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|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=C A SachaChristie 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=LegacyHotel 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

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan to increase 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 already startling wealth session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldElliot 'Mitch's first emissionMitchell were well-free car to market known and dominate productionrespected in the racing industry. The secret development project to enable this, Bucephalus, is already underway Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to help him carry it outthat figure. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy and one Both were happy that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundationthey had insurance in place. The following morning, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands...the horse was dead in its stall.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368301405951680|title=Two WrongsThe Safe House|author=Mel McGrathCameron 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 work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her 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.5}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the 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 body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4

|summary=Sondra Our narrator was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from scholarship day boy at the Clifton suspension bridgeLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. She talks to her, It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and Sondra finally persuades Satnam had money to call her best friend and flatmatethrow around on a Rolex watch, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly vintage wines and rather reserved a state- and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with herof-the-art sound system. She thought Both were probably quite surprised when they shared everythingbecame almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Satnam is taken Finns had no intention of going on to hospital and Nevis calls her motherUniversity, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, Honorthe UK's third most prestigious university. They've not been on good terms since Before going up, he took up a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Nevis needs her motherClouds Manor in West Dorset.

|author=Catherine SteadmanDean Koontz|title=The Disappearing ActHouse at the End of the World|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on the cusp your side, you can either suck it up, 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 success. Great success. If tiny dots on the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionmap and live out your days in peace and solitude. She That's going places but so, unfortunately, is what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her partner. And the places heold life to start afresh on Jacob's going take him towards liesLadder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, deceit the neighbouring island and a pretty young thing perpetrating all manner of mischief in the form name of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, science and pilot season in LA provides just quite possibly bringing about the excuseend of all mankind.|isbn=14711897831662453159

|isbn=18387734281787636607|title=The Art of DeathTrap|author=David FennellCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=It was an art installation 's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidmorning. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies Drunken revellers spilling out of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton clubs and 34-year-old Noel Tippinglooking for a way to get home. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist Some are lucky and extreme version manage to get one of Banksythe few taxis available. He's made a macabre promise: more Others squash onto the night bus that will followonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. In factThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', weparticularly in the light of 've already met the artist although not by name: hemissing women's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonFor one young woman, Jordan, and she's explaining to the final stop on the bus leaves her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state a long way short of her marriagehome. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her face despite the foundation shephone's applieddead. Chau Ho is behind The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the counterbus driver to let her use his. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toono option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1529195977|title=The SourceNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=2.5

|summary=1996On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base She, too, struggling to care for was out celebrating her baby sister while 45th birthday, only she was just with her mum sleeps off another bingehusband, Walter. When It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her squaddie brother brings food husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and treatswhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and offers an exclusive invitation you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to army parties, things start to look spending this much money on a little less bleak..meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=15293786481803136383|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Tin Soldiers|author=Mick HerronDavid Chadwick

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, Wat Tyler has returned from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand itfighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. Well, what he What actually can't understand happened out there is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up gossiped about and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Parknobody is sure exactly what took place, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about but an operation which saw the perpetrator act of heroism leading to a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed disgrace seems to fund the operation off be the booksconsensus. Some private money was brought in. She won't Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always be so jubilant about thisdoes.

|isbn=0008379300B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The Shadow Manstint 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 it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Helen FieldsJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heNancy's dyingmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. His body is giving up on himWe first meet Nancy outside the court, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants after Martin receives a wife, a child and a brotherlife sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's been on the lookout for the perfect people and hereceived a 'silent sentence' - she's made certain preparations. The flat where the family not been found guilty of anything but will have to live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto what happened for the wallsrest of her life. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandOf course, Cal, had taken the children it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - a boy of seven and a girl the papers are making the most of five, away for the weekendit. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Angela dies''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Dean KoontzGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=The Other EmilyTo Die in June

|summary=Our hero David Thorne Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsmiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. It's the western coast weThey're concerned with, off on a place he has cruise to return New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to, and propose but Caz hasn't spotted a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with ring-shaped bulge in his partner there ten years ago, when suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she vanished from a remote road late at night's relieved or disappointed. HeThey's paying ve not been a couple for contact with that long and the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordbetter. David Meanwhile, Gemma is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manlooking after Caz's mind, but to no availcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. HeIt's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagegoing to be good, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to doisn't it?|isbn=1542019958

|isbnauthor=1529124417Mark Edwards|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerKeep Her Secret

