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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas1399613073|title=Your Beautiful LiesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: 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. Annie Howarth comes from Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a mining family and is married bonus when you aim to William, be a police superintendentcardiothoracic surgeon. Although she Laura is a perfectionist and their daughter have all the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life a trauma doctor. Anjali is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides free spirit of the dividegroup and she becomes a GP. It's either an illegal strike or assertion of rights depending on the side youWhen we first meet them they're on but unfortunately Annie isnat a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it't permitted s going to chooseend in tragedy. However this is only We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the start of her problemsconsequences. Tom Greenwood, a former boyfriend, is back on Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the streets after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished businessthree friends. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with herThis time, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifeit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ShemiltSunny Singh|title=DaughterHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jenny The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a busy life – GPterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, wife of Tedthere is Sam, a successful surgeonwartime photographer and Abhi, mother the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to twin teenage lads Ed and Theo and a teenage daughter (Naomi) try to name but some of care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the roles. Now she tells herself that she should have realised Naomi's mood swings and higher heels signified more than hotel, he forms a phase. If she hadbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Jenny may have prevented and keeps on venturing out of her beloved childroom to try to capture what's disappearance; at least looking back on it that's what she tells herselfhappened through her photography. As Although they only ever talk over the police investigatephone, Jenny their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and her remaining family have they both wait to come to terms with not only what has happened, but what it reveals about each of themsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405915293</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ResearchCody Goodfellow|authortitle=Philip KerrVertical
|rating=3.5
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|summary=John Houston is a multimillionaire with a beautiful wife, There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a number of mistresses, countless extravagances and an apartment in Monacogood view from up high, for tax reasons. He made his fortune by creating a formula for a series of best-selling novels designed specifically to appeal to the average man on the street. John has a team of four ghost-writers to do after all ? Even the writing, meaning that he can produce an average of six bestsellers per year. John calls his group of ghost-writers his drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it'atelier', his ‘workshop’, perfectly reflecting his views of thems 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782065776</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams1804183210|title=The Rain-Soaked BrideNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=The last thing that Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman in whitechairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dryTo say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? All also happen to be in top government jobsTwo men had been bidding against each other. WhatBrian Kitman and Elliot 's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the form of August Shining and Toby Greene) is there to find outracing industry. This may not be Jennings was in one of the full extent of cubicles in the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to toilets when the UK for talks two men came in and August's sister April wanting their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to get that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in on place. The following morning, the acthorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Phoenix YearSafe House|author=David L BlondCameron Ward|rating=34
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|summary=I Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was really looking forward gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to reading this, marketed as caretake a thriller that spans luxury property in the globe and centres on richAustralian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, powerful individuals trying to change it seemed like just the worldbreak she needed. The cover is reminiscent of She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the opening titles country of ''House her birth and in need of Cards'' and ''Damages'' and the fact that each chapter bears a title was appealing space to me as wellget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908959282</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams1448309743|title=The Clown ServiceDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonald's he'd be sacked for ineptitude. Unfortunately for In the village of Cronchie on the nation he cost thousands West coast of Scotland, five members of pounds more to train than your average burger-flipper so he's off to Section 37 insteada wealthy family are found murdered. The Section's label mentions anti-terrorism but, as his former boss told Toby ''If only item missing from the security service home is the circus, then Section 37 us where we keep Devil Stone: myth says that if the clowns.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy stone is coming to the UK with enough power to destroy Londonremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. This may The only be Tobysuspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's first job for 37 and will include a touch an easy conclusion given that two of astral projection them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry StiastnyB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Acts of OmissionThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas Our narrator was a recentlyscholarship day boy at the London-appointed minister in the Foreign Office, determined based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to do his bestthrow around on a Rolex watch, but not yet long enough in the job to have abandoned his principles vintage wines and beliefs. It's these that are tested when a disc containing the names state-of British informants to -the Stasi has fallen into government hands-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Understandably the Germans want the information back so that they can complete their opening up Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the StasiUK's archivethird most prestigious university. Lucas believes that the Germans should be accommodated on this: Before going up, he was elected on took up a platform of transparency and openness - handing the information back seems right loose invitation to him - but there are those within the governmentvisit Ralph at his home, both politicians and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happenClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kill in the MorningDean Koontz|authortitle=Graeme ShimminThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The Nazis are amongst the most infamous group When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that has ever walked the planet. They may have been evilthere is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, but there was something pantomime about them that has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films saddle up and pulp fiction. To enjoy these ride on or you have can retreat to disengage yourself from your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the history map and see the Nazis of fiction as separate from those of real lifelive out your days in peace and solitude. Can I enjoy a book like That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob'A Kill in s Ladder; and all would have been the Morning'' set in an alternative 1950s aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe neighbouring island and are building an ultimate weapon? Can a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and change quite possibly bringing about the tide end of history?all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson1787636607|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierTrap|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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529195977
