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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Perry1399613073|title= Can You Keep a Secret?Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Thornbury Hall is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the grand ancestral home first day of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter with his wistful wife Heather medical school and their two childrenfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Patrick which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and Rachela trauma doctor. It Anjali is also the setting for many secrets 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 tragedies all of which resurface twenty it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later as Patrick reunites childhood there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, Niall, Marcus, Hilary and main character Lindsey, for one final party before selling the houseit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brenda NovakSunny Singh|title= Hello AgainHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred 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 trauma inflicted terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on her by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty years previouslysite, there is Sam, Evelyn Talbot works as a psychologist at Hanover Housewartime photographer and Abhi, a dumping ground the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for psychopathic criminals the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a remote corner bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Alaskaher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. A murder in Although they only ever talk over the nearby town seemed to indicate inmate involvementphone, but their friendship grows as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started Abhi tries to wonder whether Jasper might have returned to finally finish help her off. After a book full of false clues keep safe and misleading hints, it was a genuine shock they both wait to find out who was responsible after allsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Asa AvdicCody Goodfellow|title= The Dying GameVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=In There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a futuristic dystopian Swedengood view from up high, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except after all? Even the offer, drabbest office building is more of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and everything somewhere I'm intrigued to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Annaget inside if it's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the house. Once the experiment is finished, she will report her findings back to the chairman40 stories tall. However, while So when I picked up this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymorebook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Scoop of the YearNo Reserve|author=Tom ClaverFelix Francis

|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - accuratecame up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, dedicatedhadn't arrived, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoopso he continued his session. But Martin is also uninterested in To say that he was shocked when the culture that comes with reportingbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. He has a wife Brian Kitman and two daughters at home and he doesnElliot 'Mitch't want to waste time Mitchell were well-known and money respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the pub, talking macho nonsense with cubicles in the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab toilets when the limelight though - he also grabs two men came in and their conversation revealed that the promotion horse had been deliberately bid up to industrial correspondentthat figure. And Both were happy that is they had insurance in place. The following morning, the job Martin not only wanted, but neededhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1405951680|title= BonfireThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as Jess Walker accepted an environmental lawyer in Chicagooffer (OK, actually she has was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a thriving career, luxury property in the Australian outback for a modern apartment, and her pick couple of meaningless one-night standsmonths.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crackbreak she needed. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than She was no longer a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared data analyst for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies Metropolitan police in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as London: she tries desperately was Jess who was returning to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface the country of her birth and she begins in need of the space to doubt get over the traumatic end of her own observationsrelationship with Charles. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it will threaten A few weeks in the reputations, and lives, of Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume herticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Wilson1448309743|title= The Other WomanDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Based on In the blurb village of Cronchie on the backWest coast of Scotland, Sophie might not be the most likable heroinefive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She's a quote-unquote perfect woman, with The only item missing from the house, the husband, home is the children and Devil Stone: myth says that if the dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband stone is successfulremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch)in many ways, though therethat's a sort an easy conclusion given that two of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yesthem 'discovered' the body. So Sophie The Senior Investigating Office is the sort of womanDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, one imagines, who might rub other people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lackingDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen NormanB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Trading DownThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Chris Peters Our narrator was happy in his work for a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was promoted an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and sent back had money to London. throw around on a The job had it all: a hectic trading floorRolex watch, targets which were impossible vintage wines and some a state-of -the fastest computers in the world under his supervision-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. He's happy Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at home too: he and Olivia met Wolverton College in Hong Kong: now theyWellingford, the UK're married and thinking about starting a familys third most prestigious university. But ... has Before going up, he been promoted beyond took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his capabilities? There are those home, Clouds Manor in the bank who think so, particularly when things start to go badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sourWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon LelicDean Koontz|title= The Houseat the End of the World|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the houseWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, despite the fact that you can either suck it was crammed full of the seller's stuff up, saddle up and they had ride on or you can retreat to take your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the whole lot as a job lot. The seller had run off to Australia apparently map and was up for a quick sale, lock, stock live out your days in peace and barrelsolitude. Jack wasnThat's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob't so sure. He found s Ladder; and all would have been the place creepy, aforementioned peace and solitude were it wasn't just not for the stuffed birdspesky US Government occupying Ringrock, there was an air the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the place that he just didn't likeend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith1787636607|title= The Girl from VeniceTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= The romantic It's a scene replicated all too often in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at the close early hours of the war is enticement enoughmorning. Add Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a backdrop way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of partisans, Mussolini and the desperate fight few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the losing SS and my interest is certainly piquedoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but present particularly in the aforementioned along with light of 'the mystery of a missing women'. For one young woman found floating in , the Venice Lagoon in final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead of night . 