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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1399613073|title= No Middle NameMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= There 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 a theoryruthlessly ambitious, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out is a bonus when you aim to grassbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. This Laura is particularly true, some say, a perfectionist and I have been known to concur, a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the crime group and thriller genresshe becomes a GP. Tosh! When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply havenWe don't been paying attentionknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-dayThis time, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher'it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A P McGrathSunny Singh|title= A Burning in the DarknessHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= CrimeThrillers |summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh The Hotel Arcadia is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrible crimeterrorist group. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secretsite, he there is motivated to redress Sam, a heart-breaking injusticewartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close As Abhi continues to try to unmasking care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses bond with Sam who refuses to protect a young witnessbe cowed by events, sparking memories and keeps on venturing out of Michaelher room to try to capture what's past in Liberiahappened through her photography. As he fights Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to prove his innocence, Michael has help her keep safe and they both wait to risk anything for see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the sake of love and truthterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samantha KingCody Goodfellow|title= The ChoiceVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= ItThere's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one of your children more than the others at a particular point in timesomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Maybe for Who doesn't love a momentgood view from up high, just a moment, you prefer after all? Even the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in the carpark, but get inside if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways and for different things, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favourite, but deep down thereit's no such thing40 stories tall. So imagine the worst thing that could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmarewhen I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349414653</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley1804183210|title=Before the FallNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the offer from rostrum when the wife of a media mogul colt - as yet unnamed - came up for a short plane rideauction, but Peter Radway, not realising it will shape the rest of chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his lifesession. The private jet falls out of the sky, making him a hero in the way To say that he saved was shocked when the only bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other survivor, the mogul. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's small son Mitchell were well-known and heir JJrespected in the racing industry. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable Jennings was in one of the cubicles in many ways, especially the toilets when he realises the two men came in and their conversation revealed that for some he's not so much the hero as the murdererhorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Are Both were happy that they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pronko1405951680|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar crime Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in Tokyothe Australian outback for a couple of months. It suits him: he gets to have his own officeAfter the problems she'd had at work, which is rareit seemed like just the break she needed. He's got space at home tooShe was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: his girlfriend has not only left him, but she's moved back was Jess who was returning to the States as well. He's yet to ship all country of her boxes out birth and in need of his apartment but when he's done that he'll be able the space to sleep in get over the bed againtraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. White collar crime's usually non-violent, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent A few weeks in Boston when he was studying) and when an American businessman ends up dead under the last train, he's called Otway Ranges in to help. He could have done without having to see Victoria sounded like just the body - or the people removing it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insistedticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410123</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1448309743|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery The Devil Stone (Essex Witches Mystery 1DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 54|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits In the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take village of Cronchie on the money and run. StillWest coast of Scotland, the museum exerts five members of a curious pull over Rosiewealthy family are found murdered. There's The only item missing from the home is the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of Devil Stone: myth says that if the notorious Ursula Cadencestone is removed from Otterburn House, a witch long since put to deathwill follow. And there The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie canan easy conclusion given that two of them 't decide if hediscovered's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a whilebody. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Rosie DCI Christine Caplan is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where pulled in to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip KerrB0CCCPJJ5B|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof The Last Person in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWorld|author=Gavin Scott|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Matthew Tree

|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap Our narrator was a German commander in Greece during scholarship day boy at the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which London-based public school where he hoped could lead to the deciphering of Linear Bmet Ralph Finns. The war is now officially over (although It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a lot of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) boarder and Forrester has returned had money to Athens with his loverthrow around on a Rolex watch, Sophie Amfeldtvintage wines and a state-of-Laurvig, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stone-art sound system. It was whilst Both were probably quite surprised when they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of a Greek poet became almost friends and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a maskcertainly more than acquaintances. Strange as all this might seemFinns had no intention of going on to University, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been unlike our storyteller who had a general who has been approached to lead ELASplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the military arm of the Greek communists. HeUK's the sort of charismatic man who could sway third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a lot of people loose invitation to follow him adn that would mean certain warvisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BrogdenDean Koontz|title=Hekla's ChildrenThe House at the End of the World

