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|isbnauthor=0008214468Teresa Driscoll|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonHer Perfect Family

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a handThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, severed above at the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is Prime Ministerall wrong. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughtersSuddenly, Becca and Bella. SandfordGemma receives an eerie message stating 's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that He is not just practically good, but morally good.who he says he is…'' One of , paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesnovel. Henry Morland-CrossIn a twist of events, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the Exchequermidst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, wishes what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that he'd been warned about this: it's easy continues to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementgrow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0008370982|title= Fallen AngelsRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg VeumAmelia 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, lone wolf detectiveAdam, is backisn't so keen on the idea. After attending Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a former friendscreenwriter and he's funeral, Veum catches up never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of the past are exposed novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the light dogs, many of the presentwhom have been abused, is never easy. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out Still - she's won the clues hidden weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in his own history the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to catch come back a killercouple of days later.|isbn=1913193063

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor0008421714|title= The CaptiveMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Hannah knows The problem began just after the cage, intimatelypublication of George March's most successful novel to date. It lurks in Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the corner of her eye. Soon, last page) seemed to either be reading it will be occupiedor had already done so. Then what? What if he speaks Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to her? What if buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he escapes's based a character on you? What if he hurts '' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0241989094|title=The Long Dark RoadPerfect Life|author=P R BlackNuala Ellwood

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's Healey's nineteenviewing a house in Goring-yearon-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along Thames and telling the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeestate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. There was The boys are a bit of a furious storm going on and handful which is why she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicles making this trip on her own. WeThe house would be perfect for them. It'll see - s the same month but no one else will know - that another car stops now we're in Wimbledon and Stephanie is bundled into we encounter the car same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and driven off. There has been no sign of living in her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatesister, Georgie's, spare room, determined to find out what happened and where she's not going to be stoppedbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1787634493|title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, 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 the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen SistersHer Fault|author=Louise JensenAndrea Mara|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that twenty-years the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsplay date. Well, theyShe was concerned that he didn're healthy t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marie drinksMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. TheyWhat could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob're s mother, Jenny, the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly door was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sistersanswered by Esther, the eight-year-old twinswho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. Much as The phone number she loved them Carly 'd been given for Jenny was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionnot recognised. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which Milo had been left outsidedisappeared. The gate wasnAnd so had Jenny't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two mens nanny.

|author=Will CarverClaire McGowan|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary= Hinton Hollow''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, population 5and comes across three bodies,120almost a whole family taken down. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America ''Now:''s mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow Rachel is out for a small town in Berkshirewalk with her dog, England. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereBrandy, until something happened and he ran away to when she comes across a body in the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townwoods. |isbn=19131933061542019974

|isbnauthor=0008378363Peter Papathanasiou|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Stoning

|summary=A husband is about In a town sleazy enough to have his throat cut make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziecomparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, Robin and Lily met when they all went she's been taped to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania a tree and twenty years later theyshe're still s had rocks bowled at her as if she were the best of friendsworld's tallest cricket stumps. When they first met they called themselves she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the Spicier Girls as a nod to culprit has come from the famous girl band of immigrant detention centre the dayplace is reluctantly home to. Lily would be Adventure SpiceAn arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, Robin is the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellgeneral opinion, Mackenzie would be for the supporting actress occupants are often setting their own fires in her own lifeprotest at their conditions. She married OwenCue the arrival of George Manolis, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterhigher rank from the city, Ariato sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, who's now fifteeninsular community is really going to welcome a Greek-year-oldheritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=07515674261787631869|title=The Wicked SisterRising Tide|author=Karen DionneSam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she's an inpatient at d built a good and decent life in the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulaaftermath. She's twentynow married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-six Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and has been there for fifteen yearsthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old Lucy's daughter and that her father then took Fin, the gun and killed himselfchild she had with Daniel. Her sisterThey have financial difficulties, Dianasome caused by Nick Povey, just twentyDaniel's partner and so-years-old, was left at called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the family time they both spent in a children's home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachelbut it's very bright and although shedifficult to think that Nick has Daniel's a voluntary patient best interests at the Mental Health Center she remains thereheart, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhapsparticularly where Lucy, thoughor money, the circumstances are not as she remembersis concerned.

