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|isbn=178089922X0008379300|title=Invisible GirlThe Shadow Man|author=Lisa JewellHelen Fields|rating=54

|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox Fergus Ariss is seventeen-years-old in his late thirties and beautifulhe knows that he's dying. By her own admissionHis body is giving up on him, she's his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a bit of wife, a boffin, doing child and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levela brother. Life hasnHe't s been easy on the lookout for her: most the perfect people who have been close to her have died and shehe's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatmade certain preparations. Something ''reallyThe flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long timepictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours Angela Fernycroft was her therapistto be his wife. He gently unpeeled Her husband, Cal, had taken the layers children - a boy of seven and a girl of her psychefive, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really bad'away for the weekend. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftUnfortunately, but she retained an interest in Roanit doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.

|author=Sharon DoeringDean Koontz|title=She Lies CloseThe Other Emily

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingOur hero David Thorne is an author, around 6 months agowho shares his life between the two US coasts. There It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has been no sign of her sinceto return to, and no arrests have been madea place he has to be able to leave. And yet David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, this book is not about Avawhen she vanished from a remote road late at night. Not really. This book is about Grace He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has just discovered her neighbour in her new house a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is a suspect in Avatrying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's disappearancemind, but to no avail. As He's also having a single mother to two young childrenrecharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, she's really wishing this sort of information had come his love. What is a man to light before they moved in.do?|isbn=17890941941542019958

|isbn=14091874381529124417|title=The First LieBefore She Disappeared|author=A J ParkLisa Gardner|rating=34.5

|summary=On Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the second bottom of October 37the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness daughter and the front door openrun away. His wife Lani was in the bedroom in a state of shock fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and in the bathroom now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paper-knifea strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. In that moment Paul takes Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he job and Alice are not going to ring the police accommodation at Stoney's bar and tell the truth. They're going sets out to bury investigate the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedcommunity which is just about exclusively black.

|isbn=1787301435B08CR3WNFT|title=Dark WatersThe Therapist|author=G R HallidayB A Paris|rating=45|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down When Leo Curtis found the private road house in Glen TurritThe Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. It Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a long road through some breathreasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed -taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear was tired of being caught speedingtheir long-distance relationship. When Now they would be able to spend most of the blond child stepped out in front week together instead of her she instinctively jerked just the steering wheel and hit a treeweekends. When she came round after Leo had some work done on the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd house: he made her first mistake some time ago, two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the realisation wouldnhouse was stunning she just didn'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 M4feel comfortable there.

|isbnauthor=1780899858Saima Mir|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanThe Khan|rating=4.5

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of Jia Khan has alway lived by the house on 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 night of criminal justice system and by the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in Stoke Woods. Her four-yearself-old brotherimposed exile, Teddy, would have woken she is at the house if she hadn't taken him with top of hergame. But in Returning to the early hours city of the morningher birth, Lucy returned home without Teddyto old scars and fresh wounds, hoping that he would have got home before Jia must confront her. He hadn't past and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to reconcile her visions for the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by future with her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey sense of honour and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policeduty.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=17874776810008214468|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Time to Lie|author=Martin WalkerSimon Berthon|rating=45|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a couple package out of days after old Driantan excavation on a building site. It's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got wrapped in part of an angry phone call from his sonold shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wrist. GastonIt's father had sold the family farm in order been there for about twenty-five to buy an insurance policy which he had used thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatheiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, owned by a Russian oligarchBecca and Bella. Before he even got Sandford's determined to go there be a better type of politician: he died, apparently of wants ''a heart attackgovernment that is not just practically good, and the retirement home collected the proceeds but morally good.'' One of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouseways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. The family hadn't exactly fallen outHenry Morland-Cross, but Gaston lived some way away the Deputy Prime Minister and Claudette had fallen out Chancellor of favour when she announced the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that she was gay, but they werenhe wouldn't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedhave been in agreement.

|isbnauthor=0241984653Gunnar Staalesen|title=I Made a Mistake|author=Jane CorryFallen Angels|rating=4.52

|summary=We know from the very beginning that thereVarg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friend's a tragedy about funeral, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of the past are exposed to happen. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 the light of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming trainthe present. That man A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is Matthew Gordon. Much later we see Poppy Page thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in the witness box of his own history and to catch a crown court, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristerkiller.|isbn=1913193063

|isbnauthor=0008386137Deborah O'Connor|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksThe Captive|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Elaine Winterdale took Hannah knows the fall for the landlordcage, intimately. Aged 37, she got a suspended sentence because a faulty gas boiler had caused It lurks in the deaths corner of 29-year-old Reveka Albu and her 2-year-old son Benkeeye. Toma AlbuSoon, husband and father, had found them when it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he returned home.hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=B0867X8NW7B087JXQ3JQ|title=Access PointThe Long Dark Road|author=T P R GabbayBlack

