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|author=Will Carver
|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hinton HollowMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, population 5curiously,120addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets.. It sounds like one .targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in Americapeople's mid-westmisery, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town in Berkshire, Englandand targets for her violent behaviour. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, until something happened and he ran away when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is going to touch just about everyone in townborn.|isbn=19131933061913193756
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|isbn=00083783631471196615|title=One Perfect MorningIced|author=Pamela CraneFelix Francis|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about Miles Pussett used to have be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who thrills from hurling head-first down the three- and why quarter- we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsmile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to He was in St Moritz the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later theyweekend as White Turf - that're still s high-class horseracing on the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band saddling of the dayhorses. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifehe swore that he'd never go back to it. She married OwenBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterMiles can't help but look for answers, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldeven when it puts him in danger.
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|isbn=0751567426147228612X|title=The Wicked SisterLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Karen DionneAlan Johnson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganprobably haven's Upper Peninsulat taken much notice of them. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen yearsThey live quiet, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old uneventful lives and that her father then took stay mostly under the gun and killed himselfradar. Her sisterIn a city like London, Diana, just twentythat's quite easy -years-old, was left at the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessand even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. Rachel's very bright and although The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as shegoes to work on the train each morning: he's d love to ask her for a voluntary patient at date but he doesn't have the Mental Health Center she remains therecourage. Then, on his homeward commute, feeling that this is what she deservesArina speaks to him and asks for his help. Perhaps, thoughBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the circumstances are not as she remembersMetropolitan police.
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|isbn=00083147210008433631|title=Truth Be ToldNext of Kin
|author=Kia Abdullah
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She''effortful'' familyd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent He was supposed to be taking Max to thank school but he'd been called into work and this prompts a phone call the delay in returngetting there could lead to financial losses. There are two sons As the school was only five minutes out of the familyLeila's way, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. could she drop him off? Their mother, SofiaOf course, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam could and Kamran' trips off a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort back of thingher car. Both boys go to On the prestigious Hampton schoolway Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has with a problem which could put a place multi-million-pound contract at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedrisk.
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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1784165263|title=The Seven DoorsInvite Me In|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that interestingly doesn't even try she had to be home to suggest a genre of any kind until wemake his lunch for one o're a full fifth of clock on the way through. We start with our coupledot, despite the fact that she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsthere would be trouble. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and which they let out confined to a single motherwheelchair, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says but don't be too quick to its occupant be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving outgood at being a disappointment''. Now, at All this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think itwas in Eliza's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980smind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, but no. We avoid genre completelyunannounced, at the flat just as I say – instead learning Eliza was about Greek tragedyto leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow before it was advertised as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedbeing available.|isbn=1913193381
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|author=Robert Peston
|title=The Whistleblower
|rating=3
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=I'm not the first to point out how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thriller, so I'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. It's an interesting plot with a good pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of it.
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|isbnauthor=1471179273Teresa Driscoll|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchHer Perfect Family
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with MichaelaThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who's more caring than she at first instance appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showerbe your average student, unpleasant as faced with the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Wellfamiliar horrifying realisation, on 21 December at the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in eleventh hour, that her garden shed by Andrew Kanegraduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who was helping with he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the renovations to Tabitha's housenovel. So far as the police are concernedIn a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Tabitha Gemma is shot in the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at midst of her house she was covered graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in his blooda coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0008370982|title=The Lies You ToldRock Paper Scissors|author=Harriet TyceAlice Feeney|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Year six student Robin Spence Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't happy about having to start a new schoolso keen on the idea. SheLike Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's left never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the school she loved in New York and now shenovels he's going hoping to Ashams in North Londonadapt than with her. ItAmelia's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and as working with the pupils dogs, many of whom have all been there ''forever''abused, they have their established groupsis never easy. RobinStill - she's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Wellwon the weekend away, over a matter of a few days even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm the passenger seat - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has then doing the same thing to come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out couple of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsdays later.
