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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1399613073|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Lisa Kallisto 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. Olivia is almost the typical Mumruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. She's got Laura is a husband perfectionist and three children a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she's permanently tiredbecomes a GP. Her fullWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life fuelled party and sheit's constantly chasing around trying going to catch up with what she ought to have doneend in tragedy. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and they can only just manage to afford We don't know who suffered the rent on their cottage in tragedy or the picturesque lake districtconsequences. It's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl Twenty- really only a child - is abducted and brutally raped. Then another girl of about five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for her safetythree friends. What do you sayThis time, what do you do in that situation? Lisa is about to find outit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John le CarreSunny Singh|title=A Delicate TruthHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 2008 and Paul The Hotel Arcadia is recruited by, apparently, the government to assist a luxury hotel in an undercover operation in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a cell of Al Qaedaterrorist group. Paul performsHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is thanked Sam, a wartime photographer and taken home without complicationsAbhi, the hotel manager. Fast forward As Abhi continues to 2011 and Toby Bell is promoted try to care remotely for the role 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 private secretary for Paulher room to try to capture what's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnhappened through her photography. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers the story of Although they only ever talk over the missionphone, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been their friendship grows as straightforward as all that. Quinn also appears Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seems, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life see if they will never be rescued before they are discovered by the same againterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerald WixeyCody Goodfellow|title=4 Bones SleepingVertical

|summary=There's quite a contrast between the settings in ''4 Bones Sleeping''. To begin with there's the time. Just something about everything tall buildings that happens goes back to the end of the Second World War and just afterwardscaptures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, when people were coming to terms with having won after all? Even the war, but not quite knowing what drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to do with the peace. Then thereget inside if it's 1980 40 stories tall. So when we wondered if we'd won the war, but lost the peaceI picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the post-war years, but what are they all doing in a one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? And where did the money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper and make Harry the landlord of the pub?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader1804183210|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5

|summary= Jack McClureThirty-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, aide and friend to the US presidentchairman, hadn't arrived, is back at work after the death of so he continued his daughter and session. To say that he was shocked when the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughter, Allibidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. However, Jack hasnBrian Kitman and Elliot 't fully recovered; heMitch's still Mitchell were well-known and respected in mourning and full of self-recrimination but the show must go onracing industry. When an American senator is killed Jennings was in one of the cubicles in Capri Jack's on hand to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantichorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Apparently not all the President's closest advisors can be trusted and Both were happy that's not Jack's only complicationthey had insurance in place. After Alli's traumatic experiences at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trustsThe following morning, so she's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water and a few murdershorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Thomas1405951680|title=Maria & The DevilSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her alone in friend, Rupert) to caretake a secluded cabin deep luxury property in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitude, she develops Australian outback for a familiar routine that feels safecouple of months. But After the isolation is pervasive and Mariaproblems she's defences against d had at work, it are crumblingseemed like just the break she needed. And while She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she waits for was Jess who was returning to the country of her lover birth and in need of the space to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking get over the Devil traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in a relentless quest for revenge. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return Otway Ranges in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>Victoria sounded like just the ticket.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1448309743|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians Devil Stone (Britain's allyDCI Christine Caplan) retain most of mainland Europe. The Briton in the street believes 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 differently. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, the same warlocks that are now being murdered. However, fighting over, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideas. For the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped with the super powers of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie Hannah|title=The CarrierCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54

|summary= Due to a delayed flight homeIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Gaby has to stay overnight in five members of a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenwealthy family are found murdered. During The only item missing from the night Lauren tells Gaby about a man charged with home is the murder of his paralysed wife. At this point two things strike GabyDevil Stone: 1. Lauren believes him to be innocentmyth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. 2. HeThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's Tim Breary, Gabyan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's former lover with whom she has unfinished businessthe body. Once home Gaby The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is determined pulled in to prove his innocence but that's easier said than doneshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin HugglerB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Burden of The Last Person in the DesertWorld|author=Matthew Tree|rating=54

|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe her luck when she's sent to Iraq to cover Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the birth of an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run outLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Mahmoud earns his It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intact. throw around on a HoweverRolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in love-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Rick Benes is one Finns had no intention of the American soldiers going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the news, his only ambition being to get his platoon home safely as IraqUK's birth pangs are violent and unrelentingthird most prestigious university. And then there's AdelBefore going up, he took up a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed loose invitation to visit Ralph at his familyhome, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=J E RyderDean Koontz|title=Blood PoolThe House at the End of the World

