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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones1399613073|title=The String DiariesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah first day of medical school and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of hima century. They run Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to escape be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannahgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's family for generationsgoing to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but to Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Wildes three friends. This time, it's real and insatiable and won't forget themtheir teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=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. They know what to do: verify Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyoneon site, there is Sam, trust no one a wartime photographer andAbhi, if the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in any doubtthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, RUN! and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although one day that may not 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 enoughrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph ClydeCody Goodfellow|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombVertical

|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 sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by, apparently, rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the government consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to assist his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in an undercover operation in GibraltarAlgiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4. It's perfectly straightforward 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and its success will impede a cell he lives at The House of Al QaedaBeautiful Swallows. Paul performsIdyllic as this might sound, is thanked it's a bordello and taken home without complications. Fast forward to 2011 and Toby Bell is promoted to the role of private secretary for PaulEttore's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnmother died when he was born. Whilst acquainting himself with QuinnHe's CVnot been short of mothers, Toby uncovers the story though - but for someone of the missionhis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, discovering not only Quinnit's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all thatdifficult to obtain decent employment. Quinn also appears to have been connected The stint working with an organisation thatthe preparation of anchovies didn's t work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not all resourceful - and determined - and it seems, unfortunately for was not long before he had a particular pillar of successful business as a Cornish community guide for whom life will never be the same againvisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey0241996104|title=4 Bones SleepingComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=ThereNancy's quite 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 contrast between the settings in life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a '4 Bones Sleepingsilent sentence''. To begin with there- she's the time. Just about everything that happens goes back to the end not been found guilty of the Second World War and just afterwards, when people were coming anything but will have to terms live with having won the war, but not quite knowing what to do with happened for the peacerest of her life. Then thereOf course, it's 1980 when we wondered if wemade worse because Nancy'd won s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the war, but lost papers are making the peacemost of it. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the post-war years, but what are they all doing in a ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? And where did the money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper favourite epithet and make Harry the landlord of the pub?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Van Lustbader1529135389|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Jack McClure, aide and friend to Nicole Booth had spent the US president, is back morning at work after the death county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of his daughter and her husband but opera was playing on the resolved kidnapping state-of President Carson's own daughter, Alli-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. However, Jack hasnThey't fully recovered; he's still d not been in mourning the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and full of selfwere still getting used to all the high-recrimination but the show must go ontech systems Tom had insisted upon. When an American senator is killed in Capri JackSome of them fought with each other and didn's on hand to investigate, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine and the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantict work as reliably as they should. Apparently not It had all the President's closest advisors can be trusted come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that's not Jack's only complicationsort of money, too. After Alli's traumatic experiences at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trustsEventually, so she's coming along for Nicole found Tom dead in the ride, through hell, high water and swimming pool with a few murderswound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasAlan Parks|title=Maria & The DevilTo Die in June

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone in What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a secluded cabin deep in homeless man on the wildernessstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Maria This is pregnant. Left in solitudeworrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But but all the isolation more so because his own father is pervasive a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and Maria's defences against it are crumblinghe has been for years. And while she waits for her lover to return At the same time as facing these possible murders, she Harry is discovered by Rickman Chillalso dealing with a move to a different police station, whose gang is tracking and the Devil in arrival there of a relentless quest for revengewoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the Devil return in timeother officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1529382823|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= England 1963: The war Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is over, Hitler defeated middle-aged and the Russians (Britainhas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''s ally) retain most of mainland Europe. The Briton in the street believes Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that it was Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain that saved the nation Pete is going to propose but exCaz hasn't spotted a ring-naval intelligence officer Raybould shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'Pipt know whether she' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlys relieved or disappointed. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, the same warlocks They've not been a couple for that are now being murdered. However, fighting over, Pip long and Will are both war-weary and want the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasknow him a bit better. For the Nazi experimental Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz'willpower' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped with the super powers of s cafe as well as their childhoodmother who has dementia. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting It's going to be faced… Yes… good, isn''those'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>t it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie HannahMark Edwards|title=The CarrierKeep Her Secret|rating=34.5|genre=Crime|summary= Due to a delayed flight home, Gaby has to stay overnight in a German hotel with fellow passenger Lauren. During the night Lauren tells Gaby about a man charged with the murder of his paralysed wife. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him to be innocent. 2. He's Tim Breary, Gaby's former lover with whom she has unfinished business. Once home Gaby is determined to prove his innocence but that's easier said than done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Huggler|title=Burden of the Desert|rating=5

