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|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the verge first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a mid life crisiscentury. His work Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, marriage which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and general life a trauma doctor. Anjali is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him to ponder over the attractions free spirit of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having the group and she becomes a relationshipGP. When we first meet them they're at a young girl enters drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jara, tragedy or the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do know himconsequences. He was involved in a claim Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that one of will impact the practicethree friends. This time, it's projects caused a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved is something all three of them would rather forgettheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>

{{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. 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 her 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona McIntoshCody Goodfellow|title=The Lavender KeeperVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) to avenge good view from up high, after all? Even the death of his adoptive Jewish family. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester drabbest office building is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a group of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back somewhere I'm intrigued to the homeland. Their paths will cross as Lisette is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilianget inside if it's 40 stories tall. The mission is clear cut on paper, but life can be messier than any plan can predictSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)1804183210|title=Plan DNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=October 2011 and 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 Berlin wall is still intactchairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. Inspector Martin Wegener of To say that he was shocked when the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious exbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal -lover Karolina and workbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. On this particular day Brian Kitman and Elliot 'workMitch' is a body found hanging from Mitchell were well-known and respected in the GDR section racing industry. Jennings was in one of gas pipeline the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that joins Russian the horse had been deliberately bid up to Europethat figure. Not only is he hanging, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: a Stasi trademarkBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. Who is he and why are The following morning, the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and they're sending a West Berlin detective horse was dead in to help him find them; not the best start to a dayits stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones1405951680|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out of him. They run to escape the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but to the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget them. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSafe House|author=Joseph Clyde|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombCameron Ward|rating=3.54

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the centre Australian outback for a couple of Londonmonths. Julie After the problems she's first thought is to reach her daughterd had at work, waiting to be collected from school within it seemed like just the danger zone, but when this becomes impossible break she must take refuge indoors and await rescueneeded. Forcing her way into She was no longer a beauty salon data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she finds herself among a disparate group of strangers, some of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hers. Also sheltering in the salon are the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anya, a beautician/call girl and her Chechen client, Safia, a devout Muslim (was Jess who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems was returning to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As a Doctor, Julie maintains country of her calm birth and does her best her to help, and the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act in need of nobility at one point, but tensions flare in the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins space to show signs get over the traumatic end of radiation poisoningher relationship with Charles. After A few weeks in the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are Julie's estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent and finally a pair of terrorists connected to Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the first attack, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jaysonticket. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker1448309743|title=Crime of PrivilegeThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest at a party in the Cape Cod home village of Cronchie on the West coast of Senator GregoryScotland, patriarch five members of America's most loved and influential a wealthy family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with his sister but in the library George was present when Jamie Gregory and Peter Gregory Martin raped a young woman who was too drunk to either assent or protestare found murdered. It was The only George's intervention which prevented item missing from the home is the assault becoming more violent. But for Devil Stone: myth says that if the young woman, Kendrick Powellstone is removed from Otterburn House, the rape was devastating and before long she was deaddeath will follow. She too was the child of an influential and wealthy family. But the Gregory clan sticks together and no action was taken against Jamie or Peter and it was the senator's influence which secured George Becket a post The only suspects are known Satanists but in the Cape Cod DAmany ways, that's office. It might seem an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the matter was closed - body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but the Powell family were determined that George would suffer for not having spoken out against the Gregory familywhen he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB0CCCPJJ5B|title=PenitenceThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Phil Davis is Our narrator was a detective in a small town in Texas and scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where 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 decadesmet Ralph Finns. There's no suggestion that the death It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was anything other than accidental but Davis starts a boarder and had money to wonder when he hears of other men with similar scars who have throw around on a met an untimely Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state- if seemingly innocent of- death recentlythe-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the agency whoUK's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlierthird most prestigious university. To cap it allBefore going up, someone was tried for the crime and has been in he took up a mental institution sinceloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, so what is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>Clouds Manor in West Dorset.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)The House at the End of the World

|summary=Ellen Martin When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is a drivingno one on your side, ambitious US lawyeryou can either suck it up, so when her boss sends her saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for short, mercifully) for your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a touch small chain of charity work it would be career threatening to protest too strongly. Besides it only amounts to getting someone tiny dots on the map and live out of prisonyour days in peace and solitude. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that thereThat's more than one person who needs rescuing; what Katie thought she was doing when she can add herself shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the list. Luckily aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for her Barranca is also the home pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of her personal trainer's nephew science and, luckier still, he has a housemate called Alex. Indeed during Ellen's stay Alex is going to be more than useful. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going to be indispensablequite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya1787636607|title=The WatchTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Nizam pushes It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a barrow up way to a fortified US army base in Afghanistanget home. What is she doing there? Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. How Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the soldiers react? outlying villages. What do they believe: their experienceThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', their trainingparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, their gut reaction or the final stop on the bus leaves her a young girl amputee in the middle long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the desert who may be chance to beg the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Beukes1529195977|title=The Shining GirlsNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=As ''The Shining Girls''’ tagline saysOn her 45th birthday, this is Alix Summer celebrated with a thriller that breaks all crowd of friends in the boundariesLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barelyWalter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, sparely explainedthey were both born in St Mary's hospital. I haven’t read anything like it before That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, and are in the midst of a strong joyful, monied group of friends and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading whilst they're not ''exactly'The Shining Girls'rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you won’t be for longget the sense that Walter's not too happy. This book sets out He's not used to cut you up insidespending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Wilton1803136383|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>}} {{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=Paula Daly|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost the typical Mum. She's got Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a husband and three children and she's permanently tiredcloud. Her full-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life What actually happened out there is gossiped about and she's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with nobody is sure exactly what she ought took place, but an act of heroism leading to have done. Husband Joe is a taxi driver rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and they can only just manage disgrace seems to afford be the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake districtconsensus. It's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl - really only a child - Wat himself 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 saykeeping his cards close to his chest, what do you do in that situation? Lisa is about to find outas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le CarreB0C7J9D21B|title=A Delicate TruthCaptive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=It's 2008 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and Paul is recruited by, apparently, the government to assist in an undercover operation in Gibraltarhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. ItIdyllic as this might sound, it's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell of Al Qaeda. Paul performs, is thanked 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 minebarely out of childhood. For some reason it was abruptly closed in 1953. On another newbieAlex, a writer-slash-assignment forensic investigator Dr Ana Maria Galindez editor, is about more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to find out whybe part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800186</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bryan Forbes1800465270|title=The Soldier's StoryLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5

|summary=Alex Seaton awaits his post-war demob from When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the British army Serafimov Cemetry in Germany while tracking down wrong-doers ranging from allied black-marketeers to Nazi war criminalsSt Petersburg. Although fraternisation with locals is still frowned onHe's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, Alex meets and befriends university lecturer Professor Grundwall after a chance meetingwhose death was drug-related. United by their love of booksValeri and Timur's father, Keto, Alex becomes is also a regular visitor to the Professorpallbearer and he's homedisgusted by what his son had become. However books arenValeri thinks differently: he't the only attraction: Alex gradually falls in love with the Professors determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's daughter, Lisadeath. Their future together seems assured until Alex uncovers Within a secret that matter of months, his obsession will rip have cost him his marriage to the core of AlexMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's loyalties determined to expose any and all corruption - and jeopardise more she's less concerned than just their loveshe ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372800</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Dan Fesperman|title=The Double Game|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=American Bill Cage is a middle-aged PR man who worships at the shrine of spy novels. It's a love he's inherited from widowed diplomat father. (Bill's mother having died in an accident when he was very young.) He fondly remembers his childhood as he travelled from posting Move on to posting with his dad and their vast spy fiction library.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893378</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]