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|isbn=00082144681399613073|title=A Time to LieMoral Injuries|author=Simon BerthonChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=A workman has 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 nasty surprise bonus when he pulls you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a package out of an excavation on perfectionist and a building sitetrauma doctor. It's wrapped in part Anjali is the free spirit of an old shower curtain the group and is she becomes a hand, severed above the wristGP. ItWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's been there for about twenty-five going to thirtyend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five yearslater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is Prime Ministera luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and they have two daughtersAbhi, Becca and Bellathe hotel manager. Sandford's determined As Abhi continues to try to be a better type of politician: care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he wants ''forms a government that is not just practically goodbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, but morally good.'' One and keeps on venturing out of the ways heher room to try to capture what's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimeshappened through her photography. Henry Morland-CrossAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, the Deputy Prime Minister their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy they both wait to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementif they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|author= Gunnar StaalesenCody Goodfellow|title= Fallen AngelsVertical|rating= 23.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, is backThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. After attending Who doesn't love a former friend's funeralgood view from up high, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and after all? Even the sins of the past are exposed drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to the light of the presentget inside if it's 40 stories tall. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn=19131930631803363991

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1804183210|title= The CaptiveNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows 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, the cagechairman, hadn't arrived, intimatelyso he continued his session. It lurks 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. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the corner racing industry. Jennings was in one of her eyethe cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Soon Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, it will be occupiedthe horse was dead in its stall. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1405951680|title=The Long Dark RoadSafe House|author=P R BlackCameron Ward

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she walked along was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the lonely A928 Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at Ferngate Bridgework, it seemed like just the break she needed. There She was no longer a furious storm going on data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and she'd already refused in need of the space to get over the offer traumatic end of help from one man her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a big vehiclewealthy family are found murdered. We'll see - but no one else will know - The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that another car stops and Stephanie if the stone is bundled into the car and driven offremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. There has been no sign The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of her - or her them 'discovered' the body - in the two years since. Georgia The Senior Investigating Office is back DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is Ferngate, determined pulled in to find out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedshadow' him.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday B0CCCPJJ5B|title= The Last Resort Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 3.5 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on Our narrator was a private islandscholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. They have been invited to It was an all-expenses paid retreat unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to test throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a brandstate-of-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company-art sound system. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and hedge fund managercertainly more than acquaintances. Everyone seems Finns had no intention of going on to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is University, unlike our storyteller who had a mystery. We follow place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the group as they explore the island, and each otherUK's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenthird most prestigious university. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealedBefore going up, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really he took up a gilded cage. In a race against timeloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themClouds Manor in West Dorset. |isbn=1542020018}}

|isbnauthor=0008330131Dean Koontz|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenHouse at the End of the World|rating=3.54

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that twenty-years there is no one on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Wellyour side, you can either suck it up, they're healthy 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 physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD map and live out your days in peace and Marie drinkssolitude. TheyThat're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly s what Katie thought she was thirteen-years-old and doing when she was in charge of shut down her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate life to get a text from Dean Malden start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah all would have been the aforementioned peace and Marie solitude were nattering about a lost ball it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As quite possibly bringing about the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=Will Carver1787636607|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary= Hinton HollowOn her 45th birthday, population 5Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband,120Walter. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in AmericaSt Mary's hospital. That's mid-westwhere the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, but this particular Hinton Hollow is are in the midst of a small town in Berkshirejoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, Englandthey're enjoying themselves. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereJosie, on the other hand, until something happened holds her handbag close to her tummy and he ran away to you get the citysense that Walter's not too happy. He's running away again…only not used to spending this time evil much money on a meal - but it is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townJosie's birthday after all.|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=00083783631803136383|title=One Perfect MorningTin Soldiers|author=Pamela CraneDavid Chadwick|rating=34.5

|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in his own bedVietnam under something of a cloud. To find What actually happened out who - there is gossiped about and why - we need nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to go back nine days a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and twenty yearsdisgrace seems to be the consensus.Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{FrontpageMackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college |isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in MonroevilleAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, Pennsylvania his name is Ettore and twenty years later they're still the best he lives at The House of friendsBeautiful Swallows. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls Idyllic as this might sound, it's a nod to the famous girl band of the daybordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Lily would be Adventure SpiceHe's not been short of mothers, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth- wellcentury Amalfi, Mackenzie would be it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the supporting actress in her own lifepreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. She married Owen, her college sweetheart Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and they have it was not long before he had a successful business as a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

|isbn=07515674260241996104|title=The Wicked SisterComing to Find You|author=Karen DionneJane Corry

|summary=When we 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 Rachel Cunningham Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michiganreceived a 'silent sentence' - she's Upper Peninsulanot been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. SheOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's twentyrich -six and has been there for fifteen years, convinced that she accidentally killed inherited five million pounds from her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at papers are making the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessmost of it. Rachel's very bright 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersundoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=00083147211529135389|title=Truth Be ToldThe Fall|author=Kia AbdullahGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in returncounty fair before she returned home. There are two sons was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the family, seventeenstate-yearof-old Kamran and sixteenthe-year-old Adamart music system installed in The Glass Barn. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnThey't name them d not been in the other way round: 'Adam architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Kamran' trips off were still getting used to all the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and Adamdidn't work as reliably as they should. Sofia worries It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of thingmoney, too. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolEventually, where they board, despite Nicole found Tom dead in the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has swimming pool with a place at Oxford next year and all seemed wound to be going well until the night when he was rapedhis head.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Alan Parks|title=The Seven DoorsTo Die in June

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of any kind until we're a full fifth of homeless man on the way throughstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. We start with our coupleThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, she but all the more so because his own father is a literature lecturerdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he big in medical provision and decisions at has been for years. At the councilsame time as facing these possible murders, being forced Harry is also dealing with a move to move out a different police station, and the arrival there of their homea woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, a building that had only no record of the boy having existed throughout her life since childhood 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?|isbn=1805300784}}{{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 which theyhas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''d occupied for over thirty years. The building heCaz's inheritedsister, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single motherGemma, reckons that Pete is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says going to its occupant propose but Caz hasn'take t spotted a hike, I'm moving ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and youshe doesn're moving outt know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Now, at this stage you may well, if you They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know this is him a genre readbit better. Meanwhile, think itGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be a throwback to those good, isn'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us t it?}}{{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 1980sjoy she is feeling in this moment, but noeven 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. We avoid genre completelyConvinced she is going to die, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has any bearing on what happens herebeen keeping and makes a panicked, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livescryptic declaration to Matthew. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is found to have completely vanishedleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1913193381166250893X

|isbnauthor=1471179273Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=House Thirty Days of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchDarkness|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyHannah presents as an unlikeable, she's in prisonbitter woman, on remandan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. She's sharing Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a cell public argument with Michaelathe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, whosaying he's more caring than populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she first appearscannot live up to that accusation. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to have Iceland, where she is put up for a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might bewintry month away from it all. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, Just on 21 December the body point of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in despairing – about her garden shed by Andrew Kanewriting, who was helping with about the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as people and the police are concernedlack of stimulus for her plot, Tabitha is more or less about everything – word comes that the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0861544056|title=The Lies You ToldTwin Truths|author=Harriet TyceJacqueline Sutherland

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnBelle and David't happy about having s twin daughters are just coming to start a new schoolthe end of their first term at university. SheKit's left the school she loved in New York been at Bristol and now sheJess's going to Ashams in North LondonExeter. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hensnot only the first time they' teeth and as the pupils have all ve been there away from their parents for any length of time - but they''forever'', they have their established groupsve also been apart from each other. RobinBelle can's going t wait to have them all to be an outsiderherself for a while. And why is this happeningThen Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Well, over a matter of a few days her parentsBelle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn' marriage fell apartt want to upset Kit. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - Ivo's apparently 'older': he works for a securities firm 's twenty- and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back four to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. ThatAnd they's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsll be sharing a bedroom.

|author= Mark DawsonRobert Dugoni|title= The CleanerHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Ruthless 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 coldly competentinevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, John Milton is one former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the British government's best assets – family firm because a contract killer romantic entanglement with lethal instincts. Nowa senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, after ten yearsrather spectacularly, he wants outsouth. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X1662500181

|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18389510671787301036|title=The Nothing ManWhat July Knew|author=Catherine Ryan HowardEmily Koch

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heJuly Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's about to get a shockjust ten years old. HeShe's security at a supermarket and hecareful, 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 watching mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a woman who is acting suspiciouslyLesson. She has a book tucked under her arm Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he wonders if she's planning to pay for itnot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Suddenly it drops to July's teacher is concerned and brings up the floor possibility of abuse with the spine splayed upwards. 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|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn'Nothing Man'' by Eve Blackt really slept for a year - well, is apart from the titleodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Why is Jim shocked? WellIt's now a year since her son, Mason, Jim was - ''stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy isconsumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she'' - s done everything she could to raise awareness about the Nothing Man whocase. She does interviews and when we meet her, until eighteen years ago raped and killedshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. The author of On the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, and then killed herWaylon Spencer, her father who points out that she could do a podcast and her seven-year-old sister, Annaget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.

|isbn=178089922X1848458436|title=Invisible GirlJust the Nicest Couple|author=Lisa JewellMary Kubica|rating=54

|summary=''When you wear a hoodThe whole thing has spiralled out of control, youturning into someone I're invisiblem not.''

Saffyre Maddox ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is seventeen-years-old the story of two couples: Christian and beautiful. By her own admissionLily Scott, she's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics Nina and biology at A levelJake Hayes. Life hasn't been easy for herThe connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: most people who have been close to her have died Nina teaches English and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatLily covers high school algebra. Something The couples have mixed as a foursome but it''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for s not a long timeregular thing. Aaron organised psychological help Christian is a market research analyst and for three years Roan Fours was her therapistJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psycheLily hasn't said anything yet, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really badshe's pregnant. When She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roanknowledge public.

|author=Sharon DoeringJulia Bartz|title=She Lies CloseThe Writing Retreat

|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, around 6 months agoagents want to represent her. There has been no sign She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her sincebreakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and no arrests have been made. And yetis stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, this book she is not about Avainvited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat. Not really|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4. This book is about Grace5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, who has just discovered her neighbour it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in her new house St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a suspect in Avapallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's disappearancedeath. As Within a single mother matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to two young childrenMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's really wishing this sort of less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information had come to light before they moved inpublished, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|isbn=1789094194