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|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)0241678412|title=The Seven DoorsProof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnLife after university hasn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of worked out quite the way throughthat Phyl anticipated. We start She's back home, living with our couple, she her parents and on a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at the council, being forced to move out terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of their home, becoming a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearswriter seem to have come to nothing. The building hesituation improves when 'Uncle's inheritedChris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, meanwhile, and Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which they let out originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a single mother, more extreme direction and is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says ready to its occupant act.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It'take a hike, Is midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'm moving in s their opening weekend and yousplendid celebrations are promised. It're moving outs all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. NowHer husband, at this stage you may wellOwen, if you know this was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is a genre read, think oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and itwon's going to t be long before a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nobody is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3. We avoid 5|genre completely, as =Thrillers|summary= I say was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – instead learning about Greek tragedy, an organised crime syndicate in case the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that has any bearing 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 what happens here, page and screen) and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. Until at And that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to have completely vanishedspeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=19131933810861541561

|isbnauthor=1471179273David Chadwick|title=House Headload of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchNapalm|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheIt's September 1973 in prisonHicks, on remandCalifornia. She's sharing Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a cell few thousand people with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearsits nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating A silver mine and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as defence contractor are the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Wellmain local employers but otherwise, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithathere's housenot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. So far as the police are concernedLife is quiet, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blooduntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1399613073|title=The Lies You ToldMoral Injuries|author=Harriet TyceChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North Londontheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, they have their established groups. Robin's going which is a bonus when you aim to be an outsidera cardiothoracic surgeon. And why Laura is this happening? a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Well, over a matter Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a few days her parents' marriage fell apartGP. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for When we first meet them they're at a securities firm drug and alcohol- fuelled party and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back it's going to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerend in tragedy. ThatWe don's easier said than done when you've been out of t know who suffered the market place - and tragedy or the country consequences. Twenty- for more than ten five yearslater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|author= Mark DawsonSunny Singh|title= The CleanerHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and coldly competentAbhi, John Milton is one the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of the British governmenther room to try to capture what's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctshappened through her photography. Now Although they only ever talk over the phone, after ten years, he wants outtheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. But his job isn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462X086154742X

|isbnauthor=1838951067Cody Goodfellow|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardVertical|rating=3.5

|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heThere's something about to get a shocktall buildings that just captures my imagination. HeWho doesn's security at t love a supermarket and he's watching a woman who good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if shesomewhere I's planning m intrigued to pay for it. Suddenly get inside if it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is the titles 40 stories tall. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man So when I picked up this book – about people who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of the book scale tall buildings for fun – I was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annainstantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|isbn=178089922X1804183210|title=Invisible GirlNo Reserve|author=Lisa JewellFelix Francis|rating=54

|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeent have been on the rostrum when the colt -yearsas yet unnamed -old and beautiful. By her own admissioncame up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, shehadn's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying mathst arrived, physics and biology at A levelso he continued his session. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an eighthunderstatement. A lovely animal -floor flatbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Something Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch'really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten Mitchell were well-known and she self-harmed for a long timerespected in the racing industry. Aaron organised psychological help Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and for three years Roan Fours was her therapisttheir conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss Both were happy that 'something really, really bad'they had insurance in place. When The following morning, the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest horse was dead in Roanits stall.

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1405951680|title=She Lies CloseThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary= Ava Boone Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was five years old when gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she went missing'd had at work, around 6 months agoit seemed like just the break she needed. There has been She was no sign longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her since, birth and no arrests have been madein need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket. And yet}}{{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, this book five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is not about Avaremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. Not really The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. This book The Senior Investigating Office is about GraceDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house DCI Christine Caplan is a suspect pulled in Avato 's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, sheshadow's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inhim.|isbn=1789094194

|isbn=1409187438B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The First LieLast Person in the World|author=A J ParkMatthew Tree|rating=3.54

|summary=On Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the second of October 37London-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. His wife It was in the bedroom in an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state -of shock -the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and in the bathroom there was a dead man certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had been stabbed repeatedly a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the neck with PaulUK's paper-knifethird most prestigious university. In that moment Paul takes Before going up, he took up a decision that will be irrevocable: he decides that he and Alice are not going loose invitation to ring the police and tell the truth. They're going to bury the body visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedWest Dorset.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Dean Koontz|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayThe House at the End of the World

