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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1399613073|title=Shadows Of War (Traitors)Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=A year after returning from Germany Olivia, Laura and an unsuccessful attempt Anjali met on Hitlerthe 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 life Conrad de Lancey finds himself going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the British army preparing for wartragedy or the consequences. His friendship with Theo remains strong despite Theo now wearing Twenty-five years later there will be an Abwehr uniform. De Lancey still does work for British Intelligence therefor when they hear about another proposed Germany coup de Lancey seems eerily similar event that will impact the natural choice to investigatethree friends. ItThis time, it's not straightforward thoughtheir teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the days darkenresidents who are still alive in the hotel, allegiances arenhe 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't always what s happened through her photography. Although they seem only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and betrayal can cut they both wayswait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853312</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Cody Goodfellow|title=The UndesiredVertical|rating=43.5
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|summary=If youThere're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trolls. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with s something about tall buildings that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghostsjust captures my imagination. Here is Odinn, and to some extent his ghost – certainly there's the ghost of 'what if' around him, and the man he might have been if he hadnWho doesn't abandoned the young mother of his child. Here is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure as he takes over love a job at work good view from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that taskup high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to investigate a childrenget inside if it's care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on40 stories tall. And that place certainly should be haunted So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreview<!-- 21/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Chris Calder1804183210|title=Celeste Three is MissingNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis
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|summary=Celeste 3 is Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the first successful commercial passenger carrying space/aircraft to go beyond rostrum when the Earth's atmosphere colt - as yet unnamed - came up for any length of time. This advance in travel didnauction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't come easily as the two previous prototypes demonstrated and arrived, so there's much interest as he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the date of bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each of its flights approachesother. Two people are paying closer attention than the rest of the worldBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's population due to Mitchell were well-known and respected in the presence of a certain passenger as much as the vehicle itselfracing industry. One Jennings was in one of the high rollers will be cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the ruthless Russian billionaire Karenkovhorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Gregory Topozian and Jack Smith have seen friends and colleagues die at his whim so Both were happy that they have a bone to pick and an ambitious way to do it… as long as nothing and no one gets had insurance in place. The following morning, the wayhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1515171817</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell1405951680|title=Vortex... the EndgameThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward
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|summary=In 2014 the financial markets were tumbling in Bangkok. The recession Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was deepening and unemployment figures were rising. The recession wasn't affecting all layers of society equally and gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in consequence the government was facing Australian outback for a financial ''and'' a social crisis. It would take little to spark street violence equal to that couple of 2010months. But not everyone viewed After the situation with dismay: this was exactly what Tanawat Chanpol problems she'd had been hoping forat work, it seemed like just the break she needed. If all went according to plan - and it She was planned - his employer, businessman Narong Sunarawani, would be brought to power by popular acclamation as no longer a data analyst for the only man Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who could save was returning to the countryof her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. It would take months and a lot of hard work thoughA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1499532504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell1448309743|title=Dark CornersThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Carl Martin was in In the fortunate position village of having just had his first novel published and inheriting his late father's house in Maida Vale. His father had accumulated a collection Cronchie on the West coast of homeopathic remedies which really should have been thrown outScotland, but Carl had other things on his mind and never got round to itfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. There was his girlfriend NicolaThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, work to start on his second novel and he wanted to let the top floor of his housedeath will follow. Authors The only suspects are not known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that well offtwo of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, you see and he needed some ready money coming DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in. In addition to being a bit remiss about the contents of the medicine cabinet he should have been a bit more careful about who he took on as a tenant'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959241</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane ShemiltB0CCCPJJ5B|title= The Drowning Lesson Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Emma, Our narrator was a doctor from scholarship day boy at the London, is somewhat reluctantly moving her family to Botswana for a year-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. In the choice between taking It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a new-born baby boarder and his two primary school aged sisters had money to rural Africa for throw around on a year Rolex watch, or letting your husband go out there alone for work, she's decided that there's strength in numbersvintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Emma Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and Adam have a somewhat complex relationship that is disturbingly familiar certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to me. People University, unlike our storyteller who say 'not everything had a place at Wolverton College in life is a competition' are generally Wellingford, the ones who are losing, and I didnUK't doubt her for one moment when she said that she liked him to succeed…s third most prestigious university.just as long as Before going up, he wasn't succeeding more than hertook up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405915315</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellDean Koontz|title=Blood Brothers... Thai StyleThe House at the End of the World
