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|isbn=07515674260008379300|title=The Wicked SisterShadow Man|author=Karen DionneHelen Fields|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center Fergus Ariss is in Michiganhis late thirties and he knows that he's Upper Peninsuladying. SheHis 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 twenty-six and has been there on the lookout for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun perfect people and killed himselfhe's made certain preparations. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at The flat where the family homewill live is prepared and even windows with curtains, a lodge and pictures in frames have been painted onto the Upper Peninsula wildernesswalls. Rachel's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deservesAngela Fernycroft was to be his wife. PerhapsHer husband, thoughCal, had taken the circumstances are not as she remembers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank children - a boy of seven and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons girl of five, away for the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamweekend. Their mother, SofiaUnfortunately, regrets that she didnit doesn'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 according 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 plan and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedAngela dies.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Dean Koontz|title=The Seven DoorsOther Emily

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnOur hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until s the western coast we're concerned with, a full fifth of the way throughplace he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. We start David lost contact with our couplehis partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions remote road late at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsnight. The building heHe's inheritedpaying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughterlifer now, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take went a hikebit Hannibal Lecter, I'm moving in and you're moving out'has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this David is a genre read, think ittrying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980smind, but to noavail. We avoid genre completelyHe's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedythe very embodiment, in case that has any bearing on what happens herethe virtual resurrection, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesof his love. 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 What is found a man to have completely vanished.do?|isbn=19131933811542019958

|isbn=14711792731529124417|title=House of CorrectionBefore She Disappeared|author=Nicci FrenchLisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheFrankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in prison, on remandher car at the bottom of the lake. Sheknew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking t have left her three-year- old daughter and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might berun away. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December Lani was the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed fourteenth missing person to be located by Andrew KaneFrankie and now she's moving on again, who was helping with the renovations this time to TabithaBoston where there's housea strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. So far as the police are concernedFrankie, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees middle- aged and white, gets a job and when they arrived accommodation at her house she was covered in his bloodStoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVSB08CR3WNFT|title=The Lies You ToldTherapist|author=Harriet TyceB A Paris

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left When Leo Curtis found the school she loved house in New York and now she's going to Ashams The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in North LondonVenice. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the pupils have all been there market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn''forever'', they t have their established groups. Robin's going to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be an outsiderable to afford it. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter Alice agreed - she was tired of a few days her parents' marriage fell aparttheir long-distance relationship. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back Now they would be able to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerspend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. That's easier said than Leo had some work done when you've been out of on the market place - house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the country - for more than ten yearshouse was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.

|author= Mark DawsonSaima Mir|title= The CleanerKhan|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Ruthless 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 coldly competentby the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, John Milton she is one at the top of her game. Returning to the British government's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instincts. Nowcity of her birth, after ten yearsto old scars and fresh wounds, he wants outJia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X1786079097

|isbn=18389510670008214468|title=The Nothing ManA Time to Lie|author=Catherine Ryan HowardSimon Berthon

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, A workman has a nasty surprise when he's about to get pulls a package out of an excavation on a shockbuilding site. HeIt's security at a supermarket wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and he's watching is a woman who is acting suspiciouslyhand, severed above the wrist. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if sheIt's planning been there for about twenty-five to pay for itthirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Suddenly it drops He's married to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsheiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants 'Nothing Man'' by Eve Blacka government that is not just practically good, is the titlebut morally good. '' Why One of the ways he's planning on going about this is Jim shocked? to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. WellHenry Morland-Cross, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped Deputy Prime Minister and killed. The author Chancellor of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherExchequer, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annawishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreement.

|isbnauthor=178089922XGunnar Staalesen|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellFallen Angels|rating=52

|summary=''When you wear a hoodVarg Veum, lone wolf detective, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautifulback. By her own admission, sheAfter attending a former friend's a bit of a boffinfuneral, doing Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and enjoying maths, physics wounds are opened and biology at the sins of the past are exposed to the light of the present. A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in Veum is thrust into an eighth-floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' investigation to her when she was ten root out the clues hidden in his own history and she self-harmed for to catch a long timekiller. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. He gently unpeeled It lurks in the layers corner of her psycheeye. Soon, but somehow managed it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she retained an interest in Roan.hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|authorisbn=Sharon DoeringB087JXQ3JQ|title=She Lies CloseThe Long Dark Road|author=P R Black

