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|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1399613073|title=Her Perfect FamilyMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaOlivia, who at Laura and Anjali met on the first instance appears 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 your average student, faced with a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the familiar horrifying realisation, group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the eleventh hour, tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that her graduation outfit is all wrongwill impact the three friends. Suddenly This time, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it''He s their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is not a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who he says he is…''are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, paving the way hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the sinister tone that remains throughout residents who are still alive in the novel. In hotel, he forms a twist of bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst keeps on venturing out of her graduation ceremonyroom to try to capture what's happened through her photography. With Gemma then in a coma Although they only ever talk over the phone, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to grow see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the further you readterrorists.|isbn=1542028752086154742X

|isbnauthor=0008370982Cody Goodfellow|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home There's something about tall buildings that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandjust captures my imagination. Her husband, Adam, isnWho doesn't so keen on love a good view from up high, after all? Even the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: hedrabbest office building is somewhere I's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making m intrigued to get inside if it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her40 stories tall. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires So when I picked up this book – about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving people who scale tall buildings for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days laterfun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|isbn=00084217141804183210|title=Mrs MarchNo Reserve|author=Virginia FeitoFelix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only t have been on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to rostrum when the local patisserie to buy olive bread colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but on that particular morningPeter Radway, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the breadchairman, ''but isnhadn't this the first time arrived, so he's based a character on you?'' continued his session. She mentioned To say that Johanna, he was shocked when the principal character 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 'her mannerisms'Mitch'Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the fact two men came in and their conversation revealed that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weakhorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchthe horse was dead in its stall.''

|isbn=02419890941405951680|title=The Perfect LifeSafe House|author=Nuala EllwoodCameron Ward

|summary=In August 2018 we meet Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a young woman called Imogen and couple of months. After the problems she's viewing d had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a house data analyst for the Metropolitan police in Goring-on-Thames London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and telling in need of the space to get over the estate agent about traumatic end of her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclayrelationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The boys are a bit 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 handful which is why she's making this trip on her ownwealthy family are found murdered. The house would be perfect for them. It's only item missing from the home is the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter Devil Stone: myth says that if the same young womanstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only this time she's job hunting and living suspects are known Satanists but in her sistermany ways, Georgiethat'san easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, spare room, where sheDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorhim.

|isbn=1787634493B0CCCPJJ5B|title=All Her FaultThe Last Person in the World|author=Andrea MaraMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Marissa Irvine It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, money to go throw around on a play date Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. She was concerned that he didn't have any Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little latercertainly more than acquaintances. What could be better? OnlyFinns had no intention of going on to University, when Marissa arrived unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the house, expecting to meet JacobUK's motherthird most prestigious university. Before going up, Jennyhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyClouds Manor in West Dorset.

|author=Claire McGowanDean Koontz|title=I Know YouThe House at the End of the World

|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and 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 map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob'Then:'s Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It' Casey returns from s a walk with scene replicated all too often in the baby, Carson, early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and comes across three bodies, almost looking for a whole family taken downway to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages.  The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'Now:, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' Rachel is out for . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a walk with long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her dog, Brandy, when phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she comes across a body had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the woodshigh-heeled shoes. |isbn=1542019974

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1529195977|title=The StoningNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=3.5

|summary=In On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous crowd of friends in comparisonthe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleywas out celebrating her 45th birthday, and only she's been taped to a tree was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she Josie birthday twins, they were the worldboth born in St Mary's tallest cricket stumpshospital. When she That's discovered by where the town gossip everyonesimilarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, including the local copsNathan, are quite confident in the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and itwhilst they're not ''exactly''s only fairrowdy, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsthey're enjoying themselves. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Josie, a higher rank from on the cityother hand, holds her handbag close to sort everything outher tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going He's not used to welcome spending this much money on a Greekmeal -heritaged city boy laying down the law..but it is Josie's birthday after all.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=17876318691803136383|title=The Rising TideTin Soldiers|author=Sam LloydDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but she'd built an act of heroism leading to a good rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and decent life in disgrace seems to be the aftermathconsensus. She's now married Wat himself is keeping his cards close to Danielhis chest, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beachas 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, his name is Ettore and they live he lives at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with BillieThe House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, Lucyit's daughter a bordello and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, DanielEttore's partner and so-called best friendmother died when he was born. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenHe's home not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to think that Nick has Danielobtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or 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 had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money, is concerned.

|isbn=17863323880241996104|title=The First Day of SpringComing to Find You|author=Nancy TuckerJane Corry

