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|isbn=147228612X1399613073|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillMoral Injuries|author=Alan JohnsonChristie Watson

|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonOlivia, although we probably haven't taken much notice Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep theminseparable for a quarter of a century. They live quietOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, uneventful lives which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and stay mostly under a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the radargroup and she becomes a GP. In When we first meet them they're at a city like London, that's quite easy drug and alcohol- fuelled party and even Garyit's three flatmates largely ignore himgoing to end in tragedy. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesnWe don't have know who suffered the couragetragedy or the consequences. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstersThis time, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeit's their teenage children who are involved.

|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00084336311804183210|title=Next No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of Kinthe cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Safe House|author=Kia AbdullahCameron Ward|rating=54|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro 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=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the End of the World|rating=4

|summary=It was the sort of thing When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephewthere is no one on your side, Maxyou can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a panicsmall chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. He That's what Katie thought she was supposed to be taking Max doing when she shut down her old life to school but hestart afresh on Jacob'd s Ladder; and all would have been called into work the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the delay neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out name of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could science and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into quite possibly bringing about the back end of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskall mankind.|isbn=1662453159

|isbn=17841652631787636607|title=Invite Me InThe Trap|author=Emma CurtisCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to be get home . Some are lucky and manage to make his lunch for get one o'clock on of the dot, despite few taxis available. Others squash onto the fact night bus that she was actually painting will only go as far as one of their properties prior to it being letthe outlying villages. If she didnThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem't get home, there would be troubleparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. There was some excuse: Martin was For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a paraplegic long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and confined to a wheelchair, collect her - but donher phone't be too quick s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to be understandinglet her use his. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in ElizaThere's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about no option but to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road start walking - unsuitably clothed and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablehigh-heeled shoes.

{{Frontpage |authorisbn=Robert Peston 1529195977|title=The Whistleblower None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=3 5

|summary=I'm not On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the first to point 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 how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thrillerthat not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, so Ithey were both born in St Mary'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originalitys hospital. It That's an interesting plot where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a good pacejoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, but it does very little they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to differentiate itself her tummy and I suspect before you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much time has passed I'll have forgotten money on a lot of meal - but itis Josie's birthday after all. |isbn=1838775242 }}

|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1803136383|title=Her Perfect FamilyTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=The novel begins Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisationconsensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, at the eleventh houras he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, that her graduation outfit his name is all wrongEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Suddenly Idyllic as this might sound, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He is 's not who he says he is…''been short of mothers, paving the way though - but for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist someone of eventshis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the midst preparation of her graduation ceremonyanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. With Gemma then in Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a coma, what follows is successful business as a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=00083709820241996104|title=Rock Paper ScissorsComing to Find You|author=Alice FeeneyJane Corry

|summary=Amelia Wright is fortyNancy's mother and step-two father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Her husbandWe first meet Nancy outside the court, Adam, isn't so keen on the ideaafter Martin receives a life sentence. Like Amelia, he knows The barrister tells her that their marriage has been under strain: heshe's received a screenwriter and he'silent sentence' - she's never shy not been found guilty of making it clear anything but will have to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time live with what happened for the novels he's hoping to adapt than with rest of herlife. AmeliaOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's annoyed that he never enquires about how rich - she inherited five million pounds from her day has been mother - and working with the dogs, many papers are making the most of whom have been abused, is never easyit. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=00084217141529135389|title=Mrs MarchThe Fall|author=Virginia FeitoGilly Macmillan

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the publication of George March's most successful novel to datecounty fair before she returned home. Everyone There was no sign of her husband but Mrs March (we know her first name only opera was playing on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done sostate-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Every day Mrs March went to They'd not been in the local patisserie architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping all the bread, ''but isnhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't this the first time he's based work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a character on you?'' She mentioned ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that Johannasort of money, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''too. Perhaps this would not have matteredEventually, except for Nicole found Tom dead in the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''swimming pool with a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchwound to his head.''

|isbnauthor=0241989094Alan Parks|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodTo Die in June

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-homeless man on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrenstreets, Lavendersuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, Freddie and Barclaythen another. The boys are a bit of a handful which This is why she's making this trip on her worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his ownfather is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. The house would be perfect for them. It's At the same month but now we're in Wimbledon time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and we encounter the same young arrival there of a womanwho claims her little boy has gone missing, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where she's he has been since she broke up with her boyfriendstationed, Connor.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=17876344931529382823|title=All Her FaultThe Last Passenger|author=Andrea MaraWill Dean

|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, They're off on a cruise to go New York on a play date''Atlantica''. She was concerned Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that he didnPete is going to propose but Caz hasn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School spotted a ring-shaped bulge in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - suit pocket and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didnshe doesn't know Jenny whether she's relieved or Jacobdisappointed. The phone number sheThey'd ve not been given a couple for Jenny was not recognisedthat long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Milo had disappearedMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. And so had JennyIt's nanny.going to be good, isn't it?

