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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak0241678412|title= Her Darkest NightmareThe Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Her Darkest Nightmare has all Life after university hasn't worked out quite the right ingredients for a crime thrillerway that Phyl anticipated. Shrewd, intelligent She's back home, living with her parents and hard-ason a zero-nails protagonist? Checkhours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. Fantastic setting? Check All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. A compelling mystery? Check! A thoroughly despicable villain? Check The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and check again… and maybe check one more time…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472240979</amazonuk>is ready to act.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fiona Barton0008385068|title= The WidowMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Newly widowed Jean Taylor is being interviewed by top investigative reporter Kate Waters. Jean sees that sheIt's not like midsummer on the other reporters, KateDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's not battering down Jeantheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's door, all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's niceconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, patientOwen, she feels like a friendwas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. But Jean isn Old scores are going to be settled and it won't completely fooled, Kate wants to know about her husband, about be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the terrible premise of this novel – an organised crime he syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was accused ofthe second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, how Jean feels about him now and the most dangerous question of all… what Jean knowsI never felt lost. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552172367</amazonuk>0861541561

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth HaynesDavid Chadwick|title=Never AloneHeadload of Napalm

|summary=Sarah lives alone in an isolated farmhouse on the North Yorkshire moors: sheIt's widowedSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. Her daughter Kitty Hicks is away at university and her son Louis and she have lost contact: there's some animosity on Louis' side but Sarah can't quite understand what's behind it. She and Aiden reconnected on Facebook: he was a close friend Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Jim, Sarah's late husband LA and Sarah when they were at universityLas Vegas both a significant drive away. He's coming back to the UK and impulsively Sarah tells him that he can live Not much happens in the cottage on her landHicks. She's always been drawn to him - they had A silver mine and a fling once before she married - and itdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not long before they begin a sexually-charged relationshipmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. But there's quite a bit about Aiden which Sarah can't understand: what ''exactly'' Life is it that Aiden does for a living? Can she trust him?quiet, until....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434961</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Felix Francis1399613073|title=Triple CrownMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary=You couldn't say that Jeff HinkleyOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a British Horseracing Authority investigator was having quarter of a midlife crisiscentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, but now that he's not working as an undercover agent quite so much he's not getting which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the same satisfaction from free spirit of the jobgroup and she becomes a GP. That was one of the reasons he was delighted to be seconded to the US Federal AntiWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-Corruption in Sports Agency where the Deputy Director is pretty sure that therefuelled party and it's a mole going to end in the organisationtragedy. Too many raids have been foiled by We don't know who suffered the target seeming to know what was going to happen and having tragedy or the chance to clean up before consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the investigators arrivedthree friends. ThereThis time, it's not too much to keep Hinkley in the UK, apart from a sister with cancer their teenage children who says that he should goare involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471155471</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aoife CliffordSunny Singh|title= All These Perfect StrangersHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=How well do we know our neighbours? How well do we know our closest friends? How well do we know ourselves? A carefully constructed thrillerThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, exploring what we human nature there is capable 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 ofher 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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471153622</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William RyanCody Goodfellow|title=The Constant SoldierVertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4

|summary=Paul Brandt returns home to his village without 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 arm chairman, hadn't arrived, so he left at the Russian Front in defence of Germanycontinued his session. The village looks pretty much the same as To say that he left it, with was shocked when the exception of the lack of young bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men and a new buildinghad been bidding against each other. His home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respite breaks from respected in the fightingracing industry. As Paul passes Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the hut for toilets when the first time, he sees something… or rather someone… two men came in and their conversation revealed that will make him return the horse had been deliberately bid up to work for those he despisesthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The subject of his decision? A girl he once got into trouble with under different circumstances – before she wore following morning, the stripes of a concentration camp prisonerhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harlan Coben1405951680|title= Fool Me OnceThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Joe Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was buried quickly. Only three days after his murdergently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. For those of us who regularly watch After the crime shows or even read the papers that might seem like indecent haste. His widow Maya isnproblems she't thinking d had at work, it seemed like that, thoughjust the break she needed. Through She was no longer a data analyst for the service Metropolitan police in London: she's thinking about all sorts was Jess who was returning to the country of other things. She's bringing her training birth and in need of the space to bearget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. DistractionA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket. Get through this bit and then deal with what needs to be done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784751111</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1448309743|title=The Gem ConnectionDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaughvillage of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, formerly five members of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairwealthy family are found murdered. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he was being unfaithful to his wifeif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proofdeath will follow. Luck was on his side, The only suspects are known Satanists but notin many ways, it would seem, on Fahrlettithat's. In the meantime Clinton Windell an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'knew'' that luck was on his side: the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gems. The board hadnshadow't believed that he could do it and a large part of his pleasure was that he was proving them wronghim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary KubicaB0CCCPJJ5B|title= Don't You CryThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Quinn is missing someone, and Alex has found someoneOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. And both are It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a little confused (not boarder and had money to mention alarmedthrow around on a Rolex watch, cautious vintage wines and a little uncertain)state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. In Chicago Finns had no intention of going on to University, Quinn discovers her roommate, Estherunlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, is missing. Vanished. Gone without a trace. It's extremely out of character for the girl Quinn knows, but as she starts to hunt down EstherUK's whereaboutsthird most prestigious university. Before going up, she has he took up a loose invitation to question how much she ‘'does'' know the girl with whom she shares a visit Ralph at his home and a life. A little way away, Alex is working in a restaurant when a mysterious stranger comes Clouds Manor inWest Dorset. He can't quite figure out why, but he's drawn to her. Who or what connects these two stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454732</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul ReadDean Koontz|title= The Art Teacher|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years House at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face. A mediocre teacher, stuck in a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every night to an empty flat, and an existence filled with reminders of his life as a faded rock star. When one pupil over steps the mark, a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world End of danger, violence, and the glare of the media. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Laura McHugh|title= Arrowood|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Arrowood lies amongst the ornate historical houses that line the Mississippi River in Southern Iowa - a house rich with money, history, and mystery. It has been nearly twenty years since Arden Arrowood's infant twin sisters vanished under her watch, never to be seen again. The disappearance of the twins broke Arden's family – her parents divorced and they moved from the house that has been in her family for generations. But the mystery was never solved and now Arden has inherited Arrowood, allowing her to finally return to her childhood home. Still clinging to the hope that her sisters might still be alive, Arden is anxious yet determined to finally uncover the truth about what happened that fateful summer day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089192X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Why Did You Lie?World

|summary=There's a bunch of rock stacks – four of them, even if their name implies only three – off the coast of Iceland. The largest When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is a tall and thin lump of rockno one on your side, hazardous to anyone on you can either suck itup, saddle up and home ride on or you can retreat to a crumbling and inoperable helipad and your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small, squat lighthouse – not chain of tiny dots on the lighthouse of map and live out your imagination, but a perky concrete cabin, not needing any more than the one room to house the gear days in peace and the lantern on topsolitude. Replacing some of that gear That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and surveying all would have been the site is a group of four people – specialist workers, aforementioned peace and a photographer to capture solitude were it all. So why and how do we know their story ends in tragedy – two of them cast to not for the waters belowpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and a third seemingly stabbed before the prologue is over? And why is their narrative interspersed with that perpetrating all manner of a woman, struggling with work mischief in the police name of science and seemingly with a haunted garage, quite possibly bringing about the scene end of her husband's failed suicide, and also that of a family returning home from a house-swap trip to Florida to find something they really didn't want to have waiting?all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473605059</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dawn Kurtagich1787636607|title= The Creeper ManTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary=It''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Python Wood. But with clubs and looking for a grinning mouth and without eyes, The Creeper Man is not their protectorway to get home. In 2016 two sisters, Silla Some are lucky and Nori, runaway from London and their