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|summary=As ''The Shining Girls''’ tagline saysOlivia, this is Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a thriller that breaks all the boundariescentury. It’s Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts, bonus when you aim to be a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explainedcardiothoracic surgeon. I haven’t read anything like it before, Laura is a perfectionist and in a strong trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like she becomes a searchlightGP. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'The Shining Girlss going to end in tragedy. We don'', you won’t t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be for longan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This book sets out to cut you up insidetime, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WiltonSunny Singh|title=Traitor's FieldHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=It's 1648 and the embers of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour of Oliver Cromwell's CommonwealthThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. HoweverHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Royalist passion still exists a wartime photographer and it's up to Sir Mortimer ShayAbhi, the Comptrollerate-General hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Scrutiny and Surveythe residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to gather the intelligencebe cowed by events, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longskeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among Although they only ever talk over the confusion phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the taskterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula DalyCody Goodfellow|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Vertical|rating=3.5

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost the typical Mum. SheThere's got a husband and three children and she's permanently tiredsomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Her full-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life and sheWho doesn's constantly chasing around trying to catch t love a good view from up with what she ought to have done. Husband Joe high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is a taxi driver and they can only just manage somewhere I'm intrigued to afford the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake district. Itget inside if it's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl - really only a child - is abducted and brutally raped40 stories tall. Then another girl of So when I picked up this book – about the same age goes missing and Lisa people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was responsible for her safety. What do you say, what do you do in that situation? Lisa is about to find outinstantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1804183210|title=A Delicate TruthNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54

|summary=ItThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's 2008 and Paul is recruited byt have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, apparentlyhadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the government to assist in bidding reached three million pounds would be an undercover operation in Gibraltarunderstatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell of Al QaedaTwo men had been bidding against each other. Paul performs, is thanked Brian Kitman and taken home without complications. Fast forward to 2011 Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and Toby Bell is promoted to respected in the role of private secretary for Paul's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnracing industry. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the story of toilets when the mission, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints two men came in and their conversation revealed that it may not have the horse had been as straightforward as all deliberately bid up to thatfigure. Quinn also appears to have been connected with an organisation Both were happy that's not all it seemsthey had insurance in place. The following morning, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life will never be the same againhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey1405951680|title=4 Bones SleepingThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=3.54

|summary=There's quite Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a contrast between the settings luxury property in ''4 Bones Sleeping''. To begin with there's the timeAustralian outback for a couple of months. Just about everything that happens goes back to After the end of the Second World War and just afterwards, when people were coming to terms with having won the war, but not quite knowing what to do with the peace. Then there's 1980 when we wondered if weproblems she'd won the warhad at work, but lost it seemed like just the peacebreak she needed. The places are very different too: She was no longer a data analyst for the people involved in this story have their being Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the seedier parts country of London her birth and in need of 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 space to own get over the local newspaper and make Harry traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the landlord of Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the pub?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>ticket.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader1448309743|title=Last Snow The Devil Stone (Jack McClure TrilogyDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered.5 The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4

|summary= Jack McClure, aide and friend to the US president, is back Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at work after the death of his daughter London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughter, Alli. had money to throw around on a HoweverRolex watch, Jack hasn't fully recovered; he's still in mourning vintage wines and full a state-of self-recrimination but the show must go on-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. When an American senator is killed in Capri Jack's Finns had no intention of going on hand to investigateUniversity, starting unlike our storyteller who had a mission that will take him into the Ukraine and place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantic. Apparently not all the PresidentUK's closest advisors can be trusted and that's not Jack's only complicationthird most prestigious university. After Alli's traumatic experiences Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trustshis home, so she's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water and a few murdersClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasDean Koontz|title=Maria & The DevilHouse at the End of the World

