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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Kerr -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1399613073| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson[[image:178429652X.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/178429652X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Thrillers===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]=== [[image:RATEstar.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' which is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories bonus when you aim to insurance fraudbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Bernie Gunther Laura is a Berliner, who was perfectionist and a sarjeant during trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the second world war group and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of she becomes a hospitalGP. He finds himself embroiled in When we first meet them they're at a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigatordrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into We don't know who suffered the dark times of tragedy or the warconsequences. With layered plots and doubleTwenty-crossing left, right and centre, five years later there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this storywill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved. [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|Full Review]]}}<!-- Sigurdardottir -->{{Frontpage|-author=Sunny Singh| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Hotel Arcadia[[image:1473621569.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473621569/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers |summary===[[The Reckoning The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]=== [[image:4a terrorist group.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] [[The Legacy: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with a plot that derailed Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the careers of both its leads – Huldar residents who are still alive in the policemanhotel, and child psychologist Freyja. Demoted and stuck he forms a bond with a kind of love/hate connectionSam who refuses to be cowed by events, they are left staring into space for want and keeps on venturing out of something her room to try to happencapture what's happened through her photography. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains Although they only ever talk over the police have been tipped off about, but still isn't allowed phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to investigate them, so he settles for see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsuleterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out. It5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's the nature of these books something about tall buildings that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but howjust captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, we will be asking, will either relate to after all? Even the prologue, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what drabbest office building is a modern family under threat somewhere I'm intrigued to do with anything? [[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|Full Review]]isbn= 1803363991<!-- Child -->}}|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1804183210[[image:0356510700.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] No Reserve| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Felix Francis|===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]==rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the futurechairman, your social feed is your entire existencehadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. Alovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other.I. is here Brian Kitman and it is all around youElliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. It fills your fridge, it keeps 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 date with your friends and fulfils your wishesthat figure. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality Both were happy that they had insurance in place. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs The following morning, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right horse was dead in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide herits stall. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The problem is that the personality on Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the glasses is that Australian outback for a couple of her missing and presumed dead sistermonths. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the very least to reset them to a different personalitybreak she needed. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubyher relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket. 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|-isbn=1448309743| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay[[image:0593076362.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593076362/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Crime===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Don Challenor myth says that if the stone is a down on his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house in Cornwall and upon meeting the live-in cleanerremoved from Otterburn House, Blake, finds his life utterly turned upside downdeath will follow. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of a witch The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, professional heavies and a mysterious panic roomthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. Intrigue builds on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complex The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. [[Panic Room by Robert Goddard|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Laws -->|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|-title=The Last Person in the World| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Matthew Tree[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Thrillers| stylesummary="verticalOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4starbased public school where he met Ralph Finns.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, you know – vintage wines and a full onestate-of-line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded going on to prove it was University, unlike our storyteller who had a paper bag, place at Wolverton College in factWellingford, by blowing it the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up and immediately bursting it. That is what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading loose invitation to an unwelcome noisevisit Ralph at his home, when WW2 actually struck anywayClouds Manor in West Dorset. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with }}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the Nazis, and this book opens with End of the first-person reportage of one such man, keen World|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on showing proof your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to Chamberlain your own private fortress on an island that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving sits snugly in a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads small chain of tiny dots on the story up map and see just live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what did happen Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to him. Oh, start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and her help has just come out 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 quite possibly bringing about the end of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Lawsall mankind.|Full Review]]isbn=1662453159}}<!-- Parsons -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1787636607| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Crime===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulance, It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the mess falls on a busy shopping centre and we are barely morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of the first chapter. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump manage to catching those responsible. The rest get one of the book gradually builds a web of intrigue and a virtual soap opera of family issuesfew taxis available. [[Girl Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]  <!the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and 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 in high- Herron -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage[[image:Herron_London.jpg|left|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473657377/ref1529195977|title=nosim?tagNone of this is True|author=thebookbag-21]]Lisa Jewell|rating=5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[London Rules by Mick Herron]]=== [[image:5starOn her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Claude Whelan She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, Regent Park's First Desk has insurmountable problems. He's charged only she was just with protecting a lame duck prime ministerher husband, but he's under fire himselfWalter. There's the self-publicising MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote It turns out that not only are Alix and who might just be looking to take the PMJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's job from himhospital. The MP That's wife is a columnist for one of where the tabloids who's having a go at Whelan in print and who will do anything to promote similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband's interests. Then there's , Nathan, are in the PMmidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they's favourite Muslim whore not ''exactly's running for mayor despite having a very dark secret himself. As if this wasn't enoughrowdy, Whelanthey's deputyre enjoying themselves. Josie, Lady Di Taverner is watching for his every stumble - and iton the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not so that she can catch him and help him too happy. He's not used to safety. [[London Rules by Mick Herron|Full Review]]<!spending this much money on a meal -- James -->but it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1803136383| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick[[image:James_Righteous.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]=== [[image:3Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud.5star.jpg|link=Category:{What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-FictionFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|Children's Non-Fiction]]title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5In the crazy world of Arthur Brown, |genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he can be standing lives at the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minuteThe House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and wasting bad guys with his guns the next. WhatEttore's inspired this? Two lowmother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though -lifes, way from the top but for someone of the crime ladder his background in this particular citylate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, who stole millions from a shady casino, and stashed the money in his basementit's difficult to obtain decent employment. Two other lowlifes, The stint working for with the drug lord who owns the casino, come for the money, kill Arthurpreparation of anchovies didn's family, t work out and leave him so badly knifed bastards are considered bad luck on his floor that he's taken for dead when he's discoveredfishing boats. But he's Ettore was nothing if not dead, resourceful - and nor is his Goddetermined -given hope to redress the balance in his town, and to right it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some very big wrongsmoney. 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]]}}<!-- Mariaffi -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0241996104| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2|rating=4.jpg5|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]] Thrillers| stylesummary="verticalNancy's mother and step-align: top; textfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-align: left;"|===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]=== [[image:2brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder.5star We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads The barrister tells her that she's received a seemingly pleasant life in America after a damaged childhood in war'silent sentence' -torn Europe. She is a stay-at-home mother, she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the wife rest of a successful psychiatrist, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quietlife. Then one afternoon her four Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich -oldshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -son befriends a young girl by and the lake, who vanishes suddenly under papers are making the watermost of it. Although Heike dives in after her, the girl ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is nowhere to be seen, leaving Heike wondering what happened to her. In an attempt 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 Heikeone favourite epithet and ''rich bitch's son disappears, and it's her husband who was the last to see him alivemight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Ellis -->|isbn=1529135389|-title=The Fall| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Gilly Macmillan[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie5|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-align: left;"|===[[A Map of -the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star-art music system installed in The Glass Barn.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There They's a link back d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lostall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Her mother was abusive Some of them fought with each other and her father preferred not to do anything didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about it: there might have been through a bit of pretense but there was no protectionten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. All that should be Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead 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 for some personal time swimming pool with him, her boss has allocated her a wound to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missinghis head. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]}}<!-- Tudor -->{{Frontpage|-author=Alan Parks| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"To Die in June|rating=4[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|leftgenre=Crime|linksummary=https://wwwWhat 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.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 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectredifferent police station, conjured during one fateful summer. By and the time arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the new term begins, friendships will boy having existed can be fractured, and a girl will be deadfound. But who is Something feels wrong - not just with the killer; is it The Chalk Manwoman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to homebut can Harry uncover just what is going on? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of |isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Chalk ManLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4. However, someone seems determined not to let him 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and when the letters start has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and deathNew York on ''Atlantica''. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed Caz's sleepy suburban lifesister, Gemma, the reader cannot help but wonder; who reckons that Pete is The Chalk Man, 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 he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]] <!-- Robins -->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?