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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1399613073|title=Traitor's Field|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1648 and the embers of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth. However, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longs. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among the confusion and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Paula Daly|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Christie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Lisa Kallisto Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is almost the typical Mumruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She's got Laura is a husband perfectionist and three children a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she's permanently tiredbecomes a GP. Her fullWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life fuelled party and sheit's constantly chasing around trying going to catch up with what she ought to have doneend in tragedy. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and they can only just manage to afford We don't know who suffered the rent on their cottage in tragedy or the picturesque lake districtconsequences. It's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl Twenty- really only a child - is abducted and brutally raped. Then another girl of about five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for her safetythree friends. What do you sayThis time, what do you do in that situation? Lisa is about to find outit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John le CarreSunny Singh|title=A Delicate TruthHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 2008 and Paul The Hotel Arcadia is recruited by, apparently, the government to assist a luxury hotel in an undercover operation in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a cell of Al Qaedaterrorist group. Paul performsHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is thanked Sam, a wartime photographer and taken home without complicationsAbhi, the hotel manager. Fast forward As Abhi continues to 2011 and Toby Bell is promoted try to care remotely for the role 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 private secretary for Paulher room to try to capture what's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnhappened through her photography. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers the story of Although they only ever talk over the missionphone, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been their friendship grows as straightforward as all that. Quinn also appears Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seems, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life see if they will never be rescued before they are discovered by the same againterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerald WixeyCody Goodfellow|title=4 Bones SleepingVertical

|summary=There's quite a contrast between the settings in ''4 Bones Sleeping''. To begin with there's the time. Just something about everything tall buildings that happens goes back to the end of the Second World War and just afterwardscaptures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, when people were coming to terms with having won after all? Even the war, but not quite knowing what drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to do with the peace. Then thereget inside if it's 1980 40 stories tall. So when we wondered if we'd won the war, but lost the peaceI picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the post-war years, but what are they all doing in a one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? And where did the money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper and make Harry the landlord of the pub?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader1804183210|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary= Jack McClureThirty-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, aide and friend to the US presidentchairman, hadn't arrived, is back at work after the death of so he continued his daughter and session. To say that he was shocked when the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughter, Allibidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. However, Jack hasnBrian Kitman and Elliot 't fully recovered; heMitch's still Mitchell were well-known and respected in mourning and full of self-recrimination but the show must go onracing industry. When an American senator is killed Jennings was in one of the cubicles in Capri Jack's on hand to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantichorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Apparently not all the President's closest advisors can be trusted and Both were happy that's not Jack's only complicationthey had insurance in place. After Alli's traumatic experiences at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trustsThe following morning, so she's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water and a few murdershorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Thomas1405951680|title=Maria & The DevilSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her alone in friend, Rupert) to caretake a secluded cabin deep luxury property in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitude, she develops Australian outback for a familiar routine that feels safecouple of months. But After the isolation is pervasive and Mariaproblems she's defences against d had at work, it are crumblingseemed like just the break she needed. And while She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she waits for was Jess who was returning to the country of her lover birth and in need of the space to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking get over the Devil traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in a relentless quest for revenge. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return Otway Ranges in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>Victoria sounded like just the ticket.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1448309743|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians Devil Stone (Britain's allyDCI Christine Caplan) retain most of mainland Europe. The Briton in the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould 'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differently. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, the same warlocks that are now being murdered. However, fighting over, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideas. For the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped with the super powers of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie Hannah|title=The CarrierCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54

|summary= Due to a delayed flight homeIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Gaby has to stay overnight in five members of a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenwealthy family are found murdered. During The only item missing from the night Lauren tells Gaby about a man charged with home is the murder of his paralysed wife. At this point two things strike GabyDevil Stone: 1. Lauren believes him to be innocentmyth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. 2. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's Tim Breary, Gabyan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's former lover with whom she has unfinished businessthe body. Once home Gaby The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is determined pulled in to prove his innocence but that's easier said than doneshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin HugglerB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Burden of The Last Person in the DesertWorld|author=Matthew Tree|rating=54

