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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas1399613073|title= Tokyo NightsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= Colin McCann, private detectiveOlivia, chronic smoker Laura and dog lover, is charged with solving Anjali met on the mysterious death first day of the young medical school and beautiful daughter their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a wealthy businessmancentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The key facts Anjali is the free spirit of this case apparently hinge on the testimony of Charlie Davis, group and she becomes a neGP. When we first meet them they'er do well dreamer with quick fists re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and a poetit's heartgoing to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. The only problem is Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Charlie Davis has disappeared and appears to be unwilling to disclose his part in these tragic eventswill impact the three friends. After some deliciously violent digging This time, McCann jets off to Tokyo and here is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>it's their teenage children who are involved.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin FarringtonSunny Singh|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=2014: 50 years since William Gilbey's father Herbert was hanged for murderThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. This anniversary is different Hiding from those in the past in that it's given William terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the impetus to go and find out more about two mystifying parts of his father's historyhotel manager. Firstly the oddity of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the murder: why randomly kill two women residents who are still alive in the street in daylight? Secondlyhotel, when William was he forms a childbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. There's nothing in Although they only ever talk over the history books so did this actually happen? This is definitely a good time to investigatephone, especially their friendship grows as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfAbhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Belinda BauerCody Goodfellow|title= The Beautiful DeadVertical|rating= 3.5

|summary= Eve Singer is There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a journalist stuck on good view from up high, after all? Even the ‘meat beat’; she and her camera man Joe chase down every recent murder drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get a shot of the gory body, determined to get the best viewings and move into reporting better inside if it's 40 storiestall. Eve soon learns to become careful what she wishes for So when she begins to get her exclusives from the killer himself, a self-gratifying exhibitionist I picked up this book – about people who is wooing her with a succession of gruesome murdersscale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. But how long will it be until he gets what he finally wants; to murder Eve? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>059307551X</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Adam HamdyFelix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=PendulumThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=There's no time wasted with a gentle introduction: we interrupt Jess Walker accepted an attempted murder. John Wallace - ordinary John Wallace - is about offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to be hanged by caretake a man luxury property in the Australian outback for a black mask who has invaded his apartmentcouple of months. The fact that itAfter the problems she's happening is bad enoughd had at work, but ''why'' is it happening, and to Wallace? It's fate which intervenes and Wallace escapesseemed like just the break she needed. He's going to keep escaping and I'm not going to tell you She was no longer a great deal more about data analyst for the plotMetropolitan police in London: you're better off reading what Adam Hamdy has written than my version of it. It's sufficient she was Jess who was returning to say that the pace country of her birth and in need of the action never let up and you're not going space to get over the answers until traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the final pagesticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472236157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Blackhurst1448309743|title= Before I Let You InThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= As a psychiatrist, Karen is never too sure who or what will walk through her door, but In the village of Cronchie on the variety keeps it interestingWest coast of Scotland, and her years five members of training and experience keep her on track even when a statement wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from a patient seems to throw her off coursethe home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. It The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's hard sometimes, because she canan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered't really talk about work at home, the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but her friends and partner are supportive even when shehe disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's not able to share the details with themhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472235274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion LeighB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Politician's DaughterLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=I had to feel sorry for Canadian Emily Mortlake, Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the titular politician's daughterLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. OK, so going off on It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a summer job boarder and had money to throw around on a mega yacht might have sounded glamorous Rolex watch, but even before she went there vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were indications that some probably quite ''personal'' services might be required. It didn't worry Emily, but surprised when she went missing there weren't that many people who were worried about herthey became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Her father didn't want anything made public as a scandal could damage his political career. The dean Finns had no intention of her college didn't want the spotlight of publicity focused going on the college: there'd been a lot of fuss about fees recently and he preferred to avoid the tabloid headlines. Even her friend Amy University, unlike our storyteller who reported Emily missing seemed most worried that she couldn't get on with her work. Petra Minx of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Marine Unit was had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK on holiday and she was sent 's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to investigatevisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956276032</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J