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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sinead CrowleySunny Singh|title=Can Anybody Help Me?Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|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
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|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parentsThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. HoweverWho doesn't love a good view from up high, as theyafter all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I've only recently moved m intrigued to Gerryget inside if it's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns the lack of a support network40 stories tall. This all changes So when she turns to Mammynet, a web-based online forum and chat room I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for new and soon-to-be mums. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then the friend disappears without warningfun – I was instantly intrigued. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of a young woman. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=The AbductionNo Reserve|author=Jonathan HoltFelix Francis
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|summary=The teenage daughter of a US Army Major is kidnapped Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when off basecamp at a Venetian nightclub. She is abducted by a masked team during the carnevale celebrationscolt - 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 people not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hiddenthe 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. Everything about Jennings was in one of the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little cubicles in the way of clues apart from toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the very fact horse had been deliberately bid up to that it is carried out with such military precisionfigure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=SoloThe Safe House|author=William BoydCameron Ward
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|summary=Like Sherlock HolmesJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, Aliceactually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, or even Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the characters from Australian outback for a couple of months. After the Bibleproblems she'd had at work, James Bond is no longer it seemed like just the property of its original authorbreak she needed. Ian Fleming may have had She was no longer a data analyst for the imagination Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to create Bond, but since ''Casino Royale'' rolled onto the scene Bond has been a changing man who mimics country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the times he currently finds himself intraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. William Boyd’s ''Solo'' reverts back to Fleming’s original timeline and continues A few weeks in the story of that Bond, but is this a reflection of Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the past or today?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>ticket.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal1448309743|title=The Book of YouDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Clarissa is 38In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, secretary to a university department head and just emerging from five members of a broken relationshipwealthy family are found murdered. Rafe also works for The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the universitystone is removed from Otterburn House, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants himdeath will follow. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's absolutely certain she doesan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runsDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Atlantis GeneLast Person in the World|author=AG RiddleMatthew Tree|rating=3.54
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|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is 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 the tail of a large terrorist organisation. He's been after them since 9/11 Rolex watch, but the huge scope vintage wines and a state-of -the organisation makes them difficult to pin down or predict-art sound system. His only leads are a few cryptic messages from the 1940s Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and research scientist Dr Kate Warnercertainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who has become intricately connected with had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the terrorists without knowing itUK'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|author=Adam HamdyDean Koontz|title=PhaseThe House at the End of the World
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|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped When you experience overwhelming tragedy and since feel that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriagethere is no one on your side, his relationship with his sonyou can either suck it up, his job saddle up and - ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in all probability - his sanity. He's reached a small chain of tiny dots on the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option map and live out your days in peace and many of his actions are irrationalsolitude. If any part of this can be described as having an upside itThat's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached what Katie thought she was doing when an she shut down her old friend refers life to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amberstart afresh on Jacob's abductionLadder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=A Love Like BloodThe Trap|author=Marcus SedgwickCatherine Ryan Howard
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|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=One day towards It's a scene replicated all too often in the end early hours of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of antiquities just outside clubs and looking for a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeway to get home. While Some are lucky and manage to get one of the other looks at few taxis available. Others squash onto the unusual ancient artefactsnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker particularly in the groundslight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, squatting over the final stop on the bus leaves her a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from long way short of her necklinehome. Years later, Jackson returns She had intended to Paris for reasons ring someone to do with his medical career, come and finds collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the same man in the company of someone who, were he only aware of chance to beg the fact, is bus driver to become the first and possibly only love of let her use his life. But thatThere's not the only time the paths of Jackson no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liz Nugent1529195977|title=Unravelling OliverNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5
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|summary=Oliver had expected more On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of a reaction friends in the first time that he hit AliceLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, but only she was just lay on the floor holding with her jawhusband, Walter. He was stunned It turns out that he could do this to his wifenot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, but later that evening he returned and beat her so viciously that she lapsed into a comathey were both born in St Mary's hospital. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was That's where the man otherwise known as Vincent Daxsimilarities end, famous writer though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of children's books and he and Alice (she'd illustrated the books) had lived a life joyful, monied group of ease friends and privilegewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. In Josie, on the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the story of what had happened over the last five decades and how sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this had led to his becoming much money on a monstermeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1803136383|title=The Madness of JulyTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
