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|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the Financial Reviewfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Martin Olivia is good at his job - accurateruthlessly ambitious, dedicated, hardworking which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and with a good nose for a scooptrauma doctor. But Martin Anjali is also uninterested in the culture that comes with reportingfree spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. He has When we first meet them they're at a wife drug and two daughters at home alcohol-fuelled party and he doesnit't want s going to waste time and money end in the pub, talking macho nonsense with the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyestragedy. Tom doesn We don't just grab know who suffered the limelight though - he also grabs tragedy or the promotion to industrial correspondentconsequences. And Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that is will impact the job Martin not only wantedthree friends. This time, but neededit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Krysten RitterSunny Singh|title= BonfireHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= General FictionThrillers |summary=It The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town rootsviolently taken over by a terrorist group. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, she has a thriving careerthere is Sam, a modern apartmentwartime photographer and Abhi, and her pick of meaningless one-night standsthe hotel manager.But when a new case takes her back home As Abhi continues to try to Barrenscare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plasticsbe cowed by events, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins keeps on venturing out of her room to find strange connections try to Barrenscapture what' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and s happened through her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for goodphotography.Abby knows Although they only ever talk over the key to solving any case lies in the weak spotsphone, the unanswered questions. But their friendship grows as she Abhi tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface help her keep safe and she begins they both wait to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it see if they will threaten the reputations, and lives, of be rescued before they are discovered by the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume herterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura WilsonCody Goodfellow|title= The Other WomanVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Based on the blurb on the back, Sophie might not be the most likable heroineThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. SheWho doesn's t love a quote-unquote perfect woman, with the housegood view from up high, after all? Even the husband, the children and the dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband drabbest office building is successful, but her own achievements seem linked somewhere I'm intrigued to having bagged herself a catch), though thereget inside if it's a sort of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yes40 stories tall. So Sophie is the sort of woman, one imagines, who might rub other when I picked up this book – about people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lackingscale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Norman1804183210|title=Trading DownNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=Chris Peters was happy in 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 work for a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when session. To say that he was promoted and sent back to Londonshocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? The job Two men had it all: a hectic trading floor, targets which been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were impossible well-known and some of the fastest computers respected in the world under his supervisionracing industry. He's happy at home too: he and Olivia met Jennings was in Hong Kong: now they're married and thinking about starting a family. But ... has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those one of the cubicles in the bank who think so, particularly toilets when things start the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to go badly wrongthat figure. He was never there for Olivia eitherBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. Life for Chris Peters The following morning, the horse was turning sourdead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Lelic1405951680|title= The Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the houseJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, despite Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the fact that it was crammed full Australian outback for a couple of months. After the sellerproblems she's stuff and they d had to take at work, it seemed like just the whole lot as a job lotbreak she needed. The seller had run off to Australia apparently and She was up no longer a data analyst for a quick sale, lock, stock the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and barrel. Jack wasn't so surein need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. He found A few weeks in the place creepy, and it wasn't Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the stuffed birds, there was an air about the place that he just didn't liketicket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith1448309743|title= The Girl from Venice|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at the close of the war is enticement enough. Add a backdrop of partisans, Mussolini and the desperate fight of the losing SS and my interest is certainly piqued, but present the aforementioned along with the mystery of a young woman found floating in the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Marjorie Orr|title=By the Light of a LieCaro Ramsay

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed in a hit-and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmith. She'd left her getting into a taxi at 11 o'clock In the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was village of Cronchie on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out West coast of Scotland, five members of her waya wealthy family are found murdered. The police didn't seem likely to pursue only item missing from the case on home is the grounds Devil Stone: myth says that it had probably been an accidentif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but being in many ways, that's an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasneasy conclusion given that two of them 't going discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to leave her friend unavenged'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Jon HalaszB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Prancing JacanaLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Mabel Pembrose's latest novel ''The Prancing Jacana'' has been on Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for a couple of weeks: her husband, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything like as wellLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. He writes children's books and his editor is adamant that It was an unusual relationship as he's writing about Snake Ralph was a boarder and Mouse, then Mouse has had money to be eaten by Snake, because that's how it works. throw around on a Mabel's not completely free from problems though: her novelRolex watch, set in Senegal, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky vintage wines and he's gay in a country where samestate-of-the-sex sexual acts are outlawed art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and in consequence her book has been banned in the countrycertainly more than acquaintances. The fact that it's banned isn't harming her sales Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the US at all, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, as Mabel Pembrose is her pen name - isnUK't content with thiss third most prestigious university. She's been Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to Senegalvisit Ralph at his home, loves the country and she'd like the book to be a bestseller there tooClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsDean Koontz|title= The Visitors|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on House at the edge End of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to shut out the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellar. Until, suddenly, John has a heart attack and Marion is forced to go down to the cellar herself and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked and secrets unravel, maybe John isn't the only one with a dark side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Viskic|title=Resurrection BayWorld

