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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1399613073|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=David Raker is an investigatorOlivia, specialising in missing persons cases. Over Laura and Anjali met on the course first day of his work, he's seen plenty medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this onecentury. A man Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request which is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying a bonus when you aim to locate be a missing personcardiothoracic surgeon. He IS the missing person Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Found unconscious at Anjali is the mouth free spirit of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he canthe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they't remember anything about his life. Here at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kitegoing to end in tragedy. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to We don't know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off suffered the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax tragedy or own a homethe consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This desperate and confused man needs Rakertime, it's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thingtheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa JewellSunny Singh|title= Then She Was GoneHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= One day Ellie went to 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 library for some last minute GCSE study terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and she never returnedAbhi, the hotel manager. There As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a lot bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of ''her room to try to capture what ifs?'': what if s happened through her sister hadn't had a noisy friend photography. Although they only ever talk overthe phone, forcing their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to seek out somewhere quieter to study? What see if there had been more CCTV on they will be rescued before they are discovered by the high street so her journey could have been traced? What if, taking it back a bit, she had never met Theo, never fallen for him, never drifted into competition against him and never felt the need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going to happen, one way or another?terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780896417</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caz FrearCody Goodfellow|title= Sweet Little LiesVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= In 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in IrelandThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. In 2017 Who doesn't love a woman called Alice is found dead in London. In both casesgood view from up high, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella after all? Even the drabbest office building is coincidentally close by, but shesomewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's more worried by the fact her father is too40 stories tall. And he cannot be trustedSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J Tjia1804183210|title= She Be DamnedNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) Thrillers|summary= LondonThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, 1863: prostitutes 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 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the Waterloo area are turning horse had been deliberately bid up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedto that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. When another girl goes missing The following morning, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victimhorse was dead in its stall. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The police are at a loss and so Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it falls by her friend, Rupert) to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chanceycaretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to investigate. With the assistance country of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer birth and in need of the space to get over the truthtraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. But when Amah is implicated A few weeks in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the killer strikes againticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=Three Days and a LifeCaro Ramsay

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got In the best village of situations. Some Cronchie on the West coast of his friends have parted company with him because Scotland, five members of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time ona wealthy family are found murdered. He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo The only item missing from the home is the girl next door Devil Stone: myth says that he loves, but she's rejected it. And his best company, if the dog stone is removed from the other house next doorOtterburn House, was injured in a hit and run, and shot to be put out of its miserydeath will follow. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouseThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, hethat's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogan easy conclusion given that two of them 's six-year-old owner, and Antoinediscovered's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepbody. As the title suggests The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Riley SagerB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Final GirlsThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|genre= Thrillers|summary=A 'final girl' is the last girl alive Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the end of 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 horror movie Rolex watch, vintage wines and a gruesome description which has defined the life state-of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differently. Quincy, the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying to put -the past behind her-art sound system. But Both were probably quite surprised when another 'final girl' dies, the media, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon herthey became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. And Finns had no intention of going on to make matters worse for QuincyUniversity, the other 'final girl' unlike our storyteller who had a survivor from another massacre, who has been place at Wolverton College in hiding for yearsWellingford, appears on her doorstepthe UK's third most prestigious university. SuddenlyBefore going up, Quincy is not only able he took up a loose invitation to move past her pastvisit Ralph at his home, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back Clouds Manor inWest Dorset. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785034022</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah StovellDean Koontz|title= ExquisiteThe House at the End of the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= I was looking forward to reading ''Exquisite'' ever since I first heard about When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck itup, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and it didn't disappointsolitude. It That's a murky, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; itwhat Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's a compulsive, attention-grabbing read that had me hunched up in bed till 1am, desperate to finish Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it as soon as I could. It's clever, excellently-pacednot for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and uncannily realistic.It's just a pity that I managed to figure out perpetrating all manner of mischief in the ending name of science and quite possibly bringing about a quarter the end of the way inall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633747</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annemarie Neary1787636607|title= The OrphansTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Jess It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Sparrow (Ro) looking for a way to get home. Some are just children when they are playing on lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the beach night bus that will only go as far as one day and turn round to find their parents vanished and their whole life changed in an instantof the outlying villages. It The woman all regret the 'taxi problem's , particularly in the sort light of childhood trauma that effects people in different ways'the missing women'. Jess goes to For one extremeyoung woman, studying hard, becoming the final stop on the bus leaves her a successful lawyer, building the kind long way short of stability for her new family that she craved ever since that dayhome. And Ro….doesn She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone'ts dead. He does almost The bus had driven off before she had the opposite, never putting down roots, floating from place chance to place, woman beg the bus driver to woman, free as the windlet her use his. The lives of the siblings don There't cross much, s no option but when an item belonging to their mother resurfaces, so does the case start walking - unsuitably clothed and the interest in her disappearancehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1529195977|title=The FriendNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=MaxieOn her 45th birthday, AnayaAlix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffeewas out celebrating her 45th birthday, wineonly she was just with her husband, gossip and momentary escape from their respective livesWalter. Nothing unusual about It turns out that until Yvonne is found battered not only are Alix and half-dead Josie birthday twins, they were both born in the playgroundSt Mary's hospital. Three weeks later Cece moves into That's where the areasimilarities end, though: Alix, with her children starting that same schoolhusband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Gradually she finds herself falling into Josie, on the orbit of Maxieother hand, Anaya and Hazel holds her handbag close to her tummy and hears what happened to you get the still comatose Yvonnesense that Walter's not too happy. Two questions still hang in the air though: who did He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is one Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the three remaining friends a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and that Cece nobody is in the perfect position sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be inthe consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham HurleyB0C7J9D21B|title= AuroreA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=History has taught us that wars can be won or lost on the strength When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a countrybordello and Ettore's intelligence and on the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control that intelligence in a myriad mother died when he was born. He's not been short of gamemothers, though -changing ways. Who better then to drop into Nazibut for someone of his background in late-occupied France as an agent than a thirty mission veteran of Bomber Command whose preeighteenth-war incarnation as actor and Quaker have shaped a man with guile enough to century Amalfi, it''make believe'' and trust enough to see his mission through s difficult to the end? Enter stage left, Billy Angellobtain decent employment. Soon to be ''injured'' airman stranded in the French countryside and tasked The stint working with befriending a local woman responsible for the safety preparation of resistants anchovies didn't work out and with necessary ties to the upper echelons of the occupying German forcebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. What's left for us to find out is whether Billy has talent enough to succeed in his new role as agent ''Thesp'' Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and make it back alivewas not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Dionne0241996104|title=The Marsh King's DaughterComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Helena Pelletier was having a normal afternoon: making deliveries of jams Nancy's mother and jellies to her sales outlets step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and taking her younger daughter Marigold to play at the side step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the lakecourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. It was on The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the journey back to meet rest of her older daughter life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the school bus that she heard papers are making the news: the notorious child abductor most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and rapist Jacob Holbrook, known as ''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 Marsh King, had escaped from prison, killing two guards in morning at the processcounty fair before she returned home. Helena knew that she was in danger: Jacob Holbrook There was no sign of her father and she husband but opera was playing on the daughter state-of -the woman he had abducted when she was fifteen years old-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. SheThey'd not been brought up until in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the age high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of twelve them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a captiveten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. There was Eventually, Nicole 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 homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another problem too: she'd never actually got around . This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to telling a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her husband about her backgroundlittle boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. 