|title=None of this is True
|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Germany may be defeated as the embers On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making friends in the most of itLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. His trade 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, they were both born in black market goods and casual private investigation work augment the meagre rations for him and his dying fatherSt Mary's hospital. When a woman asks him to find a missing British airman he refuses – itThat's not really his line. She blackmails Kasper and still he refuses but then where the note arrivessimilarities end, though:Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not 'This is bigger than you. You don't have a choiceexactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Queers still die in Berlin. Find Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the pilotsense that Walter's not too happy.'' It seems that heHe's been seen with another man and now he has not used to spending this much money on a decision to make that will either cost or save his lifemeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The ProfessionalsTin Soldiers|author=Owen LaukkanenDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The professional criminal Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is the type gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of person who gets in, does heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the job and then gets out againconsensus. Sounds like the perfect way Wat himself is keeping his cards close to stay undetected his chest, as a lifelong miscreant, but he always does not sound like the most exciting narrative for a story. Instead, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own success, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up the wrong mark. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=The Axeman's JazzA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author= Ray CelestinA J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=Based on a true storyWhen we first meet our hero, ''his name is Ettore and he lives at The AxemanHouse of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's Jazza bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He' is scriptwriter Ray Celestins not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's debut noveldifficult to obtain decent employment. It tells The stint working with the preparation of a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - the Axeman and determined - who torments the city and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselves, was not long before he had a successful business as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin to despair of ever catching the killera guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins0241996104|title=Voyage into LimboComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Colwyn Yeats, veteran of the war in Afghanistan Nancy's mother and topstep-class sailor found himself father were brutally stabbed at a loose end over the summer monthstheir Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. A planned research trip fell through when he'd already rented out his apartmentWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. It The barrister tells her that she's received a 'seemedsilent sentence'- she' fortuitous when an acquaintance approached him s not been found guilty of anything but will have to skipper himself and two friends across live with what happened for the Atlantic, in aid rest of a charityher life. Yeats had his doubts when he realised that his Of course, it'crews made worse because Nancy' weren't kitted out for s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the trip (flip flops? most of it. I mean, ''honestlyFarmhouse slaughter daughter''!), they didn't appear to get on with each other particularly well is one favourite epithet and despite what he'd been told they didn't seem to know much about sailing. But - it was only a few weeks, when herich bitch'd nothing else to do, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JWQVET4</amazonuk>might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1529135389|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebFall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settledNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. His stud There was prosperingno sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. He was deeply, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and despite were still getting used to all the loss of his arm some years before which high-tech systems Tom had put an end to his acting career, life was goodinsisted upon. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out Some of bedthem fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was It had all come about through a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose the mare ten- or to be beaten million- O'Keeffe pound lottery win and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping they were still getting used to be back having that nightsort of money, or - at the worst - the next daytoo. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his home againhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerAlan Parks|title=Children of War: A Bruno Courreges ThrillerTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help just a few hours before his tortured and mutilated body was found in What first seems like the woodsunfortunate, but despite his being accidental death of a policeman homeless man on the Brigadier didn't see the case streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as a priorityanother body is discovered, and then another. He sees This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the wider picture, whilst Bruno more so because his own father is only the chief of police in a small French country towndown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. A young Muslim by At the name of Sami has turned up at same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a French army base in Afghanistan and he's keen move to get home to St Denis a different police station, and although it's possible to smuggle him back into the countryarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the FBI are not far behind himboy having existed can be found. It seems that Sami Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been involved in bomb making in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible for the deaths of soldiers of all nationalities.stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairLast Passenger|author=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)Will Dean|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Confession Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle- when I chose aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to review this bookNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, I had no idea it had made such huge waves worldwideGemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. I chose it because I hadn’t read They've not been a thriller couple for a while that long and this looked like the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a good onebit better. Before the book arrived Meanwhile, I heard all about it – and it was just Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as I had heard so much positivitytheir mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, as I also hadn’t realised isn't it was such a hefty tome. (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomes, but experience has taught me that they don’t always justify themselves).