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|isbn=178730101X0008379300|title=Keep Him CloseThe Shadow Man|author=Emily KochHelen Fields|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellFergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, Benoîthis internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, actually) a child and Louisa brother. LouHe's seventeen been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's just got his A level results made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and he even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his brother are going out to celebratewife. Someone has to find something to celebrate in the lettersHer husband, DCal, D and E. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteentaken the children -year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou boy of seven and being honesta girl of five, he's not terribly likeableaway for the weekend. The letters which kept coming Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to my mind were ADHDplan and Angela dies.
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|author=Gregg HurwitzDean Koontz|title=Into The FireOther Emily|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a forensic accountantplace he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. Or ratherDavid lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, waswhen she vanished from a remote road late at night. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his friend pleading with girl from the medics man's mind, but to keep him aliveno avail. He was needed alive just long enough to give up 's also having a namerecharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. His cousin, Max.What is a man to do?|isbn=07181855011542019958
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|isbn=00082971691529124417|title=The Guest ListBefore She Disappeared|author=Lucy FoleyLisa Gardner
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was bottom of the wedding of lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Will Slater (television personalityLani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, if not yet this time to Boston where there's a celebrity) strong Haitian community which was home to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the islandAngelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. The bride's sisterFrankie, Oliviamiddle-aged and white, would be her only bridesmaid gets a job and the wedding planner accommodation at Stoney's bar and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddy. They gave a huge discount sets out to get investigate the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?community which is just about exclusively black.
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|isbn=1529009677B08CR3WNFT|title=A Window BreaksThe Therapist|author=C M EwanB A Paris|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just When Leo Curtis found the usual growing apart after more than house in The Circle, a decade of marriage. Their son, Michaelgated community, Alice Dawson was killed in a car crash some months before: he Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was driving his father's Audi and on the market at sixteen wasnsuch a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't legally entitled have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to driveafford it. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteenAlice agreed -yearshe was tired of their long-old Fiona Connordistance relationship. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of shame and guiltjust the weekends. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give Leo had some space, Tom's moved out of work done on the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that it is only a trial separationthe house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.
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|author=Chris HautySaima Mir|title=Deep StateThe Khan|rating=35|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighterJia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. She is every kind of fighter, and This has served her well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she boxes is called home for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is focussedat the top of her game. She works hardReturning to the city of her birth, mentally to old scars and physicallyfresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and she knows how to deal reconcile her visions for the future with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watchedher sense of honour and duty.|isbn=14711856051786079097
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|isbn=02419851530008214468|title=The House on the LakeA Time to Lie|author=Nuala EllwoodSimon Berthon|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know that something A workman has gone wrong a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wrist. It's been there for about twenty- badly wrong five to thirty- when five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the woman who was alone in ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the house is taken away by Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the policeExchequer, but wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's going easy to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedsee that he wouldn't have been in agreement.
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|isbn= 1984890646|author=Catherine SteadmanGunnar Staalesen|title=Mr NobodyFallen Angels|rating=42
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is both back. After attending a successful actress and writerformer friend's funeral, Veum catches up with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the 'fight scene' at sins of the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able past are exposed to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in light of the last few chapterspresent. It was almost as if the author wanted A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to keep root out the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much clues hidden in his own history and to do in the closing stagescatch a killer.|isbn=1913193063
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|author=Will Dean Deborah O'Connor|title=Black River The Captive|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in Hannah knows the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifecage, returning her to intimately. It lurks in the isolated town corner of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friendeye. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forestSoon, Tuva fights it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to save her friend. But who’ll be there to save Tuva? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=17860771161838772650
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|isbn=1780894511B087JXQ3JQ|title=Die AloneThe Long Dark Road|author=Simon KernickP R Black
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and heTwo years ago Dr Georgia's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop heHealey's something of a target, but the unit is not as secure nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the inmates would have hoped lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and Mason is injured she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a riotbig vehicle. On his way to hospital heWe's broken free by armed men ll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and an offer Stephanie is made to him. He's to assassinate the man who is likely to become bundled into the country's next prime minister car and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroaddriven off. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason There has his doubtsbeen no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. His choices are limited though Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and he has personal reasons she's not going to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadstopped.
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|author=Rory ClementsSusi Holliday |title=HitlerThe Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's Secrethistories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise Jensen
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=So, Hitler had When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a secret? dreadful event they are all healthy adults. TwoWell, if you include they're healthy in the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter to thatphysical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutMarie drinks. His niece, Geli Raubal, They're the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backSinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her pastsisters, and the truth is a very rare thingeight-year-old twins. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to Hitler get a text from Dean Malden and his right hand man, knows – her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean Marie were nattering about a lost ball and removing all connected with her existence from the Reicha fleece which had been left outside. So itThe gate wasn's down to Tom Wildet shut properly and Bruno, an American history professor at Oxbridgetheir boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timechase after him they were snatched by two men.|isbn=1838770275
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|author=Michael J MaloneWill Carver|title=In The Absence of MiraclesHinton Hollow Death Trip|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=John DochertyHinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mother has been taken into mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely that she will ever be able to live independently again. Faced with having to sell the family home small town in order to pay for her nursing careBerkshire, Docherty starts the clear outEngland. In the attic he finds a childhood picture of himself Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, holding a toddler – a toddler until something happened and he knows nothing aboutran away to the city. He also finds a blood-stained shoe's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in town.|isbn=191237479X1913193306
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|isbn=06928535450008378363|title=The Things We DoOne Perfect Morning|author=Kay PfaltzPamela Crane|rating=43.5
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|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley A husband is a prison psychologist at the state penitentiary and she knows that her next patient is not going about to be easyhave his throat cut in his own bed. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of the murder of two men To find out who - and why - one a police officerwe need to go back nine days and twenty years. She pleaded guilty Mackenzie, Robin and since then has been silent: even her identity is Lily met when they all went to the same college in doubtMonroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. She was carrying identification When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but it's been proved a nod to be falsethe famous girl band of the day. There seem to Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be no family or friends who are missing the supporting actress in herown life. EleanorShe married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two mennow fifteen-year-old.
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|isbn=147117316X0751567426|title=Guilty Not GuiltyThe Wicked Sister|author=Felix FrancisKaren Dionne
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate GordonHadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-Russell (Bill Russell year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to those who knew him well) was acting as the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a volunteer steward place at Warwick Racecourse Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was told raped.}}{{Frontpage|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=The Seven Doors|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the violent death of his much-loved wifeway through. It would get worse though: We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the successful insurance actuary would be accused council, being forced to move out of killing their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and hounded by the mediawhich they'd occupied for over thirty years. Then The building he would lose his job 's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and his you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'homeinvasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. His best friends would turn against himWe avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as they came any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to believe him guilty have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the murderwhole processes might be. Yet there And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was no really compelling evidence that he helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was guiltycovered in his blood.
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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- Adele Parks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008284660.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008284660/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Simon Barnes had his first taste of beer in 1976 when he was just six years old. Over the years it would become a habit and then a need. By 2016 and with a wife and child of his own he was a functioning alcoholic - a fact known by everybody except Simon. He's concentrating on wanting another child to complete his family. His wife, Daisy, isn't worried. They took a long time to conceive Millie, who's perfect in every way, so why tempt fate? Simon's not inclined to let matters rest though and it's at a fertility clinic that he receives the news that will change all their lives: he's sterile. [[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks|Full Review]] <!-- Nicci French -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471179230.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]] <!-- Steve Burrows -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786075776.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786075776/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, the estrangement being of his making, not hers. He hasn't explained to her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted to sergeant and now has her first murder case. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certain. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks Move on a treacherous journey to rescue his brother, Damian, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parks. [[A Dance of Cranes by Steve Burrows|Full Review]] <!-- Oates -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656775.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656775/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre to another, never far from violence or abuse. Eager to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 years, this edition of ''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates|Full Review]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Travel Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well, that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}