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|isbnauthor=1838853804Teresa Driscoll|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayHer Perfect Family|rating=45

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the pondfamiliar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, only to find that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says heis…'d hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time , paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the occasion is no less sadnovel. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterIn a twist of events, Melissaand after a change of outfit, who Gemma is dying shot in the midst of anorexiaher graduation ceremony. As she diesWith Gemma then in a coma, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to 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 follows is a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping complex whodunit with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem a list of suspects that continues to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of grow the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforefurther you read. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=14091816690008370982|title=The MaidensRock Paper Scissors|author=Alex MichaelidesAlice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was convinced the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get gave her a weekend away with them bothin a converted chapel in Scotland. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or Her husband, Adam, isn't so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton keen on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeidea. SheLike Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he'd been brutally stabbed s a screenwriter and Marianahe's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling never shy of making it clear to cope. Mariana wasnAmelia that he't ''entirely'' happy about having d prefer to go to Cambridge, but she caught spend time with the first fast train from Kingnovels he's Crosshoping to adapt than with her. Mariana Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and Zoe were close and had been made all working with the more so by the death dogs, many of Marianawhom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's husband, Sebastianwon the weekend away, even 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 swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death couple of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizadays later.

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan0008421714|title=Good NeighboursMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= If you're The problem began just after the publication of a certain vintage, itGeorge March's hard most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to read buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the words bread, ''Good Neighboursbut isn't this the first time he' without adding s based a sing-song character on you?'' She mentioned thatJohanna, the principal character had 's when Good Neighbours…become…good friendsher mannerisms''. Maple Street Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one whore of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (heNantes - 's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inweak, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hotplain, clammydetestable, stickypathetic, sweaty summerunloved, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the wayunloveable wretch. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211'

|isbn=00083955940241989094|title=Both of YouThe Perfect Life|author=Adele ParksNuala Ellwood

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, one MondayLavender, she went to work Freddie and never came homeBarclay. Mark, Oli and Seb The boys are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Olia bit of a handful which is why she's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookmaking this trip on her own. HeThe house would be perfect for them. It's been a bit off with Leigh for a while the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve job hunting and Leighliving in her sister, Georgie's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessmanspare room, reports his wifewhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceConnor.

|isbn=18484584281787634493|title=Local Woman MissingAll Her Fault|author=Mary KubicaAndrea Mara|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. His wife was in Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the habit of going out opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a run late at nightplay date. It She was the only time she had for herself when she concerned that he didn't have to look after her baby any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - but when she was out she and Marissa would meet pick him up with from 14 Tudor Grove a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave herlittle later. The locality was stunned What could be better? Only, when Shelby Tebow disappearedMarissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, seemingly without a traceJenny, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days laterthe door was answered by Esther, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedwho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and The phone number she'd seemed to be under some strain been given for the last couple of weeks or soJenny was not recognised. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicideMilo had disappeared. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herAnd so had Jenny's nanny.

|author=Terry MilesClaire McGowan|title=RabbitsI Know You|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|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 'Then:'' Casey returns from a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowswalk with the baby, it has no official titleCarson, no official source, no hard and fast structurecomes across three bodies, 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 almost a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webswhole family taken down. 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 itNow:'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 Rachel is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the gamefor a walk with her dog, and playing itBrandy, is when she comes across a very thin one indeed..body in the woods. |isbn=15290169321542019974

|isbnauthor=1529124255Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksStoning|rating=43.5

|summary=We know straight away that there's going In a town sleazy enough to be make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the teacher has been transported across town of Clearwater at night in a shopping trolley, and it's new yearshe's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back been taped to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - tree and she's lived there since had rocks bowled at her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, as if shewere the world's returned to her home town to livetallest cricket stumps. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and When she and her eight-year-old daughter's discovered by the town gossip everyone, Matildaincluding the local cops, might as well be in are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the lovely apartment she's foundplace is reluctantly home to. GraceAn arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's best friendonly fair, Anna Robinsonis the general opinion, is still for the occupants are often setting their own fires in Clearwater and she has protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an eightaggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-year-old child tooheritaged city boy laying down the law.. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1787631869|title=Girls Who LieThe Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=34

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowaftermath. You thinkShe's now married to Daniel, seeing who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on the map that we're set in AkranesPenleith Beach, and finding itthey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's only twenty kilometres from the capital citydaughter and Fin, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftchild she had with Daniel. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, itDaniel's not just in Akranes that our interests liepartner and so-called best friend. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, Nick and was never seen again. This left Daniel have a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with history together from the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and time they both spent in a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until children's home but it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body difficult to think that Nick has been discoveredDaniel's best interests at heart, in a thirdparticularly where Lucy, even more remote place. Meanwhileor money, 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 bodyconcerned. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=15290473151786332388|title=The LamplightersFirst Day of Spring|author=Emma StonexNancy Tucker|rating=4.5

