Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Don't Stand So CloseMoral Injuries|author=Luana LewisChristie Watson

|summary=It’s cold outsideOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Dark Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Snow Laura is fallinga perfectionist and a trauma doctor. You Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're safe inside. Of course you are, youat a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it've not left the house s going to end in monthstragedy. You We don're alone, but you feel safe insidet know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. You do Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. It’s ok. You can do this This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552169536</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Most Wanted ManSunny Singh|authortitle=John le CarreHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Melik The Hotel Arcadia is a Turkish heavy-weight boxing champion. He lives with his widowed mother luxury hotel in Hamburg and they are both doing their very best to keep below the radaran unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Since his father died they don’t even go to Hiding from the mosque terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a regular basiswartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. But this particular weekend Leyla wants As Abhi continues to go. Her daughter, try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in Turkeythe hotel, is getting marriedhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a special prayer seems keeps on venturing out of her room to try to be in ordercapture what's happened through her photography. It is a visit that might well end up costing them Although they only ever talk over the eight years good behaviour needed phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to finally get beyond their tolerated status help her keep safe and they both wait to enable full German citizenshipsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769308</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasCody Goodfellow|title=Your Beautiful LiesVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married to William, a police superintendent. Although she and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, AnnieThere's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike something about tall buildings that will become violent on both sides of the dividejust captures my imagination. ItWho doesn's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on t love a good view from up high, after all? Even the side youdrabbest office building is somewhere I're on but unfortunately Annie isnm intrigued to get inside if it't permitted to chooses 40 stories tall. However So when I picked up this is only the start of her problems. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriend, is back on the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem book – about people who scale tall buildings for Annie is that the unfinished business is with her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifefun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shemilt1804183210|title=DaughterNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary=Jenny has a busy life – GPThirty-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, wife of Tedthe chairman, a successful surgeonhadn't arrived, mother to twin teenage lads Ed and Theo and a teenage daughter (Naomi) to name but some of the rolesso he continued his session. Now she tells herself To say that she should have realised Naomi's mood swings and higher heels signified more than a phasehe was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? If she Two men had, Jenny may have prevented her beloved childbeen bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 's disappearance; at least looking back on it thatMitch's what she tells herselfMitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. As Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the police investigate, Jenny two men came in and her remaining family have their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to come to terms with not only what has happenedthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, but what it reveals about each of themthe horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405915293</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=ResearchThe Safe House|author=Philip KerrCameron Ward|rating=3.54

|summary=John Houston is a multimillionaire with a beautiful wife, a number of mistresses, countless extravagances and Jess Walker accepted an apartment in Monacooffer (OK, for tax reasons. He made his fortune actually she was gently nudged into it by creating her friend, Rupert) to caretake a formula luxury property in the Australian outback for a series couple of best-selling novels designed specifically to appeal to months. After the average man on problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the streetbreak she needed. John has She was no longer a team data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of four ghost-writers her birth and in need of the space to do all get over the writing, meaning that he can produce an average traumatic end of six bestsellers per yearher relationship with Charles. John calls his group of ghost-writers his ''atelier', his ‘workshop’, perfectly reflecting his views of them A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782065776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams1448309743|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=The last thing that In the village of Cronchie on the afflicted people see before their death is West coast of Scotland, five members of a wet woman in whitewealthy family are found murdered. The last thing they feel only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dryremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. All also happen to be The only suspects are known Satanists but in top government jobs. Whatmany ways, that's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (in an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the form of August Shining and Toby Greene) body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is there pulled in to find out. This may not be the full extent of the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and August's sister April wanting to get in on the actshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Phoenix YearLast Person in the World|author=David L BlondMatthew Tree|rating=34

|summary=I Our narrator was really looking forward to reading this, marketed a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a thriller that spans the globe boarder and centres had money to throw around on richa Rolex watch, powerful individuals trying to change vintage wines and a state-of-the world-art sound system. The cover is reminiscent of the opening titles of ''House of Cards'' Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and ''Damages'' and the fact that each chapter bears a title was appealing to me as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908959282</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Adams|title=The Clown Service|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonald's he'd be sacked for ineptitudecertainly more than acquaintances. Unfortunately for the nation he cost thousands Finns had no intention of pounds more going on to train than your average burger-flipper so heUniversity, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's off to Section 37 insteadthird most prestigious university. The Section's label mentions anti-terrorism butBefore going up, as he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his former boss told Toby ''If the security service is the circushome, then Section 37 us where we keep the clownsClouds Manor in West Dorset.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy is coming to the UK with enough power to destroy London. This may only be Toby's first job for 37 and will include a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry StiastnyDean Koontz|title=Acts The House at the End of Omissionthe World

