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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Penny HancockSunny Singh|title=A Trick 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 Mindterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical
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|summary=Ellie doesn’t know what happened on the road There's something about tall buildings that nightjust captures my imagination. She felt her car bump somethingWho doesn't love a good view from up high, but after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it was only slight's 40 stories tall. But now the newsreader on the radio is telling her there So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was a hit and run on that stretchinstantly intrigued. Can the two things be connected? Could she really have knocked down and injured an innocent man and not even noticed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115089</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SK Tremayne1804183210|title=The Ice TwinsNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54
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|summary=Angus inherits a Scottish island from 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 chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his grandmother session. To say that holds fond memories from his childhoodhe was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Although it's totally remote Angus, his wife Sarah and daughter Kirstie decide to move there from LondonTwo men had been bidding against each other. Yes, daughter singular but they havenBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch't always only had Mitchell were well-known and respected in the one childracing industry. Kirstie used Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to have a twin, Lydia, till 13 months agothat figure. Lydia died Both were happy that they had insurance in a tragic accidentplace. The following morning, the circumstances of which have never fully been revealedhorse was dead in its stall. At least everyone believes it was Lydia who died but what if…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007563035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joakim Zander1405951680|title=The SwimmerSafe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5
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|summary='On a remote Swedish islandJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a little girl, Klara, grows up without luxury property in the Australian outback for a fathercouple of months. Now, twenty years later After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she discovers needed. She was no longer a secretdata analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: a secret that powerful men will kill she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to keep hiddenget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles.' The Swimmer begins A few weeks in 1980, with a bombing the Otway Ranges in Damascus, and a tragedy that can be felt across decadesVictoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins 1448309743|title=Quarry's ChoiceThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about a hit man with a heartIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, why not try one five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the ''Quarry'' series? This home is a man who the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is hired to kill and does not think too much about it; it's just a jobremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Usually Quarry arrives The only suspects are known Satanists but in a townmany ways, makes a hit and gets out immediately, but there is something about the world that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the Dixie Mafia that body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is making pulled in to 'shadow' him stay a little longer. Is it the blackmail, the attractive young women, or the sense of revenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Enter The Last Person in the SaintWorld|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5
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|summary=When you think of thrillers written by Our narrator was a man in his early twenties there's a temptation to believe that scholarship day boy at the books might not be, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistakeLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. The first of ''The Saint'' novels It was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris an unusual relationship as Ralph was just twenty one a boarder and this collection of stories is dated 1930. had money to throw around on a You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meetRolex watch, but not the subtleties vintage wines and a state-of -the slightly world-weary man art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of the worldgoing on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, all-knowing about the evils to which men (and women) can sink, but theyUK're all theres third most prestigious university. Admittedly the Saint is more boisterous and less subtle than Before going up, he will become - but that speaks more about the later works than this booktook up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentDean Koontz|title=The Crooked Houseat the End of the World
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|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=Many years ago, a When you experience overwhelming tragedy shook an English village. A whole family wiped out with and feel that there is no warningone on your side, a whole familyyou can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that is, except for one sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the daughters who was, unbeknown to the assailant, upstairs at the timemap and live out your days in peace and solitude. Esme That's what Katie thought she was that girl, but doing when she is no more. She has a new name, a new identity, a new shut down her old life, far away from that terrible place. As Alison she flies under to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the radar, aforementioned peace and solitude were it not attracting any attentionfor the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, with a menial job to fill her days. And she has every intention the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of staying that way, no intention science and quite possibly bringing about the end of ever stepping foot in Saltleigh againall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557501</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell 1787636607|title=After the StormThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Rob and Anna are nearing It's a scene replicated all too often in the Honduras leg early hours of their South American travelsthe morning. Here they meet Kimberley Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Owen, an American couple who charter out their own boat looking for sailing trips around a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the local islandsfew taxis available. Rob persuades Anna it Others squash onto the night bus that will be a fun way to end their holiday but Anna isnonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women't so sure. There's something about Owen and Kimberley that makes For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her hesitant about being shut away on a boat at sea with themlong way short of her home. Perhaps itShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the way that he never sleeps or chance to beg the mystery as bus driver to why there are no knives in the cutlery drawerlet her use his. Rob thinks AnnaThere's just overly imaginative, no option but time will tellto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Connolly1529195977|title=The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