cruel father manage to La Baumeget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath liveslight of 'the missing women'. Away from fear and hurt For one young woman, the girls are finally happy final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and lovedcollect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. They There're finally safe… Until the trees s no option but to start moving closerwalking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= N D Gomes1529195977|title= Dear CharlieNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary=''I can't fathom On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a bigger emotional mess for someone to have left behind. I wonder if you know that this would happen. I wonder if you thought about anything at all before you walked into that assembly hall at 8:22 am on the last day crowd of school.''N.D Gomes has written an exceptional novel on a controversial and relevant subject today with gun laws friends in question across the worldLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Dear Charlie is set in England in 1996 She, too, the same year in which Scotland was devastated by the Dunblame school massacreout celebrating her 45th birthday, and analyses life after an 18-year-old Charlieonly she was just with her husband, student at Pembrook Academy, shoots Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and kills 14 people before turning the gun on himself. The novel is narrated by SamJosie birthday twins, Charliethey were both born in St Mary's younger brother, who at 16 has to pick up the pieces after the shocking eventhospital. The novel depicts how Charlie That's family come to terms where the similarities end, though: Alix, with his lossher husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, how they're treated by enjoying themselves. Josie, on the communityother hand, as well as holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the constant pressure on their lives by the mediasense that Walter's not too happy. Forced to move He's not used to spending this much money on a new school, Sam tries to make a new start and leave the past behind, meal - but Charlie it is never far from his thoughtsJosie's birthday after all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008181160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter1803136383|title=The Kept WomanTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Special Agent Will Trent is back. Collected by his partner, Faith, to attend the scene of a rather brutal murder, Trent queries why the GBI Wat Tyler has been called returned from fighting in to what would usually be Vietnam under something of a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PDcloud. Arriving at the scene, their boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner What actually happened out there is somewhat characteristically pacing gossiped about and barking orders; the victim nobody is none other than ex-cop sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and all round bad egg, Dale Hardingdisgrace seems to be the consensus. There Wat himself is a lot of bloodkeeping his cards close to his chest, presumably due to the door-knob and spindle sticking out of Harding's neckas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ann TurnerB0C7J9D21B|title= The Lost SwimmerA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Your boss When we first meet our hero, his name is out to sabotage your careerEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, your husbandit's having an affair, someonea bordello and Ettore's trying to frame you for fraud and your dog is out of control around the friendly neighbourhood Kangaroos. It would be a lot to handle for anyone, let alone university lecturer Rebecca who is somewhat less confident that her outward persona would suggestmother died when he was born. But there He's just that slight issue not been short of how much mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it is actually factual's difficult to obtain decent employment. The signs seem to suggest some or all of this to be true, but signs can be wrong, obscured stint working with dirt or sometimes pointing the wrong waypreparation 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J Walker0241996104|title=The End of the World Running ClubComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=When the end of the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and in a panicher step-brother, he throws random itemsMartin, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until has been convicted of their supplies run outmurder. Fortunately they are luckyWe first meet Nancy outside the court, and they are rescued from the cellarafter Martin receives a life sentence. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of large asteroids hitting anything but will have to live with what happened for the earth. Large areas rest of the country have been destroyedher life. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and townsOf course, turning feral, trying to find whatit's made worse because Nancy's left to help them to surviverich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgar's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another country'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1529135389|title= Silent ScreamThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', DNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home.I Kim Stone is called to investigate There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the body state-of a woman found dead -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the bath of a architect-designed house that has been set on fire. As Stone Lancaut Peninsula for long and her team start were still getting used to investigate all the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isnhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't going to be an isolated case work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they are were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a race against the clock wound to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and whyhis head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V H LeslieAlan Parks|title= Bodies of WaterTo Die in June|rating= 3.54|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Bodies of Water is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from What first seems like the perspectives unfortunate, accidental death of Kirsten, a modern day woman homeless man on the mend from a broken heartstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and Evelynthen another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for ailing womenyears. Kirsten moves into At the old Wakewater Housesame time as facing these possible murders, attempting Harry is also dealing with a move to heal herself with a different police station, and the proximity arrival there of the water. Centuries ago, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit that same house in order to restore a woman who claims her old vigourlittle boy has gone missing, but the water cannot drown out only no record of the ghost that haunts herboy having existed can be found. In fact, Something feels wrong - not just with the water itself is a powerful and supernatural force. As woman’s story but also with the water encroaches upon both of their livesother officers where he has been stationed, Kirsten and Evelyn search to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before them.