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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Furst1399613073|title=The Spies of WarsawMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary=The reluctantOlivia, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier is military attaché to Laura and Anjali met on the French embassy in the Warsaw first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of 1937a century. Decorated during World War IOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Mercier would rather which is a bonus when you aim to be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged or coerced to work against a trauma doctor. Anjali is the interests free spirit of other statesthe group and she becomes a GP. He watches whilst Poland is squeezed between the Nazis on one side When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the increasing profile of Stalin and Russia on tragedy or the other, convinced consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that war will not only be inevitable, but soonimpact the three friends. HoweverThis time, no one will listen to him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from the onslaught to followit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy McLellanCody 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=The Orchid FieldNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change of employer is going to be to her advantage. An illThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed -advised fling with her boss is causing her embarrassment at workcame up for auction, particularly now that but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he has a new born childcontinued his session. An offer of a job To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would take her out to Mexico to do a report on be an offunderstatement. A lovely animal -shore oil field is too good an opportunity to missbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. In Mexico Inspector Cortez is languishing in Port Luz in the back of beyond, sent in disgrace from his post Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the cityracing industry. He knows that he’s not - and never has been - corrupt but no Jennings was in one else believes him. In fact it’s seen as normal. Then a body appears on of the beach and cubicles in the local fishermen point out into toilets when the gulf two men came in and tell him their conversation revealed that it came from therethe horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. When he looks more closely he realises Both were happy that they mean had insurance in place. The following morning, the oil rigshorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R Julian Cox1405951680|title=Shadow on the SunThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=There's always been Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a quandary for luxury property in the ethically-minded scientist - what to do when your scientific discoveries can be used Australian outback for less-than-ethical purposesa couple of months. Robert Oppenheimer faced this problem when his After the problems she'd had at work as , it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a theoretical physicist resulted data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the atomic bombings country of Hiroshima her birth and Nagasaki. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation and - unbelievably - in need of the consequences could be even more far reaching than space to get over the consequences traumatic end of Oppenheimer's workher relationship with Charles. There's a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as well as with his professional ethicsA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth1448309743|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely heroIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, given his occupation as five members of a seller of second hand books, but he has some illustrious connections, not least to Sir Frederick Applebywealthy family are found murdered. Some say The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that ''he'' runs if the country and Appleby's deputy, Peter Tyndale stone is married to Debrett's sister, Celia. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadn't elicited a single cry of grief removed from a relative, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett to attend the funeral in France of a former business partnerOtterburn House, Arthur Moreaudeath will follow. There The only suspects areknown Satanists but in many ways, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrettthat's estrangement from an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the deceased over recent years body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's thought to be the person best able to obtain the answershim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin KellyB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Burning AirLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=54

|summary= Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It's the Macbrides' annual Guy Fawkes' weekend trip was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to their Devon holiday home but much has changed since the last Bonfire Night. throw around on a Their mother Lydia has diedRolex watch, their father Rowan copes only with alcoholic aid vintage wines and a state-of-the marriage of Sophie -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and Will has fireworks of its owncertainly more than acquaintances. Some happiness exists though: Tara and partner Matt are deeply Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in love and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend to Wellingford, the gathering. Her nameUK's Kerry andthird most prestigious university. Before going up, by the end of the weekendhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, she'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse to remain buriedClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OldfieldDean Koontz|title=The SentinelHouse at the End of the World

|summary=Plaza De TorosWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, Badajozyou can either suck it up, 15th August 1936: saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a group small chain of prisoners are marched across 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 sands of aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the bullringpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, lined up against the barrera neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and, mown down rifle-firequite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. |isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The first group of manyTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCut |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 2009get one of the few taxis available. In Others squash onto the mountains known night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the Sierra de Gredos 'taxi problem', particularly in central Spain, there was minethe light of 'the missing women'. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. On another newbieShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez is about 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 find out whystart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Forbes1529195977|title=The Soldier's StoryNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his post-war demob from On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the British army in Germany while tracking down wrong-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminalsLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Although fraternisation She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with locals is still frowned onher husband, Alex meets Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after a chance meeting. United by their love of booksJosie birthday twins, Alex becomes a regular visitor to the Professorthey were both born in St Mary's homehospital. However books arenThat't s where the only attractionsimilarities end, though: Alex gradually falls Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in love with the Professormidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly's daughter' rowdy, Lisathey're enjoying themselves. Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers a secret Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that will rip Walter's not too happy. He's not used to the core of Alexspending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's loyalties and jeopardise more than just their lovebirthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1803136383|title=The Double GameTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=American Bill Cage 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 middle-aged PR man who worships 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 shrine The House of spy novelsBeautiful Swallows. ItIdyllic as this might sound, it's a love he's inherited from widowed diplomat father. (Billbordello and Ettore's mother having died in an accident when he was very youngborn.) He fondly remembers 's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his childhood as he travelled from posting background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to posting obtain decent employment. The stint working with his dad the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and their vast spy fiction librarybastards 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Barr0241996104|title=StrandedComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=After Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her marriage ends Esther finds herself dreaming step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of getting awaytheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, running away for after Martin receives a while, to an island paradiselife sentence. She decides to make The barrister tells her that she's received a trip to Malaysia, 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but a day trip out will have to a small, remote island finds live with what happened for the rest of her stranded there, along with several other people, when their guide does not return to pick them uplife. There is no way home without a boat. Will this group of stranded strangers manage to surviveOf course, or will suspicions it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and tensions get the better papers are making the most of them as they wait to it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be rescued?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538797X</amazonuk>printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Churton1529135389|title=The Babylon GeneFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Author Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of popular scientific philosophy, Dr Toby Ashe, is also a covert member her husband but opera was playing on the state-of -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'Oddballsd 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 multiten-million-skilled section pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of British Intelligencemoney, too. Their purpose is Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to profile and identify the rise of terrorists and their organisations before too much damage is donehis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800119</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GrishamAlan Parks|title=The RacketeerTo Die in June

