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|author=Sarah SultoonWill Carver|title=The SourcePsychopaths Anonymous|rating=23.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=1996Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. EssexShe is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military baseWhilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, struggling targets to care feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingeviolent behaviour. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and offers an exclusive invitation when she's unable to army partiesfind like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, things start hoping to look a little less bleak..encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=19131935941913193756
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|isbn=15293786481471196615|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Iced|author=Mick HerronFelix Francis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and present, he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Wellthree-quarter-mile Cresta Run, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would botheroccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. But He was in St Moritz the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all same weekend as White Turf - that''when things went awry s high-class horseracing on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the perpetrator saddling of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedhorses. It isn't just the message s seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that was sent: shehe's also delighted that she managed d never go back to fund the operation off the booksit. Some private money was brought in. She wonBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't always be so jubilant about thishelp but look for answers, even when it puts him in danger.
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|isbn=0008379300147228612X|title=The Shadow ManLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Helen FieldsAlan Johnson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heWe all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven's dyingt taken much notice of them. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifeThey live quiet, a child uneventful lives and a brotherstay mostly under the radar. HeIn a city like London, that's been on the lookout for the perfect people quite easy - and heeven Gary's made certain preparationsthree flatmates largely ignore him. The flat where highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have been painted onto the wallscourage. Angela Fernycroft was to be Then, on his wife. Her husbandhomeward commute, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven Arina speaks to him and a girl of five, away asks for the weekendhis help. UnfortunatelyBefore long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, it doesn't go according to plan Russian secret agents and Angela diesthe Metropolitan police.
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008433631|title=The Other EmilyNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorIt was the sort of thing that happened every day, who shares his life between the two US coastsalthough not to Leila Syed. ItShe's the western coast we're concerned withd never driven her nephew, a place he has to return toMax, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with school before but his partner there ten years agofather, Andrew Hanson, when she vanished from had rung her in a remote road late at nightpanic. Hewas supposed to be taking Max to school but he's paying for contact with d been called into work and the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recorddelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. David is trying to pry As the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manschool was only five minutes out of Leila's mindway, but to no avail. could she drop him off? He's also having Of course, she could and a recharge ready for his next hit novel when sleeping Max was duly strapped into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, back of his loveher car. What is On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a man to do?|isbn=1542019958problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.
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|isbn=15291244171784165263|title=Before She DisappearedInvite Me In|author=Lisa GardnerEmma Curtis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.
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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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|author=Teresa Driscoll
|title=Her Perfect Family
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the bottom of familiar horrifying realisation, at the lakeeleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. She knew 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 twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run awaynovel. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie In a twist of events, and now she's moving on againafter a change of outfit, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until Gemma is shot in the midst of her disappearance eleven months agograduation ceremony. FrankieWith Gemma then in a coma, middle-aged and white, gets what follows is a complex whodunit with a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out list of suspects that continues to investigate grow the community which is just about exclusively blackfurther you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0008370982|title=The TherapistRock Paper Scissors|author=B A ParisAlice Feeney|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Leo Curtis found Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the house staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was converted chapel in VeniceScotland. Leo wanted to move quickly Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the property as idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it was on clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldnnovels he't have s hoping to sell adapt than with her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - she was tired and working with the dogs, many of their long-distance relationshipwhom have been abused, is never easy. Now they would be able to spend most of Still - she's won the week together instead of just weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one passenger seat - and although Alice knew that then doing the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable theresame thing to come back a couple of days later.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008421714|title=The KhanMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by The problem began just after the motto 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 twice 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 good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through she was wrapping the criminal justice system and by bread, ''but isn't this the first time she is called home for her sisterhe's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilebased a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, she is at the top of principal character had 'her gamemannerisms''. Returning to Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the city whore of her birthNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, to old scars and fresh woundsunloved, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutyunloveable wretch.|isbn=1786079097''
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|isbn=00082144680241989094|title=A Time to LieThe Perfect Life|author=Simon BerthonNuala Ellwood|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A workman has In August 2018 we meet a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. Ityoung woman called Imogen and she's wrapped viewing a house in part of an old shower curtain Goring-on-Thames and is a handtelling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, severed above the wristFreddie and Barclay. ItThe boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's been there making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearsthem.
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|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1787634493|title= Fallen AngelsAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating= 24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Varg VeumIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, lone wolf detectiveMilo, is backto go on a play date. After attending a former friend She was concerned that he didn's funeral, Veum catches up t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the sins of the past are exposed house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the light of the presentdoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killer And so had Jenny's nanny.|isbn=1913193063
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorClaire McGowan|title= The CaptiveI Know You|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the cagebaby, intimatelyCarson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. It lurks ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the corner of her eyewoods. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him? |isbn=18387726501542019974
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|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQPeter Papathanasiou|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackStoning|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's Healeybeen taped to a tree and she's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing had rocks bowled at her as if she walked along were the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeworld's tallest cricket stumps. There was a furious storm going on and When she'd already refused s discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the offer of help local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from one man in a big vehiclethe immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. We'll see - but no one else will know - An arson attack on that another car stops shows the feeling – and Stephanie it's only fair, is bundled into the car and driven offgeneral opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. There has been no sign Cue the arrival of her - or her body - in George Manolis, a higher rank from the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatecity, determined to find sort everything out what happened and she's not . Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to be stoppedwelcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we start Lucy Locke's early life hadn'The Stolen Sisters't been easy but she' we know that twenty-years on from d built a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsgood and decent life in the aftermath. Well, theyShe're healthy in the physical senses now married to Daniel, but Carly has trust issueswho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theythey live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy're the Sinclair sisters s daughter and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sistersFin, the eight-year-old twinschild she had with Daniel. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and her mobile phone held her attentionso-called best friend. Leah Nick and Marie were nattering about Daniel have a lost ball and history together from the time they both spent in a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnchildren's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel't shut properly and Brunos best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, their boxer dogor money, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menis concerned.
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1786332388|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe First Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. It sounds like one of those signs The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you see on improbably wide highways in Americaand won't let go. So, what's mid-westthe problem? Well, but this particular Hinton Hollow the problem is a small town in BerkshireChrissie, Englandthe main character. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereWhen we first meet her she's just eight years old, until something happened small for her age and he ran away to the cityshe readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. HeShe's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just completely cold about everyone what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in town.|isbn=1913193306the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?
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|isbn=0008378363B088YWF5BC|title=One Perfect MorningThe Lies We Tell|author=Pamela CraneJane Corry|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have his throat cut in his own bedbeen a loving, stable family. To find out who - and why - When we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziefirst meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroevillewho's nearly sixteen, Pennsylvania and twenty years later theyhasn're still t come home by the best time he sort of friendshalf-promised he'd be in by. When Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they first met they called themselves 're moving house in the Spicier Girls as a nod morning but he's still going to be going to the famous girl band of the daywork and he needs his sleep. Lily would be Adventure SpiceHe wakes, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellthough, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress when Freddie does come in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whooverhears him tell his mother that he's now fifteen-year-oldkilled someone.
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|isbnauthor=0751567426Louise Candlish|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneHeights
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham sheEllen doesn's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulat expect to see Kieran that day. She's twenty-six and has been there on site, visiting a client for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother a lighting consultation when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family home, a lodge spies him in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at building across the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyway. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons lots of the familythings, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherlots of people, Sofiayou might see when you look out across London, regrets that she didnbut this isn't name them the one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'day. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, where they boardand Ellen knows this for a fact, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has because she had a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483
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