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|isbn=17874776811399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-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, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A Shooting 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 horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at Chateau Rock (A Brunowork, Chief 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 the country of Police Novelher birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Martin WalkerCaro Ramsay

|summary=It was a couple In the village of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold Cronchie on the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life West coast of luxury at an expensive retirement home near SarlatScotland, owned by five members of a Russian oligarchwealthy family are found murdered. Before he even got to go there he died, apparently of a heart attack, and The only item missing from the retirement home collected is the proceeds of Devil Stone: myth says that if the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the farmhousebody. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gayhe disappears, but they werenDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedhim.

|isbn=PronkoB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)The Last Person in the World|author=Michael PronkoMatthew Tree

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=There were three young women, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their agesOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Sukayana It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was Thai a boarder and she'd come had money to Japan in the belief that she'd be able to pick up the documentation to get to the States. throw around on a Celeste was just fourteen Rolex watch, vintage wines and when we meet her she's already dead of a heart attack caused by an overdose state-of amphetamines-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Then there's RatanaFinns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who's the de facto leader of the grouphad a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, but she's disappeared too with the groupUK's passportsthird most prestigious university. Before going up, leaving Sukayana in the midst of he took up a scene of carnage loose invitation to visit Ralph at the Jack and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props thoughhis home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.

|isbnauthor=0241984653Dean Koontz|title=I Made a Mistake|author=Jane CorryThe House at the End of the World|rating=4.5

|summary=We know from the very beginning When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there's a tragedy about is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to happen. On a January evening your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a very crowded platform 3 small chain of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming traintiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That man is Matthew Gordon. Much later we see Poppy Page 's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the witness box name of a crown court, getting a very rough ride from science and quite possibly bringing about the prosecuting barristerend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159

|isbn=00083861371787636607|title=Just My LuckThe Trap|author=Adele ParksCatherine Ryan Howard

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elaine Winterdale took It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the fall morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the landlordfew taxis available. Aged 37 Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, she got the final stop on the bus leaves her a suspended sentence because a faulty gas boiler long way short of her home. She had caused the deaths of 29-year-old Reveka Albu intended to ring someone to come and collect her 2-yearbut her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking -old son Benke. Toma Albu, husband unsuitably clothed and father, had found them when he returned homein high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=B0867X8NW71529195977|title=Access PointNone of this is True|author=T R GabbayLisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a professional success: using a device crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her own invention 45th birthday, only shewas just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see an image of a hummingbirdhospital. SheThat's thirty-six years old and where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her life is about to change radically ashusband, cycling homeNathan, she's involved are in an accident with the midst of a busjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. It's two years before we meet Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her again tummy and in you get the meantime, shesense that Walter's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a sticknot too happy. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out He's not used to spending this much money on a spare bedroom to bring in some incomemeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.

|isbn=14711660231803136383|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Tin Soldiers|author=Kate RhodesDavid Chadwick

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The 5th Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsnobody is sure exactly what took place, but it would be marred this year by the discovery an act of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died heroism leading to a terrible death. The body was first discovered rare battlefield commission followed by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing rank cowardice and his only concern is the welfare of disgrace seems to be the birds he looks afterconsensus. His instinct Wat himself is keeping his cards close to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do thischest, with the result that as he's the prime suspectalways does.

|isbn=178730101XB0C7J9D21B|title=Keep Him CloseA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Emily KochA J Lewis|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellWhen we first meet our hero, Benoît, actually) his name is Ettore and Louishe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. LouIdyllic as this might sound, it's seventeen a bordello and Ettore's mother died when hewas born. He's just got not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his A level results and he and his brother are going out background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to celebrateobtain decent employment. Someone has to find something to celebrate in The stint working with the letters, D, D preparation of anchovies didn't work out and Ebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteenEttore was nothing if not resourceful -yearand determined -old Benny but and it's was not long before he had a successful business as a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeableguide for visitors. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDHe was even saving some money.

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz0241996104|title=Into The FireComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountantNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Or ratherWe first meet Nancy outside the court, wasafter Martin receives a life sentence. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading 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 medics to keep him aliverest of her life. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a nameOf 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 it. His cousin, Max''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=00082971691529135389|title=The Guest ListFall|author=Lucy FoleyGilly Macmillan

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but it opera was playing on the wedding state-of -the year-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Will Slater (television personality, if They'd not yet 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't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a celebrity) was ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to marry Jules Keeganhaving that sort of money, online magazine publishertoo. 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 ruined chapel unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the islandstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. The bride's sisterThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, Oliviawith no fixed abode, would be her only bridesmaid and he has been for years. At the wedding planner and chef are Aoife same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her husbandlittle boy has gone missing, Freddyonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. They gave a huge discount to get Something feels wrong - not just with the couple to woman’s story but also with the islandother officers where he has been stationed, but surely it would be worth it for the publicitycan Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=15290096771529382823|title=A Window BreaksThe Last Passenger|author=C M EwanWill Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=Tom Sullivan Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and his wife Rachel are having problemshas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. ItThey's not just the usual growing apart after more than re off on a decade of marriagecruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Their sonCaz's sister, MichaelGemma, was killed reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi suit pocket and at sixteen wasnshe doesn't legally entitled to driveknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canThey't think about Michael without ve not been a sense of shame couple for that long and guiltthe trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Rachel Meanwhile, Gemma is broken, but she wants to forgive Michaellooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. To give some space, TomIt's moved out of the family home, but stresses going to his thirteen-year-old daughterbe good, Holly, that isn't it is only a trial separation.?

