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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annemarie Neary1399613073|title= The OrphansMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 34.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Jess Olivia, Laura and Sparrow (Ro) are just children when they are playing Anjali met on the beach one first day of medical school and turn round to find their parents vanished and their whole life changed in an instant. It's the sort friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of childhood trauma that effects people in different waysa century. Jess goes Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to one extreme, studying hard, becoming be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a successful lawyer, building trauma doctor. Anjali is the kind free spirit of stability for her new family that the group and she craved ever since that daybecomes a GP. And Ro… When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy.doesn We don't. He does almost know who suffered the opposite, never putting down roots, floating from place to place, woman to woman, free as tragedy or the windconsequences. The lives of Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the siblings donthree friends. This time, it't cross much, but when an item belonging to s their mother resurfaces, so does the case and the interest in her disappearanceteenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonSunny Singh|title=The FriendHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffee, wine, gossip and momentary escape from their respective lives. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne The Hotel Arcadia is found battered and half-dead a luxury hotel in the playgroundan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Three weeks later Cece moves into Hiding from the areaterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into the orbit of Maxiethere is Sam, Anaya a wartime photographer and Hazel and hears what happened to Abhi, the still comatose Yvonnehotel manager. Two questions As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still hang alive in the air though: hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who did it refuses to be cowed by events, and why? keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The police believe that Although they only ever talk over the perpetrator is one of the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be inrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham HurleyCody Goodfellow|title= AuroreVertical|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=History has taught us that wars can be won or lost on the strength of a countryThere's intelligence and on the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control something about tall buildings that intelligence in a myriad of game-changing waysjust captures my imagination. Who better then to drop into Nazi-occupied France as an agent than doesn't love a thirty mission veteran of Bomber Command whose pre-war incarnation as actor and Quaker have shaped a man with guile enough to ''make believe'' and trust enough to see his mission through to good view from up high, after all? Even the end? Enter stage left, Billy Angell. Soon to be ''injured'drabbest office building is somewhere I' airman stranded in the French countryside and tasked with befriending a local woman responsible for the safety of resistants and with necessary ties m intrigued to the upper echelons of the occupying German force. Whatget inside if it's left 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for us to find out is whether Billy has talent enough to succeed in his new role as agent ''Thesp'' and make it back alivefun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Dionne1804183210|title=The Marsh King's DaughterNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54

|summary=Helena Pelletier was having a normal afternoon: making deliveries of jams and jellies to her sales outlets and taking her younger daughter Marigold to play at Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the side of colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the lakechairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. It To say that he was on shocked when the journey back to meet her older daughter from the school bus that she heard the news: the notorious child abductor 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 rapist Jacob Holbrook, Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known as the Marsh King, had escaped from prison, killing two guards and respected in the processracing industry. Helena knew that she Jennings was in danger: Jacob Holbrook was her father one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and she was their conversation revealed that the daughter of the woman he horse had abducted when she was fifteen years oldbeen deliberately bid up to that figure. She'd been brought up until the age of twelve as a captiveBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. There The following morning, the horse was another problem too: she'd never actually got around to telling her husband about her backgrounddead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds (translator)1405951680|title=A Climate of FearThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=3.54

|summary=It takes just one policeman's iota of doubtJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, that an elderly woman found dead in her bath with actually she was gently nudged into it by her wrists slit was not actual suicide but murder insteadfriend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for Commissaire Adamsberg to become involveda couple of months. The womanAfter the problems she'd had at work, known to be dying, had struggled to get it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a letter posted data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the days before country of her death – birth and when in need of the recipient is found out it immediately leads space to another murder disguised as suicide, and more deaths are to comeget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. All indications (or at least those that can be understood) point to a hushed-up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previously, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on A few weeks in the thinking that Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the whole truth is much more peculiar, and harder to solve, than that…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784702625</amazonuk>ticket.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caite Dolan-LeachCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Dead LettersThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Ava and Zelda are twins, their naming triggering Our narrator was a family joke about being opposite ends of scholarship day boy at the alphabetLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. That's all past tense now though It was an unusual relationship as Zelda is dead. Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Ava is told the news via her mother's terseRolex watch, dispassionate email before Ava can come home to vintage wines and a state-of-the US from Paris-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Zelda burnt Finns had no intention of going on to death University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the familyUK's barn where she sometimes slept… at least that's the story and human remains were indeed found in the barnthird most prestigious university. But then why is Ava still receiving emails from Zelda? Emails that tauntBefore going up, emails that remind and emails that suggest Zelda is very much alive. To discover the truth all Ava needs he took up a loose invitation to do is follow the clues and relive some painful memoriesvisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maile MeloyDean Koontz|title=Do Not Become AlarmedThe House at the End of the World|rating=3.54

