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|isbnauthor=0008336830Will Carver|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw Maeve is a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to herhigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and Sondra finally persuades Satnam also, curiously, addicted to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithattending numerous AA groups. Nevis She is unworldly and rather reserved also a self- acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with heris mainly using the groups to find targets.. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hospital hear of people's misery, and Nevis calls targets for her motherviolent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, Honor. Theyand when she've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made s unable to find like-minded people in any of the previous summer but right nowgroups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, Nevis needs her motherand thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756
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|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1471196615|title=The Disappearing ActIced|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going Miles Pussett used to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places be a Steeplechase jockey but so, unfortunatelythose days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, is her partneroccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. And He was in St Moritz the places hesame weekend as White Turf - that's going take him towards lies, deceit high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and a pretty young thing in against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the form saddling of his new co-starthe horses. It's a good time seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look for Mia to escapeanswers, and pilot season even when it puts him in LA provides just the excusedanger.|isbn=1471189783
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|isbn=1838773428147228612X|title=The Art of DeathLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=David FennellAlan Johnson
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was an art installation We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidthem. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy PerrinThey live quiet, Stan Buxton uneventful lives and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is stay mostly under the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will followradar. In facta city like London, we've already met the artist although not by name: hethat's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Makiquite easy -e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhoneeven Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. Elaine Kelly The highlight of his day is there with watching a beautiful young woman apply her son, Jordan, and makeup as shegoes to work on the train each morning: he's explaining d love to ask her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriage. Actually, it for a date but he doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind have the countercourage. There's someone onlineThen, CassandraHon his homeward commute, that the artist has Arina speaks to him and asks for his eye help. Before long he finds himself onthe run from mobsters, tooRussian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.
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|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0008433631|title=The SourceNext of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=2.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=1996It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base She'd never driven her nephew, Max, struggling to care for school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingein a panic. When her squaddie brother brings food He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and treatsthe delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesa sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, things start to look with a problem which could put a little less bleak..multi-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1913193594
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|isbn=15293786481784165263|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Invite Me In|author=Mick HerronEmma 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=Someone I'm not the first to point out how fitting it is killing secret service agentsfor Robert Peston to write a political thriller, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canso I't understand it. Well, what he actually canll move on quickly – but this won't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be donewinning any awards for originality. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at RegentIt's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of interesting plot with a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured good pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself and one dead) dispatched. It isnI suspect before much time has passed I't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thisll have forgotten a lot of it.|isbn=1838775242 }}
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|isbnauthor=0008379300Teresa Driscoll|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsHer Perfect Family|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Fergus Ariss 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 in his late thirties and he knows that heall wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''s dying. His body He is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before not who he dies says he wants a wifeis…'', a child and a brother. He's been on paving the lookout way for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where sinister tone that remains throughout the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifenovel. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - In a boy twist of seven events, and after a girl change of fiveoutfit, away for Gemma is shot in the weekendmidst of her graduation ceremony. UnfortunatelyWith Gemma then in a coma, it doesn't go according what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to plan and Angela diesgrow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008370982|title=The Other EmilyRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Our hero David Thorne Amelia Wright is an authorforty-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, who shares his life between Adam, isn't so keen on the two US coastsidea. ItLike Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's the western coast we're concerned with, a place screenwriter and he has 's never shy of making it clear to return Amelia that he'd prefer to, and a place spend time with the novels he has 's hoping to be able to leave. David lost contact adapt than with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nighther. HeAmelia's paying for contact annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the man he thinks the only suspectdogs, a lifer nowmany of whom have been abused, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availnever easy. HeStill - she's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into won the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageweekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the very embodiment, passenger seat - and then doing the virtual resurrection, same thing to come back a couple of his lovedays later. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958
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|isbn=15291244170008421714|title=Before She DisappearedMrs March|author=Lisa GardnerVirginia Feito
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseThe problem began just after the publication of George March's body in most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her car at first name only on the bottom of the lakelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She knew 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 twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnbread, ''but isn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was this the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now shefirst time he's moving based a character on againyou?'' She mentioned that Johanna, this time to Boston where therethe principal character had 's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agomannerisms''. FrankiePerhaps this would not have mattered, middleexcept for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes -aged and white''a weak, gets a job and accommodation at Stoneyplain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''s bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT0241989094|title=The TherapistPerfect Life|author=B A ParisNuala Ellwood|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Leo Curtis found the In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in The CircleGoring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, a gated communityLavender, Alice Dawson was in VeniceFreddie and Barclay. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such The boys are a bit of a reasonable price that Alice wouldnhandful which is why she't have to sell s making this trip on her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford itown. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they The house would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendsperfect for them. Leo had some work done on  It's the house: he made two bedrooms into one same month but now we're in Wimbledon and although Alice knew that we encounter the house was stunning same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she just didn't feel comfortable theres been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.