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Nathan has a steady job as 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 outdoor pursuits instructor but island thatsits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's not his first career. Ten years earlier hewhat Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob'd s Ladder; and all would have been a teacher when the aforementioned peace and solitude were it all went dreadfully wrong during an orienteering event not for his secondary school students. Four young people disappeared suddenly but only one was found. Malnourished the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in shock, Olivia was never able to tell anyone what happened. A decade later a body is found, Nathan starts having hallucinations the name of science and Olivia crosses his path again. Whatever began that day isn't finishedquite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. ''Evil will find a way through.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785654381</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1787636607|title= AmnesiaThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in trouble. HeIt's had a nasty knock on scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the head morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and now he can't remember anything about his lifelooking for a way to get home. In an attempt Some are lucky and manage to recover his memoriesget 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', he is sent to convalesce in a remote cottage particularly in the Scottish Highlands in light of 'the company of his old friendmissing women's niece, Clemence. During their stay For one young woman, Clemence uncovers the final stop on the bus leaves her a strange book which seems long way short of her home. She had intended to tell the story of ring someone to come and collect her - but her grandmotherphone's murder years dead. The bus had driven off before. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover she had the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside chance to beg the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairbus driver to let her use his. There's past who wants no option but to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with itstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Grace Macallister1529195977|title= The Magician's LieNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45|genre= Thrillers|summary= The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of On her day45th birthday, renowned for her notorious trick Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of sawing a man friends in half the Landsdown pub on stageSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. But one night She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she swaps was just with her trademark saw for an axehusband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. When Arden That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband is found dead later that night, Nathan, are in the answer seems clearmidst of a joyful, most monied group of all to young policeman Virgil Holt. Captured friends and taken into custodywhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, all seems set for Ardenthey's swift confessionre enjoying themselves. But she has a different story to tell. Even handcuffed and alone Josie, Arden is far from powerlesson the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and what she reveals is as unbelievable as you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is spellbindingJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1803136383|title=The Legacy: Children's House Book 1Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=What do you wish for Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in your murder mysteries? An inventive death? Well you couldn't go much further than the unusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers here. She's a mother to a young family, whose husband was abroad at Vietnam under something of a conferencecloud. Do you seek awkward, unusual What actually happened out there is gossiped about and/or conflicted investigators? Well, here we have a detective from the lower ranksnobody is sure exactly what took place, but the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and a woman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims an act of sex abuse. She's here because the only witness heroism leading to the murder was Elisa's very young daughter. And lo a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and behold, the two adults have history. Do you require taunting clues as disgrace seems to why this crime will be repeated? You can't do much better than the messages in numerals received by other characters and their untold threatconsensus. So it's tickWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, tick, tick – but what of the question marks left by the prologue, where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621526</amazonuk>he always does.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice FeeneyB0C7J9D21B|title= Sometimes I LieA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Christmas When we first meet our hero, his name is barely over but Amber doesnEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore't have much to celebrates mother died when he was born. She He's in a comanot been short of mothers, trapped with an active mind though - but an inactive bodyfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, able it's difficult to hear obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and understand but not respond to what is going bastards are considered bad luck on around herfishing boats. And her mind's Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a little fuzzy on successful business as a few things too, like how she ended up there, who else guide for visitors. He was involved, and what it all meanseven saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008225354</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sherri Smith0241996104|title= Follow Me DownComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Mia is done with the small town she grew up in, but it only takes one phone call to bring Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her back. Her twin step-brother Lucas is missing and, worse stillMartin, has been implicated in convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the death court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of one anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of his studentsher life. Without him there to speak for himself Of course, it becomes 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her job to defend his reputation while trying to get to mother - and the papers are making the bottom most of everything that has gone onit. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pam Jenoff1529135389|title=The Orphan's TaleFall|author=Gilly Macmillan

