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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage<!-- Laws -->|isbn=1399613073|-title=Moral Injuries| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Christie Watson[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon4.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]===Thrillers[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicOlivia, you know – Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a full one-line in quarter of a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketchcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, where he says he has which is a bonus when you aim to be a piece of paper from Hitlercardiothoracic surgeon. I then proceeded to prove it was Laura is a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up perfectionist and immediately bursting ita trauma doctor. That Anjali is what that paper was to many – the indicator free spirit of the group and she becomes a lot of hot air, GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and only leading it's going to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayend in tragedy. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with We don't know who suffered the Nazis, and this book opens with tragedy or the firstconsequences. Twenty-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain five years later there will be an eerily similar event that he should not sign will impact the Sudetenland awaythree friends. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter This time, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen to himit's their teenage children who are involved. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]]}}<!-- Parsons -->{{Frontpage|-author=Sunny Singh| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Hotel Arcadia[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon3.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers |summary===[[Girl on Fire The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5stara terrorist group.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulancea wartime photographer and Abhi, the mess falls on hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a busy shopping centre bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and we are barely keeps on venturing out of the first chapter. DC Max Wolfeher room to try to capture what's latest adventure looks at religionhappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, radicalisation, hate their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump they both wait to catching those responsible. The rest of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family issuesterrorists. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]isbn=086154742X}} <!-- Herron -->{{Frontpage|-author=Cody Goodfellow| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Vertical[[image:Herron_London.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co3.uk/dp/1473657377/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[London Rules by Mick Herron]]===Thrillers[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Claude Whelan, Regent ParkThere's First Desk has insurmountable problemssomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. HeWho doesn's charged with protecting t love a lame duck prime ministergood view from up high, but he's under fire himself. There's the self-publicising MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote and who might just be looking to take after all? Even the PM's job from him. The MP's wife drabbest office building is a columnist for one of the tabloids whosomewhere I's having a go at Whelan in print and who will do anything m intrigued to promote her husbandget inside if it's interests40 stories tall. Then there's the PM's favourite Muslim So when I picked up this book – about people who's running scale tall buildings for mayor despite having a very dark secret himselffun – I was instantly intrigued. As if this wasn't enough, Whelan's deputy, Lady Di Taverner is watching for his every stumble - and it's not so that she can catch him and help him to safety. [[London Rules by Mick Herron|Full Review]]isbn= 1803363991}}<!-- James -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1804183210| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|No Reserve[[image:James_Righteous.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]] Felix Francis| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]==genre=Thrillers [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's NonThirty-four-year-Fiction|Childrenold Theo Jennings shouldn's Non-Fiction]]  In t have been on the crazy world of Arthur Brown, he can be standing at rostrum when the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minute, and wasting bad guys with his guns the next. What's inspired this? Two lowcolt - as yet unnamed -lifescame up for auction, way from the top of the crime ladder in this particular city, who stole millions from a shady casino, and stashed the money in his basement. Two other lowlifes, working for the drug lord who owns the casinobut Peter Radway, come for the moneychairman, kill Arthurhadn's familyt arrived, and leave him so badly knifed on he continued his floor session. To say that he's taken for dead was shocked when he's discovered. But he's not dead, and nor is his God-given hope to redress the balance in his town, and to right some very big wrongsbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. 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]] <!lovely animal -- Mariaffi -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads a seemingly pleasant life in America after a damaged childhood known and respected in war-torn Europe. She is a stay-at-home mother, the wife of a successful psychiatrist, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quietracing industry. Then Jennings was in one afternoon her four-old-son befriends a young girl by of the cubicles in the lake, who vanishes suddenly under toilets when the water. Although Heike dives two men came in after her, and their conversation revealed that the girl is nowhere horse had been deliberately bid up to be seen, leaving Heike wondering what happened to herthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. In an attempt to find answers The following morning, 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, and it's her husband who horse was the last to see him alivedead in its stall. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]]}}<!-- Ellis -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1405951680| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Safe House[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativeauthor=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] Cameron Ward| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]===Thrillers[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood hereJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, as she might not have been missing but actually she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and gently nudged into it by her father preferred not friend, Rupert) to do anything about it: there might have been caretake a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be luxury property in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped Australian outback for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that couple of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missingmonths. [[A Map of After the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] problems she''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectred had at work, conjured during one fateful summerit seemed like just the break she needed. By She was no longer a data analyst for the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried was returning to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories country of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him her birth and when in need of the letters start space to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up get over the fever dream nightmare traumatic end of the summer 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.}}<!