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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= N D Gomes0241678412|title= Dear CharlieThe Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating= 54|genre= Thrillers|summary=''I canLife after university hasn't fathom a bigger emotional mess for someone to have left behind. I wonder if you know worked out quite the way that this would happen. I wonder if you thought about anything at all before you walked into that assembly hall at 8:22 am on the last day of schoolPhyl anticipated. She''N.D Gomes has written an exceptional novel s back home, living with her parents and on a controversial and relevant subject today with gun laws in question across the world. Dear Charlie is set in England in 1996, the same year in which Scotland was devastated by the Dunblame school massacre, and analyses life after an 18zero-year-old Charlie, student hours contract serving sushi to tourists at Pembrook Academy, shoots and kills 14 people before turning the gun on himselfterminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. The novel is narrated by Sam, Charlie's younger brother, who at 16 has All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to pick up the pieces after the shocking eventnothing. The novel depicts how Charliesituation improves when 'Uncle's family come Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to terms with his lossadopted daughter, how they're treated Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by the community, some as well as the constant pressure on their lives by a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the media1980s. Forced It plans to move to a new school, Sam tries to make push the government in a new start more extreme direction and leave the past behind, but Charlie is never far from his thoughtsready to act. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008181160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Slaughter0008385068|title=The Kept WomanMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Special Agent Will Trent is backIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Collected It's all headed up by his partnerFrancesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, FaithOwen, to attend was the scene architect and work is still ongoing on parts of a rather brutal murder, Trent queries why the GBI has been called in to what would usually be a standard homicide investigation for Atlanta PDsite. Arriving at the scene, their boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner The heat is somewhat characteristically pacing oppressive and barking orders; amongst the victim is none other than ex-cop and all round bad egg, Dale Hardingguests are enemies as well as friends. There is a lot of blood, presumably due Old scores are going to the door-knob be settled and spindle sticking out of Hardingit won's neckt be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann TurnerSaima Mir|title= The Lost SwimmerVengeance|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Your boss is out to sabotage your career, your husbandI was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn's having an affair, someonet stop me – I's trying to frame you for fraud ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and your dog is out of control around the friendly neighbourhood Kangaroos. It would it needn't be a lot to handle for anyone, let alone university lecturer Rebecca who is somewhat less confident that her outward persona would suggest. But therehindrance if it's just good enough. And that slight issue of how much of it is actually factualwasn't a problem here. The signs seem Vengeance swiftly brings you up to suggest some or all of this to be truespeed, but signs can be wrong, obscured with dirt or sometimes pointing the wrong wayand I never felt lost. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471153088</amazonuk>0861541561

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian J WalkerDavid Chadwick|title=The End Headload of the World Running ClubNapalm|rating=4.5

|summary=When the end of the world as we know it comesIt's September 1973 in Hicks, Edgar California. Hicks is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and his family eke out Las Vegas both a nightmarish existence significant drive away. Not much happens in the dark until their supplies run outHicks. Fortunately they are lucky, A silver mine and they a defence contractor are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, main local employers but he and his wife and children become separatedotherwise, and so begins Edgarthere's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds not much of miles awaynote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryuntil....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1399613073|title= Silent ScreamMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In ''Silent Scream''Olivia, DLaura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century.I Kim Stone Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is called a bonus when you aim to investigate be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the body free spirit of a woman found dead in the bath of group and she becomes a house that has been set on fireGP. As Stone When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn't s going to be an isolated case and they are end in a race against tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the clock to find out who could consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be next on an eerily similar event that will impact the killerthree friends. This time, it's hit list and whytheir teenage children who are involved. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= V H LeslieSunny Singh|title= Bodies of WaterHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers |summary= Bodies of Water The Hotel Arcadia is a concise novella featuring luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a dual narrative terrorist group. Hiding from the perspectives of Kirstenterrorists who are rampaging through, a modern day woman killing everyone on the mend from site, there is Sam, a broken heart, wartime photographer and EvelynAbhi, a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre for ailing womenthe hotel manager. