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|author=Will CarverTeresa Driscoll|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hinton HollowThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, population 5at the eleventh hour,120that her graduation outfit is all wrong. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaSuddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''s mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow He is a small town in Berkshirenot who he says he is…'', Englandpaving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereIn a twist of events, until something happened and he ran away to after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the citymidst of her graduation ceremony. He's running away again…only this time evil With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is following him and is going a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to touch just about everyone in towngrow the further you read.|isbn=19131933061542028752
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|isbn=00083783630008370982|title=One Perfect MorningRock Paper Scissors|author=Pamela CraneAlice Feeney|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband Amelia Wright is about to have his throat cut forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in his own bedScotland. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsHer husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the ideaMackenzie Like Amelia, Robin he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and Lily met when they all went he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later theynovels he're still the best of friendss hoping to adapt than with her. When they first met they called themselves Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band dogs, many of the daywhom have been abused, is never easy. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin Still - she's won the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellweekend away, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her own life. She married Owen, 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her college sweetheart in the passenger seat - and they have then doing the same thing to come back a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldcouple of days later.
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|isbn=07515674260008421714|title=The Wicked SisterMrs March|author=Karen DionneVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at The problem began just after the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganpublication of George March's Upper Peninsulamost successful novel to date. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed Everyone but Mrs March (we know her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took first name only on the gun and killed himselflast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Her sisterEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Diana, just twenty-years-oldPatricia asked, as she was left at wrapping the family homebread, a lodge in ''but isn't this the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachelfirst time he's very bright and although shebased a character on you?''s a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling She mentioned that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, thoughJohanna, 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 principal character had ''effortfulher mannerisms'' family. Flowers are sent Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a phone call in return. There are two sons of the familyweak, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherplain, Sofiadetestable, 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 Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolpathetic, 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.''
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0241989094|title=The Seven DoorsPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood
|rating=4
|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
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|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.
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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSClaire McGowan|title=The Lies I Know You Told|author=Harriet Tyce|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|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
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|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
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|isbn=18389510671787631869|title=The Nothing ManRising Tide|author=Catherine Ryan HowardSam Lloyd|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|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.
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|isbn=178089922X1786332388|title=Invisible GirlThe First Day of Spring|author=Lisa JewellNancy Tucker|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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?
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|authorisbn=Sharon DoeringB088YWF5BC|title=She The Lies CloseWe Tell|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|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
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|isbnauthor=1409187438Louise Candlish|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkHeights|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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
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|isbn=17873014351838853804|title=Dark WatersThe Cursed Girls|author=G R HallidayCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' 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 it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's 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 short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?
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|isbn=1409181669
|title=The Maidens
|author=Alex Michaelides
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty-Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turritshould proceed. It was a long road through some breathEverything -taking scenery and or so she could push thought - had begun with the car to its limits without fear death of being caught speedingTara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. When the blond child stepped out She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in front of distress. Tara had been her best friend and she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treewas struggling to cope. When she came round after the accident she couldnMariana wasn't work out where she was''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but it obviously wasnshe caught the first fast train from King't a conventional hospitals Cross. She'd Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made her first mistake some time ago, although all the more so by the realisation wouldndeath of Mariana't be obvious to her for s husband, Sebastian, in a long timeswimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. SheZoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4s sister, Eliza.
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|isbnauthor=1780899858Sarah Langan|title=To Tell You the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanGood Neighbours
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out If you're of the house on the night of the summer solstice a certain vintage, it's hard to watch read the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodswords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Her four-year-old brotherMaple Street is no Ramsay Street, Teddythough, would have woken Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the house if she hadnMelbourne suburbs. They't taken him with her. But in the early hours re one of 18 households on the morningcrescent, Lucy returned home without Teddyquite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, hoping that he would she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have got home before hersettled in, and it's all going ok. He hadnUntil it isn't and no one has seen him since. LucyOne hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's story was crucial to the police investigationa revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but it keeps subtly changing. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendfor the residents of Maple Street, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the policeworst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211
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|isbn=17874776810008395594|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief Both of Police Novel)You|author=Martin WalkerAdele Parks
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was a couple of days after old Driant's funeral You could be forgiven for thinking that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonLeigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Gaston's father had sold the family farm in order Then, one Monday, she went to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement work and never came home near Sarlat. Mark, owned by a Russian oligarchOli and Seb are shattered. Before he even got to go there he died, apparently of a heart attackWell, Mark and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy Seb are but Oli's sixteen and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just at the contents of the farmhousestage where he thinks boredom is his best look. The family hadnHe't exactly fallen out, s been a bit off with Leigh for a while but Gaston lived some way away she put it down to him growing up and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gaystarting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedKai missing. She too has vanished without trace.
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|isbn=02419846531848458428|title=I Made a MistakeLocal Woman Missing|author=Jane CorryMary Kubica|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know from the very beginning that there's Eleven years ago, a tragedy about man regularly came home to happenhis wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. On His wife was in the habit of going out for a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man falls under an oncoming train, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. That man is Matthew GordonThe locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Much Ten days later we see Poppy Page in , a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the witness box last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a crown courtnote saying that her daughter, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristerDelilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.
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|isbnauthor=0008386137Terry Miles|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksRabbits
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Elaine Winterdale took Welcome to the fall 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 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 landlordaverage person no obvious entry point. Aged 37A bit like the game of life then. Yes, she got this is the game of life for a suspended sentence because a faulty gas boiler had caused certain 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. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the deaths lists of 29-year-old Reveka Albu who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and her 2-year-old son Benkeotherwise. Toma AlbuUnfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, husband and fatherhow his loved ones might be kept safe, had found them when he returned homeis only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932
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