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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSTeresa Driscoll|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceHer Perfect Family
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Year six The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left , faced with the school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as familiar horrifying realisation, at the pupils have eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all been there wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''foreverHe is not who he says he is…'', they have their established groupspaving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? WellIn a twist of events, over and after a matter change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartgraduation ceremony. Andrew Spence is staying With Gemma then in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mothercoma, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as what follows is a complex whodunit with a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out list of suspects that continues to grow the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|authorisbn= Mark Dawson0008370982|title= The CleanerRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless Amelia Wright is forty-two and coldly competentit was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, John Milton is one he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the British governmentnovels he's best assets – a contract killer hoping to adapt than with lethal instinctsher. Now Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, after ten yearsmany of whom have been abused, he wants outis never easy. But his job isn Still - she't one you can just walk s won the weekend away from…, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178739462X0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''
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|isbn=18389510670241989094|title=The Nothing ManPerfect Life|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNuala Ellwood|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When In August 2018 we first meet Jim Doyle, hea young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about to get a shockher three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. He's security at The boys are a supermarket and he's watching bit of a woman who handful which is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if why she's planning to pay for itmaking this trip on her own. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsThe house would be perfect for them.  It's the same month but now we'Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is re in Wimbledon and we encounter the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellsame young woman, Jim was - only this time she''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped s job hunting and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped living in her mothersister, and then killed herGeorgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her father and her seven-year-old sisterboyfriend, AnnaConnor.
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|isbn=178089922X1787634493|title=Invisible GirlAll Her Fault|author=Lisa JewellAndrea Mara|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautifulIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. By Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her own admissionson, she's a bit of Milo, to go on a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levelplay date. Life hasnShe was concerned that he didn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an eighthaffluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a long timelittle later. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. What could be better? He gently unpeeled Only, when Marissa arrived at the layers of her psychehouse, but somehow managed expecting to miss that meet Jacob'something reallys mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, really badwho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but The phone number she retained an interest in Roan'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.
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|author=Sharon DoeringClaire McGowan|title=She Lies CloseI Know You
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sinceCarson, and no arrests have been made. And yetcomes across three bodies, this book is not about Avaalmost a whole family taken down. Not really. This book  ''Now:'' Rachel is about Graceout for a walk with her dog, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenBrandy, when she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved comes across a body inthe woods. |isbn=17890941941542019974
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|isbnauthor=1409187438Peter Papathanasiou|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkStoning
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=On the second of October 37-year-old barristerIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, Paul Reeve, returned home a teacher has been transported across town at 9 pm to find his house night in darkness a shopping trolley, and the front door open. His wife was in the bedroom in she's been taped to a state of shock tree and in the bathroom there was a dead man who she's had been stabbed repeatedly in rocks bowled at her as if she were the neck with Paulworld's tallest cricket stumps. When she's paper-knifediscovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. In An arson attack on that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he shows the feeling – and Alice it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are not going to ring often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the police and tell arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the truthcity, to sort everything out. They're Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to bury welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedlaw...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=17873014351787631869|title=Dark WatersThe Rising Tide|author=G R HallidaySam Lloyd
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she opted to drive down 'd built a good and decent life in the private road in Glen Turritaftermath. It was a long road through some breathShe's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-taking scenery Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When Fin, the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treehad with Daniel. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she wasThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, but it obviously wasnDaniel't a conventional hospitals partner and so-called best friend. She'd made her first mistake some Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time ago, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for they both spent in a long time. Shechildren'd made s home but it when she chose 's difficult to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.
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|isbn=17808998581786332388|title=To Tell You the TruthThe First Day of Spring|author=Gilly MacmillanNancy Tucker
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nineSometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly -years-old she crept out and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the house on plot grips you and won't let go. So, what's the night of problem? Well, the summer solstice to watch problem is Chrissie, the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsmain character. Her fourWhen we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if boy. She's completely cold about what she hadn't taken him s done with her. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping main memory being that he would have got home before whilst she was killing - suffocating - herhands seized up. He hadnThere's a clue that Chrissie isn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to completely responsible for her actions a little later in the police investigationbook: when will Steven come back, but it keeps subtly changing. she wonders? 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.Hasn't he been dead for long enough?
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|isbn=1787477681B088YWF5BC|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Lies We Tell|author=Martin WalkerJane Corry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold the family farm 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 oligarch. Before he even got to go there he died, apparently of a heart attack, and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouse. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, 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 to be almost completely disinherited.
