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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Crowther1399613073|title=Penitence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Phil Davis is a detective in a small town in Texas and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees the body of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decades. There's no suggestion that the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts to wonder when he hears of other men with similar scars who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recently. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts of the agency who's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlier. To cap it all, someone was tried for the crime and has been in a mental institution since, so what is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Mark Lingane|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)Christie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ellen Martin is a drivingOlivia, ambitious US lawyer, so when her boss sends her to Laura and Anjali met on the Colombian town first day of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for short, mercifully) medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a touch quarter of charity work it would be career threatening to protest too stronglya century. Besides it only amounts Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to getting someone out of prisonbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that there's more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself to the listLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Luckily for her Barranca Anjali is also the home free spirit of her personal trainer's nephew the group and, luckier still, he has she becomes a housemate called AlexGP. Indeed during EllenWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's stay Alex is going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be more than usefulan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going to be indispensableThis time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaSunny Singh|title=The WatchHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary= Nizam pushes The Hotel Arcadia is a barrow up to luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a fortified US army base in Afghanistanterrorist group. What is she doing there? How will Hiding from the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experienceterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, their trainingthere is Sam, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the middle of the desert hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who may refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the last thing phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they ever both wait to see?if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren BeukesCody Goodfellow|title=The Shining GirlsVertical|rating=3.5
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|summary=As There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn'The Shining Girls''’ tagline sayst love a good view from up high, this is a thriller that breaks after all ? Even the boundaries. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. drabbest office building is somewhere I haven’t read anything like 'm intrigued to get inside if it before, and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading ''The Shining Girls'', you won’t be for longs 40 stories tall. This So when I picked up this book sets out to cut you up inside– about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1804183210|title=Traitor's Field|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|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 Commonwealth. However, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longs. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among the confusion and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNo Reserve|author=Paula Daly|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Felix Francis|rating=54
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|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the typical Mumchairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. She's got a husband and To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three children million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and sheElliot 's permanently tiredMitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Her full-time job at Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life two men came in and she's constantly chasing around trying to catch their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up with what she ought to have donethat figure. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and Both were happy that they can only just manage to afford the rent on their cottage had insurance in the picturesque lake districtplace. It's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl - really only a child - is abducted and brutally raped. Then another girl of about The following morning, the same age goes missing and Lisa horse was responsible for her safety. What do you say, what do you do dead in that situation? Lisa is about to find outits stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1405951680|title=A Delicate TruthThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=54
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|summary=It's 2008 and Paul is recruited Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it byher friend, apparently, the government Rupert) to assist caretake a luxury property in an undercover operation in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede the Australian outback for a cell couple of Al Qaedamonths. Paul performsAfter the problems she'd had at work, is thanked and taken home without complicationsit seemed like just the break she needed. Fast forward She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to 2011 the country of her birth and Toby Bell is promoted in need of the space to get over the role traumatic end of private secretary for Paul's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnher relationship with Charles. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers A few weeks in the story of the mission, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all that. Quinn also appears 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 will never be Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the same againticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey1448309743|title=4 Bones SleepingThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=There's quite a contrast between In the settings in ''4 Bones Sleeping''. To begin with there's village of Cronchie on the timeWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Just about everything that happens goes back to The only item missing from the end of home is the Second World War and just afterwards, when people were coming to terms with having won Devil Stone: myth says that if the warstone is removed from Otterburn House, but not quite knowing what to do with the peacedeath will follow. Then thereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's 1980 when we wondered if wean easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'd won the war, but lost the peacebody. 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 yearsSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but what are they all doing DCI Christine Caplan is pulled 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>'shadow' him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van LustbaderB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasDean Koontz|title=Maria & The DevilHouse at the End of the World
|rating=4
|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
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{{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
|genre=Crime
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Huggler1529195977|title=Burden None of the Desertthis is True|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Furst0241996104|title=The Spies of WarsawComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy McLellanAlan Parks|title=The Orchid FieldTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - 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 going on?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529382823
|title=The Last Passenger
|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R Julian CoxMark Edwards|title=Shadow on the SunKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy BoothJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryThirty Days of Darkness
|rating=3.5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly0861544056|title=The Burning AirTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the 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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Forbes1787301036|title=The Soldier's StoryWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman0008454493|title=The Double GameAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Barr1848458436|title=StrandedJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|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>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GrishamJulia Bartz|title=The RacketeerWriting Retreat
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Malcolm Bannister is forty-three years old and a lawyerRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. HeShe's also in prison for something of a crime he didn't know he legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was committing and in which he had no criminal intentbarely out of childhood. Halfway through Alex, a tenwriter-slash-year stretch he's the only black man in the prison serving time for editor, is more than a white collar crime: that's what happens little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when you're just , following a bit naive and what looks like a genuine real estate deal turns out series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of a massive money laundering operation. The prison heher month-long writers's in is relatively relaxed and he's the librarian, but he's lost his 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 a muchnessretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444729748</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A R Yoba1800465270|title=They Call Me... Montey GreeneThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He didn't believe in coincidences but s a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he did believe in conspiracies's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.}}
