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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tina Seskis1399613073|title= The HoneymoonMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= For as long as she can rememberOlivia, Jemma has been planning Laura and Anjali met on the perfect honeymoonfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. A fortnight's retreat Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a five-star resort in cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers group and absolute privacyshe becomes a GP.It should be paradise. But When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's turned into a nightmaregoing to end in tragedy. Because We don't know who suffered the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from tragedy or the island without a traceconsequences. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. After everything they This time, it've been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island s their teenage children who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>are involved.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C F PetersonSunny Singh|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)Hotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= CrimeThrillers |summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes away, he makes the decision to return to his home The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He an unnamed city that has suddenly been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued violently taken over by a career in terrorist group. Hiding from the army and survived a posting in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, it seems village life back in Glencul there is his only option. For most people in his positionSam, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over a castle wartime photographer and village would sound like a dream come trueAbhi, the hotel manager. But Duncul Castle and As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the village it overlooks residents who are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks still alive in the cellars of Dunculhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and some keeps on venturing out of Glenculher room to try to capture what's residents would kill for ithappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi 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>1910895067</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Cody Goodfellow|title= Block 46 Vertical|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers |summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows There's something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionabout tall buildings that just captures my imagination. When a young womanWho doesn's mutilated body is discovered in t love a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday homegood view from up high, Alexisafter all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéam intrigued to get inside if it's death is not unique; in fact, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg40 stories tall. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged to young boys, so what has caused the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1804183210|title= No Middle NameReserve|author=Felix Francis|rating= 4|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= There is a theoryThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribebut Peter Radway, which says that the short storychairman, hadn's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grasst arrived, so he continued his session. This is particularly true, some 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 I have been Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known to concur, of and respected in the crime and thriller genresracing industry. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and own their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up: I simply haven't been paying attentionto that figure. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-styleThe following morning, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1405951680|title= A Burning in the DarknessThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 4|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= At a busy airportJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengersactually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, but circumstance and evidence point Rupert) to his guilt caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a terrible crimecouple of months. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret After the problems she'd had at work, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injusticeit seemed like just the break she needed. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking She was no longer a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to protect a young witness, sparking memories the country of Michael's past her birth and in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has need of the space to risk anything for get over the sake traumatic end of love and truthher relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Samantha King1448309743|title= The ChoiceDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one In the village of your children more than Cronchie on the others at West coast of Scotland, five members of a particular point in timewealthy family are found murdered. Maybe for a moment, just a moment, you prefer The only item missing from the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off to do home is the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in Devil Stone: myth says that if the carparkstone is removed from Otterburn House, but if you ask most parents they death will say they love their children equallyfollow. End of. In different The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways and for different things, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favourite, but deep down therethat's no such thing. So imagine an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the worst thing that could comebody. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making you choose between your children. One can live The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but one must die. Welcome DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to Madeline's world and her living nightmareshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349414653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah HawleyB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Before The Last Person in the FallWorld|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did Our narrator was to accept a scholarship day boy at the offer from the wife of London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a media mogul for boarder and had money to throw around on a short plane ride Rolex watch, not realising it will shape vintage wines and a state-of-the rest of his life-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. The private jet falls out Finns had no intention of the skygoing on to University, making him unlike our storyteller who had a hero place at Wolverton College in the way he saved the only other survivorWellingford, the mogulUK's small son and heir JJthird most prestigious university. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many waysBefore going up, especially when he realises that for some he's not so much the hero as the murderertook up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael PronkoDean Koontz|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)House at the End of the World|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar crime On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in Tokyothe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. It suits him: he gets to have his own officeShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, which is rareWalter. He's got space at home too: his girlfriend has It turns out that not only left himare Alix and Josie birthday twins, but shethey were both born in St Mary's moved back to the States as wellhospital. HeThat's yet to ship all where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her boxes out husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of his apartment but when hefriends and whilst they're not ''exactly''s done that herowdy, they'll be able to sleep in the bed againre enjoying themselves. White collar crime's usually non-violentJosie, on the other hand, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent in Boston when he was studying) holds her handbag close to her tummy and when an American businessman ends up dead under you get the last train, hesense that Walter's called in to helpnot too happy. He could have done without having 's not used to see the body spending this much money on a meal - or the people removing but it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insistedis Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410123</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1803136383|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in ghosts or witches or magicVietnam under something of a cloud. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought What actually happened out there is to take the money gossiped about and run. Stillnobody is sure exactly what took place, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those but an act of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put heroism leading to death. And there's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to looking like her plans to sell be the museum might need to be delayed, just for a whileconsensus. