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|isbn=00083147211399613073|title=Truth Be ToldMoral Injuries|author=Kia AbdullahChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an 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, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'effortfuls going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it' familys their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Flowers Hiding from the terrorists who are sent rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the slightest problem or achievement: letters residents who are sent still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to thank be cowed by events, and this prompts a phone call in returnkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. There Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are two sons of discovered by the familyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, seventeenafter all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to 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.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Kamran and sixteenTheo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt -yearas yet unnamed -old Adam. Their mothercame up for auction, but Peter Radway, Sofiathe chairman, regrets that she didnhadn't name them arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other way round: 'Adam . Brian Kitman and KamranElliot ' trips off the tongue so much more easily than Mitch'Kamran Mitchell were well-known and Adam'respected in the racing industry. Sofia worries about Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that sort of thingfigure. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where were happy that they boardhad insurance in place. The following morning, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he horse was rapeddead in its stall.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1405951680|title=The Seven DoorsSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to suggest caretake a genre of any kind until we're luxury property in the Australian outback for a full fifth couple of the way throughmonths. We start with our coupleAfter the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a literature lecturer, he big data analyst for the Metropolitan police in medical provision and decisions at London: she was Jess who was returning to the council, being forced to move out country of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, birth and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going need of the space to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in get over the 1980s, but notraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, A few weeks in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedticket.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731448309743|title=House of CorrectionThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Nicci FrenchCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing five members of a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearswealthy family are found murdered. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showerThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, unpleasant as the whole processes might bedeath will follow. And how did Tabitha get here? WellThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, on 21 December the body that's an easy conclusion given that two of Stuart Robert Rees was them 'discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with ' the renovations to Tabitha's housebody. So far as the police are concerned The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Tabitha DCI Christine Caplan is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered pulled in his bloodto 'shadow' him.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVSB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Lies You ToldLast Person in the World|author=Harriet TyceMatthew Tree|rating=54

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start Our narrator was a new scholarship day boy at the London-based public schoolwhere he met Ralph Finns. She's left the school she loved in New York It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and now she's going had money to Ashams in North London. throw around on a It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth Rolex watch, vintage wines and as a state-of-the pupils have all been there ''forever'', -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they have their established groupsbecame almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Robin's Finns had no intention of going on to be an outsider. And why is this happening? WellUniversity, over unlike our storyteller who had a matter of a few days her parentsplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK' marriage fell aparts third most prestigious university. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - Before going up, he works for took up a securities firm - and her motherloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsClouds Manor in West Dorset.

|author= Mark DawsonDean Koontz|title= The CleanerHouse at the End of the World|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless When you experience overwhelming tragedy and coldly competent, John Milton 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 British governmentmap and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instincts. Nowwhat 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 aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, after ten years, he wants outthe neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X1662453159

|isbn=18389510671787636607|title=The Nothing ManTrap

|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heIt's about to get a shockscene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. He's security at a supermarket Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and he's watching looking for a woman who is acting suspiciouslyway to get home. She has a book tucked under her arm Some are lucky and he wonders if she's planning manage to pay for itget one of the few taxis available. Suddenly it drops to Others squash onto the floor with night bus that will only go as far as one of the spine splayed upwardsoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'Nothing Man, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' by Eve Black. For one young woman, is the titlefinal stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killeds dead. The author of bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the book was twelve years old when Jim raped bus driver to let her mother, and then killed her, her father use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and her sevenin high-year-old sister, Annaheeled shoes.

|isbn=178089922X1529195977|title=Invisible GirlNone of this is True

|summary=''When you wear On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautifulcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. By She, too, was out celebrating her own admission45th birthday, only she's a bit of a boffinwas just with her husband, doing Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and enjoying mathsJosie birthday twins, physics and biology at A levelthey were both born in St Mary's hospital. Life hasnThat't been easy for hers where the similarities end, though: most people who have been close to Alix, with her have died husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and shewhilst they're not ''s now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something exactly''reallyrowdy, really bad happenedthey'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long timere enjoying themselves. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled Josie, on the layers of other hand, holds her psyche, but somehow managed handbag close to miss her tummy and you get the sense that Walter'something really, really bad's not too happy. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but she retained an interest in Roanit is Josie's birthday after all.

