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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=Vanda SymonCody Goodfellow|title=FacelessVertical|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 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=In this book told from multiple viewpointsJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, several troubled people are thrown actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the same story thanks to just one mis-stepAustralian outback for a couple of months. Set in New ZealandAfter the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifebreak she needed. Then there’s Billy, She was no longer a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay data analyst for the materials Metropolitan police in London: she needs. And then we have Max, was Jess who is also living on was returning to the streets country of her birth and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell in need of a man, barely able the space to take any care get over the traumatic end of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowher relationship with Charles. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down A few weeks in the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the person he thought he was into someone very differentticket.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1448309743|title=The ClubDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Ellery LloydCaro 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.5}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and Our narrator was a mile or so into scholarship day boy at the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was now known an unusual relationship as Island Home, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs Ralph was a boarder and the opening weekend was going had money to be something special, even by Home's standards. throw around on a SpeedboatsRolex watch, helicopters vintage wines and blackeda state-of-the-out SUVs art sound system. Both were converging probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on the islandto University, which was linked to the mainland by unlike our storyteller who had a causeway that was inaccessible place at high tide. HomeWolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's CEOthird most prestigious university. Before going up, Ned Groomhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..Clouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Dean Koontz|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyHouse at the End of the World|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''. It was a Friday When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and Jess Hadley was keen ride on or you can retreat to get to her half-brother's flat your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in Paris. She'd come across from London a small chain of tiny dots on Eurostar, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till map and live out your days in the Copacabana Bar in Brightonpeace and solitude. It wasnThat't likely that the police would be on to s what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her yet but she'd like old life to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. Shestart afresh on Jacob'd phoned Ben s Ladder; and got all would have been the address - 12 Rue des Amants - aforementioned peace and he told her that solitude were it not for the apartment was on pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in touch with Benthe name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger1787636607|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the third book in a series morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of stories featuring Alexander Blix, clubs and looking for a police officer, way to get home. Some are lucky and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistmanage to get one of the few taxis available. In this book we find Others squash onto the night bus that when will only go as far as one of Blixthe outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem's colleagues, Kovicparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, uncovers the final stop on the bus leaves her a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact long way short of her superior, Blixhome. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, She had intended to ring someone to come and Blixcollect her - but her phone's daughter Iselin who shares dead. The bus had driven off before she had the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toochance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenin high-heeled shoes. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1529195977|title=The Wedding MurdersNone of this is True|author=Sarah LinleyLisa Jewell|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a permanent job with crowd of friends in the newspaper and the case Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she was covering was her big chanceencountered Josie Fair. It She, too, was even more important to out celebrating her than the celebrity wedding 45th birthday, only she was to attend the following day just with her ex-rock star boyfriendhusband, MatthewWalter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonThat's where the similarities end, though: Alix, Patrick with her sisterhusband, EmmaNathan, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel are in the North Yorkshire countrysidemidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Daniel AcroydJosie, on the other hand, television presenter holds her handbag close to her tummy and former member of you get the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected sense that the wedding wasnWalter't s not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie'quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoness birthday after all.
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|isbn=15291353621803136383|title=The Long WeekendTin Soldiers|author=Gilly MacmillanDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningcloud. Jane What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Ruth had known each other for a long time nobody is sure exactly what took place, but Emily was an act of heroism leading to a bit of an outsider. She rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back disgrace seems to school days. Paul had coached rugby at be the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilsconsensus. Mark had married Jane, and Toby Wat himself is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellkeeping his cards close to his chest, Rob's deadas he always does.
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|isbn=1529095522B0C7J9D21B|title=The InterviewA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=C M EwanA J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Kate Harding When we first meet our hero, his name is going for an interview for her dream job Ettore and he lives at Edge CommunicationsThe House of Beautiful Swallows. It Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's the last interview of the day at one of Londonmother died when he was born. He's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of the building to be something special. Maggiehis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Kateit's recruitment agent, is keen difficult to see that Kate approaches obtain decent employment. The stint working with the interview in a good state preparation of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if Kate gets the job not resourceful - and determined - and she has to admit that life has it was not been easy long before he had a successful business as a guide for her recentlyvisitors. He was even saving some money.
