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|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0008379300|title=The Lies You ToldShadow Man|author=Harriet TyceHelen Fields|rating=54|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 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 taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4
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|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new schoolOur hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. SheIt's left the school she loved in New York western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and now she's going a place he has to be able to Ashams in North Londonleave. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been David lost contact with his partner there ''forever''ten years ago, they have their established groupswhen she vanished from a remote road late at night. RobinHe's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Wellpaying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, over who went a matter of bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a few days her parents' marriage fell apartdozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. Andrew Spence David is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - trying to pry the connection between the murderer and her motherhis girl from the man's mind, Sadie Roper, has come back but to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerno avail. ThatHe's easier said than done also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when you've been out of into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the market place - and very embodiment, the country - for more than ten yearsvirtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958
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|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1529124417|title= The CleanerBefore She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and coldly competentrun away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, John Milton is one of the British governmentthis time to Boston where there's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsstrong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Now Frankie, after ten yearsmiddle-aged and white, he wants out. But his gets a job isnand accommodation at Stoney't one you can s bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xabout exclusively black.
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|isbn=1838951067B08CR3WNFT|title=The Nothing ManTherapist|author=Catherine Ryan HowardB A Paris
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Jim DoyleLeo Curtis found the house in The Circle, he's about to get a shockgated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. He's security Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a supermarket and hereasonable price that Alice wouldn's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslyt have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if Alice agreed - she's planning to pay for itwas tired of their long-distance relationship. Suddenly it drops Now they would be able to spend most of the floor with week together instead of just the spine splayed upwardsweekends. Leo 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''Nothing Man'' t feel comfortable there.}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Eve Black, is the titlemotto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. Why This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is Jim shocked? Wellcalled home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, Jim was - ''she is'' - at the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killedtop of her game. The author Returning to the city of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherbirth, to old scars and then killed herfresh wounds, Jia must confront her father past and reconcile her visions for the future with her seven-year-old sister, Annasense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbn=178089922X0008214468|title=Invisible GirlA Time to Lie|author=Lisa JewellSimon Berthon
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It''When you wear s wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hoodhand, yousevered above the wrist. It're invisibles been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years.''
Saffyre Maddox is seventeenRobin Sandford -yearsgenerally known as Robbie -old and beautifulis Prime Minister. By her own admission, sheHe's a bit of a boffin, doing married to heiress Carol van Koon and enjoying mathsthey have two daughters, physics Becca and biology at A levelBella. Life hasnSandford't been easy for hers determined to be a better type of politician: most people who have been close to her have died and shehe wants ''s now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flata government that is not just practically good, but morally good. Something ''really, really bad happened' One of the ways he' s planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long timedubious regimes. Aaron organised psychological help Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled Chancellor of the layers of her psycheExchequer, but somehow managed wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to miss see that he wouldn'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest t have been in Roanagreement.
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|author=Sharon DoeringGunnar Staalesen|title=She Lies CloseFallen Angels|rating=42
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingVarg Veum, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sincelone wolf detective, and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not reallyback. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is After attending a suspect in Avaformer friend's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenfuneral, she's really wishing this sort Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of information had come the past are exposed to the light before they moved of the present. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden inhis own history and to catch a killer.|isbn=17890941941913193063
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|isbnauthor=1409187438Deborah O'Connor|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkCaptive|rating=3.54|genre=Thrillers|summary=On Hannah knows the second of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reevecage, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openintimately. His wife was It lurks in the bedroom in a state corner of shock and in the bathroom there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paper-knifeher eye. In that moment Paul takes a decision that Soon, it will be irrevocable: occupied. Then what? What if he decides that speaks to her? What if he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. They're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happened.escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=1787301435B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Long Dark WatersRoad|author=G P R HallidayBlack
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-twoTwo years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when university-student daughter went missing as she opted to drive down walked along the private road in Glen Turritlonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. It There was a long road through some breath-taking scenery furious storm going on and she could push 'd already refused the car to its limits without fear offer of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out help from one man in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treebig vehicle. When she came round after the accident she couldnWe't work out where she was, ll see - but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitalno one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. She'd made There has been no sign of her - or her first mistake some time ago, although body - in the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long timetwo years since. SheGeorgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she'd made it when she chose s not going to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4be stopped.
