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|author= Mark DawsonDavid Chadwick|title= The CleanerHeadload of Napalm|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless and coldly competentIt's September 1973 in Hicks, John Milton California. Hicks is one a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the British governmentmain local employers but otherwise, there's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsnot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. NowLife is quiet, after ten years, he wants outuntil.... But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462XB0D321VJ76

|isbn=18389510671399613073|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=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Nothing ManHotel 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=Catherine Ryan HowardCody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heThere's something about to get a shocktall buildings that just captures my imagination. HeWho doesn's security at t love a supermarket and he's watching a woman who good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if shesomewhere I's planning m intrigued to pay for it. Suddenly get inside if it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is the titles 40 stories tall. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man So when I picked up this book – about people who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of the book scale tall buildings for fun – I was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annainstantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|isbn=178089922X1804183210|title=Invisible GirlNo Reserve|author=Lisa JewellFelix Francis|rating=54

|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeent have been on the rostrum when the colt -yearsas yet unnamed -old and beautiful. By her own admissioncame up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, shehadn's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying mathst arrived, physics and biology at A levelso he continued his session. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an eighthunderstatement. A lovely animal -floor flatbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Something Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch'really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten Mitchell were well-known and she self-harmed for a long timerespected in the racing industry. Aaron organised psychological help Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and for three years Roan Fours was her therapisttheir conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss Both were happy that 'something really, really bad'they had insurance in place. When The following morning, the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest horse was dead in Roanits stall.

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1405951680|title=She Lies CloseThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary= Ava Boone Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was five years old when gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she went missing'd had at work, around 6 months agoit seemed like just the break she needed. There has been She was no sign longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her since, birth and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her new house is a suspect relationship with Charles. A few weeks in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved the Otway Ranges inVictoria sounded like just the ticket.|isbn=1789094194

|isbn=14091874381448309743|title=The First LieDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=A J ParkCaro Ramsay|rating=34|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow.5 The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4

|summary=On Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the second of October 37London-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. His wife It was in the bedroom in an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state -of shock -the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and in the bathroom there was a dead man certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had been stabbed repeatedly a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the neck with PaulUK's paper-knifethird most prestigious university. In that moment Paul takes Before going up, he took up a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going loose invitation to ring the police and tell the truth. They're going to bury the body visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedWest Dorset.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Dean Koontz|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayThe House at the End of the World

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to drive down get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the private road outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in Glen Turritthe light of 'the missing women'. It was For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long road through some breathway short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -taking scenery and but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she could push had the chance to beg the car bus driver to its limits without fear of being caught speedinglet her use his. When the blond child stepped out There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in front high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treeencountered Josie Fair. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work She, too, was out where celebrating her 45th birthday, only she wasjust with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, but it obviously wasnthey were both born in St Mary't a conventional s hospital. SheThat'd made s where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her first mistake some time agohusband, although Nathan, are in the realisation wouldnmidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly't be obvious ' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her for a long timetummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. SheHe'd made it when she chose s not used to have her father buy her spending this much money on a pale blue BMW M4meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.

|isbn=17808998581803136383|title=To Tell Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, 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 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=Coming to Find You |author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Truthcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall

|summary=When Lucy Bewley Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was nine-years-old she crept out no sign of the house her husband but opera was playing on the night state-of -the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations -art music system installed in Stoke WoodsThe Glass Barn. Her four-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadnThey't taken him with her. But d not been in the early hours of architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. He hadnSome of them fought with each other and didn't and no one has seen him sincework as reliably as they should. Lucy's story was crucial It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to the police investigationhaving that sort of money, but it keeps subtly changingtoo. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendEventually, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell Nicole found Tom dead in the policeswimming pool with a wound to his head.

|isbnauthor=1787477681Alan Parks|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerTo Die in June

|summary=It was What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonhomeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Gaston's This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father had sold the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure is a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, owned by a Russian oligarchand he has been for years. Before he even got At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to go there he died, apparently of a heart attackdifferent police station, and the retirement home collected the proceeds arrival there of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the farmhouseboy having existed can be found. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gayalso with the other officers where he has been stationed, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=02419846531529382823|title=I Made a MistakeThe Last Passenger|author=Jane CorryWill Dean

|summary=We know from the very beginning that thereCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They's re off on a tragedy about cruise to happenNew York on ''Atlantica''. On Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a January evening on ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a man falls under an oncoming trainbit better. That man Meanwhile, Gemma is Matthew Gordonlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Much later we see Poppy Page in the witness box of a crown courtIt's going to be good, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barrister.isn't it?

