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|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for MacDonald's he'd a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be sacked for ineptitudea cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Unfortunately for Anjali is the nation he cost thousands free spirit of pounds more to train than your average burgerthe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-flipper so hefuelled party and it's off going to Section 37 insteadend in tragedy. The SectionWe don's label mentions anti-terrorism but, as his former boss told Toby ''If t know who suffered the security service is tragedy or the circus, then Section 37 us where we keep the clownsconsequences.'' Meanwhile Twenty-five years later there will be an old school Russian spy is coming to eerily similar event that will impact the UK with enough power to destroy Londonthree friends. This may only be Tobytime, it's first job for 37 and will include a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry StiastnyCody Goodfellow|title=Acts of OmissionVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas was a recently-appointed minister in the Foreign Office, determined to do his best, but not yet long enough in the job to have abandoned his principles and beliefs. ItThere's these something about tall buildings that are tested when just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a disc containing good view from up high, after all? Even the names of British informants drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to the Stasi has fallen into government hands. Understandably the Germans want the information back so that they can complete their opening up of the Stasiget inside if it's archive40 stories tall. Lucas believes that the Germans should be accommodated on So when I picked up this: he book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was elected on a platform of transparency and openness - handing the information back seems right to him - but there are those within the government, both politicians and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happeninstantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=A Kill in the MorningNo Reserve|author=Graeme ShimminFelix Francis

|summary=The Nazis are amongst Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the most infamous group that has ever walked rostrum when the planet. They may have been evilcolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but there was something pantomime about them that has made them Peter Radway, the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films and pulp fictionchairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To enjoy these you have to disengage yourself from say that he was shocked when the history 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 see Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the Nazis of fiction as separate from those of real liferacing industry. Can I enjoy a book like ''A Kill Jennings was in one of the Morning'' set cubicles in an alternative 1950s were the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe toilets when the two men came in and are building an ultimate weapon? their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. Can a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich and change The following morning, the tide of history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>horse was dead in its stall.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson1405951680|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierSafe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=Germany may be defeated as Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the embers of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making the most Australian outback for a couple of itmonths. His trade in black market goods and casual private investigation After the problems she'd had at work augment , it seemed like just the meagre rations for him and his dying fatherbreak she needed. When She was no longer a woman asks him data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to find a missing British airman he refuses – it's not really his line. She blackmails Kasper the country of her birth and still he refuses but then in need of the note arrives:''This is bigger than you. You don't have a choicespace to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Queers still die A few weeks in Berlin. Find the pilot.'' It seems that he's been seen with another man and now he has a decision to make that will either cost or save his lifeOtway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The ProfessionalsDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Owen LaukkanenCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=The professional criminal is In the village of Cronchie on the type West coast of person who gets inScotland, does the job and then gets out againfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Sounds like The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the perfect way to stay undetected as a lifelong miscreantstone is removed from Otterburn House, but does not sound like the most exciting narrative for a storydeath will follow. Instead, take a bunch of young kidnappers who The only suspects are drunk on their own successknown Satanists but in many ways, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up the wrong mark. Watching their lives spiral out that's an easy conclusion given that two of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like them 'discovered'the body. The ProfessionalsSenior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow'him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Axeman's JazzLast Person in the World|author= Ray CelestinMatthew Tree

|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Based Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a true story Rolex watch, ''The Axeman's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut novel. It tells vintage wines and a state-of a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 - the Axeman - who torments the city art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no meaningful leads are presenting themselvesintention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to despair of ever catching the killervisit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsDean Koontz|title=Voyage into LimboThe House at the End of the World|rating=4.5

