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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0241678412|title=The UndesiredProof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe

|summary=If youLife after university hasn're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day and age, t worked out quite the way that the place is heavily populated with trollsPhyl anticipated. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree She's back home, living with that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghostsparents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. Here is Odinn, and All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to some extent his ghost – certainly therenothing. The situation improves when 's the ghost of Uncle'what if' around him, Chris comes to stay and the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned the young mother of introduces Phyl to his child. Here is that very wifeadopted daughter, who is now dead herselfRashida. Here Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is the spirit of failure as he takes over investigating a job think tank which originated at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a children's care home Cambridge University in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on1980s. And that place certainly should be haunted – already It plans to push the government in a dead child has been disposed of, more extreme direction and more is ready to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>act.

{{newreview<!-- 21/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Chris Calder0008385068|title=Celeste Three is MissingThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=Celeste 3 is the first successful commercial passenger carrying space/aircraft to go beyond the EarthIt's atmosphere for any length of timemidsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. This advance in travel didnIt't come easily as the two previous prototypes demonstrated s their opening weekend and so theresplendid celebrations are promised. It's much interest as the date of each of its flights approachesall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Two people are paying closer attention than the rest of the worldThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's population due to converted it into an impressive retreat for the presence of a certain passenger as much as the vehicle itselfwealthy and famous. One Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the high rollers will be the ruthless Russian billionaire Karenkovsite. Gregory Topozian The heat is oppressive and Jack Smith have seen amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends and colleagues die at his whim so they have a bone . Old scores are going to pick be settled and an ambitious way to do it… as it won't be long as nothing and no one gets in the waybefore a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1515171817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellSaima Mir|title=Vortex... the EndgameVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=In 2014 I was instantly intrigued by the financial markets were tumbling premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in Bangkokthe north of England run by a Muslim woman. The recession fact that it was deepening and unemployment figures were rising. The recession wasnthe second in a series I hadn't affecting all layers of society equally and in consequence the government was facing a financial read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page andscreen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it' a social crisiss good enough. It would take little to spark street violence equal to And that of 2010wasn't a problem here. But not everyone viewed the situation with dismay: this was exactly what Tanawat Chanpol had been hoping for. If all went according Vengeance swiftly brings you up to plan - and it was planned - his employerspeed, businessman Narong Sunarawani, would be brought to power by popular acclamation as the only man who could save the country. It would take months and a lot of hard work thoughI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1499532504</amazonuk>0861541561

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth RendellDavid Chadwick|title=Dark CornersHeadload of Napalm

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Carl Martin was in the fortunate position of having just had his first novel published and inheriting his late fatherIt's house September 1973 in Maida ValeHicks, California. His father had accumulated Hicks is a collection Mojave desert town of homeopathic remedies which really should have been thrown out, but Carl had other things on his mind a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and never got round to itLas Vegas both a significant drive away. There was his girlfriend Nicola, work to start on his second novel Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and he wanted to let a defence contractor are the top floor main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of his housenote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Authors are not that well offLife is quiet, you see and he needed some ready money coming inuntil... 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959241</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Shemilt1399613073|title= The Drowning Lesson Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= EmmaOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a doctor from Londonquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is somewhat reluctantly moving her family a bonus when you aim to Botswana for be a yearcardiothoracic surgeon. In the choice between taking Laura is a new-born baby perfectionist and his two primary school aged sisters to rural Africa for a year, or letting your husband go out there alone for work, she's decided that there's strength in numberstrauma doctor. Emma Anjali is the free spirit of the group and Adam have she becomes a somewhat complex relationship that is disturbingly familiar to meGP. People who say When we first meet them they'not everything in life is re at a competitiondrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it' are generally the ones who are losing, and I didns going to end in tragedy. We don't doubt her for one moment when she said know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that she liked him to succeed…will impact the three friends.just as long as he wasn This time, it't succeeding more than hers their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405915315</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellSunny Singh|title=Blood Brothers... Thai StyleHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Chatri Aromanadee and Daeng Khasajamsarun are friends, but The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a rather unequal wayterrorist group. Daeng very much has Hiding from the upper hand despite the fact that Chatri terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a policeman: Daeng is manipulative wartime photographer and it's difficult Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to be polite enough to say that he 'sails close try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the wind'. The man is a criminalhotel, but he turned forms a problem of his own (and of his own making) into a hold over Chatri, which still holds firm even when Chatri becomes the chief of police in Baan Chailai, bond with its lively bar sceneSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on the Gulf venturing out of Thailandher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Their sons have a similar relationship: Daeng's son Tong is brutal in his relationships with women Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Chatri's son Sunan has the misfortune they both wait to work in see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the hotel complex owned by Daengterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1502880806</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonCody Goodfellow|title=DreamlandVertical|rating=43.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Righten|title=Churchill's Rogue: Volume 1 (Rogues Trilogy)|rating=5

