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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joseph ClydeSunny Singh|title=A State Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Fear: Britain After a Dirty Bombher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off in the centre of LondonThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. JulieWho doesn's first thought t love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to reach her daughter, waiting to be collected from school within the danger zone, but get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this becomes impossible she must take refuge indoors and await rescuebook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. Forcing her way into a beauty salon she finds herself among a disparate group of strangers, some of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hers. Also sheltering in |isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the salon are rostrum when the Russian beautycolt - as yet unnamed -salon owner/madamcame up for auction, Mrs Marchusakbut Peter Radway, Anyathe chairman, a beautician/call girl and her Chechen clienthadn't arrived, Safia, a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an American gentlemanunderstatement. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descentA lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. It seems to be a regular United Nations Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the salonracing industry. As a Doctor, Julie maintains her calm and does her best her to help, and Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act of nobility at one point, but tensions flare two men came in and their conversation revealed that the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins horse had been deliberately bid up to show signs of radiation poisoningthat figure. After the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The other main characters are Julie's estranged husband Martinfollowing morning, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent and finally a pair of terrorists connected to the first attack, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jaysonhorse was dead in its stall. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker1405951680|title=Crime of PrivilegeThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In March 1996 George Becket Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a guest at a party luxury property in the Cape Cod home Australian outback for a couple of Senator Gregory, patriarch of America's most loved and influential familymonths. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as After the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with his sister but in problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the library George was present when Jamie Gregory and Peter Gregory Martin raped a young woman who was too drunk to either assent or protestbreak she needed. It She was only George's intervention which prevented the assault becoming more violent. But no longer a data analyst for the young woman, Kendrick Powell, the rape was devastating and before long Metropolitan police in London: she was dead. She too Jess who was returning to the child country of an influential her birth and wealthy family. But in need of the Gregory clan sticks together and no action was taken against Jamie or Peter and it was space to get over the senator's influence which secured George Becket a post in the Cape Cod DA's officetraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. It might seem that A few weeks in the matter was closed - but Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the Powell family were determined that George would suffer for not having spoken out against the Gregory familyticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Crowther1448309743|title=PenitenceThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Phil Davis is a detective in a small town in Texas and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees In the village of Cronchie on the body West coast of Scotland, five members of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decadesa wealthy family are found murdered. There's no suggestion The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, 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 recentlywill follow. And all his investigative instincts The only suspects are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts of the agency whoknown Satanists but in many ways, that's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earliereasy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. To cap it all The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, someone was tried for the crime and has been DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a mental institution since, so what is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>to 'shadow' him.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Ellen Martin is Our narrator was a driving, ambitious US lawyer, so when her boss sends her to scholarship day boy at the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for short, mercifully) for London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a touch of charity work it would be career threatening boarder and had money to protest too strongly. throw around on a Besides it only amounts to getting someone out Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of prison-the-art sound system. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that there's Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself to the listacquaintances. Luckily for her Barranca is also the home Finns had no intention of her personal trainer's nephew andgoing on to University, luckier stillunlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, he has a housemate called Alex. Indeed during Ellenthe UK's stay Alex is going to be more than usefulthird most prestigious university. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to be indispensablevisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaDean Koontz|title=The Watch|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up to a fortified US army base in Afghanistan. What is she doing there? How will House at the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experience, their training, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in the middle End of the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Beukes|title=The Shining GirlsWorld|rating=54

