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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clar Ni Chonghaile0241678412|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionThrillers|summary= ItLife after university hasn's a cliché t worked out quite the way that the Irish have a picturesque turn of phrase, but clichés only exist because they're truePhyl anticipated. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazine, when he said that ''With Irish, thereShe's another language bubbling under the English''. However you express itback home, that art living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of expression is woven into every other line of Clár's proseHeathrow Airport. Pick All those ideas of becoming a page at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had writer seem to have come to roost in her home like a cursed owlnothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' or ''like he was God, Jesus Chris comes to stay and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbingintroduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, slow and inevitable Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at your heart Cambridge University in their mundane sadnessthe 1980s. Or sometimes both It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White0008385068|title= From The ShadowsMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= IIt'm a bit old-fashioned s midsummer on the Dorset coast and therefore not a great fan of stories that canguests gather at The Manor. It't keep s their timeline straightopening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. IIt'll go with a prologue – even if its all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at converted it into an impressive retreat for the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' wealthy and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else failsfamous. ThatHer husband, howeverOwen, was the architect and work is my only little gripe about ''From still ongoing on parts of the site. The Shadows'' heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workwon't be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes StuartSaima Mir|title= My Name is SamVengeance|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary=Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, I was instantly intrigued by the champion premise of the Sereia this novel – an organised crime syndicate in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory north of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiesEngland run by a Muslim woman. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from The fact that it was the Gibbus who, second in seven days, will destroy the planet a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and everyone on itneedn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. This is not his choice however: And that is the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous taskwasn't a problem here. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth Vengeance swiftly brings you up to be savedspeed, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvesand I never felt lost. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>0861541561

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DibdinDavid Chadwick|title=The Room by the LakeHeadload of Napalm

|summary= What would life be like if you just packed up your things and left? This It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a thought that the main protagonist Caitlyn has been mulling over for Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a while now but has never had the guts to do, until she reaches the final straw when her father fails at sobriety once againsignificant drive away. After throwing her phone Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a riverdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, Caitlyn takes herself to the airport where she ends up getting a plane to New York. From there her life completely changes as she meets Jake who seems to be just what she needs's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. As they grow closer she Life is invited to meet his familyquiet, but, in a house surrounded by forest that is miles away from civilisation, family takes on a whole new meaninguntil... There you live by the motto ''we are here for each other, and we are nothing without each other''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Brown1399613073|title= BroadcastMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=When David Callow is offered Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the lead role in first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a revolutionary new online show, he snatches at the opportunitycentury. Rapidly becoming a viral sensation Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, David which is propelled a bonus when you aim to stratospheric levels of celebritybe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. However, he soon realises Anjali is the downside free spirit of sharing every secret with the worldgroup and she becomes a GP. A prisoner to both his fame When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and his own thoughts, David seeks it's going to have end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the chip removed, only to discover tragedy or the chilling secret lurking at consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the heart of MindCastthree friends. This time, and the terrifying ambition the showit's creator has for himtheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaSunny Singh|title= Every Last LieHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Clara The Hotel Arcadia is mother to pre-schooler Maisie and newborn Felix, but now she has a new label: widow. Her husband Nick is dead, killed luxury hotel in an awful car crash unnamed city that thankfully spared his daughter's life when Felix is just has suddenly been violently taken over by a few days oldterrorist group. For Clara, that's not Hiding from the end of the nightmare. As she works her way terrorists who are rampaging through grief and struggles to carry , killing everyone on for the childrensite, she there is faced with some new worries. Maisie isn't talking much about the accidentSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, but she's having nightmares that make Clara question the police story of eventshotel manager. There As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are things still alive in Nick's personal possessions that are oddthe hotel, things she has never seen before. What's morehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, it turns and keeps on venturing out a lot was going on at Nickof her room to try to capture what's work that he hadn't shared with his wifehappened through her photography. And Although they only ever talk over the phone, the more she starts their friendship grows as Abhi tries to look, the more she wishes she could un-see help her keep safe and go back they both wait to how things weresee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WhitakerCody Goodfellow|title= All The Wicked GirlsVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In the small town of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all There's something about tall buildings that know her, the incident rocks the entire townjust captures my imagination. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the yearWho doesn't love a good view from up high, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from after all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for ? Even the disappearance of these girls drabbest office building is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capturesomewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. Whilst he roams the streets, no one is safeSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1804183210|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating= 54|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the course of his work, he's seen plenty of unusual thingscolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A manPeter Radway, Richard Kite, has approached him for helpthe chairman, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isnhadn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesiaarrived, which means that so he can't remember anything about continued his lifesession. He's not even sure To say that his real name is Richard Kitehe was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his lifeA lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and press coverage respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of his case, the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off their conversation revealed that the grid,' unable horse had been deliberately bid up to get a job, pay tax or own a homethat figure. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth Both were happy that they had insurance in place. But The following morning, the truth can be a dangerous thinghorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Jewell1405951680|title= Then She Was GoneThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary= One day Ellie went Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the library Australian outback for some last minute GCSE study and she never returned. There are a lot couple of months. After the problems she''what ifs?'': what if her sister hadn't d had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a noisy friend over, forcing her to seek out somewhere quieter data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to study? What if there had been more CCTV on the high street so country of her journey could have been traced? What if, taking it back a bit, she had never met Theo, never fallen for him, never drifted into competition against him birth and never felt the in need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going the space to happen, one way or another?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Caz Frear|title= Sweet Little Lies|rating= 4get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= In 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears A few weeks in Ireland. In 2017 a woman called Alice is found dead the Otway Ranges in London. In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but she's more worried by Victoria sounded like just the fact her father is tooticket. And he cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J Tjia1448309743|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime The Devil Stone (HistoricalDCI Christine Caplan) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeCaro Ramsay

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got In the best village of situations. Some Cronchie on the West coast of his friends have parted company with him because Scotland, five members of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time ona wealthy family are found murdered. He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo The only item missing from the home is the girl next door Devil Stone: myth says that he loves, but she's rejected it. And his best company, if the dog stone is removed from the other house next doorOtterburn House, was injured in a hit and run, and shot to be put out of its miserydeath will follow. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouseThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, hethat's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogan easy conclusion given that two of them 's six-year-old owner, and Antoinediscovered's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepbody. As the title suggests The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Riley SagerB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Final GirlsThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|genre= Thrillers|summary=A 'final girl' is the last girl alive Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the end of London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a horror movie Rolex watch, vintage wines and a gruesome description which has defined the life state-of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differently. Quincy, the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying to put -the past behind her-art sound system. But Both were probably quite surprised when another 'final girl' dies, the media, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon herthey became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. And Finns had no intention of going on to make matters worse for QuincyUniversity, the other 'final girl' unlike our storyteller who had a survivor from another massacre, who has been place at Wolverton College in hiding for yearsWellingford, appears on her doorstepthe UK's third most prestigious university. SuddenlyBefore going up, Quincy is not only able he took up a loose invitation to move past her pastvisit Ralph at his home, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back Clouds Manor inWest Dorset. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785034022</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah StovellDean Koontz|title= ExquisiteThe House at the End of the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= I was looking forward to reading ''Exquisite'' ever since I first heard about When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck itup, 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 map and live out your days in peace and it didn't disappointsolitude. It That's a murky, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; itwhat Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's a compulsive, attention-grabbing read that had me hunched up in bed till 1am, desperate to finish Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it as soon as I could. It's clever, excellently-pacednot for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and uncannily realistic.It's just a pity that I managed to figure out perpetrating all manner of mischief in the ending name of science and quite possibly bringing about a quarter the end of the way inall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633747</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annemarie Neary1787636607|title= The OrphansTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Jess It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Sparrow (Ro) looking for a way to get home. Some are just children when they are playing on lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the beach night bus that will only go as far as one day and turn round to find their parents vanished and their whole life changed in an instantof the outlying villages. It The woman all regret the 'taxi problem's , particularly in the sort light