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|isbnauthor=0008314721Teresa Driscoll|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahHer Perfect Family

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''effortfulHe is not who he says he is…'' family. Flowers are sent , paving the way for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a phone call in return. There are two sons twist of the familyevents, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherafter a change of outfit, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off Gemma is shot in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort midst of thingher graduation ceremony. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolWith Gemma then in a coma, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has what follows is a complex whodunit with a place at Oxford next year and all seemed list of suspects that continues to be going well until grow the night when he was rapedfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0008370982|title=The Seven DoorsRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest gave her a genre of any kind until we're weekend away in a full fifth of the way throughconverted chapel in Scotland. We start with our coupleHer husband, she a literature lecturerAdam, he big in medical provision and decisions at isn't so keen on the councilidea. Like Amelia, being forced to move out of he knows that their home, marriage has been under strain: he's a building screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyhe'd occupied for over thirty yearsprefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. The building heAmelia's inheritedannoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mothermany of whom have been abused, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'never easy. Now, at this stage you may wellStill - she's won the weekend away, even if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her 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, passenger seat - and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until then doing the point where the evicted tenant is found same thing to have completely vanishedcome back a couple of days later.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792730008421714|title=House of CorrectionMrs March|author=Nicci FrenchVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheThe problem began just after the publication of George March's in prison, on remandmost successful novel to date. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first appearsname only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to have a showerbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, unpleasant as she was wrapping the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get herebread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you? '' WellShe mentioned that Johanna, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in principal character had 'her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithamannerisms''s house. So far as Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the police are concerned, Tabitha fact that Johanna is the only person who could have killed Rees whore of Nantes - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0241989094|title=The Lies You ToldPerfect Life|author=Harriet TyceNuala Ellwood|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start In August 2018 we meet a new school. Sheyoung woman called Imogen and she's left viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the school she loved in New York estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and now Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's going to Ashams in North Londonmaking this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hensthe same month but now we' teeth re in Wimbledon and as we encounter the pupils have all been there ''forever''same young woman, they have their established groups. Robinonly this time she's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Welljob hunting and living in her sister, over a matter of a few days her parentsGeorgie' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mothers, Sadie Roperspare room, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. Thatwhere she's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearssince she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1787634493|title= The CleanerAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless and coldly competent, John Milton is It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the British governmentopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn's best assets – t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a contract killer with lethal instinctslittle later. Now What could be better? Only, after ten yearswhen Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, he wants outwho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. But his job isn And so had Jenny't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xs nanny.

|isbnauthor=1838951067Claire McGowan|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardI Know You|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and heThen:''s watching Casey returns from a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor walk with the spine splayed upwardsbaby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.  ''Nothing ManNow:'' by Eve Black, Rachel is the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellout for a walk with her dog, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man whoBrandy, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of when she comes across a body in the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annawoods. |isbn=1542019974

|isbnauthor=178089922XPeter Papathanasiou|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Stoning|rating=3.5

|summary=''When you wear In a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissiontown sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, she's a bit of teacher has been transported across town at night in a boffinshopping trolley, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasnshe't s been easy for her: most people who have been close taped to her have died a tree and she's now living with had rocks bowled at her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatas if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. Something When she''reallys discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, really bad happened'' are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for three years Roan Fours was her therapistthe occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. He gently unpeeled Cue the layers arrival of her psycheGeorge Manolis, a higher rank from the city, but somehow managed to miss that 'something reallysort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really bad'going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law.. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1787631869|title=She Lies CloseThe Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she went missing'd built a good and decent life in the aftermath. She's now married to Daniel, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sincewho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and no arrests Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have been made. And yetfinancial difficulties, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Gracesome caused by Nick Povey, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in AvaDaniel's disappearancepartner and so-called best friend. As Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come home but it's difficult to light before they moved inthink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.|isbn=1789094194

|isbn=14091874381786332388|title=The First LieDay of Spring|author=A J ParkNancy Tucker|rating=34.5

|summary=On the second Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the front door openplot grips you and won't let go. His wife was in So, what's the bedroom in a state of shock and in problem? Well, the bathroom there was a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in problem is Chrissie, the neck with Paulmain character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's paperjust killed someone - a two-year-knifeold boy. In She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that moment Paul takes whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a decision clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. Steven come back, she wonders? TheyHasn're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happened.t he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=1787301435B088YWF5BC|title=Dark WatersThe Lies We Tell|author=G R HallidayJane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when Sarah Wallace said that she opted to drive down the private road grew up on a council estate in Glen TurritKent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It was seemed to have been a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingloving, stable family. When the blond child stepped out in front of we first meet her , she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldncan't work out where she wassleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, but it obviously wasnhasn't a conventional hospitalcome home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. SheHer husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they'd made her first mistake some time ago, although re moving house in the realisation wouldnmorning but he't s still going to be obvious going to her for a long timework and he needs his sleep. SheHe wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4s killed someone.

