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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Child -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1399613073| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson[[image:0356510700.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/0356510700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]==genre=Thrillers [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Olivia, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In Laura and Anjali met on the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.Ifirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is here and it ruthlessly ambitious, which is all around a bonus when you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up aim to date with your friends and fulfils your wishesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. It Laura is also stealing your jobs a perfectionist and, possibly, loosening your grip on realitya trauma doctor. Freya Anjali is unexpectedly given a beta testing version the free spirit of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with re at a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing drug and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown alcohol-fuelled party and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her it's going to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a different personalityend in tragedy. But Freya just can We don't do thisknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right Twenty-five years later there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe will be an eerily similar event that it can be this accuratewill impact the three friends. This time, it can't be this Rubys their teenage children who are involved. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Review]]}}<!-- Goddard -->{{Frontpage|-author=Sunny Singh| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Hotel Arcadia[[image:0593076362.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593076362/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Thrillers ===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Don Challenor The Hotel Arcadia is a down on his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a house in Cornwall and upon meeting terrorist group. Hiding from the live-in cleanerterrorists who are rampaging through, Blakekilling everyone on site, finds his life utterly turned upside down. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of a witchthere is Sam, professional heavies and a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue wartime photographer and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexAbhi, the hotel manager. [[Panic Room by Robert Goddard|Full Review]] <!-- Laws -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-line As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketchhotel, where he says he has forms a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded bond with Sam who refuses to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, be cowed by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot airevents, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen keeps on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage venturing out of one such man, keen on showing proof her room to try to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland awaycapture what's happened through her photography. But he Although they only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominyever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to pick the last, barest threads of the story up help her keep safe and they both wait to see just what did happen to him. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! if they will be rescued before they are discovered by David Laws|Full Review]] <!-- Parsons -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178089595X.jpg|link=http://wwwthe terrorists.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]==isbn=086154742X}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]FrontpageA drone collides with an air ambulance, the mess falls on a busy shopping centre and we are barely out of the first chapter. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump to catching those responsible. The rest of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family issues. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]  <!-- Herron -->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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[London Rules by Mick Herron]]==genre=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 after all? Even the self-publicising MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote and who might just be looking to take 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|genre===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]===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 hethe bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 's discovered. But heMitch's not dead, Mitchell were well-known and nor is his God-given hope to redress respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the balance two men came in his town, and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to right some very big wrongsthat figure. Yes Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, 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]]horse was dead in its stall.}}<!-- Mariaffi -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1405951680| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Safe House[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]] Cameron Ward| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]===Thrillers[[image:2.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads a seemingly pleasant life in America after a damaged childhood in war-torn Europe. She is a stay-at-home motherJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, the wife of a successful psychiatrist, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quiet. Then one afternoon her four-old-son befriends a young girl actually she was gently nudged into it by the lake, who vanishes suddenly under the water. Although Heike dives in after herfriend, the girl is nowhere Rupert) to be seen, leaving Heike wondering what happened to her. In an attempt to find answers, Heike seeks caretake a luxury property in the help Australian outback for a couple of paranormal television writer Leo Dolan after her controlling husband refuses to believe hermonths. But then things take another turn when Heike After the problems she's son disappearsd had at work, and it's her husband who was seemed like just the last to see him alivebreak she needed. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]] <!-- Ellis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Map of She was no longer a data analyst for the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[imageMetropolitan police in London:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother Jess who was abusive and her father preferred not returning to do anything about it: there might have been a bit the country of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be her birth and in need of the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but space to get over the traumatic end of her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time relationship with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missingCharles. [[ A Map of few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]ticket.