of childhood trauma that effects people in different ways'the missing women'. Jess goes to For one extremeyoung woman, studying hard, becoming the final stop on the bus leaves her a successful lawyer, building the kind long way short of stability for her new family that she craved ever since that dayhome. And Ro….doesn She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone'ts dead. He does almost The bus had driven off before she had the opposite, never putting down roots, floating from place chance to place, woman beg the bus driver to woman, free as the windlet her use his. The lives of the siblings don There't cross much, s no option but when an item belonging to their mother resurfaces, so does the case start walking - unsuitably clothed and the interest in her disappearancehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1529195977|title=The FriendNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=MaxieOn her 45th birthday, AnayaAlix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, Hazel and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffeetoo, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, wineonly she was just with her husband, gossip and momentary escape from their respective livesWalter. Nothing unusual about It turns out that until Yvonne is found battered not only are Alix and half-dead Josie birthday twins, they were both born in the playgroundSt Mary's hospital. Three weeks later Cece moves into That's where the areasimilarities end, though: Alix, with her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into husband, Nathan, are in the orbit midst of Maxiea joyful, Anaya monied group of friends and Hazel and hears what happened to the still comatose Yvonnewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Two questions still hang in Josie, on the air though: who did it other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is one of you get the three remaining friends and sense that Cece is in the perfect position Walter's not too happy. He's not used to help them with their enquiries… spending this much money on a very dangerous position to be inmeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1803136383|title= AuroreTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 34.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=History Wat Tyler has taught us that wars can be won or lost on the strength returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a country's intelligence cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and on the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control that intelligence in a myriad nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of game-changing ways. Who better then heroism leading to drop into Nazi-occupied France as an agent than a thirty mission veteran of Bomber Command whose pre-war incarnation as actor and Quaker have shaped a man with guile enough to ''make believe'' rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and trust enough to see his mission through to the end? Enter stage left, Billy Angell. Soon disgrace seems to be ''injured'' airman stranded in the French countryside and tasked with befriending a local woman responsible for the safety of resistants and with necessary ties to the upper echelons of the occupying German forceconsensus. What's left for us to find out Wat himself is whether Billy has talent enough keeping his cards close to succeed in his new role chest, as agent ''Thesp'' and make it back alivehe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Karen DionneA J Lewis|rating=4.5|titlegenre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The Marsh KingHouse of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's Daughternot been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of 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 guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Helena Pelletier was having a normal afternoon: making deliveries of jams Nancy's mother and jellies to her sales outlets step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and taking her younger daughter Marigold to play at the side step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of the laketheir murder. It was on the journey back to We first meet her older daughter from Nancy outside the school bus that she heard the news: the notorious child abductor and rapist Jacob Holbrookcourt, known as the Marsh King, had escaped from prison, killing two guards in the processafter Martin receives a life sentence. Helena knew The barrister tells her that she was in danger: Jacob Holbrook was her father and 's received a 'silent sentence' - she was 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the daughter rest of the woman he had abducted when she was fifteen years oldher life. SheOf course, it'd been brought up until s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the age most of twelve as a captiveit. There was another problem too: she'd never actually got around to telling her husband about her background'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Fred Vargas 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. They'd not been in the 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 didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Sian Reynolds (translator)they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=A Climate To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of Feara homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the 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?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=It takes just one policemanCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's iota of doubt, that an elderly woman ) is middle-aged and has found dead herself somewhat surprisingly in her bath love with her wrists slit was not actual suicide but murder instead, for Commissaire Adamsberg Pete. They're off on a cruise to become involvedNew York on ''Atlantica''. The womanCaz's sister, known to be dyingGemma, had struggled reckons that Pete is going to get propose but Caz hasn't spotted a letter posted ring-shaped bulge in the days before her death – his suit pocket and when the recipient is found out it immediately leads to another murder disguised as suicide, and more deaths are to comeshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. All indications (or at least those They've not been a couple for that can long and the trip will be understood) point an excellent opportunity to get to know him a hushed-up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previouslybit better. Meanwhile, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on the thinking that the whole truth Gemma is much more peculiar, and harder looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to solvebe good, than that…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784702625</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caite Dolan-LeachMark Edwards|title=Dead LettersKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary=Ava Matthew and Zelda Helena are twinsin Iceland, rekindling their naming triggering a family joke about being opposite ends university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the alphabet. That's all past tense now though as Zelda lava fields and black beaches is dead. Ava breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is told feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the news via snagged strap of her mother's terse, dispassionate email before Ava can come home rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to the US from Pariscertain death below. Zelda burnt Convinced she is going to death in die, Helena must purge herself of the family's barn where shocking secret she sometimes slept… at least that's the story has been keeping and human remains were indeed found in the barnmakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. But then why is Ava still receiving emails from Zelda? Emails that tauntJust moments later their heroic, emails that remind and emails that suggest Zelda is frankly very much alive. To discover the truth all Ava needs well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to do safety and Matthew is follow the clues and relive some painful memoriesleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786491303</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maile MeloyJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Do Not Become AlarmedThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=Thrillers|summary=ItHannah 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 Christmas, populist trash and only writing what anyone could go wrong? write. More than Cue the bet that, it's Christmas on holiday, on a cruise down the Pacific coast of Latin America from near LAshe cannot live up to that accusation. Perfect, thenHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for two cousins – ladies both with their own husband and two kids each – to get a wintry month away from what life's currently giving them, namely high-pressure work, and griefit all. But labours Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and worries and grief will only be exacerbatedthe lack of stimulus for her plot, when a trip ashore goes horrendously wrong, and practically more or less about everything – word comes that the only six children on board go missing…landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241305462</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kaela Coble0861544056|title=Friends and LiarsTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary= Kaela CobleBelle and David's debut novel twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit''Friends s been at Bristol and LiarsJess's in Exeter. It' is a gripping read that tells s not only the tale first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they'the crewve also been apart from each other. Belle can', t wait to have them all to herself for a group of friends who once made a pact while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'always be honest with eachotherolder': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at the wake of one of their own, Danny Deuso, who has left And they'll be sharing a haunting suicide note along with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the gravebedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tina SeskisRobert Dugoni|title= The HoneymoonHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= For as long as she can remember, Jemma Patrick Duggan & Associates has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnightlife's retreat work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to a five-star resort his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the Maldiveslaw, complete with luxury villasPatsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, personal butlers former competitive chess prodigy and absolute privacy.It should be paradise. But it's turned into proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a nightmare. Because job at the man Jemma married family firm because a week ago has just disappeared from the island without romantic entanglement with a trace. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes. After everything they've been through togethersenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband had gone? , rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C F PetersonVanda Symon|title= Errant Blood Expectant (Duncul MysteriesDetective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes awayDetective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, he makes the decision to return to his home shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He has been gone hunt for many yearsa killer targeting pregnant women, during which time he has pursued a career in with all the army and survived a posting in Afghanistanextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life Finding herself put on desk duties, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his positionwhich she rails against, returning home to she just can't let the peaceful life of lordship over a castle case go and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars increasingly disturbing worry of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for itjust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author= Johana Gustawsson Emily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title= Block 46 All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a Cartier event presenting some year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functiontime or drifted off for a moment. When a young woman It's mutilated body now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is discovered consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in a Swedish marina near Linnéa. In that year she's holiday homedone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, Alexisshe' worst fears are confirmeds just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. But Linnéa On the plane back, she's death is not unique; in factapproached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she is only the latest in could do a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London podcast and Falkenberg. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged get to young boys, so what has caused the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help many more people than she could by giving speeches to find justice for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>few hundred people at conferences.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1848458436|title= No Middle NameJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= There is a theory''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know turning into someone I sometimes subscribe, which says that 'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the short story's heyday has passed of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and it has now put itself out to grassJake Hayes. This The connection between the two is particularly true, some say, that Lily and I have been known to concur, of Nina teach in the crime same school: Nina teaches English and thriller genresLily covers high school algebra. Tosh! The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. I can only apologise to all authors involved Christian is a market research analyst and own upJake is a neurosurgeon: I simply haventhey don't been paying attentionhave much in common except their wives. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsLily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : She has a collection lengthy history of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the name of ''Jack Reacher''knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>