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Malcolm Bannister What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is forty-three years old discovered, and a lawyerthen another. He's also in prison This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a crime he didn't know he was committing down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and in which he had no criminal intenthas been for years. Halfway through a ten-year stretch he's the only black man in At the prison serving same time for as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a white collar crime: that's what happens when you're just move to a bit naive different police station, and what looks like the arrival there of a genuine real estate deal turns out to woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be part of a massive money laundering operationfound. The prison he's in is relatively relaxed and he's Something feels wrong - not just with the librarian, woman’s story but also with the other officers where he's lost his jobhas been stationed, his wife's divorced him and he wonders if he'll ever see his young son again. Other than that, life's pretty much of a muchness.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444729748</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A R Yoba1529382823|title=They Call Me... Montey GreeneThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz'He didn) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't believe spotted a ring-shaped bulge in coincidences but he did believe in conspiracieshis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They'' Little does Montey Greene ve not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know how well this motto will serve hima bit better. Aside from a brief hold-up at customs Meanwhile, Montey Gemma is thoroughly enjoying his holiday in Milanlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Recently separated from his wife, he It's enjoying eyeing up all the lovely Italian womengoing to be good, meeting up with friends, and just generally pleasing himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0985440813</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam HamdyMark Edwards|title=BattalionKeep Her Secret

|summary=We're Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty -odd years or so into after they first met. The alien-landscape of the future lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the world perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is desperately short feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of oilher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Trouble always follows such Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a situationpanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. There are energy shortagesJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, economies are contracting Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and the threat from terrorism Matthew is constantleft wondering what he just learned about Helena. The CIA |isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and the FBI were amalgamated some time ago and agent Scott Pierce Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of the FSA is hunting the man known Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as The Spideran unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. He's been in deep cover - including a prison sentence - but this isn't just work Sorry to him. The Spider was responsible 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 Eurostar bombing which cost Pierce his wife and latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's determined populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to see the man deadthat accusation. The fact that The Spider Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is determined to strike at put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the heart point of America's democratic institutions despairing – about her writing, about the people and bring the lack of stimulus for her to her knees is plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady''almost'' secondary.s nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B009L64TLU</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis0861544056|title=Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych)Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary=ItBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's 1939 been at Bristol and Lt Commander Raybould Jess'Pips in Exeter. It's not only the first time they' Marsh ve been away from their parents for any length of Britaintime - but they's Secret Intelligence Service travels to Portugal to smuggle out Krasnopolsky, a fascist with a secretve also been apart from each other. However things donBelle can't go wait to planhave them all to herself for a while. Krasnopolsky nerves are justified as, in the time it takes to order drinks, Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he spontaneously combusts. Marsh is too late to extinguish him didn't come but manages to retrieve Krasnopolskydoesn's case t want to take back homeupset Kit. He finds the surprises keep on comingIvo's apparently 'older': it contains film footage of people becoming he'insubstantials twenty-four to Kit' whilst walking through walls, others absorbing bullets and some bursting into flames s eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with no apparent side-effects (unlike poor Mr Krasnopolsky)that. Marsh realises the NazisAnd they' unconventional weapons need an unconventional response and so calls on Lord William Beauclerk who happens to ll be sharing a warlock. Operation Milkweed is on so let other-worldly battle commencebedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501698</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusRobert Dugoni|title=Even FlowHer Deadly Game