|summary=Sean Ryan grew up in Ireland during the 20th centuryThere's first quarter and so understands death and loss. He learnt to defend what he felt right during his time as a bodyguard for Michael Collinssomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Therefore when Winston Churchill called upon his services in 1937 to bring a mother and child out of Germany, Ryan Who doesn't say no. However Ryan soon discovers this is no easy escort duty. The mother and child in question are for some reason being hunted by an elite German force led by Cerberuslove a good view from up high, a code name for a sadist incarnate. On after all? Even the plus side, Ryan soon discovers hedrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's not alone40 stories tall. 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, So when I picked up this time, Ryan needs their helpbook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1492320242</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve

|title=Front Runner|rating=4.5

|summary=Jeff Hinkley is an undercover investigator Thirty-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, the British Horseracing Authoritychairman, hadn't arrived, so he was in a difficult position when he was approached by continued his friend Dave Swintonsession. Dave was champion jockey and he told Hinkley To say that he'd deliberately lost a race and there was no way that this could shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be kept as some confidential words between friendsan understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. The following day Hinkley returned to SwintonBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's house to discuss the matter further Mitchell were well- known and ended up trapped respected in the blisteringly-hot saunaracing industry. He Jennings was lucky in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to escape with his lifethat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. Swinton The following morning, the horse was not so lucky - his charred body was found in his burning car at a deserted beauty spot dead in Oxfordshireits stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071817884X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1405951680|title=The UndesiredSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=If you're lucky enough Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to go to Iceland they will tell you, even caretake a luxury property in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trollsAustralian outback for a couple of months. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with thatAfter the problems she'd had at work, but it seemed like just the break she certainly peoples her world with ghostsneeded. Here is Odinn, and She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to some extent his ghost – certainly there's the ghost country of 'what if' around him, her birth and in need of the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned space to get over the young mother traumatic end of his childher relationship with Charles. Here is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is A few weeks in 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 children's care home Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went onticket. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Claver1448309743|title=Hider/SeekerThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Harry Bridger is an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappear. His clients aren't always whiter than whiteIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, but when five members of a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him to help, his chivalrous instincts override family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the doubts Devil Stone: myth says that lurk in if the back of his mindstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right The only suspects are known Satanists but shein many ways, that's been vouched for by an old friend and Harry's basic decency woneasy conclusion given that two of them 't allow him to leave a woman and her child in danger. And therediscovered's another advantage to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into the orbit of his ex-wife Bethanybody. And Harry would do almost anything The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to redeem himself in her eyes'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia HeaberlinB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Black Eyed SusansThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London- other than the intriguing title based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and the scant information that it is a psychological mystery about a girl who survives abduction by had money to throw around on a serial killer. For those who, like me Rolex watch, can't resist suspense (vintage wines and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according to a state-of-the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enough-art sound system. And I was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and suspense from start certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to finish. The narrative alternates between present day and the pastUniversity, each section lasting just unlike our storyteller who had a couple of pages. I found this structure tricky place at firstWolverton College in Wellingford, although each chapter does offer a helpful timeline and the chapters are short enough that itUK's easy to reorient yourselfthird most prestigious university. Once I got used Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to the choppy style I found that it did work, and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessavisit Ralph at his home, the protagonistClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaDean Koontz|title= Pretty Baby|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On her morning commute to work, Heidi sees something that shakes her. A young girl, barely older than her own pre-teen daughter, huddling in the rain on the platform, clutching a tiny baby. It's a distressing situation and it stays on her mind for the rest of the day. So much so that when she sees The House at the girl again, she feels obligated to help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Little|title= Dear Daughter|rating= 2|genre= Thrillers|summary= Janie Jenkins is fresh out End of prison, released early when an issue with the evidence is brought to life. Evidence concerning the death of her mother. Who she may or may not have killed. Hmmm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sharon Bolton|title= Little Black Lies|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Catrin is a mother without children. It’s a horrible situation to be in, and a role that will define her for the rest of her life. A few years ago, her two boys were killed as a result of her best friend’s actions. It was an accident but that doesn’t make it any better. And Catrin can neither forgive nor forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059306920X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rosamund Lupton|title=The Quality of SilenceWorld

