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|author=Sarah LanganTeresa Driscoll|title=Good NeighboursHer 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=0008370982|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, Amelia Wright is forty-two and it's hard to read was the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''converted chapel in Scotland. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street Her husband, thoughAdam, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. Theyisn're one of 18 households t so keen on the crescentidea. Like Amelia, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's an ex rocker, shea screenwriter and he's a former beauty queen) but theynever shy of making it clear to Amelia that he've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and itd prefer to spend time with the novels he's all going okhoping to adapt than with her. Until it isn Amelia't. One hots annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, clammymany of whom have been abused, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the wayis never easy. It Still - she's a revolting mess of dirt and chaoswon the weekend away, but even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the residents of Maple Street, passenger seat - and then doing the worst is yet same thing to comeback a couple of days later.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=00083955940008421714|title=Both of YouMrs March|author=Adele ParksVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You could The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has reading it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresor had already done so. ThenEvery day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, one MondayPatricia asked, as she went to work and never came home. Markwas wrapping the bread, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are ''but Oliisn's sixteen and at t this the stage where first time he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been based a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. character on you?'' SebShe mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan JanssenPerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a wealthy Dutch businessmanweak, reports his wifeplain, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracedetestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''

|isbn=18484584280241989094|title=Local Woman MissingThe Perfect Life|author=Mary KubicaNuala Ellwood

|summary=Eleven years ago, In August 2018 we meet a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar young woman called Imogen 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't have to look after her baby s viewing a house in Goring-on- but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for Thames and telling the unquestioning affection he gave estate agent about herthree children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without boys are a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, bit of a local woman and handful which is why she's making this trip on her six-year-old daughter disappearedown. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to The house would be under some strain perfect for them. It's the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found same month but now we're in a seedy motel - it appeared that Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that s job hunting and living in her daughtersister, DelilahGeorgie's, was safe and there was no point in looking for spare room, where she's been since she broke up with herboyfriend, Connor.

|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome 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 also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. 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 that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most 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. 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 is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291242551787634493|title=The WhispersAll Her Fault|author=Heidi PerksAndrea Mara

|summary=We know straight away It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that there's going the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to be go on a bodyplay date. ItShe was concerned that he didn's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's t have any friends at his new year's dayschool. To understand what happened we're going to have to Milo would go back to the previous Septemberhome 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. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and nowWhat could be better? Only, in her mid-thirtieswhen Marissa arrived at the house, sheexpecting to meet Jacob's returned to her home town to live. Her husbandmother, GrahamJenny, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughterthe door was answered by Esther, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment shewho didn's foundt know Jenny or Jacob. GraceThe phone number she's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tood been given for Jenny was not recognised. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joiningMilo had disappeared. ItAnd so had Jenny's perfect!nanny.

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Claire McGowan|title=Girls Who LieI Know You|rating=34

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres Then:'' Casey returns from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently walk with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl backbaby, Carson, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our comes across three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenbodies, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in almost a third, even more remote placewhole family taken down. Meanwhile, this narrative  ''Now:'' Rachel is interrupted by a confessional monologue from out for a mother who found herself walk with heavy post-natal depressionher dog, and very little maternal feeling Brandy, when she comes across a body in her bodythe woods. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one? |isbn=191319373X1542019974

|isbnauthor=1529047315Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexStoning|rating=3.5

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have In a town sleazy enough to take them bothmake sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, he saida teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, the good and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themworld's tallest cricket stumps.When she'' In 1972s discovered by the town gossip everyone, fifteen miles off including the coast of Cornwalllocal cops, three men disappeared without trace are quite confident the culprit has come from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such An arson attack on that ''shows the boat [was] rocking feeling – and bobbing like a bath toy over it's only fair, is the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from general opinion, for the Maiden Rockoccupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. It was broken into Cue the next dayarrival of George Manolis, but there was no sign of a higher rank from the mencity, to sort everything out. The table was set for Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a meal for two Greek- and heritaged city boy laying down the clocks were stopped at 8law.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.|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 more so by the counter. Theredeath of Mariana's someone onlinehusband, CassandraHSebastian, that in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the artist has his eye ondeath of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, tooEliza.

|author=Sarah SultoonLangan|title=The SourceGood Neighbours|rating=24.5

|summary=1996If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. EssexMaple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a disenfranchised town dominated by year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a military baseformer beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingesweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. When her squaddie brother brings food It's a revolting mess of dirt and treatschaos, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesbut for the residents of Maple Street, things start the worst is yet to look a little less bleak..come.|isbn=19131935941789098211

|isbn=15293786480008395594|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Both of You|author=Mick HerronAdele Parks|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and present, from the Slough House teamtwo gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. WellThen, what he actually can't understand is whyone Monday, having seen them, anyone would bothershe went to work and never came home. But the deaths Mark, Oli and Seb are mounting up and something needs to be doneshattered. After all Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went s sixteen and at the full Chris Graylingstage where he thinks boredom is his best look.'' Over at RegentHe's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of been a bit off with Leigh for a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured while but she put it down to him growing up and one dead) dispatchedstarting to become independent. It isnSeb't just the message that was sent: shes only twelve and Leigh's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the booksabsence hits him hard. Some private money was brought inThen Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She won't always be so jubilant about thistoo has vanished without trace.

|isbn=00083793001848458428|title=The Shadow ManLocal Woman Missing|author=Helen FieldsMary Kubica

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his late thirties collar and lame excuses as to why he knows that he's dyingwas late - again. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, was in the habit of going out for a child and a brotherrun late at night. He's been on It was the lookout only time she had for the perfect people and heherself when she didn's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows t have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with curtainsa man, and pictures in frames have been painted onto grateful for the wallsunquestioning affection he gave her. Angela Fernycroft The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to be his wifelook after her disabled baby. Her husbandTen days later, Cal, had taken the children a local woman and her six-year- old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a boy of seven birth doula and a girl of five, away she'd seemed to be under some strain for the weekendlast couple of weeks or so. Unfortunately, Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it doesnappeared that she't go according to plan d committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and Angela diesthere was no point in looking for her.

|author=Dean KoontzTerry Miles|title=The Other EmilyRabbits|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, who shares his life between the two US coastsit never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's the western coast we're concerned withalso called Rabbits, although only as a place he slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has to return tono official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and a place he has to be able to leavethe average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoYes, when she vanished from this is the game of life for a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with certain tribe of people – the fan of the man he thinks conspiracy, the only suspectcomputer game, a lifer nowthe hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, who went a bit Hannibal LecterK, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is bezzies are trying to pry be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the connection between lists of who has successfully won the game are in the murderer most peculiar places, and his girl from are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the manmost broken it's mindever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, but in trying to no avail. Hesort out what the game is doing, if it's also having a recharge ready for even being played, and how his next hit novel when into loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the restaurant walks line between observing and learning about the sheer spitting imagegame, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectionand playing it, of his love. What is a man to do?very thin one indeed...|isbn=15420199581529016932