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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0241678412|title=The Long Dark RoadProof of My Innocence|author=P R BlackJonathan Coe

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaLife after university hasn's Healeyt worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's nineteenback home, living with her parents and on a zero-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 hours contract serving sushi to tourists at Ferngate Bridgeterminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer All those ideas of help from one man in becoming a big vehiclewriter seem to have come to nothing. WeThe situation improves when 'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops Uncle' Chris comes to stay and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offintroduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. There has been no sign of her - or her body - Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the two years since1980s. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined It plans to find out what happened push the government in a more extreme direction and she's not going is ready to be stoppedact.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0008385068|title= The Last Resort Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 34.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather It's midsummer on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. Dorset coast and guests gather at The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund managerManor. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes It's their attendance necessaryopening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. We follow the group as they explore the island, The Manor was her ancestral home and each othershe's histories converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenfamous. As the clock ticks down Her husband, these well-kept secrets are revealedOwen, was the architect and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat work is really a gilded cagestill ongoing on parts of the site. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance The heat is oppressive and protect the rest of amongst the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themare enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found. |isbn=1542020018}}

|isbnauthor=0008330131Saima Mir|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenVengeance

|summary=When we start ''I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The Stolen Sisters'' we know fact that twenty-years on from it was the second in a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Well, theyseries I hadn't read didn're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD and Marie drinks. Theyt stop me – I're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge of her sisters, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get ve jumped midway into a text from Dean Malden few series before (on page and her mobile phone held her attention. Leah screen) and Marie were nattering about it needn't be a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outsidehindrance if it's good enough. The gate And that wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escapeda problem here. As the three girls went Vengeance swiftly brings you up to chase after him they were snatched by two menspeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Will CarverDavid Chadwick|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripHeadload of Napalm

|summary= Hinton HollowIt'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. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, population there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious,120which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It sounds like one Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of those signs you see on improbably wide highways the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in Americatragedy. We don's midt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-westfive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, but this particular Hinton Hollow it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a small town luxury hotel in Berkshire, Englandan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, until something happened a wartime photographer and he ran away to Abhi, the cityhotel manager. HeAs 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 her room to try to capture what's running away again…only this time evil is following him happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and is going they both wait to touch just about everyone in townsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1913193306086154742X

|isbnauthor=0008378363Cody Goodfellow|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneVertical

|summary=A husband There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about to people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his throat cut in his own bedsession. To find out who say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and why Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well- we need to go back nine days known and twenty yearsrespected in the racing industry. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when they all went to the same college two men came in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still their conversation revealed that the best of friendshorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. When Both were happy that they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the dayhad insurance in place. Lily would be Adventure SpiceThe following morning, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress horse was dead in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldits stall.

|isbn=07515674261405951680|title=The Wicked SisterSafe House|author=Karen DionneCameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's Jess Walker accepted an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen yearsoffer (OK, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when actually she was eleven-years-old and that gently nudged into it by her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family homefriend, Rupert) to caretake a lodge luxury property in the Upper Peninsula wildernessAustralian outback for a couple of months. Rachel's very bright and although After the problems she's a voluntary patient d had at work, it seemed like just the Mental Health Center break she remains there, feeling that this is what needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she deserveswas Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Perhaps, though, A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the circumstances are not as she remembersticket.

|isbn=00083147211448309743|title=Truth Be ToldThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Kia AbdullahCaro Ramsay|rating=54

|summary=The Hadids In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are an ''effortful'' familyfound murdered. Flowers are sent for The only item missing from the home is the slightest problem or achievementDevil Stone: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of myth says that if the familystone is removed from Otterburn House, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamdeath will follow. Their motherThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name s an easy conclusion given that two of them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamrandiscovered' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homebody. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he was rapeddisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Seven DoorsLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt't even try to suggest s a genre scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of any kind until we're clubs and looking for a full fifth of the way throughto get home. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision Some are lucky and decisions at the council, being forced manage to move out get one of their home, a building the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearswill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The building hewoman all regret the 's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant taxi problem'take a hike, I'm moving particularly in and youthe light of 're moving outthe missing women'. NowFor one young woman, at this stage you may well, if you know this is the final stop on the bus leaves her a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'long way short of her home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, She had intended to ring someone to come and seeing how an oldercollect her -middle aged couple live their livesbut her phone's dead. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until The bus had driven off before she had the point where chance to beg the evicted tenant is found bus driver to have completely vanishedlet her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|isbn=1913193381

|isbn=14711792731529195977|title=House None of Correctionthis is True|author=Nicci FrenchLisa Jewell

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyOn her 45th birthday, she's Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in prison, the Landsdown pub on remandSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She's sharing a cell , too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with Michaelaher husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, whothey were both born in St Mary's more caring than she first appearshospital. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her to have husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a showerjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, unpleasant as the whole processes might bethey're enjoying themselves. And how did Tabitha get here? WellJosie, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in other hand, holds her handbag close to her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with tummy and you get the renovations to Tabithasense that Walter's housenot too happy. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodJosie's birthday after all.

