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|summary=''Unmanned''Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the title first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Fesperman's latest thrillera century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, refers which is a bonus when you aim to the drones, the Predators, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a shed somewhere in Nevadatrauma doctor.  It also refers to Anjali is the state that those missions left Cole in, after one free spirit of them went badly wrongthe group and she becomes a GP. A poor callWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-down led fuelled party and it's going to a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the open running away, and a girl, not dead but woundedtragedy or the consequences. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the arm she would never use againthree friends. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long This time to follow, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusSunny Singh|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=Aidan Flood's life The Hotel Arcadia is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works at the local carnival and even heard a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that from someone elsehas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Life Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is just rubbish Sam, a wartime photographer and needs ending totallyAbhi, the hotel manager. This is something he almost manages As Abhi continues to try to accomplish as well if it wasn't care remotely for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact he's residents who are still alivein the hotel, he hears that Slaine McAuley, forms a girl he knows vaguelybond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, has killed herselfand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The Although they only thing is that Aidan knows she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and why does she choose they both wait to tell him, of all people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''see if they will'' find outbe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>086154742X

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas H CookCody Goodfellow|title=A Dancer in the DustVertical

|summary=A man There's something about tall buildings that risk management consultant Ray Campbell knew a lifetime ago is found dead on the streets of New Yorkjust captures my imagination. ItWho doesn's not just t love a good view from up high, after all? Even the fact that Ray knew him thatdrabbest office building is somewhere I's intriguing, m intrigued to get inside if it's where Ray knew him from: the African country of Lubanda where Ray once worked 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for an NGO. This death reminds him of another that happened out in Africa: that of a native Lubandan named Martine Aubert whom Ray loved and still loves. There must be a connection and Ray will investigate till he finds it, no matter what he finds or what he remembers along the wayfun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081655</amazonuk>1803363991

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Weston1804183210|title=The Piper|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNo Reserve|author=A D Garrett|title=Believe No OneFelix Francis|rating=54

|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick FennimoreThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, and English DCI Kate Simms are bothbut Peter Radway, the chairman, for various reasons in St Louishadn't arrived, just as Nick plannedso he continued his session. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in To say that he was shocked when the UK when Nick's wife was murdered and daughter kidnappedbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? In fact they were together the night they first went missing having a less than professional dinnerTwo men had been bidding against each other. NickBrian Kitman and Elliot 's daughter is still missing but while he follows new leads, he Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and Kate have other things to work onrespected in the racing industry. St Louis has a serial killer to contend with: Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the victims are all mothers two men came in and their children are taken at conversation revealed that the same timehorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try to make everyone else see themBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seenThe following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dai Henley1405951680|title=Blazing ObsessionThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=When our story starts we know that events are going to be cruel to James Hamilton. We might be envious of his high-end car businessJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, with multiple dealerships and (as we later find outRupert) to caretake a home luxury property in one the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she''nicer'' parts of Blackheathd had at work, but it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a couple of years down data analyst for the line he'll be visited Metropolitan police in his office by two policemen London: she was Jess who tell him that his holiday cottage went up in flames was returning to the previous night country of her birth and there are three bodies in need of the shell space to get over the traumatic end of the buildingher relationship with Charles. James won't believe that he's lost his wife, Lynne, stepson Georgie and daughter Emily. He was going to leave shortly to join them, so ''obviously'' there had been a mistake..A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620513</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Littlefield1448309743|title=The Moon PoolDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Comfortably off Colleen Mitchell is loath to let her 20 year old son go to North Dakota to work In the village of Cronchie on the oil rigs but he's made up his mindWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Unfortunately her worst nightmares begin to materialise when he vanishes soon after starting work. So, leaving her lawyer husband at The only item missing from the home, she follows her maternal instinct to where he was last seen. His big corporate employers and is the local police don’t seem Devil Stone: myth says that concernedif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. However, The only suspects are known Satanists but in her suffering there is another person who knows exactly how Colleen feels: Shaymany ways, the mother that's an easy conclusion given that two of another lad who went missing at them 'discovered' the same timebody. Hoping it The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow's not too late they join forces and start their own investigationhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856842</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Don't Stand So CloseThe Last Person in the World|author=Luana LewisMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=It’s cold outsideOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Dark It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Snow is falling Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. You Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK're safe insides third most prestigious university. Of course you areBefore going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, you've not left the house Clouds Manor in months. You're alone, but you feel safe inside. You do. It’s ok. You can do thisWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552169536</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Most Wanted ManDean Koontz|authortitle=John le CarreThe House at the End of the World