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|authorisbn= Mark Dawson0008421714|title= The CleanerMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Ruthless and coldly competentThe 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 reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, John Milton is one of ''but isn't this the British governmentfirst time he's best assets – based a contract killer with lethal instinctscharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Now Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, after ten yearsunloved, he wants outunloveable wretch. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X'
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|isbn=18389510670241989094|title=The Nothing ManPerfect Life|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNuala Ellwood|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When In August 2018 we first meet Jim Doyle, hea young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about to get a shockher three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. He's security at The boys are a supermarket and he's watching bit of a woman who handful which is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if why she's planning to pay for itmaking this trip on her own. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsThe house would be perfect for them. It's the same month but now we'Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is re in Wimbledon and we encounter the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellsame young woman, Jim was - only this time she''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped s job hunting and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped living in her mothersister, and then killed herGeorgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her father and her seven-year-old sisterboyfriend, AnnaConnor.
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|isbn=178089922X1787634493|title=Invisible GirlAll Her Fault|author=Lisa JewellAndrea Mara|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautifulIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. By Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her own admissionson, she's a bit of Milo, to go on a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levelplay date. Life hasnShe was concerned that he didn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an eighthaffluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a long timelittle later. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. What could be better? He gently unpeeled Only, when Marissa arrived at the layers of her psychehouse, but somehow managed expecting to miss that meet Jacob'something reallys mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, really badwho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but The phone number she retained an interest in Roan'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.
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|author=Sharon DoeringClaire McGowan|title=She Lies CloseI Know You
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her sinceCarson, and no arrests have been made. And yetcomes across three bodies, this book is not about Avaalmost a whole family taken down. Not really. This book ''Now:'' Rachel is about Graceout for a walk with her dog, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenBrandy, when she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved comes across a body inthe woods. |isbn=17890941941542019974
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|isbnauthor=1409187438Peter Papathanasiou|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkStoning
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=On the second of October 37-year-old barristerIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, Paul Reeve, returned home a teacher has been transported across town at 9 pm to find his house night in darkness a shopping trolley, and the front door open. His wife was in the bedroom in she's been taped to a state of shock tree and in the bathroom there was a dead man who she's had been stabbed repeatedly in rocks bowled at her as if she were the neck with Paulworld's tallest cricket stumps. When she's paper-knifediscovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. In An arson attack on that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he shows the feeling – and Alice it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are not going to ring often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the police and tell arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the truthcity, to sort everything out. They're Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to bury welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedlaw...|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=17873014351787631869|title=Dark WatersThe Rising Tide|author=G R HallidaySam Lloyd
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she opted to drive down 'd built a good and decent life in the private road in Glen Turritaftermath. It was a long road through some breathShe's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-taking scenery Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When Fin, the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treehad with Daniel. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she wasThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, but it obviously wasnDaniel't a conventional hospitals partner and so-called best friend. She'd made her first mistake some Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time ago, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for they both spent in a long time. Shechildren'd made s home but it when she chose 's difficult to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.
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|isbn=17808998581786332388|title=To Tell You the TruthThe First Day of Spring|author=Gilly MacmillanNancy Tucker
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nineSometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly -years-old she crept out and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the house on plot grips you and won't let go. So, what's the night of problem? Well, the summer solstice to watch problem is Chrissie, the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsmain character. Her fourWhen 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 two-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if boy. She's completely cold about what she hadn't taken him s done with her. But in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping main memory being that he would have got home before whilst she was killing - suffocating - herhands seized up. He hadnThere's a clue that Chrissie isn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial to completely responsible for her actions a little later in the police investigationbook: when will Steven come back, but it keeps subtly changing. she wonders? Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell the police.Hasn't he been dead for long enough?
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|isbn=1787477681B088YWF5BC|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Lies We Tell|author=Martin WalkerJane Corry
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know from the very beginning Sarah Wallace said that there's she grew up on a tragedy about council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to happenhave been a loving, stable family. On a January evening on a very crowded platform 3 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 Waterloo Underground station a man falls under an oncoming trainhalf-promised he'd be in by. That man Her husband, Tom, is Matthew Gordonfast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. Much later we see Poppy Page He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in the witness box of a crown court, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barristerand overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.
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|isbnauthor=0008386137Louise Candlish|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksThe Heights
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elaine Winterdale took the fall for the landlordEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. Aged 37She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she got a suspended sentence because spies him in a faulty gas boiler had caused building across the deaths way. There are lots of things, lots of 29-year-old Reveka Albu and her 2-year-old son Benkepeople, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Toma AlbuWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, husband and fatherEllen knows this for a fact, because she had found them when he returned homea hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483
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