|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe her luck when she's sent to Iraq to cover Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the birth of an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run outLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Mahmoud earns his It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intact. throw around on a HoweverRolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in love-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Rick Benes is one Finns had no intention of the American soldiers going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the news, his only ambition being to get his platoon home safely as IraqUK's birth pangs are violent and unrelentingthird most prestigious university. And then there's AdelBefore going up, he took up a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed loose invitation to visit Ralph at his familyhome, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=J E RyderDean Koontz|title=Blood PoolThe House at the End of the World

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to become your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the owner of a boatyard when her husband died map and live out your days in a cliff fallpeace and solitude. She had worked in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - for quite some time but itThat's the men of the Shelley what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob'blood pool' who s Ladder; and all would have always inherited been the land aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the past two hundred years. She was aware of ill-feeling against her in the villagepesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself neighbouring island and for the staff she employed. There was some support perpetrating all manner of mischief in the village - an old friend, known to one name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all as 'the Prof' - had always been there for her and willing to listen to her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstancesmankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>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. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go 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, the 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. 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 in high-heeled shoes.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn1529195977|title=Gone GirlNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=There’s On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a distressing moment crowd of friends in any long-term relationship where you realise 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 thatnot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in practiceSt Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, happily ever after looks a lot like an eternity of smallthough: Alix, with her husband, snarling arguments about who forgot to buy foodNathan, who should take out the rubbish and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes are in the corner midst of the bedroom. Domestic bliss is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want to spend the rest a joyful, monied group of their lives fighting about it. You friends and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you arewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break downthey're enjoying themselves. You aren’t them Josie, and they aren’t youon the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and so you can never truly know what’s really going get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on inside that wella meal -known headbut it is Josie's birthday after all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel O'Malley1803136383|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter Wat Tyler has returned from Myfanwy Thomas, the previous inhabiter fighting in Vietnam under something of her bodya cloud. Myfanwy tells a strange story What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of working for 'the Checquy', heroism leading to a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated rare battlefield commission followed by a web of betrayal rank cowardice and dangerdisgrace seems to be the consensus. The problem Wat himself is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (so to speakMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. The amnesiac has Idyllic as this might sound, it's a clear choice: to continue Myfanwybordello and Ettore's investigation or to do a runnermother died when he was born. ItHe's her decision not been short of mothers, though - but Myfanwyfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you deaddifficult to obtain decent employment.'' Something for her to bear in mind along The stint working with the fatal, unintended consequences preparation of permitting cheap cheese into the UKanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Furst0241996104|title=The Spies of WarsawComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The reluctant, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jeanbarrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' -Francois Mercier is military attaché she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the French embassy in the Warsaw rest of 1937her life. Decorated during World War IOf course, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who the papers are encouraged or coerced to work against making the interests most of other statesit. He watches whilst Poland ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is squeezed between undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Nazis county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on one side and the increasing profile state-of Stalin -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Russia on were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other, convinced and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that war will not only be inevitablesort of money, but soontoo. HoweverEventually, no one will listen to him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from Nicole found Tom dead in the onslaught swimming pool with a wound to followhis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy McLellanAlan Parks|title=The Orchid FieldTo Die in June

