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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Dunmore1399613073|title= ExposureMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre= Thrillers|summary= London - 1960. With the Cold War at its heightOlivia, spy fever fills Laura and Anjali met on the newspapersfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, the political establishment knowing how and where which is a bonus when you aim to bury its secretsbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. A sensitive file goes missing, Laura is a perfectionist and Simon Callington a trauma doctor. Anjali is accused the free spirit of passing information to the Soviets, group and is arrestedshe becomes a GP. His wife Lily suspects that this imprisonment is part of When we first meet them they're at a coverdrug and alcohol-up, fuelled party and that those higher than Simon are fighting it's going to prevent their own downfall. Knowing that both she and her children too are end in danger, Lily must fight to save Simon and protect her familytragedy. Little does she We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Simon is hiding many things from herwill impact the three friends. This time, including a crime that may carry with it an even greater penalty's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953944</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James MacManusSunny Singh|title= Midnight in BerlinHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Historical FictionThrillers |summary= Berlin – 1938The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. In Hiding from the British Embassyterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, military attaché Colonel Macrae prepares to defy his ambassador a wartime photographer and governmentAbhi, and assassinate Hitlerthe hotel manager. Elsewhere As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Sara Sternschein appears he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on stage in venturing out of her role as the lead in the Gestaporoom to try to capture what's brothel – the Salon Kitty. She has no choice, happened through her twin brother is being held in a concentration campphotography. In Although they only ever talk over the Gestapo Headquartersphone, Obergruppenfuhrer Joaqim Bonner waits their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and watches – with his eyes on Sara Sternschein as his secret weapon. As Colonel Macrae gathers intelligence for his mission he finds himself drawn they both wait to Salon Kitty – but does Sara hold see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the key to thwarting Hitler, or is Macrae being manipulated?terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650335</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SeddonCody Goodfellow|title=Try Not To BreatheVertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis
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|summary=Our narrator, a selfThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed -confessed expert at givingcame up for auction, erbut Peter Radway, relief to men, is branching out. Wellthe chairman, carpal tunnel syndrome at such a young age isnhadn't greatarrived, so he continued his session. Instead of working at To say that he was shocked when the back of a dodgy tarot shop, shebidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's out front, pretending to see auras, Mitchell were well-known and using her natural aptitude to read people (a skill mastered begging for years with her respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one-eyed mother), of the cubicles in the toilets when a woman comes the two men came in with a serious demandand their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Piecing the mystery of what it might be together for us, our heroine ends up Both were happy that they had insurance in a very malevolent buildingplace. The following morning, housing what might be the step-son from hell…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474603041</amazonuk>horse was dead in its stall.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac1405951680|title= She Who Was No More|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Everyone knows that unsettling sensation you get when you've done something bad: that clutching, unpleasant, constant feeling that every odd look or leading question thrown your way means the other person has figured out precisely what you've done. In this dark and mind-bending novella, Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac capture perfectly the unease and gradual desperation felt by Ferdinand Ravinel, a travelling salesman who enacts a plot to murder his wife Mireille with the aid of his lover, Lucienne. The tension rackets up with every paragraph, and had me scrambling to the final page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782270817</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSafe House|author=Emma Kavanagh|title=HiddenCameron Ward|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Hidden'' is written backwards. Chapters One and Two open with Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a shooting luxury property in the Australian outback for a hospital and the rest couple of months. After the book tracks back in timeproblems she'd had at work, following various characters as events lead to it seemed like just the day of break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the shooting. Every chapter is told from Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the point country of view her birth and in need of a different character, including a first person account by the murderer (whose identity is concealed until space to get over the traumatic end)of her relationship with Charles. This structure would be rather confusing were it not for A few weeks in the fact that each chapter is very short, and conveniently starts with Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the date, time and character's name, making it all very easy to followticket. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588536</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jason Starr1448309743|title= Savage LaneThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Savage Lane – a peaceful suburb In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of New York. When Karen Daily moves there following a marriage breakdownScotland, she expects to find five members of a quieterwealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, calmer lifestyle, and soon becomes friends with her neighbours – Mark and Debdeath will follow. Mark and Deb seem happy, The only suspects are known Satanists but their marriage is failing fastin many ways, and Mark is slipping into fantasies that's an easy conclusion given that two of a new relationship with Karenthem 'discovered' the body. As Deb's suspicions grow The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, dangerous obsessions and deadly decisions will come DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to haunt the group – leaving Savage Lane irrevocably changed'shadow' him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843446812</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RidpathB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Shadows Of War (Traitors)The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