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Chatri Aromanadee When you experience overwhelming tragedy and Daeng Khasajamsarun are friendsfeel that there is no one on your side, but 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 rather unequal waysmall chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. Daeng very much has the upper hand despite the fact that Chatri is a policeman: Daeng is manipulative and itThat's difficult what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to be polite enough to say that he start afresh on Jacob'sails close to s Ladder; and all would have been the wind'. The man is a criminal, but he turned a problem of his own (aforementioned peace and of his own making) into a hold over Chatrisolitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, which still holds firm even when Chatri becomes the chief neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of police mischief in Baan Chailai, with its lively bar scene, on the Gulf name of Thailand. Their sons have a similar relationship: Daeng's son Tong is brutal in his relationships with women science and Chatri's son Sunan has quite possibly bringing about the misfortune to work in the hotel complex owned by Daengend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1502880806</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert L Anderson1787636607|title=DreamlandThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always a scene replicated all too often in the sameearly hours of the morning. She'd make Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a friend way to get home. Some are lucky and then 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 rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy and outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the friend wouldnmissing women't talk to her. Dea isn't crazyFor one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She becomes curiously ill from time had intended to time ring someone to come and collect her - but she has a cure: walking through peopleher phone's dreamsdead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this no option but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important start walking - unsuitably clothed and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Righten1529195977|title=Churchill's Rogue: Volume 1 (Rogues Trilogy)None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
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|summary=Sean Ryan grew up On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in Ireland during the 20th centuryLandsdown 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 that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's first quarter and so understands death and losshospital. He learnt to defend what he felt right during his time as a bodyguard for Michael Collins. Therefore when Winston Churchill called upon his services That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in 1937 to bring the midst of a mother joyful, monied group of friends and child out of Germanywhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, Ryan doesnthey't say no. However Ryan soon discovers this is no easy escort dutyre enjoying themselves. The mother and child in question are for some reason being hunted by an elite German force led by CerberusJosie, a code name for a sadist incarnate. On on the plus sideother hand, Ryan soon discovers heholds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not alonetoo happy. There are more like him across Europe; those with pasts that forged them into violent defenders of the vulnerable in an increasingly dangerous world. These are the Rogues and, He's not used to spending this time, Ryan needs their helpmuch money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1492320242</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Felix Francis1803136383|title=Front RunnerTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
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|summary=Jeff Hinkley is an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, so he was Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a difficult position when he was approached by his friend Dave Swintoncloud. Dave was champion jockey What actually happened out there is gossiped about and he told Hinkley that he'd deliberately lost nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a race rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and there was no way that this could disgrace seems to be kept as some confidential words between friends. The following day Hinkley returned to Swinton's house to discuss the matter further - and ended up trapped in the blisteringly-hot saunaconsensus. He was lucky Wat himself is keeping his cards close to escape with his life. Swinton was not so lucky - his charred body was found in his burning car at a deserted beauty spot in Oxfordshirechest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071817884X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir 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. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and Victoria Cribb (translator)determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=The UndesiredComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5
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|summary=If youNancy're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell yous mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, even in this day and ageMartin, that has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the place is heavily populated with trollscourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not agree been found guilty of anything but will have to live with that, but she certainly peoples what happened for the rest of her world with ghostslife. Here is OdinnOf course, and to some extent his ghost – certainly thereit's the ghost of made worse because Nancy'what if' around him, s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned papers are making the young mother most of his childit. Here ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a childrenone favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''s care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on. And that place certainly should might not be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more printed but is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass 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 Claverhad insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other 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 sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=Hider/SeekerTo Die in June
