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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->0241678412 <!-- Jackson -->|title=The Proof of My Innocence|-author=Jonathan Coe| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:1785763911.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785763911/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Thrillers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[DonLife after university hasn't Make a Sound by David Jackson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Malcolm worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, living with her parents and Harriet are on a little oddzero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. That much is clear from the start, from the way he is around her, the way he prepares things in such All those ideas of becoming a way as writer seem to have come to make her happynothing. It The situation improves when 'Uncle's a nice sentimentChris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, but something is offRashida. We meet their daughter Daisy and again, it all seems nice enough but there's Christopher Swann (described by some as a vibe, lefty blogger) is investigating a hint of a feeling that all is not what it seemsthink tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Just how bad things are, though, It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is yet ready to be revealedact. [[Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson|Full Review]]}}<!-- Klehfoth -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0008385068| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley[[image:0241329493.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241329493/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Thrillers|summary===[[All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth]]=== [[image:5starIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Elizabeth Klehfoth It's debut novel is a mystery thriller written from the perspective of Charlie Calloway, a teenage girl in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearancetheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. As the story progresses she begins to learn more about what happened to It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her mother, finding out along the way that not everyone was who ancestral home and she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' s converted it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers toointo an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. [[All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth|Full Review]]  <!-- Hall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806 Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site.jpg|link=http://www The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends.amazon.co Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.uk/dp/1785630806/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===3.5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a this novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic – an organised crime syndicate in the simplest north of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening England run by a gramophone companyMuslim woman. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a course towards Londonhindrance if it's underworldgood enough. They will ascend broken And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and their lives changed foreverI never felt lost. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]]isbn=0861541561}}<!-- Kerr -->{{Frontpage|-author=David Chadwick| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Headload of Napalm|[[image:178429652X.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/178429652X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]=== [[image:4starIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Set Not much happens in Germany in 1957Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' s not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraudquiet, until... Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. The investigation takes him to Greece5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and back into Anjali met on the dark times first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the wara century. With layered plots and double-crossing leftOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, right and centre, there's lots which is a bonus when you aim to keep you guessing throughout this storybe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473621569fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473621569/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=[[The Reckoning Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]=== [[image:4a terrorist group.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] [[The Legacy: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]]Abhi, this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers of both its leads – Huldar hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the policemanhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and child psychologist Freyja. Demoted and stuck with a kind keeps on venturing out of love/hate connection, they are left staring into space for want of something her room to try to happencapture what's happened through her photography. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains Although they only ever talk over the police have been tipped off aboutphone, but still isn't allowed their friendship grows as Abhi tries to investigate them, so he settles for help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsuleterrorists. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3. It5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's the nature of these books something about tall buildings that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but howjust captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, we will be asking, will either relate to after all? Even the prologue, where a young girl 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 snatched ten years ago, and what is a modern family under threat to do with anything? [[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)instantly intrigued.|Full Review]]isbn= 1803363991<!-- Child -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1804183210| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"No Reserve|author=Felix Francis[[image:0356510700.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510700/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Thrillers| stylesummary="verticalThirty-align: top; textfour-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt -align: left;"|===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the futurechairman, your social feed is your entire existencehadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. Alovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other.I. is here Brian Kitman and it is all around youElliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. It fills your fridge, it keeps Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishesthat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. It is also stealing your jobs and The following morning, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide herthe horse was dead in its stall. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The problem is that Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the personality on Australian outback for a couple of months. After the glasses is that problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her missing birth and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her in need of the space to stop using them or at get over the very least to reset them to a different personalitytraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. But Freya A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just can't do thisthe ticket. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, part five members of Freya can't believe that it can be this accuratea wealthy 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, it can't be this Rubydeath will follow. Is it just possible The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that something more 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is feeding this personality than Rubypulled in to 'shadow's data? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Review]]him.}}<!-- Goddard -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree[[image:0593076362.