}}{{Frontpage|-author=Mark Edwards| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|leftgenre=Thrillers|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008217548]]  | style="verticalodd years after they first met. The alien-align: top; textlandscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-align: left;"|===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]===  [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie and Tilda are very different twins. Callie lives a quiet life, 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 a menial job, whereas Tilda craves just the spotlight, snagged strap of her rucksack between her and is a moderately successful actress500 foot drop to certain death below. Callie Convinced she is awkwardgoing to die, suffering from Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a lifetime of acnepanicked, weight issues and comparing herself cryptic declaration to her sister Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and her beautiful white body. Callie has frankly very strong feelings for her sister, envy, admiration, anger, lovewell prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and Tilda laps all of these feelings up. They are grown, hauls Helena to safety and see each other with relative frequencyMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena. But now Tilda has met a new man, Felix. He's smart, charismatic, successful |isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and very intense, very particularMegan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3. At first Callie loves him5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, loves the way he includes her in their relationshipbitter woman, but after a boating tripan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, fun turns she flukes her way into something more sinister, Callie begins to worry about this dynamica public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to obsess that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all.. [[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]  <!-- Murphy -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Murphy_Rotten.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546282998/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rotten to Just on the Core by Rob Murphy]]==point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage[[image:4star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers0861544056|title=Twin Truths|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fictionauthor=Jacqueline Sutherland|General Fiction]]rating=5|genre=ThrillersIt|summary=Belle and David's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded twin daughters are just coming to the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick end of their oar first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's inExeter. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have to reciprocate with It's not only the Russians who helped them get France first time they'98, and they have a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship ve been away from their parents for any length of 2016 has not time - but they've also 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 apart from Wales and Scotlandeach other. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one Belle can't wait to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim have them all to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostsherself for a while. But what if France could persuade the world it was a good idea Then Kit rings up - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, can she bring her boyfriend home with all the while the French around her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the water, and Russia would win outupset Kit. And who Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to say the Brits, Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in that. And they'll be sharing a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves? [[Rotten to the Core by Rob Murphybedroom.}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game<!-- Stidolph -->|rating=5|-genre=Crime| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stidolph_ForestsPatrick 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.jpg|link=http://www 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1546282351/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forests Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Sahara by Paul Stidolph]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not hideous position of asking her father for a job at the most promising words family firm because a man can hear from his new partner, but she doesn't lie in this instance. He is Jeffrey Harvey, romantic entanglement with a young Cambridge professorsenior colleague, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends... [[Forests in the Sahara by Paul Stidolph|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Jenny Quintana|title= The Missing Girl|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= In the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982Miller Ambrose, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. Her younger sister Anna is torn up by her sister's disappearance and for the next thirty yearshad gone, no one knows what happened to Gabriella. Decades laterrather spectacularly, Anna has built a life for herself in Athens and has tried to put the past behind hersouth. But the sudden death of her mother forces Anna to return to her childhood home and 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 possessions, and having to reconnect with her past makes Anna question something she hasn't dared think about in years – what happened to Gabriella?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150983950X</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsVanda Symon|title=Hurricane JusticeExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|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>

{{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>

{{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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Asa AvdicJulia Bartz|title= The Dying GameWriting Retreat|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairmanRoza Vallo. Except Anyone in the offer, is more world of an order than a choicepublishing knows the name. With nothing Writers want to lose and everything be her, agents want to gain, Anna acceptsrepresent her. She is taken to 's something of a legend with an isolated Island impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simpleher breakthrough novel, published when she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers was barely out of the housechildhood. Once the experiment is finishedAlex, she will report her findings back to the chairman. Howevera writer-slash-editor, while this starts off smoothly at firstis more than a little obsessed with Roza, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with the terror stunned when, following a series of knowing this unexpected events, she is not just a game anymoreinvited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=Scoop of the YearThe Lensky Connection|author=Tom ClaverConrad Delacroix|rating=4.5

|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working on When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Financial ReviewSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Martin is good at He's a pallbearer for his job elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug- accuraterelated. Valeri and Timur's father, dedicatedKeto, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the culture that comes with reporting. He has a wife and two daughters at home pallbearer and he doesn't want s disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to waste time make his own stand against organised crime and money in the pub, talking macho nonsense with the other hacksavenge Timur's death. He is Within a far cry from matter of months, his colleague Tom de Lacyobsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyesjournalist. Tom doesn She't just grab the limelight though s determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he also grabs the promotion 's a good source. For him, it's a way to industrial correspondent. And that is the job Martin not only wantedget information published, but neededwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>