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|summary=A dead body is found Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in a Houses Vietnam under something of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer daycloud. A sinister enough event normally What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concerns. The fact the deceased has Will's phone number in his pocket triggers a series an act of events that not only tests his loyalty heroism leading to work, country a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and family but will take Will from disgrace seems to be the everyday political cut and thrust consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his old job. The job chest, as he hoped he'd walked away from: spyingalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil HoganB0C7J9D21B|title=A Pleasure and a CallingCaptive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
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|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it rightWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. He owns Idyllic as this might sound, it's a successful estate agency bordello and yet isnEttore't too noticeables mother died when he was born. He's helpfulnot been short of mothers, though - but not for someone of his background in a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just the way he likes late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it, living a life that assists society's difficult to obtain decent employment. Take the time he entered The stint working with the home preparation of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dog's leavings for instance. It's ok – Heming anchovies didn't break inwork out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. He already has the key Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as he once sold the housea guide for visitors. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually kept, you wonder? The answer's easy: all of themHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Jawbone LakeComing to Find You|author=Ray RobinsonJane Corry|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty on her plate Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and New Year’s Day brings her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a lot more worrieslife sentence. Rabbit witnesses The barrister tells her that she's received a car careen off a bridge into a lake ('silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by what happened for the pursuer. The victim rest of the crash was a larger than her life man called CJ . Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and attempts to rediscover who his father was''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Atheist's PrayerFall|author=Amy R BiddleGilly Macmillan|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. On There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the surface ''-art music system installed in The Atheist’s PrayerGlass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn' t work as reliably as they should. would seem It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? Buthaving that sort of money, is it really that shocking? Nopetoo. This is a story about how people deal Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupwound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No Regrets, CoyoteAlan Parks|authortitle=John DufresneTo Die in June
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You may or may not be aware that there is What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a style known homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as the South Florida Noiranother body is discovered, and then another. The action tends to take place in daylight This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, in but all the glare of the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleyways. If you’re not familiar more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with South Florida Noirno fixed abode, ''No Regretsand he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Coyote'' Harry is also dealing with a good place move to start. And if you area different police station, welland the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, be assured that it is a perfectly crafted example only no record of the genreboy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Parker1529382823|title=The Baby and the BrandyLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken heCaroline Riley (she prefers 's a free man, but itCaz's the first time ) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in many long monthslove with Pete. Twenty minutes before he had escaped from HMP Manchester, better known They're off on a cruise to many people as StrangewaysNew York on ''Atlantica''. He had been an army captain Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but heCaz hasn'd been forced into t spotted a situation where he felt that he had no option but to act against the law and this resulted ring-shaped bulge in his dishonourable discharge suit pocket and the prison sentenceshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. It did nothing They've not been a couple for his relationship with his parents eitherthat long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Right now heMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's not got that many people he can call friends but hecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's buoyed by a feeling of patriotismgoing to be good, despite whatisn's happened to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Then We Take BerlinMark Edwards|authortitle=John LawtonKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
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|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-era thriller? Especially one that also covers landscape of the already saturated Second World War years? Well yeslava 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 ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the thriller in question snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is John Lawton's new offeringgoing to die, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like a chant from a mob Helena must purge herself of England football fans rampaging through Germany in the 1980sshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John 'Joe' Holdernesscryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, better known as Wilderness Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to all of his female acquantancessafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RiceJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Heavens RiseThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; she wants him Hannah presents as much as he obsesses about heran unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. He's certain until Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a late night struggle public argument with the latest hot shot in her familythe world of crime fiction, saying he's swimming pool disavows him of the ideapopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. However they aren't alone in Cue the waterbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Something unwelcome and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities and their futuresHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Fast forward through Just on the years point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and Marshall is completely paralysed yetthe lack of stimulus for her plot, oddly, things die around him. And Niquette? Shemore or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's missing along with the rest of her family.nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Warm BodiesTwin Truths|author=Isaac MarionJacqueline Sutherland