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater House, attempting As Abhi continues to try to heal herself with care remotely for the proximity of residents who are still alive in the water. Centuries agohotel, Evelyn was forced he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her father room to visit that same house in order try to restore capture what's happened through her old vigourphotography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that haunts their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her. In fact, the water itself is a powerful keep safe and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon they both of their lives, Kirsten and Evelyn search wait to unveil see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before themterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Camilla WayCody Goodfellow|title= Watching EdieVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Edie and Heather are two old friends who haven't kept in touch as they left their teenage years behind, but a chance encounter brings Heather back just when Edie most needs a friend. ItThere's so welcome, this return, that she's happy to accept the coincidence and not think too hard something about the events tall buildings that may have brought the two girls back togetherjust captures my imagination. From long lost friend to established confidant, Heather seamlessly reintegrates herself into EdieWho doesn's lifet love a good view from up high, but are things as rosy as they seem, or does one of after all? Even the girls have a big secret theydrabbest office building is somewhere I're trying m intrigued to forget?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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008159017</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Reid1804183210|title=I'm Thinking of Ending ThingsNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=3.54

|summary= The unnamed Girlfriend is driving with her boyfriend Jake to his parentThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's farmhouse out in t have been on the country. True to rostrum when the titlecolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, she's thinking about ending their relationship.But something seems a little off. When she meets his parentsbut Peter Radway, the Girlfriend begins to think therechairman, hadn's something not quite right about themt arrived, so he continued his session. On their way back they stop outside To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an abandoned school, understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and thatElliot 'Mitch's Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when things get really frighteningthe two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231049</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Ryan Howard1405951680|title=Distress SignalsThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=54

|summary=Cruise ship ''The Celebrate'' is a place for leisure, relaxation andJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it seemsby her friend, disappearanceRupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. To AdamAfter the problems she's knowledge two women have disappeared from d had at work, it seemed like just the ship mid-ocean, a fact that interests him as one of them is his partner Sarahbreak she needed. The search She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her began with a note birth and seems in need of the space to have ended on board but he won't let it goget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. If Sarah is out there, Adam will find her even though he may not A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like what he discovers along just the way about the woman he loves and thought he knewticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782398384</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz 1448309743|title=Trigger Mortis The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Bond is backIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with five members of a seemingly simple mission (at least for Bond)wealthy family are found murdered. After a few days training, James heads to Germany to race in The only item missing from the home is the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop Devil Stone: myth says that if the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victorystone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. However The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, wethat're not surprised s an easy conclusion given that Bond soon uncovers a much bigger and more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) and SMERSH (a top-secret department two of them 'discovered' the Russian government) to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions of New Yorkers and toppling the Empire State Buildingbody. As the clock ticks down The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, only Bond and CIA field-agent, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. But are they already too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian CaldwellB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Fifth GospelLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=54

|summary= Conspiracy thrillers are many Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and varied. They often promise had money to throw around on a lot but leave you feeling frustrated Rolex watch, vintage wines and disappointed. ''The Fifth Gospel'' is the rare exception. In a genre filled with mediocrity it soars above state-of-the competition-art sound system. The care and quality that Ian Caldwell brings to his writing is exceptional Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and his storytelling is giftedcertainly more than acquaintances. Set in the heart Finns had no intention of the Vaticangoing on to University, he weaves unlike our storyteller who had a tale around place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the discovery of a missing gospelUK's third most prestigious university. The religious and political intriguesBefore going up, handled with great subtletyhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, are twisted into a complex narrative full of intimate detailsClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471111040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisDean Koontz|title=Different ClassThe House at the End of the World|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= St Oswald's Grammar School For Boys When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in crisis. A murdered schoolboy, a procession small chain of new Head Masters, a(nother) new Head Master, a Crisis Intervention Team tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and a potential merger with St Oswald's all female counterpart, Mulberry Housesolitude. Roy Straitley is not altogether dismayed at the prospect of delaying his retirement; St OswaldThat's has been his what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life, man to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and boy and a crisis is a crisis after all is said would have been the aforementioned peace and done, isn't solitude were it? It's probably his duty to stay and right not for the ship. So when pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the latest neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the new Head Masters name of science and his duo of crisis managers walk into the staff room, Straitley can't quite believe his old eyes. The new Head is an ex-pupil of St Oswald's; a boy who, in his time at possibly bringing about the esteemed old School caused such an uproarious scandal that one end of the