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body Matthew and Helena are in her car at the bottom of the lakeIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She knew that The alien-landscape of the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-yearlava fields and black beaches is breath-old daughter taking and run away. Lani was Helena seems intent on getting the fourteenth missing person perfect photograph to be located by Frankie and now encapsulate the joy she's moving on againis feeling in this moment, this time even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to Boston where there's the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a strong Haitian community which was home 500 foot drop to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agocertain death below. FrankieConvinced she is going to die, middle-aged Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and whitemakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and sets out hauls Helena to investigate the community which safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about exclusively blackHelena.|isbn=166250893X

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=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 stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0861544056|title=The TherapistTwin Truths|author=B A ParisJacqueline Sutherland

|summary=When Leo Curtis found Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the house in The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in VeniceExeter. Leo wanted to move quickly on It's not only the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnfirst 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 sell her cottage in Harlestone herself for them to be able to afford ita while. Alice agreed Then Kit rings up - can she was tired of their long-distance relationship. bring her boyfriend home with her? Now they Belle would be able prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendsupset Kit. Leo had some work done on the houseIvo's apparently 'older': he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew 's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that the house was stunning she just didncan cope with that. And they't feel comfortable therell be sharing a bedroom.

|author=Saima MirRobert Dugoni|title=The KhanHer Deadly Game

|summary=Jia Khan Patrick Duggan & Associates has alway lived by been the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menlife'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. This Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has served her well in her rise through a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the criminal justice system former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and by proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the time she is called home hideous position of asking her father for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilea job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, she south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is at approaching the top start of her gamematernity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Returning to Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the city of her birthextra 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 old scars and fresh woundsfollow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense increasingly disturbing worry of honour and dutyjust what might happen next.|isbn=17860790971914585577

|isbn=00082144681787301036|title=A Time to LieWhat July Knew|author=Simon BerthonEmily Koch

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a building sitecareful, meticulous child. ItThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a hand, severed above Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the wristinjuries are visible. ItJuly'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 there resurfaced but for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearshim.}}

Robin Sandford {{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 - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerwell, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. HeIt's married to heiress Carol van Koon now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and they have two daughters, Becca Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and Bellaparticularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. SandfordIn that year she's determined done everything she could to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodraise awareness about the case.'' One of the ways heShe does interviews and when we meet her, she's planning on going about this is just been to ban arms sales to dubious regimesTrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Henry Morland-Cross, On the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequerplane back, wishes that he'd been warned about this: itshe's easy approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementso many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1848458436|title= Fallen AngelsJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 24

|summary=Varg Veum''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, lone wolf detective, is backturning into someone I'm not. After attending a former friend's funeral'  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the sins of two is that Lily and Nina teach in the past are exposed to the light of the presentsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds Christian is a market research analyst and Veum Jake is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in his own history and to catch a killercommon except their wives.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O Lily hasn'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the caget said anything yet, intimatelybut she's pregnant. It lurks in She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the corner of her eye. Soon, it will be occupiedknowledge public. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQJulia Bartz|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackWriting Retreat

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer barely out of help from one man in childhood. Alex, a big vehicle. We'll see writer- but no one else will know slash- that another car stops editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign stunned when, following a series of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngateunexpected events, determined to find out what happened and she's not going is invited to be stoppedpart of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439

|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather 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 designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=00083301311800465270|title=The Stolen SistersLensky Connection|author=Louise JensenConrad Delacroix|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he'The Stolen Sisterss at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He'' we know that twentys a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsrelated. Well, theyValeri and Timur're healthy in the physical senses father, but Carly has trust issuesKeto, Leah has OCD is also a pallbearer and Marie drinkshe's disgusted by what his son had become. TheyValeri thinks differently: he're the Sinclair sisters s determined to make his own stand against organised crime and one day they were all stolenavenge Timur's death. Carly was thirteen-years-old Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and she was in charge of her sisterscreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, the eight-year-old twinsa journalist. Much as She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she loved them Carly was desperate 's less concerned than she ought to get a text from Dean Malden and be about her mobile phone held own safety. To her attention, he's a good source. Leah and Marie were nattering about For him, it's a lost ball and a fleece way to get information published, which had been left outside. The gate wasnwouldn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menotherwise be possible.