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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Fred Vargas Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Sian Reynolds (translator)Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=A Climate Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Fearher room to try to capture what's happened 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.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical

|summary=It takes just one policemanThere's iota of doubt, something about tall buildings that an elderly woman found dead in her bath with her wrists slit was not actual suicide but murder instead, for Commissaire Adamsberg to become involvedjust captures my imagination. The womanWho doesn't love a good view from up high, known to be dying, had struggled after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get a letter posted in the days before her death – and when the recipient is found out inside if it immediately leads to another murder disguised as suicide, and more deaths are to come's 40 stories tall. All indications (or at least those that can be understood) point to a hushed-So when I picked up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previously, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on the thinking that the whole truth is much more peculiar, and harder to solve, than that…this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784702625</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caite Dolan-Leach1804183210|title=Dead LettersNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=Ava and Zelda are twinsThirty-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, their naming triggering a family joke about being opposite ends of so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the alphabetbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? That's all past tense now though as Zelda is deadTwo men had been bidding against each other. Ava is told the news via her motherBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's terse, dispassionate email before Ava can come home to Mitchell were well-known and respected in the US from Parisracing industry. Zelda burnt to death Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the family's barn where she sometimes slept… at least that's toilets when the story two men came in and human remains were indeed found in their conversation revealed that the barnhorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. But then why is Ava still receiving emails from Zelda? Emails Both were happy that taunt, emails that remind and emails that suggest Zelda is very much alivethey had insurance in place. To discover The following morning, the truth all Ava needs to do is follow the clues and relive some painful memorieshorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maile Meloy1405951680|title=Do Not Become AlarmedThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=3.54

|summary=It's Christmas, what could go wrong? More than thatJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it's Christmas on holidayby her friend, on Rupert) to caretake a cruise down luxury property in the Pacific coast Australian outback for a couple of Latin America from near LAmonths. Perfect, thenAfter the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for two cousins – ladies both with their own husband the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and two kids each – in need of the space to get away over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from what life's currently giving themOtterburn House, namely high-pressure work, and griefdeath will follow. But labours and worries and grief will The only be exacerbatedsuspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when a trip ashore goes horrendously wronghe disappears, and practically the only six children on board go missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241305462</amazonuk>DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kaela CobleB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Friends and LiarsThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=54