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised 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 become your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the owner of a boatyard when her husband died map and live out your days in a cliff fallpeace and solitude. She had worked in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - for quite some time but itThat's the men of the Shelley what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob'blood pool' who s Ladder; and all would have always inherited been the land aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the past two hundred years. She was aware of ill-feeling against her in the villagepesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself neighbouring island and for the staff she employed. There was some support perpetrating all manner of mischief in the village - an old friend, known to one name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all as 'the Prof' - had always been there for her and willing to listen to her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstancesmankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn1529195977|title=Gone GirlNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=There’s On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a distressing moment crowd of friends in any long-term relationship where you realise the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out thatnot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in practiceSt Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, happily ever after looks a lot like an eternity of smallthough: Alix, with her husband, snarling arguments about who forgot to buy foodNathan, who should take out the rubbish and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes are in the corner midst 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 to spend the rest a joyful, monied group of their lives fighting about it. You friends and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you arewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break downthey're enjoying themselves. You aren’t them Josie, and they aren’t youon the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and so you can never truly know what’s really going get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on inside that wella meal -known headbut it is Josie's birthday after all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel O'Malley1803136383|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for 'the Checquy', a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and danger. The problem is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so to speak). The amnesiac has a clear choice: to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do a runner. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''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>}} {{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=Alan Furst|title=The Spies of WarsawDavid Chadwick

|summary=The reluctant, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier is military attaché to the French embassy Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in the Warsaw Vietnam under something of 1937a cloud. Decorated during World War IWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, Mercier would rather be but an act of heroism leading to a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged or coerced disgrace seems to work against be the interests of other statesconsensus. He watches whilst Poland Wat himself is squeezed between the Nazis on one side and the increasing profile of Stalin and Russia on the otherkeeping his cards close to his chest, convinced that war will not only be inevitable, but soon. However, no one will listen to him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from the onslaught to followalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy McLellanB0C7J9D21B|title=The Orchid FieldA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of employer is going to be to her advantageBeautiful Swallows. An ill-advised fling with her boss is causing her embarrassment at workIdyllic as this might sound, particularly now that it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he has a new was born child. An offer He's not been short of a job that would take her out to Mexico to do a report on an offmothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-shore oil field is too good an opportunity century Amalfi, it's difficult to missobtain decent employment. In Mexico Inspector Cortez is languishing in Port Luz in The stint working with the back preparation of beyond, sent in disgrace from his post in the cityanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. He knows that he’s Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and never has been determined - corrupt but no one else believes him. In fact it’s seen and it was not long before he had a successful business as normal. Then a body appears on the beach and the local fishermen point out into the gulf and tell him that it came from thereguide for visitors. When he looks more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigsHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R Julian Cox0241996104|title=Shadow on the SunComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=ThereNancy's always 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 quandary for the ethically-minded scientist 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 to do when your scientific discoveries can be used happened for less-than-ethical purposes. Robert Oppenheimer faced this problem when his work as a theoretical physicist resulted in the atomic bombings rest of Hiroshima and Nagasakiher life. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation and Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - unbelievably she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the consequences could be even more far reaching than papers are making the consequences most of Oppenheimer's workit. There's a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as well as with his professional ethics'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth1529135389|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given his occupation as a seller Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of second hand books, her husband but he has some illustrious connections, not least to Sir Frederick Applebyopera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Some say that They''he'' runs d not been in the country architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Appleby's deputy, Peter Tyndale is married were still getting used to Debrett's sister, Celiaall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Our tale began many years before Some of them fought with some two hundred mysterious each other and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadndidn't elicited work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a single cry of grief from a relative, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to attend the funeral in France having that sort of a former business partnermoney, Arthur Moreautoo. There areEventually, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from Nicole found Tom dead in the deceased over recent years he's thought swimming pool with a wound to be the person best able to obtain the answershis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KellyAlan Parks|title=The Burning Air|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's the Macbrides' annual Guy Fawkes' weekend trip to their Devon holiday home but much has changed since the last Bonfire Night. Their mother Lydia has died, their father Rowan copes only with alcoholic aid and the marriage of Sophie and Will has fireworks of its own. Some happiness exists though: Tara and partner Matt are deeply To Die in love and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend to the gathering. Her name's Kerry and, by the end of the weekend, she'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse to remain buried.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Oldfield|title=The SentinelJune

