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|isbn=17873010361399613073|title=What July KnewMoral Injuries|author=Emily KochChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years oldday of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a careful, meticulous childcardiothoracic surgeon. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who Laura is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, a perfectionist and any hint that the conversation a trauma doctor. Anjali is heading that way will lead to the necessity free spirit of the group and she becomes a LessonGP. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and heit's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblegoing to end in tragedy. JulyWe don's teacher is concerned and brings up t know who suffered the possibility of abuse with tragedy or the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the schoolthree friends. This time, has he not? The playground wouldnit't have been resurfaced but for hims their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbnauthor=0008454493Sunny Singh|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy WillinghamHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for The Hotel Arcadia is a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a momentterrorist group. It's now a year since her sonHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Masonkilling everyone on site, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy there is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing Sam, a wartime photographer and particularly about her relief in Abhi, the morning when she thought he was sleeping inhotel manager. In that year she's done everything she could As Abhi continues to try to raise awareness about care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the case. She does interviews hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and when we meet keeps on venturing out of her, sheroom to try to capture what's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationhappened through her photography. On Although they only ever talk over the plane backphone, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and get they both wait to so many more people than she could see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferencesthe terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbnauthor=1848458436Cody Goodfellow|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaVertical|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn'The whole thing has spiralled out of controlt love a good view from up high, turning into someone after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but intrigued to get inside if it's not a regular thing40 stories tall. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publicSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1804183210|title=The Writing RetreatNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the world of publishing knows colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the name. Writers want to be herchairman, agents want to represent her. Shehadn's something of a legend with an impressivet arrived, if compact, back catalogue of works so he continued his session. To say that started with her breakthrough novel, published he was shocked when she was barely out of childhoodthe bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. Alex, a writerA lovely animal -slashbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, known and is stunned respected in the racing industry. 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 that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following a series of unexpected eventsmorning, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreatthe horse was dead in its stall.|isbn=0861544439
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|isbn=18004652701405951680|title=The Lensky ConnectionSafe House|author=Conrad DelacroixCameron Ward|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. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529356660|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma Haughton|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was the quiet which woke Zoey up - orgently nudged into it by her friend, rather, the absence of the noise which was Rupert) to caretake a constant luxury property in New York. Here it was silent and the heat was overwhelmingAustralian outback for a couple of months. When she looked out of the window all she could see was After the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last night. She knew that problems she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could at work, it seemed like just the break she have got to the desert from New York? needed. She had was no memory of getting on longer a plane but as data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she thought back, a memory was Jess who was returning to the country of sirens, flashing lights her birth and in need of being pushed into a car snagged on the edge space to get over the traumatic end of her mindrelationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1448309743|title=The Dark RoomDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across five members of a photograph wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This if the stone is what happens to Leonard in this storyremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and since leaving journalism hethat's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls easy conclusion given that two of film and develops them in his own dark room at home'discovered' the body. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young woman The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he met some years agodisappears, and who he DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535X
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|isbn=1473680883B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Skeleton KeyLast Person in the World|author=Erin KellyMatthew Tree|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the rest of my lifeLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a treasure quest book painted boarder and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved had money to throw around murdered on a Elinore whose golden Rolex watch, vintage wines and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues a state- some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of the book - art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and all the parts were discovered except for the pelviscertainly more than acquaintances. As with such questsFinns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Red as BloodThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingyou experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the policeyou can either suck it up, so instead he enlists the help of Arora, a financial investigator. She manages saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to persuade Flosi your own private fortress on an island that they will need the help sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the police, map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom was doing when she met when he was investigating shut down her sister’s disappearance. Together, they old life to start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not to arouse for the suspicion of anyonepesky US Government occupying Ringrock, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the more they uncover, name of science and quite possibly bringing about the more confusing things becomeend of all mankind.|isbn=19145853211662453159
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|isbn=18469761461787636607|title=The Bone RoadTrap|author=N E SolomonsCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Heather Bishop, It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the former Olympic cyclist, flew morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to Bosnia get home. Some are lucky and manage to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem' break , particularly in the regionlight of 'the missing women'. It was For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see long way short of her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roomhome. Heather She had intended to ring someone to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up had the chance to beg the standard she would need bus driver to race againlet her use his. Sometimes she couldnThere't be certain about what she had or hadn't done s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfhigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=14087121721529195977|title=The Cliff HouseNone of this is True|author=Chris BrookmyreLisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated On her45th birthday, and two Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's friends in the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place Landsdown pub on Clachan Geal an island just south of BarraSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. They're all staying in The Cliff HouseShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, hosted by Laurenonly she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and it's the utmost Josie birthday twins, they were both born in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. SheSt Mary's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run ithospital. SheThat's got where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her doubts about husband, Nathan, are in the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting midst of a little strangely joyful, monied group of late friends and wouldnwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they't explain re enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her what tummy and you get the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutsense that Walter's not too happy. Added to that, heHe's just about forced her not used to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, spending this much money on the trip, on the grounds that shea meal - but it is Josie's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakbirthday after all.
