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|isbn=00083301310241678412|title=The Stolen SistersProof of My Innocence|author=Louise JensenJonathan Coe|rating=3.54

|summary=When we start Life after university hasn''The Stolen Sisters'' we know t worked out quite the way that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsPhyl anticipated. Well, theyShe're healthy in the physical senses back home, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD living with her parents and Marie drinkson a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. They're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenAll those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. Carly was thirteen-years-old The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and she was in charge of her sistersintroduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, the eight-year-old twinsRashida. Much Christopher Swann (described by some as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and lefty blogger) is investigating a fleece think tank which had been left outsideoriginated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. The gate wasn't shut properly It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went is ready to chase after him they were snatched by two menact.

|authorisbn=Will Carver0008385068|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, Englandtheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Detective Sergeant Pace grew It's all headed up hereby Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, until something happened Owen, was the architect and he ran away to work is still ongoing on parts of the citysite. He's running away again…only this time evil The heat is following him oppressive and is amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to touch just about everyone in townbe settled and it won't be long before a body is found.|isbn=1913193306

|isbnauthor=0008378363Saima Mir|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneVengeance

|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in his own bedthe north of England run by a Muslim woman. To find out who - The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and why - we need 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 go back nine days speed, and twenty yearsI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersMackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college |summary= It's September 1973 in MonroevilleHicks, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the dayLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress Not much happens in her own lifeHicks. She married Owen, her college sweetheart A silver mine and they have a daughter, Ariadefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, whothere's now fifteen-year-oldnot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees.Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbn=07515674261399613073|title=The Wicked SisterMoral Injuries|author=Karen DionneChristie Watson

|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsuladay of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen yearsOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother which is a bonus when she was eleven-years-old you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and that her father then took a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the gun group and killed himselfshe becomes a GP. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left When we first meet them they're at the family home, a lodge drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in the Upper Peninsula wildernesstragedy. RachelWe don's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at t know who suffered the tragedy or the Mental Health Center she remains consequences. Twenty-five years later there, feeling will be an eerily similar event that this is what she deserveswill impact the three friends. PerhapsThis time, though, the circumstances it's their teenage children who are not as she remembersinvolved.

|isbnauthor=0008314721Sunny Singh|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=The Hadids are Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an ''effortful'' familyunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Flowers Hiding from the terrorists who are sent rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the slightest problem or achievement: letters residents who are sent still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to thank be cowed by events, and this prompts a phone call in returnkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. There 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 two sons of discovered by the familyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|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, seventeenafter 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|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Kamran and sixteenTheo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt -yearas yet unnamed -old Adam. Their mothercame up for auction, Sofiabut Peter Radway, regrets that she didnthe chairman, hadn't name them arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other way round: 'Adam . Brian Kitman and KamranElliot ' trips off the tongue so much more easily than Mitch'Kamran Mitchell were well-known and Adam'respected in the racing industry. Sofia worries about Jennings was 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 that sort of thingfigure. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where were happy that they boardhad insurance in place. The following morning, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he horse was rapeddead in its stall.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1405951680|title=The Seven DoorsSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to suggest caretake a genre of any kind until we're luxury property in the Australian outback for a full fifth couple of the way throughmonths. We start with our coupleAfter the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a literature lecturer, he big data analyst for the Metropolitan police in medical provision and decisions at London: she was Jess who was returning to the council, being forced to move out country of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, birth 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 you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going need of the space to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in get over the 1980s, but notraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, A few weeks 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 any crime book should – until the point where Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedticket.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731448309743|title=House of CorrectionThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Nicci FrenchCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing five members of a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearswealthy family are found murdered. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showerThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, unpleasant as the whole processes might bedeath will follow. And how did Tabitha get here? WellThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, on 21 December the body that's an easy conclusion given that two of Stuart Robert Rees was them 'discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with ' the renovations to Tabitha's housebody. So far as the police are concerned The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Tabitha DCI Christine Caplan is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered pulled in his bloodto 'shadow' him.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVSB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Lies You ToldLast Person in the World|author=Harriet TyceMatthew Tree|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start Our narrator was a new scholarship day boy at the London-based public schoolwhere he met Ralph Finns. She's left the school she loved in New York It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and now she's going had money to Ashams in North London. throw around on a It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth Rolex watch, vintage wines and as a state-of-the pupils have all been there ''forever'', -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they have their established groupsbecame almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Robin's Finns had no intention of going on to be an outsider. And why is this happening? WellUniversity, over unlike our storyteller who had a matter of a few days her parentsplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK' marriage fell aparts third most prestigious university. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - Before going up, he works for took up a securities firm - and her motherloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsClouds Manor in West Dorset.