|summary=Colwyn YeatsWhen you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, veteran 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 war map and live out your days in Afghanistan peace and top-class sailor found himself at a loose end over the summer monthssolitude. A planned research trip fell through when heThat'd already rented out his apartment. It ''seemed'' fortuitous s what Katie thought she was doing when an acquaintance approached him she shut down her old life to skipper himself start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and two friends across all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the Atlanticpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in aid the name of a charity. Yeats had his doubts when he realised that his 'crew' weren't kitted out for the trip (flip flops? I mean, ''honestly''!), they didn't appear to get on with each other particularly well science and despite what he'd been told they didn't seem to know much quite possibly bringing about sailingthe end of all mankind. But - it was only a few weeks, when he'd nothing else to do, wasn't it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00JWQVET4</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1787636607|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Connell OIt'Keeffe looked 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 be settledget home. His stud was prosperingSome are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. He was deeply, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite Others squash onto the loss night bus that will only go as far as one of his arm some years before which had put an end to his acting career, life was goodthe outlying villages. Then one morning MorganThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', his manservant brought bad news before he was even out particularly in the light of bed'the missing women'. Khayri, For one of his brood maresyoung woman, was missing from the final stop on the bus leaves her stable and there was a ransom demandlong way short of her home. Reluctant She had intended to lose the mare - or ring someone to be beaten come and collect her - Obut her phone'Keeffe and Morgan set s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to retrieve Khayri, hoping beg the bus driver to be back that night, or - at the worst - the next daylet her use his. Little did OThere'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw his home agains no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529195977|title=Children None of War: A Bruno Courreges Thrillerthis is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help just On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a few hours before his tortured and mutilated body was found crowd of friends in the woodsLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, but despite his being a policeman the Brigadier didnthey were both born in St Mary't see the case as a prioritys hospital. He sees That's where the wider picturesimilarities end, though: Alix, whilst Bruno is only with her husband, Nathan, are in the chief midst of police in a small French country townjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. A young Muslim by Josie, on the name of Sami has turned up at a French army base in Afghanistan other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and heyou get the sense that Walter's keen not too happy. He's not used to get home to St Denis and although spending this much money on a meal - but itis Josie's possible to smuggle him back into the country, the FBI are not far behind him. It seems that Sami has been involved in bomb making in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible for the deaths of soldiers of birthday after all nationalities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairTin Soldiers|author=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Confession - when I chose to review this book, I had no idea it had made such huge waves worldwide. I chose it because I hadn’t read a thriller for a while and this looked like Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a good onecloud. Before the book arrived, I heard all What actually happened out there is gossiped about it – and it was just as well as I had heard so much positivitynobody is sure exactly what took place, as I also hadn’t realised it was such but an act of heroism leading to a hefty tomerare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomesWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, but experience has taught me that they don’t as he always justify themselves)does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin KellyB0C7J9D21B|title=The Ties That BindA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis

|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=When writer Luke falls in love with Jeremywe first meet our hero, the fact that Jem (to his friends) offers to support Luke, allowing him to write a book, name is a bonusEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. As soon Idyllic as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years agothis might sound, the bookit's a bordello and Ettore's subject is assuredmother died when he was born. However both the subject matter and JemHe's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's endless support will present Luke difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with problems (the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a little danger) that he couldn't have foreseenguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell0241996104|title=VortexComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Andy DuncanNancy's mother and step-father offered him the money to travel the world for a yearwere brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, but first he must do a three-month internship with Berwick ArcherMartin, an investment company based in Hong Konghas been convicted of their murder. It would be decent experience to put on his CVWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. But when Andy got to Berwick Archer he liked what he saw The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - and stayed. Before long he was second in command at the firmshe's new Bangkok office and had a talent not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for what he didthe rest of her life. There was even a girlfriendOf course, Caroline Chan, who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from hermother - and the papers are making the most of it. Caroline was a dealer, ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but not in a big way - although she was well connected to a very influential businessmanis undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead Crowley1529135389|title=Can Anybody Help Me?The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parentsNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. However, as they've only recently moved to Gerry's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the lack state-of a support network-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. This all changes when she turns to Mammynet, a webThey'd not been in the architect-based online forum and chat room designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for new long and soon-were still getting used toall the high-be mumstech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It works had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too - Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then the friend disappears without warning. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the murder of swimming pool with a young womanwound to his head. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AbductionAlan Parks|authortitle=Jonathan HoltTo Die in June

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The teenage daughter What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a US Army Major homeless man on the 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 more so because his own father is kidnapped when off basecamp at a Venetian nightclubdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. She At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is abducted by also dealing with a move to a masked team during different police station, and the carnevale celebrationsarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, when people only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hidden. Everything about just with the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little in woman’s story but also with the way of clues apart from the very fact that it other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is carried out with such military precision.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=SoloThe Last Passenger|author=William BoydWill Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=Like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, or even the characters from the Bible, James Bond Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is no longer just the property of its original authormiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Ian Fleming may have had the imagination They're off on a cruise to create BondNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but since Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'Casino Royalet know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They' rolled onto the scene Bond has ve not been a changing man who mimics couple for that long and the times he currently finds himself intrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. William Boyd’s Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It'Solo'' reverts back s going to Fleming’s original timeline and continues the story of that Bondbe good, but is this a reflection of the past or todayisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire KendalMark Edwards|title=The Book of YouKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Clarissa Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-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 38feeling in this moment, secretary to even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a university department head ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just emerging from the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a broken relationship500 foot drop to certain death below. Rafe also works for Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the universityshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants himcryptic declaration to Matthew. He's absolutely certain she doesJust moments later their heroic, no matter how vehemently she denies itand frankly very well prepared, no matter how fast she runsIcelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atlantis GeneJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=AG RiddleThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=Thrillers|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is on the tail Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a large terrorist organisation. He's been after them since 9/11book fair, but she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the huge scope world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the organisation makes them difficult bet that she cannot live up to pin down or predictthat accusation. His only leads are Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a few cryptic messages wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the 1940s people and research scientist Dr Kate Warnerthe lack of stimulus for her plot, who more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has become intricately connected with the terrorists without knowing it.been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hamdy0861544056|title=PhaseTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=ItBelle and David's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life twin daughters are just coming to finding his daughter and the people who abducted herend of their first term at university. ItKit's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job been at Bristol and - Jess's in all probability - his sanityExeter. HeIt's reached not only the stage where first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - far but they've also been apart from moving on - letting go is not an option and many of his actions are irrationaleach other. If any part of this Belle can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who t wait to have become involved them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with cultsher? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to AmberKit's abductioneighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Love Like BloodRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=One day towards Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the end life's work of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to a museum his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeclients. While the other looks at Along with an indisputable talent for the unusual ancient artefactslaw, Jackson finds something much more horrific – Patsy also has a man in a wartime bunker in gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her necklineformer. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical careerEnter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds the same man herself in the company hideous position of someone whoasking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, were he only aware of the factrather spectacularly, is to become the first and possibly only love of his lifesouth. But that's not the only time the paths of Jackson and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz NugentVanda Symon|title=Unravelling OliverExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Oliver had expected more Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a reaction the first time that he hit Alicebrutal, but shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she just lay on finds herself embroiled in the floor holding her jaw. He was stunned that he could do this to his wifehunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, but later that evening he returned and beat her so viciously with all the extra pressure that she lapsed into a comaentails being pregnant herself. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was the man otherwise known as Vincent DaxFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, famous writer of childrenshe just can's books and he t let the case go and Alice (shestarts to follow every thread to uncover what'd illustrated the books) had lived a life of ease s actually happening, and privilege. In the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells the story increasingly disturbing worry of just what had happened over the last five decades and how this had led to his becoming a monstermight happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1787301036|title=The Madness of What JulyKnew|author=Emily Koch|rating=4.5

