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|author=Terry MilesTeresa Driscoll|title=RabbitsHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome The novel begins by introducing you to the world of The Game. Or should that be the gameGemma, for while it ought who at first instance appears to be capitalised to high heavenyour average student, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbitsfaced with the familiar horrifying realisation, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsat the eleventh hour, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry pointthat her graduation outfit is all wrong. A bit like the game of life then. YesSuddenly, this Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the game of life way for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like sinister tone that in remains throughout the least Kafkaesque manner possiblenovel. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians In a twist of the gameevents, and have studied amongst many things the most unique after a change of high score boardsoutfit, for Gemma is shot in the lists midst of who has successfully won the game are her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousa coma, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game follows is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to find out that the line between observing and learning about grow the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..further you read.|isbn=15290169321542028752

|isbn=15291242550008370982|title=The WhispersRock Paper Scissors|author=Heidi PerksAlice Feeney

|summary=We know straight Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away that there's going to be in a bodyconverted chapel in Scotland. ItHer husband, Adam, isn's t so keen on the beach idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under Craynestrain: he's Cliff near the town a screenwriter and he's never shy of Clearwater and making itclear to Amelia that he's new yeard prefer to spend time with the novels he's day. To understand what happened we're going hoping to have to go back to the previous Septemberadapt than with her. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - sheAmelia's lived there since annoyed that he never enquires about how her teens day has been - and nowworking with the dogs, in her midmany of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still -thirties, she's returned to her home town to live. Her husbandwon the weekend away, Graham, works even if it does mean driving for eight hours in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater passenger seat - and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in then doing the class Matilda will be joiningsame thing to come back a couple of days later. It's perfect!

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0008421714|title=Girls Who LieMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all The problem began just after the dark corners publication of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowGeorge March's most successful novel to date. You think, seeing Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the map last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that we're set in Akranesparticular morning, Patricia asked, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from as she was wrapping the capital citybread, that ''but isn't this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itfirst time he's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago based a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. character on you?'' This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed She mentioned that she could now live permanently with Johanna, the couple who principal character had given 'her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersmannerisms''. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one placePerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the womanwhore of Nantes - ''s car was found miles away in a second placeweak, and nowplain, after six monthsdetestable, the body has been discoveredpathetic, in a thirdunloved, even more remote placeunloveable wretch. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X''

|isbn=15290473150241989094|title=The LamplightersPerfect Life|author=Emma StonexNuala Ellwood|rating=54

|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she''A fisherman told him once s viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about the sea having two faces. You have to take them bothher three children, he saidLavender, the good Freddie and the bad, and never turn your back Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on either one of her own. The house would be perfect for them.''

In 1972, fifteen miles off It's the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse same month but now we're in ''Wimbledon and we encounter the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keepersame young woman, the weather such that only this time she''the boat [was] rocking s job hunting and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletsliving in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next days been since she broke up with her boyfriend, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menConnor.

|isbn=18385950311787634493|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityAll Her Fault|author=Bronwen JohnAndrea Mara

|summary=The con It had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new Banksy school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and they should have made Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a decent profit from itlittle later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The problem phone number she'd been given for Jenny was they were too successful: one of the marks not recognised. Milo had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelessdisappeared. Henry Martin Holmes And so had fallen for Jenny's nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a simple con and his fatherwalk with the baby, celebrity criminal Harry HolmesCarson, was determined that he and his comes across three bodies, almost a whole family could not lose face like thattaken down. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia  'Ash' Cox and Max Now:'Colorado' Ying needed to be got Rachel is out of the country. In the course of bringing this aboutfor a walk with her dog, Luke GainesBrandy, Ash's foster father, lost his lifewhen she comes across a body in the woods. |isbn=1542019974

|isbnauthor=1838952012Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanStoning|rating=43.5

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of In a shock town sleazy enough to Ada Howell: she wasmake sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, after alla teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, the daughter of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, whoand she'd s been taped to this college. Well, a tree and she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted rocks bowled at her, so as if she was were the world'chosen' rather than just 'mades tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, which was better reallyare quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit An arson attack on that 'renowned author' might be stretching shows the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled feeling – and this was why her godmotherit's offer had come 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 brilliant timeGreek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=C A Sacha1787631869|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a plan to increase his already startling wealth good and ensure his legacy: to bring decent life in the worldaftermath. She's first emissionnow married to Daniel, who co-free car to market owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and dominate productionFin, the child she had with Daniel. The secret development project to enable this They have financial difficulties, Bucephalussome caused by Nick Povey, is already underway Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into Daniel have a second term history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to help him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy and one think that does not involve his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto FinneganNick has Daniel's Feed Africa programme with both hands..best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368301786332388|title=Two WrongsThe First Day of Spring|author=Mel McGrathNancy Tucker

