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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- James: remove 31/1 -->{{Frontpage*[[image:James_Righteous.jpg|leftisbn=1399613073|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ieMoral Injuries|author=UTF8&tagChristie Watson|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]]4.5|genre===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]===Thrillers[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]  In Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the crazy world first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Arthur Browna century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, he can which is a bonus when you aim to be standing at the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minute, a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and wasting bad guys with his guns the nexta trauma doctor. What's inspired this? Two low-lifes, way from Anjali is the top free spirit of the crime ladder in this particular city, who stole millions from group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a shady casino, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and stashed the money it's going to end in his basementtragedy. Two other lowlifes, working for the drug lord We don't know who owns suffered the casino, come for tragedy or the money, kill Arthur's family, and leave him so badly knifed on his floor consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that he's taken for dead when he's discoveredwill impact the three friends. But he This time, it's not dead, and nor is his God-given hope to redress the balance in his town, and to right some very big wrongstheir teenage children who are involved. Yes, truly is he the god of hell fire, and he will take some men to burn… [[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Mariaffi -->|author=Sunny Singh*[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2.jpg|lefttitle=Hotel Arcadia|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co3.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]]5|genre===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]===Thrillers [[image:2.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads The Hotel Arcadia is a seemingly pleasant life luxury hotel in America after an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a damaged childhood in war-torn Europeterrorist group. She Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a stay-at-home motherwartime photographer and Abhi, the wife of a successful psychiatrist, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quiethotel manager. Then one afternoon her four-old-son befriends a young girl by As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the lake, residents who vanishes suddenly under are still alive in the water. Although Heike dives in after herhotel, the girl is nowhere he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be seencowed by events, leaving Heike wondering and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what 's happened to through herphotography. In an attempt Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to find answers, Heike seeks the help of paranormal television writer Leo Dolan after her controlling husband refuses to believe her. But then things take another turn when Heike's son disappears, keep safe and it's her husband who was the last they both wait to see him aliveif they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]]isbn=086154742X}}<br>{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow<!-- Ellis -->|title=Vertical*[[image:Ellis_Dark|rating=3.jpg5|leftgenre=Thrillers|linksummary=https://wwwThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination.amazonWho doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall.coSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]Felix Francis|rating=4|genre==Thrillers[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. ThereThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not t have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be in on the rostrum when the past, although Elsa is still selfcolt - as yet unnamed -harming when under pressurecame up for auction, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with himPeter Radway, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstockthe chairman, and you canhadn't waste any time arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when children go missingthe bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!lovely animal -but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well- Tudor -->*[[image:Tudor Chalkknown and respected in the racing industry.jpg|left|link=https://www Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure.amazon Both were happy that they had insurance in place.co The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title==[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by an eerily terrifying spectreher friend, conjured during one fateful summer. By Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and Australian outback for a girl will be deadcouple of months. But who is After the killer; is problems she'd had at work, it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all seemed like just the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Manbreak she needed. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when She was no longer a data analyst for the letters start Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him country of her birth and dredging up in need of the fever dream nightmare of space to get over the summer traumatic end of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and deathher relationship with Charles. Driven deeper into A few weeks in the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]ticket.<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Robins -->|isbn=1448309743*[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|lefttitle=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINCaro Ramsay|rating=0008217548]]4|genre===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]===Crime[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie and Tilda In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are very different twinsfound murdered. Callie lives a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves The only item missing from the spotlight, and home is a moderately successful actress. Callie the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is awkward, suffering removed from a lifetime of acneOtterburn House, weight issues and comparing herself to her sister and her beautiful white bodydeath will follow. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, love, and Tilda laps all of these feelings up. They The only suspects are grownknown Satanists but in many ways, and see each other with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new man, Felix. Hethat's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particularan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. At first Callie loves him The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, loves the way he includes her DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in their relationship, but after a boating trip, fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins to worry about this dynamic, to obsess ..'shadow' him. [[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob MurphyB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Rotten to The Last Person in the CoreWorld|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=Thrillers |summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the oh-soLondon-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar inbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have had money to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and they have a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship state-of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above -the parapet - a joint offering from Wales art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and Scotlandcertainly more than acquaintances. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with Finns had no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes intention of going on to winning thingsUniversity, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was unlike our storyteller who had a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be soplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the waters third most prestigious university. Before going up, and Russia would win out. And who's he took up a loose invitation to say the Britsvisit Ralph at his home, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government Clouds Manor in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>West Dorset.

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphDean Koontz|title=Forests in The House at the SaharaEnd of the World

|genre=Thrillers |summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks 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 are going can retreat to come to some sort your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of sticky endtiny 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' Those are s Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the most promising words a man can hear from his new partnerpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but she doesn't lie the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in this instancethe 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|rating=4. He is Jeffrey Harvey, 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities scene replicated all too often in the early hours of water purifiedthe morning. Get an iceberg or three worth Drunken revellers spilling out of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still clubs and looking for a scarce resource, way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the trees can do their bit and few taxis available. Others squash onto the water night bus that will advance only go as far as one of the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneuroutlying villages. If, that is, he can get round The woman all regret the problems in his life - fractions 'taxi problem', particularly in the start-up involved in light of 'the projectmissing women'. For one young woman, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and final stop on the bus leaves her a man ready long way short of her home. She had intended to accuse Jeffrey of murder ring someone to come and theft of research data on a case reaching back several yearscollect her - but her phone's dead. It seems The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the lovely girlfriend was right bus driver to see let her use his. There's no shortage of possible sticky endsoption but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Quintana1529195977|title= The Missing GirlNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers|summary= In On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missingthey were both born in St Mary's hospital. Her younger sister Anna is torn up by her sister That's disappearance and for where the next thirty yearssimilarities end, though: Alix, no one knows what happened to Gabriella. Decades laterwith her husband, Nathan, Anna has built are in the midst of a life for herself in Athens joyful, monied group of friends and has tried to put the past behind herwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. But Josie, on the sudden death of other hand, holds her mother forces Anna to return handbag close to her childhood home tummy and you get the village where she and her sister grew upsense that Walter's not too happy. Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her mother He's possessions, and having not used to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasnspending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>s birthday after all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1803136383|title=Hurricane JusticeTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Finn Westlake was first amused and then horrified when he saw the attractive young woman jumping up and down Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in the road as his jeep turned the corner: the amusement came from the fact that she was wearing just soaking-wet bra and pantiesVietnam under something of a cloud. It was when he saw the tears streaming down her face that he realised that What actually happened out there was is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a serious problem. Diana McGuire's father's plane had crashed into the river and she had tried rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and failed disgrace seems to get him outbe the consensus. Sending her Wat himself is keeping his cards close to get more help Finn dived into the river and managed to extract Chester McGuire and his business associatechest, Sandy Moseley, but whilst checking that there was no one else in the plane as he was seriously injuredalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210493</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen PerryB0C7J9D21B|title= Can You Keep a Secret?A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Thornbury Hall When we first meet our hero, his name is the grand ancestral home Ettore and he lives at The House of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter with his wistful wife Heather and their two childrenBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, Patrick it's a bordello and RachelEttore's mother died when he was born. It is also the setting He's not been short of mothers, though - but for many secrets and tragedies all someone of which resurface twenty years later as Patrick reunites childhood friendshis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, Niall, Marcus, Hilary it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the 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 main character Lindsey, it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for one final party before selling the housevisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak0241996104|title= Hello AgainComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred by the trauma inflicted on Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty years previouslystep-brother, Evelyn Talbot works as a psychologist at Hanover HouseMartin, a dumping ground for psychopathic criminals in a remote corner has been convicted of Alaskatheir murder. A murder in We first meet Nancy outside the nearby town seemed to indicate inmate involvementcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started to wonder whether Jasper might will have returned to finally finish live with what happened for the rest of her offlife. After a book full Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of false clues it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and misleading hints, it was a genuine shock to find out who was responsible after all''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Asa Avdic1529135389|title= The Dying GameFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the formidable chairmancounty fair before she returned home. Except There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the offer, is more state-of an order than a choice-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. With nothing to lose They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and everything were still getting used to gain, Anna acceptsall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. She is taken to an isolated Island Some of them fought with each other and didn''candidates'' for t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a job in the superten-million-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simple, she is pound lottery win and they were still getting used to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers having that sort of the housemoney, too. Once the experiment is finished Eventually, she will report her findings back to Nicole found Tom dead in the chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced swimming pool with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymorewound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scoop of the YearAlan Parks|authortitle=Tom ClaverTo Die in June