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|isbn=0241984653
|title=I Made a Mistake
|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know from the very beginning Sarah Wallace said that there's she grew up on a tragedy about council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to happenhave been a loving, stable family. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming trainhalf-promised he'd be in by. That man Her husband, Tom, is Matthew Gordonfast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. Much later we see Poppy Page He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in the witness box of a crown court, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristerand overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.
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|isbnauthor=0008386137Louise Candlish|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksThe Heights
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elaine Winterdale took the fall for the landlordEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. Aged 37She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she got a suspended sentence because spies him in a faulty gas boiler had caused building across the deaths way. There are lots of things, lots of 29-year-old Reveka Albu and her 2-year-old son Benkepeople, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Toma AlbuWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, husband and fatherEllen knows this for a fact, because she had found them when he returned homea hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=B0867X8NW71838853804|title=Access PointThe Cursed Girls|author=T R GabbayCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheMegan Melvick's having something earliest memory is of a professional successher fourth birthday: using a device of she followed her own invention grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see an image of a hummingbirdback home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's thirty-six years old and there to say her final farewells to her life sister, Melissa, who is about dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to change radically asMegan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, cycling homeminor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was sheasking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's involved husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in an accident with short supply - but there did seem to be a buscurse. ItIn addition to Melissa's two health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before we meet . Would she come back for her again and in the meantime, sheelder daughter'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 income.funeral?
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|isbn=14711660231409181669|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)The Maidens|author=Kate RhodesAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The 5th of November Mariana was D I Ben Kitto's thirtyconvinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought -fifth birthday and had begun with the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery death of Professor Alex Rogan's body Tara Hampton on a bonfirethe Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. HeShe'd obviously been alive when he was put on the fire brutally stabbed and can only have died a terrible deathMariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. The body Tara had been her best friend and she was first discovered by Jimmy Curwenstruggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, better known on St Agnes as but she caught the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and his only concern is had been made all the welfare more so by the death of the birds he looks afterMariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. His instinct is to cover RoganZoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's body mother and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that heMariana's the prime suspectsister, Eliza.
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|isbnauthor=178730101XSarah Langan|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily KochGood Neighbours|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellIf you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, Benoîtthough, actually) Arlo and LouisGertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. LouThey're not quite like all the other families (he's seventeen and hean ex rocker, she's just got his A level results a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and he their kids have settled in, and his brother are it's all going out to celebrateok. Until it isn't. Someone has to find something to celebrate One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the letters, D, D and Epark across the way. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but itIt's a touch problematic with Lou revolting mess of dirt and being honestchaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming the worst is yet to my mind were ADHDcome.|isbn=1789098211
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|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz0008395594|title=Into The FireBoth of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountantYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Or ratherMark, wasOli and Seb are shattered. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashWell, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his friend pleading best look. He's been a bit off with the medics Leigh for a while but she put it down to keep him alivegrowing up and starting to become independent. He was needed alive just long enough to give up Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a namewealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. His cousin, MaxShe too has vanished without trace.|isbn=0718185501
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|isbn=00082971691848458428|title=The Guest ListLocal Woman Missing|author=Lucy FoleyMary Kubica|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to put some guests off, but it why he was late - again. His wife was in the wedding habit of the yeargoing out for a run late at night. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to marry Jules Keeganlook after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, online magazine publisher, in grateful for the ruined chapel on the islandunquestioning affection he gave her. The bride's sisterlocality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, Oliviaseemingly without a trace, would be leaving her husband to look after her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her husband, Freddysix-year-old daughter disappeared. They gave Meredith Dickey was a huge discount birth doula and she'd seemed to get be under some strain for the last couple to the islandof weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, but surely it would be worth it was safe and there was no point in looking for the publicity?her.
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|isbnauthor=1529009677Terry Miles|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanRabbits|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problemsWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's not just also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the usual growing apart after more than average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a decade certain tribe of people – the fan of marriagethe conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. Their sonPeople like our hero, MichaelK, was killed named like that in a car crash some months before: he was driving the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his fatherbezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivedifferent. Not only did he kill himself when This time the game seems the car rammed into a treemost dangerous, but he also killed his girlfriendnay lethal, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canthe most broken it't think about Michael without a sense of shame s ever been – morally and guiltotherwise. Rachel is brokenUnfortunately for K, but she wants in trying to forgive Michael. To give some spacesort out what the game is doing, Tomif it's moved out of the family homeeven being played, but stresses to and how his thirteen-year-old daughterloved ones might be kept safe, Hollyhe is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, that and playing it , is only a trial separationvery thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932
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