|summary=As ''The Shining Girls''’ tagline says, this When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is a thriller that breaks all the boundaries. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based no one on science fiction conceptsyour side, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. I haven’t read anything like you can either suck it beforeup, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a strong small chain of tiny dots on the map and crowded crime fiction field it stands live out like a searchlight. But bewareyour days in peace and solitude. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading ''The Shining Girls That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, you won’t be for long. This book sets out to cut you up insidethe neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1787636607|title=Traitor's FieldThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=It's 1648 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 embers few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of Charles Ithe outlying villages. The woman all regret the 's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns taxi problem', particularly in the monotone colour light of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealththe missing women'. HoweverFor one young woman, Royalist passion still exists the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and itcollect her - but her phone's up dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to Sir Mortimer Shay, beg the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey, bus driver to gather the intelligence, maintain let her use his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longs. HeThere's a wily veteran so not easily stopped no option but among the confusion to start walking - unsuitably clothed and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwell's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the taskhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1529195977|title=Just What Kind None of Mother Are You?this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the typical MumLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She's got a , too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband , Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and three children and sheJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's permanently tiredhospital. Her full-time job at That's where the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into similarities end, though: Alix, with her home life husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and shewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with what she ought to have donere enjoying themselves. Husband Joe is a taxi driver Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and they can only just manage to afford you get the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake districtsense that Walter's not too happy. ItHe's normally pretty crime free but then not used to spending this much money on a young girl - really only a child meal - but it is abducted and brutally raped. Then another girl of about the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for her safety. What do you say, what do you do in that situation? Lisa is about to find outJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1803136383|title=A Delicate TruthTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 2008 Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Paul nobody is recruited bysure exactly what took place, apparently, the government to assist in but an undercover operation in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell act of Al Qaeda. Paul performs, is thanked and taken home without complications. Fast forward heroism leading to 2011 a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and Toby Bell is promoted disgrace seems to be the role of private secretary for Paul's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnconsensus. Whilst acquainting Wat himself with Quinn's CVis keeping his cards close to his chest, Toby uncovers 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 the same againhe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald WixeyB0C7J9D21B|title=4 Bones SleepingA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=ThereWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's quite a contrast between the settings in ''4 Bones Sleeping'bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. To begin with thereHe's the time. Just about everything that happens goes back to the end not been short of the Second World War and just afterwardsmothers, when people were coming to terms with having won the warthough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, but not quite knowing what it's difficult to do obtain decent employment. The stint working with the peacepreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Then there's 1980 when we wondered Ettore was nothing if we'd won the war, but lost the peace. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the postnot resourceful - and determined -war years, but what are they all doing in and it was not long before he had a successful business as a one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? guide for visitors. And where did the He was even saving some money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper and make Harry the landlord of the pub?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader0241996104|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary= Jack McClureNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, aide and friend to the US presidentMartin, is back at work after the death has been convicted of his daughter and their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughtercourt, Alliafter Martin receives a life sentence. However, Jack hasnThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't fully recovered; he- she's still in mourning and full not been found guilty of self-recrimination anything but will have to live with what happened for the show must go onrest of her life. When an American senator is killed in Capri JackOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's on hand to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Ukraine and papers are making the seamier side of power on both sides most of the Atlanticit. Apparently not all the President's closest advisors can be trusted 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and that's not Jack's only complication. After Allirich bitch''s traumatic experiences at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack might not be printed but is the only person she trusts, so she's coming along for the ride, through hell, high water and a few murdersundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Thomas1529135389|title=Maria & The Devil|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone in a secluded cabin deep in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitude, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria's defences against it are crumbling. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in a relentless quest for revenge. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Gilly Macmillan|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>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie Hannah|title=The Carrier|rating=34.5

|summary= Due to a delayed flight Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home, Gaby has to stay overnight in a German hotel with fellow passenger Lauren. During There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the night Lauren tells Gaby about a man charged with state-of-the murder of his paralysed wife-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to be innocentall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. 2. HeSome of them fought with each other and didn's Tim Breary, Gaby's former lover with whom she has unfinished businesst work as reliably as they should. Once home Gaby is determined It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to prove his innocence but having that's easier said than done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Huggler|title=Burden of the Desert|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe her luck when she's sent to Iraq to cover the birth sort of an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run out. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intacttoo. HoweverEventually, the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall Nicole found Tom dead in love. Rick Benes is one of the American soldiers on the news, his only ambition being swimming pool with a wound to get his platoon home safely as Iraq's birth pangs are violent and unrelenting. And then there's Adel, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his familyhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=J E RyderAlan Parks|title=Blood PoolTo Die in June