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|summary=Harry Bridger What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappeardiscovered, and then another. His clients aren't always whiter than white This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but when all the more so because his own father is a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him to helpdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, his chivalrous instincts override the doubts that lurk in the back of his mind. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right but she's and he has been vouched for by an old friend and years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry's basic decency won't allow him is also dealing with a move to leave a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman and who claims her child in dangerlittle boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. And there's another advantage to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the orbit of his ex-wife Bethany. And other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry would do almost anything to redeem himself in her eyes.uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Heaberlin1529382823|title=Black Eyed SusansThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
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|summary=Matt, a wildlife film maker Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is reported to have perished middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a fierce fire that sweeps through the first nation Alaskan village in which hecruise to New York on ''Atlantica''s working. All thatCaz's left of him sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his wedding ringsuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. This is They've not been a huge shock couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to his wife Yasmin who has flown get to see know him with their 10 year old daughter Ruby. Yasmin has come to talk to Matt to see if they still have a relationship worth savingbit better. Some would say that his death Meanwhile, Gemma is an answer to that question but Yasmin doesnlooking after Caz't accept thats cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. She doesn't even accept heIt's dead and will search the frozen Alaskan wastes going to prove be good, isn't it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349408122</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E M DaveyMark Edwards|title=Foretold by ThunderKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
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|summary=A Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university professor is randomly killed by a thunderbolt romance some twenty-odd years after posting a package of history texts to journalist Jake Wolseythey first met. Was his death really that random? Jake doesn't have long The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to ponder that before he's off 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 Turkey the rockface with archaeologist Florence Chung to investigate just the ancient religion snagged strap of the Etruscansher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. He's not Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the only one interested; MI6 are tailing him for shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a reason even the agents concerned don't knowpanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. As history starts to reveal its secrets Just moments later their heroic, and connects with names centuries after the Etruscans diedfrankly very well prepared, Jake Icelandic tour guide swoops in and Florence realise this hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is as much a fight for their lives as it is for knowledgeleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649930</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary Higgins ClarkJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Melody Lingers onThirty Days of Darkness
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|genre= Thrillers|summary= Mary Higgins Clark’s latest thrillerHannah presents as an unlikeable, ‘’The Melody Lingers on’’bitter woman, follows the author’s usual successful formulaan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. The main character Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, Lane, is she flukes her way into a young woman public argument with a prestigious job as the assistant latest hot shot in the world of an exclusive interior designer. She is instantly likeable: thoroughly nice – as underlined several times by other characters - un-snobbish crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and of course beautifulonly writing what anyone could write. We witness her performing small everyday acts of kindness and Cue the bet that she is just vulnerable enough cannot live up to be relatable that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark toIceland, having tragically lost family memberswhere she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Vulnerable Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, but not troubled; no reckless drugsabout the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, drinking more or sleeping around for Mary Higgins Clark heroines. Lane is clean and decent, with a strong moral fibre.less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471148521</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam LeBor0861544056|title=Washington StratagemTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
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|summary=“More than ever before 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 human history, we share a common destinyExeter. We can master it It's not only if we face it togetherthe first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. And that, my friends, is why we Belle can't wait to have the United Nationsthem all to herself for a while.” So said former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan 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. There Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's little of eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that brotherly solidarity on show in The Washington Stratagem, . And they'll be sharing a United Nations-set thriller by Adam LeBorbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970271</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lucy AtkinsRobert Dugoni|title= The Other ChildHer Deadly Game|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Tess is giving up Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a lot to leave England gift for Massachusetts but she’s happy drinking himself to do it too, happy that her son Joe will have new oblivion and exciting adventures, happy she will be living with Greg, inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the father of her unborn childformer. But pretty soon Enter Keera Duggan, unsettling things start happening. The neighbours are behaving strangely. Things former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the house are mysteriously getting moved out hideous position of place. Nothing is as it seems and asking her dream is quickly becoming father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a nightmaresenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782069879</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean ZimmermanVanda Symon|title= Savage GirlExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Bronwyn Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a wild and seemingly mute sideshow attractionbrutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, known to with all as ''Savage Girl''the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Apparently raised by wolves Finding herself put on desk duties, which she is swiftly adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couplerails against, she just can't let the case go and, once cleaned up, introduced she starts to follow every thread to high society. Darkly beautiful, intelligentuncover what's actually happening, and with no end the increasingly disturbing worry of suitors, Bronwyn seems destined for a good life – until these suitors start turning up deadjust what might happen next. Could the ''Savage Girl'' be living up to her name? Or is someone else the killer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670014850</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irvine Welsh1787301036|title=The Sex Lives of Siamese TwinsWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=“Numbers are the great American obsession” opines Lucy BrennanWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, the protagonist of meticulous child. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, and in her case at least that’s definitely true. Whether it’s thinking about an argument with care has been taught by her boyfriend Miles (6”1father, 210 lbs)Mick Hooper, noting who is not prepared to discuss the the stats death of “sneakyhis wife, squeaky” fellow personal trainer Mona (5”9July's mother, blond, 36-34-36) or noting down how many calories her lunch and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of steamed broccoli and spinach with a peanut-butter-Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and-banana protein shake will set her back (460 cal)he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. As a personal trainer obsessed with keeping in shape, Lucy never stops thinking about calories July's teacher is concerned and body crunches. There’s several amusing passages where she rants about brings up the clients she has to deal possibility of abuse with, particularly one woman who will obviously never lose any weight and simply wants validation for making the effort head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to do so in the first place. Having just joined a gym myselfschool, I felt like the perfect person has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for this novelhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Wilson0008454493|title=The Devil's CocktailAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fans of the television series Isabelle Drake hasn''Castle'' will come to this book readyt really slept for a year -prepared for what’s going onwell, but apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for those unaware, in the series there is a character called Richard Castle who is an authormoment. He observes It's now a homicide detectiveyear since her son, Kate BeckettMason, was stolen from his bed in her work the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and then writes a novel, ''Heat Wave'', based on particularly about her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own to Jameson Rook. After the book was written (relief in the television series) it morning when she thought he was actually published sleeping in real life. Being a fan of In that year she''Castle'' I immediately bought it and read its done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. To be honestShe does interviews and when we meet her, I found that the concept messed with my head too much! she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. I kept thinking about who was who, within On the book, translating Nikki’s name to Kate’s, and Rook’s to Castleplane back, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are she'real' they ares approached by a podcaster, of courseWaylon Spencer, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after who points out that first one, until this one. It’s been she could do a little while since I watched the TV series, podcast and somehow coming get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>conferences.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1848458436|title= Half the World Away|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travelling, and visits China – working as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blog, “Lori in the Orient”. When all communication stops and silence persists, the parents report her missing, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchester, set out to China in order to search for their daughter. Flying to Chengdu, they have no knowledge of Just the country, customs or language, and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNicest Couple|author=Paula Daly|title=Keep Your Friends CloseMary Kubica|rating=4.5
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|summary=Natty and Sean seem to have a good marriage - to have everything''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, in factturning into someone I'm not. They didn't have a particularly propitious start: Natty's pregnancy precipitated ''Just the marriage and meant that Sean couldnNicest Couple''t do is the law degree he'd set his heart onstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, but they now own an upmarket hotel and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the lake district, same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a lovely home and drive the sort of cars more commonly associated with premier league footballersfoursome but it's not a regular thing. Their daughters are Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their teens now and itwives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's when the younger, Felicity, is on pregnant. She has a school trip lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to France that tempt fate by making the problems startknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055216934X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lori LansensJulia Bartz|title=The Mountain StoryWriting Retreat
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|summary= Wolf’s mother is dead. His father is inept at best, a dead beat at worstRoza Vallo. Wolf’s one joy Anyone in life is his best friend, Byrdthe world of publishing knows the name. The two frequently escape their homes and hike up a nearby mountainWriters want to be her, revelling in the freedom and closeness agents want to naturerepresent her. But Byrd diesShe's something of a legend with an impressive, and a year laterif compact, on the date back catalogue of his 18th birthdayworks that started with her breakthrough novel, Wolf decides to kill himself – heading up to the same mountain where he spent so much time happypublished when she was barely out of childhood. HoweverAlex, a writer-slash-editor, Wolf soon meets three women – Bridgetis more than a little obsessed with Roza, Nola and Vonn. Lost on the mountainis stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, they will spend days fighting she is invited to survive and to escape the wilderness. One will not make it down alivebe part of her month-long writers' retreat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471137996</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Child1800465270|title=PersonalThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5
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|summary= If youWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He've never read s a Lee Child novel but have seen the trailers pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a film starring Tom Cruise… can I seriously suggest you read at least one matter of the books before seeing the filmmonths, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To be fairher, I havenhe't seen the film and Cruise might do s a decent job of whatever script theygood source. For him, it've given him… but Jack Reacher he isns a way to get information published, which wouldn'totherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857502662</amazonuk>
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