Masters ended up in prison! all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619235</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1787636607|title=The Hanging ClubTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary= When It's a scene replicated all too often in the three yobbos who kick early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to death a young husband get home. Some are lucky and father are given a perfunctory sentence, DC Wolfe finds it hard manage to hold his true feelings in checkget one of the few taxis available. Confounded by Others squash onto the injustice night bus that will only go as far as one of the British Courts and legal systemoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', DC Wolfe spends a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much particularly in the light of his life in fighting crime'the missing women'. For one young woman, finding murderers and bringing them to justice when the integrity final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingher home. Luckily for DC Wolfe he has his bright She had intended to ring someone to come and funny daughter Scout collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to keep him from looking too hard into beg the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until the videos bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start being posted on the internetwalking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1529195977|title=Orphan X (Evan Smoak)None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=1-855-2-Nowhere is On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the number you can call Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when you're in dangershe encountered Josie Fair. The She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only payment needed for a very violent but terminal solution is she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that you pass the number on to someone else not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in troubleSt Mary's hospital. Evan SmoakThat's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, the man attached to the phone numberNathan, has been trained. A strategic thinker and total expert are in the fields midst of a joyful, monied group of espionage friends and killingwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, he was kidnapped as a pre-teen to take part in a covert programmethey're enjoying themselves. That was long ago though Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and now life is differentyou get the sense that Walter's not too happy. Normally everything runs like clockwork He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but one day that clock stops and a countdown of a different sort begins. Evan it is Orphan X and Orphan X is himself in troubleJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181840</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>0718181840</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1803136383|title=Fault/lines (Hadron Damnation Book 0)Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=What starts off as a day that should be remembered for a medical appointment soon becomes anything but for DCI Tracey Hanson. When planes start falling Wat Tyler has returned from the sky she and DI Reggie Chambers are thrown together fighting in the thick Vietnam under something of ita cloud. In the midst What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the carnage, a teenager is orphanedconsensus. Definitely a tragic event but Wat himself is there more keeping his cards close to it than that?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>153061936X</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>153061936X</amazonus>his chest, as he always does.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma KavanaghB0C7J9D21B|title= The Missing HoursA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Selena Cole has an unusual jobWhen we first meet our hero, working in the field his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Kidnap and RansomBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, but this time sheit's the one in trouble. While playing in the park with her children she vanishes, a bordello and returns 24 hours later with no recollection of where sheEttore's been. Oh and in the meantime, a man has been murderedmother died when he was born. It He's probably completely unconnectednot been short of mothers, though - but this is a reasonably small town and for the local police someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's unusual difficult to have two such infrequent events in quick successionobtain 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894678</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annabel Kantaria0241996104|title= The DisappearanceComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= AudreyNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, widowed mother has been convicted of grown up twinstheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, is setting off for one last hurrah, taking her children on after Martin receives a Greek island cruiselife sentence. It The barrister tells her that she's quite received a nice gesture for the pair, to whom 'silent sentence' - she's starting not been found guilty of anything but will have to feel something live with what happened for the rest of a burdenher life. Of course, but it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she has inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the time most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and the means to treat them, so why shouldn't she? There may 'rich bitch'' might not be more to it than that, thoughprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848454406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Samantha Hayes1529135389|title= In Too DeepThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Rick is an ordinary manNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. Husband to Gina, father to Hannah There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. And then one day he’s They'd not. He goes out to buy been in the newspaper architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and never returns. Not so ordinary after were still getting used to allthe high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. It’s now months later. The investigation has slowed right down. There are no real leads to follow, Some of them fought with each other and so didn't work as far reliably as the Police are concerned, that’s itthey should. Of course it’s not so easy for Gina It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Hannah, and so when they get a mysterious phone call they jump quickly were still getting used to conclusions and jump having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the car swimming pool with a wound to follow uphis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893418</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Eric