|isbnauthor=0008386137Mark Edwards|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksKeep Her Secret

|summary=Elaine Winterdale took Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the fall for lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the landlordsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Aged 37 Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she got has been keeping and makes a suspended sentence because panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a faulty gas boiler had caused public argument with the deaths latest hot shot in the world of 29-year-old Reveka Albu crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her 2-year-old son Benkeflights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Toma Albu Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, husband about the people and fatherthe lack of stimulus for her plot, had more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found them when he returned home.dead…|isbn=1914585615

|isbn=B0867X8NW70861544056|title=Access PointTwin Truths|author=T R GabbayJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention sheBelle and David's helped a man who has been blind for decades twin daughters are just coming to see an image the end of a hummingbirdtheir first term at university. SheKit's thirty-six years old been at Bristol and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, sheJess's involved in an accident with a busExeter. It's two years before we meet her again and in not only the meantime, shefirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can's spent 392 days in t wait to have them all to herself for a coma and now walks while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with a stickher? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. A professional colleague persuades Ula Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she should let out can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a spare bedroom to bring in some income.

|isbnauthor=1471166023Robert Dugoni|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5

|summary=Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The 5th Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the usual bonfire celebrationslaw, but it would be marred this year by Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he latter was put on beginning to overshadow the fire and can only have died a terrible deathformer. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenEnter Keera Duggan, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing former competitive chess prodigy and his only concern is proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the welfare hideous position of asking her father for a job at the birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do thisfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, with the result that he's the prime suspectsouth.|isbn=1662500181

|isbnauthor=178730101XVanda Symon|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily KochExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=34.5

|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellDetective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, Benoît, actually) and Louisshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Lou's seventeen and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to find something to celebrate Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the lettershunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, D, D and Ewith all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but itFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's a touch problematic with Lou t let the case go and being honest, heshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHDactually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1787301036|title=Into The FireWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountantWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. Or ratherShe's a careful, wasmeticulous child. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his friend pleading with wife, July's mother, and any hint that the medics conversation is heading that way will lead to keep him alivethe necessity of a Lesson. He was needed alive just long enough Other infractions of his requirements also lead to give up a namethese Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. His cousinJuly's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, Maxhas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|isbn=0718185501

|isbn=00082971690008454493|title=The Guest ListAll the Dangerous Things|author=Lucy FoleyStacy Willingham

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off the Irish coastfor a moment. It's now a year since her son, might have been enough to put some guests offMason, but it was stolen from his bed in the wedding 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 yearshe's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. Will Slater (television personalityShe does interviews and when we meet her, if not yet 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 celebrity) was podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to marry Jules Keegana few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, online magazine publisherturning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the ruined chapel on the islandsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The bridecouples have mixed as a foursome but it's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husbandJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, Freddybut she's pregnant. They gave She has a huge discount lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to get tempt fate by making the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?knowledge public.

|isbnauthor=1529009677Julia Bartz|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanThe Writing Retreat|rating=3.54

|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problemsRoza Vallo. It's not just Anyone in the usual growing apart after more than a decade world of marriagepublishing knows the name. Their sonWriters want to be her, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatheragents want to represent her. She's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into something of a treelegend with an impressive, but he also killed his girlfriendif compact, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense back catalogue of shame and guilt. Rachel is brokenworks that started with her breakthrough novel, but published when she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved was barely out of the family homechildhood. Alex, but stresses to his thirteena writer-yearslash-old daughtereditor, Hollyis more than a little obsessed with Roza, that it and is only stunned when, following a trial separationseries of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Chris Hauty1800465270|title=Deep StateThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=34.5

|summary= Hayley Chill is When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a fighterpallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. She Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is every kind of fighter also a pallbearer and well-trained in most of themhe's disgusted by what his son had become. She Valeri thinks differently: he's army infantry determined to make his own stand against organised crime and she boxes for fun – avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and she wins. Alwayscreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally 's determined to expose any and physically, all corruption - and she knows how 's less concerned than she ought to deal with the painbe about her own safety. She is not so much cold as controlled To her, he's a good source. This fight is against someone she is not expected For him, it's a way to beat. And she is being watchedget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|isbn=1471185605