|summary=It's Christmas, what could go wrong? More than When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel thatthere is no one on your side, you can either suck it's Christmas up, saddle up and ride on holiday, or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a cruise down small chain of tiny dots on the Pacific coast of Latin America from near LAmap and live out your days in peace and solitude. Perfect, then, for two cousins – ladies both with their own husband and two kids each – to get away from That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old lifeto start afresh on Jacob's currently giving them, namely high-pressure workLadder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and griefquite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. But labours Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and worries looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and grief manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only be exacerbatedgo as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, when the final stop on the bus leaves her a trip ashore goes horrendously wrong, long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and practically collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the only six children on board go missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241305462</amazonuk>chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kaela Coble1529195977|title=Friends and LiarsNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary= Kaela CobleOn her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends 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. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's debut novel hospital. That''Friends and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells s where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the tale midst of 'the crew'a joyful, a monied group of friends who once made a pact to and whilst they're not ''exactly'always be honest with eachother'rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at Josie, on the wake of one of their ownother hand, Danny Deuso, who has left a haunting suicide note along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the risk sense that Danny will reveal them from beyond the graveWalter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tina Seskis1803136383|title= The HoneymoonTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= For as long as she can remember, Jemma Wat Tyler has been planning the perfect honeymoonreturned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. A fortnight's retreat What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a five-star resort in the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and absolute privacy.It should disgrace seems to be paradise. But it's turned into a nightmare. Because the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from the island without a traceconsensus. And now her perfect new life Wat himself is vanishing just keeping his cards close to his chest, as quickly before her eyeshe always does. After everything they've been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F PetersonB0C7J9D21B|title= Errant Blood A Captive in Algiers (Duncul Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes awaywe first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he makes the decision to return to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control lives at The House of his familyBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's estatemother died when he was born. He has 's not been gone short of mothers, though - but for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in the army and survived a posting someone of his background in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifelate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option's difficult to obtain decent employment. For most people in his position, returning home to The stint working with the peaceful life preparation of lordship over a castle anchovies didn't work out and village would sound like a dream come truebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. But Duncul Castle Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – was not long before he had a successful business as a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul, and guide for visitors. He was even saving some of Glencul's residents would kill for itmoney.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)0241996104|title= Block 46 Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|genre=Thrillers |summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at a Cartier event presenting some their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of her new creationstheir murder. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept We first meet Nancy outside the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functioncourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. When a young woman The barrister tells her that she's mutilated body is discovered in received a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday home, Alexissilent sentence' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa- she's death is not unique; in fact, she is only the latest in a string been found guilty of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until now, the bodies anything but will have all belonged to young boys, so live with what has caused happened for the killer to change his or rest of her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her friend, mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529135389|title= No Middle NameThe 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 is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. This is particularly true, some say, They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and I have been known were still getting used to concur, of all the crime and thriller genreshigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved Some of them fought with each other and own up: I simply havendidn't been paying attentionwork as reliably as they should. Not even It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to shorter offerings my by favourite authorshaving that sort of money, too. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A P McGrathAlan Parks|title= A Burning To Die in the DarknessJune|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a busy airporthomeless man on the streets, Michael Kieh suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengersdiscovered, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimethen another. His struggle to prove This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his innocence leads him on own father is a charged journey that pitches love against revengedown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret At the same time as facing these possible murders, he Harry is motivated to redress also dealing with a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close move to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect different police station, and the arrival there of a young witnesswoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, sparking memories only no record of Michael's past in Liberiathe boy having existed can be found. As Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he fights to prove his innocencehas been stationed, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truth.