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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- Parsons -->1399613073|-title=Moral Injuries| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Christie Watson[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Thrillers===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Olivia, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulance, the mess falls Laura and Anjali met on a busy shopping centre and we are barely out of the first chapter. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate day of medical school and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump to catching those responsible. The rest of the book gradually builds their friendship would keep them inseparable for a web quarter of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family issuescentury. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]  <!-- Herron -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Herron_London.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473657377/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[London Rules by Mick Herron]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Claude Whelan Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Regent Park's First Desk has insurmountable problemswhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. He's charged with protecting Laura is a perfectionist and a lame duck prime minister, but he's under fire himselftrauma doctor. There's Anjali is the self-publicising MP who orchestrated free spirit of the Brexit vote group and who might just be looking to take the PM's job from himshe becomes a GP. The MP When we first meet them they's wife is re at a columnist for one of the tabloids whodrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's having a go at Whelan going to end in print and tragedy. We don't know who will do anything to promote her husband's interestssuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Then Twenty-five years later there's will be an eerily similar event that will impact the PM's favourite Muslim who's running for mayor despite having a very dark secret himselfthree friends. As if this wasn't enough, Whelan's deputy This time, Lady Di Taverner is watching for his every stumble - and it's not so that she can catch him and help him to safetytheir teenage children who are involved. [[London Rules by Mick Herron|Full Review]]<!-- James -->}}{{Frontpage|-author=Sunny Singh| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Hotel Arcadia[[image:James_Righteous.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www3.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers |summary===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Ellace James]]=== [[image:3a terrorist group.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]  In Hiding from the crazy world of Arthur Brownterrorists who are rampaging through, he can be standing at the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minutekilling everyone on site, and wasting bad guys with his guns the next. What's inspired this? Two low-lifes, way from the top of the crime ladder in this particular citythere is Sam, who stole millions from a shady casinowartime photographer and Abhi, and stashed the money in his basementhotel manager. Two other lowlifes, working As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the drug lord residents who owns are still alive in the casinohotel, come for the money, kill Arthur's familyhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and leave him so badly knifed keeps on his floor that heventuring out of her room to try to capture what's taken for dead when he's discoveredhappened through her photography. But he's not dead Although they only ever talk over the phone, and nor is his God-given hope their friendship grows as Abhi tries to redress the balance in his town, help her keep safe and they both wait to right some very big wrongs. Yes, truly is he the god of hell fire, and he see if they will take some men to burn… [[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal be rescued before they are discovered by Ellace Jamesthe terrorists.|Full Review]]isbn=086154742X |}}{{Frontpage<!-- James: remove 31/1 -->|author=Cody Goodfellow*[[image:James_Righteous.jpg|lefttitle=Vertical|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co3.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]]5|genre===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]===Thrillers [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenThere's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]  In the crazy world of Arthur Brown, he can be standing at the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minute, and wasting bad guys with his guns the nextsomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. WhatWho doesn's inspired this? Two low-lifes, way t love a good view from the top of the crime ladder in this particular cityup high, who stole millions from a shady casino, and stashed after all? Even the money in his basement. Two other lowlifes, working for the drug lord who owns the casino, come for the money, kill Arthurdrabbest office building is somewhere I's family, and leave him so badly knifed on his floor that hem intrigued to get inside if it's taken 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for dead when he's discoveredfun – I was instantly intrigued. But he's not dead, and nor is his God-given hope to redress the balance in his town, and to right some very big wrongs. Yes, truly is he the god of hell fire, and he will take some men to burn… [[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James|Full Review]]isbn= 1803363991<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Mariaffi -->|isbn=1804183210*[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2.jpg|lefttitle=No Reserve|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]]Felix Francis|rating===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]===4[[image:2.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads a seemingly pleasant life in America after a damaged childhood in warsummary=Thirty-torn Europe. She is a stayfour-atyear-home mother, old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the wife of a successful psychiatrist, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quiet. Then one afternoon her fourcolt -oldas yet unnamed -son befriends a young girl by the lakecame up for auction, who vanishes suddenly under the water. Although Heike dives in after herbut Peter Radway, the girl is nowhere to be seenchairman, leaving Heike wondering what happened to her. In an attempt to find answershadn't arrived, Heike seeks the help of paranormal television writer Leo Dolan after her controlling husband refuses to believe herso he continued his session. But then things take another turn To say that he was shocked when Heike's son disappears, and it's her husband who was the last to see him alivebidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]]<br> <!A lovely animal -- Ellis -->*[[image:Ellis_Darkbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] ===[[A Map of known and respected in the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lostracing industry. Her mother Jennings was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit in one of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be the cubicles in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming toilets when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer the two men came in and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstockfigure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, and you can't waste any time when children go missingthe horse was dead in its stall. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Tudor -->*[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINisbn=0718187431]]1405951680 ==|title=[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by an eerily terrifying spectreher friend, conjured during one fateful summer. By Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and Australian outback for a girl will be deadcouple of months. But who is After the killer; is problems she'd had at work, it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all seemed like just the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Manbreak she needed. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when She was no longer a data analyst for the letters start Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him country of her birth and dredging up in need of the fever dream nightmare of space to get over the summer traumatic end of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and deathher relationship with Charles. Driven deeper into A few weeks in the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]ticket.