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|summary=We're twenty years or so into Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the future first day of medical school and the world is desperately short their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of oila century. Trouble always follows such Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a situationcardiothoracic surgeon. There are energy shortages, economies are contracting Laura is a perfectionist and the threat from terrorism is constanta trauma doctor. The CIA and Anjali is the FBI were amalgamated some time ago and agent Scott Pierce free spirit of the FSA is hunting the man known as The Spidergroup and she becomes a GP. HeWhen we first meet them they's been in deep cover - including re at a prison sentence drug and alcohol- but this isnfuelled party and it't just work s going to himend in tragedy. The Spider was responsible for We don't know who suffered the Eurostar bombing which cost Pierce his wife and he's determined to see tragedy or the man deadconsequences. The fact Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that The Spider is determined to strike at will impact the heart of Americathree friends. This time, it's democratic institutions and bring her to her knees is ''almost'' secondarytheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B009L64TLU</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Ian TregillisFelix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, 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. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and 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 morning, the horse was dead in its stall.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=Bitter Seeds The Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Milkweed TriptychDevil 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 wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK'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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the End of the World|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|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'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's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way 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', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she 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 high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=It's 1939 and Lt Commander Raybould 'Pip' Marsh of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service travels to Portugal to smuggle out KrasnopolskyOn her 45th birthday, a fascist Alix Summer celebrated with a secretcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. However things don't go to planShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. Krasnopolsky nerves It turns out that not only are justified asAlix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in the time it takes to order drinks, he spontaneously combustsSt Mary's hospital. Marsh is too late to extinguish him but manages to retrieve KrasnopolskyThat's case to take back home. He finds where the surprises keep on comingsimilarities end, though: it contains film footage Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of people becoming friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'insubstantial' whilst walking through wallsrowdy, others absorbing bullets and some bursting into flames with no apparent side-effects (unlike poor Mr Krasnopolsky)they're enjoying themselves. Marsh realises Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the Nazissense that Walter' unconventional weapons need an unconventional response and so calls on Lord William Beauclerk who happens to be a warlocks not too happy. Operation Milkweed is He's not used to spending this much money on so let othera meal -worldly battle commencebut it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501698</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Darragh McManusJane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=Even FlowThe Fall|author=Gilly 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|rating=4

|summary=Jonathon BaileyWhat first seems like the unfortunate, Cathy Morrissey and Patrick Broder accidental death of Network 4 News sit in a viewing room unable homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to believe their eyes feel like something more sinister as the courier-delivered VT flickers in front of themanother body is discovered, and then another. Wealthy banker's son and society playboy Cliff Hudson seems to be suspended from This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the top of a tall building by more so because his ankles. He's tied to own father is a friend identified as 'Steve'down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, both terror stricken and whimpering an apology prompted by three men oddly dressed in tuxedos and balaclavashe has been for years. As At the city will soon come same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to realisea different police station, these men (pseudonyms Wilde, Whitman and Waters) are the 3W Gangarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, sworn to do society's dirty work for it as they isolate and punish bigotsonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. Crusaders or criminals? Detective Danny Everard of Something feels wrong - not just with the NYPD doesn't have woman’s story but also with the luxury of choosingother officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just the headache of trying to catch them.what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780991312</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Terrin1529382823|title=The GuardLast Passenger|author=Will Dean

|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Harry Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job is not that greathas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They and they alone are responsible for protecting the building they live in're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immenseCaz's sister, palatial apartments inhabited by the ultra-richGemma, the only way in reckons that Pete is through the basement carpark, where they reside going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in their own small patch of territoryhis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash of munitions twice 've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a daybit better. Meanwhile, even if nothing could possibly interfere with Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their supply of bullets, and navigating around the large expanse of space where each of the forty floors above them mother who has space for three supercarsdementia. But while one seems to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming ownerIt's wives, the other seems going to be hearing things that might not actually be there to be heard…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>good, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BlakeMark Edwards|title=The Demon CodeKeep Her Secret

|summary=Inside, things Matthew and Helena are better for the readerin Iceland, but less so for former Detective Sergeant Heather Kennedyrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She's just punched The alien-landscape of the first lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and only client of her private security business, who was supposed Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to be her link to other clients. Someone from her pastencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, Emil Gassan, keeps calling to talk about even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a case she handled while she was with the Police ravine gives way and which resulted in her being thrown out of Helena finds herself clinging to the force. She's also struggling to cope rockface with just the fact snagged strap of her father's rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a year previouslypanicked, as cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well as failing prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to move on from catching her partner Isobel cheating on hersafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751545783</amazonuk>166250893X

{{Frontpage|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=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of 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 upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa SigurdardottirRobert Dugoni|title=I Remember YouHer Deadly Game

|summary=Too often, people Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – such as myself – refer rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plothis reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. But this is Along with an indisputable talent for the true embodiment of law, Patsy also has a white-knuckle ridegift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. It has Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the anxiety hideous position of asking her father for a job at the queue as we watch three people – family firm because a romantic entanglement with a couple and another young woman – get ferried across senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the fjord to one start of western Iceland's most remote outpostsher maternity leave when there is a brutal, with the aim being to renovate shocking murder of an old building as a guesthouseexpectant woman in Dunedin. There's Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the crunch of hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find extra pressure that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlemententails being pregnant herself. And Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just as can't let the car case go and she starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the rideto follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, telling us all is well and all survivedthe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=G Willow Wilson1787301036|title=Alif the UnseenWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason for that: heWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a hakinista in an Arabian oil producing country thatcareful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to put it mildlydiscuss the death of his wife, doesnJuly't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how s mother, and wizardy to any covert organisation hint that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim conversation is heading that way will lead to the downfall necessity of their oppressiona Lesson. But all that's about Other infractions of his requirements also lead to change as Alif falls in love these Lessons and, as ithe's not even careful about whether or not the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurnedinjuries are visible. His response to this romantic let down is to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against him. ItJuly's captured by teacher is concerned and brings up the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network possibility of colleagues. Now Alif runs abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to preserve his life and those who have trusted himthe school, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former love. has he not? Just a book, albeit one thatThe playground wouldn's accompanied by myths and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical worldt have been resurfaced but for him. However, sometimes the most desperate of times requires more than logic and, sometimes, a mere book of stories may be more than it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Corbin0008454493|title=Do Me No HarmAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Dr Olivia Somers is minding her own businessIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, trying to raise two kids alone in apart from the wake odd occasion when she lost track of her divorce, when everything goes wrong and time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, RobbieMason, ends up was stolen from his bed in hospital. It’s hard to work out what really happened, or even if Robbie the middle of the night and Izzy is giving consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the full story, but morning when there’s a further incident, this time involving a break she thought he was sleeping in at their home, it becomes clear . In that these are no random attacks, and someone is out year she's done everything she could to get themraise awareness about the case. With the help of a friendly ( She does interviews and handsome) detectivewhen we meet her, Olivia tries she's just been to piece together the puzzle to work TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. who is behind On the troubleplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and it’s get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a race against time to figure it out before the next unwelcome surprise from the culpritfew hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918969</amazonuk>