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|author=C A SachaTeresa Driscoll|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan The novel begins by introducing you to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: Gemma, who at first instance appears to bring be your average student, faced with the world's first emission-free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisfamiliar horrifying realisation, Bucephalusat the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry it outall wrong. Montgomery Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is also looking not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her foundationgraduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme what follows is a complex whodunit with both hands..a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=18004619761542028752

|isbn=00083368300008370982|title=Two WrongsRock Paper Scissors|author=Mel McGrathAlice Feeney

|summary=Sondra Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was on the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeweekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. She talks to herHer husband, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmateAdam, Nevis Smithisn't so keen on the idea. Nevis is unworldly Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and rather reserved - and she canhe's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he't understand why Satnam hasnd prefer to spend time with the novels he't shared her problems s hoping to adapt than with her. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and Nevis calls her motherworking with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, Honoris never easy. TheyStill - she've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made s won the previous summer but right nowweekend away, Nevis needs even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her motherin the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008421714|title=The Disappearing ActMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on -Thames and telling the cusp of success. Great successestate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. If the rumours The boys are true, award season a bit of a handful which is going to treat her well, acknowledging why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for her latest, critically acclaimed productionthem. She It's going places the same month but sonow we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, unfortunatelyonly this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, is her partner. And the places heGeorgie's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. Itspare room, where she's a good time for Mia to escapebeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseConnor.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734281787634493|title=The Art of DeathAll Her Fault|author=David FennellAndrea Mara

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation had seemed like one of the type those serendipitous events which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidsometimes happen. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the bodies of Billy Perrinopportunity would arise for her son, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymousMilo, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made to go on a macabre promise: more will followplay date. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: She was concerned that hedidn's been t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in the Lumberyard Cafe an affluent Dublin suburb with his Moleskine notebook, Makiclassmate Jacob -e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhoneMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. Elaine Kelly is there with her sonWhat could be better? Only, Jordanwhen Marissa arrived at the house, and sheexpecting to meet Jacob's explaining to her best friendmother, Jenny, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actuallydoor was answered by Esther, it doesnwho didn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she's appliedd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Chau Ho is behind the counterMilo had disappeared. ThereAnd so had Jenny's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toonanny.

|author=Sarah SultoonClaire McGowan|title=The SourceI Know You|rating=2.54

|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in ''Then:'' Casey returns from a disenfranchised town dominated by walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a military base, struggling to care whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsdog, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesBrandy, things start to look when she comes across a little less bleak..body in the woods. |isbn=19131935941542019974

|isbnauthor=1529378648Peter Papathanasiou|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronThe Stoning|rating=43.5

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsIn 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, past and present, from she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canworld't understand its tallest cricket stumps. Well, what he actually canWhen she't understand is whys discovered by the town gossip everyone, having seen themincluding the local cops, anyone would bother. But are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the deaths are mounting up and something needs place is reluctantly home to be done. After all ''when things went awry An arson attack on Spook Street, they generally went that shows the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regentfeeling – and it's Parkonly fair, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a Novichok poisoning in higher rank from the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedcity, to sort everything out. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to fund the operation off welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the bookslaw. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=00083793001787631869|title=The Shadow ManRising Tide|author=Helen FieldsSam Lloyd

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heLucy Locke's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify early life hadn't been easy but before he dies he wants a wife, she'd built a child good and a brotherdecent life in the aftermath. HeShe's been now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on the lookout for the perfect people Penleith Beach, and hethey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared daughter and even windows with curtainsFin, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallschild she had with Daniel. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandThey have financial difficulties, Calsome caused by Nick Povey, had taken the children Daniel's partner and so- a boy of seven called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a girl of five, away for history together from the weekend. Unfortunately, time they both spent in a children's home but it doesn't go according s difficult to plan and Angela diesthink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.

|isbn=1786332388|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Dean KoontzNancy Tucker|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. So, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B088YWF5BC|title=The Other EmilyLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two US coastssisters. It's the western coast we're concerned with, seemed to have been a place he has to return toloving, and a place he has to be able to leavestable family. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoWhen we first meet her, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. Hecan's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectt sleep because her son, a lifer nowFreddie, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter's nearly sixteen, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordhasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. David Her husband, Tom, is trying to pry fast asleep: they're moving house in the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manmorning but he's mind, but still going to be going to no availwork and he needs his sleep. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagewakes, the very embodimentthough, the virtual resurrection, of when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his lovemother that he's killed someone. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbnauthor=1529124417Louise Candlish|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerThe Heights

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseEllen doesn's body in her car at the bottom of the laket expect to see Kieran that day. 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 she's moving on againsite, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this time to Boston where thereisn's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agot one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. FrankieWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, middle-aged and whiteEllen knows this for a fact, gets because she had a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=B08CR3WNFT1838853804|title=The TherapistCursed Girls|author=B A ParisCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the house in The Circlepond, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Veniceonly to find that he'd hanged himself. Leo wanted to move quickly on Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnoccasion is no less sad. She't have s there to sell say her cottage in Harlestone for them final farewells to be able her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to afford 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? Alice agreed - Was she asking if Megan was tired of sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their long-distance relationship. wedding day? Now they would be able The Melvicks might seem to spend most have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the week together instead of just the weekendsCounty and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. Leo In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning left suddenly three years before. Would she just didncome back for her elder daughter't feel comfortable there.s funeral?