|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas was 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 your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a recently-appointed minister small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the Foreign Officeaforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, determined to do his best, but not yet long enough the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the job to have abandoned his principles name of science and beliefsquite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's these that are tested when a disc containing scene replicated all too often in the names early hours of British informants 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 Stasi has fallen into government handsfew taxis available. Understandably Others squash onto the Germans want night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the information back so that they can complete their opening up light of 'the Stasimissing women's archive. Lucas believes that For one young woman, the Germans should be accommodated on this: he was elected final stop on the bus leaves her a platform long way short of transparency her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and openness collect her - handing but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the information back seems right chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to him start walking - but there are those within the government, both politicians unsuitably clothed and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happenin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=A Kill in the MorningNone of this is True|author=Graeme ShimminLisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary=The Nazis are amongst On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the most infamous group that has ever walked the planetLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. They may have been evilShe, but there too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was something pantomime about them just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films not only are Alix and pulp fictionJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. To enjoy these you have to disengage yourself from That's where the history and see similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the Nazis midst of fiction as separate from those a joyful, monied group of real life. Can I enjoy a book like friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'A Kill in the Morning'rowdy, they' set in an alternative 1950s were re enjoying themselves. Josie, on the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and are building an ultimate weapon? you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. Can He's not used to spending this much money on a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich and change the tide of history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson1803136383|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Germany may be defeated as the embers Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of World War II grow cold a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but Kasper Meier is making the most an act of it. His trade in black market goods and casual private investigation work augment the meagre rations for him and his dying father. When a woman asks him heroism leading to find a missing British airman he refuses – it's not really his line. She blackmails Kasper rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and still he refuses but then disgrace seems to be the note arrives:''This consensus. Wat himself is bigger than you. You don't have a choice. Queers still die in Berlin. Find the pilot.'' It seems that he's been seen with another man and now he has a decision keeping his cards close to make that will either cost or save his lifechest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=The ProfessionalsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Owen LaukkanenA J Lewis

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The professional criminal is the type House of person who gets in, does the job and then gets out againBeautiful Swallows. Sounds like the perfect way to stay undetected Idyllic as a lifelong miscreantthis might sound, but does not sound like the most exciting narrative for it's a storybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. InsteadHe's not been short of mothers, take a bunch though - but for someone of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own successhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up the wrong mark. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals'it's difficult to obtain decent employment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Axemanstint working with the preparation of anchovies didn's Jazz|author= Ray Celestin|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Based t work out and bastards are considered bad luck on a true story, ''The Axeman's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut novelfishing boats. It tells of a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - the Axeman and determined - who torments the city and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselves, was not long before he had a successful business as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin to despair of ever catching the killera guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins0241996104|title=Voyage into LimboComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=Colwyn Yeats, veteran of the war in Afghanistan Nancy's mother and topstep-class sailor found himself father were brutally stabbed at a loose end over the summer monthstheir Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. A planned research trip fell through when he'd already rented out his apartmentWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. It The barrister tells her that she's received a 'seemedsilent sentence'- she' fortuitous when an acquaintance approached him s not been found guilty of anything but will have to skipper himself and two friends across live with what happened for the Atlantic, in aid rest of a charityher life. Yeats had his doubts when he realised that his Of course, it'crews made worse because Nancy' weren't kitted out for s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the trip (flip flops? most of it. I mean, ''honestlyFarmhouse slaughter daughter''!), they didn't appear to get on with each other particularly well is one favourite epithet and despite what he'd been told they didn't seem to know much about sailing. But - it was only a few weeks, when herich bitch'd nothing else to do, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JWQVET4</amazonuk>might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1529135389|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settledNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. His stud There was prosperingno sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. He was deeply, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and despite were still getting used to all the loss of his arm some years before which high-tech systems Tom had put an end to his acting career, life was goodinsisted upon. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out Some of bedthem fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was It had all come about through a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose the mare ten- or to be beaten million- O'Keeffe pound lottery win and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping they were still getting used to be back having that nightsort of money, or - at the worst - the next daytoo. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his home againhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerAlan Parks|title=Children of War: A Bruno Courreges ThrillerTo Die in June

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help just a few hours before his tortured and mutilated body was found in What first seems like the woodsunfortunate, but despite his being accidental death of a policeman homeless man on the Brigadier didn't see the case streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as a priorityanother body is discovered, and then another. He sees This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the wider picture, whilst Bruno more so because his own father is only the chief of police in a small French country towndown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. A young Muslim by At the name of Sami has turned up at same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a French army base in Afghanistan and he's keen move to get home to St Denis a different police station, and although it's possible to smuggle him back into the countryarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the FBI are not far behind himboy having existed can be found. It seems that Sami Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been involved in bomb making in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible for the deaths of soldiers of all nationalities.stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairLast Passenger|author=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)Will Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=Confession Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle- when I chose aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to review this bookNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, I had no idea it had made such huge waves worldwideGemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. I chose it because I hadn’t read They've not been a thriller couple for a while that long and this looked like the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a good onebit better. Before the book arrived Meanwhile, I heard all about it – and it was just Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as I had heard so much positivitytheir mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, as I also hadn’t realised isn't it was such a hefty tome. (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomes, but experience has taught me that they don’t always justify themselves).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KellyMark Edwards|title=The Ties That BindKeep Her Secret