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheTwo years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's having something of nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a professional success: using a device of her own invention furious storm going on and she's helped a d already refused the offer of help from one man who has been blind for decades to see an image of in a hummingbirdbig vehicle. SheWe's thirtyll see - but no one else will know -six years old that another car stops and her life Stephanie is about to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a busbundled into the car and driven off. It's two years before we meet There has been no sign of her - or her again and body - in the meantimetwo years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she'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 not going to bring in some incomebe stopped.

|isbnauthor=1471166023Susi Holliday |title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesThe Last Resort |rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The 5th A group of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirtystrangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-fifth birthday 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 occasion for group as they explore the usual bonfire celebrationsisland, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Roganand each other's body on histories and it becomes clear that they all have a bonfiredark secret they would rather keep hidden. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on As the fire clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and can only have died it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a terrible deathgilded cage. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenIn a race against time, better known on St Agnes as Amelia must struggle to uncover the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing reason for her attendance and his only concern is protect the welfare rest of the birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with guests from the result increasingly sinister accidents that he's the prime suspectbefall them. |isbn=1542020018}}

|isbn=178730101X0008330131|title=Keep Him CloseThe Stolen Sisters|author=Emily KochLouise Jensen

|summary= Grant Merriweather is When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a forensic accountantdreadful event they are all healthy adults. Or ratherWell, wasthey'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. He Carly was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashthirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him aliveeight-year-old twins. He Much as she loved them Carly was needed alive just long enough desperate to give up get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a namefleece which had been left outside. His cousinThe gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, Maxtheir boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two men.|isbn=0718185501

|isbnauthor=0008297169Will Carver|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyHinton Hollow Death Trip

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirHinton Hollow, off the Irish coastpopulation 5, might have been enough to put some guests off120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but it was the wedding of the yearthis particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, England. Will Slater (television personalityDetective Sergeant Pace grew up here, if not yet a celebrity) was until something happened and he ran away to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the islandcity. The brideHe's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid running away again…only this time evil is following him and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddyis going to touch just about everyone in town. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=15290096770008378363|title=A Window BreaksOne Perfect Morning|author=C M EwanPamela Crane

|summary=Tom Sullivan and A husband is about to have his throat cut in his wife Rachel are having problemsown bed. ItTo find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they's not just re still the usual growing apart after more than a decade best of marriagefriends. Their son, Michael, was killed in When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled nod to drivethe famous girl band of the day. Not only did he kill himself when Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the car rammed into a treeHomemaker and Mackenzie - well, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona ConnorMackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. Tom can't think about Michael without She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is brokendaughter, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some spaceAria, Tomwho's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteennow fifteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.

|authorisbn=Chris Hauty0751567426|title=Deep StateThe Wicked Sister|author=Karen Dionne|rating=34.5

|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighterWhen we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is every kind of fighter 's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and wellkilled himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-trained old, was left at the family home, a lodge in most of themthe Upper Peninsula wilderness. She Rachel's army infantry very bright and although she boxes for fun – and 's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she wins. Always. She wins because remains there, feeling that this is what she is focusseddeserves. She works hard Perhaps, mentally and physicallythough, and she knows how to deal with the pain. She is circumstances are not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watchedremembers.|isbn=1471185605

|isbn=02419851530008314721|title=The House on the LakeTruth Be Told|author=Nuala EllwoodKia Abdullah|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know that something has gone wrong The Hadids 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- badly wrong year- when old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the woman who was alone in other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the house is taken away by tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the policeprestigious Hampton school, where they board, but it's going 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 a while before we learn exactly what has happenedgoing well until the night when he was raped.

|isbn= 1984890646|author=Catherine SteadmanAgnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=Mr NobodyThe Seven Doors

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= DonCome here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a successful actress literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and writerdecisions at the council, with this being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her second novellife since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, 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 think 'm moving in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the and you'fight scenere moving out' . Now, at the end was somewhat unrealistic – this stage you may well, if you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that this is a genre read, think it's virtually impossible they'd still going to be alive let alone able a throwback to fight off those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We 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 attackerolder-middle aged couple live their lives. The story also unfolded Until at a steady pace throughout that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the ending which felt overstuffed point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a frenetic bid cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to wrap everything up in have a shower, unpleasant as the last few chapterswhole processes might be. It And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was almost as if helping with the author wanted renovations to keep Tabitha's house. So far as the suspense until police are concerned, Tabitha is the last possible moment (which I liked) but then only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was somewhat left with too much to do covered in the closing stageshis blood.