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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Atlantis Gene|author=AG Riddle|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is on the tail of a large terrorist organisation. He's been after them since 9/11, but the huge scope of the organisation makes them difficult to pin down or predict. His only leads are a few cryptic messages from the 1940s and research scientist Dr Kate Warner, who has become intricately connected with the terrorists without knowing it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>}} {{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->|author=Adam Hamdy|title=Phase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summaryisbn=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job and - in all probability - his sanity. He's reached the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option and many of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amber's abduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1399613073|title=A Love Like Blood|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=4.5|genre=Horror|summary=One day towards the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtime. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker in the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her neckline. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical career, and finds the same man in the company of someone who, were he only aware of the fact, is to become the first and possibly only love of his life. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Liz Nugent|title=Unravelling OliverChristie Watson

|summary=Oliver had expected more of a reaction the first time that he hit AliceOlivia, but she just lay Laura and Anjali met on the floor holding her jawfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. He was stunned that he could do this Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to his wife, but later that evening he returned be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and beat her so viciously that she lapsed into a comatrauma doctor. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was Anjali is the man otherwise known as Vincent Dax, famous writer free spirit of children's books and he the group and Alice (shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd illustrated the books) had lived re at a life of ease drug and alcohol-fuelled party and privilegeit's going to end in tragedy. In We don't know who suffered the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells tragedy or the story of what had happened over consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the last five decades and how this had led to his becoming a monsterthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James NaughtieSunny Singh|title=The Madness of JulyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A dead body The Hotel Arcadia is found a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a hot 1970s summer daywartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. A sinister enough event normally but As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concerns. The fact the deceased has Will's phone number residents who are still alive in his pocket triggers the hotel, he forms a series bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of events that not her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only tests his loyalty ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to work, country help her keep safe and family but they both wait to see if they will take Will from be rescued before they are discovered by the everyday political cut and thrust to his old job. The job he hoped he'd walked away from: spyingterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil HoganCody Goodfellow|title=A Pleasure and a CallingVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it rightThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. He owns a successful estate agency and yet isnWho doesn't too noticeable. He's helpful, but not in love a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just the way he likes itgood view from up high, living a life that assists society. Take after all? Even the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to clear up his dogget inside if it's leavings 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for instance. It's ok fun – Heming didn't break in. He already has the key as he once sold the house. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually kept, you wonder? The answer's easy: all of themI was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Jawbone LakeNo Reserve|author=Ray RobinsonFelix Francis

|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on her plate and New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by the pursuer. The victim of rostrum when the crash was a larger than life man called CJ and we follow his son Joe colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he deals with the event and attempts to rediscover who continued his father session. To say that he wasshocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The AtheistA lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's Prayer|author=Amy R Biddle|rating=3Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, Jennings was in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and his books can be so sharp you can shave with them. On their conversation revealed that the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem horse had been deliberately bid up to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? that figure. But, is it really Both were happy that shocking? Nopethey had insurance in place. This is a story about how people deal with The following morning, the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable grouphorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=No Regrets, CoyoteThe Safe House|author=John DufresneCameron Ward

|summary=You may or may not be aware that there is Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a style known as luxury property in the South Florida NoirAustralian outback for a couple of months. The action tends to take place in daylight 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 glare country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleyways. If you’re not familiar traumatic end of her relationship with South Florida Noir, ''No Regrets, Coyote'' is a good place to startCharles. And if you are, well, be assured that it is a perfectly crafted example of A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the genreticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Parker1448309743|title=The Baby and the BrandyDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken he's In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a free man, but it's the first time in many long monthswealthy family are found murdered. Twenty minutes before he had escaped The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from HMP ManchesterOtterburn House, better known to many people as Strangewaysdeath will follow. He had been an army captain The only suspects are known Satanists but hein many ways, that'd been forced into a situation where he felt s an easy conclusion given that he had no option but to act against the law and this resulted in his dishonourable discharge and two of them 'discovered' the prison sentence. It did nothing for his relationship with his parents eitherbody. Right now he's not got that many people he can call friends The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's buoyed by a feeling of patriotism, despite whatshadow's happened to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Then We Take BerlinThe Last Person in the World|author=John LawtonMatthew Tree