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone 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 secluded cabin deep in small chain of tiny dots on the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left map and live out your days in peace and solitude, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria That's defences against it are crumbling. And while what Katie thought she was doing when she waits for shut down her lover old life to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chillstart 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, whose gang is tracking the Devil neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in a relentless quest for revengethe name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1787636607|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (Britain's ally) 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>}} {{newreviewTrap|author=Sophie Hannah|title=The CarrierCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary= Due to It's a delayed flight home, Gaby has to stay overnight scene replicated all too often in a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenthe early hours of the morning. During the night Lauren tells Gaby about Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a man charged with the murder of his paralysed wifeway to get home. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him Some are lucky and manage to be innocentget one of the few taxis available. 2Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. He The woman all regret the 'taxi problem's Tim Breary, Gabyparticularly in the light of 'the missing women's former lover with whom she has unfinished business. Once For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home Gaby is determined . 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 prove let her use his innocence but that. There's easier said than doneno option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Huggler1529195977|title=Burden None of the Desertthis is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe On her luck 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she's sent to Iraq to cover the birth of an emerging nationencountered Josie Fair. She, too, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run was out. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to storycelebrating her 45th birthday, sometimes only she was just escaping intactwith her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. HoweverThat's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in lovemidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Rick Benes is one of the American soldiers Josie, on the newsother hand, his only ambition being holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get his platoon home safely as Iraqthe sense that Walter's birth pangs are violent and unrelentingnot too happy. And then thereHe's Adel, not used to spending this much money on a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his familymeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J E Ryder1803136383|title=Blood Pool|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become the owner of a boatyard when her husband died in a cliff fall. She had worked in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - for quite some time but it's the men of the Shelley 'blood pool' who have always inherited the land for the past two hundred years. She was aware of ill-feeling against her in the village, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself and for the staff she employed. There was some support in the village - an old friend, known to one and 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 circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=Gillian Flynn|title=Gone GirlDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=There’s Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a distressing moment in any long-term relationship where you realise thatcloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, in practice, happily ever after looks a lot like but an eternity act of small, snarling arguments about who forgot heroism leading to buy food, who should take out the rubbish a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner of disgrace seems to be the bedroomconsensus. Domestic bliss Wat himself is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want keeping his cards close to spend the rest of their lives fighting about it. You and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you arehis chest, there’s as he 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 headdoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel O'MalleyB0C7J9D21B|title=The Rook A Captive in Algiers (The Checquy FilesMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy ThomasWhen we first meet our hero, the previous inhabiter his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of her bodyBeautiful Swallows. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for Idyllic as this might sound, it'the Checquy', a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by s a web of betrayal bordello 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 MyfanwyEttore's investigation or to do a runnermother died when he was born. ItHe's her decision not been short of mothers, though - but Myfanwyfor someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you deaddifficult to obtain decent employment.'' Something for her to bear in mind along The stint working with the fatal, unintended consequences preparation of permitting cheap cheese into the UKanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Furst0241996104|title=The Spies of WarsawComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The reluctant, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jeanbarrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' -Francois Mercier is military attaché she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the French embassy in the Warsaw rest of 1937her life. Decorated during World War IOf course, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who the papers are encouraged or coerced to work against making the interests most of other statesit. He watches whilst Poland ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is squeezed between undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Nazis county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on one side and the increasing profile state-of Stalin -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and Russia on were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other, convinced and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that war will not only be inevitablesort of money, but soontoo. HoweverEventually, no one will listen to him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from Nicole found Tom dead in the onslaught swimming pool with a wound to followhis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy McLellanAlan Parks|title=The Orchid FieldTo Die in June

|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change of employer Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is going to be to her advantage. An illmiddle-advised fling aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with her boss is causing her embarrassment at work, particularly now that he has a new born childPete. An offer of They're off on a job that would take her out cruise to Mexico to do a report New York on an off-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to miss''Atlantica''. In Mexico Inspector Cortez Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is languishing in Port Luz going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the back of beyond, sent in disgrace from his post in the citysuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. He knows They've not been a couple for that he’s not - long and never has been - corrupt but no one else believes the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know hima bit better. In fact it’s seen Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as normaltheir mother who has dementia. Then a body appears on the beach and the local fishermen point out into the gulf and tell him that It's going to be good, isn't it came from there. When he looks more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R Julian CoxMark Edwards|title=Shadow on the SunKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=There's always been a quandary for Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the ethicallylava fields and black beaches is breath-minded scientist - what taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to do when your scientific discoveries can be used for less-than-ethical purposes. Robert Oppenheimer faced encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this problem moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when his work as a theoretical physicist resulted in the atomic bombings edge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation ravine gives way and - unbelievably - Helena finds herself clinging to the consequences could be even more far reaching than rockface with just the consequences snagged strap of Oppenheimer's workher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. There's Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well as with his professional ethicsprepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy BoothJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=You could be forgiven 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 thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely heroafternoon at a book fair, given his occupation as she flukes her way into a seller public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of second hand bookscrime fiction, but saying he has some illustrious connections, not least 's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to Sir Frederick Applebythat accusation. Some say that ''he'' runs the country and Appleby's deputyHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, Peter Tyndale where she is married to Debrett's sister, Celiaput up for a wintry month away from it all. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths Just on a French island which hadn't elicited a single cry the point of grief from a relativedespairing – about her writing, but we join about the story as Appleby asks Debrett to attend people and the funeral in France lack of a former business partnerstimulus for her plot, Arthur Moreau. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries more or less about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from everything – word comes that the deceased over recent years helandlady's thought to be the person best able to obtain the answers.nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly0861544056|title=The Burning AirTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary= Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the Macbridesfirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they' annual Guy Fawkesve also been apart from each other. Belle can' weekend trip t wait to have them all to their Devon holiday herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but much has changed since the last Bonfire NightBelle figures that she can cope with that. Their mother Lydia And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has died, their father Rowan copes only with alcoholic aid and been the marriage life's work of Sophie and Will has fireworks Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of its ownhis clients. Some happiness exists though: Tara Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and partner Matt are deeply in love and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the gatheringformer. Her name's Kerry Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and, by proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the end hideous position of asking her father for a job at the weekendfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, she'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse to remain buriedsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OldfieldVanda Symon|title=The SentinelExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Plaza De Toros, Badajoz, 15th August 1936: a group of prisoners are marched across Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the sands start of the bullringher maternity leave when there is a brutal, lined up against the barrera and, mown down rifle-fire. The first group shocking murder of many. Cut to 2009an expectant woman in Dunedin. In Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the mountains known as hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the Sierra de Gredos in central Spain, there was mineextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953. On another newbie-assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez is about Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to find out whyuncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Forbes1787301036|title=The Soldier's StoryWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his post-war demob from the British army in Germany while tracking down wrong-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminalsWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. Although fraternisation with locals The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is still frowned onnot prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, Alex meets and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a chance meetingLesson. United by their love Other infractions of books, Alex becomes a regular visitor his requirements also lead to the Professorthese Lessons and he's homenot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. However books arenJuly't s teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the only attractionhead but her worries are dismissed: Alex gradually falls in love with Mick has been good to the Professor's daughterschool, Lisa. has he not? Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers a secret that will rip to the core of AlexThe playground wouldn's loyalties and jeopardise more than just their lovet have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman0008454493|title=The Double GameAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=American Bill Cage is Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a middleyear -aged PR man who worships at well, apart from the shrine odd occasion when she lost track of spy novelstime or drifted off for a moment. It's now a love year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's inherited from widowed diplomat fatherdone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. (BillShe does interviews and when we meet her, she's mother having died in an accident when he was very youngjust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation.) He fondly remembers his childhood as he travelled from posting On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to posting with his dad and their vast spy fiction librarya few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Barr1848458436|title=StrandedJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=3.54