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Plaza De TorosWhat first seems like the unfortunate, Badajoz, 15th August 1936: accidental death of a group of prisoners are marched across homeless man on the sands of the bullringstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, lined up against but all the barrera more so because his own father is a down andout alcoholic, with no fixed abode, mown down rifle-fire. The first group of many. Cut to 2009and he has been for years. In At the mountains known same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the Sierra de Gredos in central Spainarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, there was mineonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953. On another newbieSomething feels wrong -assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is about to find out why.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Forbes1529382823|title=The Soldier's StoryLast Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his postCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-war demob from the British army aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in Germany while tracking down wrong-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminalslove with Pete. Although fraternisation with locals is still frowned They're off on, Alex meets and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after a chance meetingcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. United by their love of booksCaz's sister, Gemma, Alex becomes a regular visitor reckons that Pete is going to the Professorpropose but Caz hasn's home. However books arent spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't the only attraction: Alex gradually falls in love with the Professorknow whether she's daughter, Lisarelieved or disappointed. Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers They've not been a secret couple for that long and the trip will rip be an excellent opportunity to the core of Alexget to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's loyalties and jeopardise more than just cafe as well as their lovemother who has dementia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk> It's going to be good, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan FespermanMark Edwards|title=The Double GameKeep Her Secret

|summary=American Bill Cage Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a middle-aged PR man who worships at ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the shrine snagged strap of spy novelsher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. It's Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a love he's inherited from widowed diplomat fatherpanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. (Bill's mother having died Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in an accident when he was very young.) He fondly remembers his childhood as he travelled from posting and hauls Helena to posting with his dad safety and their vast spy fiction libraryMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BarrJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=StrandedThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=Thrillers|summary=After her marriage ends Esther finds herself dreaming of getting awayHannah presents as an unlikeable, running away for a whilebitter woman, to an island paradiseauthor of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. She decides Sorry to make leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a trip to Malaysiabook fair, but she flukes her way into a day trip out to a small, remote island finds her stranded there, along public argument with several other peoplethe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, when their guide does not return saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to pick them upthat accusation. There Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is no way home without put up for a boatwintry month away from it all. Will this group Just on the point of stranded strangers manage to survivedespairing – about her writing, or will suspicions about the people and tensions get the better lack of them as they wait to be rescued?stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>075538797X</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Churton0861544056|title=The Babylon GeneTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=2.5

|summary=Author Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of popular scientific philosophy, Dr Toby Ashe, is also a covert member 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'Oddballsve also been apart from each other. Belle can', t wait to have them all to herself for a multiwhile. Then Kit rings up -skilled section of British Intelligencecan she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Their purpose is Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to profile and identify the rise of terrorists and their organisations before too much damage is doneKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800119</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GrishamRobert Dugoni|title=The RacketeerHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Malcolm Bannister is forty-three years old and a lawyer. HePatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's also in prison work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for a crime he didn't know he was committing and no holds barred courtroom performances in which he had no criminal intentdefence of his clients. Halfway through Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a ten-year stretch he's the only black man in the prison serving time gift for a white collar crime: that's what happens when you're just a bit naive drinking himself to oblivion and what looks like a genuine real estate deal turns out inevitably the latter was beginning to be part of a massive money laundering operationovershadow the former. The prison he's Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in is relatively relaxed and he's the librarian, but he's lost his hideous position of asking her father for a job, 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 at the family firm because a muchness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444729748</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A R Yoba|title=They Call Me... Montey Greene|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=''He didn't believe in coincidences but he did believe in conspiracies.'' Little does Montey Greene know how well this motto will serve him. Aside from romantic entanglement with a brief hold-up at customssenior colleague, Montey is thoroughly enjoying his holiday in Milan. Recently separated from his wifeMiller Ambrose, he's enjoying eyeing up all the lovely Italian womenhad gone, meeting up with friendsrather spectacularly, and just generally pleasing himselfsouth. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0985440813</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam HamdyVanda Symon|title=BattalionExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We're twenty years or so into Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the future and the world start of her maternity leave when there is desperately short a brutal, shocking murder of oilan expectant woman in Dunedin. Trouble always follows such Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a situation. There are energy shortageskiller targeting pregnant women, economies are contracting and with all the threat from terrorism is constantextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. The CIA and the FBI were amalgamated some time ago 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 isnFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't just work to him. The Spider was responsible for let the Eurostar bombing which cost Pierce his wife case go and he's determined she starts to see the man dead. The fact that The Spider is determined follow every thread to strike at the heart of Americauncover what's democratic institutions actually happening, and bring her to her knees is ''almost'' secondarythe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B009L64TLU</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1787301036|title=Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych)What July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=ItWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's 1939 and Lt Commander Raybould 'Pip' Marsh of Britainjust ten years old. She's Secret Intelligence Service travels to Portugal to smuggle out Krasnopolskya careful, a fascist with a secretmeticulous child. However things donThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July't go to plan. Krasnopolsky nerves are justified ass mother, in and any hint that the time it takes conversation is heading that way will lead to order drinks, he spontaneously combuststhe necessity of a Lesson. Marsh is too late Other infractions of his requirements also lead to extinguish him but manages to retrieve Krasnopolskythese Lessons and he's case to take back homenot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. He finds July's teacher is concerned and brings up the surprises keep on coming: it contains film footage possibility of people becoming 'insubstantial' whilst walking through walls, others absorbing bullets and some bursting into flames abuse with no apparent side-effects (unlike poor Mr Krasnopolsky). Marsh realises the Nazis' unconventional weapons need an unconventional response and so calls on Lord William Beauclerk who happens head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to be a warlock. the school, has he not? Operation Milkweed is on so let other-worldly battle commenceThe playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501698</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darragh McManus0008454493|title=Even FlowAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5