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Herr NeuroffNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn's circus has a secret: t work as well reliably as they should. It had all come about through a much needed wartime source ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of entertainmentmoney, it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fatestoo. One such personEventually, AstridNicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a trapeze and high wire artisthomeless man on the streets, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be suddenly starts to feel like something more dangerous than her nightly actsinister as another body is discovered, and then another. She's an expert who has perfected her art over time This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noaout alcoholic, a non-circus family new comerwith no fixed abode, quicklyand he has been for years. There's a reason behind At the circus owner's demand though. Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a Jewish baby she stole from move to a Nazi train before leaving different police station, and the Netherlands. It was arrival there of a spur of the moment decision that will bind woman who claims her to Astrid and their futurelittle boy has gone missing, only no matter how long… or short… a time that may record of the boy having existed can befound. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh1529382823|title= The Blade ArtistLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary=So. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine WelshCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's work ) is middle-aged and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbie, the notoriously violent, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting ganghas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review, it does mean you will get They're off on a passionate one. It is fair cruise to say that I loved New York on ''The Blade ArtistAtlantica'' and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those of you who may not be familiar with Welsh Caz's earlier manifestations have no fearsister, you can pick up Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'The Blade Artistt know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They' ve not been a couple for that long and the trip will be transfixed by Jim Francisan excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, artist, father, husband and elegant thugGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you It'll s going to be instantly drawn back into the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeancegood, violence and blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy BoltonMark Edwards|title=The PicturesKeep Her Secret

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's the spring of 1939: Matthew and Helena are in Hollywood ''Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The Wizard alien-landscape of Oz'' the lava fields and black beaches is in production at MGM breath-taking and it's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for Helena seems intent on getting the actors or perfect photograph to encapsulate the studio. The police department recognises that joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly and kills her… which it's Detective Jonathan Crane's job to see that nearly does when the crimes edge of a ravine gives way and misdemeanours of Helena finds herself clinging to the stars are swept under rockface with just the proverbial carpetsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. The studio rewards him handsomely for this Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and there's perhaps makes a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy and wouldn't know how panicked, cryptic declaration to investigate a case if it came up Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and slapped himfrankly very well prepared, but Icelandic tour guide swoops in Craine's mind all that's going and hauls Helena to changesafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elmer MendozaJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= The Acid TestThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 3.5|genre= CrimeThrillers |summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolateHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, dusty field by the side an author of the roadfailing if well-regarded literary short novels. Once the most adored, celebrated dancer Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at the local strip cluba book fair, she had flukes her way into a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to public argument with the latest hot shot in the deaths world of various associatescrime fiction, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''The Acid Test'', following on from Mendozasaying he's first novel ''Silver Bullets''populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. I haven't read Cue the first instalment of this series and don't believe bet that she cannot live up to that had any impact on this storyaccusation. Lefty has a personal connection Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to the caseIceland, forever haunted by where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the memories point of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections to the powerful criminal underworlddespairing – about her writing, his tense relationship with American agents and his consuming desire to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous people and violent residents the lack of Culiacán and follow Lefty on a trail of destructionstimulus for her plot, death and disorder.more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alec Birri0861544056|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Argentina after the Second World War may Exeter. It's not come as a surprise, but why was only the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but encouraged they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to do so? And what has that got have them all to do herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with a respected neurologist in 2027her? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all the world Belle would prefer that he didn's ailments cant come but doesn't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about want to become the disturbingly bizarreupset Kit. What has the treatment Ivo's apparently 'correctionolder' of paedophiles got : he's twenty-four to do Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with the President of the United States, the Pope and even the UKthat. And they's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>ll be sharing a bedroom.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary G ThompsonRobert Dugoni|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie DeeHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= TeensCrime|summary=Six years ago, cousins Amy and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no trace holds barred courtroom performances in defence of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns home, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to herhis clients. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her family Along with an indisputable talent for the law, but she's Patsy also has a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivity, gift for drinking himself to oblivion and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back inevitably the latter was beginning to her old lifeovershadow the former. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the years hideous position of asking her absencefather for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, she became Chelsea and Dee became StacieMiller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= B A ParisVanda Symon|title= The BreakdownExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Sometimes Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the way we ''think'' we will behave start of her maternity leave when something happens there is not the way we do behave when that same thing happensa brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Cass never thought Suddenly she would be finds herself embroiled in the sort of person to leave someone stranded – not least hunt for a lone female in a dark woodkiller targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, late at night – but when which she passes a stranded car on her way home rails against, she doesnjust can't stop, get out, let the case go and go she starts to follow every thread to offer help. She hurries on home, forgets about ituncover what's actually happening, and crawls into bedthe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848454996</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright1787301036|title=The Milan BriefcaseWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45