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and Nancy''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb s mother and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the plot grips you and won't let go. Soher step-brother, what's the problem? WellMartin, the problem is Chrissie, the main characterhas been convicted of their murder. When we We first meet her she's just eight years oldNancy outside the court, small for after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - received a two-year'silent sentence' -old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized uplife. ThereOf course, it's a clue that Chrissie isnmade worse because Nancy't completely responsible for s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her actions a little later in mother - and the papers are making the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? most of it. Hasn't he been dead for long enough?'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1529135389|title=The Lies We TellFall|author=Jane CorryGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the 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 them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that Caroline Riley (she grew up on a council estate prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisterslove with Pete. It seemed They're off on a cruise to have been a loving, stable familyNew York on ''Atlantica''. When we first meet herCaz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she candoesn't sleep because her son, Freddie, whoknow whether she's nearly sixteen, hasnrelieved or disappointed. They't come home by ve not been a couple for that long and the time he sort of half-promised he'd trip will be in byan excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Her husband, TomMeanwhile, Gemma is fast asleep: theylooking after Caz're moving house in the morning but hes cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakesgood, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that heisn's killed someone.t it?

|author=Louise CandlishMark Edwards|title=The HeightsKeep Her Secret

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that dayMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She's The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on sitegetting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, visiting even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a client for ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a lighting consultation when 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she spies him has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in a building across the wayand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena. There are lots |isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of thingsDarkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, lots an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of peoplered wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, you might see when you look out across Londonshe flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, but this isnsaying he't one Ellen expected s populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that day or in fact any other dayshe cannot live up to that accusation. Why? Because Kieran has been dead Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for over two yearsa wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and Ellen knows this the lack of stimulus for a facther plot, because she had a hand in his murder.more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=14711834831914585615

|isbn=18388538040861544056|title=The Cursed GirlsTwin Truths|author=Caro RamsayJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=Megan MelvickBelle and David's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down twin daughters are just coming to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfend of their first term at university. Twenty years later sheKit's back home again been at Bristol and this time the occasion is no less sadJess's in Exeter. SheIt's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of anorexiatime - but they've also been apart from each other. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorryBelle can' t wait to have them all to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, herself for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? while. Was Then Kit rings up - can she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping bring her boyfriend home with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding dayher? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - Belle would prefer that he didn't come but there did seem doesn't want to be a curseupset Kit. In addition Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to MelissaKit's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeeighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. Would she come back for her elder daughterAnd they's funeral?ll be sharing a bedroom.

|isbnauthor=1409181669Robert Dugoni|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesHer Deadly Game

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the death life's work of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. ShePatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'd been brutally stabbed and MarianaThe Irish Brawler's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in distressdefence of his clients. Tara had been her best friend Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and she inevitably the latter was struggling beginning to copeovershadow the former. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to CambridgeEnter Keera Duggan, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana former competitive chess prodigy and Zoe were close and had been made all proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the more so by hideous position of asking her father for a job at the death of Mariana's husbandfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, SebastianMiller Ambrose, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sistergone, rather spectacularly, Elizasouth.|isbn=1662500181

|author=Sarah LanganVanda Symon|title=Good NeighboursExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary= If youWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She're s a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of a certain vintagehis wife, itJuly's hard mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to read the words 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'Good Neighbourss 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|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn' without adding t really slept for a singyear -song ''thatwell, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetnow a year since her son, thoughMason, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart was stolen from his bed in the Melbourne suburbs. They're one middle of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's an ex rockerdone 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 former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inkeynote presentation. On the plane back, and itshe's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hotapproached by a podcaster, clammyWaylon Spencer, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's who points out that she could do a revolting mess of dirt podcast and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to comea few hundred people at conferences.|isbn=1789098211

|isbn=00083955941848458436|title=Both of YouJust the Nicest Couple|author=Adele ParksMary Kubica

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher ''The whole thing has it allspiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: great husband Christian and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. ThenLily Scott, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeNina and Jake Hayes. Mark, Oli The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Seb are shatteredLily covers high school algebra. Well, Mark and Seb are The couples have mixed as a foursome but Oliit's sixteen not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and at the stage where he thinks boredom Jake is his best looka neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. HeLily hasn's been a bit off with Leigh for a while t said anything yet, but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missingpregnant. She too has vanished without tracea lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.

|isbnauthor=1848458428Julia Bartz|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaThe Writing Retreat

|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againRoza Vallo. His wife was Anyone in the habit world of going out for a run late at nightpublishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnShe't have to look after s something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her baby - but breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out she would meet up of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with a manRoza, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was and is stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without following a traceseries of unexpected events, leaving her husband she is invited to look after be part of her disabled babymonth-long writers' retreat.|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, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Ten days laterHe's a pallbearer for his elder brother, a local woman and her sixTimur, whose death was drug-year-old daughter disappearedrelated. Meredith Dickey was Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a birth doula pallbearer and shehe's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he'd seemed s determined to be under some strain for the last couple make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of weeks or somonths, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel She's determined to expose any and all corruption - it appeared that and she'd committed suicides less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. She left To her, he's a note saying that her daughtergood source. For him, Delilahit's a way to get information published, was safe and there was no point in looking for herwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.