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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexa Camouro1399613073|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=ThrillerThrillers|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a complicated life in Hamburgcentury. She juggles her live-in, Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English which is a bonus when you aim to local company employeesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. But however complicated that seems, it's about to get worseLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The police come for her in Anjali is the free spirit of the early hours, although group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's not till she's ensconced going to end in the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged with espionage and murdertragedy. The problem is complex but We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the answer is simple: she must escape to prove her innocenceconsequences. Having said Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that, 'simple' is a relative termwill impact the three friends. From the language school for which she works to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping upThis time, nothing is what it seems, including Dixon Grace's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Excalibur CodexHotel 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}}{{Frontpage|author=James DouglasCody Goodfellow|title=Vertical
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Jamie Saintclair is an expert in tracing works of arts. But he has There's something about tall buildings that just as much of a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art work. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refusecaptures my imagination. A chance to find the legendary sword of Arthur, but he wonWho doesn't be dealing with knights or chivalry in this adventurelove a good view from up high, instead he will come up against after all? Even the very worst of human nature. This book will take him on a quest beginning in one of humanitydrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's darkest chapters, the rise of Nazi Germany40 stories tall. The evil perpetuated in So when I picked up this era will be mirrored by modern men book – about people who are prepared to plunge the world into darkness once again, this time in the name of British purity. Although the sword is associated with supernatural powers, there will be nothing supernatural in the evil Jamie faces, only the unbridled hatred and lust scale tall buildings for power that comes so naturally to some men, and because of this is ever so much more terrifying than magic or monsters. What is even more disturbing is the thought that under the right circumstances, many of us could become monsters as wellfun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Hell to PayNo Reserve|author=Jenny ThomsonFelix Francis|rating=34
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|summary=Nancy is trying to escape a naff Christmas with her naff boyfriendThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but walks into a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary at her parents' home – a professionalPeter Radway, violentthe chairman, nay fatalhadn't arrived, burglaryso he continued his session. When she comes out of a therapeutic stay in To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an institute afterwards, sheunderstatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's seeking one thing – revengeMitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Her brother Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and his rap sheet might have something their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to do with those responsiblethat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against herhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Shanghai FactorSafe House|author=Charles McCarryCameron Ward
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|summary=Our narrator is Jess Walker accepted an American sleeper spy offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai societythe Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. A chance meeting results She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover London: she was Jess who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) was returning to the country of her birth and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates in need of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable space to both get over the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming a pawn traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsVictoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=High RollersThe Last Person in the World|author=Jack BowmanMatthew Tree|rating=3.54
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|summary=Tom Patrick is Our narrator was a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless scholarship day boy at the best there isLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. He has more than ruffled It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a few feathers boarder and is suspended from working had money to throw around on casesa Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Despite this the largest case of his career is forced upon him Both were probably quite surprised when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalitiesthey became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Tom recognises Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a possible link between place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the two and potentially many more airplanesUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracyloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda HowardDean Koontz|title=Shadow WomanThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
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|summary=Prelude: the President When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the United States map and the First Lady are live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on what is not being called a campaign tour. It is. It is most definitely a re-election campaignJacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it's just not supposed to be. They retire to their suite for the nightpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the protection detail name of the Secret Service are looking forward to a shift change at science and quite possibly bringing about the end of a long dayall mankind. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1787636607|title=A Crack in the WallThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a 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 chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|title=None of this is True
|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on the verge of a mid life crisisSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. His work She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, marriage Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anythingJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, leaving him to ponder over are in the attractions midst of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationshipjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. When a young girl enters Josie, on the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jaraother hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do know himsense that Walter's not too happy. He was involved in a claim that one of the practice's projects caused not used to spending this much money on a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved meal - but it is something Josie's birthday after all three of them would rather forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntosh1803136383|title=The Lavender KeeperTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) to avenge the death of his adoptive Jewish familycloud. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE)sure exactly what took place, a group but an act of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory heroism leading to send vital information back a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the homelandconsensus. Their paths will cross as Lisette Wat himself is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. The mission is clear cut on paperkeeping his cards close to his chest, but life can be messier than any plan can predictas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|authortitle=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire A Captive in Algiers (TranslatorMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|titleauthor=Plan DA J Lewis
