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|isbn=00083861370008379300|title=Just My LuckThe Shadow Man|author=Adele ParksHelen Fields|rating=4.5

|summary=sentence because Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a faulty gas boiler child and a brother. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had caused taken the deaths children - a boy of 29-year-old Reveka Albu seven and her 2-year-old son Benkea girl of five, away for the weekend. Toma AlbuUnfortunately, husband it doesn't go according to plan and father, had found them when he returned homeAngela dies.

|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7Dean Koontz|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayThe Other Emily

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheOur hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention shethe western coast we's helped re concerned with, a man who place he has been blind for decades to see an image of return to, and a hummingbirdplace he has to be able to leave. She's thirty-six David lost contact with his partner there ten years old and her life is about to change radically as, cycling homeago, when shevanished from a remote road late at night. He's involved in an accident paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a busdozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. ItDavid is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's two years before we meet her again and in the meantimemind, shebut to no avail. He's spent 392 days in also having a coma and now recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks with a stickthe sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out What is a spare bedroom man to bring in some income.do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=14711660231529124417|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Before She Disappeared|author=Kate RhodesLisa Gardner

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The 5th Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of November was D I Ben Kittothe lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn's thirtyt have left her three-year-fifth birthday old daughter and run away. Lani was the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would fourteenth missing person to be marred this year located by the discovery of Professor Alex RoganFrankie and now she's body moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a bonfirestrong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire Frankie, middle-aged and can only have died white, gets a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing job and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Roganaccommodation at Stoney's body bar and he uses his sheepskin coat sets out to do this, with investigate the result that he's the prime suspectcommunity which is just about exclusively black.

|isbn=178730101XB08CR3WNFT|title=Keep Him CloseThe Therapist|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen and he's just got his B A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to find something to celebrate in the letters, D, D and E. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gregg Hurwitz|title=Into The FireParis

|summary= Grant Merriweather is When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a forensic accountant. Or rathergated community, Alice Dawson wasin Venice. He Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with on the medics market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to keep him alivebe able to afford it. He Alice agreed - she was needed alive just tired of their long enough -distance relationship. Now they would be able to give up a namespend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. His cousin, MaxLeo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.|isbn=0718185501

|isbnauthor=0008297169Saima Mir|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyKhan|rating=4.5

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off Jia Khan has alway lived by the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the yearmotto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, This has served her well in her rise through the ruined chapel on criminal justice system and by the island. The bridetime she is called home for her sister's sisterwedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and she is at the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and top of her husband, Freddygame. They gave a huge discount Returning to get the couple city of her birth, to the islandold scars and fresh wounds, but surely it would be worth it Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the publicity?future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=15290096770008214468|title=A Window BreaksTime to Lie|author=C M EwanSimon Berthon|rating=3.5

|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problemsA workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's not just wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriagewrist. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatherIt's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled been there for about twenty-five to drivethirty-five years. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen Robin Sandford -yeargenerally known as Robbie -old Fiona Connoris Prime Minister. Tom canHe't think about Michael without a sense of shame s married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and guiltBella. Rachel Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is brokennot just practically good, but she wants to forgive Michaelmorally good. '' To give some space, TomOne of the ways he's moved out of the family home, but stresses planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to his thirteendubious regimes. Henry Morland-year-old daughterCross, Hollythe Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it is only a trial separation's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreement.

|author=Chris HautyGunnar Staalesen|title=Deep StateFallen Angels|rating=32

|summary= Hayley Chill Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained in most of them. Sheformer friend's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hardfuneral, mentally Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and physically, wounds are opened and she knows how the sins of the past are exposed to deal with the painlight of the present. She A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to beat. And she is being watchedcatch a killer.|isbn=14711856051913193063

|isbnauthor=0241985153Deborah O'Connor|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodCaptive|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when Hannah knows the woman who was alone cage, intimately. It lurks in the house is taken away by the policecorner of her eye. Soon, but it's going to will be a while before we learn exactly occupied. Then what has happened.? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn= 1984890646B087JXQ3JQ|authortitle=Catherine SteadmanThe Long Dark Road|titleauthor=Mr NobodyP R Black

|summary= DonTwo years ago Dr Georgia't you just hate it when people are multis Healey's nineteen-year-old university-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a successful actress furious storm going on and writer, with this her second novel. I think she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the big vehicle. We'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you ll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the kind where the hero car and driven off. There has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up no sign of her - or her body - in the last few chapterstwo years since. It was almost as if the author wanted Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much find out what happened and she's not going to do in the closing stagesbe stopped.

