Changes

|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 all wrong. 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 novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15293786480008370982|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Rock Paper Scissors|author=Mick HerronAlice Feeney

|summary=Someone Amelia Wright is killing secret service agents, past forty-two and present, from it was the Slough House teamstaff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Jackson Lamb canHer husband, Adam, isn't understand itso keen on the idea. WellLike Amelia, what he actually canknows that their marriage has been under strain: he't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up s a screenwriter and something needs he's never shy of making it clear to be done. After all Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he'when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Graylings hoping to adapt than with her.'' Over at RegentAmelia's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant annoyed that he never enquires about an operation which saw how her day has been - and working with the perpetrator dogs, many of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedwhom have been abused, is never easy. It isn't just the message that was sent: Still - she's also delighted that she managed to fund won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the operation off passenger seat - and then doing the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thissame thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=00083793000008421714|title=The Shadow ManMrs March|author=Helen FieldsVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heThe problem began just after the publication of George March's dyingmost successful novel to date. His body is giving up Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on him, his internal organs beginning the last page) seemed to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brothereither be reading it or had already done so. He's been 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 lookout for bread, ''but isn't this the perfect people and first time he's made certain preparations. based a character on you?'' The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsShe mentioned that Johanna, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandPerhaps this would not have mattered, Cal, had taken except for the fact that Johanna is the children whore of Nantes - ''a boy of seven and a girl of fiveweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, away for the weekendunloveable wretch. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.'

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241989094|title=The Other EmilyPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast In August 2018 we're concerned with, meet a place he has to return to, young woman called Imogen and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the man he thinks the only suspectestate agent about her three children, a lifer nowLavender, who went Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has of a dozen and more unfound Jane Does handful which is why she's making this trip on his recordher own. David is trying to pry The house would be perfect for them. It's the connection between the murderer same month but now we're in Wimbledon and his girl from we encounter the mansame young woman, only this time she's mindjob hunting and living in her sister, but to no avail. HeGeorgie's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodimentspare room, the virtual resurrectionwhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, of his loveConnor. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244171787634493|title=Before She DisappearedAll Her Fault|author=Lisa GardnerAndrea Mara

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the lakeopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She knew was concerned that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnhe didn't have left her threeany friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -year-old daughter and run awayMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. Lani was What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the fourteenth missing person house, expecting to be located by Frankie and now shemeet Jacob's moving on againmother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, this time to Boston where therewho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she's a strong Haitian community which d been given for Jenny was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agonot recognised. Milo had disappeared. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at StoneyAnd so had Jenny's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blacknanny.

|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTClaire McGowan|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisI Know You|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the house in The Circlebaby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicewhole family taken down. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such  ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell walk with her cottage dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therewoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Saima MirPeter Papathanasiou|title=The KhanStoning|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and four times she's had rocks bowled at her as good as white menif she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. This When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has served her well in her rise through come from the criminal justice system and by immigrant detention centre the time she place is called reluctantly home for her sisterto. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileonly fair, she is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the top arrival of her game. Returning to George Manolis, a higher rank from the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh woundssort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the future with her sense of honour and dutylaw...|isbn=17860790971529416973

|isbn=00082144681787631869|title=A Time to LieThe Rising Tide|author=Simon BerthonSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. ItLucy Locke's wrapped early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wristaftermath. ItShe's been there for about twenty-five now married to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford Daniel, who co- generally known as Robbie owns Locke- is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they have two daughterslive at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Becca and Bella. SandfordLucy's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically gooddaughter and Fin, but morally goodthe child she had with Daniel.'' One of the ways heThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimespartner and so-called best friend. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick and Chancellor of Daniel have a history together from the Exchequer, wishes that hetime they both spent in a children'd been warned about this: s home but it's easy difficult to see think that he wouldnNick has Daniel't have been in agreements best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1786332388|title= Fallen AngelsThe First Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, Sometimes 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 backexcellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. After attending a former friend So, what's funeralthe problem? Well, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins of problem is Chrissie, the past are exposed to the light of the presentmain character. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a killertwo-year-old boy.|isbn=1913193063 She's completely cold about 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 the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|author= Deborah O'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks in the corner of her eye. 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=1838772650}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB088YWF5BC|title=The Long Dark RoadLies We Tell|author=P R BlackJane Corry

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgehad two brothers and two sisters. There was It seemed to have been a furious storm going on and loving, stable family. When we first meet her, shecan't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn'd already refused t come home by the offer time he sort of help from one man half-promised he'd be in a big vehicleby. WeHer husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they'll see - re moving house in the morning but no one else will know - that another car stops he's still going to be going to work and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offhe needs his sleep. There has been no sign of her - or her body - He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and sheoverhears him tell his mother that he's not going to be stoppedkilled someone.

|author= Susi Holliday Louise Candlish|title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenHeights|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She'The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years s on from site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a dreadful event they building across the way. There are all healthy adults. Welllots of things, lots of people, they're healthy in the physical senseyou might see when you look out across London, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theythis isn're the Sinclair sisters and t one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years-old , and she was in charge of her sistersEllen knows this for a fact, the eight-year-old twins. Much as because she loved them Carly was desperate to get had a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|authorisbn=Will Carver1838853804|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary= Hinton HollowMegan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, population 5,120only to find that he'd hanged himself. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaTwenty years later she's mid-west, but back home again and this particular Hinton Hollow time the occasion is a small town in Berkshireno less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, Englandwho is dying of anorexia. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereAs she dies, until something happened Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and he ran away 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 cityCounty and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. HeIn addition to Melissa's running away again…only this time evil is following him health problems, Megan was deaf and is going to touch just about everyone in towntheir mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before.|isbn=1913193306 Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=00083783631409181669|title=One Perfect MorningThe Maidens|author=Pamela CraneAlex Michaelides|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A husband is about Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to have his throat cut in his own bedget away with them both. To find out who - and why - we need She needed to go back nine days think carefully about what she knew and twenty yearsdecide how she should proceed. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the same college Paradise nature reserve in MonroevilleCambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Pennsylvania Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and twenty years later theyshe was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't 're still 'entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the best of friendsfirst fast train from King's Cross. When they first met they called themselves Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the Spicier Girls as a nod to more so by the famous girl band death of the day. Lily would be Adventure SpiceMariana's husband, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellSebastian, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifea swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. She married Owen, her college sweetheart Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and they have a daughter, Aria, whoMariana'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 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 thriller that interestingly doesnrun late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't even try have to suggest look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of man, grateful for the way throughunquestioning affection he gave her. We start with our coupleThe locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, she seemingly without a literature lecturertrace, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced leaving her husband to move out of their homelook after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a building that had existed throughout local woman and her life since childhood six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and which theyshe'd occupied seemed to be under some strain for over thirty yearsthe last couple of weeks or so. The building heHer body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she's inheritedd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, meanwhileDelilah, was safe and which they let out there was no point in looking for her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to a single motherthe world of The Game. Or should that be the game, is needed by their adult daughterfor while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, who quite blatantly says to its occupant it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It'take s also called Rabbits, although only as a hikeslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, I'm moving in and you're moving out'to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. NowYes, at this stage you may well, if you know this is the game of life for a genre readcertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, think it's going named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us 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 1980smost peculiar places, but noand are still very short. However this time it's different. We avoid genre completelyThis time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, as I say the most broken it's ever been – instead learning about Greek tragedymorally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in case that has any bearing on trying to sort out what happens herethe game is doing, if it's even being played, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find something out that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where line between observing and learning about the evicted tenant game, and playing it, is found to have completely vanisheda very thin one indeed...|isbn=19131933811529016932