|summary=Jonathon Bailey, Cathy Morrissey and Patrick Broder Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Network 4 News sit in a viewing room unable Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to believe their eyes as the courier-delivered VT flickers his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in front defence of themhis clients. Wealthy banker's son Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and society playboy Cliff Hudson seems inevitably the latter was beginning to be suspended from overshadow the top of a tall building by his anklesformer. He's tied to a friend identified as 'Steve'Enter Keera Duggan, both terror stricken former competitive chess prodigy and whimpering an apology prompted by three men oddly dressed proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in tuxedos and balaclavas. As the city will soon come to realisehideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, these men (pseudonyms WildeMiller Ambrose, Whitman and Waters) are the 3W Ganghad gone, sworn to do society's dirty work for it as they isolate and punish bigots. Crusaders or criminals? Detective Danny Everard of the NYPD doesn't have the luxury of choosingrather spectacularly, just the headache of trying to catch themsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780991312</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter TerrinVanda Symon|title=The GuardExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job Detective Sam Shepherd is not that great. They and they alone are responsible for protecting approaching the building they live start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman inDunedin. Designed as an impregnable fortress containing many immense, palatial apartments inhabited by Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the ultra-richhunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the only way in is through the basement carpark, where they reside in their own small patch of territoryextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash of munitions twice a dayFinding herself put on desk duties, even if nothing could possibly interfere with their supply of bulletswhich she rails against, she just can't let the case go and navigating around the large expanse of space where each of the forty floors above them has space for three supercars. But while one seems she starts to be dreaming of things he might not get to witness – promotion follow every thread to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming owneruncover what's wivesactually happening, and the other seems to be hearing things that increasingly disturbing worry of just what might not actually be there to be heard…happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Blake1787301036|title=The Demon CodeWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=4.5

|summary=Inside, things are better for the reader, but less so for former Detective Sergeant Heather KennedyWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's just punched the first and only client of her private security businessa careful, who was supposed to be her link to other clientsmeticulous child. Someone from The care has been taught by her pastfather, Emil GassanMick Hooper, keeps calling who is not prepared to talk about a case she handled while she was with discuss the Police death of his wife, July's mother, and which resulted in her being thrown out any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the forceinjuries are visible. She July's also struggling to cope teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the fact of head but her fatherworries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn's death a year previously, as well as failing to move on from catching her partner Isobel cheating on hert have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751545783</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir0008454493|title=I Remember YouAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5

|summary=Too often, people – such as myself – refer to Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a book as being a rollercoaster readyear - well, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. But this is apart from the true embodiment odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a white-knuckle ridemoment. It has 's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the anxiety middle of the queue as we watch three people – a couple night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and another young woman – get ferried across particularly about her relief in the fjord to one of western Icelandmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's most remote outposts, with done everything she could to raise awareness about the aim being to renovate an old building as a guesthousecase. ThereShe does interviews and when we meet her, she's the crunch of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlementjust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. And just as On the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the rideplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, telling us all is well who points out that she could do a podcast and all survivedget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>

''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 it's not a regular thing. 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 public.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G Willow WilsonJulia Bartz|title=Alif the UnseenThe Writing Retreat|rating=54|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Alif lives under an alias and he has a good reason for that: he's a hakinista Roza Vallo. Anyone in an Arabian oil producing country that, to put it mildly, doesn't encourage free speech. He sells IT know-how and wizardy to any covert organisation that works against the government, their agenda unimportant as long as the aim is world of publishing knows the downfall of their oppressionname. But all that's about Writers want to change as Alif falls in love andbe her, as it's the wrong girl at the wrong time, is spurned. His response to this romantic let down is agents want to create a computer programme that will identify her internet activity by represent her individual typing pattern. Unfortunately what works for him also works against him. ItShe's captured by the notoriously dangerous government censor 'The Hand' who also wants Alif and his hidden network something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of colleagues. Now Alif runs to preserve his life and those who have trusted himworks that started with her breakthrough novel, his only possession an ancient manuscript from his former lovepublished when she was barely out of childhood. Just a bookAlex, albeit one that's accompanied by myths and old wives' tales rendering it irrelevant a logical world. Howeverwriter-slash-editor, sometimes the most desperate of times requires is more than logic a little obsessed with Roza, andis stunned when, sometimes, following a mere book series of stories may unexpected events, she is invited to be more than it seemspart of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857895664</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Corbin1800465270|title=Do Me No HarmThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Dr Olivia Somers is minding her own businessWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, trying to raise two kids alone it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in the wake of her divorceSt Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, when everything goes wrong whose death was drug-related. Valeri and her sonTimur's father, RobbieKeto, ends up in hospitalis also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. It’s hard Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to work out what really happenedmake his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, or even if Robbie is giving her the full story, but when there’s his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a further incidentdubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, this time involving a break in at their home, it becomes clear that these are no random attacks, journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and someone is out she's less concerned than she ought to get thembe about her own safety. With the help of To her, he's a friendly (and handsome) detective, Olivia tries to piece together the puzzle to work good source. who is behind the troubleFor him, and it’s it's a race against time way to figure it out before the next unwelcome surprise from the culpritget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918969</amazonuk>