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|author=Dean KoontzTeresa Driscoll|title=The Other EmilyHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return at first instance appears tobe your average student, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact faced with his partner there ten years agothe familiar horrifying realisation, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightthe eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''Heis not who he says he is…''s paying , paving the way for contact with the man he thinks sinister tone that remains throughout the only suspect, novel. In a lifer nowtwist of events, who went and after a bit Hannibal Lecterchange of outfit, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David Gemma is trying to pry shot in the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availmidst of her graduation ceremony. He's also having With Gemma then in a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagecoma, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What what follows is a man complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to do?grow the further you read.|isbn=15420199581542028752

|isbn=15291244170008370982|title=Before She DisappearedRock Paper Scissors|author=Lisa GardnerAlice Feeney

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseAmelia 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 idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's body in her car at the bottom a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the lakenovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. She knew Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the twentydogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still -two-year-old waitress wouldnshe't have left s won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her threein the passenger seat -year-old daughter and run awaythen doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008421714|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Lani was Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the fourteenth missing person last page) seemed to either be located by Frankie and now 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 shewas wrapping the bread, 's moving on again, 'but isn't this the first time to Boston where therehe's based a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her disappearance eleven months agomannerisms''. FrankiePerhaps this would not have mattered, middleexcept for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes -aged and white''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, gets a job and accommodation at Stoneyunloveable wretch.''s bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0241989094|title=The TherapistPerfect Life|author=B A ParisNuala Ellwood|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in The CircleGoring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, a gated communityLavender, Alice Dawson was in VeniceFreddie and Barclay. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such The boys are a bit of a reasonable price that Alice wouldnhandful which is why she't have to sell s making this trip on her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford itown. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they The house would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendsperfect for them. Leo had some work done on  It's the house: he made two bedrooms into one same month but now we're in Wimbledon and although Alice knew that we encounter the house was stunning same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she just didn't feel comfortable theres been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1787634493|title=The KhanAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. This has served her well in her rise through Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home opportunity would arise for her sisterson, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn's wedding after fifteen years t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in selfan affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -imposed exileand Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, she is when Marissa arrived at the top of her game. Returning house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the city of her birthdoor was answered by Esther, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for the future with her sense of honour and dutyJenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.|isbn=1786079097

|isbnauthor=0008214468Claire McGowan|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonI Know You|rating=54

|summary=A workman has ''Then:'' Casey returns from 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 walk with the baby, Carson, and is comes across three bodies, almost a hand, severed above the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearswhole family taken down.

Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politicianNow: he wants ''Rachel is out for a government that is not just practically goodwalk with her dog, but morally good.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-CrossBrandy, when she comes across a body in the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementwoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author= Gunnar StaalesenPeter Papathanasiou|title= Fallen AngelsThe Stoning|rating= 23.5

|summary=Varg VeumIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, lone wolf detectivea teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, is backand she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. After attending a former friendWhen she's funeraldiscovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of quite confident the past are exposed to culprit has come from the light of immigrant detention centre the present. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum place is thrust into an investigation reluctantly home to root out . An arson attack on that shows the clues hidden in his own history feeling – and to catch a killer.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah Oit'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows s only fair, is the cagegeneral opinion, intimatelyfor the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. It lurks in Cue the corner arrival of her eyeGeorge Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. SoonBecause such an aggrieved, it will be occupiedinsular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law... Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501529416973

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1787631869|title=The Long Dark RoadRising Tide|author=P R BlackSam Lloyd

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaLucy Locke's Healeyearly life hadn's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as t been easy but she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was 'd built a furious storm going on good and she'd already refused decent life in the offer of help from one man in a big vehicleaftermath. WeShe'll see s now married to Daniel, who co- but no one else will know owns Locke- that another car stops Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Stephanie is bundled into Fin, the car and driven offchild she had with Daniel. There has been no sign of her - or her body They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so- in the two years sincecalled best friend. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened Nick and sheDaniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's not going difficult to be stoppedthink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1786332388|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 First Day of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen SistersSpring|author=Louise JensenNancy Tucker|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The Stolen SistersFirst Day of Spring''was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultst let go. WellSo, theywhat're healthy in s the physical senseproblem? Well, but Carly has trust issuesthe problem is Chrissie, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksthe main character. TheyWhen we first meet her she're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-s just eight years-old , small for her age and she was in charge of her sisters, the eightreadily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old twinsboy. Much as She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and killing - suffocating - her mobile phone held her attentionhands seized up. Leah and Marie were nattering about There's a lost ball and clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a fleece which had been left outside. little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? The gate wasnHasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two men.he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Will CarverB088YWF5BC|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Lies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5Sarah 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,120stable family. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaWhen we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's midnearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town promised he'd be in Berkshire, Englandby. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereHer husband, Tom, until something happened is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he ran away to the cityneeds his sleep. Hewakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townkilled someone.|isbn=1913193306

