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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Then Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We Take Berlindon't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=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}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=John LawtonFelix Francis

|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarThirty-era thriller? Especially one that also covers four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the already saturated Second World War years? Well yescolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, if the thriller in question is John Lawtonchairman, hadn's new offeringt arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Then We Take BerlinMitch'Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Despite sounding like a chant from a mob Jennings was in one of England football fans rampaging through Germany the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the 1980shorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John 'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness to all of his female acquantanceshorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Rice1405951680|title=The Heavens RiseSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she wants him as much as he obsesses about was gently nudged into it by her. He's certain until friend, Rupert) to caretake a late night struggle luxury property in her family's swimming pool disavows him the Australian outback for a couple of the ideamonths. However they arenAfter the problems she't alone in d had at work, it seemed like just the waterbreak she needed. Something unwelcome She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities and their futuresin need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Fast forward through A few weeks in the years and Marshall is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around him. And Niquette? She's missing along with Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the rest of her familyticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=Warm BodiesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Isaac MarionCaro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more In the village of Cronchie on the power West coast of thought than most, and JulieScotland, five members of a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about otherswealthy family are found murdered. In short, R has far more humanity than The only item missing from the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of home is the traits Devil Stone: myth says that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than if the human race itselfstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Two other characters The only suspects are important to this storylineknown Satanists but in many ways, ''M'', Rthat's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or an easy conclusion given that two of finishing it. I couldnthem 'discovered't with this onethe body. I loved this book, The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but I did feel dissatisfied with the endingwhen he disappears, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isnshadow't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever readhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The AbominationLast Person in the World|author=Jonathan HoltMatthew Tree

|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo of Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the Italian Carabinieri police force, Holly Boland, London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a Second Lieutenant in the US Army boarder and Daniele Barbo had money to throw around on a reclusive web expert Rolex watch, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events that become more vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more entwinedthan acquaintances. Their collective probing uncovers Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a massive conspiracy and seems to implicate the US Armyplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the Catholic Church and the Italian MafiaUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best not he took up a loose invitation to rile visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in any way, as the three characters are quick to discoverWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185369X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A P McCoyDean Koontz|title=Taking The House at the End of the FallWorld|rating=3.54

|summary=Back 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 the nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was a promising conditional jockey - a talented rider who should never have been short small chain of a ride, but he was struggling, probably because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shuttiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. HeThat'd been taught everything he knew by his father, Charlie, a trainer whose reputation s what Katie thought she was ruined doing when personal rivalries got out of hand. He hasn't been able she shut down her old life to set foot start afresh on a racecourse since. His sonJacob's determined to beat Ladder; and all would have been the top jockeys aforementioned peace and to bring down solitude were it not for the men responsible for what happened to his fatherpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but can he do both or will he have to make some hard choices?the 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>1409129578</amazonuk>1662453159

  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Bronze GodsThe Trap|author=A A AguireCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=One It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering 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 new worlds night bus that will only go as far as one of the authors have createdoutlying villages. Where is The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are light of 'the customsmissing women'. For one young woman, et cetera, et ceterathe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating She had intended to ring someone to come and steampunk mixed with fantasy is collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the double hitbus driver to let her use his. Throw There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings of a really good timehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexa Camouro1529195977|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5

|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a complicated life crowd of friends in Hamburgthe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She juggles , too, was out celebrating her live-in45th birthday, ambitiousonly she was just with her husband, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employeesWalter. But however complicated It turns out that seemsnot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, itthey were both born in St Mary's about to get worsehospital. The police come for That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the early hoursmidst of a joyful, although itmonied group of friends and whilst they's re not till she's ensconced in the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged with espionage and murderexactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. The problem is complex but Josie, on the answer is simple: she must escape other hand, holds her handbag close to prove her innocence. Having said tummy and you get the sense that, Walter'simple' is a relative terms not too happy. From the language school for which she works He's not used to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping up, nothing spending this much money on a meal - but it is what it seems, including Dixon GraceJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The Excalibur CodexTin Soldiers|author=James DouglasDavid Chadwick|rating=34.5