|author= Mark DawsonDean Koontz|title= The CleanerHouse at the End of the World|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless When you experience overwhelming tragedy and coldly competent, John Milton feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the British governmentmap and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instincts. Nowwhat Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, after ten years, he wants outthe neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X1662453159

|isbn=18389510671787636607|title=The Nothing ManTrap

|summary=When we first meet Jim DoyleOn her 45th birthday, he's about to get Alix Summer celebrated with a shockcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. He's security at a supermarket She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and heJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslyhospital. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if sheThat's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to where the floor similarities end, though: Alix, with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blackher husband, Nathan, is are in the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellmidst of a joyful, Jim was - monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''isexactly'' - the Nothing Man whorowdy, until eighteen years ago raped and killedthey're enjoying themselves. The author of Josie, on the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherother hand, and then killed holds her, handbag close to her father tummy and her sevenyou get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal -year-old sister, Annabut it is Josie's birthday after all.

|isbn=178089922X1803136383|title=Invisible GirlTin Soldiers|author=Lisa JewellDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Nancy''When you wear a hoods mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, you're invisiblehas been convicted of their murder.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. By The barrister tells her own admission, that she's received a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't silent sentence' - she's not been easy for her: most people who found guilty of anything but will have been close to live with what happened for the rest of her have died and shelife. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's now living with rich - she inherited five million pounds from her Uncle Aaron in an eighthmother -floor flatand the papers are making the most of it. Something ''really, really bad happenedFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' to might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her when she husband but opera was ten and she selfplaying on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-harmed designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for a long timeand were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Aaron organised psychological help Some of them fought with each other and for three years Roan Fours was her therapistdidn't work as reliably as they should. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to miss having that 'something reallysort of money, really bad'too. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftEventually, but she retained an interest Nicole found Tom dead in Roanthe swimming pool with a wound to his head.

|author=Sharon DoeringAlan Parks|title=She Lies CloseTo Die in June

|summary= Ava Boone was five Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoafter they first met. There has been no sign The alien-landscape of her since, the lava fields and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book black beaches is not about Ava. Not really. This book breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is about Gracefeeling in this moment, who has even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just discovered the snagged strap of her neighbour in rucksack between her new house is and a suspect in Ava's disappearance500 foot drop to certain death below. As a single mother Convinced she is going to two young childrendie, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she's really wishing this sort of information had come has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to light before they moved Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops inand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1789094194166250893X

|isbnauthor=1409187438Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkThirty Days of Darkness

|summary=On Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the second end of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home their first term at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openuniversity. His wife was in the bedroom in a state of shock Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the bathroom there was a dead man who had first time they've been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paulaway from their parents for any length of time - but they's paper-knifeve also been apart from each other. In that moment Paul takes Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a decision while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that will be irrevocablehe didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he decides 's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. TheyAnd they're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedll be sharing a bedroom.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Robert Dugoni|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayHer Deadly Game|rating=45

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to drive down the private road his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in Glen Turritdefence of his clients. It was Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a long road through some breath-taking scenery gift for drinking himself to oblivion and she could push inevitably the car latter was beginning to its limits without fear of being caught speedingovershadow the former. When Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the blond child stepped out in front hideous position of asking her she instinctively jerked father for a job at the steering wheel and hit family firm because a romantic entanglement with a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she wassenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time agorather spectacularly, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4south.|isbn=1662500181

|isbnauthor=1780899858Vanda Symon|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of the house on the night her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the summer solstice to watch hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Her four-year-old brotherFinding herself put on desk duties, Teddywhich she rails against, would have woken she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the house if increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she hadn't taken him with hers just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. But in The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the early hours death of the morninghis wife, Lucy returned home without TeddyJuly's mother, hoping and any hint that the conversation is heading that he would have got home before herway will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. He hadnOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he't and no one has seen him sinces not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. LucyJuly's story was crucial to teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the police investigation, head but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendworries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must has he not tell the police? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

|isbn=17874776810008454493|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)All the Dangerous Things|author=Martin WalkerStacy Willingham|rating=4.5

|summary=It was Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a couple year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sontime or drifted off for a moment. GastonIt's father had sold the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure now a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatyear since her son, owned by a Russian oligarch. Before he even got to go there he diedMason, apparently of a heart attack, and was stolen from his bed in the retirement home collected the proceeds middle of the policy night and Gaston Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and Claudette Driant were left with just particularly about her relief in the contents of morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the farmhousecase. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away She does interviews and Claudette had fallen out of favour when we meet her, she announced that 's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she was gaygave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, but they werenshe't expecting s approached by a 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 be almost completely disinheriteda few hundred people at conferences.

|isbn=02419846531848458436|title=I Made a MistakeJust the Nicest Couple|author=Jane CorryMary Kubica|rating=4.5

|summary=We know from ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the very beginning Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that thereLily 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 tragedy about to happenregular thing. On Christian is a January evening on market research analyst and Jake is a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming trainneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. That man is Matthew GordonLily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. Much later we see Poppy Page in the witness box She has a lengthy history of a crown court, getting a very rough ride from miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the prosecuting barristerknowledge public.