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|isbn=1399613073|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= Gunnar StaalesenCody Goodfellow|title= Fallen AngelsVertical|rating= 23.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is backThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. After attending Who doesn't love a former friend's funeralgood view from up high, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and after all? Even the sins of the past are exposed drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to the light of the presentget inside if it's 40 stories tall. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn=19131930631803363991

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1804183210|title= The CaptiveNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows 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 cagechairman, hadn't arrived, intimatelyso he continued his session. It lurks 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 corner racing industry. Jennings was in one of her eyethe 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. Soon Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, it will be occupiedthe horse was dead in its stall. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1405951680|title=The Long Dark RoadSafe House|author=P R BlackCameron Ward

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she walked along was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the lonely A928 at Ferngate BridgeAustralian outback for a couple of months. There was a furious storm going on and After the problems she'd already refused had at work, it seemed like just the offer of help from one man in a big vehiclebreak she needed. We'll see - but She was no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the car and driven off. There has been no sign country of her - or her body - birth and in need of the space to get over the two years sincetraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1448309743|title= The Last Resort Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group In the village of strangers gather Cronchie on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerWest coast of Scotland, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area five members of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mysterywealthy family are found murdered. We follow The only item missing from the group as they explore home is the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear Devil Stone: myth says that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As if the clock ticks downstone is removed from Otterburn House, these well-kept secrets death will follow. The only suspects are revealedknown Satanists but in many ways, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is really a gilded cage. In a race against timeDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Amelia must struggle DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them'shadow' him. |isbn=1542020018}}

|isbn=0008330131B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Stolen SistersLast Person in the World|author=Louise JensenMatthew Tree|rating=34|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns.5 It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the End of the World|rating=4

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that twenty-years there is no one on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Wellyour side, you can either suck it up, they're healthy 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 physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD map and live out your days in peace and Marie drinkssolitude. TheyThat're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly s what Katie thought she was thirteen-years-old and doing when she was in charge of shut down her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate life to get a text from Dean Malden start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah all would have been the aforementioned peace and Marie solitude were nattering about a lost ball it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As quite possibly bringing about the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=Will Carver1787636607|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary= Hinton HollowOn her 45th birthday, population 5Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband,120Walter. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in AmericaSt Mary's hospital. That's mid-westwhere the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, but this particular Hinton Hollow is are in the midst of a small town in Berkshirejoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, Englandthey're enjoying themselves. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereJosie, on the other hand, until something happened holds her handbag close to her tummy and he ran away to you get the citysense that Walter's not too happy. He's running away again…only not used to spending this time evil much money on a meal - but it is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townJosie's birthday after all.|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=00083783631803136383|title=One Perfect MorningTin Soldiers|author=Pamela CraneDavid Chadwick|rating=34.5

|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in his own bedVietnam under something of a cloud. To find What actually happened out who - there is gossiped about and why - we need nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to go back nine days a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and twenty yearsdisgrace seems to be the consensus.Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{FrontpageMackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college |isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in MonroevilleAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, Pennsylvania his name is Ettore and twenty years later they're still the best he lives at The House of friendsBeautiful Swallows. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls Idyllic as this might sound, it's a nod to the famous girl band of the daybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Lily would be Adventure SpiceHe's not been short of mothers, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth- wellcentury Amalfi, Mackenzie would be it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the supporting actress in her own lifepreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. She married Owen, her college sweetheart Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and they have it was not long before he had a successful business as a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

|isbn=07515674260241996104|title=The Wicked SisterComing to Find You|author=Karen DionneJane Corry

|summary=When we Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Rachel Cunningham Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganreceived a 'silent sentence' - she's Upper Peninsulanot been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. SheOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's twentyrich -six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed inherited five million pounds from her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at papers are making the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessmost of it. Rachel's very bright 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersundoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=00083147211529135389|title=Truth Be ToldThe Fall|author=Kia AbdullahGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in returncounty fair before she returned home. There are two sons was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the family, seventeenstate-yearof-old Kamran and sixteenthe-year-old Adamart music system installed in The Glass Barn. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnThey't name them d not been in the other way round: 'Adam architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Kamran' trips off were still getting used to all the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and Adamdidn't work as reliably as they should. Sofia worries It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of thingmoney, too. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolEventually, where they board, despite Nicole found Tom dead in the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has swimming pool with a place at Oxford next year and all seemed wound to be going well until the night when he was rapedhis head.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Alan Parks|title=The Seven DoorsTo Die in June