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Camilla Way1529382823|title= Watching Edie|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Edie and Heather are two old friends who haven't kept in touch as they left their teenage years behind, but a chance encounter brings Heather back just when Edie most needs a friend. It's so welcome, this return, that she's happy to accept the coincidence and not think too hard about the events that may have brought the two girls back together. From long lost friend to established confidant, Heather seamlessly reintegrates herself into Edie's life, but are things as rosy as they seem, or does one of the girls have a big secret they're trying to forget?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008159017</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Last Passenger|author=Iain Reid|title=I'm Thinking of Ending ThingsWill Dean|rating=34.5

|summary= The unnamed Girlfriend Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is driving middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with her boyfriend Jake Pete. They're off on a cruise to his parentNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's farmhouse out sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the country. True to the title, his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's thinking about ending their relationshiprelieved or disappointed.But something seems They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a little offbit better. When she meets his parents Meanwhile, the Girlfriend begins to think thereGemma is looking after Caz's something not quite right about themcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. On their way back they stop outside an abandoned school It's going to be good, and thatisn's when things get really frightening...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231049</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine Ryan HowardMark Edwards|title=Distress SignalsKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Cruise ship ''The Celebrate'' is a place for leisure, relaxation Matthew andHelena are in Iceland, it seems, disappearancerekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. To Adam's knowledge two women have disappeared from The alien-landscape of the ship midlava fields and black beaches is breath-oceantaking 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 fact that interests him as one ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of them is his partner Sarahher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. The search for her began with Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a note and seems panicked, cryptic declaration to have ended on board but he won't let it goMatthew. If Sarah Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is out there, Adam will find her even though he may not like left wondering what he discovers along the way just learned about the woman he loves and thought he knewHelena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782398384</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Trigger Mortis Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Bond is backHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, this time authored by international bestan author of failing if well-selling author Anthony Horowitzregarded literary short novels. It all begins with a seemingly simple mission ( Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at least for Bond). After a few days trainingbook fair, James heads to Germany to race she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the European championship at Nürburgring where world of crime fiction, saying he plans to stop 's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the Russians using dirty tricks bet that she cannot live up to secure victorythat accusation. However Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers where she is put up for a much bigger and more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) and SMERSH (a top-secret department wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the Russian government) to undermine people and the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions lack of New Yorkers and toppling stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the Empire State Building. As the clock ticks down, only Bond and CIA field-agent, Jeopardy Lane, can stop it. But are they already too late?landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Caldwell0861544056|title=The Fifth GospelTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary= Conspiracy thrillers Belle and David's twin daughters are many and variedjust coming to the end of their first term at university. They often promise a lot but leave you feeling frustrated Kit's been at Bristol and disappointedJess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they'The Fifth Gospelve been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can' is the rare exceptiont wait to have them all to herself for a while. In a genre filled Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with mediocrity it soars above the competition. The care and quality her? Belle would prefer that Ian Caldwell brings he didn't come but doesn't want to his writing is exceptional and his storytelling is giftedupset Kit. Set in the heart of the Vatican, Ivo's apparently 'older': he weaves a tale around the discovery of a missing gospel's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. The religious and political intrigues, handled with great subtlety, are twisted into And they'll be sharing a complex narrative full of intimate detailsbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471111040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisRobert Dugoni|title=Different ClassHer Deadly Game

