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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Oliver1399613073|title=Vanishing GirlsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dara Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and Nick used 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 inseparable, but 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 was before will impact the accident that left Darathree friends. This time, it's beautiful face scarred and their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the two sisters totally estranged. Nicoleterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, known as Nickthere is Sam, a wartime photographer and younger sister DaraAbhi, have their lives and relationship torn apart 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 a serious car accident. Once extremely closeevents, Nick and Dara now barely speak keeps on venturing out of her room to each othertry 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 sisters weighed down wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by feelings of guiltthe terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444786792</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightCody Goodfellow|title=The Khazar CodexVertical|rating=43.5
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|summary=ItThere's a brutal introduction to the story as a man is killed in the way something about tall buildings that they did it in those days: two trees were pulled to the ground and the man lashed between them and then the trees were releasedjust captures my imagination. But thatWho doesn's only the background to the story which is set in the here and now and most of it is in The Kemble, t love a rather rundown theatregood view from up high, which after all? Even the drabbest office building is presenting a revival of Tom Stoppardsomewhere I's ''Arcadia''. On the opening night therem intrigued to get inside if it's apparently a fire, but whilst most of the hostages are shepherded out of the theatre a group of seven members of the audience, two cast members and the prime minister's son, Nigel Hastings, are taken hostage40 stories tall. The 'terrorists' (for what else can you call So when I picked up this book – about people who take others hostage?) represent New METRO, a group of activists who are campaigning for disused underground stations to be converted scale tall buildings for use by the homelessfun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784621277</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michel Bussi1804183210|title=After The CrashNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54
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|summary=It’s December 1980Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, almost Christmas time. Butbut Peter Radway, for many families this won’t be a special festive time. A plane, carrying 169 passengers en route from Istanbul to Paris crashes in the mountains during a terrible storm. There’s no hope of survivors and yetchairman, miraculouslyhadn't arrived, there is one passenger who livesso he continued his session. A 3 month old baby girl is found close by To say that he was shocked when the wreckage, apparently unharmedbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. Her parents have perished in the crash A lovely animal - but she is a miracle, a ray of hope for her family… whoever they may bethree million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. For there Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were 2 young babies on board well-known and respected in the flight, and although a mother would surely know her own child, it’s harder when it’s grandparents who need to identify and lay claim to a child they have never met beforeracing industry. Both families believe Jennings was in one of the little one is theirs and cubicles in the days before DNA testing and toilets when it’s harder to access medical records across borders, it’s left to a judge to decide who should raise her, the wealthy two men came in and powerful de Carvilles or their conversation revealed that the less fortunate but loving Vitralshorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. In each case The following morning, the baby will have a young sibling with whom to grow up, but will she ever feel like she truly belongs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871420</amazonuk>horse was dead in its stall.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Kardos1405951680|title=Before He Finds HerThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5
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|summary=The newspaper reports at the time were unanimous: in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held a party for all his neighbours and thenJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, when actually she was gently nudged into it ended, killed his wife Allie and toddler daughter Meg, then ran away, remaining a fugitive from justice. The newspapers were wrong. Meg isn't dead but has been kept hidden by her Uncle Wayne and Aunt Kendrafriend, had her name changed Rupert) to Melanie and has led caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a sheltered lifecouple of months. No photosAfter the problems she'd had at work, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from homeit seemed like just the break she needed. That's She was no way to live and now longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she approaches her 18th birthday, Melanie/Meg wants was Jess who was returning to end the country of her half-life birth and in order need of the space to live fully and yet to do that she must risk any form get over the traumatic end of lifeher relationship with Charles. She must find her father before he finds herA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802123198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1448309743|title=Influx|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the front. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going to be easy and time after time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichton.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=S J Watson|title=Second LifeCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Julia lives two lives. Life 1: In the wife village of surgeon Hugh and adopted parent Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of her sister Kate's son Connor. Life 2: Secret erotic dating site surfer. It seems a bit extreme but she has good reason as Julia is searching for information while posing under an assumed namewealthy family are found murdered. This The only item missing from the home is the same site on which Kate hung outDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Past tense? YesThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Katethat's dead and Julia wants to find Katean easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered's killerthe body. Be careful what you wish for The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, JuliaDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David ThorneB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Nothing SacredThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Just over Our narrator was a year ago I described Thorne's first book [[East of Innocence by David Thorne|East of Innocence]] as ''Raymond Chandler meets Ray Winstone''scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. I gather that It was an eightunusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-way auction saw Tiger Aspect securing the option rights for a TV series-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. I'm looking forward Finns had no intention of going on to it. Can't help wondering if they roped Winstone University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in (and if IWellingford, the UK'm s third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up for a cut of the agent fees?)loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus DalrympleDean Koontz|title=Killing Time: True FictionThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