}}<!-- Tudor -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1448309743| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)[[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&creativeASINauthor=0718187431]] Caro Ramsay| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]===Crime[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectreScotland, conjured during one fateful summerfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. By The only item missing from the time home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the new term beginsstone is removed from Otterburn House, friendships will be fractured, and a girl death will be deadfollow. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Manonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, 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 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the poisoned, sinister memories of body. The Chalk Man. HoweverSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, someone seems determined not DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing 'shadow' him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, 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]]}}<!-- Robins -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Last Person in the World[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCodeauthor=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008217548]] Matthew Tree| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]==genre=Thrillers  [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie and Tilda are very different twins. Callie lives Our narrator was a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves scholarship day boy at the spotlight, and is a moderately successful actressLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Callie is awkward, suffering from It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a lifetime of acne, weight issues boarder and comparing herself had money to her sister and her beautiful white body. Callie has very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, lovethrow around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and Tilda laps all a state-of these feelings up-the-art sound system. They are grown, Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and see each other with relative frequencycertainly more than acquaintances. But now Tilda has met Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a new manplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, Felix. Hethe UK's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particularthird most prestigious university. At first Callie loves himBefore going up, loves the way he includes her in their relationship, but after took up a boating trip, fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins loose invitation to worry about this dynamicvisit Ralph at his home, to obsess Clouds Manor in West Dorset... [[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]] |}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Rob MurphyDean Koontz|title=Rotten to The House at the End of the CoreWorld
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers |summary=ItWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's 2009Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and Russia look like being awarded quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the football World Cup hosting rights early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - night bus that iswill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', until England stick their oar particularly inthe light of 'the missing women'. They have solved their hooligan problem For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and improved their transport system, collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and so at last are valid final holdersin high-heeled shoes. Watching }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of this is FranceTrue|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=On her 45th birthday, who have to reciprocate Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Russians who helped them get France '98Landsdown 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 have a planwere both born in St Mary's hospital. At this stage That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the UEFA European championship midst of 2016 has a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not been awarded''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and while France remain favourites to you get the job, again some upstart idea 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=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has poked its head above the parapet - returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a joint offering from Wales cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Scotland. Yesnobody is sure exactly what took place, these two tiny countries, separated but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by 200 miles rank cowardice and without a brilliant connection from one disgrace seems to be the otherconsensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and without some vital posh hotels here and therehe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and with no serious claim to soccer fame Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it comes 's difficult to winning things, obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are unlikely hostsconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. But what Ettore was nothing if France could persuade the world not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a good idea 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and let Russian espionage prove the papers are making the most of it . ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not to be so, with all printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the while morning at the French around to pick up county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the pieces? All state-of -the UK would be damaged, meaning England -art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'18 would be dead d not been in the water, architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Russia would win outwere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. And who Some of them fought with each other and didn's t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to say the Britshaving that sort of money, with their devolution habitstoo. Eventually, and their first coalition government Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>wound to his head.
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{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphAlan Parks|title=Forests To Die in the SaharaJune
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something 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 going on?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529382823
|title=The Last Passenger
|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Mark Edwards
|title=Keep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= 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 black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.