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|summary=A year after returning from Germany and an unsuccessful attempt on Hitler's life Conrad de Lancey finds himself in Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the British army preparing for warLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. His friendship with Theo remains strong despite Theo now wearing It was an Abwehr uniformunusual 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. De Lancey still does work for British Intelligence therefor Both were probably quite surprised when they hear about another proposed Germany coup de Lancey seems the natural choice to investigatebecame almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. ItFinns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's not straightforward thoughthird most prestigious university. As the days darkenBefore going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, allegiances aren't always what they seem and betrayal can cut both waysClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853312</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Dean Koontz|title=The UndesiredHouse at the End of the World
|rating=4
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|summary=If When you're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, youcan either suck it up, even in this day saddle up and age, 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 place is heavily populated with trollsmap and live out your days in peace and solitude. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with that, but That's what Katie thought she was doing when she certainly peoples shut down her world with ghosts. Here is Odinn, and old life to some extent his ghost – certainly therestart afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the ghost name of 'what if' around him, science and quite possibly bringing about the man he might have been if he hadnend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It't abandoned s a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the young mother morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of his childthe few taxis available. Here is Others squash onto the night bus that very wifewill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', who is now dead herselfparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. Here is For one young woman, the final stop on the spirit bus leaves her a long way short of failure as he takes over a job at work from her home. She had intended to ring someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a childrencome and collect her - but her phone's care home in dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the 1970s bus driver to see if anything nefarious went onlet her use his. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreview<!-- 21/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Chris Calder1529195977|title=Celeste Three None of this is MissingTrue|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45
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|summary=Celeste 3 is the first successful commercial passenger carrying space/aircraft to go beyond On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Earth's atmosphere for any length of timeLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. This advance She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in travel didn't come easily as the two previous prototypes demonstrated and so thereSt Mary's much interest as the date of each of its flights approacheshospital. Two people are paying closer attention than the rest of the worldThat's population due to where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the presence midst of a certain passenger as much as the vehicle itselfjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. One of Josie, on the high rollers will be other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the ruthless Russian billionaire Karenkovsense that Walter's not too happy. Gregory Topozian and Jack Smith have seen friends and colleagues die at his whim so they have He's not used to spending this much money on a bone to pick and an ambitious way to do it… as long as nothing and no one gets in the waymeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1515171817</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell1803136383|title=Vortex... the EndgameTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 2014 the financial markets were tumbling Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in BangkokVietnam under something of a cloud. The recession was deepening What actually happened out there is gossiped about and unemployment figures were rising. The recession wasn't affecting all layers nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of society equally and in consequence the government was facing heroism leading to a financial ''rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and'' a social crisis. It would take little disgrace seems to spark street violence equal to that of 2010. But not everyone viewed be the situation with dismay: this was exactly what Tanawat Chanpol had been hoping forconsensus. If all went according Wat himself is keeping his cards close to plan - and it was planned - his employer, businessman Narong Sunarawanichest, would be brought to power by popular acclamation as the only man who could save the country. It would take months and a lot of hard work thoughhe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1499532504</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth RendellB0C7J9D21B|title=Dark CornersA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=Carl Martin was in the fortunate position When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of having just had his first novel published Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and inheriting his late fatherEttore's house in Maida Valemother died when he was born. His father had accumulated a collection He's not been short of homeopathic remedies which really should have been thrown outmothers, though - but Carl had other things on for someone of his mind and never got round background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to itobtain decent employment. There was his girlfriend Nicola, The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work to start out and bastards are considered bad luck on his second novel and he wanted to let the top floor of his housefishing boats. Authors are Ettore was nothing if not that well off, you see resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he needed some ready money coming in. In addition to being a bit remiss about the contents of the medicine cabinet he should have been had a bit more careful about who he took on successful business as a tenantguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959241</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Shemilt0241996104|title= The Drowning Lesson Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= EmmaNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, a doctor from LondonMartin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, is somewhat reluctantly moving her family to Botswana for after Martin receives a yearlife sentence. In the choice between taking The barrister tells her that she's received a new'silent sentence' -born baby and his two primary school aged sisters she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to rural Africa live with what happened for a yearthe rest of her life. Of course, or letting your husband go out there alone for work, sheit's decided that theremade worse because Nancy's strength in numbersrich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Emma ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Adam have a somewhat complex relationship that ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is disturbingly familiar to meundoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. People