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Robins -->|isbn=1448309743*[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|lefttitle=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINCaro Ramsay|rating=0008217548]]4|genre===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]===Crime[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie and Tilda In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are very different twinsfound murdered. Callie lives a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves The only item missing from the spotlight, and home is a moderately successful actress. Callie the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is awkward, suffering removed from a lifetime of acneOtterburn House, weight issues and comparing herself to her sister and her beautiful white bodydeath will follow. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, love, and Tilda laps all of these feelings up. They The only suspects are grownknown Satanists but in many ways, and see each other with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new man, Felix. Hethat's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particularan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. At first Callie loves him The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, loves the way he includes her DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in their relationship, but after a boating trip, fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins to worry about this dynamic, to obsess ..'shadow' him. [[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob MurphyB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Rotten to The Last Person in the CoreWorld|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=Thrillers |summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the oh-soLondon-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar inbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have had money to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and they have a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship state-of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above -the parapet - a joint offering from Wales art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and Scotlandcertainly more than acquaintances. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with Finns had no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes intention of going on to winning thingsUniversity, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was unlike our storyteller who had a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be soplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the waters third most prestigious university. Before going up, and Russia would win out. And who's he took up a loose invitation to say the Britsvisit Ralph at his home, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government Clouds Manor in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>West Dorset.

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphDean Koontz|title=Forests in The House at the SaharaEnd of the World

|genre=Thrillers |summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks 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 are going can retreat to come to some sort your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of sticky endtiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob' Those are s Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the most promising words a man can hear from his new partnerpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but she doesn't lie the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in this instancethe name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4. He is Jeffrey Harvey, 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities scene replicated all too often in the early hours of water purifiedthe morning. Get an iceberg or three worth Drunken revellers spilling out of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still clubs and looking for a scarce resource, way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the trees can do their bit and few taxis available. Others squash onto the water night bus that will advance only go as far as one of the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneuroutlying villages. If, that is, he can get round The woman all regret the problems in his life - fractions 'taxi problem', particularly in the start-up involved in light of 'the projectmissing women'. For one young woman, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and final stop on the bus leaves her a man ready long way short of her home. She had intended to accuse Jeffrey of murder ring someone to come and theft of research data on a case reaching back several yearscollect her - but her phone's dead. It seems The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the lovely girlfriend was right bus driver to see let her use his. There's no shortage of possible sticky endsoption but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Quintana1529195977|title= The Missing GirlNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers|summary= In On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missingthey were both born in St Mary's hospital. Her younger sister Anna is torn up by her sister That's disappearance and for where the next thirty yearssimilarities end, though: Alix, no one knows what happened to Gabriella. Decades laterwith her husband, Nathan, Anna has built are in the midst of a life for herself in Athens joyful, monied group of friends and has tried to put the past behind herwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. But Josie, on the sudden death of other hand, holds her mother forces Anna to return handbag close to her childhood home tummy and you get the village where she and her sister grew upsense that Walter's not too happy. Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her mother He's possessions, and having not used to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasnspending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>s birthday after all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1803136383|title=Hurricane JusticeTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Finn Westlake was first amused and then horrified when he saw the attractive young woman jumping up and down Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in the road as his jeep turned the corner: the amusement came from the fact that she was wearing just soaking-wet bra and pantiesVietnam under something of a cloud. It was when he saw the tears streaming down her face that he realised that What actually happened out there was is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a serious problem. Diana McGuire's father's plane had crashed into the river and she had tried rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and failed disgrace seems to get him outbe the consensus. Sending her Wat himself is keeping his cards close to get more help Finn dived into the river and managed to extract Chester McGuire and his business associatechest, Sandy Moseley, but whilst checking that there was no one else in the plane as he was seriously injuredalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210493</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen PerryB0C7J9D21B|title= Can You Keep a Secret?A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Thornbury Hall When we first meet our hero, his name is the grand ancestral home Ettore and he lives at The House of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter with his wistful wife Heather and their two childrenBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, Patrick it's a bordello and RachelEttore's mother died when he was born. It is also the setting He's not been short of mothers, though - but for many secrets and tragedies all someone of which resurface twenty years later as Patrick reunites childhood friendshis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Niall, Marcus, Hilary it'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. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and main character Lindsey, it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for one final party before selling the housevisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak0241996104|title= Hello AgainComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred by the trauma inflicted on Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty years previouslystep-brother, Evelyn Talbot works as a psychologist at Hanover HouseMartin, a dumping ground for psychopathic criminals in a remote corner has been convicted of Alaskatheir murder. A murder in We first meet Nancy outside the nearby town seemed to indicate inmate involvementcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started to wonder whether Jasper might will have returned to finally finish live with what happened for the rest of her offlife. After a book full Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of false clues it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and misleading hints, it was a genuine shock to find out who was responsible after all''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Asa Avdic1529135389|title= The Dying GameFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the formidable chairmancounty fair before she returned home. Except There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the offer, is more state-of an order than a choice-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. With nothing to lose They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and everything were still getting used to gain, Anna acceptsall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. She is taken to an isolated Island Some of them fought with each other and didn''candidates'' for t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a job in the superten-million-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simple, she is pound lottery win and they were still getting used to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers having that sort of the housemoney, too. Once the experiment is finished Eventually, she will report her findings back to Nicole found Tom dead in the chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced swimming pool with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymorewound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scoop of the YearAlan Parks|authortitle=Tom ClaverTo Die in June

|summary=Martin Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job middle- accurate, dedicated, hardworking aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a good nose for a scoopcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. But Martin Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is also uninterested going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the culture that comes with reporting. He has a wife and two daughters at home his suit pocket and he she doesn't want to waste time know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and money in the pubtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, talking macho nonsense with the other hacks. He Gemma is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyeslooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Tom doesn It't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion s going to industrial correspondent. And that is the job Martin not only wantedbe good, but needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Krysten RitterMark Edwards|title= BonfireKeep Her Secret|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home Matthew and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer Helena are in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartmentIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and her pick of meaningless oneblack beaches is breath-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to Barrens, Indiana, encapsulate the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plasticsjoy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the town's most high-profile company edge of a ravine gives way and economic heart, Abby begins Helena finds herself clinging to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--rockface with just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questionscertain death below. But as Convinced she tries desperately to find out what really happened is going to Kayceedie, troubling memories begin to resurface Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and she begins makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to doubt her own observationsMatthew. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game Just moments later their heroic,'' it will threaten the reputationsand frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and lives, of the community hauls Helena to safety and risk exposing a darkness that may consume herMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura WilsonJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= The Other WomanThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Based on the blurb on the backHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, Sophie might not be the most likable heroinean author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. She's Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a quote-unquote perfect womanbook fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the house, latest hot shot in the husbandworld of crime fiction, the children saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the dogbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband is successful, but Her publisher duly books her own achievements seem linked flights from Denmark to having bagged herself a catch)Iceland, though there's where she is put up for a sort wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of part time hobby running despairing – about her own shopwriting, because, well, yes. So Sophie is about the people and the sort lack of womanstimulus for her plot, one imagines, who might rub other people up more or less about everything – word comes that the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a 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 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Stephen NormanEmily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Trading DownJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=Chris Peters was happy in his work for a multinational bank in Hong Kong ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and excited when he was promoted Nina and sent back to LondonJake Hayes. The job had it all: a hectic trading floor, targets which were impossible connection between the two is that Lily and some of the fastest computers Nina teach in the world under his supervisionsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. HeThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's happy at home too: he not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Olivia met in Hong KongJake is a neurosurgeon: now theydon're married and thinking about starting a familyt have much in common except their wives. But ..Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those in the bank who think a lengthy history of miscarriages so, particularly when things start she doesn't want to go badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sourtempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon LelicJulia Bartz|title= The HouseWriting Retreat|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the house, despite Roza Vallo. Anyone in the fact that it was crammed full world of publishing knows the sellername. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's stuff and they had to take the whole lot as something of a job lotlegend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. The seller had run off to Australia apparently and was up for Alex, a quick salewriter-slash-editor, lockis more than a little obsessed with Roza, stock and barrel. Jack wasn't so sure. He found the place creepyis stunned when, and it wasn't just the stuffed birdsfollowing a series of unexpected events, there was an air about the place that he just didnshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers't likeretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith1800465270|title= The Girl from VeniceLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= The romantic When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in me St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was immediately drawn to this bookdrug-related. Venice in 1945 at the close of the war Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is enticement enoughalso a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Add Within a backdrop matter of partisansmonths, Mussolini his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and the desperate fight of the losing SS created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and my interest is certainly piquedshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. For him, but present the aforementioned along with the mystery of it's a young woman found floating in the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futileway to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>