|summary=Melik When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a Turkish heavy-weight boxing champion. He lives with his widowed mother small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in Hamburg peace and they are both solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing their very best when she shut down her old life to keep below start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the radar. Since his father died they don’t even go to aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the mosque on a regular basis. But this particular weekend Leyla wants to go. Her daughterpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, still the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in Turkey, is getting married, the name of science and a special prayer seems to be in order. It is a visit that might well quite possibly bringing about the end up costing them the eight years good behaviour needed to finally get beyond their tolerated status to enable full German citizenshipof all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444769308</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Douglas1787636607|title=Your Beautiful LiesThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married to WilliamOn her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a police superintendentcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Although 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 their daughter have all the societal and financial status Josie birthday twins, they could need, Anniewere both born in St Mary's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides of the dividehospital. ItThat's either an illegal strike or assertion where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of rights depending on the side youa joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're on but unfortunately Annie isnnot ''exactly'' rowdy, they't permitted to choosere enjoying themselves. However this is only Josie, on the start of other hand, holds her handbag close to her problemstummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. Tom Greenwood, He's not used to spending this much money on a former boyfriend, meal - but it is back on the streets Josie's birthday after serving a prison sentence for manslaughter and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business is with her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifeall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shemilt1803136383|title=DaughterTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Jenny Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a busy life – GPcloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, wife but an act of Ted, heroism leading to a successful surgeon, mother to twin teenage lads Ed and Theo rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and a teenage daughter (Naomi) disgrace seems to name but some of be the roles. Now she tells herself that she should have realised Naomi's mood swings and higher heels signified more than a phase. If she had, Jenny may have prevented her beloved child's disappearance; at least looking back on it that's what she tells herselfconsensus. As the police investigate, Jenny and her remaining family have to come Wat himself is keeping his cards close to terms with not only what has happenedhis chest, but what it reveals about each of themas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405915293</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=ResearchA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Philip KerrA J Lewis|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=John Houston When we first meet our hero, his name is a multimillionaire with a beautiful wifeEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a number of mistresses, countless extravagances bordello and an apartment in Monaco, for tax reasonsEttore's mother died when he was born. He made his fortune by creating a formula 's not been short of mothers, though - but for a series someone of besthis background in late-eighteenth-selling novels designed specifically to appeal century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the average man preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on the streetfishing boats. John has a team of four ghost Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined -writers to do all the writing, meaning that and it was not long before he can produce an average of six bestsellers per yearhad a successful business as a guide for visitors. John calls his group of ghost-writers his ''atelier', his ‘workshop’, perfectly reflecting his views of them He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782065776</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams0241996104|title=The Rain-Soaked Bride|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The last thing that the afflicted people see before their death is a wet woman in white. The last thing they feel is their own personal rain cloud soaking them while everywhere else remains dry. All also happen to be in top government jobs. What's happening? British Intelligence Department 37 (in the form of August Shining and Toby Greene) is there Coming to find out. This may not be the full extent of the problems facing them though; not with a South Korean delegation coming to the UK for talks and August's sister April wanting to get in on the act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Phoenix YearFind You|author=David L BlondJane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=I was really looking forward to reading thisNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, marketed as a thriller that spans has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the globe and centres on richcourt, powerful individuals trying to change the worldafter Martin receives a life sentence. The cover is reminiscent barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the opening titles rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy'House s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of Cardsit. '' Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''Damagesrich bitch'' and the fact that each chapter bears a title was appealing to me as wellmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908959282</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams1529135389|title=The Clown ServiceFall|author=Gilly Macmillan