who say They'd not everything been in life is a competition' are generally the ones who are losing, architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and I didn't doubt her for one moment when she said work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that she liked him sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to succeed….just as long as he wasn't succeeding more than herhis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405915315</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellAlan Parks|title=Blood Brothers... Thai StyleTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chatri Aromanadee and Daeng Khasajamsarun are friendsWhat first seems like the unfortunate, but in accidental death of a rather unequal wayhomeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Daeng very much has This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the upper hand despite the fact that Chatri more so because his own father is a policeman: Daeng is manipulative down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and it's difficult to be polite enough to say that he 'sails close to the wind'has been for years. The man At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a criminalmove to a different police station, but he turned a problem of his own (and the arrival there of his own making) into a hold over Chatriwoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, which still holds firm even when Chatri becomes the chief only no record of police in Baan Chailai, with its lively bar scene, on the Gulf of Thailandboy having existed can be found. Their sons have a similar relationship: Daeng's son Tong is brutal in his relationships Something feels wrong - not just with women and Chatri's son Sunan has the misfortune to work in woman’s story but also with the hotel complex owned by Daeng.other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1502880806</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert L Anderson1529382823|title=DreamlandThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sean Ryan grew up in Ireland during the 20th centuryCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's first quarter ) is middle-aged and so understands death and losshas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. He learnt They're off on a cruise to defend what he felt right during his time as a bodyguard for Michael CollinsNew York on ''Atlantica''. Therefore when Winston Churchill called upon his services in 1937 Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to bring propose but Caz hasn't spotted a mother ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and child out of Germany, Ryan she doesn't say noknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. However Ryan soon discovers this is no easy escort duty. The mother They've not been a couple for that long and child in question are for some reason being hunted by the trip will be an elite German force led by Cerberus, excellent opportunity to get to know him a code name for a sadist incarnatebit better. On the plus sideMeanwhile, Ryan soon discovers heGemma is looking after Caz's not alonecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. There are more like him across Europe; those with pasts that forged them into violent defenders of the vulnerable in an increasingly dangerous world. These are the Rogues andIt's going to be good, this time, Ryan needs their help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1492320242</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Felix FrancisMark Edwards|title=Front RunnerKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jeff Hinkley 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 an undercover investigator for breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the British Horseracing Authorityjoy she is feeling in this moment, so he was in even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a 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. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a difficult position when he was approached by his friend Dave Swintonpanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Dave was champion jockey Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he told Hinkley that he'd deliberately lost a race just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and there was no way that this could be kept Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as some confidential words between friendsan unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. The following day Hinkley returned Sorry to Swintonleave 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 house to discuss populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the matter further - and ended bet that she cannot live up trapped in the blisteringly-hot saunato that accusation. He was lucky Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to escape with his lifeIceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Swinton was not so lucky - his charred body was 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 in his burning car at a deserted beauty spot in Oxfordshire.dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>071817884X</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0861544056|title=The UndesiredTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
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|summary=If youBelle and David're lucky enough to go s twin daughters are just coming to Iceland they will tell you, even in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trollsend of their first term at university. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with that, but she certainly peoples her world with ghostsKit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. Here is Odinn, and to some extent his ghost – certainly thereIt's not only the ghost first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they'what if' around him, and the man he might have ve also been if he hadnapart from each other. Belle can't abandoned the young mother of his childwait to have them all to herself for a while. Here is Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that very wife, who is now dead herselfhe didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Here is the spirit of failure as Ivo's apparently 'older': he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, 's twenty-four to investigate a childrenKit's care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went oneighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And that place certainly should they'll be haunted – already sharing a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>bedroom.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom ClaverRobert Dugoni|title=Hider/SeekerHer Deadly Game|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Bridger is an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappear. His clients arenPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler't always whiter than white, but when a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him due to help, his chivalrous instincts override the doubts that lurk reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in the back defence of his mindclients. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right but she's been vouched Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for by an old friend drinking himself to oblivion and Harry's basic decency won't allow him inevitably the latter was beginning to leave a woman overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and her child proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in danger. And there's another advantage to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into the orbit hideous position of his ex-wife Bethany. And Harry would do almost anything to redeem himself in asking her eyesfather for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia HeaberlinVanda Symon|title=Black Eyed SusansExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it - other than Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the intriguing title and the scant information that it start of her maternity leave when there is a psychological mystery about brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a girl who survives abduction by a serial killertargeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. For those who Finding herself put on desk duties, like mewhich she rails against, she just can't resist suspense (let the case go and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according she starts to the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enough. And I was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty and suspense from start follow every thread to finish. The narrative alternates between present day and the past, each section lasting just a couple of pages. I found this structure tricky at first, although each chapter does offer a helpful timeline and the chapters are short enough that ituncover what's easy to reorient yourself. Once I got used to the choppy style I found that it did workactually happening, and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, the protagonistincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica1787301036|title= Pretty BabyWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary= On When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her morning commute father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to workdiscuss the death of his wife, July's mother, Heidi sees something and any hint that shakes her. A young girl, barely older than her own pre-teen daughter, huddling in the rain on conversation is heading that way will lead to the platform, clutching necessity of a tiny babyLesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. It July's a distressing situation teacher is concerned and it stays on her mind for brings up the rest possibility of abuse with the day. So much so that when she sees head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the girl againschool, she feels obligated to helphas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Little0008454493|title= Dear DaughterAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 24.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Janie Jenkins is fresh out Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of prisontime or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, released early when an issue Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the evidence is brought morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to liferaise awareness about the case. Evidence concerning the death of She does interviews and when we meet her mother, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Who On the plane back, she may or may not have killed. Hmmm's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587874</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bolton1848458436|title= Little Black LiesJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Catrin ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is a mother without children. It’s a horrible situation to be inthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and a role Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that will define her for Lily and Nina teach in the rest of her lifesame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. A few years ago, her two boys were killed The couples have mixed as a result of her best friend’s actionsfoursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. It was an accident Lily hasn't said anything yet, but that doesn’t make it any bettershe's pregnant. And Catrin can neither forgive nor forget She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059306920X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosamund LuptonJulia Bartz|title=The Quality of SilenceWriting Retreat
|rating=4
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|summary=MattRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, a wildlife film maker is reported agents want to have perished in a fierce fire that sweeps through the first nation Alaskan village in which herepresent her. She's working. All something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that's left started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of him is his wedding ringchildhood. This Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a huge shock to his wife Yasmin who has flown to see him little obsessed with their 10 year old daughter Ruby. Yasmin has come to talk to Matt to see if they still have Roza, and is stunned when, following a relationship worth saving. Some would say that his death series of unexpected events, she is an answer invited to that question but Yasmin doesnbe part of her month-long writers't accept that. She doesn't even accept he's dead and will search the frozen Alaskan wastes to prove itretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349408122</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E M Davey1800465270|title=Foretold by ThunderThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5
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|summary=A university professor is randomly killed by a thunderbolt after posting a package of history texts to journalist Jake Wolsey. Was his death really that random? Jake doesnWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it't have long to ponder that before s June 1995 and he's off to Turkey with archaeologist Florence Chung to investigate the ancient religion of at the EtruscansSerafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's not the only one interested; MI6 are tailing him a pallbearer for a reason even the agents concerned don't knowhis elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. As history starts to reveal its secrets Valeri and connects with names centuries after the Etruscans diedTimur's father, Keto, Jake and Florence realise this is as much also a fight for their lives as it is for knowledgepallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649930</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary Higgins Clark|title=The Melody Lingers on|rating=3 Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Mary Higgins Clark’s latest thriller Within a matter of months, ‘’The Melody Lingers on’’, follows the author’s usual successful formula. The main character, Lane, is his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a young woman dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a prestigious job as the assistant of an exclusive interior designerjournalist. She is instantly likeable: thoroughly nice – as underlined several times by other characters - un's determined to expose any and all corruption -snobbish and of course beautiful. We witness her performing small everyday acts of kindness and she is just vulnerable enough 's less concerned than she ought to be relatable to, having tragically lost family membersabout her own safety. Vulnerable To her, but not troubled; no reckless drugs, drinking or sleeping around for Mary Higgins Clark heroineshe's a good source. Lane is clean and decent For him, with it's a strong moral fibreway to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148521</amazonuk>
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