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|isbnauthor=0008379300Teresa Driscoll|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary=Fergus Ariss The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is in his late thirties and he knows that heall wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''s dying. His body He is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before not who he dies says he wants a wifeis…'', a child and a brother. He's been on paving the lookout way for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where sinister tone that remains throughout the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifenovel. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - In a boy twist of seven events, and after a girl change of fiveoutfit, away for Gemma is shot in the weekendmidst of her graduation ceremony. UnfortunatelyWith Gemma then in a coma, it doesn't go according what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to plan and Angela diesgrow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008370982|title=The Other EmilyRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary=Our hero David Thorne Amelia Wright is an authorforty-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, who shares his life between Adam, isn't so keen on the two US coastsidea. ItLike Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's the western coast we're concerned with, a place screenwriter and he has 's never shy of making it clear to return Amelia that he'd prefer to, and a place spend time with the novels he has 's hoping to be able to leave. David lost contact adapt than with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nighther. HeAmelia's paying for contact annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the man he thinks the only suspectdogs, a lifer nowmany of whom have been abused, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availnever easy. HeStill - she's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into won the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageweekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the very embodiment, passenger seat - and then doing the virtual resurrection, same thing to come back a couple of his lovedays later. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244170008421714|title=Before She DisappearedMrs March|author=Lisa GardnerVirginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseThe problem began just after the publication of George March's body in most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her car at first name only on the bottom of the lakelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She knew 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 twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnbread, ''but isn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was this the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now shefirst time he's moving based a character on againyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, this time to Boston where therethe principal character had 's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until 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, gets a job and accommodation at Stoneyplain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable 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 walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a building sitewhole family taken down. It ''Now:''s wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and Rachel is out for a handwalk with her dog, severed above Brandy, when she comes across a body in the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearswoods.

|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 quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the sins of general opinion, for the past occupants are exposed to often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the light arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the presentcity, to sort everything out. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum Because such an aggrieved, insular community is thrust into an investigation really going to root out welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerlaw...|isbn=19131930631529416973

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1787631869|title= The CaptiveRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the cageaftermath. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, intimately. It lurks in the corner of her eyechild she had with Daniel. Soon They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it will be occupied's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1786332388|title=The Long Dark RoadFirst Day of Spring|author=P R BlackNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaSometimes 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. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won's Healeyt let go. So, what's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeproblem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. There was a furious storm going on When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in s just killed someone - a big vehicletwo-year-old boy. WeShe's completely cold about what she'll see s done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - but no one else will know suffocating - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offher hands seized up. There has been no sign of 's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her - or her body - actions a little later in the two years since. Georgia is book: when will Steven come back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and shewonders? Hasn's not going to be stopped.t he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday B088YWF5BC|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. Lies 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 SistersTell|author=Louise JensenJane Corry|rating=3.54

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. When we start first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who'The Stolen Sisterss nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsd be in by. WellHer husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're healthy moving house in the physical sense, morning but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theyhe're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate s still going to be going to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball work and a fleece which had been left outsidehe needs his sleep. The gate wasn't shut properly and BrunoHe wakes, their boxer dogthough, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after when Freddie does come in and overhears him they were snatched by two mentell his mother that he's killed someone.

|author=Will CarverLouise Candlish|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Heights

|summary= Hinton HollowEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, population 5visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things,120. It sounds like one lots of those signs people, you might see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westwhen you look out across London, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town isn't one Ellen expected that day or in Berkshire, Englandfact any other day. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, until something happened and he ran away to the city. He's running away again…only Ellen knows this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone for a fact, because she had a hand in townhis murder.|isbn=19131933061471183483

|isbn=00083783631838853804|title=One Perfect MorningThe Cursed Girls|author=Pamela CraneCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54

|summary=A husband Megan Melvick's earliest memory is about of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to have his throat cut in his own bedfind that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. To find out 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 why money was never in short supply - we need but there did seem to go back nine days be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and twenty their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three yearsbefore. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=CrimeMackenzie, Robin |summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and Lily met when they all went looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania think carefully about what she knew and twenty years later they're still the best of friendsdecide how she should proceed. When they first met they called themselves Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band death of Tara Hampton on the dayParadise nature reserve in Cambridge. Lily would be Adventure SpiceShe'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellZoe, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her own lifebest friend and she was struggling to cope. She married OwenMariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, her college sweetheart but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and they have had been made all the more 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, Aria, whoafter the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's now fifteen-year-oldsister, Eliza.

|isbnauthor=0751567426Sarah Langan|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneGood Neighbours

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham sheIf you're of a certain vintage, it's an inpatient at hard to read the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganwords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's Upper Peninsulawhen Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. SheMaple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen yearsan ex rocker, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old 's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and that her father then took the gun their kids have settled in, and killed himselfit's all going ok. Until it isn't. Her sisterOne hot, Dianaclammy, just twenty-years-oldsticky, was left at the family homesweaty summer, a lodge sinkhole opens up in the Upper Peninsula wildernesspark across the way. RachelIt's very bright a revolting mess of dirt and although she's a voluntary patient at chaos, but for the Mental Health Center she remains thereresidents of Maple Street, feeling that this the worst is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersyet to come.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=00083147210008395594|title=Truth Be ToldBoth of You|author=Kia AbdullahAdele Parks|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent Then, one Monday, she went to thank work and this prompts a phone call in returnnever came home. There are two sons of the familyMark, seventeen-year-old Kamran Oli and sixteen-year-old AdamSeb are shattered. Their motherWell, Sofia, regrets that she didnMark and Seb are but Oli't name them s sixteen and at the other way round: stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He'Adam s been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and Kamranstarting to become independent. Seb' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran s only twelve and AdamLeigh's absence hits him hard. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolThen Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, where they boardreports his wife, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homeKai missing. Kamran She too has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedvanished without trace.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1848458428|title=The Seven DoorsLocal Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for Eleven years ago, a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to suggest a genre why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of any kind until we're going out for a full fifth of the way throughrun late at night. We start 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 up with our couple, she a literature lecturerman, grateful for the unquestioning affection he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout gave her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inheritedlocality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, meanwhileseemingly without a trace, and which they let out leaving her husband to a single motherlook after her disabled baby. Ten days later, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in local woman and you're moving out'her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is Meredith Dickey was a genre read, think itbirth doula and she's going d seemed to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in under some strain for the 1980s, but nolast couple of weeks or so. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, Her body was eventually found in case a seedy motel - it appeared that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesshe'd committed suicide. Until at She left a note saying that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedin looking for her.|isbn=1913193381

|isbnauthor=1471179273Terry Miles|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchRabbits|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, she's in prisonfor while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, on remandit never leaves lower case throughout this book. SheIt's sharing also called Rabbits, although only as a cell with Michaelaslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love no hard and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - fast structure, and encourages her to have the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a showercertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, unpleasant as the whole processes might 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. And how did Tabitha get here? Wellhistorians of the game, on 21 December and have studied amongst many things the body most unique of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kanehigh score boards, for the lists of who was helping with has successfully won the game are in the renovations to Tabithamost peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's housedifferent. So far as This time the game seems the police are concernedmost dangerous, nay lethal, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - most broken it's ever been – morally and when they arrived at her house she was covered otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his bloodloved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932