|summary=Caleb Zelic has just found his colleague When you experience overwhelming tragedy and lifelong friend murdered. The two – feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and a female police officer – were working as a ride on or you can retreat to your own private investigative group, tracking security flaws fortress on an island that led to sits snugly in a hugely costly warehouse robbery, small chain of tiny dots on the map and all have training live out your days in the industry, so they should have seen anything comingpeace and solitude. Caleb wonThat't have heard it coming, however – hes what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's pretty much deaf, getting a cadence of speech Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and noise from hearing aids but needing to lipread or sign. The first signs that this murder is connected to solitude were it not for the case are impossible to ignore – as indeed are hints that something really serious is going onpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, when Caleb finds he can't even trust the police looking into the murder. The case will cause him to go a lot further than he would ever want – which includes to neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the door name of his errant brother, science and into quite possibly bringing about the home end of his recently-made-ex wife…all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178227362X</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1787636607|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary=Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum sheIt's recently inheriteda scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. If Rosie had her Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way she'd be selling the museum and heading back to her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie get home. Some are lucky and Sam manage to a local businessmanget 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 'taxi problem', they find themselves embroiled particularly in dark events once againthe light of 'the missing women'. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers For one young woman, scrawled messages the final stop on the walls bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and apparitions walking through collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the walls. Before Rosie and Sam can start chance to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in beg the restaurant - and the ownerbus driver to let her use his. There's daughter swears that a ghost was no option but to blamestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jessica Jarlvi1529195977|title= When I Wake UpNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers|summary= Anna is On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in a comathe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Only two people know who inflicted the severe injuries that lead to She, too, was out celebrating her lying there unmoving in the hospital bed45th birthday, the culprit who won’t talkonly she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Anna who can’tJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. If That's where the similarities end, and it’s a big ifthough: Alix, she wakes upwith her husband, she may remember what happenedNathan, but are in the midst of course there’s a chance she quite literally did joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not know what hit her''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. For her husband Erik Josie, it’s an agonising wait. The police don’t seem that interestedon the other hand, but he has holds her handbag close to know who was responsible, her tummy and so he wonders whether he should do you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a bit meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of investigating himselfa cloud. He shouldn’tWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of course, because in heroism leading to a story like this there are secrets just waiting rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be uncoveredthe consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, and as he may find that these are things he would rather have never knownalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786696096</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra ParkinB0C7J9D21B|title= The Winter's ChildA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalHistorical Fiction|summary=''A modern Gothic tale When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of twisted loveBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, secrets it's a bordello and hauntingsEttore'' it says on the covers mother died when he was born. IHe'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesns not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it't believe in life after death or gypsies being able s difficult to tell obtain decent employment. The stint working with the future, but that hasnpreparation of anchovies didn't stopped her spending a fortune work out and bastards are considered bad luck on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her sonfishing boats. Joel has been missing Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for five yearsvisitors. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen sincewas even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=K J Lawrence0241996104|title= The CossackComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: heNancy's a photographer of some merit mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and in his fifties he her step-brother, Martin, has a settled lifebeen convicted of their murder. It was We first meet Nancy outside the disappearance of his assistantcourt, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everythingafter Martin receives a life sentence. It wasn The barrister tells her that she's received a 't unknown for him silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was a first live with what happened for himthe rest of her life. He Of course, it'd been distracted for a few days s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The authorities, in are making the form most of a shadowy senior member of the security services, confirmed the view that Ivan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and drug dealing''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clar Ni Chonghaile1529135389|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= It's a cliché that Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Irish have a picturesque turn county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of phrase, her husband but clichés only exist because they're trueopera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Roddy Doyle put it differently They'd not been in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazine, when he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under the English''architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. However you express it, that art Some of expression is woven into every them fought with each other line of Clárand didn's proset work as reliably as they should. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that It had all come to roost in her home like about through a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus ten-million-pound lottery win and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbingthey were still getting used to having that sort of money, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawarestoo. Eventually, or tear at your heart Nicole found Tom dead in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes boththe swimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Neil WhiteAlan Parks|title= From The ShadowsTo Die in June|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a bit old-fashioned homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and therefore not then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. I'll go At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a prologue – even if it's becoming move to a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at different police station, and the beginning arrival there of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a woman who claims her little lazyboy has gone missing, a way only no record of creating tension when all else failsthe boy having existed can be found. That, howeverSomething feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wes Stuart1529382823|title= My Name is SamThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary=Who is the real enemy? This Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmosmiddle-spanning war with the Gibbus, aged and the main character has found herself somewhat surprisingly in this storylove with Pete. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. He is also Earth Caz's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus whosister, in seven daysGemma, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: reckons that Pete is the decision of the alien Sereia, going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his mentors suit pocket and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous taskshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They have their own reasons 've not been a couple for wanting Earth that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to be saved, but are too weak get to challenge the Gibbus themselvesknow him a bit better. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy Meanwhile, Sam – but this child Gemma is not quite looking after Caz's cafe as well as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DibdinMark Edwards|title=The Room by the LakeKeep Her Secret

|summary= What would life be like if you just packed up your things Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and left? This black beaches is a thought that breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the main protagonist Caitlyn has been mulling over for a while now but has never had perfect photograph to encapsulate the guts to dojoy she is feeling in this moment, until she reaches even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the final straw when her father fails at sobriety once again. After throwing her phone in edge of a river, Caitlyn takes ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the airport where she ends up getting rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a plane 500 foot drop to New Yorkcertain death below. From there her life completely changes as she meets Jake who seems to be just what she needs. As they grow closer Convinced she is invited going to meet his familydie, but, in Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a house surrounded by forest that is miles away from civilisationpanicked, family takes on a whole new meaningcryptic declaration to Matthew. There you live by the motto ''we are here for each other Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and we are nothing without each other''hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Liam BrownJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= BroadcastThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=When David Callow is offered the lead role in a revolutionary new online showHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, he snatches an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at the opportunity. Rapidly becoming a viral sensationbook fair, David is propelled to stratospheric levels she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of celebrity. Howevercrime fiction, saying he soon realises 's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the downside of sharing every secret with the worldbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. A prisoner Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to both his fame and his own thoughtsIceland, David seeks to have where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the chip removedpoint of despairing – about her writing, only to discover about the chilling secret lurking at people and the heart lack of MindCaststimulus for her plot, and the terrifying ambition more or less about everything – word comes that the showlandlady's creator nephew has for him.been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199932</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica0861544056|title= Every Last LieTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Clara is mother Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to pre-schooler Maisie the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and newborn Felix, but now she has a new label: widow. Her husband Nick is dead, killed in an awful car crash that thankfully spared his daughterJess's life when Felix is just a few days oldin Exeter. For Clara, that It's not only the end first time they've been away from their parents for any length of the nightmaretime - but they've also been apart from each other. As she works her way through grief and struggles Belle can't wait to have them all to carry on herself for the children, a while. Then Kit rings up - can she is faced bring her boyfriend home with some new worries. Maisie isnher? Belle would prefer that he didn't talking much about the accident, come but shedoesn's having nightmares that make Clara question the police story of eventst want to upset Kit. There are things in Nick Ivo's personal possessions that are odd, things she has never seen before. Whatapparently 'older': he's more, it turns out a lot was going on at Nicktwenty-four to Kit's work eighteen but Belle figures that he hadn't shared she can cope with his wifethat. And, the more she starts to look, the more she wishes she could un-see and go back to how things werethey'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WhitakerRobert Dugoni|title= All The Wicked GirlsHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= In Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the small town 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 Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missinghis clients. A model student Along with exceptional musical an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and beloved by all that know her, inevitably the incident rocks latter was beginning to overshadow the entire townformer. It is even more terrifying set against Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the backdrop hideous position of recent crimes; asking her father for over a job at the course of the yearfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, five young church-attending girls have had gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streetsrather spectacularly, no one is safesouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim WeaverVanda Symon|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker Detective Sam Shepherd is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over approaching the course start of his workher maternity leave when there is a brutal, he's seen plenty shocking murder of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this onean expectant woman in Dunedin. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for helpa killer targeting pregnant women, but explains with all the extra pressure that his request is quite unusualentails being pregnant herself. You see Finding herself put on desk duties, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previouslywhich she rails against, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he she just can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his let the case, go and without a National Insurance number, he is basically she starts to follow every thread to uncover what'off the grids actually happening,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thingincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Jewell1787301036|title= Then She Was GoneWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= One day Ellie went to the library for some last minute GCSE study and When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she never returned's just ten years old. There are a lot of ''what ifs?'': what if her sister hadn She't had s a noisy friend overcareful, forcing her to seek out somewhere quieter to study? What if there had meticulous child. The care has been more CCTV on the high street so taught by her journey could have been traced? What iffather, taking it back a bitMick Hooper, she had never met Theowho is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, never fallen for himJuly's mother, never drifted into competition against him and never felt any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none necessity of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to happenthe school, one way or anotherhas he not?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896417</amazonuk> The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caz Frear0008454493|title= Sweet Little LiesAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= In 1998 Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a girl called Maryanne disappears in Ireland. In 2017 year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a woman called Alice is found dead in Londonmoment. In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but she It's more worried by the fact now a year since her father is too. And he cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Londonson, Mason, 1863: prostitutes was stolen from his bed in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and removedparticularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. When another girl goes missing, fears grow In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the killer may have claimed their latest victimcase. The police are at a loss She does interviews and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chanceywhen we meet her, she's just been to investigateTrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. With On the assistance of her trusty Chinese maidplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Amah Li LeenWaylon Spencer, Heloise inches closer who points out that she could do a podcast and get to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom so many more people than she can trust, before the killer strikes againcould by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)1848458436|title=Three Days and a LifeJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Christmas week''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, 1999, and Antoine hasnturning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple''t got is the best story of situationstwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. He's built The couples have mixed as a treehouse all by himself, and decided foursome but it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but she's rejected itnot a regular thing. And his best company, the dog from the other house next door, was injured in Christian is a hit market research analyst and run, and shot to be put out of its miseryJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, heLily hasn's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbourt said anything yet, the dog's six-year-old owner, and Antoinebut she's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweeppregnant. As the title suggests, there will be She has a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime lengthy history of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead miscarriages so she doesn't want to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>tempt fate by making the knowledge public.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Riley SagerJulia Bartz|title=Final GirlsThe Writing Retreat

|genre= Thrillers|summary=A 'final girl' is the last girl alive at Roza Vallo. Anyone in the end world of a horror movie, a gruesome description which has defined publishing knows the life of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries name. Writers want to persuade you differently. Quincybe her, the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying agents want to put the past behind represent her. But when another She'final girl' diess something of a legend with an impressive, the mediaif compact, who have always been obsessed back catalogue of works that started with the girls' dark glamourher breakthrough novel, swarm upon herpublished when she was barely out of childhood. And to make matters worse for QuincyAlex, the other 'final girl' a survivor from another massacrewriter-slash-editor, who has been in hiding for yearsis more than a little obsessed with Roza, appears on her doorstep. Suddenlyand is stunned when, Quincy is not only able to move past her pastfollowing a series of unexpected events, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back in. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out invited to be part of hiding? And what isnher month-long writers't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785034022</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Stovell1800465270|title= ExquisiteThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= I was looking forward to reading When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he'Exquisites at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur' ever since I first heard about its father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and it didnhe't disappoints disgusted by what his son had become. It Valeri thinks differently: he's a murky, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; itdetermined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a compulsivematter of months, attention-grabbing read that had me hunched up in bed till 1amhis obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, desperate to finish it as soon as I coulda journalist. It She's clever, excellentlydetermined to expose any and all corruption -paced, and uncannily realisticshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety.It To her, he's just a pity that I managed to figure out the ending about good source. For him, it's a quarter of the way into get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633747</amazonuk>