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the private road in Glen Turritmorning. It was Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a long road through some breath-taking scenery way to get home. Some are lucky and she could push the car manage to its limits without fear get one of being caught speedingthe few taxis available. When Others squash onto the blond child stepped out in front night bus that will only go as far as one of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a treeoutlying villages. When she came round after The woman all regret the accident she couldn't work out where she wastaxi problem', but it obviously wasnparticularly in the light of 'the missing women't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time agoFor one young woman, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to final stop on the bus leaves her for a long timeway short of her home. Shehad intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone'd made it when s dead. The bus had driven off before she chose had the chance to have beg the bus driver to let her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=17808998581529195977|title=To Tell None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on 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|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= 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 rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not 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|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Truthcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall

|summary=When Lucy Bewley Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was nine-years-old she crept out no sign of the house her husband but opera was playing on the night state-of -the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations -art music system installed in Stoke WoodsThe Glass Barn. Her four-year-old brother, Teddy, would have woken the house if she hadnThey't taken him with her. But d not been in the early hours of architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before herhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. He hadnSome of them fought with each other and didn't and no one has seen him sincework as reliably as they should. Lucy's story was crucial It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to the police investigationhaving that sort of money, but it keeps subtly changingtoo. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendEventually, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell Nicole found Tom dead in the policeswimming pool with a wound to his head.

|isbnauthor=1787477681Alan Parks|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerTo Die in June

|summary=It was What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his sonhomeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Gaston's This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father had sold the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure is a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlatdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, owned by a Russian oligarchand he has been for years. Before he even got At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to go there he died, apparently of a heart attackdifferent police station, and the retirement home collected the proceeds arrival there of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the farmhouseboy having existed can be found. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gayalso with the other officers where he has been stationed, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=02419846531529382823|title=I Made a MistakeThe Last Passenger|author=Jane CorryWill Dean

|summary=We know from the very beginning that thereCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They's re off on a tragedy about cruise to happenNew York on ''Atlantica''. On Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a January evening on ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a very crowded platform 3 of Waterloo Underground station couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a man falls under an oncoming trainbit better. That man Meanwhile, Gemma is Matthew Gordonlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Much later we see Poppy Page in the witness box of a crown courtIt's going to be good, getting a very rough ride from the prosecuting barrister.isn't it?

|isbnauthor=0008386137Mark Edwards|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksKeep Her Secret

|summary=Elaine Winterdale took Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the fall for 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 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 landlordsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Aged 37 Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she got has been keeping and makes a suspended sentence because panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a faulty gas boiler had caused public argument with the deaths latest hot shot in the world of 29-year-old Reveka Albu crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her 2-year-old son Benkeflights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Toma Albu Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, husband about the people and fatherthe lack of stimulus for her plot, had more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found them when he returned home.dead…|isbn=1914585615

|isbn=B0867X8NW70861544056|title=Access PointTwin Truths|author=T R GabbayJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention sheBelle and David's helped a man who has been blind for decades twin daughters are just coming to see an image the end of a hummingbirdtheir first term at university. SheKit's thirty-six years old been at Bristol and her life is about to change radically as, cycling home, sheJess's involved in an accident with a busExeter. It's two years before we meet her again and in not only the meantime, shefirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can's spent 392 days in t wait to have them all to herself for a coma and now walks while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with a stickher? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. A professional colleague persuades Ula Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she should let out can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a spare bedroom to bring in some income.

|isbnauthor=1471166023Robert Dugoni|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Kate RhodesVanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary=The 5th Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the occasion hunt for the usual bonfire celebrationsa killer targeting pregnant women, but it would be marred this year by with all the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfireextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. He'd obviously been alive when he was Finding herself put on the fire and desk duties, which she rails against, she just can only have died a terrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as 't let the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing case go and his only concern is the welfare of the birds he looks after. His instinct is she starts to follow every thread to cover Roganuncover what's body actually happening, and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577

|isbn=178730101X1787301036|title=Keep Him CloseWhat July Knew

|rating=35|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 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=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5

|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, Benoît, actually) and Louisapart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. LouIt's seventeen and he's just got now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his A level results bed in the middle of the night and he Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to find something to celebrate particularly about her relief in the letters, D, D and Emorning when she thought he was sleeping in. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-In that year-old Benny but itshe's a done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. touch problematic with Lou She does interviews and being honestwhen we meet her, heshe's not terribly likeablejust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. The letters which kept coming On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to my mind were ADHDso many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.

|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1848458436|title=Into The FireJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=54

|summary= Grant Merriweather ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is a forensic accountantthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Or rather, wasThe connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him aliveThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. He was needed alive just long enough to give up Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a nameneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. His cousinLily hasn't said anything yet, Maxbut she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|isbn=0718185501