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie Wat himself is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where keeping his cards close to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own realhis chest, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them allhe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip KerrB0C7J9D21B|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Fiction|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical When we first meet our hero. In 1939, his name is Ettore and he was stationed in Berlin lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a police officer handling murder cases bordello and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (Ettore's mother died when he was a known member born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of the Social Democratic Party)his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, he understood that it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the best thing preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he could do had a successful business as a guide for himself at that time visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin Bormann, has been convicted of their murder. So when he is assigned to solve We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a murder life sentence. The barrister tells her that has occurred at Hitlershe's received a 'silent sentence' - she's Berghof in not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the Bavarian mountainsrest of her life. Of course, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his ownmade worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. He ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, favourite epithet and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just ''rich bitch'' might get luckynot be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Scott1529135389|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during Nicole Booth had spent the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to morning at the deciphering of Linear Bcounty fair before she returned home. The war is now officially over (although a lot There was no sign of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) and Forrester has returned to Athens with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent her husband but opera was playing on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve state-of-the stone-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. It was whilst they were They'd not been in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the poisoning high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of a Greek poet them fought with each other and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a maskdidn't work as reliably as they should. Strange as It had all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been come about through a general who has been approached ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to lead ELAShaving that sort of money, the military arm of the Greek communiststoo. He's Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the sort of charismatic man who could sway swimming pool with a lot of people wound to follow him adn that would mean certain warhis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BrogdenAlan Parks|title=Hekla's ChildrenTo Die in June

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Nathan has What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a steady job homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as an outdoor pursuits instructor another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but that's not all the more so because his first career. Ten years earlier own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he'd has been a teacher when it all went dreadfully wrong during an orienteering event for his secondary school studentsyears. Four young people disappeared suddenly but At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only one was no record of the boy having existed can be found. Malnourished and in shockSomething feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, Olivia was never able to tell anyone but can Harry uncover just what happened. A decade later a body is found, Nathan starts having hallucinations and Olivia crosses his path again. Whatever began that day isn't finished. ''Evil will find a way through.''going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785654381</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1529382823|title= AmnesiaThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= Alastair Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in troublelove with Pete. He They's had re off on a nasty knock cruise to New York on the head and now he can't remember anything about his life'Atlantica''. In an attempt to recover his memories Caz's sister, Gemma, he reckons that Pete is sent going to convalesce in propose but Caz hasn't spotted a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands ring-shaped bulge in the company of his old friendsuit pocket and she doesn's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell the story of her grandmothert know whether she's murder years beforerelieved or disappointed. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastair They's past who wants to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grace Macallister|title= The Magician's Lie|rating=4|genre= Thrillers|summary= The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing ve not been a man in half on stage. But one night she swaps her trademark saw couple for an axe. When Arden's husband is found dead later that night, long and the answer seems clear, most of all trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to young policeman Virgil Holtknow him a bit better. Captured and taken into custody Meanwhile, all seems set for ArdenGemma is looking after Caz's swift confessioncafe as well as their mother who has dementia. But she has a different story It's going to tell. Even handcuffed and alonebe good, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as isn't it is spellbinding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Mark Edwards|title=The Legacy: Children's House Book 1Keep Her Secret

|summary=What do you wish for Matthew and Helena are in your murder mysteries? Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. An inventive The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death? Well you couldn't go much further than the unusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers herebelow. She's a mother Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a young familypanicked, whose husband was abroad at a conferencecryptic declaration to Matthew. Do you seek awkwardJust moments later their heroic, unusual and/or conflicted investigators? Wellfrankly very well prepared, here we have a detective from the lower ranksIcelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, but the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and a bitter woman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims , an author of sex abusefailing if well-regarded literary short novels. She's here because 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 only witness to latest hot shot in the murder was Elisaworld of crime fiction, saying he's very young daughterpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. And lo and behold, Cue the two adults have historybet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Do you require taunting clues as Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to why this crime will be repeated? Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. You can't do much better than Just on the messages in numerals received by other characters and their untold threat. So it's tickpoint of despairing – about her writing, tick, tick – but what of about the question marks left by people and the prologuelack of stimulus for her plot, where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by more or less about everything – word comes that the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the past?landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621526</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alice Feeney0861544056|title= Sometimes I LieTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Christmas is barely over but Amber doesnBelle and David't have much s twin daughters are just coming to celebratethe end of their first term at university. She Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a coma, trapped while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with an active mind her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but an inactive body, able doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to hear and understand Kit's eighteen but not respond to what is going on around herBelle figures that she can cope with that. And her mindthey's a little fuzzy on ll be sharing a few things too, like how she ended up there, who else was involved, and what it all meansbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008225354</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sherri SmithRobert Dugoni|title= Follow Me DownHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Mia is done with the small town she grew up in, but it only takes one phone call to bring her back. Her twin brother Lucas is missing and, worse still, Patrick Duggan & Associates has been implicated