|summary=Jonathon BaileyIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, Cathy Morrissey and Patrick Broder apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of Network 4 News sit in time or drifted off for a viewing room unable to believe their eyes as the courier-delivered VT flickers in front of themmoment. Wealthy bankerIt's now a year since her son and society playboy Cliff Hudson seems to be suspended , Mason, was stolen from his bed in the top middle of a tall building by his anklesthe night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. HeIn that year she's tied done everything she could to a friend identified as 'Steve', both terror stricken and whimpering an apology prompted by three men oddly dressed in tuxedos and balaclavasraise awareness about the case. As the city will soon come to realise, these men (pseudonyms Wilde, Whitman She does interviews and Waters) are the 3W Gangwhen we meet her, sworn to do societyshe's dirty work for it as they isolate and punish bigotsjust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Crusaders or criminals? Detective Danny Everard of On the NYPD doesnplane back, she't have the luxury of choosings approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, just the headache of trying who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to catch thema few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780991312</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=Peter TerrinJulia Bartz|title=The GuardWriting Retreat|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Harry and Michel are very good at their job, even if we might think their job is not that greatRoza Vallo. They and they alone are responsible for protecting Anyone in the world of publishing knows the building they live inname. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. Designed as She's something of a legend with an impregnable fortress containing many immenseimpressive, palatial apartments inhabited by the ultra-richif compact, the only way in is through the basement carparkback catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, where they reside in their own small patch published when she was barely out of territorychildhood. They are certainly diligent – inspecting their stash of munitions twice Alex, a daywriter-slash-editor, even if nothing could possibly interfere is more than a little obsessed with their supply of bulletsRoza, and navigating around the large expanse is stunned when, following a series of space where each of the forty floors above them has space for three supercars. But while one seems unexpected events, she is invited to be dreaming part of things he might not get to witness – promotion to guarding villas in Elysian fields with becoming ownerher month-long writers's wives, the other seems to be hearing things that might not actually be there to be heard…retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050877</amazonuk>0861544439

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|summary=InsideWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, things are better it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for the readerhis elder brother, Timur, but less so for former Detective Sergeant Heather Kennedywhose death was drug-related. SheValeri and Timur's just punched the first father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and only client of her private security business, who was supposed he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to be her link to other clientsmake his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Someone from her pastWithin a matter of months, Emil Gassan, keeps calling his obsession will have cost him his marriage to talk about Marisha and created a case she handled while she was dubious link with the Police and which resulted in her being thrown out of the forceNatassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's also struggling determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to cope with the fact of be about her own safety. To her father, he's death a year previouslygood source. For him, as well as failing it's a way to move on from catching her partner Isobel cheating on herget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751545783</amazonuk>