy these you have to disengage yourself from the history and see the Nazis Hicks is a Mojave desert town of fiction as separate from those a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of real lifeLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Can I enjoy a book like ''A Kill in the Morning'' set in an alternative 1950s were the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe silver mine and a defence contractor are building an ultimate weapon? Can a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich and change the tide main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of history?note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson1399613073|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Germany may be defeated as Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the embers first day of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is making the most of ita bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. His trade in black market goods Laura is a perfectionist and casual private investigation work augment a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the meagre rations for him group and his dying fathershe becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a woman asks him to find a missing British airman he refuses – drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's not really his linegoing to end in tragedy. She blackmails Kasper and still he refuses but then the note arrives:''This is bigger than you. You We don't have a choiceknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Queers still die This time, it's 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 Berlinan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Find Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the pilothotel manager.'' It seems that As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, heforms 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 been seen with another man happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and now he has a decision they both wait to make that see if they will either cost or save his lifebe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The ProfessionalsCody Goodfellow|authortitle=Owen LaukkanenVertical|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The professional criminal is the type of person who gets in, does the job and then gets out againThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Sounds like the perfect way to stay undetected as Who doesn't love a lifelong miscreantgood view from up high, but does not sound like after all? Even the most exciting narrative for a storydrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. Instead, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own success, whose racket goes wrong one day So when they pick I picked up the wrong mark. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals''this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=The Axeman's JazzNo Reserve|author= Ray CelestinFelix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Based Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on a true storythe rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'The AxemanMitch's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut novelMitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. It tells Jennings was in one of a serial killer the cubicles in New Orleans in 1919 - the Axeman - who torments toilets when the city two men came in and has everyone talking; it seems their conversation revealed that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselves, as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin horse had been deliberately bid up to despair of ever catching that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the killerhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1405951680|title=Voyage into LimboThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5
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|summary=Colwyn YeatsJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, veteran of Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the war in Afghanistan and top-class sailor found himself at Australian outback for a loose end over the summer couple of months. A planned research trip fell through when heAfter the problems she'd already rented out his apartmenthad at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. It ''seemed'' fortuitous when an acquaintance approached him She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to skipper himself the country of her birth and two friends across the Atlantic, in aid need of a charity. Yeats had his doubts when he realised that his 'crew' weren't kitted out for the trip (flip flops? I mean, ''honestly''!), they didn't appear space to get on over the traumatic end of her relationship with each other particularly well and despite what he'd been told they didn't seem to know much about sailingCharles. But - it was only a A few weeks, when he'd nothing else to do, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JWQVET4</amazonuk>in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1448309743|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settled. His stud was prospering. He was deeply, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite In the village of Cronchie on the loss West coast of his arm some years before which had put an end to his acting career, life was good. Then one morning MorganScotland, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out five members of beda wealthy family are found murdered. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was The only item missing from her stable and there was a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose the mare - or to be beaten - O'Keeffe and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping to be back home is the Devil Stone: myth says that nightif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, or - at the worst - the next daydeath will follow. Little did OThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that'Keeffe know s an easy conclusion given that it would be many months before two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he saw his home againdisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin WalkerB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Children of War: A Bruno Courreges ThrillerThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help just a few hours before his tortured and mutilated body Our narrator was found in the woods, but despite his being a policeman scholarship day boy at the Brigadier didn't see the case 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 priority. He sees the wider pictureRolex watch, whilst Bruno is only vintage wines and a state-of-the chief of police in a small French country town-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. A young Muslim by the name Finns had no intention of Sami has turned up going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at a French army base Wolverton College in Afghanistan and heWellingford, the UK's keen third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to get visit Ralph at his home to St Denis and although it's possible to smuggle him back into the country, the FBI are not far behind him. It seems that Sami has been involved in bomb making Clouds Manor in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible for the deaths of soldiers of all nationalitiesWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Truth about House at the End of the Harry Quebert Affair|author=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)World
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|summary=Confession - when I chose to review this bookWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, I had no idea you can either suck it had made such huge waves worldwide. I chose it because I hadn’t read up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a thriller for a while small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and this looked like a good onesolitude. Before 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 book arrived, I heard all about it – aforementioned peace and solitude were it was just as well as I had heard so much positivity, as I also hadn’t realised it was such a hefty tome. (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomesfor the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but experience has taught me that they don’t always justify themselves)the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1787636607|title=The Ties That BindTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way 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', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529195977
|title=None of this is True
|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When writer Luke falls On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in love the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with Jeremyher husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the fact that Jem (to his friends) offers to support Lukesimilarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, allowing him to write are in the midst of a bookjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, is a bonusthey're enjoying themselves. As soon as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years agoJosie, on the bookother hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's subject is assurednot too happy. However both the subject matter and JemHe's endless support will present Luke with problems (and not used to spending this much money on a little danger) that he couldnmeal - but it is Josie't have foreseens birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell1803136383|title=VortexTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5