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1409181669|title=The KhanMaidens|author=Alex Michaelides

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by Mariana 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 motto be twice as good as men Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and four times as good as white men. This has served Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her well in distress. Tara had been her rise through the criminal justice system best friend and by the time she is called home for her sisterwas struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely''s wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilehappy about having to go to Cambridge, but she is at caught the top of her gamefirst fast train from King's Cross. Returning to Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the city death of her birthMariana's husband, to old scars and fresh woundsSebastian, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the future with her sense death of honour Zoe's mother and dutyMariana's sister, Eliza.|isbn=1786079097

|isbnauthor=0008214468Sarah Langan|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonGood Neighbours|rating=4.5

|summary=A workman has If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a nasty surprise sing-song ''that's when he pulls Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a package out world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of an excavation 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a building siteyear earlier. ItThey're not quite like all the other families (he's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a handex rocker, severed above the wrist. Itshe's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Hea former beauty queen) but they's married to heiress Carol van Koon ve made some friends and they their kids have two daughterssettled in, Becca and Bella. Sandfordit's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants all going ok. Until it isn''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodt.'' One of hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the ways heway. It's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Crossa revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor residents of Maple Street, the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy worst is yet to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementcome.|isbn=1789098211

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0008395594|title= Fallen AngelsBoth of You|author=Adele Parks|rating= 24

|summary=Varg VeumYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, lone wolf detectiveone Monday, is backshe went to work and never came home. After attending a former friend's funeral Mark, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances Oli and wounds Seb are opened shattered. Well, Mark and the sins of the past Seb are exposed to but Oli's sixteen and at the light of the presentstage where he thinks boredom is his best look. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to root out the clues hidden in his own history him growing up and starting to catch a killerbecome independent.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O Seb's only twelve and Leigh'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cages absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, intimatelyKai missing. It lurks in the corner of her eye She too has vanished without trace. 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

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1848458428|title=The Long Dark RoadLocal Woman Missing|author=P R BlackMary Kubica

|summary=Two Eleven years ago Dr Georgia, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn's Healey's nineteent have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was 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 her six-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgedisappeared. There Meredith Dickey was a furious storm going on birth doula and she'd already refused seemed to be under some strain for the offer last couple of help from one man weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know seedy motel - it appeared that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offshe'd committed suicide. There has been no sign of She left a note saying that her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatedaughter, Delilah, determined to find out what happened was safe and she's not going to be stoppedthere was no point in looking for her.

|author= Susi Holliday Terry Miles|title= The Last Resort Rabbits|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=A group Welcome to the world of strangers gather on a private islandThe Game. They have been invited Or should that be the game, for while it ought to an all-expenses paid retreat be capitalised to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyhigh heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. The group includes It's also called Rabbits, although only as a games designerslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, social media influencerit has no official title, gossip columnist no official source, no hard and hedge fund managerfast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. Everyone seems to have an area A bit like the game of expertise that makes their attendance necessarylife then. All except Amelia whose presence Yes, this is the game of life for a mystery. We follow certain tribe of people – the fan of the group as they explore conspiracy, the islandcomputer game, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenthe hack from the darkest of webs. As the clock ticks downPeople like our hero, these well-kept secrets are revealedK, and it soon becomes clear named like that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagein the least Kafkaesque manner possible. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle K and his bezzies are trying to uncover be historians of the reason for her attendance game, and protect have studied amongst many things the rest most unique of high score boards, for the guests from lists of who has successfully won the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise Jensen|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they game are all healthy adults. Well, they're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issuesmost peculiar places, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksare still very short. TheyHowever this time it're s different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the Sinclair sisters most broken it's ever been – morally and one day they were all stolenotherwise. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was Unfortunately for K, in charge of her sisterstrying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she and how his loved them Carly was desperate ones might be kept safe, he is only to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah find out that the line between observing and Marie were nattering learning about a lost ball the game, and playing it, is a fleece which had been left outsidevery thin one indeed. 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 men.|isbn=1529016932