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|isbn=14736808831399613073|title=The Skeleton KeyMoral Injuries|author=Erin KellyChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the rest a quarter of my lifea century. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you!'' Nell didn't want aim to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious Laura is a perfectionist and unbelievably challenginga trauma doctor. I'd better explainAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they''The Golden Bones'' was re at a treasure quest book painted drug and written by Frank alcohol-fuelled party and Cora Churcherit's going to end in tragedy. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the countryconsequences. The clues Twenty- some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the words and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvisthree friends. As with such questsThis time, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishit's their teenage children who are involved.
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Sunny Singh|title=Red as BloodHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all the evidence seems to point towards her having The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been kidnappedviolently taken over by a terrorist group. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with Hiding from the policeterrorists who are rampaging through, so instead he enlists the help of Arorakilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a financial investigatorwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. She manages As Abhi continues to persuade Flosi that they will need try to care remotely for the help of residents who are still alive in the policehotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and she calls keeps on venturing out of her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating room to try to capture what's happened through her sister’s disappearancephotography. Together Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not both wait to arouse the suspicion of anyone, since see if they have no idea who the kidnappers might will be, yet the more rescued before they uncover, are discovered by the more confusing things becometerrorists.|isbn=1914585321086154742X
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|isbnauthor=1846976146Cody Goodfellow|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsVertical|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Heather Bishop, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysThere' break in the regions something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. It was a little worrying that he didnWho doesn't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he had love a woman in the hotel room. Heather had to give good view from up competitive cycling high, after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up to all? Even the standard she would need drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to race againget inside if it's 40 stories tall. Sometimes she couldn't be certain So when I picked up this book – about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfpeople who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|isbn=14087121721804183210|title=The Cliff HouseNo Reserve|author=Chris BrookmyreFelix Francis|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Many of them didnThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't know each otherhave been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, one of them didnhadn't know anybodyarrived, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. What could possibly go wrong?Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' That's Mitchell were well-known and respected in the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barraracing industry. They're all staying Jennings was in one of the cubicles in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's the utmost toilets when the two men came in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about and their conversation revealed that the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has horse had been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain deliberately bid up to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutthat figure. Added to Both were happy thatthey had insurance in place. The following morning, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakhorse was dead in its stall.
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|isbn=15291257901405951680|title=The Family RemainsSafe House|author=Lisa JewellCameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In July 2019Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, Jason Mott actually she was mud larking on the banks of gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the River Thames when he came across Australian outback for a bag couple of what appeared to be human bonesmonths. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigate After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. The bones were indeed humanShe was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: a young woman had been killed by a blow she was Jess who was returning to the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but country of her birth and in need of the bones had not been in space to get over the river longer than a yeartraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. There was no identification but A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualticket.
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|isbn=17873017451448309743|title=Confidence|author=Denise Mina|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin The Devil Stone (who was married to EstelleDCI Christine Caplan) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouse, in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763566X|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her newIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the library she knows home is the Devil Stone: myth says that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in the snow many ways, that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out an easy conclusion given that two of nowhere and hits her. It doesnthem 't stop. Two months later, wediscovered're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesbody. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in California, looking after his sister, she has the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsshadow' him.
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|isbn=0008395632B0CCCPJJ5B|title=One The Last SecretPerson in the World|author=Adele ParksMatthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is an escortOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a nod boarder and had money to her Serbian heritage. throw around on a She's actually thirtyRolex watch, vintage wines and a state-oneof-yearthe-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskiart sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. If you're thinking Finns had no intention of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitutegoing on to University, run by unlike our storyteller who had a pimpplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, whothe UK's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget itthird most prestigious university. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agent, ElspethBefore going up, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as he took up a self-employed clairvoyant loose invitation to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customsvisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|isbnauthor=140595115XDean Koontz|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardThe House at the End of the World|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Right from the beginningWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' to Antiguayou can either suck it up, all 300 tonnes saddle up and six decks will be floundering without power ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in the Atlantic. Those a small chain of tiny dots on the crew who are left will be cowering map and live out your days in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore peace and there is no way of making contactsolitude. But letThat's go back what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to when start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all this startedwould 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 Southamptonthe name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|isbn=02419890271787636607|title=We All Have Our SecretsThe Trap|author=Jane CorryCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for live-in help as he was failing a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to cope at Willowmead House on his ownget one of the few taxis available. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the ability to cook a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsoutlying villages. The first person who came to woman all regret the house was Francoise'taxi problem', a French woman particularly in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlylight of 'the missing women'. She got For one young woman, the job but Francoise didn't know about final stop on the advert: she was there for bus leaves her a completely different reasonlong way short of her home. Emily Gentle is HaroldShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's daughter and dead. The bus had driven off before she came had the chance to beg the bus driver to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in Londonlet her use his. EmilyThere's a midwife no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madein high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=07515815771529195977|title=Lying Beside YouNone of this is True|author=Michael RobothamLisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Voices told him to do itShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. Only two people survived That's where the carnage - Eliassimilarities end, who was sent to Ramptonthough: Alix, and his thirteen-year-old brotherwith her husband, CyrusNathan, who hid are in the midst of a shed until the police found himjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Twenty years laterJosie, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and heyou get the sense that Walter's been told that his brother is being releasednot too happy. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having He's not used to live spending this much money on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twentymeal -one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?but it is Josie's birthday after all.