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|summary=English university graduate James Cooper Brown When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is travelling around 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 small chain of tiny dots on the US with his friend Tobymap and live out your days in peace and solitude. When Toby returns That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to England start afresh on family business, James decides to visit Mexico. Soon after arriving heJacob's kidnapped by a local drug baron. Elsewhere in Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the country Monica Gonzalespesky US Government occupying Ringrock, a doctor, is looking forward to an evening of good company the neighbouring island and pizza but it turns into an evening of other things as she too is taken. Behind each perpetrating all manner of the 402 kidnappings mischief in Mexico during 2003 there is a story. This is the story name of James, Monica science and quite possibly bringing about the people fighting for their return; sometimes literallyend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1477428534</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penny Hancock1787636607|title=A Trick of the MindThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellie doesn’t know what happened on 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 road night bus that nightwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. She felt her car bump something The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but it was only slightparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. But now For one young woman, the newsreader final stop on the radio is telling bus leaves her there was a hit long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and run on that stretchcollect her - but her phone's dead. Can The bus had driven off before she had the two things be connected? Could she really have knocked down chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and injured an innocent man and not even noticed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115089</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SK Tremayne1529195977|title=The Ice TwinsNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Angus inherits On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a Scottish island from his grandmother that holds fond memories from his childhoodcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Although it's totally remote AngusShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, his wife Sarah Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and daughter Kirstie decide to move there from London. YesJosie birthday twins, daughter singular but they havenwere both born in St Mary't always only had the one childs hospital. Kirstie used to have That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a twinjoyful, Lydiamonied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, till 13 months agothey're enjoying themselves. Lydia died in a tragic accidentJosie, on the circumstances of which have never fully been revealedother hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. At least everyone believes He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it was Lydia who died but what if…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007563035</amazonuk>is Josie's birthday after all.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joakim Zander1803136383|title=The SwimmerTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary='On a remote Swedish island, a little girl, Klara, grows up without Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a fathercloud. NowWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, twenty years later, she discovers but an act of heroism leading to a secret: a secret that powerful men will kill rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to keep hiddenbe the consensus.' The Swimmer begins in 1980, with a bombing in DamascusWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, and a tragedy that can be felt across decadesas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins B0C7J9D21B|title=Quarry's ChoiceA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
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|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about a hit man with a heartWhen we first meet our hero, why not try one his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of the Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it''Quarry'' series? This is s a man who is hired to kill bordello and does not think too much about it; itEttore's just a jobmother died when he was born. Usually Quarry arrives He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in a townlate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, makes a hit and gets out immediately, but there is something about it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the world preparation of the Dixie Mafia that is making him stay anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a little longerguide for visitors. Is it the blackmail, the attractive young women, or the sense of revenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)0241996104|title=Enter the SaintComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When you think Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of thrillers written by their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a man in his early twenties therelife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a temptation 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to believe that live with what happened for the books might not berest of her life. Of course, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistakeit's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. The first of ''The SaintFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty is one favourite epithet and this collection of stories ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is dated 1930undoubtedly spoken. You might expect }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not morning at the subtleties county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the slightly worldstate-weary man of -the world, all-knowing about art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the evils architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to which men (all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and women) can sink, but didn't work as reliably as they're all thereshould. Admittedly the Saint is more boisterous It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and less subtle than he will become - but they were still getting used to having that speaks more about sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the later works than this bookswimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentAlan Parks|title=The Crooked HouseTo Die in June
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Many years agoWhat first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a tragedy shook an English village. A whole family wiped out with no warning, a whole family, that is, except for one of homeless man on the daughters who wasstreets, unbeknown suddenly starts to the assailantfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, upstairs at the timeand then another. Esme was that girl This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but she all the more so because his own father is no more. She has a new namedown and out alcoholic, a new identitywith no fixed abode, a new life, far away from that terrible placeand he has been for years. As Alison she flies under At the radar, not attracting any attentionsame time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a menial job move to fill a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her days. And she little boy has every intention of staying that waygone missing, only no intention record of ever stepping foot in Saltleigh againthe boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557501</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell 1529382823|title=After the StormThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rob Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and Anna are nearing the Honduras leg of their South American travelshas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Here they meet Kimberley and Owen, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around the local islandsThey're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Rob persuades Anna it will be a fun way Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to end their holiday propose but Anna isnCaz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't so sureknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. ThereThey's something about Owen ve not been a couple for that long and Kimberley that makes her hesitant about being shut away on the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a boat at sea with thembit better. Perhaps itMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's the way that he never sleeps or the mystery cafe as well as to why there are no knives in the cutlery drawertheir mother who has dementia. Rob thinks AnnaIt's just overly imaginativegoing to be good, but time will tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John ConnollyMark Edwards|title=The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5