|author=Will Dean Susi Holliday |title=Black River The Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand- and this third book in new product from the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifemysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, returning her gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to the isolated town have an area of Gavrik and into expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a desperate search for her missing best friendmystery. With We follow the Midsommar sun blocked out by group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark pines of secret they would rather keep hidden. As the forestclock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, Tuva fights and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to save uncover the reason for her friendattendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. But who’ll be there to save Tuva? |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=17860771160008330131|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise Jensen|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. They're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much 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 a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two men.

|isbnauthor=1780894511Will Carver|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickHinton Hollow Death Trip|rating=4.5

|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop heAmerica's something of a targetmid-west, but the unit this particular Hinton Hollow is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured a small town in a riotBerkshire, England. On his way to hospital Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened and he's broken free by armed men and an offer is made ran away to himthe city. He's to assassinate the man who running away again…only this time evil is likely to become the country's next prime minister following him and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons is going to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadtouch just about everyone in town.|isbn=1913193306

|authorisbn=Rory Clements0008378363|title=Hitler's SecretOne Perfect Morning|author=Pamela Crane

|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned A husband is about to have his throat cut in a certain sing-song aspersionhis own bed. But this is a secret that is counter To find out who - and why - we need to that, go back nine days and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know abouttwenty years. His niece, Geli Raubal Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backbest of friends. Protected under When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a false identity ever since, nod to the famous girl is completely ignorant band of her past, and the truth is a very rare thingday. Martin BormannLily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler Homemaker and his right hand manMackenzie - well, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping Mackenzie would be the slate clean and removing all connected with supporting actress in her existence from the Reichown life. So it's down to Tom WildeShe married Owen, an American history professor at Oxbridgeher college sweetheart and they have a daughter, to go in and extract herAria, in this most shadowy race against timewho's now fifteen-year-old.|isbn=1838770275

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0751567426|title=In The Absence of MiraclesWicked Sister|author=Karen Dionne|rating=4.5

|summary=John DochertyWhen we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's mother Upper Peninsula. She's twenty-six and has been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely there for fifteen years, convinced that she will ever be able to live independently againaccidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Faced with having to sell Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home , a lodge in order to pay for her nursing care, Docherty starts the clear outUpper Peninsula wilderness. In Rachel's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at the attic he finds a childhood picture of himselfMental Health Center she remains there, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing aboutfeeling that this is what she deserves. He also finds a blood-stained shoePerhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembers.|isbn=191237479X

|isbn=06928535450008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Things We DoHadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, 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 was raped.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kay PfaltzAgnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=The Seven Doors

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItCome here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is re a prison psychologist at full fifth of the state penitentiary and she knows that her next patient is not going to be easyway through. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the murder council, being forced to move out of two men - one their home, a police officerbuilding that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. She pleaded guilty The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and since then has been silent: even her identity 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 doubtand you're moving out'. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrestedNow, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, but think it's been proved going to be falsea throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. There seem to be no family or friends who are missing herWe avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Eleanor's task Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menhave completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=147117316X1471179273|title=Guilty Not GuiltyHouse of Correction|author=Felix FrancisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate GordonWhen we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking -Russell (Bill Russell and encourages her to those who knew him well) was acting have a shower, unpleasant as a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of the violent death of his much-loved wifewhole processes might be. It would And how did Tabitha get worse though: here? Well, on 21 December the successful insurance actuary would be accused body of killing Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her and hounded garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the mediarenovations to Tabitha's house. Then he would lose his job So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and his home. His best friends would turn against him, as when they came to believe him guilty of the murder. Yet there arrived at her house she was no really compelling evidence that he was guiltycovered in his blood.

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- Adele Parks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008284660.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008284660/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Simon Barnes had his first taste of beer in 1976 when he was just six years old. Over the years it would become a habit and then a need. By 2016 and with a wife and child of his own he was a functioning alcoholic - a fact known by everybody except Simon. He's concentrating on wanting another child to complete his family. His wife, Daisy, isn't worried. They took a long time to conceive Millie, who's perfect in every way, so why tempt fate? Simon's not inclined to let matters rest though and it's at a fertility clinic that he receives the news that will change all their lives: he's sterile. [[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks|Full Review]] <!-- Nicci French -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471179230.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off Move on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and lover, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Travel Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}