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|isbnauthor=1529124417Teresa Driscoll|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the bottom of familiar horrifying realisation, at the lakeeleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. She knew Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run awaynovel. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie In a twist of events, and now she's moving on againafter a change of outfit, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until Gemma is shot in the midst of her disappearance eleven months agograduation ceremony. FrankieWith Gemma then in a coma, middle-aged and white, gets what follows is a complex whodunit with a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out list of suspects that continues to investigate grow the community which is just about exclusively blackfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0008370982|title=The TherapistRock Paper Scissors|author=B A ParisAlice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary=When Leo Curtis found Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the house staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was converted chapel in VeniceScotland. Leo wanted to move quickly Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the property as idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it was on clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnnovels he't have s hoping to sell adapt than with her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - she was tired and working with the dogs, many of their long-distance relationshipwhom have been abused, is never easy. Now they would be able to spend most of Still - she's won the week together instead of just weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one passenger seat - and although Alice knew that then doing the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable theresame thing to come back a couple of days later.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008421714|title=The KhanMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by The problem began just after the motto publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be twice reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through she was wrapping the criminal justice system and by bread, ''but isn't this the first time she is called home for her sisterhe's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilebased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, she is at the top of principal character had 'her gamemannerisms''. Returning to Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the city whore of her birthNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, to old scars and fresh woundsunloved, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyunloveable wretch.|isbn=1786079097''

|isbn=00082144680241989094|title=A Time to LieThe Perfect Life|author=Simon BerthonNuala Ellwood|rating=54

|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.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1787634493|title= Fallen AngelsAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating= 24.5

|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

|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

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQPeter Papathanasiou|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackStoning|rating=43.5

|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

|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

|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.

|authorisbn=Will Carver1786332388|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe First Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker

|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?

|isbn=0008378363B088YWF5BC|title=One Perfect MorningThe Lies We Tell|author=Pamela CraneJane Corry|rating=3.54

|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.

|isbnauthor=0751567426Louise Candlish|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneHeights

|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

|isbn=00083147211838853804|title=Truth Be ToldThe Cursed Girls|author=Kia AbdullahCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyMariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent She needed to thank think carefully about what she knew and this prompts a phone call in returndecide how she should proceed. There are two sons Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old AdamParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. Their motherShe'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, SofiaZoe, regrets that had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she didnwas struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than entirely'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries happy about that sort of thing. Both boys having to go to the prestigious Hampton schoolCambridge, where they board, despite but she caught the school being less than ten miles first fast train from their Belsize Park homeKing's Cross. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedmore 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.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Sarah Langan|title=The Seven DoorsGood Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for If you're of a thriller that interestingly doesncertain vintage, it't even try s hard to suggest read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a genre of any kind until wesing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''re a full fifth of the way through. We start with our coupleMaple Street is no Ramsay Street, she a literature lecturerthough, he big in medical provision Arlo and decisions at Gertie live a world apart from the council, being forced to move out Melbourne suburbs. They're one of their home18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theyyear earlier. They'd occupied for over thirty years. The building re not quite like all the other families (he's inheritedan ex rocker, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant she'take s a hike, Iformer beauty queen) but they'm moving ve made some friends and their kids have settled in , and youit're moving outs all going ok. Until it isn't. NowOne hot, at this stage you may wellclammy, sticky, sweaty summer, if you know this is a genre read, think itsinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980srevolting mess of dirt and chaos, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyfor the residents of Maple Street, 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 worst is found yet to have completely vanishedcome.|isbn=19131933811789098211

|isbn=14711792730008395594|title=House Both of CorrectionYou|author=Nicci FrenchAdele Parks|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, shewent to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's in prison, on remandsixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. SheHe's sharing been a cell bit off with Michaela, who's more caring than Leigh for a while but she first appears. She delivers tough love put it down to him growing up and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her starting to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might bebecome independent. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to TabithaSeb's only twelve and Leigh's houseabsence hits him hard. So far as the police are concernedThen Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in reports his bloodwife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1848458428|title=The Lies You ToldLocal Woman Missing|author=Harriet TyceMary Kubica|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to start a new schoolwhy he was late - again. She's left His wife was in the school she loved in New York and now she's habit of going to Ashams in North Londonout for a run late at night. Itwas the only time she had for herself when she didn's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils t have all been there ''forever''to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, they have their established groupsgrateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. Robin's going The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to be an outsiderlook after her disabled baby. And why is this happening? WellTen days later, over a matter of local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a few days her parentsbirth doula and she' marriage fell apartd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Andrew Spence is staying Her body was eventually found in New York a seedy motel - he works for it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a securities firm - and note saying that her motherdaughter, Sadie RoperDelilah, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - was safe and the country - there was no point in looking for more than ten yearsher.

|author= Mark DawsonTerry Miles|title= The CleanerRabbits|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Ruthless 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 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 coldly competentto the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, John Milton this is one the game 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. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the 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 British governmentmost broken it's best assets ever been – a contract killer with lethal instinctsmorally and otherwise. NowUnfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, after ten yearsand how his loved ones might be kept safe, he wants is only to find outthat the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed... But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X1529016932