|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe her luck when she's sent to Iraq to cover the birth of an emerging nationMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run outrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to storyencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, sometimes only even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just escaping intact. However, the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in lovesnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Rick Benes Convinced she is one going to die, Helena must purge herself of the American soldiers on the newsshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, his only ambition being cryptic declaration to get his platoon home safely as Iraq's birth pangs are violent and unrelentingMatthew. And then there's AdelJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his familyIcelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=J Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E RyderTurney (translator)|title=Blood PoolThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to become the owner leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a boatyard when book fair, she flukes her husband died in way into a cliff fall. She had worked in public argument with the East Devon boatyard - run it latest hot shot in fact - for quite some time but it's the men world of the Shelley crime fiction, saying he'blood pool' who have always inherited s populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the land for the past two hundred yearsbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. She was aware of ill-feeling against Her publisher duly books her in the villageflights from Denmark to Iceland, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible where she is put up for herself and for the staff she employeda wintry month away from it all. There was some support in Just on the village - an old friendpoint of despairing – about her writing, known to one about the people and all as 'the Prof' - had always been there lack of stimulus for her and willing to listen to her outpourings plot, more or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstances.less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn0861544056|title=Gone GirlTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary=There’s a distressing moment in any long-term relationship where you realise that, in practice, happily ever after looks a lot like an eternity of small, snarling arguments about who forgot Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to buy food, who should take out the rubbish end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the corner first time they've been away from their parents for any length of the bedroom. Domestic bliss is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love time - but they've also been apart from each other so much . Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that they he didn't come but doesn't want to spend the rest of their lives fighting about itupset Kit. You and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but no matter how close you are, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break downBelle figures that she can cope with that. You aren’t them, and And they aren’t you, and so you can never truly know what’s really going on inside that well-known head'll be sharing a bedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel O'MalleyRobert Dugoni|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)Her Deadly Game

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the previous inhabiter life's work of her bodyPatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working Along with an indisputable talent for 'the Checquy'law, a paranormal version of MI5 which Patsy also has been permeated by a web of betrayal gift for drinking himself to oblivion and dangerinevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. The problem is that Myfanwy never discovered Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the source before hideous position of asking her body changed hands (so to speak). The amnesiac has father for a clear choice: to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do job at the family firm because a runner. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her to bear in mind along romantic entanglement with the fatala senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UKsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan FurstVanda Symon|title=The Spies of WarsawExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The reluctantcare has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier who is military attaché not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the French embassy in conversation is heading that way will lead to the Warsaw necessity of 1937a Lesson. Decorated during World War I, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged he's not even careful about whether or coerced to work against not the interests of other statesinjuries are visible. He watches whilst Poland July's teacher is squeezed between the Nazis on one side concerned and brings up the increasing profile possibility of Stalin and Russia on abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the otherschool, convinced that war will has he not only be inevitable, ? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but soon. However, no one will listen to for him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from the onslaught to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy McLellan0008454493|title=The Orchid FieldAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a change of employer is going to be to her advantage. An illyear -advised fling with her boss is causing her embarrassment at workwell, particularly now that he has apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a new born childmoment. An offer of It's now a job that would take year since her out to Mexico to do a report on an off-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to miss. In Mexico Inspector Cortez is languishing son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in Port Luz in the back middle of beyond, sent the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in disgrace from his post the morning when she thought he was sleeping in . In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the citycase. He knows that he’s not - She does interviews and never has when we meet her, she's just been - corrupt but no one else believes him. to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote In fact it’s seen as normalpresentation. Then On the plane back, she's approached by a body appears on the beach and the local fishermen point podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out into the gulf that she could do a podcast and tell him that it came from there. When he looks get to so many more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigspeople than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R Julian Cox1848458436|title=Shadow on Just the SunNicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=There's always been a quandary for the ethically-minded scientist - what 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 of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces a similar situation and - unbelievably - the consequences could be even more far reaching than the consequences of Oppenheimer's work. There'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 for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given his occupation as a seller whole thing has spiralled out of second hand books, but he has some illustrious connectionscontrol, turning into someone I'm not least to Sir Frederick Appleby. Some say that ''he'' runs the country and Appleby's deputy, Peter Tyndale is married to Debrett's sister, Celia. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadn't elicited a single cry of grief from a relative, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett to attend the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreau. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite Debrett's estrangement from the deceased over recent years he's thought to be the person best able to obtain the answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Erin Kelly|title=The Burning Air|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's 'Just the MacbridesNicest Couple' annual Guy Fawkes' weekend trip to their Devon holiday home but much has changed since is the last Bonfire Night. Their mother Lydia has diedstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, their father Rowan copes only with alcoholic aid and the marriage of Sophie Nina and Will has fireworks of its ownJake Hayes. Some happiness exists though: Tara The connection between the two is that Lily and partner Matt are deeply Nina teach in love the same school: Nina teaches English and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend to the gatheringLily covers high school algebra. Her nameThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's Kerry not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst andJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, by the end but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of the weekend, miscarriages so shedoesn'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse t want to remain buriedtempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OldfieldJulia Bartz|title=The SentinelWriting Retreat