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>0751567388</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds (translator)1529382823|title=A Climate of FearThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=It takes just one policemanCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's iota of doubt, that an elderly woman ) is middle-aged and has found dead herself somewhat surprisingly in her bath love with her wrists slit was not actual suicide but murder instead, for Commissaire Adamsberg Pete. They're off on a cruise to become involvedNew York on ''Atlantica''. The womanCaz's sister, known to be dyingGemma, had struggled reckons that Pete is going to get propose but Caz hasn't spotted a letter posted ring-shaped bulge in the days before her death – his suit pocket and when the recipient is found out it immediately leads to another murder disguised as suicide, and more deaths are to comeshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. All indications (or at least those They've not been a couple for that can long and the trip will be understood) point an excellent opportunity to get to know him a hushed-up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previouslybit better. Meanwhile, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on the thinking that the whole truth Gemma is much more peculiar, and harder looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to solvebe good, than that…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784702625</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caite Dolan-LeachMark Edwards|title=Dead LettersKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Ava Matthew and Zelda Helena are twinsin Iceland, rekindling their naming triggering a family joke about being opposite ends university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the alphabet. That's all past tense now though as Zelda lava fields and black beaches is dead. Ava breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is told feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the news via snagged strap of her mother's terse, dispassionate email before Ava can come home rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to the US from Pariscertain death below. Zelda burnt Convinced she is going to death in die, Helena must purge herself of the family's barn where shocking secret she sometimes slept… at least that's the story has been keeping and human remains were indeed found in the barnmakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. But then why is Ava still receiving emails from Zelda? Emails that tauntJust moments later their heroic, emails that remind and emails that suggest Zelda is frankly very much alive. To discover the truth all Ava needs well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to do safety and Matthew is follow the clues and relive some painful memoriesleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786491303</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maile MeloyJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Do Not Become AlarmedThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=Thrillers|summary=ItHannah 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 Christmas, populist trash and only writing what anyone could go wrong? write. More than Cue the bet that, it's Christmas on holiday, on a cruise down the Pacific coast of Latin America from near LAshe cannot live up to that accusation. Perfect, thenHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for two cousins – ladies both with their own husband and two kids each – to get a wintry month away from what life's currently giving them, namely high-pressure work, and griefit all. But labours Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and worries and grief will only be exacerbatedthe lack of stimulus for her plot, when a trip ashore goes horrendously wrong, and practically more or less about everything – word comes that the only six children on board go missing…landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241305462</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kaela Coble0861544056|title=Friends and LiarsTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary= Kaela CobleBelle and David's debut novel twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit''Friends s been at Bristol and LiarsJess's in Exeter. It' is a gripping read that tells s not only the tale first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they'the crewve also been apart from each other. Belle can', t wait to have them all to herself for a group of friends who once made a pact while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'always be honest with eachotherolder': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at the wake of one of their own, Danny Deuso, who has left And they'll be sharing a haunting suicide note along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the gravebedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tina SeskisRobert Dugoni|title= The HoneymoonHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= For as long as she can remember, Jemma Patrick Duggan & Associates has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnightlife's retreat work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to a five-star resort his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the Maldiveslaw, complete with luxury villasPatsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, personal butlers former competitive chess prodigy and absolute privacy.It should be paradise. But it's turned into proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a nightmare. Because job at the man Jemma married family firm because a week ago has just disappeared from the island without romantic entanglement with a trace. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes. After everything they've been through togethersenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband had gone? , rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C F PetersonVanda Symon|title= Errant Blood Expectant (Duncul MysteriesDetective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes away, he makes the decision to return to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in the army and survived a posting in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)|title= Block 46

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When maternity leave when there is a young brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmedDunedin. But Linnéa's death is not unique; Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in factthe hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, she is only with all the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders extra pressure that have occurred in both London and Falkenbergentails being pregnant herself. Up until now Finding herself put on desk duties, the bodies have all belonged to young boyswhich she rails against, so what has caused she just can't let the killer case go and she starts to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help follow every thread to find justice for her frienduncover what's actually happening, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1787301036|title= No Middle NameWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 45|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= There is When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a theorycareful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribediscuss the death of his wife, which says that the short storyJuly's heyday has passed mother, and it has now put itself out to grass. This any hint that the conversation is particularly true, some say, and I have been known heading that way will lead to concur, the necessity of the crime and thriller genresa Lesson. Tosh! I can only apologise Other infractions of his requirements also lead to all authors involved these Lessons and own up: I simply havenhe't been paying attention. Not s not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorscareful about whether or not the injuries are visible. So: big thanks to Lee Child July's teacher is concerned and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight brings up the possibility of abuse with ''No Middle Name'' the head but her worries are dismissed: a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-dayMick has been good to the school, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher'has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath0008454493|title= A Burning in All the DarknessDangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= At Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a busy airportyear - well, Michael Kieh is apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a full time faith representative serving year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the needs of some middle of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance night and evidence point to his Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in a terrible crime. His struggle In that year she's done everything she could to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revengeraise awareness about the case. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret She does interviews and when we meet her, he is motivated she's just been to redress TrueCrimeCon where she gave a heart-breaking injusticekeynote presentation. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness On the plane back, sparking memories of Michaelshe's past in Liberia. As he fights approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to prove his innocence, Michael has so many more people than she could by giving speeches to risk anything for the sake of love and trutha few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Samantha King1848458436|title= The ChoiceJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one 'The whole thing has spiralled out of your children more than control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the others at a particular point in time. Maybe for a moment, just a moment, you prefer Nicest Couple'' is the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sisterstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and then later when off to do Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability two is that Lily and lower likelihood of running off Nina teach in the carpark, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways same school: Nina teaches English and for different things, but equallyLily covers high school algebra. You might jokingly pick The couples have mixed as a favourite, foursome but deep down thereit's no such thing. So imagine the worst not a regular thing that could come. Imagine Christian is a stranger arriving at your door with market research analyst and Jake is a gun and making you choose between your childrenneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. One can live Lily hasn't said anything yet, but one must dieshe's pregnant. Welcome She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to Madeline's world and her living nightmaretempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349414653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noah HawleyJulia Bartz|title=Before the FallThe Writing Retreat

|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept Roza Vallo. Anyone in the offer from world of publishing knows the wife name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a media mogul for a short plane ridelegend with an impressive, if compact, not realising it will shape the rest back catalogue of his life. The private jet falls works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of the skychildhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, making him is more than a hero in the way he saved the only other survivorlittle obsessed with Roza, the mogul's small son and heir JJ. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many waysis stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, especially when he realises that for some heshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers's not so much the hero as the murdererretreat. Are they right?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pronko1800465270|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. It suits him: he gets to have his own officeWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, which is rare. Heit's got space at home too: his girlfriend has not only left him, but sheJune 1995 and he's moved back to at the States as wellSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's yet to ship all her boxes out of a pallbearer for his apartment but when he's done that he'll be able to sleep in the bed againelder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. White collar crimeValeri and Timur's usually non-violentfather, Keto, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent in Boston when he was studying) is also a pallbearer and when an American businessman ends up dead under the last train, he's called in to helpdisgusted by what his son had become. He could have done without having to see the body - or the people removing it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insisted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410123</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Syd Moore|title= Strange MagicValeri thinks differently: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. Ithe's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is determined to take the money make his own stand against organised crime and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. Thereavenge Timur's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in death. Within a hunt for old bones, those matter of the notorious Ursula Cadencemonths, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need his obsession will have cost him his marriage to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself Marisha and Sam embroiled in created a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come dubious link with their own realNatassja Petrovskaya, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3journalist.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 She's determined to expose any and occasionally doing work for some highall corruption -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 Hitlershe's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs less concerned than she ought to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his be about her 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>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Scott|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to the deciphering of Linear Bsafety. The war is now officially over (although a lot of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) and Forrester has returned to Athens with his loverTo her, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stone. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of a Greek poet and where he found himself pursued by 's a man wearing a maskgood source. Strange as all this might seemFor him, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been 's a general who has been approached way to lead ELASget information published, the military arm of the Greek communists. Hewhich wouldn's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain wart otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>