|summary=Jamie Saintclair is an expert Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in tracing works of arts. But he has just as much Vietnam under something of a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art workcloud. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refuse. A chance to find the legendary sword of ArthurWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but he won't be dealing with knights or chivalry in this adventure, instead he will come up against the very worst an act of human nature. This book will take him on heroism leading to a quest beginning in one of humanity's darkest chapters, the rise of Nazi Germany. The evil perpetuated in this era will be mirrored rare battlefield commission followed by modern men who are prepared rank cowardice and disgrace seems to plunge be the world into darkness once again, this time in the name of British purityconsensus. Although the sword Wat himself is associated with supernatural powers, there will be nothing supernatural in the evil Jamie faces, only the unbridled hatred and lust for power that comes so naturally keeping his cards close to some menhis chest, 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 wellhe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=Hell to PayA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Jenny ThomsonA J Lewis|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Nancy When we first meet our hero, his name is trying to escape a naff Christmas with her naff boyfriendEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, but walks into it's a nightmare bordello and Ettore's mother died when she interrupts a burglary at her parentshe was born. He' home – a professionals not been short of mothers, violent, nay fatal, burglary. When she comes out though - but for someone of a therapeutic stay his background in an institute afterwardslate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, sheit's seeking one thing – revengedifficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Her brother Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and his rap sheet might have something to do with those responsible, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against hervisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=The Shanghai FactorComing to Find You|author=Charles McCarryJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and attempt her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to blend as best he can into Shanghai societylive with what happened for the rest of her life. A chance meeting results in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) inherited five million pounds from her mother - and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable to both papers are making the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming a pawn in a high stakes game most of chess between two powerful it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and paranoid nations''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=High RollersThe Fall|author=Jack BowmanGilly Macmillan|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Patrick is a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the best there iscounty fair before she returned home. He has more than ruffled a few feathers and is suspended from working There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on cases. Despite this the largest case state-of his career is forced upon him when -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting been in many fatalitiesthe architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Tom recognises Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a possible link between the two ten-million-pound lottery win and potentially many more airplanesthey were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracywound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda HowardAlan Parks|title=Shadow WomanTo Die in June

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Prelude: What first seems like the President unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the United States streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the First Lady are on what more so because his own father is not being called a campaign tourdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. It is. It At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is most definitely also dealing with a re-election campaign; it's just not supposed move to be. They retire to their suite for the nighta different police station, and the protection detail arrival there of the Secret Service are looking forward to a shift change at woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the end of a long dayboy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1529382823|title=A Crack in the WallThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean

|summary=Pablo Simó Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is an architect middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on the verge of a mid life crisiscruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. His work Caz's sister, Gemma, marriage and general life reckons that Pete is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him going to ponder over the attractions of propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationshipsuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. When They've not been a young girl enters couple for that long and the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jara, the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know hima bit better. He was involved in a claim that one of the practice Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's projects caused a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved is something all three of them would rather forgetcafe as well as their mother who has dementia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk> It's going to be good, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona McIntoshMark Edwards|title=The Lavender KeeperKeep Her Secret

|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the Maquis (a rural guerrilla wing of lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the French Resistance) perfect photograph to avenge encapsulate the death of his adoptive Jewish family. Meanwhile joy she is feeling in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester is recruited by this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the Special Operations Executive (SOE), edge of a group ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to send vital information back to the homelandcertain death below. Their paths will cross as Lisette Convinced she is sent into France with going to die, Helena must purge herself of the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilianshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. The mission Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is clear cut on paper, but life can be messier than any plan can predictleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Urban Jenny Lund Madsen and Katy Derbyshire Megan E Turney (Translatortranslator)|title=Plan DThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=October 2011 and the Berlin wall is still intactHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Inspector Martin Wegener Sorry to 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 East German Peopleworld of crime fiction, saying he's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious ex-lover Karolina populist trash and workonly writing what anyone could write. On this particular day 'work' is a body found hanging from Cue the GDR section of gas pipeline bet that joins Russian she cannot live up to Europethat accusation. Not only Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is he hanging, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: put up for a Stasi trademarkwintry month away from it all. Who is he Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and theylack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady're sending a West Berlin detective in to help him find them; not the best start to a day.s nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones0861544056|title=The String DiariesTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off in the centre of London. JulieBelle and David's first thought is to reach her daughter, waiting twin daughters are just coming to be collected from school within the danger zone, 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 end of strangers, some of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hersfirst term at university. Also sheltering in the salon are the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anya, a beautician/call girl Kit's been at Bristol and her Chechen client, Safia, a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is Jess's in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and an American gentlemanExeter. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of black Caribbean descenttime - but they've also been apart from each other. It seems Belle can't wait to have them all to be herself for a regular United Nations in the salonwhile. As a Doctor, Julie maintains Then Kit rings up - can she bring her calm and does boyfriend home with her best her to help, and the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act of nobility at one point, ? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but tensions flare in the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins doesn't want to show signs of radiation poisoningupset Kit. After the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are Julie Ivo's apparently 'older': he's estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MItwenty-5 agent and finally a pair of terrorists connected four to the first attack, and planning Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jaysonbedroom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter WalkerRobert Dugoni|title=Crime of PrivilegeHer Deadly Game|rating=45