|summary=MattWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, a wildlife film maker is reported you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to have perished your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a fierce fire that sweeps through small chain of tiny dots on the first nation Alaskan village map and live out your days in which hepeace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's workingLadder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. All that|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's left a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of him is his wedding ringthe morning. This is Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a huge shock way to his wife Yasmin who has flown to see him with their 10 year old daughter Rubyget home. Yasmin has come Some are lucky and manage to talk to Matt to see if they still have a relationship worth savingget one of the few taxis available. Some would say Others squash onto the night bus that his death is an answer to that question but Yasmin doesnwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women't accept that. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She doesn't even accept hehad intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead and will search . The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the frozen Alaskan wastes bus driver to prove itlet her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349408122</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E M Davey1529195977|title=Foretold by ThunderNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=A university professor is randomly killed by On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a thunderbolt after posting a package crowd of history texts to journalist Jake Wolseyfriends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Was his death really She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that random? Jake doesn't have long to ponder that before henot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's off to Turkey with archaeologist Florence Chung to investigate the ancient religion of the Etruscanshospital. HeThat's not where the only one interested; MI6 similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are tailing him for in the midst of a reason even the agents concerned donjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they't knowre enjoying themselves. As history starts Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to reveal its secrets her tummy and connects with names centuries after you get the Etruscans died, Jake and Florence realise sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this is as much money on a fight for their lives as meal - but it is for knowledgeJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649930</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark1803136383|title=The Melody Lingers on|rating=3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Mary Higgins Clark’s latest thriller, ‘’The Melody Lingers on’’, follows the author’s usual successful formula. The main character, Lane, is a young woman with a prestigious job as the assistant of an exclusive interior designer. She is instantly likeable: thoroughly nice – as underlined several times by other characters - un-snobbish and of course beautiful. We witness her performing small everyday acts of kindness and she is just vulnerable enough to be relatable to, having tragically lost family members. Vulnerable, but not troubled; no reckless drugs, drinking or sleeping around for Mary Higgins Clark heroines. Lane is clean and decent, with a strong moral fibre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148521</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=Adam LeBor|title=Washington StratagemDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=“More than ever before Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in human history, we share Vietnam under something of a common destinycloud. We can master it only if we face it together. And thatWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, my friends, is why we have but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the United Nationsconsensus.” So said former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. There's little of that brotherly solidarity on show in The Washington StratagemWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, a United Nations-set thriller by Adam LeBoras he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy AtkinsB0C7J9D21B|title= The Other ChildA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Tess When we first meet our hero, his name is giving up Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a lot to leave England for Massachusetts but she’s happy to do it too, happy that her son Joe will have new bordello and exciting adventuresEttore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, happy she will be living with Greg, the father though - but for someone of her unborn child. But pretty soonhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, unsettling things start happeningit's difficult to obtain decent employment. The neighbours are behaving strangely. Things in stint working with the house preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are mysteriously getting moved out of placeconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. Nothing is Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as it seems and her dream is quickly becoming a nightmareguide for visitors. He was even saving some money. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069879</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean Zimmerman0241996104|title= Savage Girl|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Bronwyn is a wild and seemingly mute sideshow attraction, known to all as ''Savage Girl''. Apparently raised by wolves, she is swiftly adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couple, and, once cleaned up, introduced to high society. Darkly beautiful, intelligent, and with no end of suitors, Bronwyn seems destined for a good life – until these suitors start turning up dead. Could the ''Savage Girl'' be living up Coming to her name? Or is someone else the killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670014850</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFind You|author=Irvine Welsh|title=The Sex Lives of Siamese TwinsJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=“Numbers are the great American obsession” opines Lucy Brennan, the protagonist of The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, Nancy's mother and in her case step-father were brutally stabbed at least that’s definitely true. Whether it’s thinking about an argument with their Sussex farmhouse and her boyfriend Miles (6”1step-brother, 210 lbs)Martin, noting has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the the stats of “sneakycourt, squeaky” fellow personal trainer Mona (5”9, blond, 36-34-36) or noting down how many calories after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her lunch of steamed broccoli and spinach with that she's received a peanut'silent sentence' -butter-and-banana protein shake she's not been found guilty of anything but will set have to live with what happened for the rest of her back (460 cal)life. As a personal trainer obsessed with keeping in shape Of course, Lucy never stops thinking about calories it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and body crunches. There’s several amusing passages where she rants about the clients she has to deal with, particularly one woman who will obviously never lose any weight and simply wants validation for papers are making the effort to do so in the first placemost of it. Having just joined a gym myself, I felt like the perfect person for this novel ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Wilson1529135389|title=The Devil's CocktailFall|author=Gilly Macmillan

