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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Thomas1399613073|title=Maria & The DevilMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Maria's lover Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is Montana's most feared outlawa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. He has left her alone in Laura is a perfectionist and a secluded cabin deep in the wildernesstrauma doctor. Maria Anjali is pregnant. Left in solitude, the free spirit of the group and she develops becomes a familiar routine that feels safeGP. But the isolation is pervasive When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Mariait's defences against it are crumblinggoing to end in tragedy. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the Devil in a relentless quest for revengeconsequences. What Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will happen when Chill discovers Mariaimpact the three friends. This time, it's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>their teenage children who are involved.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisSunny Singh|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary= England 1963: The war Hotel Arcadia is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (Britain's ally) retain most of mainland Europe. The Briton a luxury hotel in the street believes an unnamed city that it was Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould 'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlyhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, Hiding from the same warlocks that terrorists who are now being murdered. Howeverrampaging through, killing everyone on site, fighting overthere is Sam, Pip a wartime photographer and Will are both war-weary and want to be left alone but Abhi, the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideashotel manager. For As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children residents who are now adult and assembling still alive in Englandthe hotel, still equipped he forms a bond with the super powers Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of their childhoodher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. This means Will and Pip have old scores Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to settle help her keep safe and greater evils waiting they both wait to see if they will be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils rescued before they are backdiscovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie HannahCody Goodfellow|title=The CarrierVertical

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= Due to a delayed flight home, Gaby has to stay overnight in a German hotel with fellow passenger Lauren. During the night Lauren tells Gaby There's something about a man charged with the murder of his paralysed wife. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him to be innocent. 2tall buildings that just captures my imagination. HeWho doesn's Tim Brearyt love a good view from up high, Gabyafter all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I's former lover with whom she has unfinished business. Once home Gaby is determined m intrigued to prove his innocence but thatget inside if it's easier said than done40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Huggler1804183210|title=Burden of the DesertNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54

|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple canThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't believe her luck have been on the rostrum when shethe colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn's sent to Iraq to cover t arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the birth of bidding reached three million pounds would be an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run outunderstatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intactTwo men had been bidding against each other. However, Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in loveracing industry. Rick Benes is Jennings was in one of the American soldiers on cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the news, his only ambition being horse had been deliberately bid up to get his platoon home safely as Iraq's birth pangs are violent and unrelentingthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. And then there's AdelThe following morning, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his familyhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J E Ryder1405951680|title=Blood PoolThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=There’s Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a distressing moment luxury property in any long-term relationship where you realise that, in practice, happily ever after looks the Australian outback for a lot like an eternity couple of smallmonths. After the problems she'd had at work, snarling arguments about 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 forgot was returning to buy food, who should take out the rubbish country of her birth and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner need of the bedroom. Domestic bliss is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want space to spend get over the rest traumatic end of their lives fighting about ither relationship with Charles. You and your partner are absolutely A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you are, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break down. You aren’t them, and they aren’t you, and so you can never truly know what’s really going on inside that well-known headVictoria sounded like just the ticket. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel O'Malley1448309743|title=The Rook Devil Stone (The Checquy FilesDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, the previous inhabiter village of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story Cronchie on the West coast of working for 'the Checquy'Scotland, a paranormal version five members of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and dangerwealthy family are found murdered. The problem only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that Myfanwy never discovered if the source before her body changed hands (so to speak)stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The amnesiac has a clear choice: to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do a runner. It's her decision only suspects are known Satanists but Myfanwyin many ways, that's warning is less than encouraging: ::an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her to bear in mind along with the fatal, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UK.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Furst|title=The Spies of Warsaw|rating=4body.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= The reluctantSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier DCI Christine Caplan is military attaché to the French embassy pulled in the Warsaw of 1937. Decorated during World War I, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged or coerced to work against the interests of other states. He watches whilst Poland is squeezed between the Nazis on one side and the increasing profile of Stalin and Russia on the other, convinced that war will not only be inevitable, but soon. However, no one will listen to 'shadow' him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from the onslaught to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy McLellanB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Orchid FieldLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=In Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change of employer is going to be to her advantage. An ill-advised fling with her boss is causing her embarrassment at work, particularly now that based public school where he has a new born childmet Ralph Finns. An offer of It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a job that would take her out boarder and had money to Mexico to do throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a report on an offstate-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to miss. In Mexico Inspector Cortez is languishing in Port Luz in the back of beyond, sent in disgrace from his post in -the city-art sound system. He knows that he’s not - Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and never has been - corrupt but no one else believes himcertainly more than acquaintances. In fact it’s seen as normal. Then Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a body appears on place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the beach and the local fishermen point out into the gulf and tell him that it came from thereUK's third most prestigious university. When Before going up, he looks more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigstook up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R Julian CoxDean Koontz|title=Shadow on The House at the End of the SunWorld