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|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back Belle and forth between David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit'Rs been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It' a zombie who has retained a bit more of s not only the power first time they've been away from their parents for any length of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has time - but they've also been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to truly care about othersherself for a while. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but Julie also held on doesn't want to more of the traits that I upset Kit. feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, Ivo's apparently 'Molder'', R: he's best friend and Nora, Julietwenty-four to Kit's closest friend and confidanteighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Isaac MarionHer Deadly Game
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|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of finishing it. I couldnPatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler't with this onedue to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied Along with an indisputable talent for the endinglaw, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I inevitably the latter wasbeginning to overshadow the former. This book was written as a prequel Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and most proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with family firm because a 5 star rating romantic entanglement with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever readgone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AbominationVanda Symon|authortitle=Jonathan HoltExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of the Italian Carabinieri police forceher maternity leave when there is a brutal, Holly Boland, a Second Lieutenant shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the US Army and Daniele Barbo hunt for a reclusive web expertkiller targeting pregnant women, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events with all the extra pressure that become more and more entwinedentails being pregnant herself. Their collective probing uncovers a massive conspiracy and seems to implicate the US Army Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the Catholic Church case go and the Italian Mafia, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best not she starts to follow every thread to rile in any wayuncover what's actually happening, as and the three characters are quick to discoverincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185369X</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A P McCoy1787301036|title=Taking the FallWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5
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|summary=Back in the nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a promising conditional jockey - a talented rider who should never have been short of a ridecareful, but he was struggling, probably because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shutmeticulous child. He'd The care has been taught everything he knew by his her father, CharlieMick Hooper, a trainer whose reputation was ruined when personal rivalries got out who is not prepared to discuss the death of hand. He hasnhis wife, July't been able s mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to set foot on the necessity of a racecourse sinceLesson. His sonOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's determined to beat not even careful about whether or not the top jockeys injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to bring down the men responsible for what happened to his fatherschool, but can he do both or will has he not? The playground wouldn't have to make some hard choices?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409129578</amazonuk>been resurfaced but for him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=Bronze GodsAll the Dangerous Things|author=A A AguireStacy Willingham|rating=4.5
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|summary=One Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the many reasons I love fantasy middle of the night and Izzy is discovering consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the new worlds morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the authors have createdcase. Where is She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, et ceteraWaylon Spencer, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating who points out that she could do a podcast and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings of get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a really good timefew hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexa Camouro1848458436|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living a complicated life in Hamburg. She juggles her live-in, ambitious, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employees. But however complicated that seems, it's about to get worse. 'The police come for her in the early hourswhole thing has spiralled out of control, although itturning into someone I's m not till she's ensconced in the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged with espionage and murder. The problem is complex but the answer is simple: she must escape to prove her innocence. Having said that, 'simple' is a relative term. From the language school for which she works to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping up, nothing is what it seems, including Dixon Grace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreview|title=Hell to PayFrontpage|author=Jenny Thomson|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy is trying to escape a naff Christmas with her naff boyfriend, but walks into a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary at her parents' home – a professional, violent, nay fatal, burglary. When she comes out of a therapeutic stay in an institute afterwards, she's seeking one thing – revenge. Her brother and his rap sheet might have something to do with those responsible, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJulia Bartz|title=The Shanghai Factor|author=Charles McCarryWriting Retreat
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|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy Roza Vallo. Anyone in China whose mission is the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to improve his Mandarin and attempt be her, agents want to blend as best he can into Shanghai societyrepresent her. A chance meeting results in She's something of a legend with an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) more than a little obsessed with Roza, and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates stunned when, following a series of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable unexpected events, she is invited to both the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming a pawn in a high stakes game be part of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsher month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=High RollersThe Lensky Connection|author=Jack BowmanConrad Delacroix|rating=34.5
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|summary=Tom Patrick is a far from popular air crash investigatorWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, who is nonetheless it's June 1995 and he's at the best there isSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He has more than ruffled 's a few feathers pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is suspended from working on casesalso a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Despite this the largest case Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his career is forced upon obsession will have cost him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalities. Tom recognises his marriage to Marisha and created a possible dubious link between the two with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and potentially many more airplanesshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a link that could uncover good source. For him, it's a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracyway to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>
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