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1803136383|title=She Lies CloseTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There Wat Tyler has been no sign returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of her since, and no arrests have been madea cloud. And yet, this book What actually happened out there is not gossiped about Ava. Not really. This book and nobody is about Gracesure exactly what took place, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is but an act of heroism leading to a suspect in Ava's disappearancerare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. As a single mother Wat himself is keeping his cards close to two young childrenhis chest, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inas he always does.|isbn=1789094194

|isbn=1409187438B0C7J9D21B|title=The First LieA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J ParkLewis|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=On the second of October 37-year-old barristerWhen we first meet our hero, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness name is Ettore and the front door openhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. His wife was in the bedroom in Idyllic as this might sound, it's a state of shock bordello and in the bathroom there Ettore's mother died when he was a dead man who had born. He's not been stabbed repeatedly short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in the neck with Paullate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's paper-knifedifficult to obtain decent employment. In that moment Paul takes a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and Alice bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not going to ring the police resourceful - and determined - and tell the truthit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. They're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedHe was even saving some money.

|isbn=17873014350241996104|title=Dark WatersComing to Find You|author=G R HallidayJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=TwentyNancy's mother and step-twofather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the private road in Glen Turritcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. It was The barrister tells her that she's received a long road through some breath'silent sentence' -taking scenery and she could push the car 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When live with what happened for the blond child stepped out in front rest of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treelife. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she wasOf course, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. Shes made worse because Nancy'd made s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her first mistake some time ago, although mother - and the papers are making the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long timemost of it. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=17808998581529135389|title=To Tell You the TruthThe Fall

|summary=When Lucy Bewley Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was nine-years-old she crept out no sign of the house her husband but opera was playing on the night state-of -the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations -art music system installed in Stoke WoodsThe Glass Barn. Her four-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadnThey't taken him with her. But d not been in the early hours of architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. He hadnSome of them fought with each other and didn't and no one has seen him sincework as reliably as they should. Lucy's story was crucial It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to the police investigationhaving that sort of money, but it keeps subtly changingtoo. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendEventually, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell Nicole found Tom dead in the policeswimming pool with a wound to his head.

|isbnauthor=1787477681Alan Parks|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerTo Die in June

|summary=It was What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonhomeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Gaston's This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father had sold the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure is a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, owned by a Russian oligarchand he has been for years. Before he even got At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to go there he died, apparently of a heart attackdifferent police station, and the retirement home collected the proceeds arrival there of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the farmhouseboy having existed can be found. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gayalso with the other officers where he has been stationed, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=02419846531529382823|title=I Made a MistakeThe Last Passenger|author=Jane CorryWill Dean

|summary=We know from the very beginning that thereCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They's re off on a tragedy about cruise to happenNew York on ''Atlantica''. On Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a January evening on ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a man falls under an oncoming trainbit better. That man Meanwhile, Gemma is Matthew Gordonlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Much later we see Poppy Page in the witness box of a crown courtIt's going to be good, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barrister.isn't it?

|isbnauthor=0008386137Mark Edwards|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksKeep Her Secret

|summary=Elaine Winterdale took 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 fall for perfect photograph to encapsulate the landlord. Aged 37joy she is feeling in this moment, she got even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a suspended sentence because ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a faulty gas boiler had caused 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the deaths of 29-year-old Reveka Albu shocking secret she has been keeping and her 2-year-old son Benkemakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Toma Albu Just moments later their heroic, husband and fatherfrankly very well prepared, had found them when Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he returned homejust learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an 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, she flukes her way into a 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 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. Just on the 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|isbn=B0867X8NW70861544056|title=Access PointTwin Truths|author=T R GabbayJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention sheBelle and David's helped a man who has been blind for decades twin daughters are just coming to see an image the end of a hummingbirdtheir first term at university. SheKit's thirty-six years old been at Bristol and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, sheJess's involved in an accident with a busExeter. It's two years before we meet her again and in not only the meantime, shefirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can's spent 392 days in t wait to have them all to herself for a coma and now walks while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with a stickher? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. A professional colleague persuades Ula Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she should let out can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a spare bedroom to bring in some income.

|isbnauthor=1471166023Robert Dugoni|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Kate RhodesVanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=The 5th Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the occasion hunt for the usual bonfire celebrationsa killer targeting pregnant women, but it would be marred this year by with all the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfireextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. He'd obviously been alive when he was Finding herself put on the fire and desk duties, which she rails against, she just can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as 't let the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing case go and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks after. His instinct is she starts to follow every thread to cover Roganuncover what's body actually happening, and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577

|isbn=178730101X1787301036|title=Keep Him CloseWhat July Knew

|rating=35|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=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5

|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, Benoît, actually) and Louisapart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. LouIt's seventeen and he's just got now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his A level results bed in the middle of the night and he Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to find something to celebrate particularly about her relief in the letters, D, D and Emorning when she thought he was sleeping in. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-In that year-old Benny but itshe's a done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. touch problematic with Lou She does interviews and being honestwhen we meet her, heshe's not terribly likeablejust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. The letters which kept coming On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to my mind were ADHDso many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.