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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)1399613073|title=The Saint Closes the CaseMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=On Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the way back to London with Patricia Holm late one nightfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Simon Templar saw which is a strange pulsing light and couldn't resist going bonus when you aim to investigatebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. What he discovered was Laura is a demonstration of perfectionist and a weapon which could well bring trauma doctor. Anjali is the world to war a mere twelve years after the end free spirit of the Great Wargroup and she becomes a GP. Templar When we first meet them they're at a drug and his confederates concluded that the weapon could not be allowed to come into the public domain alcohol- fuelled party and if necessary the inventor (it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who could easily recreate suffered the weapon even if he gave assurances to tragedy or the contrary) would need to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be, er, sidelinedan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Unfortunately Templar and friends This time, it's their teenage children who are not the only ones in search of the weapon: his old nemesis, Rayt Marius, has his own plansinvolved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PABX9XE</amazonuk>
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{{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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chevy StevensCody Goodfellow|title=That NightVertical
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|summary=It’s been 17 years since Toni went to prison for the murder of her sisterThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. 17 years since she last saw her boyfriend RyanWho doesn't love a good view from up high, also convicted for after all? Even the murder, since she had a meaningful conversation with her parents, since she went drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to a coffee shop or walked on the beachget inside if it's 40 stories tall. Sent down So when she was still a teenager, she’s been incarcerated for virtually half of her life and though she’s now coming I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for parole, it’s not as easy as simply going back to her old life from beforefun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555088</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1804183210|title=Forty Days Without ShadowNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5
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|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from a museum in KautokeinoThirty-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, a smallhadn't arrived, isolated village 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 middle racing industry. Jennings was in one of the snowy tundra, tensions begin to rise between cubicles in the toilets when the residents. Local detective Klemet Nango two men came in and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon to investigate their conversation revealed that the disappearance, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has horse had been brutally murdereddeliberately bid up to that figure. Nina soon suspects Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the two events are linked, and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full of secrets, mystery and brutalityhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1405951680|title=The Vanished OnesSafe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=54
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|summary=Room 13 Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the basement Australian outback for a couple of months. After the state morgue is where problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the sleepers are keptbreak she needed. These are 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 unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVstraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Potential Homicide Victims. They are kept indefinitely, because they are evidence that a crime has been committed, possibly A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the only evidenceticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=LoserIn 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 Corneran 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
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|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's Our narrator was a policeman in Paris, who boxes on scholarship day boy at the sideLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. After It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a bout that leads boarder and had money to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers – one from throw around on a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sport Rolex watch, who seems to offer vintage wines and a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind state-of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; -the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of that)going on to University, unlike our storyteller who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy had a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're place at Wolverton College in the 1950s, and a rookie to the forces, Pascal VeriniWellingford, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from FranceUK's third most prestigious university. Like GeorgesBefore going up, he finds took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violencehome, even if he has a very different attitude to itClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan FespermanDean Koontz|title=UnmannedThe House at the End of the World|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Unmanned''When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, the title of Fesperman's latest thrilleryou can either suck it up, refers saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to the drones, the Predators, your own private fortress on an island that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from sits snugly in a shed somewhere in Nevada. It also refers to small chain of tiny dots on the state that those missions left Cole map and live out your days in, after one of them went badly wrongpeace and solitude. A poor call-That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down led her old life to a misidentified targetstart afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the open running away, name of science and a girl, not dead but wounded. Cole could see her from his thousands quite possibly bringing about the end of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from the arm she would never use again. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time to followall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darragh McManus1787636607|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Aidan FloodIt's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works at a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the local carnival morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and even heard that from someone elselooking for a way to get home. Life is just rubbish Some are lucky and needs ending totallymanage to get one of the few taxis available. This is something he almost manages to accomplish Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-byone of the outlying villages. The next morning while coming to terms with woman all regret the fact he's still alivetaxi problem', he hears that Slaine McAuleyparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herselflong way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The only thing is that Aidan knows bus had driven off before she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd diedhad the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. What did happen There's no option but to her start walking - unsuitably clothed and why does she choose to tell him, of all people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find outin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas H Cook1529195977|title=A Dancer in the DustNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=3.5