|isbn=166250893X
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)
|title=Thirty Days of Darkness
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to some sort leave her bottles of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words red wine behind her for an afternoon at a man can hear from his new partnerbook fair, but she doesn't lie in this instance. He is Jeffrey Harvey, flukes her way into a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling public argument with some extra-curricular workthe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, creating GM trees saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that can keep vast quantities of water purifiedaccusation. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where clean water she is still put up for a scarce resourcewintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, and about the trees can do their bit people and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. Iflack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the start-up involved end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds first time they've been away from their parents for gambling any length of time - oh, and a man ready but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on herself for a case reaching back several yearswhile. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right 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 see no shortage of possible sticky endsupset 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny QuintanaRobert Dugoni|title= The Missing GirlHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= In Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the unseasonably warm autumn life's work of 1982, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. Her younger sister Anna is torn up by her sisterPatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler's disappearance and due to his reputation for the next thirty years, no one knows what happened to Gabriellaholds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Decades later Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Anna Patsy also has built a life gift for herself in Athens drinking himself to oblivion and has tried inevitably the latter was beginning to put overshadow the past behind herformer. But Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the sudden death hideous position of asking her mother forces Anna to return to her childhood home and father for a job at the village where she and her sister grew up. Being the only Flores left in her family she is left to sort through her mother's possessionsfirm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasn't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsVanda Symon|title=Hurricane JusticeExpectant (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
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787301036
|title=What July Knew
|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Finn Westlake was When we first amused and then horrified when he saw the attractive young woman jumping up and down in the road as his jeep turned the corner: the amusement came from the fact that meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she was wearing 's just soaking-wet bra and pantiesten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. It was when he saw The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the tears streaming down her face death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that he realised the conversation is heading that there was way will lead to the necessity of a serious problemLesson. Diana McGuireOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's fathernot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's plane had crashed into teacher is concerned and brings up the river and she had tried and failed to get him out. Sending possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to get more help Finn dived into the river and managed to extract Chester McGuire and his business associate, Sandy Moseleyschool, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but whilst checking that there was no one else in the plane he was seriously injuredfor him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Perry0008454493|title= Can You Keep a Secret?All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Thornbury Hall is 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 grand ancestral home middle of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter night and Izzy is consumed with his wistful wife Heather 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 their two childrenwhen we meet her, Patrick and Rachelshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. It is also On the setting for many secrets and tragedies all of which resurface twenty years later as Patrick reunites childhood friendsplane back, Niallshe's approached by a podcaster, MarcusWaylon Spencer, Hilary who points out that she could do a podcast and main character Lindsey, for one final party before selling the houseget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak1848458436|title= Hello AgainJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred by ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the trauma inflicted on her by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty years previouslystory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Evelyn Talbot works and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a psychologist at Hanover House, foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a dumping ground for psychopathic criminals neurosurgeon: they don't have much in a remote corner of Alaskacommon except their wives. A murder in the nearby town seemed to indicate inmate involvement Lily hasn't said anything yet, but as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started to wonder whether Jasper might have returned to finally finish her offshe's pregnant. After She has a book full lengthy history of false clues and misleading hints, it was a genuine shock miscarriages so she doesn't want to find out who was responsible after alltempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Asa AvdicJulia Bartz|title= The Dying Game|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except the offer, is more of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the house. Once the experiment is finished, she will report her findings back to the chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Scoop of the Year|author=Tom ClaverWriting Retreat
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|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working on Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the Financial Reviewname. Martin is good at his job - accurateWriters want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, dedicatedif compact, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the culture back catalogue of works that comes started with reportingher breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. He has Alex, a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn't want to waste time and money in the pubwriter-slash-editor, talking macho nonsense is more than a little obsessed with the other hacks. He Roza, and is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacystunned when, following a charismaticseries of unexpected events, silvershe is invited to be part of her month-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesnlong writers't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion to industrial correspondent. And that is the job Martin not only wanted, but neededretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1800465270|title= BonfireThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town rootshe's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has He's a thriving careerpallbearer for his elder brother, a modern apartmentTimur, and her pick of meaningless onewhose death was drug-night standsrelated.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town Valeri and Timur's most high-profile company and economic heartfather, Keto, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than is also a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell pallbearer and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for goodhe's disgusted by what his son had become.Abby knows the key Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface make his own stand against organised crime and she begins to doubt her own observationsavenge Timur's death. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret-- Within a ritual called ''The Gamematter of months,'' it his obsession will threaten the reputations, have cost him his marriage to Marisha and livescreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Laura Wilson|title= The Other Woman|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Based on the blurb on the back, Sophie might not be the most likable heroinejournalist. She's a quotedetermined to expose any and all corruption -unquote perfect woman, with the house, the husband, the children and the dog. Careers may she's less concerned than she ought to be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband is successful, but about her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch)safety. To her, though therehe's a sort of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yesgood source. So Sophie is the sort of woman For him, one imagines, who might rub other people up the wrong it's a wayto get information published, especially those who find their own lives lackingwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>
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