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=If British Secret Intelligence Service operative Toby Greene worked for MacDonald's he'd be sacked for ineptitudeNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. Unfortunately for There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the nation he cost thousands state-of pounds more to train than your average burger-flipper so hethe-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They's off d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to Section 37 insteadall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. The SectionSome of them fought with each other and didn's label mentions antit work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-terrorism but, as his former boss told Toby ''If the security service is the circuspound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, then Section 37 us where we keep the clownstoo.'' Meanwhile an old school Russian spy is coming to Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the UK swimming pool with enough power a wound to destroy Londonhis head. This may only be Toby's first job for 37 and will include a touch of astral projection but what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953154</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry StiastnyAlan Parks|title=Acts of OmissionTo Die in June

|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas was a recentlyCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-appointed minister aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in the Foreign Officelove with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, determined reckons that Pete is going to do his best, propose but not yet long enough Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the job to have abandoned his principles suit pocket and beliefsshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. ItThey's these ve not been a couple for that are tested when a disc containing long and the names of British informants trip will be an excellent opportunity to the Stasi has fallen into government handsget to know him a bit better. Understandably the Germans want the information back so that they can complete their opening up of the StasiMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's archivecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Lucas believes that the Germans should It's going to be accommodated on this: he was elected on a platform of transparency and openness - handing the information back seems right to him - but there are those within the governmentgood, both politicians and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kill in the MorningMark Edwards|authortitle=Graeme ShimminKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The Nazis are amongst 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 feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the most infamous group that has ever walked rockface with just the planetsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. They may have been evilConvinced she is going to die, but there was something pantomime about them that Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films been keeping and pulp fictionmakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. To enjoy these you have Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to disengage yourself from the history safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and see the Nazis Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of fiction Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as separate from those an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of real lifefailing if well-regarded literary short novels. Can I enjoy Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book like ''A Kill fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the Morningworld of crime fiction, saying he'' set in an alternative 1950s were s populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe and are building an ultimate weapon? bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Can Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and change the tide lack of history?stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Fergusson0861544056|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=4.5