|summary=Plaza De Toros, Badajoz, 15th August 1936: a group Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of prisoners are marched across publishing knows the sands name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of the bullringa legend with an impressive, lined up against the barrera andif compact, mown down rifle-fire. The first group back catalogue of many. Cut to 2009. In the mountains known as the Sierra de Gredos in central Spainworks that started with her breakthrough novel, there published when she was mine. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953. On another newbie-assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez is about to find barely out whyof childhood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryan Forbes|title=The Soldier's Story|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his post, a writer-war demob from the British army in Germany while tracking down wrongslash-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminals. Although fraternisation editor, is more than a little obsessed with locals Roza, and is still frowned onstunned when, Alex meets and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after following a chance meeting. United by their love series of booksunexpected events, Alex becomes a regular visitor to the Professor's home. However books aren't the only attraction: Alex gradually falls in love with the Professor's daughter, Lisa. Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers a secret that will rip she is invited to the core be part of Alexher month-long writers's loyalties and jeopardise more than just their loveretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1800465270|title=The Double GameLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=American Bill Cage is a middle-aged PR man who worships When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the shrine of spy novelsSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. ItHe's a love hepallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's inherited from widowed diplomat father. (Bill, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's mother having died in an accident when he was very youngdisgusted by what his son had become.) He fondly remembers his childhood as Valeri thinks differently: he travelled from posting 's determined to posting with make his dad own stand against organised crime and their vast spy fiction libraryavenge Timur's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Barr|title=Stranded|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=After her marriage ends Esther finds herself dreaming Within a matter of getting awaymonths, running away for his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a whiledubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, to an island paradisea journalist. She decides 's determined to make a trip expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to Malaysia, but a day trip out to a small, remote island finds be about her stranded there, along with several other people, when their guide does not return to pick them upown safety. There is no way home without To her, he's a boatgood source. Will this group of stranded strangers manage For him, it's a way to surviveget information published, or will suspicions and tensions get the better of them as they wait to which wouldn't otherwise be rescued?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075538797X</amazonuk>possible.

{{newreview|author=Alex Churton|title=The Babylon Gene|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Author of popular scientific philosophy, Dr Toby Ashe, is also a covert member of 'Oddballs', a multi-skilled section of British Intelligence. Their purpose is Move on to profile and identify the rise of terrorists and their organisations before too much damage is done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Grisham|title=The Racketeer|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Malcolm Bannister is forty-three years old and a lawyer. He's also in prison for a crime he didn't know he was committing and in which he had no criminal intent. Halfway through a ten-year stretch he's the only black man in the prison serving time for a white collar crime: that's what happens when you're just a bit naive and what looks like a genuine real estate deal turns out to be part of a massive money laundering operation. The prison he'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 muchness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444729748</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]