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|isbn=17873014350008379300|title=Dark WatersThe Shadow Man|author=G R HallidayHelen Fields
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road Fergus Ariss is in Glen Turrithis late thirties and he knows that he's dying. It was His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a long road through some breath-taking scenery child and she could push a brother. He's been on the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedinglookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. When The flat where the blond child stepped out family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in front of her she instinctively jerked frames have been painted onto the steering wheel and hit a treewalls. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she Angela Fernycroft was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitalto be his wife. She'd made her first mistake some time agoHer husband, Cal, although had taken the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for a long timethe weekend. SheUnfortunately, it doesn'd made it when she chose t go according to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4plan and Angela dies.
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|isbn=1780899858|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woods. Her four-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with her. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the police.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787477681Dean Koontz|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerThe Other Emily
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got Our hero David Thorne is an angry phone call from author, who shares his sonlife between the two US coasts. GastonIt's father had sold the family farm in order western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to buy an insurance policy which , and a place he had used has to be able to secure leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a life of luxury remote road late at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchnight. Before He's paying for contact with the man he even got to go there he diedthinks the only suspect, a lifer now, apparently of who went a heart attackbit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the retirement home collected the proceeds of connection between the policy murderer and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just his girl from the contents of the farmhouseman's mind, but to no avail. The family hadnHe't exactly fallen outs also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting his love. What is a man to be almost completely disinherited.do?|isbn=1542019958
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|isbn=02419846531529124417|title=I Made a MistakeBefore She Disappeared|author=Jane CorryLisa Gardner
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know from Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the very beginning lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter 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 tragedy about strong Haitian community which was home to happenAngelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming train. That man is Matthew Gordon. Much later we see Poppy Page in the witness box of a crown courtFrankie, middle-aged and white, getting gets a very rough ride from job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the prosecuting barristercommunity which is just about exclusively black.
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|isbn=0008386137B08CR3WNFT|title=Just My LuckThe Therapist|author=Adele ParksB A Paris|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elaine Winterdale took When Leo Curtis found the fall for the landlord. Aged 37house in The Circle, she got a suspended sentence because gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a faulty gas boiler had caused the deaths of 29-year-old Reveka Albu and reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her 2cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed -yearshe was tired of their long-old son Benkedistance relationship. Toma Albu, husband and father, Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had found them when some work done on the house: he returned homemade two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.
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|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0867X8NW70008214468|title=Access PointA Time to Lie|author=T R GabbaySimon Berthon|rating=45
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|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of A workman has a professional success: using nasty surprise when he pulls a device package out of her own invention shean excavation on a building site. It's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see wrapped in part of an image of old shower curtain and is a hummingbirdhand, severed above the wrist. SheIt's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-six five years old and her life . Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is about Prime Minister. He's married to change radically asheiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, cycling home, sheBecca and Bella. Sandford's involved in an accident with determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a busgovernment that is not just practically good, but morally good. '' ItOne of the ways he's two years before we meet her again planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and in Chancellor of the meantimeExchequer, shewishes that he'd been warned about this: it's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula easy to see that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring he wouldn't have been in some incomeagreement.
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|isbnauthor=1471166023Gunnar Staalesen|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesFallen Angels|rating=4.52|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoVarg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friend's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsfuneral, Veum catches up with old friends but it would be marred this year by soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the discovery sins of Professor Alex Rogan'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 Curwen, better known on St Agnes as past are exposed to the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare light of the birds he looks afterpresent. His instinct A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to cover Rogan's body root out the clues hidden in his own history and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectcatch a killer.|isbn=1913193063
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|isbnauthor=178730101XDeborah O'Connor|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily KochThe Captive|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellHannah knows the cage, Benoît, actually) and Louisintimately. Lou's seventeen and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to find something to celebrate It lurks in the letterscorner of her eye. Soon, D, D and Eit will be occupied. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, Then what? What if he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming speaks to my mind were ADHD.her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|authorisbn=Gregg HurwitzB087JXQ3JQ|title=Into The FireLong Dark Road|author=P R Black|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountantTwo years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. Or rather, There wasa furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. He was brought We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into an ER room after an alleged the car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him aliveand driven off. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a nameThere has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. His cousinGeorgia is back is Ferngate, Maxdetermined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.|isbn=0718185501
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|isbnauthor=0008297169Susi Holliday |title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyLast Resort |rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been enough invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of test a brand-new product from the yearmysterious Timeo Technology company. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet The group includes a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegangames designer, online magazine publishersocial media influencer, in 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 ruined chapel on group as they explore the island. The bride, and each other's sister, Olivia, histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would be her only bridesmaid and rather keep hidden. As the wedding planner and chef clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are Aoife revealed, and her husband, Freddyit soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. They gave In a huge discount race against time, Amelia must struggle to get uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the couple to rest of the island, but surely it would be worth it for guests from the publicity?increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}
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|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 that, and in factcell with Michaela, 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 who was helping with the truth is a very rare thingrenovations to Tabitha's house. Martin Bormann, So far as the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right-hand manpolice are concerned, knows – and Tabitha is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean only person who could have killed Rees - and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor when they arrived at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, house she was covered in this most shadowy race against timehis blood.|isbn=1838770275
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