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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTTeresa Driscoll|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisHer Perfect Family
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circlenovel begins by introducing you to Gemma, a gated communitywho at first instance appears to be your average student, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on faced with the property as it was on familiar horrifying realisation, at the market at such a reasonable price eleventh hour, that Alice wouldnher graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…''t have to sell her cottage in Harlestone , paving the way for them to be able to afford itthe sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. Alice agreed - she was tired In a twist of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the week together instead midst of just the weekendsher graduation ceremony. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therefurther you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008370982|title=The KhanRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Amelia 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, Adam, isn't so keen on the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menidea. This Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has served been 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 well in . Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her rise through the criminal justice system day has been - and by working with the time dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she is called home 's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her sister's wedding after fifteen years in selfthe passenger seat -imposed exile, she is at and 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 top publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her gamefirst name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Returning Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the city of her birthbread, to old scars and fresh wounds''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, Jia must confront the principal character had 'her past and reconcile her visions mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the future with her sense fact that Johanna is the whore of honour and dutyNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|isbn=1786079097''
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|isbn=00082144680241989094|title=A Time to LieThe Perfect Life|author=Simon BerthonNuala Ellwood|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A workman has In August 2018 we meet a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. Ityoung woman called Imogen and she's wrapped viewing a house in part of an old shower curtain Goring-on-Thames and is a handtelling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, severed above the wristFreddie and Barclay. ItThe boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's been there making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearsthem.
Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. HeIt's married to heiress Carol van Koon the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and they have two daughterswe encounter the same young woman, Becca and Bella. Sandfordonly this time she's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically goodjob hunting and living in her sister, but morally good.'' One of the ways heGeorgie's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequerspare room, wishes that he'd been warned about this: itwhere she's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementsince she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1787634493|title= Fallen AngelsAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating= 24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Varg VeumIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, lone wolf detectiveMilo, is backto go on a play date. After attending a former friend She was concerned that he didn's funeral, Veum catches up t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the sins of the past are exposed house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the light of the presentdoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killer And so had Jenny's nanny.|isbn=1913193063
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorClaire McGowan|title= The CaptiveI Know You|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the cagebaby, intimatelyCarson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. It lurks  ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the corner of her eyewoods. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him? |isbn=18387726501542019974
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|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQPeter Papathanasiou|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackStoning|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIn 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 Healeybeen taped to a tree and she's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing had rocks bowled at her as if she walked along were the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeworld's tallest cricket stumps. There was a furious storm going on and When she'd already refused s discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the offer of help local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from one man in a big vehiclethe immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. We'll see - but no one else will know - An arson attack on that another car stops shows the feeling – and Stephanie it's only fair, is bundled into the car and driven offgeneral opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. There has been no sign Cue the arrival of her - or her body - in George Manolis, a higher rank from the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatecity, determined to find sort everything out what happened and she's not . Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to be stoppedwelcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973
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|author= Susi Holliday |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=00083301311787631869|title=The Stolen SistersRising Tide|author=Louise JensenSam Lloyd|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we start Lucy Locke's early life hadn'The Stolen Sisters't been easy but she' we know that twenty-years on from d built a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsgood and decent life in the aftermath. Well, theyShe're healthy in the physical senses now married to Daniel, but Carly has trust issueswho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theythey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy're the Sinclair sisters s daughter and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sistersFin, the eight-year-old twinschild she had with Daniel. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and her mobile phone held her attentionso-called best friend. Leah Nick and Marie were nattering about Daniel have a lost ball and history together from the time they both spent in a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnchildren's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel't shut properly and Brunos best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, their boxer dogor money, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menis concerned.
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1786332388|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe First Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. It sounds like one of those signs The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you see on improbably wide highways in Americaand won't let go. So, what's mid-westthe problem? Well, but this particular Hinton Hollow the problem is a small town in BerkshireChrissie, Englandthe main character. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereWhen we first meet her she's just eight years old, until something happened small for her age and he ran away to the cityshe readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. HeShe's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just completely cold about everyone what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in town.|isbn=1913193306the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?