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|isbn=00084544420241996104|title=A Flicker in the DarkComing to Find You|author=Stacy WillinghamJane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=ItNancy's May 2019 mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Dr Chloe Davisher step-brother, a medical psychologistMartin, is completing a session with a new patienthas been convicted of their murder. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through We first meet Nancy outside the traumacourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. You see, Chloe knows what itThe barrister tells her that she's like to have received a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but Chloe found some jewellery belonging will have to live with what happened for the girls rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - trophies taken she inherited five million pounds from their bodies her mother - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed the papers are making the most of it to the police. Dick Davis ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary one favourite epithet and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is in a care homeundoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291355671529135389|title=One Step Too FarThe Fall|author=Lisa GardnerGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the stag weekendcounty fair before she returned home. Five There was no sign of them had set out: Tim (her husband but opera was playing on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty state-of alcohol - too much really the- and art music system installed in the night Scot managed to wander offThe Glass Barn. The remaining four searched They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for him in vain long and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. When help Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come the remaining three finally made their way back about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign having that sort of Timmoney, too. Every yearEventually, Tim's father, Martin, and Nicole found Tom dead in the four friends have been back swimming pool with a wound to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timhis head.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Alan Parks|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of Metropolitan police firearms officera homeless man on the streets, Jonah Colley's young sonsuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, Theoand then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, just about finished himbut all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, particularly as and he blamed himself has been for what had happenedyears. He'd fallen asleep in At the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokesame time as facing these possible murders, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out Harry is also dealing with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenfound. He's obviously in some difficulty now Something feels wrong - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I has been stationed, but can trust'', he says.Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529382823|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X}}{{FrontpageThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeCaroline Riley (she prefers 's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heCaz's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three) is middle-day old foundling, aged and now is starting has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a career cruise to New York on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now 'Atlantica'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'. Caz's sister, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-controlGemma, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him reckons that he go Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of ring-shaped bulge in his bank suit pocket and prepare she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for going on that long and the lamtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. And all this Meanwhile, Gemma is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest helooking after Caz's of interest to themcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Helped It's going to escapebe good, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Mark Edwards|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tess, a teacher Matthew and Jason, a headmasterHelena are in Iceland, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable rekindling their university romance some twenty- odd years after they had just drifted apartfirst met. They coThe alien-parent threelandscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in what was this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the family home edge of a ravine gives way and another in Helena finds herself clinging to the flat she shares rockface with just the snagged strap of her motherrucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. It ''seemed'' Convinced she is going to be working well until die, Helena must purge herself of the day that Poppy came home with shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearingpanicked, using words she was unlikely cryptic declaration to have heard in either homeMatthew. Her behaviour deteriorated Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns hauls Helena to a therapist for help, then her doctor safety and finally the police but no one will take Matthew is left wondering what she has to say seriouslyhe just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|author=Will CarverJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThirty 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…
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|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously Belle and also, curiously, addicted David's twin daughters are just coming to attending numerous AA groupsthe end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. She is 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 selfwhile. Then Kit rings up -acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps can she is mainly using the groups bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to find targetsupset 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.targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear }}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of peoplePatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler's misery, and targets due to his reputation for her violent behaviourno holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Yet she Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also seems has a gift for drinking himself to be searching for others who think as she doesoblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and when she's unable to find like-minded people proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in any the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the groups she decides to set up her ownfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsrather spectacularly, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornsouth.|isbn=19131937561662500181
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Vanda Symon|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisExpectant (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.
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|isbn=1787301036
|title=What July Knew
|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Miles Pussett used to be When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runcareful, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourmeticulous child. He was in St Moritz The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the same weekend as White Turf - thatdeath of his wife, July's high-class horseracing on mother, and any hint that the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with conversation is heading that way will lead to the saddling necessity of the horsesa Lesson. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he swore that he'd never go back to its not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. But when he sees that something suspicious July's teacher is going onconcerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, Miles canhas he not? The playground wouldn't help have been resurfaced but look for answers, even when it puts him in danger.
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|isbn=147228612X0008454493|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillAll the Dangerous Things|author=Alan JohnsonStacy 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.
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|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, although we probably haventurning into someone I'm not.'t taken much notice ' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of themtwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. They live quiet, uneventful lives The connection between the two is that Lily and stay mostly under Nina teach in the radarsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. In The couples have mixed as a city like London, thatfoursome but it's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himnot a regular thing. The highlight of his day Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morningneurosurgeon: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesnthey don't have the couragemuch in common except their wives. Then Lily hasn't said anything yet, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpbut she's pregnant. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the Metropolitan policeknowledge public.
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|isbnauthor=0008433631Julia Bartz|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahThe Writing Retreat|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was Roza Vallo. Anyone in the sort world of thing that happened every day, although not publishing knows the name. Writers want to Leila Syed. She'd never driven be her nephew, Max, agents want to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung represent her in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but heShe'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out s something of Leila's waya legend with an impressive, if compact, could she drop him off? Of courseback catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back barely out of her carchildhood. On the way Leila took Alex, a phone call writer- there was panic at her work tooslash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a problem which could put a multiseries of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-million-pound contract at risklong writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439
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|isbn=17841652631800465270|title=Invite Me InThe Lensky Connection|author=Emma CurtisConrad Delacroix
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Martin CurranWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one oJune 1995 and he'clock on s at the dotSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, despite the fact that she whose death was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letdrug-related. If she didnValeri and Timur't get homes father, Keto, there would be troubleis also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. There was some excuseValeri thinks differently: Martin was he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a paraplegic matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and confined to created a wheelchairdubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, but dona journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she't be too quick s less concerned than she ought to be understandingabout her own safety. He was also a very unpleasant person: To her, he once told Eliza ''you're s a good at being a disappointment''source. All this was in ElizaFor him, it's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about a way to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2get information published, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablewhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.
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