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|isbn=15293786481399613073|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)Moral Injuries|author=Mick HerronChristie Watson

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsOlivia, past Laura and present, from Anjali met on the Slough House teamfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Jackson Lamb can't understand itOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Well, what he actually can't understand Laura is why, having seen them, anyone would bothera perfectionist and a trauma doctor. But Anjali is the deaths are mounting up free spirit of the group and something needs to be doneshe becomes a GP. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, When we first meet them they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over re at Regenta drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning going to end in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedtragedy. It isnWe don't just know who suffered the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund tragedy or the operation off the booksconsequences. Some private money was brought inTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. She wonThis time, it't always be so jubilant about thiss their teenage children who are involved.

|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. Hiding from the terrorists who are 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 residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. 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 discovered by the terrorists.|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, after 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=00083793001804183210|title=The Shadow ManNo Reserve|author=Helen FieldsFelix Francis

|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's dying. His body is giving t have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up on himfor auction, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he dies continued his session. To say that he wants a wife, a child and a brotherwas shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? He's Two men had been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsbidding against each other. The flat where the family will live is prepared Brian Kitman and even windows with curtains, Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and pictures respected in frames have been painted onto the wallsracing industry. Angela Fernycroft 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 be his wifethat figure. Her husband, Cal, Both were happy that they had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekendinsurance in place. UnfortunatelyThe following morning, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela diesthe horse was dead in its stall.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1405951680|title=The Other EmilySafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is Jess Walker accepted an authoroffer (OK, who shares his life between actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the two US coastsAustralian outback for a couple of months. It's After the western coast weproblems she're concerned withd had at work, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveit seemed like just the break she needed. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from She was no longer a remote road late at night. He's paying data analyst for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying was returning to pry the connection between the murderer country of her birth and his girl from in need of the man's mind, but space to no availget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, A few weeks in the very embodiment, Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the virtual resurrection, of his loveticket. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|isbn=15291244171448309743|title=Before She DisappearedThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Lisa GardnerCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.5}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the bottom of the lake. She knew that the twentyLondon-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run awaybased public school where he met Ralph Finns. Lani It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was the fourteenth missing person a boarder and had money to be located by Frankie and now she's moving throw around on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. FrankieRolex watch, middlevintage wines and a state-of-aged the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and whitecertainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, gets unlike our storyteller who had a job and accommodation place at StoneyWolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's bar and sets out third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackvisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.

|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTDean Koontz|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisHouse at the End of the World|rating=54

|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circleyou experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, a gated communityyou can either suck it up, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to move quickly your own private fortress on the property as it was an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage map and live out your days in Harlestone for them to be able to afford itpeace and solitude. Alice agreed - That's what Katie thought she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would be able to spend most 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 week together instead name of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one science and although Alice knew that quite possibly bringing about the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1787636607|title=The KhanTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by It's a scene replicated all too often in the motto be twice as good as men early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and four times manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as good far as white menone of the outlying villages. This has served her well The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in her rise through the criminal justice system and by light of 'the time she is called home for her sistermissing women's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile. For one young woman, she is at the top final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her gamehome. Returning She had intended to the city of her birth, ring someone to old scars come and fresh wounds, Jia must confront collect her past and reconcile - but her visions for phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the future with bus driver to let her sense of honour use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and dutyin high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1786079097

|isbn=00082144681529195977|title=A Time to LieNone of this is True|author=Simon BerthonLisa Jewell

|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a package out crowd of an excavation friends in the Landsdown pub on a building siteSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain turns out that not only are Alix and is a handJosie birthday twins, severed above the wrist. Itthey were both born in St Mary's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Ministerhospital. HeThat's married to heiress Carol van Koon where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants re not ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.exactly'' One of the ways herowdy, they's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesre enjoying themselves. Henry Morland-CrossJosie, on the Deputy Prime Minister other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and Chancellor of you get the Exchequer, wishes sense that heWalter's not too happy. He'd been warned about s not used to spending this: much money on a meal - but itis Josie's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementbirthday after all.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen1803136383|title= Fallen AngelsTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg Veum, lone wolf detective, Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is back. After attending a former friend's funeralsure exactly what took place, Veum catches up with old friends but soon historic grievances an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and wounds are opened and the sins of the past are exposed disgrace seems to be the light of the presentconsensus. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds and Veum Wat himself is thrust into an investigation keeping his cards close to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerchest, as he always does.|isbn=1913193063

|authorisbn= Deborah O'ConnorB0C7J9D21B|title= The A Captivein Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Hannah knows the cageWhen we first meet our hero, intimately. It lurks in the corner his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of her eyeBeautiful Swallows. Soon Idyllic as this might sound, it will be occupied's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Then what? What if he speaks He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to her? What obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0241996104|title=The Long Dark RoadComing to Find You|author=P R BlackJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaNancy's Healey's nineteenmother and step-yearfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgecourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. There was a furious storm going on and The barrister tells her that she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in s received a big vehicle. We'll see silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into have to live with what happened for the car and driven offrest of her life. There has been no sign of her Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - or she inherited five million pounds from her body mother - in and the two years sincepapers are making the most of it. Georgia ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened one favourite epithet and she's 'rich bitch'' might not going to be stoppedprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1529135389|title= The Last Resort Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=A group Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of strangers gather her husband but opera was playing on a private islandthe state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They have 'd not been invited in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to an allthe high-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund managertech systems Tom had insisted upon. Everyone seems to have an area Some of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and them fought with each otherand didn's histories and it becomes clear that t work as reliably as they should. It had all have come about through a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these wellten-million-kept secrets are revealed, pound lottery win and it soon becomes clear they were still getting used to having that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagesort of money, too. In Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a race against time, Amelia must struggle wound to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themhis head. |isbn=1542020018}}

|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00083301311529382823|title=The Stolen SistersLast Passenger|author=Louise JensenWill Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=When we start Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz'The Stolen Sisters) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They'' we know that twenty-years re off on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adultscruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. WellCaz's sister, theyGemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn're healthy t spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD his suit pocket and Marie drinksshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old ve not been a couple for that long and she was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionbit better. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz't shut properly and Bruno, s cafe as well as their boxer dog, escapedmother who has dementia. As the three girls went It's going to chase after him they were snatched by two men.be good, isn't it?

|author=Will CarverMark Edwards|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripKeep Her Secret

|summary= Hinton HollowMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, population 5,120rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. It sounds like one The alien-landscape of those signs you see the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on improbably wide highways getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in America's mid-westthis moment, but this particular Hinton Hollow even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a small town in Berkshirepanicked, Englandcryptic declaration to Matthew. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, until something happened Icelandic tour guide swoops in and he ran away hauls Helena to the city. He's running away again…only this time evil is following him safety and Matthew is going to touch left wondering what he just learned about everyone in townHelena.|isbn=1913193306166250893X

|isbnauthor=0008378363Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThirty Days of Darkness

|summary=A husband is about Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to have his throat cut the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in his own bedExeter. To find out who It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - and why but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - we need can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to go back nine days and upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty years-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=CrimeMackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went |summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to the same college his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best defence of friendshis clients. When they first met they called themselves Along with an indisputable talent for the Spicier Girls as law, Patsy also has a nod gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the famous girl band of latter was beginning to overshadow the dayformer. Lily would be Adventure SpiceEnter Keera Duggan, Robin the Homemaker former competitive chess prodigy and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the supporting actress in hideous position of asking her own life. She married Owenfather for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, her college sweetheart and they have a daughterhad gone, Ariarather spectacularly, who's now fifteen-year-oldsouth.|isbn=1662500181

|isbnauthor=0751567426Vanda Symon|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulajust ten years old. She's twenty-six and a careful, meticulous child. The care has been there for fifteen yearstaught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, convinced that she accidentally killed her July's mother when she was eleven-years-old , and any hint that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at conversation is heading that way will lead to the family home, necessity of a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessLesson. Rachel's very bright Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and although shehe's a voluntary patient at not even careful about whether or not the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deservesinjuries are visible. Perhaps, though, July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the circumstances head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not as she remembers? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

|isbn=00083147210008454493|title=Truth Be ToldAll the Dangerous Things|author=Kia AbdullahStacy Willingham|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an Isabelle Drake hasn''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent t really slept for a year - well, apart from the slightest problem odd occasion when she lost track of time or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts drifted off for a phone call in returnmoment. There are two sons It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and sixteen-particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year-old Adamshe's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. Their motherShe does interviews and when we meet her, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them s just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the other way round: plane back, she'Adam s approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and Kamran' trips off the tongue get to so much many more easily people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''Kamran  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Adam'Nina and Jake Hayes. Sofia worries about The connection between the two is that sort of Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they boarddon't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homebut she's pregnant. Kamran She has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to be going well until tempt fate by making the night when he was rapedknowledge public.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Julia Bartz|title=The Seven DoorsWriting Retreat

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the way throughname. We start with our coupleWriters want to be her, she agents want to represent her. She's something of a literature lecturerlegend with an impressive, he big in medical provision and decisions at the councilif compact, being forced to move out back catalogue of their home, a building works that had existed throughout started with her life since breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inheritedAlex, a writer-slash-editor, meanwhileis more than a little obsessed with Roza, and which they let out to is stunned when, following a single motherseries of unexpected events, she is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says invited to its occupant be part of her month-long writers'take a hikeretreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, Iit'm moving in s June 1995 and youhe're moving outs at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. NowValeri and Timur's father, at this stage you may wellKeto, if you know this is also a genre read, think itpallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's going determined to be make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a throwback matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980sMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, but noa journalist. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has She's determined to expose any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an olderall corruption -middle aged couple live their livesand she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. 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 is found For him, it's a way to have completely vanishedget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|isbn=1913193381