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|authorisbn=Saima Mir1787634493|title=The KhanAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. This has served her well in her rise through Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home opportunity would arise for her sisterson, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn's wedding after fifteen years t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in selfan affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -imposed exileand Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, she is when Marissa arrived at the top of her game. Returning house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the city of her birthdoor was answered by Esther, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for the future with her sense of honour and dutyJenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.|isbn=1786079097
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|isbnauthor=0008214468Claire McGowan|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonI Know You|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A workman has ''Then:'' Casey returns from a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a building sitewhole family taken down. It ''Now:''s wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and Rachel is out for a handwalk with her dog, severed above Brandy, when she comes across a body in the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearswoods.
Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreement.|isbn=1542019974
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|author= Gunnar StaalesenPeter Papathanasiou|title= Fallen AngelsThe Stoning|rating= 23.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Varg VeumIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, lone wolf detectivea teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, is backand she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. After attending a former friendWhen she's funeraldiscovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the sins of general opinion, for the past occupants are exposed to often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the light arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the presentcity, to sort everything out. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum Because such an aggrieved, insular community is thrust into an investigation really going to root out welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerlaw...|isbn=19131930631529416973
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1787631869|title= The CaptiveRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the cageaftermath. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, intimately. It lurks in the corner of her eyechild she had with Daniel. Soon They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it will be occupied's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1786332388|title=The Long Dark RoadFirst Day of Spring|author=P R BlackNancy Tucker|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaSometimes 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. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won's Healeyt let go. So, what's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeproblem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. There was a furious storm going on When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in s just killed someone - a big vehicletwo-year-old boy. WeShe's completely cold about what she'll see s done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - but no one else will know suffocating - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offher hands seized up. There has been no sign of 's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her - or her body - actions a little later in the two years since. Georgia is book: when will Steven come back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and shewonders? Hasn's not going to be stopped.t he been dead for long enough?
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|authorisbn= Susi Holliday B088YWF5BC|title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. Lies We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008330131|title=The Stolen SistersTell|author=Louise JensenJane Corry|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=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 been a loving, stable family. When we start first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who'The Stolen Sisterss nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsd be in by. WellHer husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're healthy moving house in the physical sense, morning but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theyhe're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate s still going to be going to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball work and a fleece which had been left outsidehe needs his sleep. The gate wasn't shut properly and BrunoHe wakes, their boxer dogthough, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after when Freddie does come in and overhears him they were snatched by two mentell his mother that he's killed someone.
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|author=Will CarverLouise Candlish|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Heights
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hinton HollowEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, population 5visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things,120. It sounds like one lots of those signs people, you might see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-westwhen you look out across London, but this particular Hinton Hollow is a small town isn't one Ellen expected that day or in Berkshire, Englandfact any other day. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, until something happened and he ran away to the city. He's running away again…only Ellen knows this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone for a fact, because she had a hand in townhis murder.|isbn=19131933061471183483
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