-- Robins -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1448309743| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=0008217548]] Caro Ramsay| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"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]] |}}{{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 are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words a man can hear from his new partner, but she doesn't lie in this instance. He experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is Jeffrey Harveyno one on your side, a young Cambridge professoryou can either suck it up, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that saddle up and ride on or you can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get retreat to your own private fortress on an iceberg or three worth island that sits snugly in a small chain of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resource, and tiny dots on the trees can do their bit map and the water will advance the place live out your days in peace and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneursolitude. If, that is, he can get round That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the problems in his life - fractions in aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the start-up involved in the projectpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, neighbouring island and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of murder science and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. It seems quite possibly bringing about the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage end of possible sticky ends..all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Quintana1787636607|title= The Missing GirlTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= In It's a scene replicated all too often in the unseasonably warm autumn early hours of 1982, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missingthe morning. Her younger sister Anna is torn up by her sister's disappearance Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the next thirty years, no few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one knows what happened to Gabriellaof the outlying villages. Decades later The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Anna has built a life for herself particularly in Athens and has tried to put the past behind herlight of 'the missing women'. But For one young woman, the sudden death final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her mother forces Anna home. She had intended to return ring someone to come and collect her childhood home and the village where she and - but her sister grew upphone's dead. Being The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the only Flores left in her family she is left bus driver to sort through let her motheruse his. There's possessions, no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasn't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of this is True|author=Patricia WatkinsLisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 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 similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|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 is an ambitious journalist working on Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the Financial Reviewend of their first term at university. Martin is good Kit's been at his job - accurate, dedicated, hardworking Bristol and with a good nose Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for a scoop. But Martin is any length of time - but they've also uninterested in the culture that comes with reportingbeen apart from each other. He has Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a wife and two daughters at while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home and with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to waste time and money in the pub, talking macho nonsense with the other hacksupset Kit. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn Ivo's apparently 'older': he't just grab the limelight though s twenty- he also grabs the promotion four to industrial correspondentKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And that is the job Martin not only wanted, but neededthey'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Krysten RitterRobert Dugoni|title= BonfireHer Deadly Game|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=It Patrick Duggan & Associates has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence 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 her small town rootshis clients. Now working as Along with an environmental lawyer in Chicagoindisputable talent for the law, she Patsy also has a thriving career, a modern apartment, gift for drinking himself to oblivion and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home inevitably the latter was beginning to Barrens, Indiana, overshadow the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crackformer. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics Enter Keera Duggan, the town's most high-profile company former competitive chess prodigy and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the popular Kaycee Mitchell and hideous position of asking her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared father for good.Abby knows a job at the key to solving any case lies in the weak spotsfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to KayceeMiller Ambrose, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Gamehad gone,'' it will threaten the reputationsrather spectacularly, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume hersouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura WilsonVanda Symon|title= The Other WomanExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Based on Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the blurb on the backstart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, Sophie might not be shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the most likable heroine. She's hunt for a quote-unquote perfect womankiller targeting pregnant women, with all the houseextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, the husbandwhich she rails against, she just can't let the children case go and the dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband is successful, but her own achievements seem linked she starts to follow every thread to having bagged herself a catch), though thereuncover what's a sort of part time hobby running her own shopactually happening, because, well, yes. So Sophie is and the sort increasingly disturbing worry of woman, one imagines, who just what might rub other people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lackinghappen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a 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 the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stephen NormanStacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|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 middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Trading DownJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=Chris Peters was happy in his work for a multinational bank in Hong Kong ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and excited when he was promoted Nina and sent back to LondonJake Hayes. The job had it all: a hectic trading floor, targets which were impossible connection between the two is that Lily and some of the fastest computers Nina teach in the world under his supervisionsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. HeThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's happy at home too: he not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Olivia met in Hong KongJake is a neurosurgeon: now theydon're married and thinking about starting a familyt have much in common except their wives. But ..Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those in the bank who think a lengthy history of miscarriages so, particularly when things start she doesn't want to go badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sourtempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon LelicJulia Bartz|title= The HouseWriting Retreat|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the house, despite Roza Vallo. Anyone in the fact that it was crammed full world of publishing knows the sellername. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's stuff and they had to take the whole lot as something of a job lotlegend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. The seller had run off to Australia apparently and was up for Alex, a quick salewriter-slash-editor, lockis more than a little obsessed with Roza, stock and barrel. Jack wasn't so sure. He found the place creepyis stunned when, and it wasn't just the stuffed birdsfollowing a series of unexpected events, there was an air about the place that he just didnshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers't likeretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>0861544439