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|isbnauthor=0008330131Teresa Driscoll|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenHer Perfect Family|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know 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 twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are her graduation outfit is all healthy adultswrong. WellSuddenly, theyGemma receives an eerie message stating 're healthy in 'He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. They're sinister tone that remains throughout the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolennovel. Carly was thirteen-years-old In a twist of events, and she was after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in charge the midst of her sisters, the eight-year-old twinsgraduation ceremony. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get With Gemma then in a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about coma, what follows is a lost ball and complex whodunit with a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As list of suspects that continues to grow the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|authorisbn=Will Carver0008370982|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hinton HollowAmelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, population 5Adam,120isn't so keen on the idea. It sounds like one Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in Americamaking it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's midannoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been -westand working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, Englandnever easy. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereStill - she's won the weekend away, until something happened even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and he ran away then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|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 citylast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. HeEvery 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 running away again…only based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this time evil would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|isbn=1913193306''
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|isbn=00083783630241989094|title=One The Perfect MorningLife|author=Pamela CraneNuala Ellwood|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is about to have his throat cut in his why she's making this trip on her own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsThe house would be perfect for them.
Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to It's the same college month but now we're in Monroeville, Pennsylvania Wimbledon and twenty years later they're still we encounter the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spicesame young woman, Robin the Homemaker only this time she's job hunting and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress living in her own life. She married Owensister, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterGeorgie's, Ariaspare room, whowhere she's now fifteen-year-oldbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.
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|isbn=07515674261787634493|title=The Wicked SisterAll Her Fault|author=Karen DionneAndrea Mara
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper PeninsulaIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. She's twenty-six and has Marissa Irvine had been there hoping that the opportunity would arise for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sisterson, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family homeMilo, to go on a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessplay date. RachelShe was concerned that he didn's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient t have any friends at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserveshis new school. Perhaps, though, 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 Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and this prompts Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a phone call in returnlittle later. There are two sons of What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the familyhouse, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their expecting to meet Jacob's mother, SofiaJenny, regrets that she the door was answered by Esther, who didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamknow Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Sofia worries about that sort of thingMilo had disappeared. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedAnd so had Jenny's nanny.
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|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Claire McGowan|title=The Seven DoorsI Know You
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're Then:'' Casey returns from a full fifth of walk with the way through. We start with our couplebaby, she a literature lecturerCarson, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their homecomes across three bodies, almost a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearswhole family taken down. The building he '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 'take a hike, INow:'m moving in and you're moving Rachel is out'. Nowfor a walk with her dog, at this stage you may wellBrandy, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be when she comes across a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us body 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, 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 the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedwoods. |isbn=19131933811542019974
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|isbnauthor=1471179273Peter Papathanasiou|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchThe Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, she's a teacher has been transported across town at night in prisona shopping trolley, on remand. Sheand she's sharing been taped to a cell with Michaela, whotree and she's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages had rocks bowled at her to have a shower, unpleasant as if she were the whole processes might beworld's tallest cricket stumps. And how did Tabitha get here? WellWhen she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, on 21 December including the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kanelocal cops, who was helping with are quite confident the culprit has come from the renovations immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to Tabitha. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's houseonly fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. So far as Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the police are concernedcity, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, Tabitha insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodlaw...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1787631869|title=The Lies You ToldRising Tide|author=Harriet TyceSam Lloyd|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnLucy Locke's early life hadn't happy about having to start been easy but she'd built a new schoolgood and decent life in the aftermath. She's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going married to Ashams in North London. ItDaniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth daughter and as Fin, the pupils child she had with Daniel. They have all been there ''forever''financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, they have their established groups. RobinDaniel's going to be an outsiderpartner and so-called best friend. And why is this happening? Well, over Nick and Daniel have a matter of history together from the time they both spent in a few days her parentschildren' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, s home but it's difficult to think that Nick has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. ThatDaniel's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsbest interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.