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|isbn=14059409801803136383|title=The BirdcageTin Soldiers|author=Eve ChaseDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's the 7th Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled cloud. What actually happened out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it there is gossiped about and nobody is. Four days earliersure exactly what took place, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request but an act of their father, Charlie Finch, heroism leading to a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closedisgrace seems to be the consensus. Finch was known for Wat himself is keeping his fecundity, if not for cards close to his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of the total eclipsechest, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersas he always does.
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|authorisbn=Vanda SymonB0C7J9D21B|title=FacelessA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the When we first of meet our characters hero, his name is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, Ettore and what he feels is an unappreciative wifelives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Then there’s BillyIdyllic as this might sound, it's a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Max, who is also living on the streets bordello and who keeps an eye on BillyEttore's mother died when he was born. He is a shell 's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of a manhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, barely able it's difficult to take any care obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of himself, anchovies didn't work out and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is nowbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. One night, Bradley finds himself halfEttore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined -crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for a prostitutevisitors. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differenteven saving some money.|isbn=1914585046
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ0241996104|title=The ClubComing to Find You|author=Ellery LloydJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy''The party s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of the year turned into the their murder mystery of . We first meet Nancy outside the decade.'' Just off Littleseacourt, in Essex and after Martin receives a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood on an islandlife sentence. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Groupbarrister tells her that she's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Homereceived a 'silent sentence' - she's standardsnot been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. SpeedboatsOf course, helicopters it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to papers are making the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidemost of it. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is determined that everything, one favourite epithet and ''everythingrich bitch'' will might not be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekend. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing..printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=00083849831529135389|title=The Paris ApartmentFall|author=Lucy FoleyGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Things are not what they seem''Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. It There was a Friday and Jess Hadley no sign of her husband but opera was keen to get to her halfplaying on the state-of-the-brother's flat art music system installed in ParisThe Glass Barn. SheThey'd come across from London not been in the architect-designed house on Eurostar, courtesy of Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightonhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. It wasnSome of them fought with each other and didn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herwork as reliably as they should. She'd phoned Ben and got the address It had all come about through a ten- 12 Rue des Amants million- pound lottery win and he told her they were still getting used to having that the apartment was on the third floorsort of money, too. She's outside what's obviously Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able wound to get in touch with Benhis head.