AmblerAlan Parks|title= The Light of DayTo Die in June|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= If he hadn't been arrested by What first seems like the Turkish policeunfortunate, he'd have been arrested by accidental death of a homeless man on the Greek police…and of course it's not his faultstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Not at This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all. Nothing ever the more so because his own father isa down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. Arthur Abdel Simpson At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is one also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of those people a woman who bumble idly into troubleclaims her little boy has gone missing, never only no record of their own making, naturallythe boy having existed can be found. He's also one of those people Something feels wrong - not just with an eye for the main chance, so although – taking a generous view – you might even agree woman’s story but also with him that but for the actions of others other officers where he'd never have has been in that position in the first placestationed, once there, he's unlikely to let an opportunity slip by untaken.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356509</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Maggie Mitchell1529382823|title= Pretty IsThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 34.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= One summer there are two disappearancesCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Two 12 year old girls from opposite coasts go missing They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, presumed abductedGemma, presumed dead. Maybe theyreckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn're connected, maybe they arent spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'tknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. Two months later they are rescued alive They've not been a couple for that long and returned the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their familiesmother who has dementia. But can they ever really go home again It's going to be good, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409152685</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lee ChildMark Edwards|title= Make MeKeep Her Secret|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Keever is deadMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. We know The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this from the outsetmoment, because in even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the opening lines edge of ''Make Me'' he is being buried under a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the hog pensnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. There are reasons for thisConvinced she is going to die, not least because Helena must purge herself of the ground is already churned up by the hogsshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and anywhere else frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in this vast mid-west expanse of wheat fields would be terribly visible from the airand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857502689</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S L GreyJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= Under GroundThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=When 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 devastating super-flu hitsbook fair, she flukes her way into a collection of public argument with the paranoid and super-wealthy decide to hole up latest hot shot in a state the world of the artcrime fiction, luxury underground bunker complexsaying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. It doesn't get off Cue the bet that she cannot live up to a great startthat accusation. The separate families don't gel together Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, the 'luxury' isn't at where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all what they'd been promised and soon they realise that they would be safer . Just on the outside. When the owner dies mysteriouslypoint of despairing – about her writing, about the residents of people and the sanctum are locked in and are being picked off one by one ... but is it a series lack of fluke accidentsstimulus for her plot, more or is there a killer among them? They are trapped together, with no outside communication and with no choice but to rely on those they mistrust. With tension high and food and water low, luxury civilisation less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has turned into the rules of the jungle. The question is, who will survive? (If anyone ...) been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447266455</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pascal Garnier and Emily Boyce (translator)0861544056|title=Too Close to the EdgeTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Meet Pascal Garnier. Normally, in starting a review that way, IBelle and David'm on about s twin daughters are just coming to the main character end of the book, but it could be said the biggest character of any Pascal Garnier book is Pascal Garnier, not that that's a flawtheir first term at university. Over a half-dozen titles IKit've come to know the pattern of his output, s been at Bristol and itJess's fair to say this example fits it very wellin Exeter. Again, It's not a faultonly the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. His thrillers Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a small cast list of characters, trapped somehow in a small community, cut off by weather, season or remotenesswhile. Here we are Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with Eliette, and just a handful of others, and watching her as she celebrates the return of spring ? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to her remote home, an ex-silk farm in southern Franceupset Kit. All characters have a darkness about them, including Eliette – Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she had wanted to retire to the place can cope with her loving, long-term husband, but he died of cancer months before retirementthat. And the final piece of the Garnier pattern is that that darkness, the black surrounding the night stars to use one of the more memorable lines here, is that things – said situation, other people, life itself – cause people to do some equally black and stupid acts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477257</amazonuk>they'll be sharing a bedroom.