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faceswas one such occasion. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the bad, The writing is superb and never turn your back on either one of themcompletely compelling.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''characterisation is excellent and the frigid pause between Christmas plot grips you and New Year'won't let go. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperSo, the weather such that what''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over s the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. problem? It was broken into Well, the next dayproblem is Chrissie, but there was no sign of the menmain character. The table was set When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45year-old boy. Contact She's completely cold about what she's done with the light had not been possible as the radio her main memory being that whilst she was brokenkilling - suffocating - her hands seized up. No explanation was ever found There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for what happened to her actions a little later in the men.book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=1838595031B088YWF5BC|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityThe Lies We Tell|author=Bronwen JohnJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=The con had seemed like Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - council estate in Kent and they should have made a decent profit from it. The problem was they were too successful: one of the marks that she had bought a few two brothers and then discovered that they were valuelesstwo sisters. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for It seemed to have been a simple con and his fatherloving, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his stable family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia When we first meet her, she can'Asht sleep because her son, Freddie, who' Cox and Max s nearly sixteen, hasn'Coloradot come home by the time he sort of half-promised he' Ying needed to d be got out of the countryin by. In the course of bringing this aboutHer husband, Luke GainesTom, Ashis fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's foster fatherstill going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, lost though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his lifemother that he's killed someone.

|isbnauthor=1838952012Louise Candlish|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanHeights

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she was, after all, the daughter of the renowned author, Anthony Howell, whoEllen doesn'd been t expect to this collegesee Kieran that day. Well, she wasn't ''actually'' HowellShe's daughter: he'd married her mother after her birth and had then adopted heron site, so visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made'spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, which was better really. And whilst we're being honestlots of people, we you might as well admit that 'renowned author' might be stretching the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldnsee when you look out across London, but this isn't understandone Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. StillWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, Ada had felt entitled and Ellen knows this was why her godmother's offer for a fact, because she had come at such a brilliant timehand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483

|authorisbn=C A Sacha1838853804|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerThe Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has a plan to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacyMegan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to bring the worldpond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's first emission-free car to market back home again and dominate productionthis time the occasion is no less sad. The secret development project She's there to say her final farewells to enable thisher sister, BucephalusMelissa, who is already underway dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a second term question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to help him carry it outhave everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. Montgomery is also looking for a legacy In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and one that does not involve his controlling their mother and , Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her foundation, so grabs onto Finneganelder daughter's Feed Africa programme with both hands...|isbn=1800461976funeral?

|isbn=00083368301409181669|title=Two WrongsThe Maidens|author=Mel McGrathAlex Michaelides|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sondra Mariana was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeget away with them both. She talks needed to her, think carefully about what she knew and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithdecide how she should proceed. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved Everything - and or so she canthought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She't understand why Satnam hasnd been brutally stabbed and Mariana't shared her problems with s niece, Zoe, had telephoned herin distress. She thought they shared everythingTara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Satnam is taken Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to hospital and Nevis calls her motherCambridge, Honorbut she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. They've not Mariana and Zoe were close and had been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made all the previous summer but right nowmore so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, Nevis needs her in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's motherand Mariana's sister, Eliza.

|author=Catherine SteadmanSarah Langan|title=The Disappearing ActGood Neighbours

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the cusp of successwords ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season Maple Street is going to treat her wellno Ramsay Street, acknowledging her for her latestthough, critically acclaimed productionArlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. SheThey's going places but sore one of 18 households on the crescent, unfortunately, is her partnerquite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. And They're not quite like all the places other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going take him towards liesok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, deceit and a pretty young thing sinkhole opens up in the form of his new co-starpark across the way. It's a good time revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for Mia to escapethe residents of Maple Street, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseworst is yet to come.|isbn=14711897831789098211

|isbn=18387734280008395594|title=The Art Both of DeathYou|author=David FennellAdele Parks|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar SquareYou could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidgreat husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy PerrinThen, one Monday, Stan Buxton she went to work and 34-year-old Noel Tippingnever came home. The installation is the work of @nonymousMark, underground artist Oli and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followSeb are shattered. In factWell, weMark and Seb are but Oli've already met s sixteen and at the artist although not by name: stage where hethinks boredom is his best look. He's been in the Lumberyard Cafe a bit off with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining starting to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagebecome independent. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: FrankSeb's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation sheonly twelve and Leigh's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counterabsence hits him hard. There's someone onlineThen Daan Janssen, CassandraHa wealthy Dutch businessman, that the artist has reports his eye onwife, Kai missing. She toohas vanished without trace.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1848458428|title=The SourceLocal Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=2.54

|summary=1996Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. Essex His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. Thirteen It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby -year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in but when she was out she would meet up with a disenfranchised town dominated by man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a military basetrace, struggling leaving her husband to care for look after her disabled baby sister while . Ten days later, a local woman and her mum sleeps off another bingesix-year-old daughter disappeared. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and offers an exclusive invitation she'd seemed to army parties, things start to look be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a little less bleak.seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=1529378648Terry Miles|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronRabbits

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsWelcome 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, past no hard and presentfast structure, from and to the Slough House teamaverage person no obvious entry point. Jackson Lamb can't understand itA bit like the game of life then. WellYes, what he actually can't understand this is whythe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, having seen themthe computer game, anyone would botherthe hack from the darkest of webs. But People like our hero, K, named like that in the deaths least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are mounting up and something needs trying to be done. After all ''when historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things went awry on Spook Streetthe most unique of high score boards, they generally went for the full Chris Graylinglists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short.'' Over at RegentHowever this time it's Parkdifferent. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured most broken it's ever been – morally and one dead) dispatchedotherwise. It isn't just Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the message that was sent: shegame is doing, if it's also delighted even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that she managed to fund the operation off line between observing and learning about the booksgame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.|isbn=1529016932