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|isbn=15291257901803136383|title=The Family RemainsTin Soldiers|author=Lisa JewellDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared to be human bonescloud. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Saffron Brown from forensics were there nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed rare battlefield commission followed by a blow rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been in the river longer than a yearconsensus. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, some of which was quite unusualas he always does.
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|isbn=1787301745B0C7J9D21B|title=ConfidenceA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Denise MinaA J Lewis|rating=34.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=WeNancy're back in the world of podcasters Anna s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exstep-brother, HamishMartin, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themhas been convicted of their murder. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendWe first meet Nancy outside the court, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was after Martin receives a bad mistakelife sentence. SofiaThe barrister tells her that she's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - received a lighthouse, in a storm 'silent sentence' - she begins talking about Anna's past, including not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her real name and the rapelife. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - twelve-tearshe inherited five million pounds from her mother -old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was rightpapers are making the most of it. And this wasn't the right time'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=178763566X1529135389|title=Listen to MeThe Fall|author=Tess GerritsenGilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We're in Boston with AmyNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. When she set out for university this morning it There was a spring day and she wore no sign of her new, butteryhusband but opera was playing on the state-leather pumps but as she comes out of -the library she knows that they-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They're going d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to be ruined all the high- tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and unsafe didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten- in the snow million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that's now fallingsort of money, too. As she crosses Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the road, swimming pool with a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stopwound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=CrimeTwo months later|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother accidental death of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender of homeless man on the suburb of Reverestreets, north of Bostonsuddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, where she livesand then another. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is in Californiaa down and out alcoholic, looking after his sisterwith no fixed abode, she and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to watch what's happening in a different police station, and the neighbourhood. The people arrival there of a woman who are moving in at claims her little boy has gone missing, only no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsrecord of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=00083956321529382823|title=One The Last SecretPassenger|author=Adele ParksWill Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is an escortmiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Well, her nameThey's not re off on a cruise to New York on ''actuallyAtlantica'' Natalya: that. Caz's her professional name sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but it is Caz hasn't spotted a nod to her Serbian heritage. Shering-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskirelieved or disappointed. If youThey're thinking of 'escort' as being ve not been a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to fund know him a drug habit, forget itbit better. Dora Meanwhile, Gemma is a professional in all senses of the wordlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is It's going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majestygood, isn's Revenue and Customs. t it?