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|isbnauthor=1780899858Susi Holliday |title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanThe Last Resort |rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out A group of the house strangers gather on the night of the summer solstice a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to watch test a brand-new product from the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsmysterious Timeo Technology company. Her four-year-old brotherThe group includes a games designer, Teddysocial media influencer, would gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with heran area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. But in We follow the early hours of group as they explore the morningisland, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping and each other's histories and it becomes clear that he they all have a dark secret they would have got home before herrather keep hidden. He hadn't As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and no one has seen him sinceit soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. Lucy's story was crucial In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by reason for her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey attendance and Eliza says protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policebefall them. |isbn=1542020018}}
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|isbn=17874776810008330131|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Stolen Sisters|author=Martin WalkerLouise Jensen|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was a couple of days after old DriantWhen we start ''The Stolen Sisters''s funeral we know that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call twenty-years on from his sona 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. GastonThey's father had sold re the family farm Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life charge of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlather sisters, owned by a Russian oligarchthe eight-year-old twins. Before he even got Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to go there he died, apparently of get a heart attack, text from Dean Malden and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Gaston Marie were nattering about a lost ball and Claudette Driant were a fleece which had been left with just the contents of the farmhouseoutside. The family hadngate wasn't exactly fallen outshut properly and Bruno, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gaytheir boxer dog, but escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedwere snatched by two men.
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|isbnauthor=0241984653Will Carver|title=I Made a Mistake|author=Jane CorryHinton Hollow Death Trip
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know from the very beginning that thereHinton Hollow, population 5,120. 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 tragedy about to happensmall town in Berkshire, England. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming trainDetective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened and he ran away to the city. That man He's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is Matthew Gordon. Much later we see Poppy Page going to touch just about everyone in the witness box of a crown court, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristertown.|isbn=1913193306
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|isbn=00083861370008378363|title=Just My LuckOne Perfect Morning|author=Adele ParksPamela Crane|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elaine Winterdale took A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To 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 fall for same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the landlordbest of friends. Aged 37, she got a suspended sentence because When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a faulty gas boiler had caused nod to the deaths famous girl band of 29the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie -year-old Reveka Albu well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and her 2they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-old son Benke. Toma Albu, husband and father, had found them when he returned home.
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|isbn=B0867X8NW70751567426|title=Access PointThe Wicked Sister|author=T R GabbayKaren Dionne|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin Rachel Cunningham she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention shean inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see an image of a hummingbirdUpper Peninsula. She's thirtytwenty-six and has been there for fifteen years , convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her life is about to change radically asfather then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, cycling was left at the family home, she's involved a lodge in an accident with a busthe Upper Peninsula wilderness. ItRachel's two years before we meet her again very bright and in the meantime, although she's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stickvoluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. A professional colleague persuades Ula that Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomeremembers.
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|isbn=14711660230008314721|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Truth Be Told|author=Kate RhodesKia Abdullah|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoHadids are an ''effortful''s thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion family. Flowers are sent for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on prompts a bonfirephone call in return. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on There are two sons of the fire family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and can only have died a terrible deathsixteen-year-old Adam. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenTheir mother, Sofia, better known on St Agnes as regrets that she didn't name them the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing other way round: 'Adam and his only concern is Kamran' trips off the welfare tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of the birds he looks afterthing. His instinct is Both boys go to cover Rogan's body 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 he uses his sheepskin coat all seemed to do this, with be going well until the result that night when he's the prime suspectwas raped.
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|isbnauthor=178730101XAgnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily KochThe Seven Doors|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellCome here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't 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 literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, Benoîtbeing forced to move out of their home, actually) a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and Louiswhich they'd occupied for over thirty years. Lou's seventeen and The building he's just got his A level results inherited, meanwhile, and he and his brother are going which they let out to celebrate. Someone has a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to find something to celebrate its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in the letters, D, D and Eyou're moving out'. Alice has always had Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. touch problematic with Lou We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and being honest, he's not terribly likeableseeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. The letters which kept coming 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 my mind were ADHDhave completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381
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|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1471179273|title=Into The FireHouse of Correction|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountant. Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousin, Max.
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|isbn=0008297169
|title=The Guest List
|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirWhen we first meet Tabitha Hardy, off the Irish coastshe's in prison, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the yearon remand. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet She's sharing a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegancell with Michaela, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the islandwho's more caring than she first appears. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid She delivers tough love and the wedding planner gets Tabitha eating and chef are Aoife drinking - and encourages her husbandto have a shower, Freddyunpleasant as the whole processes might be. They gave a huge discount to And how did Tabitha get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicityhere?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just Well, on 21 December the usual growing apart after more than a decade body of marriage. Their son, Michael, Stuart Robert Rees was killed discovered in a car crash some months before: he her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was driving his fatherhelping with the renovations to Tabitha's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivehouse. Not only did he kill himself when So far as the car rammed into a treepolice are concerned, but he also Tabitha is the only person who could have killed his girlfriend, fifteen-yearRees -old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but when they arrived at her house she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to was covered in his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationblood.
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