|summary=After her marriage ends Esther finds herself dreaming ''The whole thing has spiralled out of getting away, running away for a while, to an island paradise. She decides to make a trip to Malaysia, but a day trip out to a small, remote island finds her stranded therecontrol, along with several other people, when their guide does turning into someone I'm not return to pick them up. There is no way home without a boat. Will this group of stranded strangers manage to survive, or will suspicions and tensions get the better of them as they wait to be rescued?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538797X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Alex Churton|title=''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 Babylon Gene|rating=2couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Author of popular scientific philosophy, Dr Toby Ashe, Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is also a covert member of neurosurgeon: they don'Oddballst have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a multi-skilled section lengthy history of British Intelligence. Their purpose is miscarriages so she doesn't want to profile and identify tempt fate by making the rise of terrorists and their organisations before too much damage is doneknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800119</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GrishamJulia Bartz|title=The RacketeerWriting Retreat

|summary=''He didn't believe Roza Vallo. Anyone in coincidences but he did believe in conspiraciesthe world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her.She'' Little does Montey Greene know how well this motto will serve hims something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Aside from Alex, a brief holdwriter-up at customsslash-editor, Montey is thoroughly enjoying his holiday in Milan. Recently separated from his wifemore than a little obsessed with Roza, he's enjoying eyeing up all the lovely Italian womenand is stunned when, meeting up with friendsfollowing a series of unexpected events, and just generally pleasing himselfshe is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0985440813</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hamdy1800465270|title=BattalionThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=WeWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it're twenty years or so into the future s June 1995 and he's at the world is desperately short of oilSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Trouble always follows such He's a situation. There are energy shortagespallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, economies are contracting and the threat from terrorism is constantwhose death was drug-related. The CIA and the FBI were amalgamated some time ago Valeri and agent Scott Pierce of the FSA is hunting the man known as The Spider. HeTimur's been in deep cover - including father, Keto, is also a prison sentence - but this isnpallbearer and he't just work to hims disgusted by what his son had become. The Spider was responsible for the Eurostar bombing which cost Pierce his wife and Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to see the man deadmake his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. The fact that The Spider is determined to strike at the heart Within a matter of America's democratic institutions and bring her months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to her knees is ''almost'' secondary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B009L64TLU</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 1939 Marisha and Lt Commander Raybould 'Pip' Marsh of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service travels to Portugal to smuggle out Krasnopolsky, created a fascist dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a secretjournalist. However things donShe's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she't go s less concerned than she ought to planbe about her own safety. Krasnopolsky nerves are justified as, in the time it takes to order drinksTo her, he spontaneously combusts's a good source. Marsh is too late to extinguish For him but manages to retrieve Krasnopolsky, it's case a way to take back home. He finds the surprises keep on coming: it contains film footage of people becoming 'insubstantial' whilst walking through wallsget information published, others absorbing bullets and some bursting into flames with no apparent side-effects (unlike poor Mr Krasnopolsky). Marsh realises the Naziswhich wouldn' unconventional weapons need an unconventional response and so calls on Lord William Beauclerk who happens to t otherwise be a warlock. Operation Milkweed is on so let other-worldly battle commencepossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501698</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Even Flow|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jonathon Bailey, Cathy Morrissey and Patrick Broder of Network 4 News sit in a viewing room unable Move on to believe their eyes as the courier-delivered VT flickers in front of them. Wealthy banker's son and society playboy Cliff Hudson seems to be suspended from the top of a tall building by his ankles. He's tied to a friend identified as 'Steve', both terror stricken and whimpering an apology prompted by three men oddly dressed in tuxedos and balaclavas. As the city will soon come to realise, these men (pseudonyms Wilde, Whitman and Waters) are the 3W Gang, 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 choosing, just the headache of trying to catch them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780991312</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]