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|isbnauthor=1848458428Teresa Driscoll|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary=Eleven years agoThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, a man regularly came home who at first instance appears to his wife be your average student, faced 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 familiar horrifying realisation, at nightthe eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnSuddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…''t have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful paving the way for the unquestioning affection he gave hersinister tone that remains throughout the novel. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without In a tracetwist of events, leaving her husband to look and after her disabled baby. Ten days latera change of outfit, 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 Gemma is shot in the last couple midst of weeks or soher graduation ceremony. Her body was eventually found With Gemma then in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a note saying list of suspects that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for hercontinues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008370982|title=RabbitsRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the world of The Gamestaff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Or should that be the game Her husband, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavenAdam, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookisn't so keen on the idea. It Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for screenwriter and he's never shy of making it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the average person no obvious entry pointnovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life 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 Amelia's annoyed that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K he never enquires about how her day has been - and his bezzies are trying to be historians of working with the gamedogs, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardswhom have been abused, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortis never easy. However this time it Still - she's different. This time won the game seems the most dangerousweekend away, nay lethal, the most broken even if it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately does mean driving for K, eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in trying to sort out what the game is passenger seat - and then doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only the same thing to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is come back a very thin one indeedcouple of days later...|isbn=1529016932

|isbn=15291242550008421714|title=The WhispersMrs March|author=Heidi PerksVirginia Feito

|summary=We know straight away that thereIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's going to be viewing a bodyhouse in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. ItThe boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on the beach under Crayneher own. The house would be perfect for them. It's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened same month but now we're going to have to go back to in Wimbledon and we encounter the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - same young woman, only this time she's lived there since her teens job hunting and now, living in her mid-thirtiessister, sheGeorgie's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Grahamspare room, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment where she's found. Grace's best friendbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tooConnor. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1787634493|title=Girls Who LieAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=34.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners It had seemed like one of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthose serendipitous events which sometimes happen. You think, seeing on the map Marissa Irvine had been hoping that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityopportunity would arise for her son, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelMilo, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lieto go on a play date. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and She was never seen againconcerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a couple of delighted adopterslittle later. But it left our three detectives What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenthe house, in one place, the womanexpecting to meet Jacob's car was found miles away in a second placemother, and nowJenny, after six monthsthe door was answered by Esther, the body has who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been discovered, in a third, even more remote placegiven for Jenny was not recognised. 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 bodyMilo had disappeared. Is the assumption that is And so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xhad Jenny's nanny.

|isbnauthor=1529047315Claire McGowan|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexI Know You|rating=54

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the sea having two faces. You have to take them bothbaby, he saidCarson, the good and the badcomes across three bodies, and never turn your back on either one of themalmost a whole family taken down.''

In 1972''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, fifteen miles off when she comes across a body in the coast of Cornwallwoods. |isbn=1542019974}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she''the frigid pause between Christmas s been taped to a tree and New Year'she'. Jory Martin s had taken out a relief keeper, rocks bowled at her as if she were the weather such that world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response culprit has come from the Maiden Rockimmigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. It was broken into An arson attack on that shows the next dayfeeling – and it's only fair, but there was no sign of is the men. The table was set general opinion, for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at 8.45their conditions. Contact with Cue the light had not been possible as arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the radio was brokencity, to sort everything out. No explanation was ever found for what happened Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the menlaw...|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=18385950311787631869|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Rising Tide|author=Bronwen JohnSam Lloyd|rating=4.5

|summary=The con had seemed like Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from itlife in the aftermath. The problem was She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they were too successful: one of live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the marks child she had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelesswith Daniel. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con and his fatherThey have financial difficulties, celebrity criminal Harry Holmessome caused by Nick Povey, was determined that he Daniel's partner and his family could not lose face like thatso-called best friend. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox Nick and Max Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children'Colorados home but it' Ying needed s difficult to be got out of the country. In the course of bringing this aboutthink that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, Luke Gainesparticularly where Lucy, Ash's foster fatheror money, lost his lifeis concerned.

|isbn=18389520121786332388|title=The FavourFirst Day of Spring|author=Laura VaughanNancy Tucker

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The rejection by Oxford came as a bit First Day of a shock to Ada Howell: she Spring'' wasone such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. So, after allwhat's the problem? Well, the daughter of problem is Chrissie, the renowned author, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegemain character. Well, When we first meet her she wasn't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: he'd married her mother after just eight years old, small for her birth age and had then adopted her, so she was readily tells us that she'chosen' rather than s just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She'mades completely cold about what she', which s done with her main memory being that whilst she was better reallykilling - suffocating - her hands seized up. And whilst weThere're being honest, we might as well admit s a clue that Chrissie isn'renowned author' might be stretching the truth t completely responsible for her actions a littlelater in the book: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldnwhen will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't understand. Still, Ada had felt entitled and this was why her godmother's offer had come at such a brilliant time.he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=C A SachaB088YWF5BC|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Lies We Tell|author=Jane Corry

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a plan council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacyhave been a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: to bring they're moving house in the worldmorning but he's first emission-free car still going to be going to market work and dominate productionhe needs his sleep. The secret development project to enable this He wakes, Bucephalusthough, is already underway when Freddie does come in and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help overhears him carry it out. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy and one that does not involve tell his controlling mother and her foundation, so grabs onto Finneganthat he's Feed Africa programme with both hands..killed someone.|isbn=1800461976

|isbnauthor=0008336830Louise Candlish|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathThe Heights

|summary=Sondra was Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on her way home after work site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she saw spies him in a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from building across the Clifton suspension bridgeway. She talks to herThere are lots of things, lots of people, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmateyou might see when you look out across London, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasnbut this isn't shared her problems with herone Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Nevis calls her motherEllen knows this for a fact, Honor. They've not been on good terms since because she had a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1838853804|title=The Disappearing ActCursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Megan Melvick's earliest memory is on of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the cusp of successpond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Great success. If Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the rumours are true, award season occasion is going no less sad. She's there to treat say her wellfinal farewells to her sister, acknowledging her for her latestMelissa, critically acclaimed productionwho is dying of anorexia. She As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry's going places to Megan but sowhat did she mean? There were lots of things, unfortunatelyminor and major cruelties, is her partner. And the places hefor which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's going take him towards lieshusband, deceit Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and a pretty young thing money was never in the form of his new coshort supply -starbut there did seem to be a curse. It In addition to Melissa's a good time for Mia to escapehealth problems, Megan was deaf and pilot season in LA provides just the excusetheir mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before.|isbn=1471189783 Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=18387734281409181669|title=The Art of DeathMaidens|author=David FennellAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5

|summary=It Mariana was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidconvinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton She needed to think carefully about what she knew and 34decide how she should proceed. Everything -yearor so she thought -old Noel Tipping. The installation is had begun with the work death of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followTara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. In fact, weShe've already met the artist although not by name: hed been brutally stabbed and Mariana's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookniece, Maki-e fountain penZoe, MacBook Air and iPhonehad telephoned her in distress. Elaine Kelly is there with Tara had been her son, Jordan, best friend and she's explaining was struggling to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagecope. Actually, it doesnMariana wasn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite 'entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the foundation shefirst fast train from King's appliedCross. Chau Ho is behind Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the counter. Theremore so by the death of Mariana's someone onlinehusband, CassandraHSebastian, that the artist has his eye on, too.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingeswimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. When her squaddie brother brings food Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and treatsMariana's sister, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak..Eliza.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=1529378648Sarah Langan|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronGood 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 weekendsgame are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. Leo had some work done on This time the house: game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he made two bedrooms into one is only to find out that the line between observing and although Alice knew that learning about the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable theregame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932