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|isbnauthor=1838952012Teresa Driscoll|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5

|summary=The rejection novel begins by Oxford came as a bit of a shock introducing you to Ada Howell: she wasGemma, after allwho at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the daughter of familiar horrifying realisation, at the renowned authoreleventh hour, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegethat her graduation outfit is all wrong. WellSuddenly, she wasnGemma receives an eerie message stating 't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: He is not who he says heis…'d married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit paving the way for the sinister tone that 'renowned author' might be stretching remains throughout the truth novel. In a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Stilltwist of events, Ada had felt entitled and this was why after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her godmother's offer had come at such graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a brilliant timelist of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=C A Sacha0008370982|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan 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 idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a plan screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: Amelia that he'd prefer to bring spend time with the worldnovels he's first emissionhoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been -free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisworking with the dogs, Bucephalusmany of whom have been abused, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it out. Montgomery is also looking does mean driving for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and eight hours in her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with both hands..Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368300008421714|title=Two WrongsMrs March|author=Mel McGrathVirginia Feito

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw In August 2018 we meet a young woman looking as though called Imogen and she was going to jump from 's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to estate agent about herthree children, Lavender, Freddie and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis SmithBarclay. Nevis The boys are a bit of a handful which is unworldly and rather reserved - and why she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with s making this trip on herown. She thought they shared everythingThe house would be perfect for them. Satnam is taken to hospital  It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and Nevis calls living in her mothersister, Georgie's, spare room, Honor. Theywhere she've not s been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowshe broke up with her boyfriend, Nevis needs her motherConnor.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1787634493|title=The Disappearing ActAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp It had seemed like one of success. Great successthose serendipitous events which sometimes happen. If Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the rumours are true, award season is going to treat opportunity would arise for her wellson, acknowledging her for her latestMilo, critically acclaimed productionto go on a play date. Shewas concerned that he didn's going places but sot have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, unfortunatelywhen Marissa arrived at the house, is her partner. And the places heexpecting to meet Jacob's going take him towards liesmother, Jenny, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-stardoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. It And so had Jenny's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusenanny.|isbn=1471189783

|isbnauthor=1838773428Claire McGowan|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellI Know You|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square''Then: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not ' Casey returns from a depiction: these are walk with the bodies of Billy Perrinbaby, Carson, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymouscomes across three bodies, underground artist and extreme version of Banksyalmost a whole family taken down. He 's made a macabre promise'Now: more will follow. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly Rachel is there out for a walk with her sondog, JordanBrandy, and when she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take comes across a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite body in the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toowoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Sarah SultoonPeter Papathanasiou|title=The SourceStoning|rating=23.5

|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a disenfranchised teacher has been transported across town dominated by at night in a military baseshopping trolley, struggling and she's been taped to care for her baby sister while a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her mum sleeps off another bingeas if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When her squaddie brother brings food 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 treatsit'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, and offers a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an exclusive invitation to army partiesaggrieved, things start insular community is really going to look welcome a little less bleakGreek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=19131935941529416973

|isbn=15293786481787631869|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)The Rising Tide|author=Mick HerronSam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and present, from decent life in the Slough House teamaftermath. Jackson Lamb canShe't understand it. Wells now married to Daniel, what he actually can't understand is whywho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, having seen themand they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up Lucy's daughter and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook StreetFin, they generally went the full Chris Graylingchild she had with Daniel.'' Over at RegentThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured partner and one dead) dispatchedso-called best friend. It isnNick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children't just the message s home but it's difficult to think that was sent: sheNick has Daniel's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this, is concerned.

|isbn=00083793001786332388|title=The Shadow ManFirst Day of Spring|author=Helen FieldsNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and he knows that he's dying'The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. His body The writing is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child superb and a brothercompletely compelling. He's been on the lookout for The characterisation is excellent and the perfect people plot grips you and hewon't let go. So, what's made certain preparations. the problem? The flat where Well, the family will live problem is prepared and even windows with curtainsChrissie, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsmain character. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandWhen we first meet her she's just eight years old, Cal, had taken the children small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy of seven and . 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 girl of five, away clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the weekend. book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Unfortunately, it doesnHasn't go according to plan and Angela dies.he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB088YWF5BC|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 He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and Veum is thrust into an investigation starting to root out the clues hidden in his own history become independent. Seb's only twelve and to catch Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a killerwealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.|isbn=1913193063

|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=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, it has no official title, no official source, social media influencerno hard and fast structure, gossip columnist and hedge fund managerto 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 mysterycertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. We follow People like our hero, K, named like that in the group as they explore least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the islandgame, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As studied amongst many things the clock ticks downmost unique of high score boards, these well-kept secrets for the lists of who has successfully won the game are revealedin the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage's different. In a race against This timethe game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, Amelia must struggle in trying to uncover sort out what the reason for her attendance game is doing, if it's even being played, and protect how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the rest of line between observing and learning about the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themgame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed... |isbn=15420200181529016932}}