|isbn=00083147211786332388|title=Truth Be ToldThe First Day of Spring|author=Kia AbdullahNancy Tucker|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''effortfulThe First Day of Spring'' familywas one such occasion. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank The writing is superb and this prompts a phone call in returncompletely compelling. There are two sons of The characterisation is excellent and the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran plot grips you and sixteen-year-old Adamwon't let go. Their motherSo, Sofiawhat's the problem? Well, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off problem is Chrissie, the tongue so much more easily than main character. When we first meet her she'Kamran s just eight years old, small for her age and Adamshe readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Sofia worries She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that sort of thingwhilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. 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 There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until little later in the night book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he was raped.been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)B088YWF5BC|title=The Seven DoorsLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller Sarah Wallace said that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she grew up on a literature lecturer, he big council estate in medical provision Kent and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that she had existed throughout her life since childhood two brothers and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearstwo sisters. The building he's inheritedIt seemed to have been a loving, meanwhilestable family. When we first meet her, and which they let out to a single mothershe can't sleep because her son, is needed by their adult daughterFreddie, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hikes nearly sixteen, Ihasn'm moving t come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in and you're moving out'by. NowHer husband, at this stage you may wellTom, if you know this is a genre read, think itfast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be a throwback going to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nowork and he needs his sleep. We avoid genre completelyHe wakes, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedythough, when Freddie does come in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at overhears him tell his mother 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 vanishedhe's killed someone.|isbn=1913193381

|isbnauthor=1471179273Louise Candlish|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchThe Heights|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheEllen doesn's in prison, on remandt expect to see Kieran that day. She's sharing on site, visiting a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than client for a lighting consultation when she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have spies him in a shower, unpleasant as building across the whole processes might beway. And how did Tabitha get here? WellThere are lots of things, on 21 December the body lots of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kanepeople, you might see when you look out across London, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithabut this isn's houset one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. So far as the police are concernedWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house Ellen knows this for a fact, because she was covered had a hand in his bloodmurder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1838853804|title=The Lies You ToldCursed Girls|author=Harriet TyceCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnMegan Melvick't happy about having s earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to start a new schoolfind that he'd hanged himself. SheTwenty years later she's left back home again and this time the school she loved in New York and now sheoccasion is no less sad. She's going there to Ashams in North Londonsay her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. ItAs she dies, Melissa whispers 's very upmarket; places are rare as henssorry' teeth to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and as the pupils major cruelties, for which Melissa might have all been there ''forever'sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, they have on their established groups. wedding day? Robin's going 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 an outsidera curse. And why is this happening? WellIn addition to Melissa's health problems, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - Megan was deaf and her their mother, Sadie RoperBeth, has had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back to London to pick up for her practice as a criminal barrister. Thatelder daughter's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.funeral?

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson1409181669|title= The CleanerMaidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Ruthless Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and coldly competent, John Milton is one 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 British governmentParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best assets – 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 contract killer with lethal instinctsswimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Now, Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after ten yearsthe death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, he wants outEliza. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X

|isbnauthor=1838951067Sarah Langan|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardGood Neighbours|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Jim DoyleIf you're of a certain vintage, heit's about hard to get read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a shock. Hesing-song ''that's security at when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a supermarket and heworld apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They's watching re one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a woman who is acting suspiciouslyyear earlier. She has a book tucked under her arm and They're not quite like all the other families (he wonders if 's an ex rocker, she's planning to pay for a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Suddenly Until it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsisn't. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve BlackOne hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, is a sinkhole opens up in the park across the titleway. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - It''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author s a revolting mess of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, dirt and then killed herchaos, her father and her seven-year-old sisterbut for the residents of Maple Street, Annathe worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=178089922X0008395594|title=Invisible GirlBoth of You|author=Lisa JewellAdele Parks|rating=54

|summary=''When you wear a hoodYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, you're invisibleshe went to work and never came home.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old Mark, Oli and beautifulSeb are shattered. By her own admissionWell, sheMark and Seb are but Oli's a bit of a boffin, doing sixteen and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levelthe stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. Life hasnHe't s been easy a bit off with Leigh for her: most people who have been close a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to her have died become independent. Seb's only twelve and sheLeigh's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatabsence hits him hard. Something ''reallyThen Daan Janssen, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psychewealthy Dutch businessman, but somehow managed to miss that 'something reallyreports his wife, really bad'Kai missing. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in RoanShe too has vanished without trace.

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1848458428|title=She Lies CloseLocal Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica

|summary= Ava Boone 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 five years old in the habit of going out for a 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 went missingwas out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, around 6 months agoa local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. There has been no sign Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the 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 note saying that her sincedaughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no arrests have been madepoint in looking for her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. And yetOr 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 average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is not about Avathe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. Not reallyPeople like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. This book is about GraceK 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 lists of who has just discovered her neighbour successfully won the game are in her new house is a suspect in Avathe 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 disappearanceever been – morally and otherwise. As a single mother Unfortunately for K, in trying to two young childrensort out what the game is doing, sheif it's really wishing this sort of information had come even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to light before they moved infind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=17890941941529016932