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|author=Sarah SultoonTeresa Driscoll|title=The SourceHer Perfect Family|rating=2.5

|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated The novel begins by a military baseintroducing you to Gemma, struggling who at first instance appears to care for her baby sister while be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her mum sleeps off another bingegraduation outfit is all wrong. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsSuddenly, and offers Gemma receives an exclusive invitation to army partieseerie 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, things start to look and after a little less bleak.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=19131935941542028752

|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=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. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be 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 she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241989094|title=The Shadow ManPerfect Life|author=Helen FieldsNuala Ellwood

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and he knows that heshe's dying. His body is giving up viewing a house in Goring-on him-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeLavender, a child Freddie and a brotherBarclay. HeThe boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's been making this trip on the lookout her own. The house would be perfect for the perfect people and hethem. It's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared same month but now we're in Wimbledon and even windows with curtainswe encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and pictures living in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandher sister, CalGeorgie's, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of fivespare room, away for the weekend. Unfortunatelywhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesConnor.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1787634493|title=The Other EmilyAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. It's Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the western coast we're concerned withopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, a place he has to return to, and go on a place play date. She was concerned that he has to be able to leavedidn't have any friends at his new school. David lost contact Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a remote road late at nightlittle later. HeWhat could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's paying for contact with the man he thinks mother, Jenny, the only suspect, a lifer nowdoor was answered by Esther, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recorddidn't know Jenny or Jacob. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manThe phone number she's mind, but to no availd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. HeAnd so had Jenny's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his lovenanny. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbnauthor=1529124417Claire McGowan|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at 'Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the bottom of the lakebaby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn ''t have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now sheNow:'s moving on again, this time to Boston where there's Rachel is out for a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until walk with her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankiedog, middle-aged and whiteBrandy, gets when she comes across a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate body in the community which is just about exclusively blackwoods. |isbn=1542019974

|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTPeter Papathanasiou|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisStoning|rating=3.5

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in The Circlecomparison, a gated communityteacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, Alice Dawson was in Veniceand 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. Leo wanted When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to move quickly . An arson attack on that shows the property as feeling – and it was on 's only fair, is the general opinion, for the market occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationshipconditions. Now they would be able to spend most of Cue the week together instead arrival of just George Manolis, a higher rank from the weekendscity, to sort everything out. Leo had some work done on Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therelaw...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1787631869|title=The KhanRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well decent life in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisteraftermath. She's wedding after fifteen years in selfnow married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-imposed exilePovey Marine on Penleith Beach, she is and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the top of her gamechild she had with Daniel. Returning to the city of her birth They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, to old scars Daniel's partner and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past so-called best friend. Nick and reconcile her visions for Daniel have a history together from the future with her sense of honour and dutytime they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=00082144681786332388|title=A Time to LieThe First Day of Spring|author=Simon BerthonNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of an excavation on a building siteSpring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. ItSo, what's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and the problem? Well, the problem is a handChrissie, severed above the wristmain character. ItWhen we first meet her she's been there just eight years old, small for about twentyher age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone -five to thirtya two-five years. Robin Sandford year- generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerold boy. HeShe's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandfordcompletely cold about what she's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government done with her main memory being that is not just practically good, but morally goodwhilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up.'' One of the ways heThere'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 Exchequer, wishes a clue that heChrissie isn'd been warned about thist completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: itwhen will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn's easy to see that t he wouldn't have been in agreement.dead for long enough?

|authorisbn= Gunnar StaalesenB088YWF5BC|title= Fallen AngelsThe Lies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating= 24

|summary=Varg VeumSarah 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 first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, lone wolf detectiveFreddie, is back. After attending a former friendwho's funeralnearly sixteen, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and hasn't come home by the sins time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the past are exposed morning but he's still going to be going to the light of the presentwork and he needs his sleep. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in overhears him tell his own history and to catch a killermother that he's killed someone.|isbn=1913193063

|author= Deborah O'ConnorLouise Candlish|title= The CaptiveHeights|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cageEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, intimately. It lurks visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the corner way. There are lots of her eye. Soonthings, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, it will be occupiedbut this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Then whatWhy? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she hurts him?had a hand in his murder.|isbn=18387726501471183483

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1838853804|title=The Long Dark RoadCursed Girls|author=P R BlackCaro Ramsay

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaMegan Melvick's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she walked along followed her grandfather down to the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgepond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. There was a furious storm going on and Twenty years later she'd already refused s back home again and this time the offer occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of help from one man in a big vehicleanorexia. WeAs she dies, Melissa whispers 'll see - sorry' to Megan but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off. what did she mean? There has were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been no sign of her sorry - or her body 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 the two years sinceshort supply - but there did seem to be a curse. Georgia is back is FerngateIn addition to Melissa's health problems, determined to find out what happened Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would shecome back for her elder daughter's not going to be stopped.funeral?