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|isbnauthor=140595115XMark Edwards|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Right from the beginningMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, we know this will not turn out wellrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. Eight days into The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the trip perfect photograph to deliver encapsulate the superyacht ''Escape'' to Antiguajoy she is feeling in this moment, all 300 tonnes even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and six decks will be floundering without power in Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the Atlanticsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Those Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a fellow crew member tries panicked, cryptic declaration to pick them off, one by oneMatthew. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore Just moments later their heroic, and there is no way of making contact. But let's go back to when all this startedfrankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in Southamptonand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|isbnauthor=0241989027Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help Hannah presents as he was an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing to cope at Willowmead House on his ownif well-regarded literary short novels. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke Sorry to leave her bottles of the ability to cook red wine behind her for an afternoon at a good steakbook fair, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to she flukes her way into a public argument with the house was Francoise, a French woman latest hot shot in her early twentiesthe world of crime fiction, who fit the bill perfectlysaying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. She got Cue the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: bet that she was there for a completely different reasoncannot live up to that accusation. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Willowmead House because Iceland, where she was running is put up for a wintry month away from a problem in Londonit all. EmilyJust 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 a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had nephew has been made.found dead…|isbn=1914585615
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|isbn=07515815770861544056|title=Lying Beside YouTwin Truths|author=Michael RobothamJacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents Belle and his David's twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him daughters are just coming to do itthe end of their first term at university. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who was sent to Rampton, Kit's been at Bristol and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid Jess's in a shed until the police found himExeter. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and heIt's not only the first time they've been told that his brother is being releasedaway from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having Belle can't wait to have them all to live on herself for a daily basis while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with the results of the crimeher? Can Belle would prefer that he bear didn't come but doesn't want to have Elias living in the same house? upset Kit. How will his lodger, Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope?with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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|isbnauthor=1405940980Robert Dugoni|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body Patrick Duggan & Associates has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We donlife't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request s work of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artist. Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The girls are actually ''halfIrish Brawler''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for due to his fecundity, if not reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his fidelityclients. It's been a long time since Along with an indisputable talent for the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agolaw, at Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the time of latter was beginning to overshadow the total eclipse, something happenedformer. Kat Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her sistersfather for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181
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|author=Vanda Symon
|title=FacelessExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|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, Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the first start of our characters her maternity leave when there is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing bossbrutal, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is shocking murder of an unappreciative wifeexpectant woman in Dunedin. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in order to pay the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the materials she needsextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. And then we have Max, who is also living Finding herself put on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell of a mandesk duties, barely able to take any care of himselfwhich she rails against, and yet we she just can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress 't let the case go and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billyshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, 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 differentincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=19145850461914585577
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1787301036|title=The ClubWhat July Knew|author=Ellery LloydEmily Koch|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decades just ten years old. She'' Just off Littlesea, in Essex and s a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuarycareful, The Manor stood on an islandmeticulous child. It was now known as Island HomeThe care has been taught by her father, one Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was going to be something specialhis wife, even by HomeJuly's standards. Speedboatsmother, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on any hint that the island, which was linked conversation is heading that way will lead to the mainland by necessity of a causeway that was inaccessible at high tideLesson. HomeOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's CEO, Ned Groom, is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfectnot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Home July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for been good to the weekend. school, has he not? Those who The playground wouldn't have not been invited have not stopped ringing..resurfaced but for him.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger0008454493|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This is Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the third book in odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a series of stories featuring Alexander Blixyear since her son, a police officerMason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistparticularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In this book we find that when one of Blixyear she's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, done everything she tries could to contact raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her superior, Blixshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Before she can reach him, howeverOn the plane back, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves points out that she could do a few days later with Blix podcast and Ramm, who are being interviewed get to so many more people than she could by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happengiving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1848458436|title=The Wedding MurdersJust the Nicest Couple|author=Sarah LinleyMary Kubica|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the newspaper story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and the case she was covering was her big chanceNina and Jake Hayes. It was even more important to her than The connection between the celebrity wedding she was to attend two is that Lily and Nina teach in the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, Christian is a market research analyst and heading off to Jake is a grand manor house hotel neurosurgeon: they don't have much in the North Yorkshire countrysidecommon except their wives. Daniel AcroydLily hasn't said anything yet, television presenter and former member but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasnmiscarriages so she doesn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phoneswant to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Julia Bartz|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanWriting Retreat|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was a long drive to Roza Vallo. Anyone in the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near world of publishing knows the Scottish borders and name. Writers want to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had be her, agents want to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningrepresent her. Jane and Ruth had known each other for She's something of a long time but Emily was a bit legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of an outsider. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship barely out of the group went back to school dayschildhood. Paul had coached rugby at the school where MarkAlex, a writer-slash-editor, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janeis more than a little obsessed with Roza, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellstunned when, following a series of unexpected events, Robshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers's deadretreat.|isbn=0861544439
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|isbn=15290955221800465270|title=The InterviewLensky Connection|author=C M EwanConrad Delacroix|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. ItWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's the last interview of the day at one of LondonJune 1995 and he's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of at the building to be something specialSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Maggie He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, KateTimur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's recruitment agentfather, Keto, is keen also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to see that Kate approaches the interview in make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a good state matter of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie months, his obsession will get have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a decent bonus if Kate gets the job journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she has 's less concerned than she ought to admit that life has not been easy for be about her own safety. To her recently, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.
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