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become What first seems like the owner unfortunate, accidental death of a boatyard when her husband died in a cliff fallhomeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. She had worked in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - This is worrying enough for quite some time detective Harry McCoy, but it's all the men of the Shelley 'blood pool' who have always inherited the land more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for the past two hundred years. She was aware of ill-feeling against her in At the village, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly same time as facing these possible for herself and for the staff she employed. There was some support in the village - an old friendmurders, known Harry is also dealing with a move to one a different police station, and all as 'the Prof' - had always been arrival there for of a woman who claims her and willing to listen to her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffeelittle boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Then Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he disappeared in violent circumstances.has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn1529382823|title=Gone GirlThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=There’s a distressing moment in any longCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-term relationship where you realise that, aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in practice, happily ever after looks love with Pete. They're off on a lot like an eternity of smallcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, snarling arguments about who forgot to buy foodGemma, who should take out the rubbish and who is responsible for reckons that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner of the bedroom. Domestic bliss Pete is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want going to spend the rest of their lives fighting about it. You and your partner are absolutely propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you are, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break down. You aren’t them, his suit pocket and they aren’t you, and so you can never truly she doesn't know what’s really going on inside that well-known head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Owhether she'Malley|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 bodys relieved or disappointed. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for They'the Checquy', a paranormal version of MI5 which has ve not been permeated by a web of betrayal couple for that long and danger. The problem is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to speak)know him a bit better. The amnesiac has a clear choice: to continue MyfanwyMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's investigation or to do a runnercafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her going to bear in mind along with the fatalbe good, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UK.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan FurstMark Edwards|title=The Spies of WarsawKeep Her Secret

|summary=Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The reluctant, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jeanalien-Francois Mercier landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is military attaché breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the French embassy joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the Warsaw edge of 1937. Decorated during World War I, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties ravine gives way and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged or coerced Helena finds herself clinging to work against the interests rockface with just the snagged strap of other statesher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. He watches whilst Poland Convinced she is squeezed between going to die, Helena must purge herself of the Nazis on one side shocking secret she has been keeping and the increasing profile of Stalin and Russia on the othermakes a panicked, convinced that war will not only be inevitable, but sooncryptic declaration to Matthew. HoweverJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, no one will listen Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to him as he gathers evidence safety and protects those Matthew is left wondering what he can from the onslaught to followjust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy McLellanJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Orchid FieldThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of employer is going to be to her advantagefailing if well-regarded literary short novels. An ill-advised fling with Sorry to leave her boss is causing bottles of red wine behind her embarrassment for an afternoon at worka book fair, particularly now that he has a new born child. An offer of a job that would take she flukes her out to Mexico to do way into a report on an off-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to miss. In Mexico Inspector Cortez is languishing in Port Luz public argument with the latest hot shot in the back world of beyondcrime fiction, sent in disgrace from his post in the citysaying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. He knows Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that he’s not - and never has been - corrupt but no one else believes himaccusation. In fact it’s seen as normalHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Then a body appears Just on the beach and the local fishermen point out into of despairing – about her writing, about the gulf people and tell him that it came from there. When he looks the lack of stimulus for her plot, more closely he realises or less about everything – word comes that they mean the oil rigs.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R Julian Cox0861544056|title=Shadow on the SunTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=ThereBelle and David's always been a quandary for the ethically-minded scientist - what twin daughters are just coming to do when your scientific discoveries can be used for less-than-ethical purposes. Robert Oppenheimer faced this problem when his work as a theoretical physicist resulted in the atomic bombings end of Hiroshima and Nagasakitheir first term at university. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation Kit's been at Bristol and - unbelievably - the consequences could be even more far reaching than the consequences of OppenheimerJess's workin Exeter. ThereIt's a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as well as with his professional ethics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Guy Booth|title=The Arthur Moreau Story|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=You could be forgiven not only the first time they've been away from their parents for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given his occupation as a seller any length of second hand books, time - but he has some illustrious connections, not least to Sir Frederick Applebythey've also been apart from each other. Some say that Belle can''he'' runs the country and Appleby's deputy, Peter Tyndale is married t wait to have them all to Debrett's sister, Celiaherself for a while. Our tale began many years before Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadnher? Belle would prefer that he didn't elicited a single cry of grief from a relative, come but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett doesn't want to attend the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreauupset Kit. There are, Ivo's apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from the deceased over recent years older': he's thought twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be the person best able to obtain the answerssharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KellyRobert Dugoni|title=The Burning AirHer Deadly Game

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= ItPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's the Macbrideswork of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed ' annual Guy FawkesThe Irish Brawler' weekend trip due to their Devon holiday home but much has changed since the last Bonfire Nighthis reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Their mother Lydia has died, their father Rowan copes only Along with alcoholic aid and an indisputable talent for the marriage of Sophie and Will law, Patsy also has fireworks of its own. Some happiness exists though: Tara 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, she'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse to remain buriedMiller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|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

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A R Yoba1800465270|title=They Call Me... Montey GreeneThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=34.5

|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.}}