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|summary=A man that risk management consultant Ray Campbell knew On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a lifetime ago is found dead crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on the streets of New YorkSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It's turns out that not just the fact that Ray knew him thatonly are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's intriguing, ithospital. That's where Ray knew him fromthe similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the African country midst of a joyful, monied group of Lubanda where Ray once worked for an NGOfriends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. This death reminds him of another Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that happened out in Africa: that of a native Lubandan named Martine Aubert whom Ray loved and still lovesWalter's not too happy. There must be He's not used to spending this much money on a connection and Ray will investigate till he finds meal - but it, no matter what he finds or what he remembers along the wayis Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Weston1803136383|title=The Piper|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=A D Garrett|title=Believe No OneDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5
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|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in St Louis, just as Nick plannedVietnam under something of a cloud. Fennimore What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Simms have worked together in the UK when Nick's wife was murdered and daughter kidnapped. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having a less than professional dinner. Nick's daughter nobody is still missing sure exactly what took place, but while he follows new leads, he and Kate have other things an act of heroism leading to work on. St Louis has a serial killer rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to contend with: the victims are all mothers and their children are taken at be the same timeconsensus. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try Wat himself is keeping his cards close to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seenchest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dai HenleyB0C7J9D21B|title=Blazing ObsessionA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
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|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our story starts we know that events are going to be cruel to James Hamiltonhero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. We Idyllic as this might be envious of his high-end car businesssound, with multiple dealerships it's a bordello and (as we later find out) a home in one of the Ettore's mother died when he was born. He'nicer'' parts s not been short of Blackheathmothers, though - but a couple for someone of years down the line he'll be visited in his office by two policemen who tell him that his holiday cottage went up in flames the previous night and there are three bodies background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the shell preparation of the building. James wonanchovies didn't believe that he's lost his wife, Lynne, stepson Georgie work out and daughter Emilybastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. He Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was going to leave shortly to join them, so ''obviously'' there not long before he had been a mistakesuccessful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620513</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Littlefield0241996104|title=The Moon PoolComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5
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|summary=Comfortably off Colleen Mitchell is loath to let her 20 year old son go to North Dakota to work on the oil rigs but heNancy's made up his mindmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Unfortunately her worst nightmares begin to materialise when he vanishes soon We first meet Nancy outside the court, after starting workMartin receives a life sentence. So, leaving The barrister tells her lawyer husband at home, that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she follows her maternal instinct 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to where he was last seen. His big corporate employers and live with what happened for the local police don’t seem that concernedrest of her life. HoweverOf course, in it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her suffering there is another person who knows exactly how Colleen feels: Shay, mother - and the papers are making the mother most of another lad who went missing at the same timeit. Hoping it's 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not too late they join forces and start their own investigationbe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=Don't Stand So CloseThe Fall|author=Luana LewisGilly Macmillan
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It’s cold outsideNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. Dark. Snow is falling. You're safe inside There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Of course you are, you They've d not left been in the architect-designed house in monthson Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. You Some of them fought with each other and didn're alonet 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, but you feel safe insidetoo. You do Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head. It’s ok. You can do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552169536</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Most Wanted ManAlan Parks|authortitle=John le CarreTo Die in June
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Melik What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is a Turkish heavy-weight boxing championdiscovered, and then another. He lives with his widowed mother in Hamburg and they are both doing their very best to keep below This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the radar. Since more so because his own father died they don’t even go to the mosque on is a regular basisdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. But this particular weekend Leyla wants to go. Her daughter, still in Turkey At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is getting marriedalso dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a special prayer seems to woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be in orderfound. It Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is a visit that might well end up costing them the eight years good behaviour needed to finally get beyond their tolerated status to enable full German citizenship.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769308</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas1529382823|title=Your Beautiful LiesThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and is married to William, a police superintendenthas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Although she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, AnnieThey's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin re off on a strike that will become violent cruise to New York on both sides of the divide''Atlantica''. ItCaz's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on the side yousister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn're on but unfortunately Annie isnt spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't permitted to chooseknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. However this is only They've not been a couple for that long and the start of her problemstrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriendMeanwhile, Gemma is back on the streets looking after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has unfinished businessdementia. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with herIt's going to be good, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ShemiltMark Edwards|title=DaughterKeep Her Secret
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|summary=Jenny has a busy life – GPMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, wife rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of Tedthe lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a successful surgeon, mother ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to twin teenage lads Ed and Theo the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a teenage daughter (Naomi) 500 foot drop to name but some of the rolescertain death below. Now Convinced she tells is going to die, Helena must purge herself that of the shocking secret she should have realised Naomi's mood swings has been keeping and higher heels signified more than makes a phasepanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. If she hadJust moments later their heroic, Jenny may have prevented her beloved child's disappearance; at least looking back on it that's what she tells herself. As the police investigateand frankly very well prepared, Jenny Icelandic tour guide swoops in and her remaining family have hauls Helena to come to terms with not only safety and Matthew is left wondering what has happened, but what it reveals he just learned about each of themHelena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405915293</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ResearchJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=Philip KerrThirty 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=John Houston is a multimillionaire with a beautiful wife, a number Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of mistresses, countless extravagances their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and an apartment Jess's in Monaco, for tax reasonsExeter. He made his fortune by creating a formula It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for a series any length of besttime -selling novels designed specifically but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to appeal have them all to the average man on the streetherself for a while. John has a team of four ghost Then Kit rings up -writers to do all the writing, meaning can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he can produce an average of six bestsellers per yeardidn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. John calls his group of ghost Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-writers his four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'atelier', his ‘workshop’, perfectly reflecting his views of themll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782065776</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsRobert Dugoni|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideHer Deadly Game