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin KellyMark Edwards|title=The Ties That BindKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When writer Luke falls Matthew and Helena are in love with JeremyIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the fact that Jem (lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to his friends) offers to support Lukeencapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, allowing him even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to write the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a book, is a bonus500 foot drop to certain death below. As soon as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years agoConvinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the book's subject is assuredshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. However both the subject matter Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and Jem's endless support will present Luke with problems (hauls Helena to safety and not a little danger) that Matthew is left wondering what he couldn't have foreseenjust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=VortexThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Andy Duncan's father offered him the money Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to travel the world leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a yearbook fair, but first he must do she flukes her way into a three-month internship public argument with Berwick Archerthe latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, an investment company based in Hong Kongsaying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. It would be decent experience Cue the bet that she cannot live up to put on his CVthat accusation. But when Andy got Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Berwick Archer he liked what he saw - and stayedIceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Before long he was second in command at Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the firm's new Bangkok office people and had a talent the lack of stimulus for what he did. There was even a girlfriendher plot, Caroline Chan, who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before her. Caroline was a dealer, but not in a big way - although she was well connected to a very influential businessman.or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead Crowley0861544056|title=Can Anybody Help Me?Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Yvonne Belle and Gerry David's twin daughters are proud new parentsjust coming to the end of their first term at university. However, as theyKit's been at Bristol and Jess've only recently moved to Gerrys in Exeter. It's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns not only the lack first time they've been away from their parents for any length of a support networktime - but they've also been apart from each other. This Belle can't wait to have them all changes when she turns to Mammynet, herself for a web-based online forum and chat room for new and soonwhile. Then Kit rings up -can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to-be mumsupset Kit. It works too Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty- Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend four to Kit's eighteen but then the friend disappears without warningBelle figures that she can cope with that. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of And they'll be sharing a young womanbedroom. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AbductionRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Jonathan HoltHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The teenage daughter Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of a US Army Major is kidnapped when off basecamp at a Venetian nightclubhis clients. She is abducted by Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a masked team during gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the carnevale celebrationsformer. Enter Keera Duggan, when people not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hidden. Everything about the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the way hideous position of clues apart from asking her father for a job at the very fact that it is carried out family firm because a romantic entanglement with such military precisiona senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SoloVanda Symon|authortitle=William BoydExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, or even Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the characters from the Biblestart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, James Bond is no longer just the property shocking murder of its original authoran expectant woman in Dunedin. Ian Fleming may have had Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the imagination to create Bondhunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, but since ''Casino Royale'' rolled onto with all the scene Bond has been a changing man who mimics the times he currently finds himself inextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. William Boyd’s Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what'Solo'' reverts back to Fleming’s original timeline s actually happening, and continues the story increasingly disturbing worry of that Bond, but is this a reflection of the past or today?just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal1787301036|title=The Book of YouWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Clarissa When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is 38not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, secretary and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a university department head and just emerging from a broken relationshipLesson. Rafe Other infractions of his requirements also works for lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the university, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants himinjuries are visible. HeJuly's absolutely certain she doesteacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runshas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=The Atlantis GeneAll the Dangerous Things|author=AG RiddleStacy Willingham|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is on Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the tail odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a large terrorist organisationmoment. He It's been after them now a year since 9/11her son, but Mason, was stolen from his bed in the huge scope middle of the organisation makes them difficult night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to pin down or predictraise awareness about the case. His only leads are She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a few cryptic messages from keynote presentation. On the 1940s and research scientist Dr Kate Warnerplane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who has become intricately connected with the terrorists without knowing itpoints 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>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Adam Hamdy1848458436|title=PhaseJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer 'The whole thing has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriagespiralled out of control, his relationship with his son, his job and - in all probability - his sanity. Heturning into someone I's reached the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is m not an option and many of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amber's abduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz NugentJulia Bartz|title=Unravelling OliverThe Writing Retreat|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Oliver had expected more Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of a reaction publishing knows the first time that he hit Alicename. Writers want to be her, but she just lay on the floor holding agents want to represent her jaw. He was stunned that he could do this to his wifeShe's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, but later back catalogue of works that evening he returned and beat started with her so viciously that breakthrough novel, published when she lapsed into was barely out of childhood. Alex, a coma. It was difficult to understand how this had happened writer-slash- this was the man otherwise known as Vincent Daxeditor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, famous writer of children's books and he and Alice (she'd illustrated the books) had lived is stunned when, following a life series of ease and privilege. In the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells the story unexpected events, she is invited to be part of what had happened over the last five decades and how this had led to his becoming a monsterher month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1800465270|title=The Madness of JulyLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A dead body is found When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer daypallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. A sinister enough event normally but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsValeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. The fact the deceased has WillValeri thinks differently: he's phone number in determined to make his pocket triggers own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a series matter of events that not only tests months, his loyalty obsession will have cost him his marriage to workMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, country a journalist. She's determined to expose any and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut all corruption - and thrust she's less concerned than she ought to his old jobbe about her own safety. The job he hoped To her, he'd walked away from: spyings a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>
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