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|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1786332388|title= The CleanerFirst Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and coldly competentcompletely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. So, John Milton what's the problem? Well, the problem is one of Chrissie, the British governmentmain character. When we first meet her she's best assets – just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a contract killer two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done with lethal instinctsher main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. Now There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, after ten years, he wants out. But his job isnshe wonders? Hasn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xhe been dead for long enough?
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|isbn=1838951067B088YWF5BC|title=The Nothing ManLies We Tell|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJane Corry|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a shockcouncil estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. He's security at It seemed to have been a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslyloving, stable family. She has a book tucked under When we first meet her arm and he wonders if , shecan't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'time he sort of half-promised he' d be in by Eve Black, is the title. Why is Jim shocked? WellHer husband, Tom, Jim was - ''isfast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped s still going to be going to work and killedhe needs his sleep. The author of the book was twelve years old He wakes, though, when Jim raped her Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother, and then that he's killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annasomeone.
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|isbnauthor=178089922XLouise Candlish|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Heights|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ellen doesn''When you wear a hood, you're invisiblet expect to see Kieran that day.She'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissions on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she's spies him in a bit building across the way. There are lots of a boffinthings, lots of people, doing and enjoying mathsyou might see when you look out across London, physics and biology at A level. Life hasnbut this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been easy dead for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''reallyover two years, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed Ellen knows this for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psychefact, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but because she retained an interest had a hand in Roanhis murder.|isbn=1471183483
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|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1838853804|title=She Lies CloseThe Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Ava Boone was five 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 old when later she went missing'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, around 6 months agowho is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There has been no sign were lots of her sincethings, minor and no arrests major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been made. And yetsorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about GraceJago, who has just discovered her neighbour on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in her new house is short supply - but there did seem to be a suspect in Avacurse. In addition to Melissa's disappearance. As a single health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother to two young children, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would shecome back for her elder daughter's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved in.|isbn=1789094194funeral?
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|isbn=14091874381409181669|title=The First LieMaidens|author=A J ParkAlex Michaelides|rating=35|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was 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 Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5
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|summary=On If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the second of October 37words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-year-old barristersong ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, Paul Reevethough, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the front door openMelbourne suburbs. His wife was They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the bedroom in other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a state of shock former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in the bathroom there was , and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly sinkhole opens up in the neck with Paulpark across the way. It's paper-knife. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he revolting mess of dirt and Alice are not going to ring chaos, but for the police and tell residents of Maple Street, the truth. They're going worst is yet to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedcome.|isbn=1789098211
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|isbn=17873014350008395594|title=Dark WatersBoth of You|author=G R HallidayAdele Parks
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when gorgeous stepsons whom she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turritadores. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and Then, one Monday, she could push the car went to its limits without fear of being caught speedingwork and never came home. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel Mark, Oli and hit a treeSeb are shattered. When she came round after Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the accident she couldnstage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He't work out where s been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she was, but put it obviously wasndown to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh't a conventional hospitals absence hits him hard. She'd made her first mistake some time agoThen Daan Janssen, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long timewealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4too has vanished without trace.
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|isbn=17808998581848458428|title=To Tell You the TruthLocal Woman Missing|author=Gilly Macmillan|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 WalkerMary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonrun late at night. Gaston's father had sold It was the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he only time she had used for herself when she didn't have to secure look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatman, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, owned by seemingly without a Russian oligarchtrace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Before he even got to go there he diedTen days later, apparently of a heart attack, local woman and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just she'd seemed to be under some strain for the contents last couple of the farmhouseweeks or so. The family hadnHer body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she't exactly fallen outd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, but Gaston lived some way away was safe and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she there was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinheritedno point in looking for her.
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|isbnauthor=0241984653Terry Miles|title=I Made a Mistake|author=Jane CorryRabbits
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=We know from Welcome to the very beginning world of The Game. Or should that therebe 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 tragedy about slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to happenthe average person no obvious entry point. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 A bit like the game of Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming trainlife then. That man Yes, this is Matthew Gordonthe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. Much later we see Poppy Page People like our hero, K, named like that in the witness box least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of a crown courtthe 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 different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, getting is a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristerthin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932
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