|summary=Germany may be defeated as Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the embers end of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making the most of ittheir first term at university. His trade Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in black market goods and casual private investigation work augment the meagre rations for him and his dying fatherExeter. When a woman asks him to find a missing British airman he refuses – itIt's not really his line. She blackmails Kasper and still he refuses but then only the note arrives:first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they'This is bigger than youve also been apart from each other. You don Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a choicewhile. Queers still die in BerlinThen Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Find the pilot.Ivo's apparently 'older' It seems that : he's been seen twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with another man and now he has that. And they'll be sharing a decision to make that will either cost or save his lifebedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The ProfessionalsIrish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Owen LaukkanenVanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=The professional criminal Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the type start of person who gets her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in, does the job and then gets out againDunedin. Sounds like Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the perfect way to stay undetected as hunt for a lifelong miscreantkiller targeting pregnant women, but does not sound like with all the most exciting narrative for a storyextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. InsteadFinding herself put on desk duties, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own successwhich she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up and the wrong mark. Watching their lives spiral out increasingly disturbing worry of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals''what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=The Axeman's JazzWhat July Knew|author= Ray CelestinEmily Koch|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Based When we first meet July Hooper on a true story, ''The Axeman20 July 1995 she's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestinjust ten years old. She's debut novela careful, meticulous child. It tells of a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 - the Axeman - The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who torments is not prepared to discuss the city death of his wife, July's mother, and has everyone talking; it seems any hint that the conversation is heading that everyone has their theories way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and yet no meaningful leads he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are presenting themselves, as visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the police and citizens possibility of New Orleans begin abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to despair of ever catching the killerschool, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins0008454493|title=Voyage into LimboAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Colwyn YeatsIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, veteran apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of the war in Afghanistan and top-class sailor found himself at time or drifted off for a loose end over the summer monthsmoment. A planned research trip fell through when heIt'd already rented out s now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his apartment. It ''seemed'' fortuitous when an acquaintance approached him to skipper himself bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and two friends across particularly about her relief in the Atlantic, morning when she thought he was sleeping in aid of a charity. Yeats had his doubts when he realised In that his year she'crew' weren't kitted out for s done everything she could to raise awareness about the trip (flip flops? case. I meanShe does interviews and when we meet her, she''honestly''!), they didn't appear to get on with each other particularly well and despite what he'd s just been told they didn't seem to know much about sailingTrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. But - it was only On the plane back, she's approached by a few weekspodcaster, Waylon Spencer, when he'd nothing else who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to do, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JWQVET4</amazonuk>a few hundred people at conferences.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia Watkins1848458436|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settled. His stud was prospering. He was deeply, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite the loss of his arm some years before which had put an end to his acting career, life was good. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even 'The whole thing has spiralled out of bed. Khayricontrol, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was a ransom demandturning into someone I'm not. Reluctant to lose the mare - or to be beaten - O'Keeffe and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping to be back that night, or - at the worst - the next day. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw his home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Martin Walker|title=Children ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of Wartwo couples: A Bruno Courreges Thriller|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help just a few hours before his tortured Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and mutilated body was found Nina teach in the woods, same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but despite his being a policeman the Brigadier didnit't see the case as s not a priorityregular thing. He sees the wider picture, whilst Bruno Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is only the chief of police a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in a small French country towncommon except their wives. A young Muslim by the name of Sami has turned up at a French army base in Afghanistan and heLily hasn's keen to get home to St Denis and although itt said anything yet, but she's possible to smuggle him back into the country, the FBI are not far behind himpregnant. It seems that Sami She has been involved in bomb a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible for the deaths of soldiers of all nationalitiesknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairJulia Bartz|authortitle=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)The Writing Retreat

|summary=Confession - when I chose Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to review this bookbe her, I had no idea it had made such huge waves worldwideagents want to represent her. I chose it because I hadn’t read She's something of a thriller for legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a while and this looked like writer-slash-editor, is more than a good one. Before the book arrivedlittle obsessed with Roza, I heard all about it – and it was just as well as I had heard so much positivityis stunned when, as I also hadn’t realised it was such following a hefty tome. (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomesseries of unexpected events, but experience has taught me that they don’t always justify themselves)she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1800465270|title=The Ties That BindLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix

|summary=When writer Luke falls in love with Jeremywe first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the fact that Jem (to his friends) offers to support Luke, allowing him to write a book, is a bonusSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. As soon as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years ago, the bookHe's subject is assureda pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. However both the subject matter Valeri and JemTimur's endless support will present Luke with problems (father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and not a little danger) that he couldn't have foreseens disgusted by what his son had become.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Carrell|title=Vortex|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Andy Duncan Valeri thinks differently: he's father offered him the money determined to travel the world for make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a yearmatter of months, but first he must do his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a three-month internship dubious link with Berwick ArcherNatassja Petrovskaya, an investment company based in Hong Konga journalist. It would be decent experience She's determined to put on his CV. But when Andy got to Berwick Archer he liked what he saw expose any and all corruption - and stayedshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. Before long To her, he was second in command at the firm's new Bangkok office and had a talent for what he didgood source. There was even a girlfriendFor him, Caroline Chan, who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before her. Caroline was a dealer, but not in it's a big way - although she was well connected to a very influential businessmanget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Sinead Crowley|title=Can Anybody Help Me?|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parents. However, as they've only recently moved Move on to Gerry's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns the lack of a support network. This all changes when she turns to Mammynet, a web-based online forum and chat room for new and soon-to-be mums. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then the friend disappears without warning. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of a young woman. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]