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|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended Matthew and worked with Helena are in the pastIceland, is found hanged in a basementrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and has just raised over $100 Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even odder prospect if it kills her… which it nearly does when Annie the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself goes missing after heading for clinging to the rockface with just the small Maine town snagged strap of Prosperousher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Charlie decides Convinced she is going to drop in on the good citizens die, Helena must purge herself of the small town shocking secret she has been keeping and starts poking beneath the respectable veneermakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. It doesn’t take him long but there Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlieleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIIIThirty Days of Darkness
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to 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 people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the Common Market (which would become the European Union end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in 1993) in Brussels and heExeter. It's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they'shouldve also been apart from each other. Belle can'' be an interpreter but he seems t wait to be restricted have them all to more administrative dutiesherself for a while. He could refuse the offer Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he gets, didn't come but the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across doesn't want to the USA and make a point to his employers is just too temptingupset Kit. HeIvo's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offer, and itapparently 'older': he's not long before hetwenty-four to Kit's on his wayeighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. Before he does heAnd they's peripherally involved in ll be sharing a shooting - and that's not something which usually happens to someone like himbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)Robert Dugoni|title=The Saint Closes the CaseHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=On Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the way back to London with Patricia Holm late one night, Simon Templar saw a strange pulsing light and couldnlife't resist going to investigate. What he discovered was a demonstration s work of a weapon which could well bring the world Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to war a mere twelve years after the end his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of the Great Warhis clients. Templar and his confederates concluded that Along with an indisputable talent for the weapon could not be allowed law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to come into the public domain - oblivion and if necessary inevitably the inventor (who could easily recreate the weapon even if he gave assurances latter was beginning to overshadow the contrary) would need to be, er, sidelinedformer. Unfortunately Templar Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and friends are not the only ones proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in search of the weapon: his old nemesis, Rayt Marius, has his own plans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PABX9XE</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chevy Stevens|title=That Night|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It’s been 17 years since Toni went to prison for the murder hideous position of asking her sister. 17 years since she last saw her boyfriend Ryan, also convicted father for a job at the murder, since she had family firm because a meaningful conversation romantic entanglement with her parentsa senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, since she went to a coffee shop or walked on the beach. Sent down when she was still a teenagerhad gone, she’s been incarcerated for virtually half of her life and though she’s now coming up for parolerather spectacularly, it’s not as easy as simply going back to her old life from beforesouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555088</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Olivier TrucVanda Symon|title=Forty Days Without ShadowExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is stolen from a museum brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in Kautokeino, the hunt for a smallkiller targeting pregnant women, isolated village in with all the middle of the snowy tundraextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, tensions begin to rise between she just can't let the residents. Local detective Klemet Nango case go and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon she starts to investigate the disappearancefollow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, whereupon they discover a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murdered. Nina soon suspects that and the two events are linked, and, together with Klemet, embarks upon a journey full increasingly disturbing worry of secrets, mystery and brutalityjust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1787301036|title=The Vanished OnesWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Room 13 in the basement of the state morgue is where the sleepers are kept. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVs. Potential Homicide Victims. They are kept indefinitely, because they are evidence that a crime has been committed, possibly the only evidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=LoserWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozatjust ten years old. HeShe's a policeman in Pariscareful, who boxes on the sidemeticulous child. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victoryThe care has been taught by her father, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sportMick Hooper, who seems is not prepared to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind discuss the death of status as assistant – traininghis wife, guidingJuly's mother, profiteering; and any hint that the other comes from a man known always as ''conversation is heading that way will lead to the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation necessity of that), who has a friend Lesson. Other infractions of a friend who wants someone his requirements also lead to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesnthese Lessons and he't take too long to choose s not even careful about whether or not the latterinjuries are visible. In alternating chapters, however, weJuly're in s teacher is concerned and brings up the 1950s, and a rookie to possibility of abuse with the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georgesschool, has he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to itnot? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dan Fesperman
|title=Unmanned
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Unmanned'', the title of Fesperman's latest thriller, refers to the drones, the Predators, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistan, from a shed somewhere in Nevada.