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|summary=Andy Duncan's father offered him the money to travel the world for Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a yearcloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but first he must do an act of heroism leading to a three-month internship with Berwick Archerrare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, an investment company based as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Hong KongAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4. It would be decent experience to put on 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his CV. But when Andy got to Berwick Archer name is Ettore and he liked what he saw - and stayedlives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Before long he was second in command at the firmIdyllic as this might sound, it's new Bangkok office a bordello and had a talent for what Ettore's mother died when he didwas born. There was even a girlfriendHe's not been short of mothers, Caroline Chanthough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before herit'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. Caroline Ettore was a dealer, but nothing if not in a big way resourceful - and determined - although she and it was well connected to not long before he had a successful business as a very influential businessmanguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead Crowley0241996104|title=Can Anybody Help Me?Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Yvonne Nancy's mother and Gerry are proud new parentsstep-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. HoweverWe first meet Nancy outside the court, as theyafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence've only recently moved to Gerry- she's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the lack rest of a support networkher life. This all changes when Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she turns to Mammynet, a webinherited five million pounds from her mother -based online forum and chat room for new the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and soon''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-toof-the-be mumsart music system installed in The Glass Barn. It works too They'd not been in the architect- Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the friend disappears without warninghigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a young womanten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. There may be Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>wound to his head.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AbductionAlan Parks|authortitle=Jonathan HoltTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The teenage daughter What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a US Army Major homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is kidnapped when off basecamp at a Venetian nightclubdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. She At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is abducted by also dealing with a move to a masked team during different police station, and the carnevale celebrationsarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, when people only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hidden. Everything about just with the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little in woman’s story but also with the way of clues apart from the very fact that it other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is carried out with such military precision.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=SoloThe Last Passenger|author=William BoydWill Dean|rating=4.5
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|summary=Like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, or even the characters from the Bible, James Bond Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is no longer just the property of its original authormiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Ian Fleming may have had the imagination They're off on a cruise to create BondNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but since Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'Casino Royalet know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They' rolled onto the scene Bond has ve not been a changing man who mimics couple for that long and the times he currently finds himself intrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. William Boyd’s Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It'Solo'' reverts back s going to Fleming’s original timeline and continues the story of that Bondbe good, but is this a reflection of the past or todayisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire KendalMark Edwards|title=The Book of YouKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Clarissa Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is 38feeling in this moment, secretary to even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a university department head ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just emerging from the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a broken relationship500 foot drop to certain death below. Rafe also works for Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the universityshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants himcryptic declaration to Matthew. He's absolutely certain she doesJust moments later their heroic, no matter how vehemently she denies itand frankly very well prepared, no matter how fast she runsIcelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atlantis GeneJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=AG RiddleThirty Days of Darkness
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is on the tail 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 large terrorist organisation. He's been after them since 9/11book fair, but she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the huge scope world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the organisation makes them difficult bet that she cannot live up to pin down or predictthat accusation. His only leads are Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a few cryptic messages wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the 1940s people and research scientist Dr Kate Warnerthe lack of stimulus for her plot, who more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has become intricately connected with the terrorists without knowing it.been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hamdy0861544056|title=PhaseTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
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|summary=ItBelle and David's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life twin daughters are just coming to finding his daughter and the people who abducted herend of their first term at university. ItKit's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job been at Bristol and - Jess's in all probability - his sanityExeter. HeIt's reached not only the stage where first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - far but they've also been apart from moving on - letting go is not an option and many of his actions are irrationaleach other. If any part of this Belle can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who t wait to have become involved them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with cultsher? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to AmberKit's abductioneighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Love Like BloodRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=One day towards Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the end life's work of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to a museum his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeclients. While the other looks at Along with an indisputable talent for the unusual ancient artefactslaw, Jackson finds something much more horrific – Patsy also has a man in a wartime bunker in gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her necklineformer. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical careerEnter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds the same man herself in the company hideous position of someone whoasking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, were he only aware of the factrather spectacularly, is to become the first and possibly only love of his lifesouth. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz NugentVanda Symon|title=Unravelling OliverExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Oliver had expected more Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a reaction the first time that he hit Alicebrutal, but shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she just lay on finds herself embroiled in the floor holding her jaw. He was stunned that he could do this to his wifehunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, but later that evening he returned and beat her so viciously with all the extra pressure that she lapsed into a comaentails being pregnant herself. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was the man otherwise known as Vincent DaxFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, famous writer of childrenshe just can's books and he t let the case go and Alice (shestarts to follow every thread to uncover what'd illustrated the books) had lived a life of ease s actually happening, and privilege. In the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells the story increasingly disturbing worry of just what had happened over the last five decades and how this had led to his becoming a monstermight happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1787301036|title=The Madness of What JulyKnew|author=Emily Koch|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A dead body is found in a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard When we first meet July Hooper on a hot 1970s summer day20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. A sinister enough event normally but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsShe's a careful, meticulous child. The fact care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the deceased has Willdeath of his wife, July's phone number in his pocket triggers mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a series Lesson. Other infractions of events that not only tests his loyalty requirements also lead to work, country these Lessons and family but will take Will from he's not even careful about whether or not the everyday political cut injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and thrust brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to his old job. the school, has he not? The job he hoped heplayground wouldn'd walked away from: spyingt have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan0008454493|title=A Pleasure and a CallingAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it right. He owns a successful estate agency and yet isnIsabelle Drake hasn't too noticeablereally slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. HeIt's helpfulnow a year since her son, Mason, but not was stolen from his bed in a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the way morning when she thought he likes it, living a life that assists societywas sleeping in. Take the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dogIn that year she's leavings for instancedone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. ItShe does interviews and when we meet her, she's ok – Heming didn't break injust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. He already has the key as he once sold On the house. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually keptplane back, you wonder? The answershe's easy: all of themapproached 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Jawbone LakeJust the Nicest Couple|author=Ray RobinsonMary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty on her plate and New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by the pursuer. ''The victim whole thing has spiralled out of the crash was a larger than life man called CJ and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event and attempts to rediscover who his father wascontrol, turning into someone I'm not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>}}''
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