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|author=Terry MilesWill Carver|title=RabbitsPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|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 Maeve is a high heavenfunctioning alcoholic, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's drinking continuously and also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowscuriously, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and addicted to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life thenattending numerous AA groups. Yes, this She is the game of life for also a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websself-acknowledged psychopath. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K Whilst analysing and his bezzies are trying to be historians of critiquing the game, and have studied amongst many things AA steps she is mainly using 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 shortgroups to find targets. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately targets for Ksexual encounters, in trying targets to feed her desire to sort out what the game is doing, if ithear of people's even being playedmisery, and how his loved ones might targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be kept safesearching for others who think as she does, he is only and when she's unable to find out that like-minded people in any of the line between observing and learning about the gamegroups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and playing it, thus Psychopaths Anonymous is a very thin one indeed..born.|isbn=15290169321913193756

|isbn=15291242551471196615|title=The WhispersIced|author=Heidi PerksFelix Francis

|summary=We know straight away that there's going Miles Pussett used to be a bodySteeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. ItHe was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the town saddling of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous Septemberhorses. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - sheIt's lived there seven years since her teens he put horseracing behind him and now, in her mid-thirties, shehe swore that he's returned d never go back to her home town to liveit. Her husbandBut when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. GraceMiles can's best friendt help but look for answers, Anna Robinson, is still even when it puts him in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child toodanger. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)147228612X|title=Girls Who LieThe Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan Johnson|rating=34.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that We all the dark corners know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthem. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in AkranesThey live quiet, uneventful lives and finding it's only twenty kilometres from stay mostly under the capital radar. In a citylike London, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small's quite easy -town feel, itand even Gary's not just in Akranes that our interests liethree flatmates largely ignore him. Six months ago The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman failed to turn up for apply her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that makeup as she could now live permanently with goes to work on the couple who had given her foster care before train each morning: he'd love to ask her mother had asked for a date but he doesn't have the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopterscourage. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenThen, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second placeon his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeasks for his help. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue Before long he finds himself on the run from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionmobsters, Russian secret agents and very little maternal feeling in her bodythe Metropolitan police. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=15290473150008433631|title=The LamplightersNext of Kin|author=Emma StonexKia Abdullah

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about It was the sea having two facessort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. You have She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to take them bothschool before but his father, he saidAndrew Hanson, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themhad rung her in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'' In 1972, fifteen miles off d been called into work and the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse delay in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''getting there could lead to financial losses. Jory Martin had taken As the school was only five minutes out a relief keeperof Leila's way, could she drop him off? the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking Of course, she could and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It sleeping Max was broken duly strapped into the next day, but there was no sign back of the menher car. The table On the way Leila took a phone call - there was set for panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a meal for two multi-million- and the clocks were stopped pound contract at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menrisk.

|isbn=18385950311784165263|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityInvite Me In|author=Bronwen JohnEmma Curtis

|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by I'm not the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit from first to point out how fitting it. The problem was they were too successful: one of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valueless. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen is for Robert Peston to write a simple con and his father, celebrity criminal Harry Holmespolitical thriller, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia so I'Ashll move on quickly – but this won' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to t be got out of the countrywinning any awards for originality. In the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, AshIt's foster fatheran interesting plot with a good pace, lost his lifebut it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of it.|isbn=1838775242 }}

|isbnauthor=1838952012Teresa Driscoll|title=The Favour|author=Laura VaughanHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5

|summary=The rejection novel begins by Oxford came as a bit of a shock introducing you to Ada Howell: she wasGemma, after allwho at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the daughter of familiar horrifying realisation, at the renowned authoreleventh hour, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegethat her graduation outfit is all wrong. WellSuddenly, she wasnGemma receives an eerie message stating 't ''actually'' Howell's daughter: He is not who he says heis…'d married her mother after her birth and had then adopted her, so she was 'chosen' rather than just 'made', which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit paving the way for the sinister tone that 'renowned author' might be stretching remains throughout the truth novel. In a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldn't understand. Stilltwist of events, Ada had felt entitled and this was why after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her godmother's offer had come at such graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a brilliant timelist of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

|authorisbn=C A Sacha0008370982|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan 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 so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a plan screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: Amelia that he'd prefer to bring spend time with the worldnovels he's first emissionhoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been -free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thisworking with the dogs, Bucephalusmany of whom have been abused, is already underway and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into a second term to help him carry never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it out. Montgomery is also looking does mean driving for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling mother and eight hours in her foundation, so grabs onto Finnegan's Feed Africa programme 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with both hands..Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.|isbn=1800461976

|isbn=00083368300008421714|title=Two WrongsMrs March|author=Mel McGrathVirginia Feito

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sondra was on her way home The problem began just after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going the publication of George March's most successful novel to jump from date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the Clifton suspension bridgelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. She talks Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to herbuy olive bread but on that particular morning, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmatePatricia asked, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and as she canwas wrapping the bread, ''but isn't understand why Satnam hasnthis the first time he's based a character on you?''t shared her problems with her. She thought they shared everythingmentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Satnam Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. Theythe whore of Nantes - ''ve not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, Nevis needs her motherunloveable wretch.''

