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|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The 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 ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=07515674260008370982|title=The Wicked SisterRock Paper Scissors|author=Karen DionneAlice Feeney

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twentyAmelia Wright is forty-six two and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she it was eleven-years-old and the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her father then took the gun and killed himselfa weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her sisterhusband, DianaAdam, just twenty-years-old, was left at isn't so keen on the family homeidea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a lodge in screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the Upper Peninsula wildernessnovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. RachelAmelia's very bright annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and although she's a voluntary patient at working with the Mental Health Center she remains theredogs, many of whom have been abused, feeling that this is what she deservesnever easy. Perhaps, thoughStill - she's won the weekend away, 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 circumstances are not as she rememberssame thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=00083147210008421714|title=Truth Be ToldMrs March|author=Kia AbdullahVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The Hadids are an problem began just after the publication of George March''effortful'' familys most successful novel to date. Flowers are sent for Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the slightest problem last page) seemed to either be reading it or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in returnhad already done so. There are two sons of Every day Mrs March went to the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherlocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, SofiaPatricia asked, regrets that as she didnwas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't name them this the other way round: first time he'Adam and Kamrans based a character on you?' trips off ' She mentioned that Johanna, the tongue so much more easily than principal character had 'her mannerisms'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that sort Johanna is the whore of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, where they boardunloved, 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 was rapedunloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0241989094|title=The Seven DoorsPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until In August 2018 we're meet a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, young woman called Imogen and she 's viewing a literature lecturer, he big house in medical provision Goring-on-Thames and decisions at telling the councilestate agent about her three children, being forced to move out Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and handful which theyis why she'd occupied for over thirty yearss making this trip on her own. The building hehouse would be perfect for them. It'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 the same month but now we'take a hike, I'm moving re in Wimbledon and you're moving out'. Nowwe encounter the same young woman, at only this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think ittime she's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us job hunting and living in the 1980sher sister, but no. We avoid genre completelyGeorgie's, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyspare room, in case that has any bearing on what happens herewhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesConnor. 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 have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731787634493|title=House of CorrectionAll Her Fault|author=Nicci FrenchAndrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, she's in prisonMilo, to go on remanda play date. Shewas concerned that he didn's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearst have any friends at his new school. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and encourages her to have Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might belittle later. And how did Tabitha get hereWhat could be better? WellOnly, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees door was discovered in her garden shed answered by Andrew KaneEsther, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithadidn's houset know Jenny or Jacob. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house The phone number she 'd been given for Jenny was covered in his bloodnot recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSClaire McGowan|title=The Lies I Know You Told|author=Harriet Tyce|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start 'Then:'' Casey returns from a new school. She's left walk with the school she loved in New York baby, Carson, and now she's going to Ashams in North Londoncomes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. It 's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. RobinNow:'s going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence Rachel is staying in New York - he works out for a securities firm - and walk with her motherdog, Sadie RoperBrandy, has come back to London to pick up her practice as when she comes across a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of body in the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearswoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author= Mark DawsonPeter Papathanasiou|title= The CleanerStoning|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and coldly competentshe's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, John Milton are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is one of reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the British governmentfeeling – and it's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsonly fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. NowCue the arrival of George Manolis, after ten yearsa higher rank from the city, he wants to sort everything out. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=178739462X1529416973

|isbn=18389510671787631869|title=The Nothing ManRising Tide|author=Catherine Ryan HowardSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heLucy Locke's about to get a shock. Heearly life hadn't been easy but she's security at d built a supermarket good and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslydecent life in the aftermath. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning now married to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with the spine splayed upwards. Billie, Lucy''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blacks daughter and Fin, is the titlechild she had with Daniel. Why is Jim shocked? WellThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Jim was - ''is'Daniel' s partner and so- the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killedcalled best friend. The author of Nick and Daniel have a history together from the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mothertime they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, and then killed herparticularly where Lucy, her father and her seven-year-old sisteror money, Annais concerned.

|isbn=178089922X1786332388|title=Invisible GirlThe First Day of Spring|author=Lisa JewellNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'When you wear a hood, you're invisiblewas one such occasion.'' Saffyre Maddox The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is seventeen-years-old excellent and the plot grips you and beautifulwon't let go. By her own admissionSo, shewhat's a bit of a boffinthe problem? Well, doing and enjoying mathsthe problem is Chrissie, physics and biology at A levelthe main character. Life hasnWhen we first meet her she't been easy s just eight years old, small for her: most people who have been close to her have died age and she readily tells us that she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighthjust killed someone - a two-year-floor flatold boy. Something She's completely cold about what she'really, really bad happened'' to s done with her when main memory being that whilst she was ten and she selfkilling - suffocating -harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapisthands seized up. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss There's a clue that Chrissie isn'something really, really bad'. When t completely responsible for her actions a little later in the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftbook: when will Steven come back, but she retained an interest in Roan.wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Sharon DoeringB088YWF5BC|title=She The Lies CloseWe Tell|author=Jane Corry

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she went missinghad two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, around 6 months agostable family. There has been no sign of When we first meet her since, and no arrests have been made. And yetshe can't sleep because her son, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about GraceFreddie, who has just discovered her neighbour 's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in her new by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house is a suspect in Avathe morning but he's disappearancestill going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. As a single He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother to two young children, shethat he's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inkilled someone.|isbn=1789094194

|isbnauthor=1409187438Louise Candlish|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkHeights|rating=34.5

|summary=On Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the second way. There are lots of October 37-year-old barristerthings, Paul Reevelots of people, returned home at 9 pm to find his house you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in darkness and the front door openfact any other day. His wife was in the bedroom in a state of shock Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and in the bathroom there was Ellen knows this for a dead man who fact, because she 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 truth. They're going to bury the body hand in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedhis murder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=17873014351838853804|title=Dark WatersThe Cursed Girls|author=G R HallidayCaro Ramsay

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her second mistake when fourth birthday: she opted followed her grandfather down to drive down the private road in Glen Turritpond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery Twenty years later she's back home again and she could push this time the car to its limits without fear of being caught speedingoccasion is no less sad. When the blond child stepped out in front She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treeanorexia. When As she came round after the accident she couldndies, Melissa whispers 'sorry't work out where to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was, but it obviously wasn't even a conventional hospital. question? SheWas she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa'd made her first mistake some time agos husband, Jago, although on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the realisation wouldn't County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be obvious to her for a long timecurse. SheIn addition to Melissa'd made it when s health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she chose to have come back for her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=17808998581409181669|title=To Tell You the TruthThe Maidens|author=Gilly MacmillanAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woods. Her four-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with her. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before her. 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 is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the police.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787477681|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4

|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 bonfirecertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. He'd obviously been alive when he was put on K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the fire game, and can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwenstudied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, better known on St Agnes as for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing most peculiar places, and his only concern is are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the welfare of most dangerous, nay lethal, the birds he looks aftermost broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. His instinct Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is to cover Rogandoing, if it's body even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he uses his sheepskin coat is only to do this, with find out that the result that he's line between observing and learning about the prime suspectgame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932