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= St OswaldPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's Grammar School For Boys is work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in crisisdefence of his clients. A murdered schoolboy, a procession of new Head Masters, a(nother) new Head Master, a Crisis Intervention Team and a potential merger Along with St Oswald's all female counterpartan indisputable talent for the law, Mulberry House. Roy Straitley is not altogether dismayed at the prospect of delaying his retirement; St Oswald's Patsy also has been his life, man and boy and a crisis is a crisis after all is said gift for drinking himself to oblivion and done, isn't it? It's probably his duty inevitably the latter was beginning to stay and right overshadow the shipformer. So when the latest of the new Head Masters Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and his duo of crisis managers walk into proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the staff room, Straitley can't quite believe his old eyes. The new Head is an ex-pupil hideous position of St Oswald's; asking her father for a boy who, in his time job at the esteemed old School caused such an uproarious scandal that one of the Masters ended up in prison! family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619235</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony ParsonsVanda Symon|title=The Hanging ClubExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary= When Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the three yobbos who kick to death a young husband and father are given start of her maternity leave when there is a perfunctory sentencebrutal, DC Wolfe finds it hard to hold his true feelings shocking murder of an expectant woman in checkDunedin. Confounded by Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the injustice of the British Courts and legal system, DC Wolfe spends hunt for a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much of his life in fighting crimekiller targeting pregnant women, finding murderers and bringing them to justice when with all the integrity of the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Luckily for DC Wolfe he has his bright Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and funny daughter Scout she starts to keep him from looking too hard into the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside follow every dutiful cop; until thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the videos start being posted on the internetincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1787301036|title=Orphan X (Evan Smoak)What July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=1-855-2-Nowhere is the number you can call when youWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she're in dangers just ten years old. The only payment needed for She's a very violent but terminal solution is that you pass the number on to someone else in troublecareful, meticulous child. Evan SmoakThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, the man attached who is not prepared to discuss the phone numberdeath of his wife, July's mother, has been trained. A strategic thinker and total expert in any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the fields necessity of espionage and killing, he was kidnapped as a pre-teen to take part in a covert programmeLesson. That was long ago though Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and now life is differenthe's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Normally everything runs like clockwork but one day that clock stops July's teacher is concerned and a countdown brings up the possibility of a different sort begins. abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? Evan is Orphan X and Orphan X is himself in troubleThe playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181840</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>0718181840</amazonus>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008454493|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=What starts Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off as a day that should be remembered for a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hansonmoment. When planes start falling It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the sky night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together particularly about her relief in the thick of itmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the midst of the carnagecase. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a teenager is orphanedkeynote presentation. Definitely On the plane back, she's approached by a tragic event but is there podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to it than that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>153061936X</amazonus>a few hundred people at conferences.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Kavanagh1848458436|title= The Missing HoursJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Selena Cole ''The whole thing has an unusual job, working in the field spiralled out of Kidnap and Ransomcontrol, but this time sheturning into someone I'm not.''  ''s Just the one in trouble. While playing in Nicest Couple'' is the park with her children she vanishesstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and returns 24 hours later with no recollection of where she's beenNina and Jake Hayes. Oh The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the meantime, same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a man has been murdered. Itfoursome but it's probably completely unconnected, but this not a regular thing. Christian is a reasonably small town market research analyst and for the local police itJake is a neurosurgeon: they don's unusual to t have two such infrequent events much in quick succession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894678</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Annabel Kantaria|title= The Disappearance|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Audrey, widowed mother of grown up twins, is setting off for one last hurrah, taking her children on a Greek island cruisecommon except their wives. It Lily hasn's quite a nice gesture for the pairt said anything yet, to whom but she's starting to feel something pregnant. She has a lengthy history of a burden, but miscarriages so she has the time and the means to treat them, so why shouldndoesn't she? There may be more want to it than that, thoughtempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454406</amazonuk>