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593076362/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]=== [[image:5starOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Don Challenor is It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a down boarder and had money to throw around on his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house in Cornwall Rolex watch, vintage wines and upon meeting a state-of-the live-in cleaner, Blake, finds his life utterly turned upside downart sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a witchplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, professional heavies and a mysterious panic roomthe UK's third most prestigious university. Intrigue builds on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexBefore going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset. [[Panic Room by Robert Goddard|Full Review]]}}<!-- Laws -->{{Frontpage|-author=Dean Koontz| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The House at the End of the World[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, 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 know – a full one-line can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a ''Beyond small chain of tiny dots on the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, map and live out your days in fact, by blowing it up peace and immediately bursting itsolitude. That is 's what that paper Katie thought she was to many – doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the indicator of a lot of hot air, aforementioned peace and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, solitude were it not everyone was keen on his appeasement with for the Nazispesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and this book opens with perpetrating all manner of mischief in the first-person reportage name of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign science and quite possibly bringing about the Sudetenland awayend of all mankind. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving |isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud scene replicated all too often in the early hours of ignominy, to pick the last, barest threads morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of the story up clubs and see just what did happen looking for a way to himget home. Oh, Some are lucky and her help has just come out manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of prison… [[Munich: the outlying villages. The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]] <!-- Parsons -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178089595Xwoman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'.jpg|link=http://www For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home.amazon She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead.coThe bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his.uk/dp/178089595X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-21]]heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1529195977|title=None of this is True|author===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]===Lisa Jewell [[image:5star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime5|Crime]], [[:Category:genre=Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with an air ambulance, the mess falls on a busy shopping centre and we are barely out crowd of friends in the first chapterLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. DC Max Wolfe's latest adventure looks at religion She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, radicalisationonly she was just with her husband, hate Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump to catching those responsible. The rest Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of the book gradually builds a web joyful, monied group of intrigue friends and a virtual soap opera of family issueswhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. [[Girl Josie, on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]  <!-- Herron -->|-the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick[[image:Herron_London.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473657377/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[London Rules Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. 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 Mick Herron]]=== [[image:5starrank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus.jpg|link=Category:Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFrontpage|Thrillers]]isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Claude Whelan, Regent Park's First Desk has insurmountable problems|author=A J Lewis|rating=4. He's charged with protecting a lame duck prime minister5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, but his name is Ettore and he's under fire himselflives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. There Idyllic as this might sound, it's the self-publicising MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote a bordello and who might just be looking to take the PMEttore's job from himmother died when he was born. The MP He's wife is a columnist not been short of mothers, though - but for one someone of the tabloids whohis background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's having a go at Whelan in print and who will do anything difficult to promote her husband's interestsobtain decent employment. Then there's The stint working with the PMpreparation of anchovies didn's favourite Muslim who's running for mayor despite having a very dark secret himselft work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. As Ettore was nothing if this wasn't enough, Whelan's deputy, Lady Di Taverner is watching for his every stumble not resourceful - and determined - and it's was not so that she can catch him and help him to safetylong before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money. [[London Rules by Mick Herron|Full Review]]<!-- James -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=0241996104| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry[[image:James_Righteous.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/154628673X?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagThrillers|summary=thebookbagNancy's mother and step-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=154628673X]]  | style="verticalfather were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James]]=== [[image:3brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence's Non-Fiction|Childrenshe's Non-Fiction]]  In not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the crazy world rest of Arthur Brownher life. Of course, he can be standing at the altar giving his dutifully prepared sermon one minute, and wasting bad guys with his guns the next. Whatit's made worse because Nancy's inspired this? Two lowrich -lifes, way she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the top papers are making the most of the crime ladder in this particular city, who stole millions from a shady casino, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and stashed the money in his basement''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. Two other lowlifes, working for the drug lord who owns }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the casino, come for morning at the money, kill Arthur's family, and leave him so badly knifed county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on his floor that hethe state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They's taken d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for dead when he's discovered. But he's not dead, long and nor is his God-given hope were still getting used to redress all the balance in his town, and to right some very big wrongs. Yes, truly is he the god high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of hell fire, them fought with each other and he will take some men to burn… [[A Righteous Killer: Blood Murder Betrayal by Ellace James|Full Review]] <!didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million- Mariaffi -->pound lottery win and 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| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Alan Parks|title=To Die in June[[image:Mariaffi_Remember2.jpg|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657488?ieCrime|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657488]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi]]=== [[image:2What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Heike Lerner leads a seemingly pleasant life in America after a damaged childhood in war-torn Europe. She This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a stay-at-home motherdown and out alcoholic, the wife of a successful psychiatristwith no fixed abode, and her everyday routine is pleasantly quiethe has been for years. Then one afternoon her four-old-son befriends a young girl by At the lakesame time as facing these possible murders, who vanishes suddenly under the water. Although Heike dives in after her, the girl Harry is nowhere also dealing with a move to be seena different police station, leaving Heike wondering what happened to her. In an attempt to find answers, Heike seeks and the help arrival there of paranormal television writer Leo Dolan after a woman who claims her controlling husband refuses to believe her. But then things take another turn when Heike's son disappearslittle boy has gone missing, and it's her husband who was the last to see him aliveonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. [[I Remember You by Elisabeth de Mariaffi|Full Review]] <!