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Samantha King1529382823|title= The Choice|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one of your children more than the others at a particular point in time. Maybe for a moment, just a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in the carpark, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways and for different things, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favourite, but deep down there's no such thing. So imagine the worst thing that could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmare.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349414653</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLast Passenger|author=Noah Hawley|title=Before the FallWill Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to accept the offer from the wife of a media mogul for a short plane ride, not realising it will shape the rest of his lifeNew York on ''Atlantica''. The private jet falls out of the skyCaz's sister, Gemma, making him reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a hero ring-shaped bulge in the way he saved the only other survivor, the mogulhis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's small son relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and heir JJthe trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many waysMeanwhile, especially when he realises that for some heGemma is looking after Caz's not so much the hero cafe as well as the murderertheir mother who has dementia. Are they rightIt's going to be good, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael PronkoMark Edwards|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)Keep Her Secret

|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar crime Matthew and Helena are in TokyoIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. It suits him: he gets The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to have his own officeencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which is rare. He's got space at home too: his girlfriend has not only left him, but she's moved back it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the States as wellrockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. He's yet Convinced she is going to ship all her boxes out die, Helena must purge herself of his apartment but when he's done that he'll be able the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to sleep in the bed againMatthew. White collar crime's usually non-violentJust moments later their heroic, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent in Boston when he was studying) and when an American businessman ends up dead under the last trainfrankly very well prepared, he's called Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to help. He could have done without having to see the body - or the people removing it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insistedsafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1942410123</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)Thirty Days of Darkness|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers |summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magicHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. No Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, flukes her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts way into a curious pull over Rosie. There's public argument with the eccentric academic who bustles latest hot shot in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those the world of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stonecrime fiction, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if saying he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivatingpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. It all adds Cue the bet that she cannot live up to looking like that accusation. Her publisher duly books her plans to sell the museum might need flights from Denmark to be delayedIceland, just where she is put up for a whilewintry month away from it all. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from Just on the point of despairing – about her comfort zonewriting, where to about the people and the lack of stimulus for her horrorplot, more or less about everything – word comes that the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Kerr0861544056|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Thrillers|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical heroBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. In 1939, he was stationed Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking NazisExeter. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of It's not only the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do first time they've been away from their parents for himself at that any length of time was - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to make himself indispensable have them all to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormannherself for a while. So when Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he is assigned didn't come but doesn't want to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitlerupset Kit. Ivo's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, apparently 'older': he knows that he needs 's twenty-four to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justiceKit's sake, eighteen but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes Belle figures that she can cope with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckythat. And they'll be sharing a bedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin ScottRobert Dugoni|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Her Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Whilst part Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of an SOE mission Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to kidnap a German commander his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to the deciphering defence of Linear Bhis clients. The war is now officially over (although a lot of people are still fighting itAlong with an indisputable talent for the law, mentally if not physically) and Forrester Patsy also has returned a gift for drinking himself to Athens with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting oblivion and inevitably the necessary permissions latter was beginning to go to Crete and retrieve overshadow the stoneformer. It was whilst they were Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning hideous position of asking her father for a Greek poet and where he found himself pursued by job at the family firm because a man wearing romantic entanglement with a masksenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester 5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is convinced that approaching the poet was not 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 intended victim: it should have been hunt for a general who has been approached to lead ELASkiller targeting pregnant women, with all the military arm of the Greek communistsextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. HeFinding 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 