P DelaneyDean Koontz|title= The Girl BeforeHouse at the End of the World|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary=Jane When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is recovering from recent trauma no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and needs ride on or you can retreat to change her life, starting with where she lives. After seeing the dives she can afford your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in central London on her salary, One Folgate Street seems like a dream come true. Ultra modern, smart technology living - a small haven chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in a big citypeace and solitude... however, it comes with some very tight restrictions, rules that must be obeyed. Jane is ready for a big change in That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life, so she accepts the conditions of to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the house aforementioned peace and moves in. However, solitude were it not for the longer Jane lives therepesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the more interested she becomes neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the previous tenant, a woman named Emma who died there, Emma who’s life Jane’s is starting to mimic. Suddenly, this haven doesn’t feel so safename of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786480298</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ross Armstrong1787636607|title= The Watcher|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers |summary= Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can't help spying on her neighbours. Then one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat.But can Lily really trust everything she sees?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008181187</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrap|author= Lee Child|title= Night SchoolCatherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. It''In the morning they gave Reacher s a medal, and scene replicated all too often in the afternoon they sent him back to schoolearly hours of the morning.'' The medal was Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a Legion of Meritway to get home. Not his first, probably not his last, just another bauble to recognise what he'd done for his country Some are lucky and a plea for him not manage to talk about itget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'ittaxi problem' in this case was some police work, particularly in the Balkanslight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, and the final stop on the bus leaves her a couple long way short of shootingsher home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone''Two weeks of s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his life. Four rounds expended. No big deal There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1529195977|title= Chain None of Custodythis is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= After the success On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of ''A Cut-like Wound'' published friends in the UK Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in 2014, St Mary's hospital. That'Chain of Custody'' sees s where the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised versionsimilarities end, though: Bangalore) policeAlix, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a prestigious joyful, monied group of friends and well-guarded gated communitywhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. HoweverJosie, that is on the prologue jumping ahead of other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the story – as sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is the current vogueJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Hall1803136383|title= Tell Me No LiesTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Steph, husband Mark and son Henry have just moved into Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a new housecloud. That always leads to a fresh start, but even more so here as What actually happened out there are a few dodgy incidents in the past they are trying to move on from. Fingers crossed it’s all going to work out well. As a freelancer, Steph doesn’t have regular colleaguesis gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but the neighbours seem nice enough even if some an act of the other mums at the school gate are a little stand offish at first. With Mark away a lot with work it’s up heroism leading to Steph to make the house a home rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and get Henry settledin disgrace seems to be the run up consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to Christmashis chest, as he always does. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008205191</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harlan CobenB0C7J9D21B|title= HomeA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Fresh from reading [[Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben|Fool Me Once]] – a stand-alone novel by Coben – I was offered ''Home''When we first meet our hero, the latest in the Myron Bolitar serieshis name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Resistance is futile Idyllic as someone once saidthis might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Coben is probably the best thriller writer in the market at the moment. It He's not that all been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his books are better than anyone elsebackground in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's – they're notdifficult to obtain decent employment. Lee Child on The stint working with the top preparation of his game is streets ahead of Cobenanchovies didn's weakest offeringst work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Coben has the edge Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as writer because of his virtuositya guide for visitors. The Bolitar series takes its place around the other work, and He was even within the series you can't be guaranteed to get the same take every timesaving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089421X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anthony Bidulka0241996104|title= Set FreeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Within minutes of arriving in the exoticNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, enigmaticMartin, sweltering city has been convicted of Marrakechtheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, renowned author Jaspar Wills is kidnapped, blindfolded, bound and beatenafter Martin receives a life sentence. As Wills struggles to survive, he recounts his rise to fame, and the tragic events The barrister tells her that led him to Morocco. With the kidnappershe's received a 'silent sentence' - she's demands left unmet, Wills faces death not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with fear, grief… and guilt. What what happened in his past that led to this? Is someone he loves responsible, or is this payback for past sins? Living with a loss far greater than that the rest of his own her life, Jasper yearns to be set free. Six months later Of course, struggling reporter Katie Edwards travels to Morocco to investigate it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the disappearance – most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and discovers a shocking truth. With stunning revelations galore, the truth will set you free''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. Can lies do the same?