|summary=Martin Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job middle- accurate, dedicated, hardworking aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a good nose for a scoopcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. But Martin Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is also uninterested going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the culture that comes with reporting. He has a wife and two daughters at home his suit pocket and he she doesn't want to waste time know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and money in the pubtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, talking macho nonsense with the other hacks. He Gemma is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyeslooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Tom doesn It't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion s going to industrial correspondent. And that is the job Martin not only wantedbe good, but needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Krysten RitterMark Edwards|title= BonfireKeep Her Secret|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home Matthew and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer Helena are in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartmentIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and her pick of meaningless oneblack beaches is breath-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to Barrens, Indiana, encapsulate the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plasticsjoy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the town's most high-profile company edge of a ravine gives way and economic heart, Abby begins Helena finds herself clinging to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--rockface with just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questionscertain death below. But as Convinced she tries desperately to find out what really happened is going to Kayceedie, troubling memories begin to resurface Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and she begins makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to doubt her own observationsMatthew. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game Just moments later their heroic,'' it will threaten the reputationsand frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and lives, of the community hauls Helena to safety and risk exposing a darkness that may consume herMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura WilsonJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= The Other WomanThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Based on the blurb on the backHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, Sophie might not be the most likable heroinean author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. She's Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a quote-unquote perfect womanbook fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the house, latest hot shot in the husbandworld of crime fiction, the children saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the dogbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband is successful, but Her publisher duly books her own achievements seem linked flights from Denmark to having bagged herself a catch)Iceland, though there's where she is put up for a sort wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of part time hobby running despairing – about her own shopwriting, because, well, yes. So Sophie is about the people and the sort lack of womanstimulus for her plot, one imagines, who might rub other people up more or less about everything – word comes that the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to 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 hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen NormanVanda Symon|title=Trading DownExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5

|summary=Chris Peters was happy in his work for When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when he was promoted and sent back to Londoncareful, meticulous child. The job had it all: a hectic trading floorcare has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, targets which were impossible and some of any hint that the fastest computers in conversation is heading that way will lead to the world under necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his supervisionrequirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. HeJuly's happy at home too: he teacher is concerned and Olivia met in Hong Kongbrings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: now they're married and thinking about starting a family. But ... Mick has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those in good to the bank who think soschool, particularly when things start to go badly wrong. has he not? He was never there for Olivia either. Life The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for Chris Peters was turning sourhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Lelic0008454493|title= The HouseAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Syd loved Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the houseodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, despite Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the fact night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that it she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was crammed full of the sellersleeping in. In that year she's stuff and they had done everything she could to take raise awareness about the whole lot as a job lotcase. The seller had run off She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to Australia apparently and was up for TrueCrimeCon where she gave a quick sale, lock, stock and barrel. keynote Jack wasn't so surepresentation. He found On the place creepyplane back, and it wasnshe't just the stuffed birdss approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, there was an air about the place who points out that he just didn't likeshe could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith1848458436|title= The Girl from VeniceJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= ''The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this bookwhole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not. Venice in 1945 at ''  ''Just the close of Nicest Couple'' is the war is enticement enough. Add a backdrop story of partisanstwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Mussolini and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the desperate fight of two is that Lily and Nina teach in the losing SS same school: Nina teaches English and my interest Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is certainly piqueda neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but present the aforementioned along with the mystery she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of a young woman found floating in miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futileknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marjorie OrrJulia Bartz|title=By the Light of a LieThe Writing Retreat

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her best friend. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, Ericaback catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was killed in barely out of childhood. Alex, a hitwriter-andslash-run accident (ifeditor, indeedis more than a little obsessed with Roza, 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 the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for is stunned when, following a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out series of her way. The police didn't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accidentunexpected events, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going is invited to leave be part of her friend unavengedmonth-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Jon Halasz1800465270|title=The Prancing JacanaLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=Mabel PembroseWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's latest novel June 1995 and he''The Prancing Jacana'' has been on s at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He''New York Times'' bestseller list s a pallbearer for a couple of weeks: her husbandhis elder brother, Robert BersleyTimur, isn't doing anything like as wellwhose death was drug-related. He writes childrenValeri and Timur's books father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his editor is adamant that as son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's writing about Snake determined to make his own stand against organised crime and Mouseavenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, then Mouse has his obsession will have cost him his marriage to be eaten by SnakeMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, because that's how it worksa journalist. MabelShe's not completely free from problems though: her novel, set in Senegal, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky determined to expose any and all corruption - and heshe's gay in a country where same-sex sexual acts are outlawed and in consequence less concerned than she ought to be about her book has been banned in the countryown safety. The fact that it's banned isn't harming To her sales in the US at all, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, as Mabel Pembrose is her pen name - isnhe't content with thiss a good source. SheFor him, it's been a way to Senegalget information published, loves the country and shewhich wouldn'd like the book to t otherwise be a bestseller there toopossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>