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|author= Deborah O'ConnorTeresa Driscoll|title= The CaptiveHer Perfect Family|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the cagefamiliar 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…'', intimatelypaving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. It lurks In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the corner midst of her eyegraduation ceremony. SoonWith Gemma then in a coma, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?grow the further you read.|isbn=18387726501542028752
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0008370982|title=The Long Dark RoadRock Paper Scissors|author=P R BlackAlice Feeney|rating=4.5
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|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteenAmelia Wright is forty-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along two and it was the lonely A928 staff raffle at Ferngate Bridge. There was Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man weekend away in a big vehicleconverted chapel in Scotland. WeHer husband, Adam, isn'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into t so keen on the car and driven offidea. There Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been no sign under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her - or . Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her body day has been - in and working with the two years sincedogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and Still - she's not going 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 same thing to be stoppedcome back a couple of days later.
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008421714|title= The Last Resort Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A group The problem began just after the publication of strangers gather George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on a private islandthe last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. They have been invited Every day Mrs March went to an all-expenses paid retreat the local patisserie to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, social media influencerPatricia asked, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore she was wrapping the islandbread, and each other''but isn't this the first time he's histories and it becomes clear based a character on you?'' She mentioned that they all Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As mattered, except for the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear fact that this luxury retreat Johanna is really the whore of Nantes - ''a gilded cage. In a race against timeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themunloveable wretch. |isbn=1542020018''}}
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|isbn=00083301310241989094|title=The Stolen SistersPerfect Life|author=Louise JensenNuala Ellwood|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When In August 2018 we start 'meet a young woman called Imogen and she'The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from s viewing a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy house in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. They're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteenGoring-yearson-old Thames and she was in charge of telling the estate agent about her sistersthree children, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden Lavender, Freddie and her mobile phone held her attentionBarclay. Leah and Marie were nattering about The boys are a lost ball and bit of a fleece handful which had been left outsideis why she's making this trip on her own. The gate wasnhouse would be perfect for them. It't shut properly s the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and Brunowe encounter the same young woman, their boxer dogonly this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menGeorgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1787634493|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara
|rating=4.5
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|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds had seemed like one of those signs you see serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on improbably wide highways a play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in America's midan affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a small town in Berkshire, Englandlittle later. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereWhat could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, until something happened and he ran away expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the citydoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. HeThe phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townnanny.|isbn=1913193306
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|isbnauthor=0008378363Claire McGowan|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneI Know You|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearscomes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.
Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as 'Now:'' Rachel is out for a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spicewalk with her dog, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellBrandy, Mackenzie would be when she comes across a body in the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldwoods|isbn=1542019974
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|isbnauthor=0751567426Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneStoning|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham 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 she's an inpatient had rocks bowled at her as if she were the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganworld's Upper Peninsulatallest cricket stumps. SheWhen she's twenty-six and discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that her father then took shows the gun feeling – and killed himself. Her sisterit's only fair, Dianais the general opinion, just twenty-years-old, was left for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the family homearrival of George Manolis, a lodge in higher rank from the Upper Peninsula wildernesscity, to sort everything out. Rachel's very bright and although she's Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a voluntary patient at Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserveslaw.. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembers.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=00083147211787631869|title=Truth Be ToldThe Rising Tide|author=Kia AbdullahSam Lloyd|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an Lucy Locke's early life hadn'effortfult been easy but she'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank d built a good and this prompts a phone call decent life in returnthe aftermath. There are two sons of the familyShe's now married to Daniel, seventeenwho co-yearowns Locke-old Kamran Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and sixteen-year-old Adamthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. Their motherThey have financial difficulties, Sofiasome caused by Nick Povey, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: Daniel'Adam s partner and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'-called best friend. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to Nick and Daniel have a history together from the prestigious Hampton school, where time they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park both spent in a children's home. Kamran but it's difficult to think that Nick has a place Daniel's best interests at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedheart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1786332388|title=The Seven DoorsFirst Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnSometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''t even try to suggest a genre The First Day of any kind until weSpring''re a full fifth of the way throughwas one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision The characterisation is excellent and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood plot grips you and which theywon'd occupied for over thirty yearst let go. The building heSo, what's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single motherthe problem? Well, the problem is needed by their adult daughterChrissie, who quite blatantly says to its occupant the main character. When we first meet her she'take a hikes just eight years old, I'm moving in small for her age and you're moving outshe readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think itShe's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning cold about Greek tragedy, in case what she's done with her main memory being that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an olderwhilst she was killing - suffocating -middle aged couple live their livesher hands seized up. Until at There's a clue that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?