in the death life's work of one Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his studentsclients. Without him there to speak Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself it becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the bottom hideous position of everything that has asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone on, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785654047</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam JenoffVanda Symon|title=The Orphan's TaleExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Herr Neuroff's circus has a secret: as well as a much needed wartime source Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of entertainment, it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates. One such person, Astrid, her maternity leave when there is a trapeze and high wire artistbrutal, lives a precarious life shocking murder of an expectant woman in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly actDunedin. She's an expert who has perfected her art over time and therefore resents Neuroff demanding Suddenly she teach Noa, finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a non-circus family new comerkiller targeting pregnant women, quicklywith all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. ThereFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's a reason behind t let the circus ownercase go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's demand though. Noa arrives at actually happening, and the circus endangered by an act increasingly disturbing worry of kindness: a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlands. It was a spur of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may bejust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455364</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh1787301036|title= The Blade ArtistWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary=SoWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh She's work and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbiecareful, the notoriously violentmeticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased reviewMick Hooper, it does mean you will get a passionate one. It who is fair not prepared to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'discuss the death of his wife, July' s mother, and my only critique would be any hint that it was over too quicklythe conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. For those Other infractions of you who may his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not be familiar with Welshthe injuries are visible. July's earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick teacher is concerned and brings up ''The Blade Artist'' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those the possibility of you abuse with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeancehead but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, violence and bloodhas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton0008454493|title=The PicturesAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the spring middle of 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard of Oz'' the night and Izzy is in production at MGM and it's important consumed with guilt that she heard nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for and particularly about her relief in the actors or the studiomorning when she thought he was sleeping in. The police department recognises that it's good for Hollywood In that all goes smoothly and it's Detective Jonathan Craneyear she's job done everything she could to see that raise awareness about the crimes and misdemeanours of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetcase. The studio rewards him handsomely for this She does interviews and therewhen we meet her, she's perhaps just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Crainekeynote presentation. On the plane back, she's got it easy and wouldn't know how to investigate approached by a case if it came up and slapped himpodcaster, Waylon Spencer, but in Craine's mind all who points out that's going she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to changea few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1848458436|title= The Acid TestJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 3.54|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolate''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, dusty field by the side of the roadturning into someone I'm not. Once ''  ''Just the most adored, celebrated dancer at Nicest Couple'' is the local strip clubstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, she had a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded Nina and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to Jake Hayes. The connection between the deaths of various associates, arms dealers two is that Lily and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns Nina teach in ''the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The Acid Test'', following on from Mendozacouples have mixed as a foursome but it's first novel ''Silver Bullets'not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. I haven Lily hasn't read the first instalment of this series and donsaid anything yet, but she't believe that had any impact on this storys pregnant. Lefty She has a personal connection lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to the case, forever haunted tempt fate by making the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents and his consuming desire to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on a trail of destruction, death and disorderknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriJulia Bartz|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a surprise, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to do with the President of the United States, the Pope and even the UK's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary G Thompson|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=Six years ago, cousins Amy and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and no trace of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns home, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to her. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her family, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivity, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back to her old life. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old and in the years of her absence, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= B A Paris|title= The Breakdown|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Sometimes the way we ''think'' we will behave when something happens is not the way we do behave when that same thing happens. Cass never thought she would be the sort of person to leave someone stranded – not least a lone female in a dark wood, late at night – but when she passes a stranded car on her way home she doesn't stop, get out, and go to offer help. She hurries on home, forgets about it, and crawls into bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=The Milan BriefcaseWriting Retreat

|summary=It began with a briefcase, a rather elegant briefcase to be sure, but it had been left Roza Vallo. Anyone in the back world of a taxipublishing knows the name. When you're the next customer in the cabWriters want to be her, what do you do in that situation? The driver isnagents want to represent her. She't part s something of a grouplegend with an impressive, if compact, so there's not going to be a lost-property office and you have a suspicion back catalogue of works that if you pass the briefcase over it's not going to be passed on anywhere else. So the red briefcase was taken on a flight to Luritania where it started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was looked at by various members barely out of the Lenfindi Clubchildhood. And who were they? WellAlex, they started as as a quartet writer- three men slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a women - who gathered each Sunday morning at Lenfindi Airport to discuss matters series of great (or lesser) import. Originally they were called The Sunday Clubunexpected events, but changed the name when they gathered a fifth member (it was easier she is invited to make decisions when there were five rather than four) and then a sixth..be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589868X</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alec Birri1800465270|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= ItWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's 1966, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating EnglandJune 1995 and he's win at the Serafimov Cemetry in the World Cup – instead heSt Petersburg. He's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accidentpallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Waking in Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a world where nothing makes sense, pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's unable to recall the crash – but struggles determined to remember the rest of make his life…And whatown stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's stopping death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about the red pillher own safety. To her, or is he right to think there's something more sinister going on…Anda good source. For him, having suffered almost 100% burnsit's a way to get information published, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>which wouldn't otherwise be possible.