|summary=It began with a briefcase, a rather elegant briefcase to be sure, but it had been left in the back of a taxiWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. When youShe're the next customer in the cabs a careful, what do you do in that situation? meticulous child. The driver isn't part care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of a grouphis wife, so thereJuly's not going mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to be the necessity of a lost-property office Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and you have a suspicion that if you pass the briefcase over ithe's not going to be passed on anywhere elseeven careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. So July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the red briefcase was taken on a flight head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to Luritania where it was looked at by various members of the Lenfindi Club. And who were theyschool, has he not? Well, they started as as a quartet - three men and a women - who gathered each Sunday morning at Lenfindi Airport to discuss matters of great (or lesser) import. Originally they were called The Sunday Club, playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but changed the name when they gathered a fifth member (it was easier to make decisions when there were five rather than four) and then a sixth..for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178589868X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alec Birri0008454493|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= ItIsabelle Drake hasn's 1966t really slept for a year - well, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in apart from the World Cup – instead heodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's awakening now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from a coma following an aircraft accident. Waking his bed in a world where the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing makes sense, and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's unable done everything she could to recall raise awareness about the crash – but struggles to remember the rest of his life…And whatcase. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the red pillplane back, or is he right to think thereshe's something more sinister going on…Andapproached by a podcaster, having suffered almost 100% burnsWaylon Spencer, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>a few hundred people at conferences.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy Walker1848458436|title= All Is Not ForgottenJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= After a brutal attack''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, you might be forgiven for thinking losing her memory turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the best outcome for Jennystory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Without being able to recall The connection between the facts from two is that Lily and Nina teach in the night same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in questioncommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she can't dwell too much on her attack and her attackers pregnant. But what if she wants to? What if she needs to work through her emotions She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she can move past things? What if she is still obsessing, day in and day out, about what did or didndoesn't happen want to her, imagining all sorts of scenarios and hating herself for not knowing tempt fate by making the truth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008203482</amazonuk>knowledge public.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susanna BeardJulia Bartz|title= Dare to RememberThe Writing Retreat|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Lisa Fulbrook's best friend is dead – Roza Vallo. Anyone in the victim world of a brutal attack who fell publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her death from , agents want to represent her own apartment window. Lisa was thereShe's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, she too was a victim back catalogue of the attack works that killed started with her best friendbreakthrough novel, and published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is left more than a little obsessed with the physical Roza, and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by the is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, Lisa flees to a country village to help settle her frightened mind. But what happened that night still torments her; she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and invited to be part of her best friend Ali were targeted, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she canmonth-long writers't remember what really happened that fateful nightretreat. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E M Davey1800465270|title=The Napoleon ComplexLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=Journalist Jake WolseyWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's brush with the Book of Fate June 1995 and that fatal Etruscan lightening isnhe't overs at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Historical quotes, intrigue and He's a call pallbearer for help from former lover his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and MI6 operative Jenny start Timur's father, Keto, is also a whole new search for the source of power pallbearer and destructionhe's disgusted by what his son had become. This time itValeri thinks differently: he's linked determined to Napoleon Bonaparte make his own stand against organised crime and the odd inclusion avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of an Etruscan scroll in months, his obsession will have cost him his portrait. If the scroll is what Jake marriage to Marisha and Jenny think it iscreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, where has it gone? a journalist. Our heroes arenShe't the only curious people s determined to expose any and all corruption - andshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, while their search takes them across the worldhe's a good source. For him, it's as much about fatality avoidance as it is treasure huntinga way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible. Who will get the answer first and at what cost to themselves… and civilisation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651080</amazonuk>