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|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when JudeOn her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a bum he's befriended and worked with crowd of friends in the pastLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, is found hanged in a basementonly she was just with her husband, Walter. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship turns out that not only are Alix and has just raised over $100 to help find herJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading for That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the small Maine town midst of Prosperousa joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Charlie decides to drop in Josie, on the good citizens of the small town other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and starts poking beneath you get the respectable veneersense that Walter's not too happy. It doesn’t take him long He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but there it is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes CharlieJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright1803136383|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIIITin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=34.5
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|summary=Englishman Henry Wright Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is employed sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by the Common Market (which would become the European Union in 1993) in Brussels rank cowardice and he's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he ''should'' be an interpreter but he disgrace seems to be restricted to more administrative dutiesthe consensus. He could refuse the offer he gets, but the chance to actually use Wat himself is keeping his expertise in Russian, move across to the USA and make a point cards close to his employers is just too tempting. He's also rather taken by Alexy Gearychest, the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offer, and it's not long before he's on his way. Before as he always does he's peripherally involved in a shooting - and that's not something which usually happens to someone like him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|authortitle=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer A Captive in Algiers (narratorMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|titleauthor=The Saint Closes the CaseA J Lewis
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Fiction|summary=On the way back to London with Patricia Holm late one nightWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, Simon Templar saw it's a strange pulsing light bordello and couldnEttore't resist going to investigates mother died when he was born. What he discovered was a demonstration He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of a weapon which could well bring the world his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to war a mere twelve years after obtain decent employment. The stint working with the end preparation of the Great Waranchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Templar Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and his confederates concluded that the weapon could not be allowed to come into the public domain determined - and if necessary the inventor (who could easily recreate the weapon even if it was not long before he gave assurances to the contrary) would need to be, er, sidelinedhad a successful business as a guide for visitors. Unfortunately Templar and friends are not the only ones in search of the weapon: his old nemesis, Rayt Marius, has his own plansHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PABX9XE</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chevy Stevens0241996104|title=That NightComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5
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|summary=It’s Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been 17 years since Toni went to prison for the convicted of their murder of her sister. 17 years since she last saw her boyfriend Ryan, also convicted for We first meet Nancy outside the murdercourt, since she had after Martin receives a meaningful conversation with life sentence. The barrister tells her parents, since that she went to 's received a coffee shop or walked on the beach. Sent down when 'silent sentence' - she was still a teenager, she’s 's not been incarcerated found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for virtually half the rest of her life . Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and though she’s now coming up for parole, it’s ''rich bitch'' might not as easy as simply going back to her old life from beforebe printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555088</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1529135389|title=Forty Days Without ShadowThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from a museum in Kautokeino, a small, isolated village in Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the middle county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the snowy tundra, tensions begin to rise between state-of-the residents-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Local detective Klemet Nango They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon were still getting used to investigate all the disappearance, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murderedhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Nina soon suspects that the two events are linked, and, together Some of them fought with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full of secrets, mystery each other and brutality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Donato Carrisi|title=The Vanished Ones|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Room 13 in the basement of the state morgue is where the sleepers are keptdidn't work as reliably as they should. These are the unclaimed bodies It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victimssort of money, too. They are kept indefinitelyEventually, because they are evidence that Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a crime has been committed, possibly the only evidencewound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Alan Parks|title=Loser's CornerTo Die in June
