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|author=C A SachaWill Carver|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan has Maeve is a plan high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to increase his already startling wealth attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and ensure his legacy: to bring critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the world's first emission-free car groups to market and dominate productionfind targets... The secret development project targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to enable this, Bucephalushear of people's misery, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry it outtargets for her violent behaviour. Montgomery is Yet she also looking seems to be searching for a legacy and one that others who think as she does not involve his controlling mother , and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her foundationown, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme with both hands..hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=18004619761913193756

|isbn=00083368301471196615|title=Two WrongsIced|author=Mel McGrathFelix Francis

|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw Miles Pussett used to be a young woman looking as though she was going to jump Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to herthree-quarter-mile Cresta Run, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithoccasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high- class horseracing on the frozen lake and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with herthe saddling of the horses. She thought they shared everythingIt's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to it. Satnam But when he sees that something suspicious is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her mothergoing on, Honor. TheyMiles can've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer t help but right nowlook for answers, Nevis needs her mothereven when it puts him in danger.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman147228612X|title=The Disappearing ActLate Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan Johnson

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of successthem. Great success They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radar. If the rumours are true In a city like London, award season that's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight of his day is going watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to treat ask her wellfor a date but he doesn't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, acknowledging her Arina speaks to him and asks for her latesthis help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008433631|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day, critically acclaimed productionalthough not to Leila Syed. She's going places d never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but sohis father, unfortunatelyAndrew Hanson, is had rung her partnerin a panic. And He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the places hedelay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's going take way, could she drop him towards liesoff? Of course, deceit she could and a pretty young thing in sleeping Max was duly strapped into the form back of his new co-starher car. It's On the way Leila took a good time for Mia to escapephone call - there was panic at her work too, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusewith a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734281784165263|title=The Art of DeathInvite Me In|author=David FennellEmma Curtis

|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time itMartin Curran's not a depiction: these are wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the bodies of Billy Perrindot, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is despite the work fact that she was actually painting one of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksytheir properties prior to it being let. He If she didn's made a macabre promise: more will followt get home, there would be trouble. In fact, we've already met the artist although not by nameThere was some excuse: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air Martin was a paraplegic and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordanconfined to a wheelchair, and shebut don's explaining t be too quick to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state of her marriagebe understanding. Actually, it doesnHe was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you't take re good at being a lot of explaining: Frankdisappointment's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. ThereAll this was in Eliza's someone onlinemind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, CassandraHunannounced, that at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the artist has his eye onlease of flat 2, too42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.

|author=Sarah SultoonTeresa Driscoll|title=The SourceHer Perfect Family|rating=2.5

|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated The novel begins by a military baseintroducing you to Gemma, struggling who at first instance appears to care for her baby sister while be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her mum sleeps off another bingegraduation outfit is all wrong. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsSuddenly, and offers Gemma receives an exclusive invitation to army partieseerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, things start to look and after a little less bleak.change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony.With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=19131935941542028752

|isbn=15293786480008370982|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Rock Paper Scissors|author=Mick HerronAlice Feeney

|summary=Someone Amelia Wright is killing secret service agents, past forty-two and present, from it was the Slough House teamstaff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Jackson Lamb canHer husband, Adam, isn't understand itso keen on the idea. WellLike Amelia, what he actually canknows that their marriage has been under strain: he't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up s a screenwriter and something needs he's never shy of making it clear to be done. After all Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he'when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Graylings hoping to adapt than with her.'' Over at RegentAmelia's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant annoyed that he never enquires about an operation which saw how her day has been - and working with the perpetrator dogs, many of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedwhom have been abused, is never easy. It isn't just the message that was sent: Still - she's also delighted that she managed to fund won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the operation off passenger seat - and then doing the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thissame thing to come back a couple of days later.

|isbn=00083793000008421714|title=The Shadow ManMrs March|author=Helen FieldsVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heThe problem began just after the publication of George March's dyingmost successful novel to date. His body is giving up Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on him, his internal organs beginning the last page) seemed to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brothereither be reading it or had already done so. He's been 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 lookout for bread, ''but isn't this the perfect people and first time he's made certain preparations. based a character on you?'' The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsShe mentioned that Johanna, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the wallsprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandPerhaps this would not have mattered, Cal, had taken except for the fact that Johanna is the children whore of Nantes - ''a boy of seven and a girl of fiveweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, away for the weekendunloveable wretch. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.'