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0241989094|title=The Disappearing ActPerfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=4.5

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on -Thames and telling the cusp of success. Great successestate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. If the rumours The boys are true, award season a bit of a handful which is going to treat her well, acknowledging why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for her latest, critically acclaimed productionthem. She It's going places the same month but sonow we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, unfortunatelyonly this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, is her partner. And the places heGeorgie's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. Itspare room, where she's a good time for Mia to escapebeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseConnor.|isbn=1471189783

|isbn=18387734281787634493|title=The Art of DeathAll Her Fault|author=David FennellAndrea Mara

|summary=1996It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Essex Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Thirteen Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a disenfranchised town dominated by a military baselittle later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, struggling expecting to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsmeet Jacob's mother, Jenny, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesthe door was answered by Esther, things start to look a little less bleakwho didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=1529378648Claire McGowan|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronI Know You|rating=4.5

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, ''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Wellbaby, what he actually can't understand is whyCarson, having seen themand comes across three bodies, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be donealmost a whole family taken down. After all  ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.Now:'' Over at Regent's ParkRachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of when she comes across a Novichok poisoning body in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn'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 thiswoods. |isbn=1542019974

|isbnauthor=0008379300Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsStoning|rating=43.5

|summary=Fergus Ariss is In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in his late thirties a shopping trolley, and he knows that heshe's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning been taped to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child tree and a brother. Heshe's been on had rocks bowled at her as if she were the lookout for the perfect people and heworld's made certain preparationstallest cricket stumps. The flat where When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainslocal cops, and pictures in frames have been painted onto are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the walls. Angela Fernycroft was place is reluctantly home to be his wife. Her husbandAn arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, Calis the general opinion, had taken for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the children - a boy arrival of seven and George Manolis, a girl of fivehigher rank from the city, away for the weekendto sort everything out. UnfortunatelyBecause such an aggrieved, it doesn't go according insular community is really going to plan and Angela dieswelcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1787631869|title=The Other EmilyRising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life between in the two US coastsaftermath. ItShe's the western coast we're concerned withnow married to Daniel, a place he has to return towho co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with his partner there ten years agoBillie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, when the child she vanished from a remote road late at nighthad with Daniel. HeThey have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen partner and more unfound Jane Does on his recordso-called best friend. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer Nick and his girl Daniel have a history together from the mantime they both spent in a children's mind, home but it's difficult to no avail. Hethink that Nick has Daniel's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagebest interests at heart, the very embodimentparticularly where Lucy, the virtual resurrectionor money, of his loveis concerned. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244171786332388|title=Before She DisappearedThe First Day of Spring|author=Lisa GardnerNancy Tucker

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseSometimes 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't let go. So, what's body in her car at the bottom of problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the lakemain character. She knew When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that the twentyshe's just killed someone -a two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run awayboy. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now sheShe's moving on again, this time to Boston where therecompletely cold about what she's a strong Haitian community which done with her main memory being that whilst she was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until killing - suffocating - her disappearance eleven months agohands seized up. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets There's a job and accommodation at Stoneyclue that Chrissie isn's bar and sets out to investigate t completely responsible for her actions a little later in the community which is just about exclusively black.book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|isbn=B08CR3WNFTB088YWF5BC|title=The TherapistLies We Tell|author=B A ParisJane Corry|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a gated community, Alice Dawson was council estate in VeniceKent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. Leo wanted It seemed to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such have been a reasonable price that Alice wouldnloving, stable family. When we first meet her, she can't have to sell sleep because her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of their longhalf-distance relationshippromised he'd be in by. Now Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they would 're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be able going to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendswork and he needs his sleep. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and although Alice knew overhears him tell his mother that the house was stunning she just didnhe't feel comfortable theres killed someone.

|author=Saima MirLouise Candlish|title=The KhanHeights|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 menEllen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterShe's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exileon site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she is at spies him in a building across the top way. There are lots of her game. Returning to the city things, lots of her birthpeople, to old scars and fresh woundsyou might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions Ellen knows this for the future with her sense of honour and dutya fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=17860790971471183483