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|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18385950310008370982|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityRock Paper Scissors|author=Bronwen JohnAlice Feeney

|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy Amelia Wright is forty- two and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a few and then discovered that they were valuelessweekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherHer husband, Adam, celebrity criminal Harry Holmesisn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, was determined he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox s a screenwriter and Max he'Colorados never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he' Ying needed d prefer to be got out of spend time with the countrynovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. In Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the course dogs, many of bringing this aboutwhom have been abused, Luke Gaines, Ashis never easy. Still - she's foster fatherwon the weekend away, lost his lifeeven if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=18389520120008421714|title=The FavourMrs March|author=Laura VaughanVirginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, problem began just after all, the daughter publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been last page) seemed to this collegeeither be reading it or had already done so. WellEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she wasnwas wrapping the bread, 't 'but isn'actuallyt this the first time he's based a character on you?' Howell's daughter: he She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was mannerisms'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honestPerhaps this would not have mattered, we might as well admit except for the fact that 'renowned author' might be stretching Johanna is the truth a little: his books degenerated into selfwhore of Nantes -published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant timeweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=C A Sacha0241989094|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Perfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has In August 2018 we meet a plan to increase his already startling wealth young woman called Imogen and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldshe's first emissionviewing a house in Goring-on-free car to market Thames and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thistelling the estate agent about her three children, BucephalusLavender, is already underway Freddie and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into Barclay. The boys are a second term to help him carry it outbit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. Montgomery is also looking The house would be perfect for a legacy them. It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and one that does not involve his controlling mother we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her foundationsister, Georgie's, spare room, so grabs onto Finneganwhere she's Feed Africa programme been since she broke up with both handsher boyfriend, Connor...|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368301787634493|title=Two WrongsAll Her Fault|author=Mel McGrathAndrea Mara

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. She talks to Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for herson, Milo, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithgo on a play date. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she canShe was concerned that he didn't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with herhis classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. She thought they shared everything. What could be better? Satnam is taken Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to hospital and Nevis calls her meet Jacob's mother, HonorJenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. TheyThe phone number she've d been given for Jenny was not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherrecognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.

|author=Catherine SteadmanClaire McGowan|title=The Disappearing ActI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are truebaby, award season is going to treat her wellCarson, acknowledging her for her latestand comes across three bodies, critically acclaimed productionalmost a whole family taken down. She 's going places but so, unfortunately, 'Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her partner. And the places he's going take him towards liesdog, Brandy, deceit and when she comes across a pretty young thing body in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusewoods. |isbn=14711897831542019974

|isbnauthor=1838773428Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellStoning|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in Trafalgar Square: comparison, a depiction of three homeless men teacher has been transported across town at night in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrinshopping trolley, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. Heshe's made been taped to a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, wetree and she've already met s had rocks bowled at her as if she were the artist although not by name: heworld's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhonetallest cricket stumps. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and When she's explaining to her best frienddiscovered by the town gossip everyone, Jackie Morris about including the state of her marriage. Actuallylocal cops, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on her face despite that shows the foundation shefeeling – and it's applied. Chau Ho only fair, is behind the countergeneral opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. There's someone onlineCue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, CassandraHto sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, that insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the artist has his eye on, toolaw...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1787631869|title=The SourceRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=2.54

|summary=1996Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the aftermath. Essex. Thirteen She's now married to Daniel, who co-yearowns Locke-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military basePovey Marine on Penleith Beach, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesFin, things start to look a little less bleakthe child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time 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=1913193594

|isbn=15293786481786332388|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)The First Day of Spring|author=Mick HerronNancy Tucker

|summary=Someone Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is killing secret service agents, past superb and present, from the Slough House teamcompletely compelling. Jackson Lamb canThe characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't understand itlet go. WellSo, what he actually can't understand s the problem? Well, the problem is why, having seen themChrissie, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be donemain character. After all When we first meet her she''when things went awry on Spook Streets just eight years old, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regentsmall for her age and she readily tells us that she's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of just killed someone - a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedtwo-year-old boy. It isnShe't just the message that was sent: s completely cold about what she's also delighted done with her main memory being that whilst she managed to fund the operation off the bookswas killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. Some private money was brought 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? She wonHasn't always be so jubilant about this.he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=0008379300B088YWF5BC|title=The Shadow ManLies We Tell|author=Helen FieldsJane Corry

|summary=Fergus Ariss is Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in his late thirties Kent and he knows that he's dyingshe had two brothers and two sisters. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning It seemed to putrify but before he dies he wants have been a wifeloving, a child and a brotherstable family. HeWhen we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's been on nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the lookout for the perfect people and time he sort of half-promised he's made certain preparationsd be in by. The flat where the family will live Her husband, Tom, is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures fast asleep: they're moving house in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his wifesleep. Her husbandHe wakes, Calthough, had taken the children - a boy of seven when Freddie does come in and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesnoverhears him tell his mother that he't go according to plan and Angela diess killed someone.

|author=Dean KoontzLouise Candlish|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He'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 love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerHeights

|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

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1848458428|title= The CaptiveLocal Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cageEleven years ago, intimatelya man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. It lurks His wife was in the corner habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't 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 eye. Soon 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 daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it will be occupiedappeared that she'd committed suicide. Then what? What if he speaks to She left a note saying that her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQTerry Miles|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackRabbits|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as she walked along anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeaverage person no obvious entry point. There was A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a furious storm going on and she'd already refused certain tribe of people – the offer fan of help the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from one man the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in a big vehiclethe least Kafkaesque manner possible. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops K and Stephanie is bundled into his bezzies are trying to be historians of the car game, and driven off. There have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has been no sign of her - or her body - successfully won the game are in the two years sincemost peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Georgia is back is FerngateUnfortunately for K, determined in trying to find sort out what happened and shethe game is doing, if it's not going even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to be stoppedfind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932