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1803136383|title=The Lies You ToldTin Soldiers|author=Harriet TyceDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a new schoolcloud. She's left the school she loved in New York What actually happened out there is gossiped about and now she's going nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are a rare as hens' teeth battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. Robin's going disgrace seems to be an outsiderthe consensus. And why Wat himself is this happening? Wellkeeping his cards close to his chest, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - as he works for a securities firm - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearsalways does.

|authorisbn= Mark DawsonB0C7J9D21B|title= The CleanerA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Ruthless and coldly competentWhen we first meet our hero, John Milton his name is one Ettore and he lives at The House of the British governmentBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctsbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Now He's not been short of mothers, after ten yearsthough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, he wants outit's difficult to obtain decent employment. But his job isnThe stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xwork 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.

|isbn=18389510670241996104|title=The Nothing ManComing to Find You|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=When we 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 Jim DoyleNancy outside the court, he's about to get after Martin receives a shocklife sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's security at received a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if silent sentence' - she's planning not been found guilty of anything but will have to pay live with what happened for itthe rest of her life. Suddenly Of course, it drops to 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the floor with papers are making the spine splayed upwardsmost of it. ''Nothing ManFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' by Eve Black, might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the titlecounty fair before she returned home. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of- the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn'is'' t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million- the Nothing Man whopound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, until eighteen years ago raped and killedtoo. The Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author =Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then killed heranother. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, her but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her sevenlittle boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong -year-old sisternot just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, Anna.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|isbn=178089922X1529382823|title=Invisible GirlThe Last Passenger|author=Lisa JewellWill Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They'When you wear re off on a hood, youcruise to New York on ''re invisible.Atlantica'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admission, sheCaz's a bit of a boffinsister, doing and enjoying mathsGemma, physics and biology at A level. Life reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatrelieved or disappointed. Something They''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed ve not been a couple for a that long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapistthe trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psycheMeanwhile, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really badGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adriftIt's going to be good, but she retained an interest in Roan.isn't it?

|author=Sharon DoeringMark Edwards|title=She Lies CloseKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary= Ava Boone was five Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoafter they first met. There has been no sign The alien-landscape of her since, the lava fields and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book black beaches is not about Ava. Not really. This book breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is about Gracefeeling in this moment, who has 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 discovered the snagged strap of her neighbour in rucksack between her new house is and a suspect in Ava's disappearance500 foot drop to certain death below. As a single mother Convinced she is going to two young childrendie, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she's really wishing this sort of information had come has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to light before they moved Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops inand hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1789094194166250893X

|isbnauthor=1409187438Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkThirty Days of Darkness

|summary=On Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the second end of October 37-year-old barrister, Paul Reeve, returned home their first term at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door openuniversity. His wife was in the bedroom in a state of shock Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the bathroom there was a dead man who had first time they've been stabbed repeatedly in the neck with Paulaway from their parents for any length of time - but they's paper-knifeve also been apart from each other. In that moment Paul takes Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a decision while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that will be irrevocablehe didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he decides 's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that he and Alice are not going to ring the police and tell the truth. TheyAnd they're going to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedll be sharing a bedroom.

|isbnauthor=1787301435Robert Dugoni|title=Dark WatersHer 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=G R HallidayVanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5

|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her second mistake maternity leave when she opted to drive down the private road there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Glen TurritDunedin. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and Suddenly she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out finds herself embroiled in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit hunt for a treekiller targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. When Finding herself put on desk duties, which she came round after the accident rails against, she couldnjust can't work out where let the case go and she wasstarts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, but it obviously wasnand the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she't a conventional hospitals just ten years old. She'd made s a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her first mistake some time agofather, Mick Hooper, although who is not prepared to discuss the realisation wouldndeath of his wife, July't be obvious s mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to her for the necessity of a long timeLesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. SheJuly'd made it when she chose 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 her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4been resurfaced but for him.

|isbn=17808998580008454493|title=To Tell You All the TruthDangerous Things|author=Gilly MacmillanStacy Willingham

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nineIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year -years-old well, apart from the odd occasion when she crept out 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 house on middle of the night of and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the summer solstice morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to watch raise awareness about the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodscase. Her four-year-old brotherShe does interviews and when we meet her, Teddyshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with hers approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences. But in }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the early hours Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the morningNicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that he would Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have got home before hermixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. He hadnChristian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't and no one has seen him sincehave much in common except their wives. LucyLily hasn's story was crucial to the police investigationt said anything yet, but it keeps subtly changingshe's pregnant. Lucy is being advised She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell making the policeknowledge public.