sort increasingly disturbing worry of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain warjust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Brogden1787301036|title=Hekla's ChildrenWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Nathan has a steady job as an outdoor pursuits instructor but thatWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's not his first careerjust ten years old. Ten years earlier heShe'd been s a teacher when it all went dreadfully wrong during an orienteering event for his secondary school studentscareful, meticulous child. Four young people disappeared suddenly but only one was found. Malnourished and in shockThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, Olivia was never able who is not prepared to tell anyone what happened. A decade later a body is founddiscuss the death of his wife, July's mother, Nathan starts having hallucinations and Olivia crosses his path againany hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Whatever began that day isnOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he't finisheds not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn'Evil will find a way throught have been resurfaced but for him.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654381</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath0008454493|title= AmnesiaAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in troubleIsabelle 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. He It's had now a nasty knock on year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the head night and now he can't remember anything Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about his life. In an attempt to recover his memories, he is sent to convalesce in a remote cottage her relief in the Scottish Highlands morning when she thought he was sleeping in the company of his old friend. In that year she's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems done everything she could to tell raise awareness about the story of case. She does interviews and when we meet her grandmother, she's murder years beforejust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside On the snow grows ever nearerplane back, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairshe's past approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who wants points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with ita few hundred people at conferences. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Grace Macallister1848458436|title= The Magician's LieJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|genre= Thrillers|summary= ''The Amazing Arden whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the most famous female illusionist story of her daytwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in half on stagethe same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe. When Arden The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's husband not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is found dead later that night, the answer seems clear, most of all to young policeman Virgil Holta neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Captured and taken into custody Lily hasn't said anything yet, all seems set for Ardenbut she's swift confessionpregnant. But she She has a different story lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbindingtempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Julia Bartz|title=The Legacy: Children's House Book 1Writing Retreat|rating=4.5

|summary=What do you wish for Roza Vallo. Anyone in your murder mysteries? An inventive death? Well you couldn't go much further than the unusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers hereworld of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a mother to a young familylegend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, whose husband published when she was abroad at a conferencebarely out of childhood. Do you seek awkwardAlex, unusual and/or conflicted investigators? Wella writer-slash-editor, here we have is more than a detective from the lower rankslittle obsessed with Roza, but the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and is stunned when, following a woman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims series of sex abuse. She's here because the only witness to the murder was Elisa's very young daughter. And lo and beholdunexpected events, the two adults have history. Do you require taunting clues as she is invited to why this crime will be repeated? You canpart of her month-long writers't do much better than the messages in numerals received by other characters and their untold threatretreat. So it's tick, tick, tick – but what of the question marks left by the prologue, where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the past?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621526</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice Feeney1800465270|title= Sometimes I Lie|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Christmas is barely over but Amber doesn't have much to celebrate. She's in a coma, trapped with an active mind but an inactive body, able to hear and understand but not respond to what is going on around her. And her mind's a little fuzzy on a few things too, like how she ended up there, who else was involved, and what it all means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008225354</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Lensky Connection|author= Sherri Smith|title= Follow Me Down|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Mia is done with the small town she grew up in, but it only takes one phone call to bring her back. Her twin brother Lucas is missing and, worse still, has been implicated in the death of one of his students. Without him there to speak for himself it becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get to the bottom of everything that has gone on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pam Jenoff|title=The Orphan's TaleConrad Delacroix

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Herr NeuroffWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's circus has a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source of entertainment, itJune 1995 and he's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fatesat the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. One such personHe's a pallbearer for his elder brother, AstridTimur, a trapeze whose death was drug-related. Valeri and high wire artistTimur's father, Keto, lives is also a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly actpallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. SheValeri thinks differently: he's an expert who has perfected her art over time determined to make his own stand against organised crime and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noaavenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a non-circus family new comerdubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, quicklya journalist. ThereShe's a reason behind the circus ownerdetermined to expose any and all corruption - and she's demand thoughless concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: To her, he's a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlandsgood source. It was For him, it's a spur of the moment decision that will bind her way to Astrid and their futureget information published, no matter how long… or short… a time that may which wouldn't otherwise bepossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>