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|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=October 2011 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and the Berlin wall is still intacthe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Inspector Martin Wegener of the East German PeopleIdyllic as this might sound, it's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious ex-lover Karolina a bordello and workEttore's mother died when he was born. On this particular day He'works not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it' is a body found hanging from the GDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian s difficult to Europeobtain decent employment. Not only is he hanging, The stint working with the deceased has eight knots round his neck preparation of anchovies didn't work out and his shoe laces bastards are tied together: a Stasi trademarkconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. Who is he Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers determined - and they're sending it was not long before he had a West Berlin detective in to help him find them; not the best start to successful business as a dayguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones0241996104|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 Coming 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>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Joseph Clyde|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombJane Corry|rating=34.5
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|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off in the centre of London. JulieNancy's first thought is to reach mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her daughterstep-brother, waiting to be collected from school within the danger zoneMartin, but when this becomes impossible she must take refuge indoors and await rescue. Forcing her way into a beauty salon she finds herself among a disparate group of strangers, some has been convicted of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hersmurder. Also sheltering in the salon are We first meet Nancy outside the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anyacourt, after Martin receives a beautician/call girl and life sentence. The barrister tells her Chechen client, Safia, that she's received a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of black Caribbean descent. It seems anything but will have to be a regular United Nations in live with what happened for the salonrest of her life. As a Doctor Of course, Julie maintains it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her calm and does her best her to help, mother - and the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act of nobility at one point, but tensions flare in papers are making the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins to show signs most of radiation poisoningit. After the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are Julie ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent is one favourite epithet and finally a pair of terrorists connected to the first attack, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jayson''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker1529135389|title=Crime of PrivilegeThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest Nicole Booth had spent the morning at a party in the Cape Cod county fair before she returned home . There was no sign of Senator Gregory, patriarch her husband but opera was playing on the state-of America's most loved and influential family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as -the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with his sister but -art music system installed 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 protestThe Glass Barn. It was only GeorgeThey's intervention which prevented d not been in the assault becoming more violent. But architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the young woman, Kendrick Powell, the rape was devastating and before long she was deadhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. She too was the child Some of an influential them fought with each other and wealthy family. But the Gregory clan sticks together and no action was taken against Jamie or Peter and it was the senatordidn's influence which secured George Becket a post in the Cape Cod DA's officet work as reliably as they should. It might seem that the matter was closed had all come about through a ten-million- but the Powell family pound lottery win and they were determined still getting used to having that George would suffer for not having spoken out against sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the Gregory familyswimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherAlan Parks|title=PenitenceTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Phil Davis What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is a worrying enough for detective in Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a small town in Texas down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees the body of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously has been inflicted over for years if not decades. There's no suggestion that At the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to wonder when he hears a different police station, and the arrival there of other men with similar scars a woman who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recentlyclaims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez Something feels wrong - seemingly one of not just with the big beasts of woman’s story but also with the agency who's spending time looking into a murder with which other officers where he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlier. To cap it all, someone was tried for the crime and has been in a mental institution sincestationed, so but can Harry uncover just what is Valdez doinggoing on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529382823|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ellen Martin is a driving, ambitious US lawyer, so when her boss sends her to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja Caroline Riley (Barranca for short, mercifullyshe prefers 'Caz') for is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a touch of charity work it would be career threatening cruise to protest too stronglyNew York on ''Atlantica''. Besides it only amounts Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to getting someone out of prisonpropose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Soon after arriving Ellen realises They've not been a couple for that there's more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to the listknow him a bit better. Luckily for her Barranca Meanwhile, Gemma is also the home of her personal trainerlooking after Caz's nephew and, luckier still, he cafe as well as their mother who has a housemate called Alexdementia. Indeed during EllenIt's stay Alex is going to be more than useful. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going to be indispensable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>good, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaMark Edwards|title=The WatchKeep Her Secret|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up to a fortified US army base in Afghanistan4. What is she doing there? How will the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experience, their training, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in the middle of the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Beukes|title=The Shining Girls|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=As ''Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The Shining Girls''’ tagline saysalien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, this is even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a thriller that breaks all ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the boundariesrockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barelypanicked, sparely explainedcryptic declaration to Matthew. I haven’t read anything like it before Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading ''The Shining Girls'', you won’t be for long. This book sets out hauls Helena to cut you up insidesafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WiltonJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Traitor's FieldThirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=It's 1648 and the embers Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of Charles I's reign start failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to fade as Britain slowly turns leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the monotone colour world of Oliver Cromwellcrime fiction, saying he's Commonwealthpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. However, Royalist passion still exists and it's Cue the bet that she cannot live up to Sir Mortimer Shaythat accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Surveypoint of despairing – about her writing, to gather about the intelligence, maintain his spy network people and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory lack of stimulus for which he longs. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the confusion and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwelllandlady's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0861544056|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the typical Mumend of their first term at university. SheKit's got a husband and three children been at Bristol and sheJess's permanently tiredin Exeter. Her full-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life and sheIt's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with what she ought to have done. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and they can not only just manage to afford the rent on first time they've been away from their cottage in the picturesque lake districtparents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. ItBelle can's normally pretty crime free but then t wait to have them all to herself for a young girl - really only a child - is abducted and brutally rapedwhile. Then another girl of about the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her safety? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. What do you say, what do you do in Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that situation? . Lisa is about to find outAnd they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John le CarreRobert Dugoni|title=A Delicate TruthHer Deadly Game
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's 2008 and Paul is recruited by, apparently, the government work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to assist in an undercover operation his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell defence of Al Qaedahis clients. Paul performsAlong with an indisputable talent for the law, is thanked and taken home without complications. Fast forward Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to 2011 oblivion and Toby Bell is promoted inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the role of private secretary for Paul's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnformer. Whilst acquainting himself with Quinn's CVEnter Keera Duggan, Toby uncovers former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the story hideous position of asking her father for a job at the missionfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, 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 seemsrather spectacularly, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life will never be the same againsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>1662500181
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Jack McClure, aide and friend to the US president, Detective Sam Shepherd is back at work after approaching the death start of his daughter and the resolved kidnapping her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of President Carson's own daughter, Allian expectant woman in Dunedin. However, Jack hasn't fully recovered; he's still Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in mourning and full of self-recrimination but the show must go on. When an American senator is killed in Capri Jack's on hand to investigatehunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine and the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantic. Apparently not with all the President's closest advisors can be trusted and extra pressure that's not Jack's only complicationentails being pregnant herself. After AlliFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's traumatic experiences at t let the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person she trusts, so case go and shestarts to follow every thread to uncover what's coming along for the rideactually happening, through hell, high water and a few murdersthe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Thomas1787301036|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>}} {{newreviewJuly Knew|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (BritainWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's ally) retain most of mainland Europejust ten years old. 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 She'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlys a careful, meticulous child. The nation was saved care has been taught by warlocks like Lord Willher father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the same warlocks that are now being murdered. Howeverdeath of his wife, fighting overJuly's mother, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasnecessity of a Lesson. For Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the Nazi experimental injuries are visible. July'willpower' children are now adult s teacher is concerned and assembling in England, still equipped brings up the possibility of abuse with the super powers of their childhood. head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? This means Will and Pip The playground wouldn't have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are backbeen resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah0008454493|title=The CarrierAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Due to Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a delayed flight homeyear - well, Gaby has to stay overnight in apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenmoment. During It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night Lauren tells Gaby and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about a man charged with her relief in the murder of his paralysed wifemorning when she thought he was sleeping in. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him In that year she's done everything she could to be innocentraise awareness about the case. 2. He's Tim BrearyShe does interviews and when we meet her, Gabyshe's former lover with whom just been to TrueCrimeCon where she has unfinished businessgave a keynote presentation. Once home Gaby is determined to prove his innocence but thatOn the plane back, she's easier said approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than doneshe could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J E RyderJulia Bartz|title=Blood PoolThe Writing Retreat
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become Roza Vallo. Anyone in the owner world of a boatyard when publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her husband died in a cliff fall. She had worked in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - for quite some time but it's the men something of the Shelley 'blood pool' who have always inherited the land for the past two hundred years. She was aware a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of ill-feeling against works that started with her in the villagebreakthrough novel, but her priority published when she was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself and for the staff she employedbarely out of childhood. There was some support in the village Alex, a writer-slash- an old friendeditor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, known to one and all as 'the Prof' - had always been there for her and willing to listen is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstancesmonth-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn1800465270|title=Gone GirlThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=There’s When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a distressing moment in any longpallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-term relationship where you realise thatrelated. Valeri and Timur's father, in practiceKeto, happily ever after looks is also a lot like an eternity 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 smallmonths, snarling arguments about who forgot his obsession will have cost him his marriage to buy foodMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, who should take out the rubbish a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner of the bedroom. Domestic bliss is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want she's less concerned than she ought to spend the rest of their lives fighting be about ither own safety. You and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you are To her, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break downhe's a good source. You aren’t them For him, and they aren’t youit's a way to get information published, and so you can never truly know what’s really going on inside that well-known headwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>
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