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|isbn=Pronko0008379300|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)The Shadow Man|author=Michael PronkoHelen Fields
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=There were three young women, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their ages. Sukayana was Thai Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and she'd come to Japan in the belief he knows that shehe'd be able to pick s dying. His body is giving up the documentation on him, his internal organs beginning to get to the States. Celeste was just fourteen putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and when we meet her she's already dead of a heart attack caused by an overdose of amphetaminesbrother. Then there's Ratana, whoHe's been on the de facto leader of lookout for the group, but sheperfect people and he's disappeared too 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 group's passportswalls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, leaving Sukayana in had taken the midst children - a boy of seven and a scene girl of carnage at five, away for the Jack and Jill Studiosweekend. The dead bodies are definitely not props thoughUnfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.
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|isbnauthor=0241984653Dean Koontz|title=I Made a Mistake|author=Jane CorryThe Other Emily|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know from Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the very beginning that theretwo US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a tragedy about place he has to happenbe able to leave. On David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a January evening on lifer now, who went a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a man falls under an oncoming traindozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. That David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man is Matthew Gordon's mind, but to no avail. Much later we see Poppy Page in He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the witness box of a crown courtsheer spitting image, getting a the very rough ride from embodiment, the prosecuting barristervirtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958
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|isbn=00083861371529124417|title=Just My LuckBefore She Disappeared|author=Adele ParksLisa Gardner
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elaine Winterdale took Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the fall for bottom of the landlordlake. Aged 37, she got a suspended sentence because a faulty gas boiler had caused She knew that the deaths of 29twenty-two-year-old Reveka Albu and waitress wouldn't have left her 2three-year-old son Benkedaughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Toma Albu Frankie, husband middle-aged and fatherwhite, had found them when he returned homegets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW7B08CR3WNFT|title=Access PointThe Therapist|author=T R GabbayB A Paris|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a professional success: using gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a device of reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her own invention she's helped a man who has been blind cottage in Harlestone for decades them to be able to see an image afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of a hummingbirdtheir long-distance relationship. She's thirty-six years old and her life is about Now they would be able to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a busspend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. It's Leo had some work done on the house: he made two years before we meet her again bedrooms into one and in although Alice knew that the meantime, house was stunning shejust didn's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomet feel comfortable there.
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|isbnauthor=1471166023Saima Mir|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesThe Khan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year criminal justice system and by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogantime she is called home for her sister's body on a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwenwedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern she is at the welfare top of her game. Returning to the birds he looks after. His instinct is city of her birth, to cover Rogan's body old scars and he uses his sheepskin coat to do thisfresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with the result that he's the prime suspecther sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=178730101X0008214468|title=Keep Him CloseA Time to Lie|author=Emily KochSimon Berthon|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and LouisA workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. LouIt's seventeen wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and heis a hand, severed above the wrist. It's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out been there for about twenty-five to celebratethirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Someone has He's married to find something to celebrate in the lettersheiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, D, D Becca and EBella. Alice has always had Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny , but itmorally good.'' One of the ways he's a planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. touch problematic with Lou Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and being honestChancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming easy to my mind were ADHDsee that he wouldn't have been in agreement.
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|author=Gregg HurwitzGunnar Staalesen|title=Into The FireFallen Angels|rating=52
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a forensic accountant. Or ratherformer friend's funeral, wasVeum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of the past are exposed to the light of the present. He was brought A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an ER room after an alleged car crash, investigation to root out the clues hidden in his friend pleading with own history and to catch a killer.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the medics to keep him alivecage, intimately. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a nameIt lurks in the corner of her eye. His cousinSoon, Maxit will be occupied.Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=07181855011838772650
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|isbn=0008297169B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Guest ListLong Dark Road|author=Lucy FoleyP R Black|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the yearlonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet There was a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel furious storm going on and she'd already refused the islandoffer of help from one man in a big vehicle. The brideWe's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid ll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the wedding planner and chef are Aoife car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her husband, Freddybody - in the two years since. They gave a huge discount Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to get the couple find out what happened and she's not going to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?stopped.
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|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=15290096770008330131|title=A Window BreaksThe Stolen Sisters|author=C M EwanLouise Jensen
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are having problemsall healthy adults. ItWell, they's not just re healthy in the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriagephysical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatherThey's Audi re the Sinclair sisters and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to driveone day they were all stolen. Not only did he kill himself when Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteeneight-year-old Fiona Connortwins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Tom can't think Leah and Marie were nattering about Michael without a sense of shame lost ball and guilta fleece which had been left outside. Rachel is brokenThe gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, but she wants to forgive Michaeltheir boxer dog, escaped. To give some space, Tom's moved out of As the family home, but stresses three girls went to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationchase after him they were snatched by two men.