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|isbn=1471179273B088YWF5BC|title=House of CorrectionThe Lies We Tell|author=Nicci FrenchJane Corry|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. When we first meet Tabitha Hardyher, shecan's in prisont sleep because her son, on remand. She's sharing a cell with MichaelaFreddie, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showernearly sixteen, unpleasant as hasn't come home by the whole processes might time he sort of half-promised he'd bein by. And how did Tabitha get here? WellHer husband, Tom, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered is fast asleep: they're moving house in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithamorning but he's housestill going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. So far as the police are concernedHe wakes, though, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his bloodmother that he's killed someone.
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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSLouise Candlish|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceHeights|rating=4.5
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|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnEllen doesn't happy about having expect to start a new schoolsee Kieran that day. She's left the school on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she loved spies him in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londona building across the way. It's very upmarket; places There are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, they have their established groups. Robinbut this isn's going to be an outsidert one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. And why is this happeningWhy? WellBecause Kieran has been dead for over two years, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works and Ellen knows this for a securities firm - and her motherfact, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as because she had a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearshand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483
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|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1838853804|title= The CleanerCursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless 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 coldly competentthis time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, John Milton who is one dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of the British governmentthings, 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 best assets – 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 contract killer with lethal instinctscurse. Now In addition to Melissa's health problems, after ten Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years, he wants outbefore. But his job isn Would she come back for her elder daughter't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xs funeral?
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|isbn=18389510671409181669|title=The Nothing ManMaidens|author=Catherine Ryan HowardAlex Michaelides
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get a shockaway 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. HeShe's security at a supermarket d been brutally stabbed and heMariana's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslyniece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. She has a book tucked under Tara had been her arm best friend and he wonders if she's planning was struggling to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardscope. Mariana wasn't ''Nothing Manentirely'' by Eve Blackhappy about having to go to Cambridge, is but she caught the titlefirst fast train from King's Cross. Why is Jim shocked? WellMariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man whoSebastian, until eighteen years ago raped and killedin a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. The author Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her Zoe's mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old Mariana's sister, AnnaEliza.
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|isbnauthor=178089922XSarah Langan|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellGood Neighbours|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''When you wear Good Neighbours'' without adding a hoodsing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, youArlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're invisibleone of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier.They're not quite like all the other families (heSaffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissions an ex rocker, she's a bit of a boffin, doing former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and enjoying mathstheir kids have settled in, physics and biology at A levelit's all going ok. Life hasnUntil it isn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron . One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in an eighth-floor flatthe park across the way. Something It''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for s a long time. Aaron organised psychological help revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers residents of her psycheMaple Street, but somehow managed the worst is yet to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roancome.|isbn=1789098211
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|authorisbn=Sharon Doering0008395594|title=She Lies CloseBoth of You|author=Adele Parks
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went missing, around 6 months agoto work and never came home. There has been no sign of her since Mark, Oli and no arrests have been madeSeb are shattered. And yet Well, this book Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is not about Avahis best look. Not really He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava Seb's only twelve and Leigh's disappearanceabsence hits him hard. As Then Daan Janssen, a single mother to two young childrenwealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inKai missing. She too has vanished without trace.|isbn=1789094194
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|isbn=14091874381848458428|title=The First LieLocal Woman Missing|author=A J ParkMary Kubica|rating=3.54
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|summary=On the second of October 37-year-old barristerEleven years ago, Paul Reeve, returned a man regularly came home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness wife with lipstick marks on his collar and the front door openlame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the bedroom in habit of going out for a state of shock and in run late at night. It was the bathroom there 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 dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly in , grateful for the neck with Paul's paper-knifeunquestioning affection he gave her. In that moment Paul takes The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going trace, leaving her husband to ring the police look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and tell the truthher six-year-old daughter disappeared. TheyMeredith Dickey was a birth doula and she're going d seemed to bury be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in woodland a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and go on as though nothing has happenedthere was no point in looking for her.
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|isbnauthor=1787301435Terry Miles|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayRabbits|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted Welcome to drive down the private road in Glen Turritworld 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 was 's also called Rabbits, although only as a long road through some breath-taking scenery slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and she could push fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the car to its limits without fear game of being caught speedinglife then. When Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the blond child stepped out darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in front the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel game, and hit a treehave 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. When she came round after This time the game seems the accident she couldn't work out where she wasmost dangerous, nay lethal, but the most broken it obviously wasn't a conventional hospitals ever been – morally and otherwise. She'd made her first mistake some time agoUnfortunately for K, although in trying to sort out what the realisation wouldngame is doing, if it't s even being played, and how his loved ones might be obvious kept safe, he is only to her for find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a long timevery thin one indeed.. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.|isbn=1529016932
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