-- Ellis Something feels wrong -->|-| stylenot 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="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ieThe Last Passenger|author=UTF8&tagWill Dean|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode4.5|genre=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]] Thrillers| stylesummary="verticalCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4staraged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. There Caz's a link back sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to her childhood here, as propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she might not have been missing but doesn't know whether she was certainly lost's relieved or disappointed. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred They've not to do anything about it: there might have been been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit of pretense but there was no protectionbetter. All that should be in the past Meanwhile, although Elsa Gemma is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has allocated her dementia. It's going to a new casebe good, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you canisn't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]it?}}<!-- Tudor -->{{Frontpage|-author=Mark Edwards| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] Thrillers| stylesummary="verticalMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-align: top; textodd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-align: left;"|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By taking and Helena seems intent on getting the time perfect photograph to encapsulate the new term begins, friendships will be fracturedjoy she is 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 snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a girl will be dead500 foot drop to certain death below. But who Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tightershocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, or someone much closer cryptic declaration to home? Thirty years Matthew. Just moments latertheir heroic, Ed has tried to forget about that summerand frankly very well prepared, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him Icelandic tour guide swoops in and when the letters start hauls Helena to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him safety and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and deathMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]isbn=166250893X}}<!-- Robins -->{{Frontpage|-author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|leftgenre=Thrillers |linksummary=https://www.amazon.coHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008217548]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]===  [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Callie Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and Tilda are very different twinsonly writing what anyone could write. Callie lives a quiet life Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, with where she is put up for a menial jobwintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, whereas Tilda craves about the spotlight, people and is a moderately successful actress. Callie is awkward, suffering from a lifetime the lack of acne, weight issues and comparing herself to her sister and her beautiful white body. Callie has very strong feelings stimulus for her sisterplot, envy, admiration, anger, love, and Tilda laps all of these feelings up. They are grown, and see each other with relative frequency. But now Tilda more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has met a new man, Felix. He's smart, charismatic, successful and very intense, very particular. 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Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and Russia look like being awarded inevitably the football World Cup hosting rights for latter was beginning to overshadow the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport systemformer. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, proven Seattle Prosecutor who have to reciprocate with finds herself in the Russians who helped them get France '98, and they have hideous position of asking her father for a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above at the parapet - family firm because a romantic entanglement with a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yessenior colleague, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the water, and Russia would win out. And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves? 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Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage of possible sticky ends... [[Forests in the Sahara by Paul Stidolph|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Jenny Quintana|title= The Missing Girl|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= In the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982Miller Ambrose, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. 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|summary=Finn Westlake was When we first amused and then horrified when he saw the attractive young woman jumping up and down in the road as his jeep turned the corner: the amusement came from the fact that meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she was wearing 's just soaking-wet bra and pantiesten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. It was when he saw The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the tears streaming down her face death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that he realised the conversation is heading that there was way will lead to the necessity of a serious problemLesson. Diana McGuireOther infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's fathernot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's plane had crashed into teacher is concerned and brings up the river and she had tried and failed to get him out. Sending possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to get more help Finn dived into the river and managed to extract Chester McGuire and his business associate, Sandy Moseleyschool, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but whilst checking that there was no one else in the plane he was seriously injuredfor him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210493</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Perry0008454493|title= Can You Keep a Secret?All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Thornbury Hall is 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 moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the grand ancestral home middle of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter night and Izzy is consumed with his wistful wife Heather guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and their two childrenwhen we meet her, Patrick and Rachelshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. It is also On the setting for many secrets and tragedies all of which resurface twenty years later as Patrick reunites childhood friendsplane back, Niallshe's approached by a podcaster, MarcusWaylon Spencer, Hilary who points out that she could do a podcast and main character Lindsey, for one final party before selling the houseget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920335</amazonuk>