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099522921X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak1529135389|title= Her Darkest NightmareThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Her Darkest Nightmare has Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the right ingredients for a crime thrillerhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Shrewd, intelligent, Some of them fought with each other and harddidn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-asmillion-nails protagonist? Checkpound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Fantastic setting? Check Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head. A compelling mystery? Check! A thoroughly despicable villain? Check, and check again… and maybe check one more time…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472240979</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fiona BartonAlan Parks|title= The WidowTo Die in June|rating= 54|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Newly widowed Jean Taylor is being interviewed by top investigative reporter Kate Waters. Jean sees that she's not What first seems like the other reportersunfortunate, Kate's not battering down Jean's dooraccidental death of a homeless man on the streets, she's nicesuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, patientand then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, she feels like but all the more so because his own father is a frienddown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. But Jean isn't completely fooled At the same time as facing these possible murders, Kate wants Harry is also dealing with a move to know about her husbanda different police station, about and the terrible crime he was accused arrival there ofa woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, how Jean only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels about him now and wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the most dangerous question of all… other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what Jean knows. is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552172367</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Haynes1529382823|title=Never AloneThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean

|summary=Sarah lives alone in an isolated farmhouse on the North Yorkshire moors: Caroline Riley (sheprefers 's widowedCaz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Her daughter Kitty is away at university and her son Louis and she have lost contact: thereThey's some animosity re off on a cruise to New York on Louis' side but Sarah can't quite understand whatAtlantica''s behind it. She and Aiden reconnected on Facebook: he was a close friend of JimCaz's sister, Gemma, Sarahreckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn's late husband t spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and Sarah when they were at university. Heshe doesn't know whether she's coming back to the UK and impulsively Sarah tells him that he can live in the cottage on her landrelieved or disappointed. SheThey's always ve not been drawn a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him - they had a fling once before she married - and itbit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's not long before they begin a sexually-charged relationshipcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. But thereIt's quite a bit about Aiden which Sarah cangoing to be good, isn't understand: what ''exactly'' is it that Aiden does for a living? Can she trust him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434961</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Felix FrancisMark Edwards|title=Triple CrownKeep Her Secret

|summary=You couldn't say that Jeff HinkleyMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, a British Horseracing Authority investigator was having a midlife crisis, but now that he's not working as an undercover agent quite so much he's not getting the same satisfaction from the jobrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. That was one The alien-landscape of the reasons he was delighted to be seconded lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the US Federal Anti-Corruption joy she is feeling in Sports Agency where this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the Deputy Director is pretty sure that there's edge of a mole in ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the organisationsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Too many raids have been foiled by the target seeming to know what was Convinced she is going to happen die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and having the chance makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to clean up before the investigators arrivedMatthew. There's not too much Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to keep Hinkley in the UK, apart from a sister with cancer who says that safety and Matthew is left wondering what he should gojust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471155471</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aoife CliffordJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= All These Perfect StrangersThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=How Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well do we know our neighbours? How well do we know our closest friends? How well do we know ourselves? A carefully constructed thriller-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, exploring saying he's populist trash and only writing what we human nature anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is capable put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of. despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471153622</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Ryan0861544056|title=The Constant SoldierTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary=Paul Brandt returns home Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to his village without the arm he left end of their first term at university. Kit's been at the Russian Front Bristol and Jess's in defence of GermanyExeter. The village looks pretty much It's not only the same as he left it, with the exception first time they've been away from their parents for any length of the lack of young men and time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a new buildingwhile. His Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home now boasts an SS rest hut, providing officers with entertainment and respite breaks from the fighting. her? As Paul passes the hut for the first time, Belle would prefer that he sees something… or rather someone… that will make him return didn't come but doesn't want to work for those he