|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change of employer Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is going to be to her advantage. An illmiddle-advised fling aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with her boss is causing her embarrassment at work, particularly now that he has a new born childPete. An offer of They're off on a job that would take her out cruise to Mexico to do a report New York on an off-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to miss''Atlantica''. In Mexico Inspector Cortez Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is languishing in Port Luz going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the back of beyond, sent in disgrace from his post in the citysuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. He knows They've not been a couple for that he’s not - long and never has been - corrupt but no one else believes the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know hima bit better. In fact it’s seen Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as normaltheir mother who has dementia. Then a body appears on the beach and the local fishermen point out into the gulf and tell him that It's going to be good, isn't it came from there. When he looks more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R Julian CoxMark Edwards|title=Shadow on the SunKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=There's always been a quandary for Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the ethicallylava fields and black beaches is breath-minded scientist - what taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to do when your scientific discoveries can be used for less-than-ethical purposes. Robert Oppenheimer faced encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this problem moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when his work as a theoretical physicist resulted in the atomic bombings edge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation ravine gives way and - unbelievably - Helena finds herself clinging to the consequences could be even more far reaching than rockface with just the consequences snagged strap of Oppenheimer's workher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. There's Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well as with his professional ethicsprepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy BoothJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=You could be forgiven Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely heroafternoon at a book fair, given his occupation as she flukes her way into a seller public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of second hand bookscrime fiction, but saying he has some illustrious connections, not least 's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to Sir Frederick Applebythat accusation. Some say that ''he'' runs the country and Appleby's deputyHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, Peter Tyndale where she is married to Debrett's sister, Celiaput up for a wintry month away from it all. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths Just on a French island which hadn't elicited a single cry the point of grief from a relativedespairing – about her writing, but we join about the story as Appleby asks Debrett to attend people and the funeral in France lack of a former business partnerstimulus for her plot, Arthur Moreau. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries more or less about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from everything – word comes that the deceased over recent years helandlady's thought to be the person best able to obtain the answers.nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly0861544056|title=The Burning AirTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary= Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the Macbridesfirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they' annual Guy Fawkesve also been apart from each other. Belle can' weekend trip t wait to have them all to their Devon holiday herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can 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 much has changed since the last Bonfire NightBelle figures that she can cope with that. Their mother Lydia And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has died, their father Rowan copes only with alcoholic aid and been the marriage life's work of Sophie and Will has fireworks Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of its ownhis clients. Some happiness exists though: Tara Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and partner Matt are deeply in love and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the gatheringformer. Her name's Kerry Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and, by proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the end hideous position of asking her father for a job at the weekendfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, she'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse to remain buriedsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OldfieldVanda Symon|title=The SentinelExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Plaza De Toros, Badajoz, 15th August 1936: a group of prisoners are marched across Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the sands start of the bullringher maternity leave when there is a brutal, lined up against the barrera and, mown down rifle-fire. The first group shocking murder of many. Cut to 2009an expectant woman in Dunedin. In Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the mountains known as hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the Sierra de Gredos in central Spain, there was mineextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953. On another newbie-assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez is about Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to find out whyuncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Forbes1787301036|title=The Soldier's StoryWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his post-war demob from the British army in Germany while tracking down wrong-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminalsWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. Although fraternisation with locals The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is still frowned onnot prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, Alex meets and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a chance meetingLesson. United by their love Other infractions of books, Alex becomes a regular visitor his requirements also lead to the Professorthese Lessons and he's homenot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. However books arenJuly't s teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the only attractionhead but her worries are dismissed: Alex gradually falls in love with Mick has been good to the Professor's daughterschool, Lisa. has he not? Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers a secret that will rip to the core of AlexThe playground wouldn's loyalties and jeopardise more than just their lovet have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman0008454493|title=The Double GameAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=American Bill Cage is Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a middleyear -aged PR man who worships at well, apart from the shrine odd occasion when she lost track of spy novelstime or drifted off for a moment. It's now a love year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's inherited from widowed diplomat fatherdone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. (BillShe does interviews and when we meet her, she's mother having died in an accident when he was very youngjust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation.) He fondly remembers his childhood as he travelled from posting On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to posting with his dad and their vast spy fiction librarya few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Barr1848458436|title=StrandedJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=3.54