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Alexander Wilson, author of Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the ''Wallace'' series, was a writer, spy and secret service officercounty fair before she returned home. Interesting that There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the biogstate-writer makes a distincation between the last two of those professions. Be that as it may, Wilson was one of -the early writers -art music system installed in the genre that would lead to Bond and SmileyThe Glass Barn. Whilst perhaps They'd not quite reaching been in the literary style architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and fame of those who would follow in his footsteps, he created characters and plots that were very popular at still getting used to all the time, are very much high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of their time them fought with each other and are now getting didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a wellten-deserved remillion-issuepound 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018100</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Castle Alan Parks|title=Raging Heat (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6)To Die in June|rating=4.5

|summary=Fans What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the television series ''Castle'' will come streets, suddenly starts to this book ready-prepared feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for what’s going ondetective Harry McCoy, but for those unaware, in all the series there more so because his own father is a character called Richard Castle who is an author. He observes a homicide detective, Kate Beckett, in her work down and then writes a novelout alcoholic, ''Heat Wave'', based on her characterwith no fixed abode, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own to Jameson Rookhe has been for years. After At the book was written (in the television series) it was actually published in real life. Being a fan of ''Castle'' I immediately bought it and read it. To be honestsame time as facing these possible murders, I found that the concept messed Harry is also dealing with my head too much! I kept thinking about who was who, within the book, translating Nikki’s name a move to Kate’sa different police station, and Rook’s to Castle, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are 'real' they arethe arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this onethe boy having existed can be found. It’s Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been a little while since I watched the TV seriesstationed, and somehow coming at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1529382823|title= Half the World AwayThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travelling, Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and visits China – working as has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a private English tutorcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Back in Manchester Caz's sister, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blogGemma, “Lori reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the Orient”his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. When all communication stops They've not been a couple for that long and silence persists, the parents report her missingtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, and learning that there Gemma is little they can do from Manchester, set out to China in order to search for looking after Caz's cafe as well as their daughtermother who has dementia. Flying It's going to Chengdu, they have no knowledge of the countrybe good, customs or language, and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula DalyMark Edwards|title=Keep Your Friends CloseHer Secret

|summary=Natty Matthew and Sean seem to have a good marriage Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty- to have everything, in factodd years after they first met. They didn't have a particularly propitious start: Natty's pregnancy precipitated The alien-landscape of the marriage lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and meant that Sean couldn't do Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the law degree he'd set his heart onjoy she is feeling in this moment, but they now own an upmarket hotel in even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the lake district, have edge of a lovely home ravine gives way and drive Helena finds herself clinging to the sort rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of cars more commonly associated with premier league footballersthe shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Their daughters are Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in their teens now and ithauls 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 public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's when populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the younger, Felicitybet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on a school trip to France the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the problems start.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055216934X</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lori Lansens0861544056|title=The Mountain StoryTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary= Wolf’s mother is deadBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. His father is inept Kit's been at best, a dead beat at worst. Wolf’s one joy in life is his best friend, Byrd. The two frequently escape their homes Bristol and hike up a nearby mountain, revelling Jess's in the freedom and closeness to natureExeter. But Byrd dies, and a year later, on It's not only the date first time they've been away from their parents for any length of his 18th birthday, Wolf decides time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to kill himself – heading have them all to herself for a while. 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 the same mountain where upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he spent so much time happy. However, Wolf soon meets three women – Bridget, Nola and Vonn's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. Lost on the mountain, And they will spend days fighting to survive and to escape the wilderness. One will not make it down alive'll be sharing a bedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471137996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lee ChildRobert Dugoni|title=PersonalHer Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= 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 gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. 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's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary= If youWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she've never read s just ten years old. She's a Lee Child novel but have seen careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the trailers for a film starring Tom Cruise… can I seriously suggest you read at least one death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the books before seeing conversation is heading that way will lead to the filmnecessity of a Lesson. To be fair, I haven Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he't seen s not even careful about whether or not the film injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and Cruise might do a decent job brings up the possibility of whatever script they've given him… abuse with the head but Jack Reacher her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he isnnot? The playground wouldn'thave been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857502662</amazonuk>

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|summary=Bill Hodges is Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a retired copyear - well, spiralling down into apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a seemingly inescapable depressionmoment. Stuck at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVIt's now a year since her son, Mason, toying with was stolen from his bed in the idea middle of shooting himself, it the night and Izzy is only 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 sudden arrival of 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 letter claiming podcast and get to be from 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|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone who committed an unsolved multiple murder, one I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of Hodges’ old casestwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that he finds Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a new interest neurosurgeon: they don't have much in staying alivecommon except their wives. Is this actually the murderer? Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. Why is he crawling out She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>knowledge public.