|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest at a party in Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the Cape Cod home life's work of Senator Gregory, patriarch of AmericaPatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler's most loved and influential family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with due to his sister but reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances 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 protestdefence of his clients. It was only George's intervention which prevented the assault becoming more violent. But Along with an indisputable talent for the young woman, Kendrick Powelllaw, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the rape latter was devastating and before long she was deadbeginning to overshadow the former. She too was the child of an influential Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy 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 proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Cape Cod DA's office. It might seem that the matter was closed - but the Powell family were determined that George would suffer hideous position of asking her father for not having spoken out against a job at the Gregory familyfirm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherVanda Symon|title=PenitenceExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5

|summary=Phil Davis Detective Sam Shepherd is a detective in a small town in Texas and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees approaching the body start of an elderly road accident victim whose back her maternity leave when there is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decades. There's no suggestion that the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts to wonder when he hears a brutal, shocking murder of other men with similar scars who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recentlyexpectant woman in Dunedin. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the big beasts of the agency who's spending time looking into hunt for a murder killer targeting pregnant women, with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlierall the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. To cap it allFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, someone was tried for she just can't let the crime case go and has been in a mental institution sinceshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, so and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what is Valdez doing?might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1787301036|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45

|summary=Ellen Martin is When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a drivingcareful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, ambitious US lawyerMick Hooper, so when her boss sends her who is not prepared to discuss the Colombian town death of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for shorthis wife, July's mother, mercifully) for and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a touch of charity work it would be career threatening to protest too stronglyLesson. Besides it only amounts Other infractions of his requirements also lead to getting someone out of prison. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that therethese Lessons and he's more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself to not even careful about whether or not the listinjuries are visible. Luckily for her Barranca July's teacher is also concerned and brings up the home possibility of abuse with the head but her personal trainer's nephew and, luckier stillworries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he has a housemate called Alex. not? Indeed during EllenThe playground wouldn's stay Alex is going to be more than useful. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going to be indispensablet have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya0008454493|title=The WatchAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Nizam pushes Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a barrow up to year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a fortified US army base in Afghanistanmoment. What It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she doing there? thought he was sleeping in. How will In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the soldiers react? case. What do they believe: their experienceShe does interviews and when we meet her, their trainingshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, their gut reaction or she's approached by a young girl amputee in the middle of the desert podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who may be the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Beukes1848458436|title=The Shining GirlsJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=54

|summary=As ''The Shining Girls''’ tagline sayswhole thing has spiralled out of control, this is a thriller that breaks all the boundaries. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. turning into someone I haven’t read anything like it before, and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight'm not. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading ''The Shining Girls'', you won’t be for long. This book sets out to cut you up inside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Robert Wilton|title=Traitor's Field|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's 1648 and Just the embers of Charles INicest Couple''s reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns is the monotone colour story of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealthtwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. However, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, The connection between the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny two is that Lily and Survey, to gather Nina teach in the intelligence, maintain his spy network same school: Nina teaches English and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which he longsLily covers high school algebra. HeThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among the confusion regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and brutality that tears Britain Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in halfcommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, former lawyer Cromwellbut she's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the taskknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula DalyJulia Bartz|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?The Writing Retreat|rating=54

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the typical Mumname. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's got something of a husband and three children and she's permanently tired. Her full-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her home life and breakthrough novel, published when she's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with what she ought to have donewas barely out of childhood. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and they can only just manage to afford the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake district. It's normally pretty crime free but then Alex, a young girl writer- really only a child slash- editor, is abducted more than a little obsessed with Roza, and brutally raped. Then another girl is stunned when, following a series of about the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for her safety. What do you sayunexpected events, what do you do in that situation? Lisa she is about invited to find outbe part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1800465270|title=A Delicate TruthThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5

|summary=ItWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's 2008 June 1995 and Paul is recruited by, apparently, he's at the government to assist Serafimov Cemetry in an undercover operation in GibraltarSt Petersburg. ItHe's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell of Al Qaedapallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Paul performsValeri and Timur's father, Keto, is thanked also a pallbearer and taken home without complicationshe's disgusted by what his son had become. Fast forward Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to 2011 make his own stand against organised crime and Toby Bell is promoted to the role of private secretary for Paulavenge Timur's recruiterdeath. Within a matter of months, MP Fergus Quinnhis obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Whilst acquainting himself with QuinnShe's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's CV, Toby uncovers the story of the missionless concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, discovering not only Quinnhe's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all thata good source. Quinn also appears to have been connected with an organisation thatFor him, it's not all it seemsa way to get information published, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life will never which wouldn't otherwise be the same againpossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Gerald Wixey|title=4 Bones Sleeping|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=There's quite a contrast between the settings in ''4 Bones Sleeping''. To begin with there's the time. Just about everything that happens goes back Move on to the end of the Second World War and just afterwards, when people were coming to terms with having won the war, but not quite knowing what to do with the peace. Then there's 1980 when we wondered if we'd won the war, but lost the peace. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the post-war years, but what are they all doing in a one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? And where did the money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper and make Harry the landlord of the pub?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]