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerAlan Parks|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)To Die in June|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is What first seems like the third book in unfortunate, accidental death of a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixhomeless man on the streets, a police officersuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistthen another. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleaguesThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, Kovic, uncovers but all the more so because his own father is a connection between several Oslo casesdown and out alcoholic, she tries to contact her superiorwith no fixed abode, Blixand he has been for years. Before she can reach himAt the same time as facing these possible murders, however, she Harry is murderedalso dealing with a move to a different police station, and Blix's daughter Iselin the arrival there of a woman who shares claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooboy having existed can be found. We then find ourselves a few days later Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix other officers where he has shot and killed someonebeen stationed, and Ramm saw it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And but can Harry uncover just what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someoneis going on?|isbn=19145850031805300784
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1529382823|title=The Wedding MurdersLast Passenger|author=Sarah LinleyWill Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with the newspaper and the case she was covering was her big chancePete. It was even more important They're off on a cruise to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, MatthewNew York on ''Atlantica''. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her Caz's sister, EmmaGemma, and heading off reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a grand manor house hotel ring-shaped bulge in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter his suit pocket and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They'quite've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz' s cafe as high-profile well as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonestheir mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Mark Edwards|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat Matthew and Helena are in NorthumbriaIceland, right up near rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the Scottish borders lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to make encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it worse nearly does when the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to delay making the trip until rockface with just the Saturday morning. Jane snagged strap of her rucksack between her and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider500 foot drop to certain death below. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and Convinced she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the group went back shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to school daysMatthew. Paul had coached rugby at the school where MarkJust moments later their heroic, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janefrankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Toby Matthew is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15290955220861544056|title=The InterviewTwin Truths|author=C M EwanJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. ItBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the last interview end of the day their first term at one of Londonuniversity. Kit's newest office buildings been at Bristol and Edge have fitted out Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their part parents for any length of the building time - 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 - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to be something specialupset Kit. Maggie, Kate Ivo's recruitment agent, is keen apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to see Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes she can cope with that this is because Maggie will get . And they'll be sharing a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlybedroom.
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Robert Dugoni|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes work of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what itPatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler's like due to have a traumatic childhoodhis reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Her father is Richard DavisAlong with an indisputable talent for the law, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it latter was beginning to overshadow the policeformer. Dick Davis is Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him hideous position of asking her father for a job at the last twenty years. Her mother is in family firm because a romantic entanglement with a care homesenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Vanda Symon|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the stag weekend. Five start of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenher maternity leave when there is a brutal, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the night Scot managed to wander offhunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that TimFinding herself put on desk duties, who was experienced in survival techniqueswhich she rails against, would go for help. When help didnshe just can't come let the remaining three finally made their way back case go and she starts to follow every thread to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timuncover what's father, Martinactually happening, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=13987069061787301036|title=The LostWhat July Knew|author=Simon BeckettEmily Koch|rating=45|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedten years old. HeShe'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokes a careful, Theo had gonemeticulous child. It cost him The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his marriage and his home. Ten years later hewife, July's largely come through it mother, and he's out with his team when he gets any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyLesson. Gavin used Other infractions of his requirements also lead to be his best friend but itthese Lessons and he's a long time since they've spokennot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. HeJuly's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - 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 asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. not? The playground wouldn''There's no one else I can trust'', he sayst have been resurfaced but for him.
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0008454493|title=Bitter FlowersAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum is 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 Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished moment. It's now a stint year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in rehab the middle of the night and Izzy is now returning to work. However, consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the quiet job morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's supposedly taken on caretaking someonedone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's house quickly turns into just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a murder investigationkeynote presentation. On the plane back, and a mystery around she's approached by a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating thesepodcaster, but also looking into an oldWaylon Spencer, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night points out that she could do a podcast and was never foundget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1848458436|title=QuicksilverJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=2.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingThe whole thing has spiralled out of control, and now is starting a career on a needless magazineturning into someone I's staffm not. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind ''Just the Nicest Couple''is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that he go to Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a derelict diner, find foursome but it's not a gold coin worth regular thing. Christian is a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank market research analyst and prepare for going on the lam. And all this Jake is just a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest hecommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of interest to them. Helped miscarriages so she doesn't want to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted tempt fate by other instances of him acting without being in control, making the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesknowledge public.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Julia Bartz|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchWriting Retreat|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the family home and Jason is now married name. Writers want to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has be her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares with , agents want to represent her mother. It She''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home s something of a legend with a menacing drawing an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of a woman falling from a tall building and she works that started swearingwith her breakthrough novel, using words published when she was unlikely to have heard in either homebarely out of childhood. Her behaviour deteriorated Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to is stunned when, following a therapist for helpseries of unexpected events, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has is invited to say seriouslybe part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1800465270|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a highpallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously related. Valeri and alsoTimur's father, curiouslyKeto, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing pallbearer and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetshe's disgusted by what his son had become...targets for sexual encounters, targets Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to feed her desire to hear of peoplemake his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's miserydeath. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and targets for her violent behaviourcreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Yet she also seems She's determined to be searching for others who think as she does, expose any and all corruption - and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups less concerned than she decides ought to set up be about her ownsafety. To her, hoping he's a good source. For him, it's a way to encounter others who share similar obsessionsget information published, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.|isbn=1913193756
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