|isbnauthor=0008378363Louise Candlish|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Heights|rating=34.5

|summary=A husband is about Ellen doesn't expect to have his throat cut in his own bedsee Kieran that day. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. MackenzieShe's on site, Robin and Lily met visiting a client for a lighting consultation when they all went to the same college she spies him in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still a building across the best way. There are lots of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band things, lots of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spicepeople, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellyou might see when you look out across London, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in her own lifefact any other day. She married OwenWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, her college sweetheart and they have Ellen knows this for a daughterfact, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldbecause she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=07515674261838853804|title=The Wicked SisterCursed Girls|author=Karen DionneCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham sheMegan Melvick's an inpatient at earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganpond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's Upper Peninsulaback home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen yearsto say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, convinced that who is dying of anorexia. As she accidentally killed her mother when 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 eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. it even a question? Her sisterWas she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, DianaJago, just twenty-yearson their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything -old, Ivan Melvick was left at Lord Lieutenant of the family home, County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernesscurse. RachelIn addition to Melissa's very bright health problems, Megan was deaf and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains theretheir mother, Beth, feeling that this is what she deserveshad left suddenly three years before. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as Would she remembers.come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=00083147211409181669|title=Truth Be ToldThe Maidens|author=Kia AbdullahAlex 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 ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the other way round: first fast train from King'Adam s Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and Kamranhad been made all the more so by the death of Mariana' trips off s husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the tongue so much more easily than death of Zoe'Kamran s mother and AdamMariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4. Sofia worries about that sort 5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of thing. Both boys go a certain vintage, it's hard to read the prestigious Hampton schoolwords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, where they boardthough, despite Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homeMelbourne suburbs. Kamran has They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a place at Oxford next year earlier. They're 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 settled in, and it's all seemed to be going well until ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the night when he was rapedpark across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0008395594|title=The Seven DoorsBoth of You|author=Adele Parks

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here You could be forgiven for a thriller thinking that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughLeigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. We start with our coupleThen, one Monday, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision went to work and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their never came home. Mark, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood Oli and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsSeb are shattered. The building he's inherited, meanwhileWell, Mark and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant Seb are but Oli'take a hike, I'm moving in s sixteen and you're moving out'. Now, at this the stage you may well, if you know this where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a genre read, think bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it's going down to be a throwback him growing up and starting to those become independent. Seb'home invasions only twelve and Leigh' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nos absence hits him hard. We avoid genre completelyThen Daan Janssen, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedya wealthy Dutch businessman, in case that has any bearing on what happens herereports his wife, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesKai missing. 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 She too has vanishedwithout trace.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731848458428|title=House of CorrectionLocal Woman Missing|author=Nicci FrenchMary Kubica|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyEleven 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 shehad for herself when she didn's in prisont have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, on remandgrateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. She's sharing The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a cell with Michaelatrace, who's more caring than she first appearsleaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. She delivers tough love Ten days later, a local woman and gets Tabitha eating and drinking her six-year- old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and encourages her she'd seemed to have a shower, unpleasant as be under some strain for the whole processes might belast couple of weeks or so. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the Her body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered eventually found in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithaa seedy motel - it appeared that she's housed committed suicide. So far as the police are concernedShe left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - was safe and when they arrived at her house she there was covered no point in his bloodlooking for her.

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSTerry Miles|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceRabbits|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having Welcome to start a new schoolthe world of The Game. She's left Or should that be the school she loved in New York and now she's going game, for while it ought to be capitalised to Ashams in North Londonhigh heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's very upmarket; places are rare also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as hens' teeth anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and as to the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groupsaverage person no obvious entry point. Robin's going to be an outsiderA bit like the game of life then. And why Yes, this is this happening? Wellthe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, over a matter the hack from the darkest of a few days her parents' marriage fell apartwebs. Andrew Spence is staying People like our hero, K, named like that in New York - he works for a securities firm - the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and her motherhis bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, Sadie Roperand have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristersuccessfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. ThatHowever this time it's easier said than done when youdifferent. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it've s ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out of that the market place - line between observing and learning about the country - for more than ten yearsgame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932