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on What first seems like the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victoryunfortunate, he is made two offers – one from accidental death of a clearly corrupt homeless man behind the scenes in on the sportstreets, who seems suddenly starts to offer a few thrown fights for Georgesfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then some kind of status as assistant – traininganother. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, guiding, profiteering; but all the other comes from more so because his own father is a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that)down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, who and he has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fistsbeen for years. Georges doesn't take too long to choose At the latter. In alternating chapterssame time as facing these possible murders, howeverHarry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, we're in and the 1950s, and arrival there of a rookie to the forceswoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on only no record of the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from Franceboy having existed can be found. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also causes what may be misguided violence, even if with the other officers where he has a very different attitude to it.been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1529382823|title=UnmannedThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
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|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''UnmannedAtlantica'', the title of Fesperman. Caz's latest thrillersister, refers to the drones, the PredatorsGemma, reckons that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a shed somewhere ring-shaped bulge in Nevada. It also refers to the state that those missions left Cole in, after one of them went badly wronghis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. A poor call-down led to They've not been a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out in couple for that long and the open running away, and trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a girl, not dead but woundedbit better. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles awayMeanwhile, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from the arm she would never use againGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time It's going to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>be good, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusMark Edwards|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughKeep Her Secret
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|summary=A man that risk management consultant Ray Campbell knew a lifetime ago 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 found dead breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the streets of New York. It's not just perfect photograph to encapsulate the fact that Ray knew him that's intriguingjoy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it's where Ray knew him from: nearly does when the African country edge of Lubanda where Ray once worked for an NGOa ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. This death reminds him of another that happened out in Africa: that Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a native Lubandan named Martine Aubert whom Ray loved and still lovespanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. There must be a connection Just moments later their heroic, and Ray will investigate till he finds itfrankly very well prepared, no matter Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he finds or what he remembers along the wayjust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081655</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The PiperThirty Days of Darkness
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|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of World War Two failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to The Grange leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the moment they get there: there are children dancing latest hot shot in the garden world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and strange music that plays at nightonly writing what anyone could write. When Peter realises Cue the bet that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing she cannot live up to do anything he can that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to fill Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the promise he made to his motherpeople and the lack of stimulus for her plot, keep his sister safe.more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A D Garrett0861544056|title=Believe No OneTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
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|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, Belle and English DCI Kate Simms David's twin daughters are both, for various reasons in St Louis, just as Nick plannedcoming to the end of their first term at university. Fennimore Kit's been at Bristol and Simms have worked together in the UK when NickJess's wife was murdered and daughter kidnappedin Exeter. In fact It's not only the first time they were together the night 've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they first went missing having 've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a less than professional dinnerwhile. NickThen 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. Ivo's daughter is still missing but while apparently 'older': he follows new leads, he and Kate have other things 's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work onof Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. St Louis Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a serial killer gift for drinking himself to contend with: the victims are all mothers oblivion and their children are taken at inevitably the same time. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try latter was beginning to make everyone else see themovershadow the former. Whether his tactics work or not remains to be seenEnter 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dai HenleyVanda Symon|title=Blazing ObsessionExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When our story starts we know that events are going to be cruel to James Hamilton. We might be envious Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of his high-end car business, with multiple dealerships and (as we later find out) her maternity leave when there is a home in one of the ''nicer'' parts of Blackheathbrutal, but a couple shocking murder of years down the line he'll be visited an expectant woman in his office by two policemen who tell him that his holiday cottage went up Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in flames the previous night and there are three bodies in hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the shell of the buildingextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. James wonFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't believe that helet the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's lost his wife, Lynneactually happening, stepson Georgie and daughter Emily. He was going to leave shortly to join them, so ''obviously'' there had been a mistake..the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784620513</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Littlefield1787301036|title=The Moon PoolWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5