|summary=After her marriage ends Esther finds herself dreaming ''The whole thing has spiralled out of getting away, running away for a while, to an island paradise. She decides to make a trip to Malaysia, but a day trip out to a small, remote island finds her stranded therecontrol, along with several other people, when their guide does turning into someone I'm not return to pick them up. There is no way home without a boat. Will this group of stranded strangers manage to survive, or will suspicions and tensions get the better of them as they wait to be rescued?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538797X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Alex Churton|title=''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The Babylon Gene|rating=2couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Author of popular scientific philosophy, Dr Toby Ashe, Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is also a covert member of neurosurgeon: they don'Oddballst have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a multi-skilled section lengthy history of British Intelligence. Their purpose is miscarriages so she doesn't want to profile and identify tempt fate by making the rise of terrorists and their organisations before too much damage is doneknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800119</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GrishamJulia Bartz|title=The RacketeerWriting Retreat

|summary=''He didn't believe Roza Vallo. Anyone in coincidences but he did believe in conspiraciesthe world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her.She'' Little does Montey Greene know how well this motto will serve hims something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Aside from Alex, a brief holdwriter-up at customsslash-editor, Montey is thoroughly enjoying his holiday in Milan. Recently separated from his wifemore than a little obsessed with Roza, he's enjoying eyeing up all the lovely Italian womenand is stunned when, meeting up with friendsfollowing a series of unexpected events, and just generally pleasing himselfshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0985440813</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hamdy1800465270|title=BattalionThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=WeWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it're twenty years or so into the future s June 1995 and he's at the world is desperately short of oilSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Trouble always follows such He's a situationpallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. There are energy shortagesValeri and Timur's father, Keto, economies are contracting is also a pallbearer and the threat from terrorism is constanthe's disgusted by what his son had become. The CIA Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and the FBI were amalgamated some time ago avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and agent Scott Pierce of the FSA is hunting the man known as The Spidercreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. HeShe's been in deep cover determined to expose any and all corruption - including a prison sentence - but this isnand she't just work s less concerned than she ought to himbe about her own safety. The Spider was responsible for the Eurostar bombing which cost Pierce his wife and To her, he's determined to see the man deada good source. The fact that The Spider is determined to strike at the heart of AmericaFor him, it's democratic institutions and bring her a way to her knees is get information published, which wouldn''almost'' secondaryt otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B009L64TLU</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 1939 and Lt Commander Raybould 'Pip' Marsh of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service travels to Portugal to smuggle out Krasnopolsky, a fascist with a secret. However things don't go to plan. Krasnopolsky nerves are justified as, in the time it takes to order drinks, he spontaneously combusts. Marsh is too late to extinguish him but manages to retrieve Krasnopolsky's case to take back home. He finds the surprises keep on coming: it contains film footage of people becoming 'insubstantial' whilst walking through walls, others absorbing bullets and some bursting into flames with no apparent side-effects (unlike poor Mr Krasnopolsky). Marsh realises the Nazis' unconventional weapons need an unconventional response and so calls on Lord William Beauclerk who happens to be a warlock. Operation Milkweed is Move on so let other-worldly battle commence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Even Flow|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jonathon Bailey, Cathy Morrissey and Patrick Broder of Network 4 News sit in a viewing room unable to believe their eyes as the courier-delivered VT flickers in front of them. Wealthy banker's son and society playboy Cliff Hudson seems to be suspended from the top of a tall building by his ankles. He's tied to a friend identified as 'Steve', both terror stricken and whimpering an apology prompted by three men oddly dressed in tuxedos and balaclavas. As the city will soon come to realise, these men (pseudonyms Wilde, Whitman and Waters) are the 3W Gang, sworn to do society's dirty work for it as they isolate and punish bigots. Crusaders or criminals? Detective Danny Everard of the NYPD doesn't have the luxury of choosing, just the headache of trying to catch them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780991312</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Terrin|title=The Guard|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job is not that great. They and they alone are responsible for protecting the building they live in. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immense, palatial apartments inhabited by the ultra-rich, the only way in is through the basement carpark, where they reside in their own small patch of territory. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash of munitions twice a day, even if nothing could possibly interfere with their supply of bullets, and navigating around the large expanse of space where each of the forty floors above them has space for three supercars. But while one seems to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming owner's wives, the other seems to be hearing things that might not actually be there to be heard…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]