|author=Chris HautyMark Edwards|title=Deep StateKeep Her Secret|rating=34.5

|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighterMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She is every kind The alien-landscape of fighter the lava fields and wellblack beaches is breath-trained in most of them. She's army infantry taking and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is focussed. She works hardfeeling in this moment, mentally even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and physically, and she knows how Helena finds herself clinging to deal the rockface with just the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. This fight Convinced she is against someone going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she is not expected has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to beatMatthew. And she Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is being watchedleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1471185605166250893X

|isbnauthor=0241985153Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well- badly wrong - when 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 woman who was alone latest hot shot in the house world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is taken put up for a wintry month away by from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the policepeople and the lack of stimulus for her plot, but itmore or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's going to be a while before we learn exactly what nephew has happened.been found dead…|isbn=1914585615

|isbn= 19848906460861544056|authortitle=Catherine SteadmanTwin Truths|titleauthor=Mr NobodyJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary= DonBelle and David't you s twin daughters are just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as coming to my mind the end of their first term at university. Kit'fight scenes been at Bristol and Jess' at s in Exeter. It's not only the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has first time they've been hurt so many times that itaway from their parents for any length of time - but they's virtually impossible theyve also been apart from each other. Belle can'd still be alive let alone able t wait to have them all to fight off an attackerherself for a while. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid 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 wrap everything up in the last few chaptersupset Kit. It was almost as if the author wanted Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) Kit's eighteen but then was somewhat left Belle figures that she can cope with too much to do in the closing stagesthat. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.

|author=Will Dean Robert Dugoni|title=Black River Her Deadly Game

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her '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 isolated town of Gavrik and into law, Patsy also has a desperate search gift for her missing best frienddrinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. With Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines hideous position of asking her father for a job at the forestfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, Tuva fights to save her friendsouth. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=17860771161662500181

|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=17808945111914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=Die AloneWhat July Knew|author=Simon KernickEmily Koch|rating=45

|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and heWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, hejust ten years old. She's something of a targetcareful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, but the unit Mick Hooper, who is not as secure as prepared to discuss the inmates would have hoped death of his wife, July's mother, and Mason any hint that the conversation is injured in heading that way will lead to the necessity of a riotLesson. On Other infractions of his way requirements also lead to hospital these Lessons and he's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to himnot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. HeJuly's to assassinate teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the man who is likely head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to become the country's next prime minister and school, has he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad. not? His captors say that theyThe playground wouldn're MI6, t have been resurfaced but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadfor him.

|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Rory ClementsStacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|titlesummary=HitlerIsabelle 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 Secretjust 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=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=3.54

|summary=So''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this Nicest Couple'' is a secret that is counter to thatthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and in fact, is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutNina and Jake Hayes. His niece, Geli Raubal, The connection between the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to two is that Lily and Nina teach in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. Protected under The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a false identity ever since, the girl regular thing. Christian is completely ignorant of her past, a market research analyst and the truth Jake is a very rare thingneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Martin BormannLily hasn't said anything yet, the but she'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right-hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reichs pregnant. So itShe has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn's down t want to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timetempt fate by making the knowledge public.|isbn=1838770275

|author=Michael J MaloneJulia Bartz|title=In The Absence of MiraclesWriting Retreat

|summary=John DochertyRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's mother has been taken into something of a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that she will ever be able to live independently again. Faced started with having to sell the family home in order to pay for her nursing carebreakthrough novel, Docherty starts the clear published when she was barely outof childhood. In the attic he finds Alex, a childhood picture of himselfwriter-slash-editor, holding is more than a toddler – little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a toddler he knows nothing about. He also finds a bloodseries of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-stained shoelong writers' retreat.|isbn=191237479X0861544439

|isbn=06928535451800465270|title=The Things We DoLensky Connection|author=Kay PfaltzConrad Delacroix|rating=4.5

|summary=ItWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's 2015 June 1995 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist he's at the state penitentiary Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and she knows that her next patient Timur's father, Keto, is not going to be easyalso a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he'Jane Does determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur' has been convicted s death. Within a matter of the murder of two men - one months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a police officerjournalist. She pleaded guilty 's determined to expose any and all corruption - and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubt. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but it's been proved less concerned than she ought to be falseabout her own safety. There seem to be no family or friends who are missing To her, he's a good source. EleanorFor him, it's task is a way to get Jane talkinginformation published, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.