despisesupset Kit. The subject of his decision? A girl Ivo's apparently 'older': he once got into trouble 's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with under different circumstances – before she wore the stripes of that. And they'll be sharing a concentration camp prisonerbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447255011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harlan CobenRobert Dugoni|title= Fool Me OnceHer Deadly Game|rating= 5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Joe was buried quickly. Only three days after Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his murderclients. For those of us who regularly watch Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the crime shows or even read latter was beginning to overshadow the papers that might seem like indecent hasteformer. His widow Maya isn't thinking like thatEnter Keera Duggan, though. Through former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the service she's thinking about all sorts hideous position of other things. She's bringing asking her training to bear. Distraction. Get through this bit and then deal father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with what needs to be donea senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784751111</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael R LaneVanda Symon|title=The Gem ConnectionExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5

|summary=In Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaughstart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, formerly shocking murder of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairexpectant woman in Dunedin. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that he was entails being unfaithful to his wife, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proofpregnant herself. Luck was Finding herself put on his sidedesk duties, but notwhich she rails against, it would seem, on Fahrlettishe just can's. In t let the meantime Clinton Windell case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what''knew'' that luck was on his side: he'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gems. The board hadn't believed that he could do it s actually happening, and a large part the increasingly disturbing worry of his pleasure was that he was proving them wrongjust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica1787301036|title= Don't You CryWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Quinn is missing someone, and Alex has found someoneWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. And both are She's a little confused (not to mention alarmedcareful, cautious and a little uncertain)meticulous child. In Chicago The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, Quinn discovers her roommatewho is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, EstherJuly's mother, and any hint that the conversation is missingheading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Vanished. Gone without a trace Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. It July's extremely out teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of character for abuse with the girl Quinn knows, head but as she starts to hunt down Esther's whereabouts, she her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to question how much she ‘'does'' know the girl with whom she shares a home and a life. A little way awayschool, Alex is working in a restaurant when a mysterious stranger comes in. He canhas he not? The playground wouldn't quite figure out why, have been resurfaced but he's drawn to herfor him. Who or what connects these two stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454732</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Read0008454493|title= The Art TeacherAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers Crime|summary=Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a pupil in year - well, apart from the faceodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. A mediocre teacher It's now a year since her son, Mason, stuck was stolen from his bed in a struggling school ruled by violent pupils, Patrick goes home every the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to an empty flatraise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, and an existence filled with reminders of his life as she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a faded rock starkeynote presentation. When one pupil over steps On the markplane back, she's approached by a brief mistake plunges Patrick into a world of dangerpodcaster, violenceWaylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and the glare of the mediaget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079573</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura McHugh1848458436|title= Arrowood|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Arrowood lies amongst the ornate historical houses that line Just the Mississippi River in Southern Iowa - a house rich with money, history, and mystery. It has been nearly twenty years since Arden Arrowood's infant twin sisters vanished under her watch, never to be seen again. The disappearance of the twins broke Arden's family – her parents divorced and they moved from the house that has been in her family for generations. But the mystery was never solved and now Arden has inherited Arrowood, allowing her to finally return to her childhood home. Still clinging to the hope that her sisters might still be alive, Arden is anxious yet determined to finally uncover the truth about what happened that fateful summer day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089192X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNicest Couple|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Why Did You Lie?Mary Kubica

|summary=There's a bunch of rock stacks – four of them, even if their name implies only three – off the coast of Iceland. 'The largest is a tall and thin lump whole thing has spiralled out of rockcontrol, hazardous to anyone on it, and home to a crumbling and inoperable helipad and a small, squat lighthouse – turning into someone I'm not the lighthouse of your imagination, but a perky concrete cabin, not needing any more than the one room to house the gear and the lantern on top. Replacing some of that gear and surveying the site is a group of four people – specialist workers, and a photographer to capture it all. So why and how do we know their story ends in tragedy – two of them cast to the waters below, and a third seemingly stabbed before the prologue is over? And why is their narrative interspersed with that of a woman, struggling with work in the police and seemingly with a haunted garage, the scene of her husband's failed suicide, and also that of a family returning home from a house-swap trip to Florida to find something they really didn't want to have waiting?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605059</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dawn Kurtagich|title= The Creeper Man|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector out of Python Wood. But with a grinning mouth and without eyes, The Creeper Man is not their protector.