|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-era thriller? Especially one that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yesbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, if vintage wines and a state-of-the thriller in question is John Lawton's new offering-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, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like unlike our storyteller who had a chant from a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany place at Wolverton College in the 1980sWellingford, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John UK'Joe' Holdernesss third most prestigious university. Before going up, better known as Wilderness he took up a loose invitation to all of visit Ralph at his female acquantanceshome, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RiceDean Koontz|title=The Heavens RiseHouse at the End of the World

|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; she wants him as much as he obsesses about herWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. HeThat's certain until a late night struggle in what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her familyold life to start afresh on Jacob's swimming pool disavows him of Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the idea. However they aren't alone in pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the water. Something unwelcome neighbouring island and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities and their futures. Fast forward through perpetrating all manner of mischief in the years name of science and Marshall is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around him. And Niquette? She's missing along with quite possibly bringing about the rest end of her familyall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Warm BodiesThe Trap|author=Isaac MarionCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'It' s a zombie who has retained a bit more scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the power morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of thought than most, clubs and Julie, looking for a feisty way to get home. Some are lucky and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability manage to truly care about othersget one of the few taxis available. In short, R has Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more as one of the traits that I outlying villages. feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than The woman all regret the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, 'taxi problem'M, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, R's best friend the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Nora, Juliecollect her - but her phone's closest friend and confidantdead. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to put aside past hurt, let her use his. There's no option but M has his redeeming points as wellto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesNone of this is True|author=Isaac MarionLisa Jewell

|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=I normally review a book within On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a day or two crowd of finishing itfriends 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, Walter. I couldn It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary't with this ones hospital. I loved this book That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, but I did feel dissatisfied with her husband, Nathan, are in the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as midst of a prequeljoyful, monied group of friends and most of the readers will have already read whilst they're not ''exactly'Warm Bodies'rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and something about this book so compelling you get the sense that I couldnWalter't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I s not too happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order He's not used to review spending this fairly much money on a meal - I felt I had to read the authorbut it is Josie's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't birthday after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The AbominationTin Soldiers|author=Jonathan HoltDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the Italian Carabinieri police force, Holly Boland, a Second Lieutenant in the US Army cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Daniele Barbo a reclusive web expertnobody is sure exactly what took place, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events that become more and more entwined. Their collective probing uncovers but an act of heroism leading to a massive conspiracy rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to implicate be the US Army, the Catholic Church and the Italian Mafia, three incredibly powerful organisations that it consensus. Wat himself is best not keeping his cards close to rile in any wayhis chest, as the three characters are quick to discoverhe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185369X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A P McCoyJ 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 stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and 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=Taking the FallComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=Back in 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 Nancy outside the nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a promising conditional jockey 'silent sentence' - a talented rider who should never have she's not been short found guilty of a ride, anything but he was strugglingwill have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, probably it's made worse because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shutNancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. He'd been taught everything he knew by his father, Charlie, a trainer whose reputation 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly 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 ruined when personal rivalries got out playing on the state-of hand-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. He hasnThey't d not been able in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to set foot on a racecourse sinceall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. His sonSome of them fought with each other and didn's determined to beat the top jockeys 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 bring down having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the men responsible for what happened swimming pool with a wound to his father, but can he do both or will he have to make some hard choices?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409129578</amazonuk>head.

  {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsAlan Parks|authortitle=A A AguireTo Die in June

|summary=One What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the many reasons I love fantasy streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is discovering worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the new worlds that more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the 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 little boy has gone missing, only no record of the authors have createdboy having existed can be found. Where is Something feels wrong - not just with the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are woman’s story but also with the customsother officers where he has been stationed, et cetera, et ceterabut can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and steampunk mixed has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with fantasy Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is the double hitgoing to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid They've not been a couple for that long and we have the makings of trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a really bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexa CamouroMark Edwards|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgKeep Her Secret

|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living a complicated life Matthew and Helena are in HamburgIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She juggles her liveThe alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-in, ambitious, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employees. But however complicated that taking and Helena seems, it's about intent on getting the perfect photograph to get worse. The police come for her encapsulate the joy she is feeling in the early hoursthis moment, although even if it's not till she's ensconced in kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged rockface with espionage just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and murdera 500 foot drop to certain death below. The problem Convinced she is complex but going to die, Helena must purge herself of the answer is simple: shocking secret she must escape has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to prove her innocenceMatthew. Having said thatJust moments later their heroic, 'simple' is a relative term. From the language school for which she works and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping up, nothing safety and Matthew is left wondering what it seems, including Dixon Gracehe just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Excalibur CodexJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=James DouglasThirty Days of Darkness