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hilary SpiersRobert Dugoni|title= Hester and HarrietHer Deadly Game|rating= 4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Hester and Harriet are two respectable widowed sisters in their sixties, living a Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life 's work of pleasant routine in their cottage in a quiet village. Known Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to all their neighbours, they play bridge, do good turns, and his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in short are everything two ladies defence of their age and station should behis clients. It's no surprise Along with an indisputable talent for the law, then, that their first thought upon seeing a frightened young woman with Patsy also has a baby in a disused bus shelter on Christmas morning is gift for drinking himself to take her home oblivion and feed herinevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. But not everyone Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the worldhideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, or even in their villageMiller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, has such good intentions. Life is about to get terribly complicatedsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925266818</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah BeeVanda Symon|title=The Last Thing I RememberExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Contemporary writers are mining Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a rich seam brutal, shocking murder of psychological thrillers and, within this genre, I seem to be particularly attracted to stories featuring comatose protagonistsan expectant woman in Dunedin. Comatose protagonists? Isn't that a contradiction Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in terms? True, you do normally expect the hunt for a protagonist tokiller targeting pregnant women, well, do somethingwith all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. And Deborah Mee's heroine Sarah does nothing at all Finding herself put on desk duties, other than listen, and try and rememberwhich she rails against, from her unconscious state. In her narrative she offers us nothing more than fractured memories just can't let the case go and snippets of conversations from around her bedside. Yet with these meagre tools she helps the reader build up a vivid picture of starts to follow every thread to uncover what is 's actually happening around her, of her own character, and of the events leading to her hospital admission. As a reader you gradually piece together what made Sarah what she is today. At first you see an apparently successful career woman in a loving marriage but, as layers are gradually removed, what lies beneath becomes apparent. Sarah's controlling husband has a sinister brother who comes to sit by her bedside, while her toxic mother wages an ongoing war increasingly disturbing worry of words with Sarah's spineless father... At times I wanted to weep for just what happened to Sarah; at other times I wanted to scream at her for letting it might happennext.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0196P0S4W</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Dawson1787301036|title= You Sent Me A LetterWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= ItWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's scary enough turning 40 (Ijust ten years old. She've heard) without being awoken on 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 eve necessity of your birthday by a strange man who has broken into your bedroom with a rather bizarre messageLesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Emerging from July's teacher is concerned and brings up the shadows, he hands Sophie an envelope possibility of abuse with strict instructions to open it that evening as the head but her party is in full swing. She worries are dismissed: Mick has no idea what is insidebeen good to the school, but it canhas he not? The playground wouldn't be goodhave been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396225</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Judith Hermann0008454493|title= Where Love BeginsAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Stella lives an ordinary life in Isabelle 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 small town in Germanymoment. While It's now a year since her young daughter son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is at kindergarten, consumed with guilt that she works as a domiciliary nurse. After school heard nothing and at particularly about her relief in the weekend morning when she is for all intents thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and purposes a single motherwhen we meet her, for her husband Jason works away she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a lotkeynote presentation. We don On the plane back, she't know if she is happys approached by a podcaster, per seWaylon Spencer, but who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she doesn't seem unhappycould by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254702</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Gardner1848458436|title=FoxJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=Ok. When reviewing a thriller, you have a dilemma. Because the plot is the point, you see. You don't want to give too much away because it's not just the denouement that's a spoiler; it's the The whole thing. But you do have to give potential readers a decent idea has spiralled out of what theycontrol, turning into someone I'll be gettingm not. So here is my stab at interesting you while still keeping you guessing about ''Fox''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993368042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chevy Stevens|title= Those Girls|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary=''Those girlsJust the Nicest Couple'' don't have it easy. Jessis the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Courtney and Dani are graftersNina and Jake Hayes. Teen girls with a mum who The connection between the two is gone that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a father who is barely there, they have foursome but it's not a lot to contend withregular thing. They're hard workers but life Christian is not glam, out of the farm where things are dusty, dirty a market research analyst and, at times, dangerous. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555061</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ruth Ware|title= In Jake is a Dark, Dark Wood|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Nora Shaw hasnneurosurgeon: they don't seen her friend Clare since Nora left school ten years ago and didnhave much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't look back. Now working as a crime writer and living in Londonsaid anything yet, but she is naturally surprised when she receives an invitation to Clare's hen party – pregnant. She has a weekend in a woodland cottage in the Northumberland country. Curious as to why Clare would invite her after all these years Nora reluctantly agrees lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to come, but as tempt fate by making the weekend unfolds something goes very wrong and old secrets are slowly revealedknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598248</amazonuk>