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|summary=Comfortably off Colleen Mitchell is loath to let her When we first meet July Hooper on 20 year July 1995 she's just ten years old son go to North Dakota to work on the oil rigs but he. She's made up his minda careful, meticulous child. Unfortunately The care has been taught by her worst nightmares begin father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to materialise when he vanishes soon after starting work. Sodiscuss the death of his wife, leaving her lawyer husband at homeJuly's mother, she follows her maternal instinct and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to where he was last seenthe necessity of a Lesson. His big corporate employers Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the local police don’t seem that concernedinjuries are visible. However, in her suffering there July's teacher is another person who knows exactly how Colleen feels: Shay, concerned and brings up the mother possibility of another lad who went missing at abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the same time. school, has he not? Hoping itThe playground wouldn's not too late they join forces and start their own investigationt have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=Don't Stand So CloseAll the Dangerous Things|author=Luana LewisStacy Willingham
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It’s cold outsideIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Dark. Snow It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is fallingconsumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. You In that year she're safe insides done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. Of course you are She does interviews and when we meet her, youshe've not left s just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the house in months. Youplane back, she're alones approached by a podcaster, but you feel safe inside. You Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could doa podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences. It’s ok. You can do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552169536</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=A Most Wanted ManJust the Nicest Couple|author=John le CarreMary Kubica
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|summary=Melik ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is a Turkish heavy-weight boxing championthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. He lives with his widowed mother The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in Hamburg the same school: Nina teaches English and they are both doing their very best to keep below the radarLily covers high school algebra. Since his father died they don’t even go to the mosque on The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular basis. But this particular weekend Leyla wants to gothing. Her daughter, still in Turkey, Christian is getting married, a market research analyst and Jake is a special prayer seems to be neurosurgeon: they don't have much in ordercommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. It is She has a visit that might well end up costing them lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the eight years good behaviour needed to finally get beyond their tolerated status to enable full German citizenshipknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444769308</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise DouglasJulia Bartz|title=Your Beautiful LiesThe Writing Retreat|rating=4.5
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|summary=South Yorkshire 1984: Annie Howarth comes from a mining family and is married to William, a police superintendentRoza Vallo. Although she and their daughter have all Anyone in the societal and financial status they could need, Annie's life is becoming very uncomfortable as the miners begin a strike that will become violent on both sides world of publishing knows the dividename. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. ItShe's either something of a legend with an illegal strike or assertion impressive, if compact, back catalogue of rights depending on the side you're on but unfortunately Annie isn't permitted to choose. However this is only the start works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of her problemschildhood. Tom GreenwoodAlex, a former boyfriendwriter-slash-editor, is back on the streets after serving more than a prison sentence for manslaughter little obsessed with Roza, and he has unfinished business. The problem for Annie is that the unfinished business stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is with invited to be part of her, eventually threatening her world and possibly even her lifemonth-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552779261</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shemilt1800465270|title=DaughterThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix
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|summary=Jenny has a busy life – GPWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, wife of Ted, a successful surgeon, mother to twin teenage lads Ed it's June 1995 and Theo and a teenage daughter (Naomi) to name but some of he's at the rolesSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. Now she tells herself that she should have realised NaomiHe's mood swings a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and higher heels signified more than Timur's father, Keto, is also a phasepallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. If she had, Jenny may have prevented her beloved childValeri thinks differently: he's disappearance; at least looking back on it thatdetermined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's what she tells herselfdeath. As the police investigateWithin a matter of months, Jenny and her remaining family his obsession will have cost him his marriage to come to terms with not only what has happened, but what it reveals about each of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405915293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Research|author=Philip Kerr|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=John Houston is Marisha and created a multimillionaire dubious link with a beautiful wifeNatassja Petrovskaya, a number of mistresses, countless extravagances journalist. She's determined to expose any and an apartment in Monaco, for tax reasons. He made his fortune by creating a formula for a series of bestall corruption -selling novels designed specifically and she's less concerned than she ought to appeal to the average man on the streetbe about her own safety. John has a team of four ghost-writers to do all the writing To her, meaning that he can produce an average of six bestsellers per year's a good source. John calls his group of ghost-writers his For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn'atelier', his ‘workshop’, perfectly reflecting his views of themt otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782065776</amazonuk>
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