|summary=There's always been 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 quandary for small chain of tiny dots on the ethically-minded scientist - what to do when map and live out your scientific discoveries can be used for less-than-ethical purposesdays in peace and solitude. Robert Oppenheimer faced this problem That's what Katie thought she was doing when his work as a theoretical physicist resulted 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 atomic bombings name of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation science and - unbelievably - quite possibly bringing about the consequences could be even more far reaching than the consequences end of Oppenheimer's work. There's a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as well as with his professional ethicsall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth1787636607|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=You could be forgiven It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given his occupation as a seller of second hand books, but he has some illustrious connections, not least way to Sir Frederick Applebyget home. Some say 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'he, particularly in the light of '' runs the country and Applebymissing women's deputy. For one young woman, Peter Tyndale is married the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to Debrettring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's sister, Celiadead. Our tale began many years The bus had driven off before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadn't elicited a single cry of grief from a relative, but we join she had the story as Appleby asks Debrett chance to attend beg the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreaubus driver to let her use his. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from the deceased over recent years he's thought no option but to be the person best able to obtain the answersstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1529195977|title=The Burning AirNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary= It's On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Macbrides' annual Guy Fawkes' weekend trip to their Devon holiday home but much has changed since the last Bonfire NightLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Their mother Lydia has diedShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, their father Rowan copes only she was just with alcoholic aid her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and the marriage of Sophie and Will has fireworks of its ownJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. Some happiness exists That's where the similarities end, though: Tara and partner Matt Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are deeply in love the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend to the gatheringwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Her name's Kerry andJosie, by on the end of other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the weekend, shesense that Walter'll have kidnapped Sophies not too happy. He's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse not used to remain buriedspending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Oldfield1803136383|title=The Sentinel|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Plaza De Toros, Badajoz, 15th August 1936: a group of prisoners are marched across the sands of the bullring, lined up against the barrera and, mown down rifle-fire. The first group of many. Cut to 2009. In the mountains known as the Sierra de Gredos in central Spain, there was mine. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953. On another newbie-assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez is about to find out why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=Bryan Forbes|title=The Soldier's StoryDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his post-war demob Wat Tyler has returned from the British army fighting in Germany while tracking down wrong-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminalsVietnam under something of a cloud. Although fraternisation with locals What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is still frowned onsure exactly what took place, Alex meets and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after but an act of heroism leading to a chance meeting. United rare battlefield commission followed by their love of books, Alex becomes a regular visitor rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the Professor's homeconsensus. However books aren't the only attraction: Alex gradually falls in love with the Professor's daughterWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, Lisa. Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers a secret that will rip to the core of Alex's loyalties and jeopardise more than just their loveas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan FespermanB0C7J9D21B|title=The Double GameA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=American Bill Cage When we first meet our hero, his name is a middle-aged PR man who worships 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 perfect photograph to encapsulate the world joy she is desperately short feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of oil. Trouble always follows such a situation. There are energy shortages, economies are contracting ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the threat from terrorism is constant. The CIA and rockface with just the FBI were amalgamated some time ago snagged strap of her rucksack between her and agent Scott Pierce of the FSA is hunting the man known as The Spider. He's been in deep cover - including a prison sentence - but this isn't just work 500 foot drop to himcertain death below. The Spider was responsible for Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the Eurostar bombing which cost Pierce his wife shocking secret she has been keeping and he's determined makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to see the man deadMatthew. The fact that The Spider is determined Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to strike at the heart of America's democratic institutions safety and bring her to her knees Matthew is ''almost'' secondaryleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B009L64TLU</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}}{{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

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|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>