|author=Claire McGowanMark Edwards|title=I Know YouKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the 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 walk ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the baby, Carson, snagged strap of her rucksack between her and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down500 foot drop to certain death below. ''Now:'' Rachel Convinced she is out for going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a walk with her dogpanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, Brandyand frankly very well prepared, when she comes across a body Icelandic tour guide swoops in the woodsand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena. |isbn=1542019974166250893X

|author=Peter PapathanasiouJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The StoningThirty Days of Darkness

|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, Belle and sheDavid's been taped twin daughters are just coming to a tree and shethe end of their first term at university. Kit's had rocks bowled been at her as if she were the worldBristol and Jess's tallest cricket stumpsin Exeter. When she It's discovered by not only the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come first time they've been away from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, their parents for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival any length of George Manolis, a higher rank time - but they've also been apart from the city, each other. Belle can't wait to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going have them all to welcome herself for a Greekwhile. Then Kit rings up -heritaged city boy laying down the lawcan she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|isbn=1529416973

|isbnauthor=1787631869Robert Dugoni|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy LockePatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's early life hadnwork of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 't been easy but sheThe Irish Brawler'd built a good and decent life due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in the aftermathdefence of his clients. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point Along with Billiean indisputable talent for the law, Lucy's daughter Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and Fin, inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the child she had with Danielformer. They have financial difficultiesEnter Keera Duggan, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner former competitive chess prodigy and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a history together from job at the time they both spent in family firm because a romantic entanglement with a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heartsenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, particularly where Lucyhad gone, or moneyrather spectacularly, is concernedsouth.|isbn=1662500181

|isbnauthor=1786332388Vanda Symon|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing her maternity leave when there is superb and completely compellinga brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. The characterisation is excellent and Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the plot grips you and won't let go. Sohunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, what's with all the problem? extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. WellFinding herself put on desk duties, the problem is Chrissiewhich she rails against, she just can't let the main character. When we first meet her case go and shestarts to follow every thread to uncover what's just eight years oldactually happening, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's the increasingly disturbing worry of just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upmight happen next. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?|isbn=1914585577

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1787301036|title=The Lies We TellWhat July Knew|author=Jane CorryEmily Koch|rating=45

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up When we first meet July Hooper on a council estate in Kent and that 20 July 1995 she had two brothers and two sisters's just ten years old. It seemed to have been She's a lovingcareful, stable familymeticulous child. When we first meet The care has been taught by herfather, she can't sleep because her sonMick Hooper, Freddiewho is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, whoJuly's nearly sixteenmother, hasn't come home by and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the time he sort necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of half-promised his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he'd be in bys not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Her husband, Tom, July's teacher is fast asleep: they're moving house in concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the morning head but he's still going her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to be going to work and the school, has he needs his sleep. not? He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him tell his mother that he's killed someone.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0008454493|title=The HeightsAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran '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 dayLily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. She The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's on site, visiting not a client for regular thing. Christian is a lighting consultation when she spies him market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in a building across the waycommon except their wives. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London Lily hasn't said anything yet, but this isnshe't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other days pregnant. Why? Because Kieran She has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because lengthy history of miscarriages so she had a hand in his murderdoesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|isbn=1471183483

|isbnauthor=1838853804Julia Bartz|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayWriting Retreat

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only agents want to find that he'd hanged himselfrepresent her. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sistersomething of a legend with an impressive, Melissaif compact, who is dying back catalogue of anorexia. As she diesworks that started with her breakthrough novel, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did published when she mean? There were lots was barely out of things, minor and major crueltieschildhood. Alex, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything writer- Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply slash- but there did seem to be editor, is more than a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problemslittle obsessed with Roza, Megan was deaf and their motheris stunned when, Bethfollowing a series of unexpected events, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for is invited to be part of her elder daughtermonth-long writers's funeral?retreat.|isbn=0861544439

|isbn=14091816691800465270|title=The MaidensLensky Connection|author=Alex MichaelidesConrad Delacroix|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and looked likely to get away with them bothhe's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug- had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgerelated. She'd been brutally stabbed Valeri and MarianaTimur's niecefather, ZoeKeto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had telephoned her in distressbecome. Tara had been her best friend Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and she was struggling avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to copeMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Mariana wasnShe't ''entirely'' happy about having s determined to go to Cambridge, but expose any and all corruption - and she caught the first fast train from King's Crossless concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaTo her, he's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliergood source. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeFor him, it's mother and Marianaa way to get information published, which wouldn's sister, Elizat otherwise be possible.