|isbnauthor=1780899858Louise Candlish|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanThe Heights

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice Ellen doesn't expect to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodssee Kieran that day. Her four-year-old brotherShe's on site, Teddy, would have woken the house if visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she hadn't taken spies him with her. But in a building across the early hours way. There are lots of the morningthings, lots of people, Lucy returned home without Teddyyou might see when you look out across London, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadnbut this isn't and no one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to the police investigationbeen dead for over two years, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendand Ellen knows this for a fact, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policebecause she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=17874776811838853804|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Cursed Girls|author=Martin WalkerCaro Ramsay

|summary=It Mariana was a couple convinced 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 - had begun with the death of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonTara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. GastonShe'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's father niece, Zoe, had sold the family farm telephoned her in order to buy an insurance policy which he distress. Tara had used been her best friend and she was struggling to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchcope. Before he even got Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go there he diedto Cambridge, apparently of a heart attack, and but she caught the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Gaston Zoe were close and Claudette Driant were left with just had been made all the more so by the contents death of the farmhouse. The family hadnMariana't exactly fallen outs husband, Sebastian, but Gaston lived in a swimming accident on Naxos some way away and Claudette fourteen months earlier. Zoe had fallen out been their surrogate daughter after the death of favour when she announced that she was gayZoe's mother and Mariana's sister, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedEliza.

|isbnauthor=0241984653Sarah Langan|title=I Made a Mistake|author=Jane CorryGood Neighbours

|summary=We know from If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the very beginning words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that there's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a tragedy about to happenworld apart from the Melbourne suburbs. On a January evening They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a man falls under an oncoming trainformer beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. That man is Matthew GordonUntil it isn't. Much later we see Poppy Page One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the witness box park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of a crown courtMaple Street, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristerworst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=00083861370008395594|title=Just My LuckBoth of You

|rating=4.5

|summary=Elaine Winterdale took the fall You could be forgiven for the landlordthinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Aged 37 Then, one Monday, she got went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a suspended sentence because bit off with Leigh for a faulty gas boiler had caused the deaths of 29-year-old Reveka Albu while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and her 2-year-old son BenkeLeigh's absence hits him hard. Toma Albu Then Daan Janssen, husband and fathera wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, had found them when he returned homeKai missing. She too has vanished without trace.

|isbn=B0867X8NW71848458428|title=Access PointLocal Woman Missing|author=T R GabbayMary Kubica

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped Eleven years ago, a man who has been blind for decades regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to see an image why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a hummingbirdrun late at night. SheIt was the only time she had for herself when she didn's thirtyt have to look after her baby -six years old and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, but when she was out she's involved in an accident would meet up with a busman, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. It's two years before we meet The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her again and in the meantimedisabled baby. Ten days later, she's spent 392 days in a coma local woman and now walks with her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a stickbirth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. A professional colleague persuades Ula Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she should let out 'd committed suicide. She left a spare bedroom to bring note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in some incomelooking for her.

|isbnauthor=1471166023Terry Miles|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate RhodesRabbits

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The 5th of November was D I Ben KittoGame. 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 thirty-fifth birthday 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 occasion for average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the usual bonfire celebrationsgame of life then. Yes, but it would be marred this year by is the discovery game of Professor Alex Rogan's body on life for a bonfire. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the fire and can only have died a terrible deathdarkest of webs. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenPeople like our hero, K, better known on St Agnes as named like that in the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his only concern is bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the welfare lists of who has successfully won the game are in the birds he looks aftermost peculiar places, and are still very short. His instinct is to cover RoganHowever this time it's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do thisdifferent. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, with the result that hemost broken it's the prime suspectever been – morally and otherwise.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178730101X|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (wellUnfortunately for K, Benoîtin trying to sort out what the game is doing, actually) and Louis. Louif it's seventeen even being played, and he's just got how his A level results and loved ones might be kept safe, he and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has is only to find something to celebrate in out that the line between observing and learning about the lettersgame, D, D and E. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but playing it's , is a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeablevery thin one indeed.. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.|isbn=1529016932