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|author=Chris HautyWill Carver|title=Deep StateHinton Hollow Death Trip|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighterHinton Hollow, population 5,120. She is every kind It sounds like one of fighter and well-trained those signs you see on improbably wide highways in most of them. SheAmerica's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is focusseda small town in Berkshire, England. She works hard, mentally and physically Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened and she knows how he ran away to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledcity. This fight He's running away again…only this time evil is against someone she following him and is not expected going to beat. And she is being watchedtouch just about everyone in town.|isbn=14711856051913193306
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|isbn=02419851530008378363|title=The House on the LakeOne Perfect Morning|author=Nuala EllwoodPamela Crane
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know that something has gone wrong A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - badly wrong and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the woman who was alone same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the house is taken away by Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the policesupporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, but itAria, who's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenednow fifteen-year-old.
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|isbn= 19848906460751567426|authortitle=Catherine SteadmanThe Wicked Sister|titleauthor=Mr NobodyKaren Dionne|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= DonWhen we first meet Rachel Cunningham she't you just hate it s an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when people are multishe was eleven-years-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress old and writer, with this that her second novelfather then took the gun and killed himself. I think in Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home, a way her acting background shows lodge in her writing as to my mind the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel'fight scenes very bright and although she' s a voluntary patient at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attackerthis is what she deserves. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until Perhaps, though, the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost circumstances are not as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stagesshe remembers.
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|authorisbn=Will Dean 0008314721|title=Black River Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this third book prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifefamily, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik seventeen-year-old Kamran and into a desperate search for her missing best friendsixteen-year-old Adam. With Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the Midsommar sun blocked out by other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the dark pines tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the forestprestigious Hampton school, where they board, Tuva fights 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 save her friendbe going well until the night when he was raped. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116
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|isbnauthor=1780894511Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickThe Seven Doors
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial Come here for murder and hea thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we's in re a full fifth of the vulnerable prisoner unit: as way through. We start with our couple, she a copliterature lecturer, he's something big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and Mason is injured in a riotwhich they'd occupied for over thirty years. On his way to hospital The building he's broken free by armed men inherited, meanwhile, and an offer which they let out to a single mother, is made needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to himits occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. HeNow, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to assassinate the man who is likely be a throwback to become the countrythose 's next prime minister and hehome invasion'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroadthrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. His captors We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that they're MI6has any bearing on what happens here, but Mason has his doubtsand seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons 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 believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadhave completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381
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|authorisbn=Rory Clements1471179273|title=Hitler's SecretHouse of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=SoWhen we first meet Tabitha Hardy, Hitler had a secret? Twoshe's in prison, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersionon remand. But this is She's sharing a secret that is counter to thatcell with Michaela, and in fact, is a secret that Hitler himself doesnwho't even know abouts more caring than she first appears. His niece, Geli RaubalShe delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the attractive young woman he seemed to whole processes might be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever sinceAnd how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the girl is completely ignorant body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her pastgarden shed by Andrew Kane, and the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right-hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected who was helping with her existence from the Reich. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, renovations to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275}}{{Frontpage|author=Michael J Malone|title=In The Absence of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=John DochertyTabitha's mother has been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely that she will ever be able to live independently againhouse. Faced with having to sell So far as the family home in order to pay for her nursing carepolice are concerned, Docherty starts Tabitha is the clear out. In the attic he finds a childhood picture of himself, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing about. He also finds a bloodonly person who could have killed Rees -stained shoe.|isbn=191237479X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0692853545|title=The Things We Do|author=Kay Pfaltz|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist when they arrived at the state penitentiary and she knows that her next patient is not going to be easy. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of the murder of two men - one a police officer. She pleaded guilty and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubt. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when house she was arrested, but it's been proved to be false. There seem to be no family or friends who are missing her. Eleanor's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two mencovered in his blood.
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{{Frontpage|isbn=147117316X|title=Guilty Not Guilty|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate Gordon-Russell (Bill Russell Move on to those who knew him well) was acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of the violent death of his much-loved wife. It would get worse though: the successful insurance actuary would be accused of killing her and hounded by the media. Then he would lose his job and his home. His best friends would turn against him, as they came to believe him guilty of the murder. Yet there was no really compelling evidence that he was guilty.}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]

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