|summary=Sondra Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' 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 bridgeone such occasion. She talks to her, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend The writing is superb and flatmate, Nevis Smithcompletely compelling. Nevis The characterisation is unworldly excellent and rather reserved - the plot grips you and she canwon't understand why Satnam hasnlet go. So, what't shared s the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her problems with she's just eight years old, small for herage and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She thought they shared everything's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her motheractions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, Honor. she wonders? TheyHasn've not t he been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mother.dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Catherine SteadmanB088YWF5BC|title=The Disappearing ActLies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on the cusp of successa council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Great success It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. If the rumours are true When we first meet her, award season is going to treat she can't sleep because her wellson, acknowledging her for her latestFreddie, critically acclaimed production. Shewho's going places but sonearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, unfortunatelyTom, is her partner. And fast asleep: they're moving house in the places morning but he's still going to be going take him towards liesto work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, deceit when Freddie does come in and a pretty young thing in the form of overhears him tell his new co-star. Itmother that he's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusekilled someone.|isbn=1471189783

|isbnauthor=1838773428Louise Candlish|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellHeights

|genre=CrimeThrillers|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 liquidEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. Only this time itShe's not on site, visiting a client for a depiction: these lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are the bodies lots of Billy Perrinthings, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work lots of @nonymouspeople, you might see when you look out across London, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. Hebut this isn's made a macabre promise: more will followt one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's Why? Because Kieran has been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookdead for over two years, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, JordanEllen knows this for a fact, and because she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take had a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has hand in his eye on, toomurder.|isbn=1471183483

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1838853804|title=The SourceCursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=2.54

|summary=1996Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Essex Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling She's there to say her final farewells to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. When her squaddie brother brings food As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and treatsmajor cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and offers an exclusive invitation money was never in short supply - but there did seem to army parties, things start to look be a little less bleakcurse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before..|isbn=1913193594 Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=15293786481409181669|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)The Maidens|author=Mick HerronAlex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsIf you're of a certain vintage, past and present, from it's hard to read the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canwords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''t understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand Maple Street is whyno Ramsay Street, having seen themthough, anyone would bother. But Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be doneMelbourne suburbs. After all They''when things went awry re one of 18 households on Spook Streetthe crescent, they generally went the full Chris Graylingquite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier.They're not quite like all the other families (he' Over at Regents an ex rocker, she's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in the UK (three people seriously injured , and one dead) dispatchedit's all going ok. It Until it isn't just . One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the message that was sent: shepark across the way. It's also delighted that she managed to fund a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the operation off residents of Maple Street, the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thisworst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=00083793000008395594|title=The Shadow ManBoth of You|author=Helen FieldsAdele Parks

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and he knows that he's dyingtwo gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. His body is giving up on himThen, one Monday, his internal organs beginning she went to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifework and never came home. Mark, a child Oli and a brotherSeb are shattered. HeWell, Mark and Seb are but Oli's been on sixteen and at the lookout for the perfect people and stage where hethinks boredom is his best look. He's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows been a bit off with curtains, Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsstarting to become independent. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifeSeb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Her husbandThen Daan Janssen, Cala wealthy Dutch businessman, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of fivereports his wife, away for the weekendKai missing. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesShe too has vanished without trace.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1848458428|title=The Other EmilyLocal Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorEleven years ago, who shares a man regularly came home to his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned wife with, a place he has lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to return to, and a place why he has to be able to leavewas late - again. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from His wife was in the habit of going out for a remote road run late at night. HeIt was the only time she had for herself when she didn's paying t have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for contact with the man unquestioning affection he thinks the only suspectgave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a lifer nowtrace, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterleaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, and has a dozen local woman and more unfound Jane Does on his recordher six-year-old daughter disappeared. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and his girl from the manshe's mind, but d seemed to no availbe under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. HeHer body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she's also having d committed suicide. She left a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagenote saying that her daughter, the very embodimentDelilah, the virtual resurrection, of his lovewas safe and there was no point in looking for her. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbnauthor=1529124417Terry Miles|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerRabbits

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at Welcome to the bottom world of the lakeThe Game. She knew Or should that be the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person game, for while it ought to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on againcapitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this time to Boston where therebook. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankieslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, middle-aged no hard and whitefast structure, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackaverage person no obvious entry point.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CR3WNFT|title=The Therapist|author=B A Paris|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When Leo Curtis found bit like the house in The Circlegame of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a gated communitycertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on hack from the market at such a reasonable price darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired historians of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the week together instead lists of just who has successfully won the weekends. Leo had some work done on game are in the house: he made two bedrooms into one most peculiar places, and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didnare still very short. However this time it't feel comfortable theres different.}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the motto be twice as good as men most broken it's ever been – morally and four times as good as white menotherwise. This has served her well Unfortunately for K, in her rise through trying to sort out what the criminal justice system and by the time she game is called home for her sisterdoing, if it's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileeven being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, she he is at only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh woundsplaying it, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyis a very thin one indeed...|isbn=17860790971529016932