|summary= Ava Boone was five Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old when she university-student daughter went missing, around 6 months agoas she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since, and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book Georgia is not about Ava. Not really. This book back is about GraceFerngate, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother determined to two young children, find out what happened and she's really wishing this sort of information had come not going to light before they moved inbe stopped.|isbn=1789094194

|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=14091874381542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The First LieStolen Sisters|author=A J ParkLouise Jensen

|summary=On the second of October 37When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openyears on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. His wife was Well, they're healthy in the bedroom in a state of shock physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and in the bathroom there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paul's paper-knife. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truthMarie drinks. They're going to bury the body in woodland Sinclair sisters and go on as though nothing has happenedone day they were all stolen.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301435|title=Dark Waters|author=G R Halliday|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Twenty Carly was thirteen-years-twoold and she was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrittwins. It Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a long road through some breath-taking scenery text from Dean Malden and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingher mobile phone held her attention. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and hit a treefleece which had been left outside. When she came round after the accident she couldnThe gate wasn't work out where she wasshut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitalescaped. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although As the realisation wouldn't be obvious three girls went to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4chase after him they were snatched by two men.

|isbnauthor=1780899858Will Carver|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanHinton Hollow Death Trip

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of the house those signs you see on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations improbably wide highways in Stoke Woods. Her fourAmerica's mid-year-old brotherwest, Teddybut this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with herEngland. But in the early hours of the morningDetective Sergeant Pace grew up here, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that until something happened and he would have got home before herran away to the city. 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 running away again…only this time evil is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey following him and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policeis going to touch just about everyone in town.|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=17874776810008378363|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)One Perfect Morning|author=Martin WalkerPamela Crane|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from A husband is about to have his son. Gaston's father had sold the family farm throat cut in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchhis own bed. Before he even got To find out who - and why - we need to go there he diedback nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, apparently of a heart attackRobin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the retirement home collected the proceeds best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just Spicier Girls as a nod to the contents famous girl band of the farmhouseday. The family hadn't exactly fallen outLily would be Adventure Spice, but Gaston lived some way away Robin the Homemaker and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gayMackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, but her college sweetheart and they werenhave a daughter, Aria, who't expecting to be almost completely disinheriteds now fifteen-year-old.

|isbn=02419846530751567426|title=I Made a MistakeThe Wicked Sister|author=Jane CorryKaren Dionne

|summary=We know from When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the very beginning that thereNewberry 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 she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home, a tragedy about to happenlodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. On a January evening on a Rachel's very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station bright and although she's a man falls under an oncoming train. That man voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is Matthew Gordonwhat she deserves. Much later we see Poppy Page in the witness box of a crown courtPerhaps, though, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristercircumstances are not as she remembers.

|isbn=00083861370008314721|title=Just My LuckTruth Be Told|author=Adele ParksKia Abdullah|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elaine Winterdale took the fall The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the landlordslightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. Aged 37 There are two sons of the family, she got a suspended sentence because a faulty gas boiler had caused the deaths of 29seventeen-year-old Reveka Albu Kamran and her 2sixteen-year-old son BenkeAdam. Toma Albu Their mother, Sofia, husband 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 fatherAdam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, had found them 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 returned homewas raped.

|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayThe Seven Doors

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of re a professional success: using a device full fifth of her own invention the way through. We start with our couple, she's helped a man who has been blind for decades literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to see an image move out of their home, a hummingbirdbuilding that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. SheThe building he's thirty-six years old inherited, meanwhile, and her life which they let out to a single mother, is about needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to change radically asits occupant 'take a hike, cycling home, sheI's involved m moving in an accident with a busand you're moving out'. ItNow, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's two years before we meet her again and going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the meantime1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, she's spent 392 days in a coma case that has any bearing on what happens here, and now walks with a stickseeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. A professional colleague persuades Ula Until at that she twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should let out a spare bedroom – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to bring in some incomehave completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711660231471179273|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)House of Correction|author=Kate RhodesNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoWhen we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrationsin prison, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Roganon remand. She's body on sharing a bonfirecell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and can only encourages her to have died a terrible deathshower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. The And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was first discovered in her garden shed by Jimmy CurwenAndrew Kane, better known on St Agnes who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern police are concerned, Tabitha is the welfare of the birds he looks after. His instinct is to cover Rogan's body only person who could have killed Rees - and he uses when they arrived at her house she was covered in his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectblood.