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|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1399613073|title=The SourceMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=24.5

|summary=1996Olivia, 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. Essex Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. Thirteen When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-yearfuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-old schoolgirl Carly lives five years later 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 |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a disenfranchised town dominated by terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a military basewartime photographer and Abhi, struggling 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 baby sister while room to try to capture what's happened through her mum sleeps off another bingephotography. When Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her squaddie brother brings food keep safe and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation they both wait to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak..see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1913193594086154742X

|isbnauthor=1529378648Cody Goodfellow|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canThere't understand its something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Well, what he actually canWho doesn't understand is why, having seen themlove a good view from up high, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After after all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went ? Even the full Chris Grayling.drabbest office building is somewhere I'' Over at Regentm intrigued to get inside if it's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that who scale tall buildings for fun – I was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about thisinstantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|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 On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a nasty surprise when he pulls 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. Itturns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's wrapped hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in part the midst of an old shower curtain a joyful, monied group of friends and is a whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, severed above holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the wristsense that Walter's not too happy. ItHe's been there for about twenty-five not used to thirtyspending this much money on a meal -five yearsbut it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersRobin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - |summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is Prime Ministersure 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. He's married Wat himself is keeping his cards close to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughtershis chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, Becca his name is Ettore and Bellahe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. SandfordIdyllic as this might sound, it's determined to be a better type of politician: bordello and Ettore's mother died when he wants was born. He''a government that is s not just practically goodbeen short of mothers, though - but morally goodfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment.'' One The stint working with the preparation of the ways heanchovies didn's planning t work out and bastards are considered bad luck on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesfishing boats. Henry MorlandEttore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined -Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that was not long before he wouldn't have been in agreementhad a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.

|authorisbn= Gunnar Staalesen0241996104|title= Fallen AngelsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 24.5

|summary=Varg VeumNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, lone wolf detectiveMartin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, is backafter Martin receives a life sentence. After attending The barrister tells her that she's received a former friend'silent sentence' - she's funeral, Veum catches up not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with old friends but soon historic grievances and wounds are opened and what happened for the sins rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the past papers are exposed to making the light most of the presentit. A horrific murder threatens these tenuous bonds ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Veum ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is thrust into an investigation to root out the clues hidden in his own history and to catch a killerundoubtedly spoken.|isbn=1913193063

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1529135389|title= The CaptiveFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows Nicole 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-of-the cage, intimately-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. It lurks They'd not been in the corner architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of her eyethem fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Soon It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, it will be occupiedtoo. Then what? What if he speaks Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650his head.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQAlan Parks|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackTo Die in June

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaCaroline Riley (she prefers 's HealeyCaz's nineteen) is middle-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgeaged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. There was They're off on a furious storm cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going on to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicles relieved or disappointed. WeThey'll see - but no one else will know - ve not been a couple for that another car stops long and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. There Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years sincedementia. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and sheIt's not going to be stopped.good, isn't it?

|author= Susi Holliday Mark Edwards|title= The Last Resort Keep Her Secret|rating= 34.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of strangers gather the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on a private island. They have been invited getting the perfect photograph to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes edge of a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist ravine gives way and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems Helena finds herself clinging to have an area the rockface with just the snagged strap of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. All except Amelia whose presence Convinced she is a mystery. We follow going to die, Helena must purge herself of the group as they explore the island, shocking secret she has been keeping and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have makes a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenpanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. As the clock ticks down Just moments later their heroic, these and frankly very well-kept secrets are revealedprepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle hauls Helena to uncover the reason for her attendance safety and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena. |isbn=1542020018166250893X}}

|isbnauthor=0008330131Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenThirty Days of Darkness

|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'Belle and David' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they s twin daughters are all healthy adultsjust coming to the end of their first term at university. Well, theyKit's been at Bristol and Jess're healthy s in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksExeter. TheyIt're s not only the Sinclair sisters and one day first time they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge 've been away from their parents for any length of her sisters, the eighttime -year-old twinsbut they've also been apart from each other. Much as she loved Belle can't wait to have them Carly was desperate all to get herself for a text from Dean Malden and while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her mobile phone held boyfriend home with her attention. ? Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsideBelle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. The gate wasnIvo's apparently 't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escapedolder': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. As the three girls went to chase after him And they were snatched by two men'll be sharing a bedroom.

|author=Will CarverRobert Dugoni|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripHer 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=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary= Hinton HollowWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, population 5,120meticulous child. It sounds like one The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in Americahis wife, July's mid-westmother, but this particular Hinton Hollow and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a small town in Berkshire, EnglandLesson. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he ran away to 's not even careful about whether or not the cityinjuries are visible. HeJuly's running away again…only this time evil teacher is following him concerned and is going brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to touch just about everyone in townthe school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=19131933060008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 middle of the night and Izzy is consumed 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 case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.

|isbn=00083783631848458436|title=One Perfect MorningJust the Nicest Couple|author=Pamela CraneMary Kubica|rating=3.54

|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find ''The whole thing has spiralled out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsof control, turning into someone I'm not.''

Mackenzie''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Robin and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily met when they all went to and Nina teach in the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania school: Nina teaches English and twenty years later theyLily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it're still the best of friendss not a regular thing. When Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the daydon't have much in common except their wives. Lily would be Adventure Spicehasn't said anything yet, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifebut she's pregnant. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have has a daughter, Aria, wholengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn's now fifteen-year-oldt want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.

|isbnauthor=0751567426Julia Bartz|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneWriting Retreat|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulaname. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen yearssomething of a legend with an impressive, if compact, convinced back catalogue of works that she accidentally killed started with her mother breakthrough novel, published when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himselfbarely out of childhood. Her sisterAlex, Diana, just twentya writer-yearsslash-oldeditor, was left at the family homeis more than a little obsessed with Roza, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wilderness. Rachel's very bright and although she's a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhapsstunned when, thoughfollowing a series of unexpected events, the circumstances are not as she remembersis invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439

|isbn=00083147211800465270|title=Truth Be ToldThe Lensky Connection|author=Kia AbdullahConrad Delacroix|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The Hadids are an When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he'effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for s at the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call Serafimov Cemetry in returnSt Petersburg. There are two sons of the familyHe's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteenwhose death was drug-year-old Adamrelated. Their motherValeri and Timur's father, SofiaKeto, regrets that she didnis also a pallbearer and he't name them the other way rounds disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he'Adam s determined to make his own stand against organised crime and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamavenge Timur's death. Sofia worries about that sort Within a matter of thingmonths, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Both boys go She's determined to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than ten miles from their Belsize Park homeshe ought to be about her own safety. Kamran has To her, he's a place at Oxford next year and all seemed good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be going well until the night when he was rapedpossible.