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of any kind until we're a full fifth of homeless man on the way throughstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. We start with our coupleThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, she but all the more so because his own father is a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision down and decisions at the councilout alcoholic, being forced to move out of their homewith no fixed abode, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied he has been for over thirty years. The building he's inheritedAt the same time as facing these possible murders, meanwhileHarry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and which they let out to the arrival there of a single motherwoman who claims her little 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 needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'take a hike, ICaz'm moving ) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in and youlove with Pete. They're moving outoff on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. NowCaz's sister, at this stage you may wellGemma, if you know this reckons that Pete is a genre read, think it's going to be propose but Caz hasn't spotted a throwback to those ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she'home invasions relieved or disappointed. They' thrillers Hollywood gave us in ve not been a couple for that long and the 1980s, but notrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. We avoid genre completelyMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that their mother who has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesdementia. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found It's going to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381be good, isn't it?

|author=Mark Edwards|title=Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is 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 snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1471179273166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=House Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the 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 put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of Correctionstimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Nicci FrenchJacqueline Sutherland

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheterm at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in prison, on remandExeter. SheIt's sharing a cell with Michaela, whonot only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they's more caring than she first appearsve also been apart from each other. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might bewhile. And how did Tabitha get hereThen Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to TabithaKit's houseeighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when And they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood'll be sharing a bedroom.

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSRobert Dugoni|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceHer Deadly Game

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life't happy about having to start a new school. Shes work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 's left the school she loved in New York and now sheThe Irish Brawler's going due to Ashams his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in North Londondefence of his clients. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and as inevitably the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. Robin's going latter was beginning to be an outsiderovershadow the former. And why is this happening? WellEnter Keera Duggan, over a matter former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of a few days asking her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works father for a securities job at the family firm - and her motherbecause a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, Sadie Roperrather spectacularly, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearssouth.|isbn=1662500181

|author= Mark DawsonVanda Symon|title= The CleanerExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Ruthless and coldly competentDetective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, John Milton is one shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the British government's best assets – hunt for a contract killer targeting pregnant women, with lethal instinctsall the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Now Finding herself put on desk duties, after ten yearswhich she rails against, he wants out. But his job isnshe just can't one you can let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just walk away from…what might happen next.|isbn=178739462X1914585577

|isbn=18389510671787301036|title=The Nothing ManWhat July Knew|author=Catherine Ryan HowardEmily Koch

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heJuly Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's about to get a shockjust ten years old. HeShe's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslycareful, meticulous child. She The care has a book tucked under been taught by her arm and he wonders if shefather, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's planning mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to pay for itthe necessity of a Lesson. Suddenly it drops Other infractions of his requirements also lead to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. these Lessons and he''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is s not even careful about whether or not the titleinjuries are visible. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - 'July's teacher is'' - concerned and brings up the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author possibility of abuse with the book was twelve years old when Jim raped head but her motherworries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annahas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

|isbn=178089922X0008454493|title=Invisible GirlAll the Dangerous Things|author=Lisa JewellStacy 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=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4

|summary=''When you wear a hoodThe whole thing has spiralled out of control, youturning into someone I're invisiblem not.''

Saffyre Maddox ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is seventeen-years-old the story of two couples: Christian and beautiful. By her own admissionLily Scott, she's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics Nina and biology at A levelJake Hayes. Life hasn't been easy for herThe connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: most people who have been close to her have died Nina teaches English and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatLily covers high school algebra. Something The couples have mixed as a foursome but it''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for s not a long timeregular thing. Aaron organised psychological help Christian is a market research analyst and for three years Roan Fours was her therapistJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psycheLily hasn't said anything yet, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really badshe's pregnant. When She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roanknowledge public.

|author=Sharon DoeringJulia Bartz|title=She Lies CloseThe Writing Retreat

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, around 6 months agoagents want to represent her. There has been no sign She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her sincebreakthrough novel, and no arrests have been madepublished when she was barely out of childhood. And yetAlex, a writer-slash-editor, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is about Gracestunned when, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is following a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenseries of unexpected events, sheis invited to be part of her month-long writers's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inretreat.|isbn=17890941940861544439

|isbn=14091874381800465270|title=The First LieLensky Connection|author=A J ParkConrad Delacroix|rating=34.5

|summary=On When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the second of October 37Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-year-old barristerrelated. Valeri and Timur's father, Paul ReeveKeto, returned home at 9 pm is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to find make his house in darkness own stand against organised crime and the front door openavenge Timur's death. His wife was in the bedroom in Within a state matter of shock months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and in the bathroom there was created a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck dubious link with PaulNatassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's paperdetermined to expose any and all corruption -knifeand she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. In that moment Paul takes To her, he's a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truthgood source. TheyFor him, it're going s a way to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.