In 2016 ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two sisters, Silla couples: Christian and NoriLily Scott, runaway from London and their cruel father to La Baume, the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath lives. Away from fear and hurt, the girls are finally happy Nina and lovedJake Hayes. They're finally safe… Until The connection between the trees start moving closer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= N D Gomes|title= Dear Charlie|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary=''I can't fathom a bigger emotional mess for someone to have left behind. I wonder if you know two is that this would happen. I wonder if you thought about anything at all before you walked into that assembly hall at 8:22 am on the last day of school.''N.D Gomes has written an exceptional novel on a controversial Lily and relevant subject today with gun laws Nina teach in question across the world. Dear Charlie is set in England in 1996, the same year in which Scotland was devastated by the Dunblame school massacre, : Nina teaches English and analyses life after an 18-year-old Charlie, student at Pembrook Academy, shoots and kills 14 people before turning the gun on himselfLily covers high school algebra. The novel is narrated by Sam, Charliecouples have mixed as a foursome but it's younger brother, who at 16 has to pick up the pieces after the shocking eventnot a regular thing. The novel depicts how Charlie's family come to terms with his loss, how Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: theydon're treated by the community, as well as the constant pressure on t have much in common except their lives by the mediawives. Forced to move to a new school, Sam tries to make a new start and leave the past behindLily hasn't said anything yet, but Charlie is never far from his thoughts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008181160</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karin Slaughter|title=The Kept Woman|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Special Agent Will Trent is backshe's pregnant. Collected by his partner, Faith, to attend the scene of a rather brutal murder, Trent queries why the GBI She has been called in to what would usually be a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PD. Arriving at the scene, their boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner is somewhat characteristically pacing and barking orders; the victim is none other than ex-cop and all round bad egg, Dale Harding. There is a lot lengthy history of blood, presumably due miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the door-knob and spindle sticking out of Harding's neckknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann TurnerJulia Bartz|title= The Lost Swimmer|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Your boss is out to sabotage your career, your husband's having an affair, someone's trying to frame you for fraud and your dog is out of control around the friendly neighbourhood Kangaroos. It would be a lot to handle for anyone, let alone university lecturer Rebecca who is somewhat less confident that her outward persona would suggest. But there's just that slight issue of how much of it is actually factual. The signs seem to suggest some or all of this to be true, but signs can be wrong, obscured with dirt or sometimes pointing the wrong way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471153088</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian J Walker|title=The End of the World Running ClubWriting Retreat

|summary=When Roza Vallo. Anyone in the end world of publishing knows the world as we know it comesname. Writers want to be her, Edgar is totally unpreparedagents want to represent her. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in She's something of a paniclegend with an impressive, he throws random itemsif compact, including his daughter, down into his cellarback catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run published when she was barely out. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country have been destroyedchildhood. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and townsAlex, turning ferala writer-slash-editor, trying to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by is more than a small remaining army unitlittle obsessed with Roza, but he and his wife and children become separatedis stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, and so begins Edgar's desperate race she is invited to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds be part of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryher month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1800465270|title= Silent ScreamThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he'Silent Screams at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body of also a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on firepallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn Valeri thinks differently: he't going s determined to be an isolated case make his own stand against organised crime and they are in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on the killeravenge Timur's hit list and whydeath. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= V H Leslie|title= Bodies of Water|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water is Within a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from the perspectives matter of Kirstenmonths, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a modern day woman on the mend from a broken heart, and Evelyndubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a nineteenth century journalist. She'guests determined to expose any and all corruption - and she' of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater House, attempting s less concerned than she ought to heal herself with the proximity of the waterbe about her own safety. Centuries ago, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit that same house in order to restore To her old vigour, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that haunts herhe's a good source. In fact For him, the water itself is it's a powerful and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their livesway to get information published, Kirsten and Evelyn search to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before themwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>