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|isbnauthor=0008336830Teresa Driscoll|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to jump from be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to hereleventh hour, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call that her best friend and flatmategraduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Nevis Smith. Nevis Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is unworldly and rather reserved - and she cannot who he says he is…'t understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with her, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. She thought they shared everything. Satnam In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is taken to hospital and Nevis calls shot in the midst of her mothergraduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, Honor. They've not been on good terms since what follows is a complex whodunit with a discovery Nevis made list of suspects that continues to grow the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008370982|title=The Disappearing ActRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Amelia 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 cusp idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of success. Great success. If making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the rumours are true, award season is going novels he's hoping to treat her well, acknowledging adapt than with her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She Amelia's going places but soannoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, unfortunatelymany of whom have been abused, is her partnernever easy. And the places he Still - she's going take him towards lieswon the weekend away, deceit and a pretty young thing even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the form of his new copassenger seat -star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just then doing the excusesame thing to come back a couple of days later.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734280008421714|title=The Art of DeathMrs March|author=David FennellVirginia Feito

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is problem began just after the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version publication of Banksy. HeGeorge March's made a macabre promise: more will followmost successful novel to date. In fact, Everyone but Mrs March (we've already met the artist although not by know her first name: he's been in only on the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhonelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, JordanPatricia asked, and as she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about was wrapping the state of her marriage. Actuallybread, it doesn''but isn't take a lot of explaining: Frankthis the first time he's attentions are obvious based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her face despite the foundation shemannerisms''s applied. Chau Ho Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is behind the counter. Therewhore of Nantes - ''s someone onlinea weak, plain, detestable, CassandraHpathetic, that the artist has his eye onunloved, toounloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241989094|title=The SourcePerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=2.54

|summary=1996. Essex. ThirteenIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-yearon-old schoolgirl Carly lives in Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a disenfranchised town dominated by bit of a military base, struggling to care handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingethem. When her squaddie brother brings food  It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and treatswe encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesliving in her sister, things start to look a little less bleak..Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=15293786481787634493|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)All Her Fault|author=Mick HerronAndrea Mara

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, past and presentMilo, from the Slough House teamto go on a play date. Jackson Lamb canShe was concerned that he didn't understand ithave any friends at his new school. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would botherpick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to What could be done. better? After all ''Only, when things went awry on Spook StreetMarissa arrived at the house, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regentexpecting to meet Jacob's Parkmother, Jenny, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatcheddoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. It isnThe phone number she't just the message that d been given for Jenny was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the booksnot recognised. Some private money was brought inMilo had disappeared. She wonAnd so had Jenny't always be so jubilant about thiss nanny.

|isbnauthor=0008379300Claire McGowan|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsI Know You

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him'Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeCarson, a child and comes across three bodies, almost a brotherwhole family taken down. He ''Now:'s been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live Rachel is prepared and even windows out for a walk with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandher dog, CalBrandy, had taken the children - when she comes across a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for body in the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dieswoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Dean KoontzPeter Papathanasiou|title=The Other EmilyStoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. 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. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787631869|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life between in the two US coastsaftermath. ItShe's the western coast we're concerned withnow married to Daniel, a place he has to return towho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with his partner there ten years agoBillie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, when the child she vanished from a remote road late at nighthad with Daniel. HeThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen partner and more unfound Jane Does on his recordso-called best friend. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer Nick and his girl Daniel have a history together from the mantime they both spent in a children's mind, home but it's difficult to no avail. Hethink that Nick has Daniel's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagebest interests at heart, the very embodimentparticularly where Lucy, the virtual resurrectionor money, of his loveis concerned. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244171786332388|title=Before She DisappearedThe First Day of Spring|author=Lisa GardnerNancy Tucker