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 resistance is futilein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr1529195977|title=By the Light None of a Liethis is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when On her best friend45th birthday, Erica, was killed Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in a hit-and-run accident (ifthe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, indeedtoo, it was an accident) but out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she really couldnwas just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary't understand why she should have been in Hammersmiths hospital. SheThat'd left s where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her getting into husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a taxi at 11 ojoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martinre not ''exactly'' rowdy, they's Lane and she was re enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her way home handbag close to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance her tummy and you get the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her waysense that Walter's not too happy. The police didnHe't seem likely s not used to pursue the case spending this much money on the grounds that a meal - but it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasnis Josie't going to leave her friend unavengeds birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Jon Halasz1803136383|title=The Prancing JacanaTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Mabel Pembrose's latest novel ''The Prancing Jacana'' Wat Tyler has been on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a couple of weeks: her husband, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything like as wellcloud. He writes children's books and his editor What actually happened out there is adamant that as he's writing gossiped about Snake and Mousenobody is sure exactly what took place, then Mouse has but an act of heroism leading to be eaten a rare battlefield commission followed by Snake, because that's how it works. Mabel's not completely free from problems though: her novel, set in Senegal, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky rank cowardice and he's gay in a country where same-sex sexual acts are outlawed and in consequence her book has been banned in disgrace seems to be the countryconsensus. The fact that it's banned isn't harming her sales in the US at all, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, as Mabel Pembrose Wat himself is her pen name - isn't content with this. She's been keeping his cards close to Senegalhis chest, loves the country and she'd like the book to be a bestseller there tooas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine BurnsB0C7J9D21B|title= The VisitorsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Marion Zetland When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives with her domineering older brotherat The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, Johnit's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge though - but for someone of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster his background in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bearslate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Marion does her best it's difficult to shut out the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellarobtain decent employment. Until, suddenly, John has a heart attack and Marion is forced to go down to The stint working with the cellar herself preparation of anchovies didn't work out and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hiddenbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. As questions are asked Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and secrets unravel, maybe John isn't the only one with it was not long before he had a successful business as a dark sideguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Viskic0241996104|title=Resurrection BayComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Caleb Zelic has just found his colleague Nancy's mother and lifelong friend murdered. The two – step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and a female police officer – were working as a private investigative groupher step-brother, tracking security flaws that led to a hugely costly warehouse robberyMartin, and all have training in has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the industrycourt, so they should have seen anything comingafter Martin receives a life sentence. Caleb wonThe barrister tells her that she't have heard it coming, however – hes received a 'silent sentence' - she's pretty much deaf, getting a cadence not been found guilty of speech and noise from hearing aids anything but needing will have to lipread or signlive with what happened for the rest of her life. The first signs that this murder is connected to the case are impossible to ignore – as indeed are hints that something really serious is going onOf course, when Caleb finds he canit't even trust s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the police looking into papers are making the murdermost of it. The case will cause him to go a lot further than he would ever want – which includes to the door of his errant brother, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and into the home of his recently-made-ex wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227362X</amazonuk>''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1529135389|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary=Rosie Strange is back - recovering after Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and figuring out what husband but opera was playing on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum she's recently inheritedstate-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. If Rosie had her way she They'd be selling not been in the museum architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and heading back were still getting used to her flat in London all the high- but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and Sam to a local businessman, didn't work as reliably as they find themselves embroiled in dark events once againshould. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant It had all come about through a ten-million- blood leaking from chandelierspound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, scrawled messages on the walls and apparitions walking through the wallstoo. Before Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though Eventually, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is Nicole found Tom dead in the restaurant - and the owner's daughter swears that swimming pool with a ghost was wound to blamehis head...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jessica JarlviAlan Parks|title= When I Wake UpTo Die in June|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Anna is in What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a coma. Only two people know who inflicted homeless man on the severe injuries that lead streets, suddenly starts to her lying there unmoving in feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the hospital bedmore so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, the culprit who won’t talkwith no fixed abode, and Anna who can’the has been for years. If At the same time as facing these possible murders, and it’s Harry is also dealing with a move to a big ifdifferent police station, she wakes up, she may remember what happened, but and the arrival there of course there’s a chance she quite literally did not know what hit woman who claims her. For her husband Eriklittle boy has gone missing, it’s an agonising waitonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. The police don’t seem that interested, Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has to know who was responsiblebeen stationed, and so he wonders whether he should do a bit of investigating himself. He shouldn’t, of course, because in a story like this there are secrets but can Harry uncover just waiting to be uncovered, and he may find that these are things he would rather have never known.what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786696096</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Parkin1529382823|title= The Winter's ChildLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz'A modern Gothic tale of twisted ) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love, secrets and hauntingswith Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica'' it says on the cover. ICaz'll go along with s sister, Gemma, reckons that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able Pete is going to tell the future, propose but that Caz hasn't stopped her spending spotted a fortune on psychics ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her sonshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Joel has They've not been missing a couple for five yearsthat long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. He skipped out of school one day Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after an argument at home and Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has not been seen