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=The last thing that Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman in white. life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen Irish Brawler' due to be his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in top government jobsdefence of his clients. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (in Along with an indisputable talent for the form of August Shining law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and Toby Greene) is there inevitably the latter was beginning to find outovershadow the former. This may not be Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the full extent hideous position of asking her father for a job at the problems facing them though; not family firm because a romantic entanglement with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and August's sister April wanting to get in on the actsenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=The Phoenix YearWhat July Knew|author=David L BlondEmily Koch|rating=35
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|summary=I was really looking forward to reading this, marketed as When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a thriller that spans the globe and centres on richcareful, powerful individuals trying to change the worldmeticulous child. The cover care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is reminiscent not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the opening titles conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of ''House a Lesson. Other infractions of Cards'' his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July'Damages'' s teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the fact that each chapter bears a title was appealing head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to me as wellthe school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908959282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams0008454493|title=The Clown ServiceAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonaldIsabelle Drake hasn's he'd be sacked for ineptitude. Unfortunately t really slept for a year - well, apart from the nation he cost thousands odd occasion when she lost track of pounds more to train than your average burger-flipper so he's time or drifted off to Section 37 insteadfor a moment. The SectionIt's label mentions anti-terrorism butnow a year since her son, Mason, as was stolen from his former boss told Toby ''If bed in the middle of the security service night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the circus, then Section 37 us where we keep the clownsmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy is coming s done everything she could to raise awareness about the UK with enough power case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to destroy LondonTrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. This may only be TobyOn the plane back, she's first job for 37 approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and will include get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>few hundred people at conferences.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Stiastny1848458436|title=Acts of OmissionJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas was a recently-appointed minister in ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the Foreign Officestory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, determined to do his best, but not yet long enough and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the job to have abandoned his principles same school: Nina teaches English and beliefsLily covers high school algebra. ItThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's these that are tested when not a disc containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has fallen into government handsregular thing. Understandably the Germans want the information back so that Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they can complete don't have much in common except their opening up of the Stasiwives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's archivepregnant. Lucas believes that the Germans should be accommodated on this: he was elected on She has a platform lengthy history of transparency and openness - handing the information back seems right miscarriages so she doesn't want to him - but there are those within tempt fate by making the government, both politicians and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happenknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kill in the MorningJulia Bartz|authortitle=Graeme ShimminThe Writing Retreat
|rating=4
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|summary=The Nazis are amongst Roza Vallo. Anyone in the most infamous group that has ever walked world of publishing knows the planetname. They may have been evilWriters want to be her, but there was agents want to represent her. She's something pantomime about them of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films and pulp fiction. To enjoy these you have to disengage yourself from the history and see the Nazis started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of fiction as separate from those of real lifechildhood. Can I enjoy Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a book like ''A Kill in the Morning'' set in an alternative 1950s were the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe little obsessed with Roza, and are building an ultimate weapon? Can is stunned when, following a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich and change the tide series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of history?her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson1800465270|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Germany may be defeated as the embers of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making the most of When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it. His trade in black market goods 's June 1995 and casual private investigation work augment he's at the meagre rations for him and his dying fatherSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. When a woman asks him to find a missing British airman he refuses – itHe's not really a pallbearer for his lineelder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. She blackmails Kasper Valeri and still he refuses but then the note arrives:Timur''This s father, Keto, is bigger than you. You donalso a pallbearer and he't have a choices disgusted by what his son had become. Queers still die in Berlin. Find the pilot.'' It seems that Valeri thinks differently: he's been seen with another man and now he has a decision determined to make that will either cost or save his lifeown stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Professionals|author=Owen Laukkanen|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The professional criminal is the type Within a matter of person who gets inmonths, does the job his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and then gets out again. Sounds like the perfect way to stay undetected as created a lifelong miscreantdubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, but does not sound like the most exciting narrative for a storyjournalist. Instead, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own success, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up the wrong marksafety. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be To her, he's a much more thrilling readgood source. A read just like ''The ProfessionalsFor him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>
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