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1409181669|title= The Last Resort Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private islandMariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. They have been invited She needed to an allthink carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything -expenses paid retreat to test a brandor so she thought -new product from had begun with 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 death of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryTara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, She'd been brutally stabbed and each otherMariana's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downniece, these well-kept secrets are revealedZoe, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagehad telephoned her in distress. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for Tara had been her attendance best friend and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themshe was struggling to cope. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise Jensen|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we start Mariana wasn't 'The Stolen Sisters'entirely' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy in the physical sensehappy about having to go to Cambridge, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. They're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, caught the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text first fast train from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionKing's Cross. Leah Mariana and Marie Zoe were nattering about a lost ball close and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnmade all the more so by the death of Mariana't shut properly and Brunos husband, their boxer dogSebastian, escapedin a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. As Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two mendeath of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|author=Will CarverSarah Langan|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripGood Neighbours

|summary= Hinton HollowIf you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, population 5though,120Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. It sounds like They're one of those signs you see 18 households on improbably wide highways the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in Americaa year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's mid-westan ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town they've made some friends and their kids have settled in Berkshire, Englandand it's all going ok. Detective Sergeant Pace grew Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up here, until something happened and he ran away to in the park across the cityway. HeIt's running away again…only this time evil is following him a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is going yet to touch just about everyone in towncome.|isbn=19131933061789098211

|isbn=00083783630008395594|title=One Perfect MorningBoth of You|author=Pamela CraneAdele Parks|rating=3.54

|summary=A You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bedand two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. To find out who - and why - we need Then, one Monday, she went to go back nine days work and twenty yearsnever came home. Mackenzie Mark, Robin Oli and Lily met when they all went to the same college in MonroevilleSeb are shattered. Well, Pennsylvania Mark and twenty years later theySeb are but Oli're still s sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best of friendslook. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as He's been a bit off with Leigh for a nod while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to the famous girl band of the daybecome independent. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker Seb's only twelve and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifeLeigh's absence hits him hard. She married OwenThen Daan Janssen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterwealthy Dutch businessman, Ariareports his wife, who's now fifteen-year-oldKai missing. She too has vanished without trace.

|isbn=07515674261848458428|title=The Wicked SisterLocal Woman Missing|author=Karen DionneMary Kubica|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulanight. She's twenty-six and has been there It was the only time she had for fifteen years, convinced that herself when she accidentally killed didn't have to look after her mother baby - but when she was eleven-years-old and that out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sisterThe locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, Dianaleaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, just twentya local woman and her six-yearsyear-old, daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was left at the family home, a lodge in birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the Upper Peninsula wildernesslast couple of weeks or so. Rachel's very bright and although she's Her body was eventually found in a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling seedy motel - it appeared that this is what she deserves'd committed suicide. PerhapsShe left a note saying that her daughter, thoughDelilah, the circumstances are not as she rememberswas safe and there was no point in looking for her.

|isbnauthor=0008314721Terry Miles|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahRabbits|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyGame. Flowers are sent Or should that be the game, for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent while it ought to be capitalised to thank 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 to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this prompts is the game of life for a phone call 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 returnthe least Kafkaesque manner possible. There K and his bezzies are two sons trying to be historians of the familygame, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherhave studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, Sofiafor the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, regrets that she didnand are still very short. However this time it't name them s different. This time the game seems the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off most dangerous, nay lethal, the tongue so much more easily than most broken it'Kamran s ever been – morally and Adam'otherwise. Sofia worries about that Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort of thing. Both boys go to out what the prestigious Hampton schoolgame is doing, if it's even being played, where they boardand how his loved ones might be kept safe, despite he is only to find out that the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year line between observing and all seemed to be going well until learning about the night when he was rapedgame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932