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241989094|title=The Other EmilyPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast In August 2018 we're concerned with, meet a place he has to return to, young woman called Imogen and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the man he thinks the only suspectestate agent about her three children, a lifer nowLavender, who went Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has of a dozen and more unfound Jane Does handful which is why she's making this trip on his recordher own. David is trying to pry The house would be perfect for them. It's the connection between the murderer same month but now we're in Wimbledon and his girl from we encounter the mansame young woman, only this time she's mindjob hunting and living in her sister, but to no avail. HeGeorgie's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodimentspare room, the virtual resurrectionwhere she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, of his loveConnor. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244171787634493|title=Before She DisappearedAll Her Fault|author=Lisa GardnerAndrea Mara

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the lakeopportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She knew was concerned that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnhe didn't have left her threeany friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -year-old daughter and run awayMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. Lani was What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the fourteenth missing person house, expecting to be located by Frankie and now shemeet Jacob's moving on againmother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, this time to Boston where therewho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she's a strong Haitian community which d been given for Jenny was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agonot recognised. Milo had disappeared. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at StoneyAnd so had Jenny's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blacknanny.

|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTClaire McGowan|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisI Know You|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the house in The Circlebaby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicewhole family taken down. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such  ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell walk with her cottage dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable therewoods. |isbn=1542019974

|author=Saima MirPeter Papathanasiou|title=The KhanStoning|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Jia Khan In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and four times she's had rocks bowled at her as good as white menif she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. This When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has served her well in her rise through come from the criminal justice system and by immigrant detention centre the time she place is called reluctantly home for her sisterto. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileonly fair, she is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the top arrival of her game. Returning to George Manolis, a higher rank from the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh woundssort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the future with her sense of honour and dutylaw...|isbn=17860790971529416973

|isbn=00082144681787631869|title=A Time to LieThe Rising Tide|author=Simon BerthonSam Lloyd|rating=54

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. ItLucy Locke's wrapped early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wristaftermath. ItShe's been there for about twenty-five now married to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford Daniel, who co- generally known as Robbie owns Locke- is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they have two daughterslive at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Becca and Bella. SandfordLucy's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically gooddaughter and Fin, but morally goodthe child she had with Daniel.'' One of the ways heThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimespartner and so-called best friend. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick and Chancellor of Daniel have a history together from the Exchequer, wishes that hetime they both spent in a children'd been warned about this: s home but it's easy difficult to see think that he wouldnNick has Daniel't have been in agreements best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1786332388|title= Fallen AngelsThe First Day of Spring|author=Nancy Tucker|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is back. After attending a former friendSometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''s funeral, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and the sins The First Day of the past are exposed to the light of the presentSpring'' was one such occasion. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds The writing is superb and Veum completely compelling. The characterisation is thrust into an investigation to root out excellent and the clues hidden in his own history plot grips you and to catch a killerwon't let go.|isbn=1913193063}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O So, what'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows s the problem? Well, the cageproblem is Chrissie, intimatelythe main character. It lurks in the corner of When we first meet her eye. Soonshe's just eight years old, it will be occupiedsmall for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Then She's completely cold about what? What if he speaks to 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 heractions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? What if Hasn't he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himbeen dead for long enough?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB088YWF5BC|title=The Long Dark RoadLies We Tell|author=P R BlackJane Corry

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgehad two brothers and two sisters. There was It seemed to have been a furious storm going on and loving, stable family. When we first meet her, shecan't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn'd already refused t come home by the offer time he sort of help from one man half-promised he'd be in a big vehicleby. WeHer husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they'll see - re moving house in the morning but no one else will know - that another car stops he's still going to be going to work and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offhe needs his sleep. There has been no sign of her - or her body - He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and sheoverhears him tell his mother that he's not going to be stoppedkilled someone.

|author= Susi Holliday Louise Candlish|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. 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 Sisters|author=Louise JensenHeights|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She'The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years s on from site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a dreadful event they building across the way. There are all healthy adults. Welllots of things, lots of people, they're healthy in the physical senseyou might see when you look out across London, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theythis isn're the Sinclair sisters and t one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years-old , and she was in charge of her sistersEllen knows this for a fact, the eight-year-old twins. Much as because she loved them Carly was desperate to get had a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menhand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483