|summary=Jamie Saintclair is an expert in tracing works of arts. But he has Belle and David's twin daughters are just as much coming to the end of a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art worktheir first term at university. He has just Kit's been made an offer no treasure hunter could refuseat Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. A chance to find It's not only the legendary sword first time they've been away from their parents for any length of Arthur, time - but he wonthey've also been apart from each other. Belle can't be dealing wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with knights or chivalry in this adventure, instead her? Belle would prefer that he will didn't come up against the very worst of human naturebut doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. This book will take him on And they'll be sharing a quest beginning in one of humanitybedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's darkest chapters, the rise work of Nazi Germany. Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The evil perpetuated Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in this era will be mirrored by modern men who are prepared defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to plunge overshadow the world into darkness once againformer. Enter Keera Duggan, this time former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the name hideous position of British purityasking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4. Although 5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the sword start of her maternity leave when there is associated with supernatural powersa brutal, there will be nothing supernatural shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the evil Jamie faceshunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, only which she rails against, she just can't let the unbridled hatred case go and lust for power that comes so naturally she starts to follow every thread to some menuncover what's actually happening, and because of this is ever so much more terrifying than magic or monsters. What is even more the increasingly disturbing is the thought that under the right circumstances, many worry of us could become monsters as welljust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=Hell to PayWhat July Knew|author=Jenny ThomsonEmily Koch|rating=35

|summary=Nancy is trying to escape When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a naff Christmas with careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her naff boyfriendfather, but walks into a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary at her parents' home – a professionalMick Hooper, violentwho is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, nay fatalJuly's mother, burglaryand any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. When she comes out Other infractions of a therapeutic stay in an institute afterwards, shehis requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's seeking one thing – revengenot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Her brother July's teacher is concerned and his rap sheet might have something brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to do with those responsiblethe school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against herhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=The Shanghai FactorJust the Nicest Couple|author=Charles McCarryMary Kubica

|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai society. A chance meeting results in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates ''The whole thing has spiralled out of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable to both the US and Chinese intelligence servicescontrol, becoming a pawn in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsturning into someone I'm not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=High Rollers|author=Jack Bowman|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Patrick ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is a far from popular air crash investigatorthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, who and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is nonetheless that Lily and Nina teach in the best there same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is. He has more than ruffled a few feathers market research analyst and Jake is suspended from working on casesa neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Despite this the largest case of his career is forced upon him when not one Lily hasn't said anything yet, but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalitiesshe's pregnant. Tom recognises She has a possible link between lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the two and potentially many more airplanes, a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracyknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda HowardJulia Bartz|title=Shadow WomanThe Writing Retreat

|summary=Prelude: Roza Vallo. Anyone in the President world of publishing knows the United States and the First Lady are on what is not being called a campaign tour. It isname. It is most definitely a re-election campaign; it's just not supposed Writers want to be. They retire to their suite for the nighther, and the protection detail of the Secret Service are looking forward agents want to a shift change at the end represent her. She's something of a long day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claudia Pineiro|title=A Crack in the Wall|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Pablo Simó is legend with an architect on the verge impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a mid life crisis. His workwriter-slash-editor, marriage and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him to ponder over the attractions of his colleague Marta a little obsessed with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationship. When a young girl enters the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson JaraRoza, the three architects deny all knowledgeand is stunned when, but they do know him. He was involved in following a claim that one series of the practice's projects caused a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved unexpected events, she is something all three invited to be part of them would rather forgether month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntosh1800465270|title=The Lavender KeeperLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Maquis (Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) to avenge the pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death of his adoptive Jewish familywas drug-related. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is recruited also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a group of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to send vital information back to the homelandmake his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Their paths Within a matter of months, his obsession will cross as Lisette is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. The mission is clear cut on paperNatassja Petrovskaya, but life can be messier than any plan can predict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)|title=Plan D|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=October 2011 and the Berlin wall is still intacta journalist. Inspector Martin Wegener of the East German PeopleShe's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious exdetermined to expose any and all corruption -lover Karolina and work. On this particular day she'work' is a body found hanging from the GDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian s less concerned than she ought to Europebe about her own safety. Not only is To her, he hanging, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: 's a Stasi trademarkgood source. Who is he and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and theyFor him, it're sending s a West Berlin detective in way to help him find them; not the best start to a dayget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephen Lloyd Jones|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out of him. They run Move on to escape the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but to the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget them. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]