It also refers to the state that those missions left Cole in, after one of them went badly wrong. A poor call-down led to a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out in the open running away, and a girl, not dead but wounded. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from the arm she would never use again. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darragh McManus0008454493|title=Shiver All the Whole Night ThroughDangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Aidan FloodIsabelle 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. It's life now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is miserable; consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend done everything she could to someone who works at raise awareness about the local carnival and even heard that from someone elsecase. Life is She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages been to accomplish as well if it wasn't for TrueCrimeCon where she gave a do-gooder passer-bykeynote presentation. The next morning while coming to terms with On the fact heplane back, she's still aliveapproached by a podcaster, he hears that Slaine McAuleyWaylon Spencer, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herself. The only thing is who points out that Aidan knows she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen could do a podcast and get to her and why does so many more people than she choose could by giving speeches to tell him, of all a few hundred people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find outat conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas H Cook1848458436|title=A Dancer in Just the DustNicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A man that risk management consultant Ray Campbell knew a lifetime ago is found dead on the streets ''The whole thing has spiralled out of New Yorkcontrol, turning into someone I'm not. It's not just '  ''Just the fact that Ray knew him thatNicest Couple's intriguing, it's where Ray knew him from: is the African country story of Lubanda where Ray once worked for an NGOtwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. This death reminds him of another The connection between the two is that happened out Lily and Nina teach in Africathe same school: that of Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a native Lubandan named Martine Aubert whom Ray loved and still lovesregular thing. There must be Christian is a connection market research analyst and Ray will investigate till he finds itJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, no matter what he finds or what he remembers along but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the wayknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonJulia Bartz|title=The PiperWriting Retreat|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>}}{{newreview|author=A D Garrett|title=Believe No One|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Scottish forensic science expert Professor Nick Fennimore, and English DCI Kate Simms are both, for various reasons Roza Vallo. Anyone in St Louisthe world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, just as Nick plannedagents want to represent her. Fennimore and Simms have worked together in the UK when NickShe's wife something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was murdered and daughter kidnappedbarely out of childhood. In fact they were together the night they first went missing having Alex, a less writer-slash-editor, is more than professional dinner. Nick's daughter a little obsessed with Roza, and is still missing but while he follows new leadsstunned when, he and Kate have other things to work on. St Louis has following a serial killer to contend with: the victims are all mothers and their children are taken at the same time. Not so pure coincidence? Nick sees connections so will try to make everyone else see them. Whether his tactics work or not remains series of unexpected events, she is invited to be seenpart of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472114191</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dai Henley1800465270|title=Blazing ObsessionThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When our story starts we know that events are going to be cruel to James Hamiltonfirst meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. We might be envious of He's a pallbearer for his highelder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-end car business, with multiple dealerships related. Valeri and (as we later find out) a home in one of the Timur''nicer'' parts of Blackheaths father, Keto, but is also a couple of years down the line pallbearer and he'll be visited in his office s disgusted by two policemen who tell him that what his holiday cottage went up in flames the previous night and there are three bodies in the shell of the buildingson had become. James won't believe that Valeri thinks differently: he's lost determined to make his wifeown stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, Lynnehis obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, stepson Georgie and daughter Emilya journalist. He was going She's determined to leave shortly expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to join thembe about her own safety. To her, so he's a good source. For him, it'obviouslys a way to get information published, which wouldn'' there had been a mistake..t otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620513</amazonuk>
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