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|isbn=0008378363B088YWF5BC|title=One Perfect MorningThe Lies We Tell|author=Pamela CraneJane Corry|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about 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 his throat cut in his own bedbeen a loving, stable family. To find out who - and why - When we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziefirst meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroevillewho's nearly sixteen, Pennsylvania and twenty years later theyhasn're still t come home by the best time he sort of friendshalf-promised he'd be in by. When Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they first met they called themselves 're moving house in the Spicier Girls as a nod morning but he's still going to be going to the famous girl band of the daywork and he needs his sleep. Lily would be Adventure SpiceHe wakes, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellthough, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress when Freddie does come in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whooverhears him tell his mother that he's now fifteen-year-oldkilled someone.
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|isbnauthor=0751567426Louise Candlish|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneHeights
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham sheEllen doesn's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulat expect to see Kieran that day. She's twenty-six and has been there on site, visiting a client for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother a lighting consultation when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took spies him in a building across the gun and killed himselfway. Her sisterThere are lots of things, Dianalots of people, just twenty-years-oldyou might see when you look out across London, was left at the family home, a lodge but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in the Upper Peninsula wildernessfact any other day. Rachel's very bright Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and although she's Ellen knows this for a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains therefact, feeling that this is what because she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembershad a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=00083147211838853804|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, 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 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 raped.}}{{FrontpageCursed Girls|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=The Seven DoorsCaro Ramsay
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnMegan Melvick't even try to suggest a genre s earliest memory is of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, her fourth birthday: she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at followed her grandfather down to the councilpond, being forced only to move out of their home, a building find that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyhe'd occupied for over thirty hanged himself. Twenty yearslater she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. The building heShe's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out there to say her final farewells to a single motherher sister, is needed by their adult daughterMelissa, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hikeis dying of anorexia. As she dies, IMelissa whispers 'm moving in and yousorry're moving out'. to Megan but what did she mean? NowThere were lots of things, at this stage you may wellminor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if you know this is a genre read, think itMegan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's going 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 throwback curse. In addition to those Melissa'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980ss health problems, but no. We avoid genre completelyMegan was deaf and their mother, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyBeth, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their liveshad left suddenly three years before. 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=1913193381Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?
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|isbn=14711792731409181669|title=House of CorrectionThe Maidens|author=Nicci FrenchAlex Michaelides
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, 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's thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in prison, on remandCambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's sharing a cell with Michaelaniece, Zoe, who's more caring than had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she first appearswas struggling to cope. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to have a showerCambridge, unpleasant as but she caught the whole processes might befirst fast train from King's Cross. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed more so by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithadeath of Mariana's househusband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. So far as Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the police are concerneddeath of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodEliza.
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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSSarah Langan|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceGood Neighbours|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnIf you't happy about having to start re of a new school. Shecertain vintage, it's left hard to read the school she loved in New York and now shewords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's going to Ashams in North London. Itwhen Good Neighbours…become…good friends's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth . Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and as Gertie live a world apart from the pupils have all been there Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They'foreverre not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she', s a former beauty queen) but they 've made some friends and their kids have their established groups. Robinsettled in, and it's all going to be an outsiderok. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parentsUntil it isn' marriage fell apartt. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - and her motherOne hot, clammy, sticky, Sadie Ropersweaty summer, has come back to London to pick a sinkhole opens up her practice as a criminal barristerin the park across the way. ThatIt's easier said than done when you've been out a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the market place - and residents of Maple Street, the country - for more than ten yearsworst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211
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|authorisbn= Mark Dawson0008395594|title= The CleanerBoth of You|author=Adele Parks|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and coldly competenttwo gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, John Milton is one of Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the British governmentstage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's best assets – been a contract killer bit off with lethal instinctsLeigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Now Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, after ten yearsa wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, he wants outKai missing. She too has vanished without trace. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X
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|isbn=18389510671848458428|title=The Nothing ManLocal Woman Missing|author=Catherine Ryan HowardMary Kubica|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first 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 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 Jim Doyleup with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he's about gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to get look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a shocklocal woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. He's security at Meredith Dickey was a supermarket birth doula and heshe's watching d seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a woman who is acting suspiciouslyseedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She has left a book tucked under note saying that her arm daughter, Delilah, was safe and he wonders if shethere was no point in looking for her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the 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 planning to pay also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it. Suddenly – as far as anyone knows, it drops has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the floor with average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the spine splayed upwardsgame of life then. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve BlackYes, this is the titlegame of life for a 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. Why is Jim shocked? WellK 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 successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, Jim was - 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 isdoing, if it'' - the Nothing Man whos even being played, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, line between observing and then killed herlearning about the game, her father and her seven-year-old sisterplaying it, Annais a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932
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