sincedementia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk> It's going to be good, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K J LawrenceMark Edwards|title= The CossackKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he's a photographer of some merit Matthew and Helena are in his fifties he has a settled life. It was the disappearance of his assistantIceland, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was a rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first for himmet. He'd been distracted for a few days The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath- taking and then there were Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the strange papers joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which arrived, it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to be kept safe. The authorities, in the form rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a shadowy senior member 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the security servicesshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, confirmed the view that Ivan was probably deadcryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, because of some supposed connections with organised crime Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and drug dealingMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary FictionThrillers |summary= It's a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're truefailing if well-regarded literary short novels. Roddy Doyle put it differently in Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a recent interview public argument with ''Writing'' magazinethe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, when saying he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the English''bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. However you express itHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, that art of expression where she is woven into every other line of Clár's proseput up for a wintry month away from it all. Pick a page at random Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost in lack of stimulus for her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was Godplot, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes both.s nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White0861544056|title= From The ShadowsTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= IBelle and David'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan s twin daughters are just coming to the end of stories that can't keep their timeline straightfirst term at university. IKit'll go with a prologue – even if its been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at not only the beginning first time they've been away from their parents for any length of a story – time - but switching between they'nowve also been apart from each other. Belle can' and t wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn'a fortnight agot come but doesn' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else failst want to upset Kit. That, however, is my only little gripe about Ivo's apparently 'older'From The Shadows: he's twenty-four to Kit' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less works eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes StuartRobert Dugoni|title= My Name is SamHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary=Who is Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion life's work of the Sereia Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in their cosmos-spanning war defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the Gibbuslaw, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the main character in this storyformer. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and no memory of proven Seattle Prosecutor who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, finds herself in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision hideous position of asking her father for a job at the alien Sereiafamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, his mentors and guidesMiller Ambrose, had gone, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be savedrather spectacularly, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvessouth. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DibdinVanda Symon|title=The Room by the LakeExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary= What would life be like if you When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just packed up your things and left? This is ten years old. She's a thought that the main protagonist Caitlyn careful, meticulous child. The care has been mulling over for a while now but has never had the guts to do, until she reaches the final straw when taught by her father fails at sobriety once again. After throwing her phone in a river, Caitlyn takes herself to the airport where she ends up getting a plane to New York. From there her life completely changes as she meets Jake Mick Hooper, who seems to be just what she needs. As they grow closer she is invited not prepared to meet discuss the death of his familywife, butJuly's mother, in a house surrounded by forest and any hint that the conversation is miles away from civilisation, family takes on heading that way will lead to the necessity of a whole new meaningLesson. There you live by Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the motto injuries are visible. July''we s teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are here for each otherdismissed: Mick has been good to the school, and we are nothing without each other'has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Brown0008454493|title= BroadcastAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers Crime|summary=When David Callow is offered the lead role in Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a revolutionary new online showyear - well, he snatches at apart from the opportunityodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Rapidly becoming It's now a viral sensationyear since her son, David is propelled to stratospheric levels of celebrity. HoweverMason, he soon realises was stolen from his bed in the downside middle of sharing every secret the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the worldmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. A prisoner In that year she's done everything she could to both his fame raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and his own thoughtswhen we meet her, David seeks she's just been to have TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the chip removedplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, only who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to discover the chilling secret lurking a few hundred people at the heart of MindCast, and the terrifying ambition the show's creator has for himconferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica1848458436|title= Every Last LieJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Clara ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is mother to pre-schooler Maisie the story of two couples: Christian and newborn FelixLily Scott, but now she has a new label: widowand Nina and Jake Hayes. Her husband Nick The connection between the two is dead, killed that Lily and Nina teach in an awful car crash that thankfully spared his daughter's life when Felix is just the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a few days old. For Clara, thatfoursome but it's not the end of the nightmarea regular thing. As she works her way through grief Christian is a market research analyst and struggles to carry on for the children, she Jake is faced with some new worriesa neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Maisie isn Lily hasn't talking much about the accidentsaid anything yet, but she's having nightmares that make Clara question the police story of eventspregnant. There are things in Nick's personal possessions that are odd, things she She has never seen before. What's more, it turns out a lot was going on at Nick's work that he hadnlengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't shared with his wife. And, the more she starts want to look, tempt fate by making the more she wishes she could un-see and go back to how things wereknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WhitakerJulia Bartz|title= All The Wicked GirlsWriting Retreat|rating= 4|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In Roza Vallo. Anyone in the small town world of Gracepublishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missingagents want to represent her. A model student She's something of a legend with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that know started with herbreakthrough novel, the incident rocks the entire townpublished when she was barely out of childhood. It Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the yearthan a little obsessed with Roza, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcementstunned when, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streetsfollowing a series of unexpected events, no one she is safeinvited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>0861544439

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