|summary= Kaela Coble's debut novel ''Friends Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and Liars'' is had money to throw around on a gripping read that tells the tale of 'the crew' Rolex watch, vintage wines and a group state-of -the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who once made had a pact to ''always be honest with eachother'place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at the wake of one of their own, Danny Deusohis home, who has left a haunting suicide note along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the graveClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tina SeskisDean Koontz|title= The HoneymoonHouse at the End of the World|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= For as long as she When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can remembereither suck it up, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight's saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a five-star resort small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers peace and absolute privacy.It should be paradisesolitude. But it That's turned into a nightmare. Because the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from the island without a trace. And now what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her perfect new old life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes. After everything they've been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone to start afresh on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C F Peterson|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarJacob's father passes away, he makes the decision to return to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He has Ladder; and all would have been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in the army aforementioned peace and survived a posting in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, solitude were it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his positionnot for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, returning home to the peaceful life neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks mischief in the cellars name of Duncul, science and some quite possibly bringing about the end of Glencul's residents would kill for itall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)1787636607|title= Block 46 The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to appear at a Cartier event presenting some get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of her new creationsthe few taxis available. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept Others squash onto the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. When a young The womanall regret the 's mutilated body is discovered taxi problem', particularly in a Swedish marina near Linnéathe light of 's holiday home, Alexisthe missing women' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; in fact For one young woman, she is only the latest in final stop on the bus leaves her a string long way short of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Falkenbergcollect her - but her phone's dead. Up until now, The bus had driven off before she had the bodies have all belonged chance to young boys, so what has caused beg the killer bus driver to change let her use his or her MO? How can Alexis help . There's no option but to find justice for her friend, start walking - unsuitably clothed and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529195977|title= No Middle Name|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. 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-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A P McGrath|title= A Burning in the Darkness|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs None of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crime. 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, he this is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrue|author= Samantha King|title= The Choice|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one of your children more than the others at a particular point in time. Maybe for a moment, just a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in the carpark, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways and for different things, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favourite, but deep down there's no such thing. So imagine the worst thing that could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmare.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349414653</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Noah Hawley|title=Before the FallLisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was to accept 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 St Mary's hospital. That's where the offer from similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the wife midst of a media mogul for a short plane ridejoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not realising it will shape the rest of his life''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. The private jet falls out of the skyJosie, making him a hero in the way he saved on the only other survivorhand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the mogulsense that Walter's small son and heir JJnot too happy. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some heHe's not so used to spending this much the hero as the murderermoney on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pronko1803136383|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar crime Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in TokyoVietnam under something of a cloud. It suits him: he gets to have his own office, which What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is rare. He's got space at home too: his girlfriend has not only left himsure exactly what took place, but she's moved back an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the States as wellconsensus. He's yet Wat himself is keeping his cards close to ship all her boxes out of his apartment but when he's done that he'll be able to sleep in the bed again. White collar crime's usually non-violent, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent in Boston when he was studying) and when an American businessman ends up dead under the last trainchest, as he's called in to help. He could have done without having to see the body - or the people removing it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insistedalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410123</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd MooreB0C7J9D21B|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery A Captive in Algiers (Essex Witches Mystery 1Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalHistorical Fiction|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. NoWhen we first meet our hero, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought his name is to take the money Ettore and runhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Still Idyllic as this might sound, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. Thereit's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And therebordello and Ettore's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if mother died when hewas born. He's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayednot been short of mothers, just though - but for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled someone of his background in a most peculiar centurieslate-eighteenth-old mysterycentury Amalfi, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where it's difficult to her horror, obtain decent employment. The stint working with the secrets preparation of the past come with their own real, anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and all too present, danger it was not long before he had a successful business as a strange magic threatens to envelop them allguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Kerr0241996104|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Thrillers|summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling has been convicted of their murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of We first meet Nancy outside the Social Democratic Party)court, he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and after Martin Bormannreceives a life sentence. So when he is assigned to solve The barrister tells her that she's received a murder that has occurred at Hitler'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't know whether she's niece, Clemencerelieved or disappointed. During their stay, Clemence uncovers They've not been a strange book which seems couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to tell the story of her grandmotherknow him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's murder years before. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie cafe as outside the snow grows ever nearer, well as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairtheir mother who has dementia. It's past who wants going to make sure the past stays buriedbe good, even if that means burying Alastair along with isn't it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Grace MacallisterMark Edwards|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 a man in half on stage. But one night she swaps her trademark saw for an axe. When Arden's husband is found dead later that night, the answer seems clear, most of all to young policeman Virgil Holt. Captured and taken into custody, all seems set for Arden's swift confession. But she has a different story to tell. Even handcuffed and alone, Arden is far from powerless, and what she reveals is as unbelievable as it is spellbinding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199967</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|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 death? Well you couldn't go much further than The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the unusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers here. She's a mother perfect photograph to a young familyencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, whose husband was abroad at even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a conference. Do you seek awkward, unusual ravine gives way and/or conflicted investigators? Well, here we have a detective from Helena finds herself clinging to the lower ranks, but rockface with just the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a woman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims of sex abuse500 foot drop to certain death below. She's here because the only witness Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the murder was Elisa's very young daughter. And lo shocking secret she has been keeping and beholdmakes a panicked, the two adults have historycryptic declaration to Matthew. Do you require taunting clues as to why this crime will be repeated? You can't do much better than the messages in numerals received by other characters and Just moments later their untold threat. So it's tickheroic, tickand frankly very well prepared, tick – but Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what of the question marks left by the prologue, where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the past?he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621526</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice FeeneyJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= Sometimes I LieThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Christmas is barely over but Amber doesn't have much Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to celebrate. She's in leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a comabook fair, trapped she flukes her way into a public argument with an active mind but an inactive bodythe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, able to hear saying he's populist trash and understand but not respond only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to what is going on around herthat accusation. And Her publisher duly books her mind's a little fuzzy on a few things tooflights from Denmark to Iceland, like how where she ended is put up there, who else was involved, and what for a wintry month away from it all means. 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…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|amazonukrating=<amazonuk>0008225354</amazonuk>5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. 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 while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.

{{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>

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