|summary=When writer Luke falls Matthew and Helena are in love with JeremyIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the fact that Jem (lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to his friends) offers to support Lukeencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, allowing him even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to write the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a book, is a bonus500 foot drop to certain death below. As soon as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years agoConvinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the book's subject is assuredshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. However both the subject matter Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and Jem's endless support will present Luke with problems (hauls Helena to safety and not a little danger) that Matthew is left wondering what he couldn't have foreseenjust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=VortexThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Andy Duncan's father offered him the money Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to travel the world leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a yearbook fair, but first he must do she flukes her way into a three-month internship public argument with Berwick Archerthe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, an investment company based in Hong Kongsaying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. It would be decent experience Cue the bet that she cannot live up to put on his CVthat accusation. But when Andy got Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Berwick Archer he liked what he saw - and stayedIceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Before long he was second in command at Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the firm's new Bangkok office people and had a talent the lack of stimulus for what he did. There was even a girlfriendher plot, Caroline Chan, who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before her. Caroline was a dealer, but not in a big way - although she was well connected to a very influential businessman.or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead Crowley0861544056|title=Can Anybody Help Me?Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=Yvonne Belle and Gerry David's twin daughters are proud new parentsjust coming to the end of their first term at university. However, as theyKit's been at Bristol and Jess've only recently moved to Gerrys in Exeter. It's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns not only the lack first time they've been away from their parents for any length of a support networktime - but they've also been apart from each other. This Belle can't wait to have them all changes when she turns to Mammynet, herself for a web-based online forum and chat room for new and soonwhile. 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-be mumsupset Kit. It works too Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty- Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend four to Kit's eighteen but then the friend disappears without warningBelle figures that she can cope with that. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of And they'll be sharing a young womanbedroom. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AbductionRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Jonathan HoltHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The teenage daughter Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of a US Army Major is kidnapped when off basecamp at a Venetian nightclubhis clients. She is abducted by Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a masked team during gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the carnevale celebrationsformer. Enter Keera Duggan, when people not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hidden. Everything about the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the way hideous position of clues apart from asking her father for a job at the very fact that it is carried out family firm because a romantic entanglement with such military precisiona senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SoloVanda Symon|authortitle=William BoydExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, or even Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the characters from the Biblestart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, James Bond is no longer just the property shocking murder of its original authoran expectant woman in Dunedin. Ian Fleming may have had Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the imagination to create Bondhunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, but since ''Casino Royale'' rolled onto with all the scene Bond has been a changing man who mimics the times he currently finds himself inextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. William Boyd’s 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 uncover what'Solo'' reverts back to Fleming’s original timeline s actually happening, and continues the story increasingly disturbing worry of that Bond, but is this a reflection of the past or today?just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal1787301036|title=The Book of YouWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=Clarissa When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is 38not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, secretary and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a university department head and just emerging from a broken relationshipLesson. Rafe Other infractions of his requirements also works for lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the university, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants himinjuries are visible. HeJuly's absolutely certain she doesteacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runshas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=The Atlantis GeneAll the Dangerous Things|author=AG RiddleStacy Willingham|rating=34.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 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 he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. 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 a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4

|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is on the tail 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 couples have mixed as a large terrorist organisation. Hefoursome but it's been after them since 9/11, but the huge scope of the organisation makes them difficult to pin down or predictnot a regular thing. His only leads are Christian is a few cryptic messages from the 1940s market research analyst and research scientist Dr Kate WarnerJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, who but she's pregnant. She has become intricately connected with a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the terrorists without knowing itknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>

 {{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|author=Adam HamdyJulia Bartz|title=PhaseThe Writing Retreat

|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to finding his daughter and the people who abducted represent her. ItShe's cost him everything - his marriagesomething of a legend with an impressive, if compact, his relationship back catalogue of works that started with his sonher breakthrough novel, his job and - in all probability - his sanitypublished when she was barely out of childhood. He's reached the stage where Alex, a writer- far from moving on slash- letting go editor, is not an option more than a little obsessed with Roza, and many of his actions are irrational. If any part is stunned when, following a series of this can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing peopleunexpected events, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point she is reached when an old friend refers invited to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amberbe part of her month-long writers's abductionretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=A Love Like BloodThe Lensky Connection|author=Marcus SedgwickConrad Delacroix

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=One day towards When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the end of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a museum of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by pallbearer for his commanding officer during their downtimeelder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefactsValeri and Timur's father, Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker in the groundsKeto, squatting over is also a female figure, blood on pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his lips that could only have come from her necklineson had become. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to do with make his medical career, own stand against organised crime and finds the same man in the company avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of someone whomonths, were he only aware of the facthis obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, is a journalist. She's determined to become the first expose any and all corruption - and possibly only love of his lifeshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. But thatFor him, it's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined a way to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.

{{newreview|author=Liz Nugent|title=Unravelling Oliver|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Oliver had expected more of a reaction the first time that he hit Alice, but she just lay Move on the floor holding her jaw. He was stunned that he could do this to his wife, but later that evening he returned and beat her so viciously that she lapsed into a coma. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was the man otherwise known as Vincent Dax, famous writer of children's books and he and Alice (she'd illustrated the books) had lived a life of ease and privilege. In the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells the story of what had happened over the last five decades and how this had led to his becoming a monster.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]