|summary=A dead body is found in a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard When we first meet July Hooper on a hot 1970s summer day20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. A sinister enough event normally but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsShe's a careful, meticulous child. The fact care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the deceased has Willdeath of his wife, July's phone number in his pocket triggers mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a series Lesson. Other infractions of events that not only tests his loyalty requirements also lead to work, country these Lessons and family but will take Will from he's not even careful about whether or not the everyday political cut injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and thrust brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to his old job. the school, has he not? The job he hoped heplayground wouldn'd walked away from: spyingt have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan0008454493|title=A Pleasure and a CallingAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it right. He owns a successful estate agency and yet isnIsabelle Drake hasn't too noticeablereally slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. HeIt's helpfulnow a year since her son, Mason, but not was stolen from his bed in a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the way morning when she thought he likes it, living a life that assists societywas sleeping in. Take the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dogIn that year she's leavings for instancedone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. ItShe does interviews and when we meet her, she's ok – Heming didn't break injust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. He already has the key as he once sold On the house. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually keptplane back, you wonder? The answershe's easy: all of themapproached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Jawbone LakeJust the Nicest Couple|author=Ray RobinsonMary Kubica

|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty on her plate and New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by the pursuer. ''The victim whole thing has spiralled out of the crash was a larger than life man called CJ and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event and attempts to rediscover who his father wascontrol, turning into someone I'm not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Atheist's Prayer|author=Amy R Biddle|rating=3'Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in fact [[:Categorythe same school:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors Nina teaches English and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themLily covers high school algebra. On the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayercouples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don' would seem to be courting controversy; why else t have such a provocative title? much in common except their wives. ButLily hasn't said anything yet, is it really that shocking? Nopebut she's pregnant. This is She has a story about how people deal with lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No Regrets, CoyoteJulia Bartz|authortitle=John DufresneThe Writing Retreat

|summary=You may or may not be aware that there is a style known as the South Florida NoirRoza Vallo. The action tends to take place in daylight, Anyone in the glare world of publishing knows the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleywaysname. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. If you’re not familiar She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with South Florida Noirher breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, ''No Regretsa writer-slash-editor, Coyote'' is more than a good place to start. And if you arelittle obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, wellfollowing a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be assured that it is a perfectly crafted example part of the genreher month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Parker1800465270|title=The Baby and the BrandyLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken heMajor Valeri Grozky, it's a free man, but itJune 1995 and he's at the first time Serafimov Cemetry in many long monthsSt Petersburg. Twenty minutes before he had escaped from HMP ManchesterHe's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, better known to many people as Strangewayswhose death was drug-related. He had been an army captain but heValeri and Timur'd been forced into s father, Keto, is also a situation where pallbearer and he felt that 's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he had no option but 's determined to act make his own stand against the law organised crime and this resulted in his dishonourable discharge and the prison sentenceavenge Timur's death. It did nothing for Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his relationship marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with his parents eitherNatassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Right now heShe's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's not got that many people he can call friends but less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's buoyed by a feeling of patriotismgood source. For him, despite whatit's happened a way to himget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Then We Take Berlin|author=John Lawton|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Do we really need another Cold War-era thriller? Especially one that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yes, if the thriller in question is John Lawton's new offering, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like a chant from a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany in the 1980s, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John 'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness Move on to all of his female acquantances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]