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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins 1399613073|title=Quarry's ChoiceMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=If 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 are fed up with reading books about aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a hit man with perfectionist and a heart, why not try one 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'Quarrys going to end in tragedy. We don'' series? 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 man 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 hired to kill Sam, a wartime photographer and does not think too much about it; it's just a jobAbhi, the hotel manager. Usually Quarry arrives As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a townbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, makes a hit and gets keeps on venturing out immediately, but there is something about the world of the Dixie Mafia that is making him stay a little longerher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Is it Although they only ever talk over the blackmailphone, 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 attractive young women, or the sense of revenge?terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)Cody Goodfellow|title=Enter the SaintVertical|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties thereThere's a temptation to believe something about tall buildings that the books might not be, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistakejust captures my imagination. The first of Who doesn''The Saint'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one and this collection of stories is dated 1930. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not the subtleties of the slightly world-weary man of the worldt love a good view from up high, after all-knowing about ? Even the evils drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to which men (and women) can sink, but theyget inside if it're all theres 40 stories tall. Admittedly the Saint is more boisterous and less subtle than he will become - but that speaks more about the later works than So when I picked up this book– about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1804183210|title=The Crooked HouseNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=Many years agoThirty-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, a tragedy shook 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 English villageunderstatement. A whole family wiped out with no warning, a whole family, that is, except for 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 daughters who was, unbeknown to cubicles in the toilets when the assailant, upstairs at two men came in and their conversation revealed that the time. Esme was horse had been deliberately bid up to that girl, but she is no morefigure. She has a new name, a new identity, a new life, far away from Both were happy that terrible they had insurance in place. As Alison she flies under The following morning, the radar, not attracting any attention, with a menial job to fill her days. And she has every intention of staying that way, no intention of ever stepping foot horse was dead in Saltleigh againits stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell 1405951680|title=After the StormThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Rob and Anna are nearing Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Honduras leg Australian outback for a couple of their South American travelsmonths. Here they meet Kimberley and OwenAfter the problems she'd had at work, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around it seemed like just the local islandsbreak she needed. Rob persuades Anna it will be She was no longer a fun way data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end their holiday but Anna isn't so sure. There's something about Owen and Kimberley that makes of her hesitant about being shut away on a boat at sea relationship with themCharles. Perhaps it's A few weeks in the way that he never sleeps or the mystery as to why there are no knives Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the cutlery drawer. Rob thinks Anna's just overly imaginative, but time will tellticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Connolly1448309743|title=The Wolf in Winter Devil Stone (Charlie Parker ThrillerDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended and worked with in In the village of Cronchie on the pastWest coast of Scotland, is found hanged in five members of a basement. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their wealthy family relationship and has just raised over $100 to help find herare found murdered. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes The only item missing after heading for from the small Maine town of Prosperoushome is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Charlie decides to drop The only suspects are known Satanists but in on the good citizens many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneerbody. It doesn’t take him long The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but there when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charliepulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham FulbrightB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part Last Person in saving the planet from WWIIIWorld|author=Matthew Tree|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the Common Market (which would become the European Union in 1993) in Brussels and London-based public school where he's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he ''should'' be met Ralph Finns. It was an interpreter but he seems unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to be restricted to more administrative duties. throw around on a He could refuse the offer he getsRolex watch, but vintage wines and a state-of-the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across to the USA -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and make a point to his employers is just too temptingcertainly more than acquaintances. He's also rather taken by Alexy GearyFinns had no intention of going on to University, the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency unlike our storyteller who makes had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the offer, and itUK's not long before he's on his waythird most prestigious university. Before going up, he does he's peripherally involved in took up a shooting - and that's not something which usually happens loose invitation to someone like himvisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)Dean Koontz|title=The Saint Closes House at the Case|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=On the way back to London with Patricia Holm late one night, Simon Templar saw a strange pulsing light and couldn't resist going to investigate. What he discovered was a demonstration of a weapon which could well bring the world to war a mere twelve years after the end End of the Great War. Templar and his confederates concluded that the weapon could not be allowed to come into the public domain - and if necessary the inventor (who could easily recreate the weapon even if he gave assurances to the contrary) would need to be, er, sidelined. Unfortunately Templar and friends are not the only ones in search of the weapon: his old nemesis, Rayt Marius, has his own plans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PABX9XE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chevy Stevens|title=That NightWorld|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It’s been 17 years since Toni went to prison for the murder of her sister. 17 years since she last saw her boyfriend RyanWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, also convicted for the murderyou can either suck it up, since she had a meaningful conversation with her parents, since she went saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a coffee shop or walked small chain of tiny dots on the beachmap and live out your days in peace and solitude. Sent down That's what Katie thought she was doing when she was still a teenager, she’s been incarcerated for virtually half of shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and though she’s now coming up all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for parolethe pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, it’s not as easy as simply going back to her old life from beforethe neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555088</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1787636607|title=Forty Days Without ShadowThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from It's a museum in Kautokeino, a small, isolated village scene replicated all too often in the middle early hours of the snowy tundra, tensions begin morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to rise between the residentsget home. Local detective Klemet Nango Some are lucky and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon manage to investigate get one of the disappearance, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murderedfew taxis available. Nina soon suspects Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the two events are linkedoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', andparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, together with Klemet, embarks upon the final stop on the bus leaves her a journey full long way short of secrets, mystery her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and brutalityin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1529195977|title=The Vanished OnesNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Room 13 On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the basement of the state morgue is where the sleepers are keptLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victims. They are kept indefinitelyShe, too, because they are evidence that a crime has been committedwas out celebrating her 45th birthday, possibly the only evidenceshe was just with her husband, Walter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne It turns out that not only are Alix and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=LoserJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozathospital. HeThat's a policeman in Pariswhere the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victoryNathan, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes are in the sport, who