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseSometimes 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't let go. So, what's body in her car at the bottom of problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the lakemain character. She knew When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that the twentyshe's just killed someone -a two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run awayboy. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now sheShe's moving on again, this time to Boston where therecompletely cold about what she's a strong Haitian community which done with her main memory being that whilst she was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until killing - suffocating - her disappearance eleven months agohands seized up. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets There's a job and accommodation at Stoneyclue that Chrissie isn's bar and sets out to investigate t completely responsible for her actions a little later in the community which is just about exclusively black.book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=B08CR3WNFTB088YWF5BC|title=The TherapistLies We Tell|author=B A ParisJane Corry|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a gated community, Alice Dawson was council estate in VeniceKent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Leo wanted It seemed to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such have been a reasonable price that Alice wouldnloving, stable family. When we first meet her, she can't have to sell sleep because her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of their longhalf-distance relationshippromised he'd be in by. Now Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they would 're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be able going to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendswork and he needs his sleep. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and although Alice knew overhears him tell his mother that the house was stunning she just didnhe't feel comfortable theres killed someone.

|author=Saima MirLouise Candlish|title=The KhanHeights|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 menEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterShe's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileon site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she is at spies him in a building across the top way. There are lots of her game. Returning to the city things, lots of her birthpeople, to old scars and fresh woundsyou might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions Ellen knows this for the future with her sense of honour and dutya fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=17860790971471183483

|isbn=00082144681838853804|title=A Time to LieThe Cursed Girls|author=Simon BerthonCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site'd hanged himself. ItTwenty years later she's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain back home again and this time the occasion is a hand, severed above the wristno less sad. ItShe's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is Prime Ministerdying of anorexia. HeAs she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry's married to heiress Carol van Koon Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and they major cruelties, for which Melissa might have two daughters, Becca and Bella. been sorry - or was it even a question? SandfordWas she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's determined husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodcurse.'' One of the ways heIn addition to Melissa's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Crosshealth problems, the Deputy Prime Minister Megan was deaf and Chancellor of the Exchequertheir mother, Beth, wishes that he'd been warned about this: ithad left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreement.funeral?

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1409181669|title= Fallen AngelsThe Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating= 25|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Varg VeumMariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, lone wolf detectiveZoe, is backhad telephoned her in distress. After attending a former Tara had been her best friendand she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely's funeral' happy about having to go to Cambridge, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and wounds are opened Zoe were close and had been made all the sins of more so by the past are exposed to the light death of the presentMariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the clues hidden in his own history death of Zoe's mother and to catch a killerMariana's sister, Eliza.|isbn=1913193063

|author= Deborah O'ConnorSarah Langan|title= The CaptiveGood Neighbours|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the cagewords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, intimatelyArlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. It lurks 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 corner of her eyeother 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 going ok. Until it isn't. SoonOne hot, clammy, it will be occupiedsticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. Then what? What if he speaks It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?come.|isbn=18387726501789098211

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0008395594|title=The Long Dark RoadBoth of You|author=P R BlackAdele Parks

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeto work and never came home. There was a furious storm going on Mark, Oli and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicleSeb are shattered. WeWell, Mark and Seb are but Oli'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops s sixteen and Stephanie at the stage where he thinks boredom is bundled into the car and driven offhis best look. There has He's been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years sincea bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened Seb's only twelve and sheLeigh's not going to be stoppedabsence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.

|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=00083301311848458428|title=The Stolen SistersLocal Woman Missing|author=Louise JensenMary Kubica|rating=3.54

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultshis collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. Well, they're healthy His wife was in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinkshabit of going out for a run late at night. TheyIt was the only time she had for herself when she didn're t have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenunquestioning affection he gave her. Carly The locality was thirteen-years-old stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and she was in charge of her sisters, the eightsix-year-old twinsdaughter disappeared. Much as she loved them Carly Meredith Dickey was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden birth doula and her mobile phone held her attentionshe'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Leah and Marie were nattering about Her body was eventually found in a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsideseedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. The gate wasn't shut properly and BrunoShe left a note saying that her daughter, their boxer dogDelilah, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menwas safe and there was no point in looking for her.

|author=Will CarverTerry Miles|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripRabbits

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Hinton HollowWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, population 5for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven,120it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It sounds '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 one the game of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westlife then. Yes, but this particular Hinton Hollow is the game of life for a small town in Berkshirecertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, Englandthe hack from the darkest of webs. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up herePeople like our hero, until something happened K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and he ran away his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the citymost peculiar places, and are still very short. HeHowever this time it's running away again…only this different. This time evil the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is following him doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is going only to touch just find out that the line between observing and learning about everyone in townthe game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=19131933061529016932