seems to offer midst of a few thrown fights for Georgesjoyful, then some kind monied group of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as friends and whilst they're not ''the Pakistaniexactly'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that)rowdy, who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesnthey't take too long to choose the latterre enjoying themselves. In alternating chaptersJosie, however, we're in on the 1950sother hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and a rookie to you get the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to work spending this much money on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to meal - but itis Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1803136383|title=UnmannedTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Unmanned'', the title of Fesperman's latest thriller, refers to the drones, the Predators, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, Wat Tyler has returned from a shed somewhere fighting in Nevada. It also refers to the state that those missions left Cole in, after one Vietnam under something of them went badly wronga cloud. A poor call-down led to a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying What actually happened out in the open running away, there is gossiped about and a girlnobody is sure exactly what took place, not dead but wounded. Cole could see her from his thousands an act of miles away, moving, agonising, separated heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by a considerable distance from rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the arm she would never use againconsensus. A one-armed girl would haunt Wat himself is keeping his dreams for a long time cards close to followhis chest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darragh McManusB0C7J9D21B|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=Aidan Flood's life When we first meet our hero, his name is miserable; Ettore and he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works lives at the local carnival and even heard that from someone elseThe House of Beautiful Swallows. Life is just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages to accomplish Idyllic as well if this might sound, it wasn't for s a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact hebordello and Ettore's still alive, mother died when he hears that Slaine McAuley, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herselfwas born. The only thing is that Aidan knows she hasnHe't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen to her and why does she choose to tell hims not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of all people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas H Cook|title=A Dancer his background in the Dust|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A man that risk management consultant Ray Campbell knew a lifetime ago is found dead on the streets of New York. It's not just the fact that Ray knew him that's intriguinglate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's where Ray knew him from: difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the African country preparation of Lubanda where Ray once worked for an NGO. This death reminds him of another that happened anchovies didn't work out in Africa: that of a native Lubandan named Martine Aubert whom Ray loved and still lovesbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. There must be a connection Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and Ray will investigate till he finds it, no matter what was not long before he finds or what he remembers along the wayhad a successful business as a guide for visitors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081655</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Weston|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 He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett0241996104|title=Believe No One|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons in St Louis, just as Nick planned. Fennimore 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 is still missing but while he follows new leads, he and Kate have other things to work on. St Louis has a serial killer to contend with: the victims are all mothers and their children are taken at the same time. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains Coming to be seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Dai Henley|title=Blazing ObsessionJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When our story starts we know that events are going to be cruel to James HamiltonNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We might be envious of his high-end car businessfirst meet Nancy outside the court, with multiple dealerships and (as we later find out) after Martin receives a home in one of the life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'nicersilent sentence'- she' parts s not been found guilty of Blackheath, anything but a couple will have to live with what happened for the rest of years down the line heher life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy'll be visited in his office by two policemen who tell him that his holiday cottage went up in flames s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the previous night and there papers are three bodies in making the shell most of the buildingit. James won't believe that he's lost his wife, Lynne, stepson Georgie Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and daughter Emily. He was going to leave shortly to join them, so ''obviouslyrich bitch'' there had been a mistake..might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620513</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Littlefield1529135389|title=The Moon Pool|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|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 he's made up his mind. Unfortunately her worst nightmares begin to materialise when he vanishes soon after starting work. So, leaving her lawyer husband at home, she follows her maternal instinct to where he was last seen. His big corporate employers and the local police don’t seem that concerned. However, in her suffering there is another person who knows exactly how Colleen feels: Shay, the mother of another lad who went missing at the same time. Hoping it's not too late they join forces and start their own investigation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856842</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Don't Stand So CloseFall|author=Luana LewisGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=4
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The last thing that the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in whitedefence of his clients. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also happen has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to be in top government jobsovershadow the former. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the form hideous position of August Shining and Toby Greeneasking 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=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there to find outis a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. This may not be Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the full extent of hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the UK for talks case go and Augustshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's sister April wanting to get in on actually happening, and the actincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=The Phoenix YearWhat July Knew|author=David L BlondEmily Koch|rating=35
|genre=Thrillers
|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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''
''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the 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 a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry StiastnyJulia Bartz|title=Acts of OmissionThe Writing Retreat
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas was a recently-appointed minister Roza Vallo. Anyone in the Foreign Office, determined world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to do his bestbe her, but not yet long enough in the job agents want to have abandoned his principles and beliefsrepresent her. ItShe's these that are tested when something of a disc containing the names legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of British informants to the Stasi has fallen into government hands. Understandably the Germans want the information back so works that they can complete their opening up started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of the Stasi's archivechildhood. Lucas believes that the Germans should be accommodated on this: he was elected on Alex, a platform of transparency and openness writer- handing the information back seems right to him slash- but there are those within the governmenteditor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, both politicians and civil servantsis stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, who are determined that this should not happenshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=A Kill in the MorningThe Lensky Connection|author=Graeme ShimminConrad Delacroix|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The Nazis are amongst When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the most infamous group that has ever walked the planetSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. They may have been evilHe's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, but there whose death was something pantomime about them that has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and pulp fictionavenge Timur's death. To enjoy these you Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to disengage yourself from the history Marisha and see the Nazis of fiction as separate from those of real lifecreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Can I enjoy a book like She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she'A Kill in the Mornings less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. For him, it' set in an alternative 1950s were the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe and are building an ultimate weapon? Can s a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich and change the tide of history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.
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