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|isbn=17863323880241678412|title=The First Day Proof of SpringMy Innocence|author=Nancy TuckerJonathan Coe|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and ''guests gather at The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasionManor. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you It's their opening weekend and won't let gosplendid celebrations are promised. So, whatIt's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main characterall headed up by Francesca Meadows. When we first meet The Manor was her ancestral home and she's just eight years old, small converted it into an impressive retreat for her age the wealthy and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyfamous. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she Her husband, Owen, was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upthe architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in The heat is oppressive and amongst the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? guests are enemies as well as friends. HasnOld scores are going to be settled and it won't he been dead for be long enough?before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCSaima Mir|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Sarah Wallace said 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 fact that she grew up 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 a council estate in Kent page and that she had two brothers screen) and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, she canit needn't sleep because her son, Freddie, whobe a hindrance if it's nearly sixteen, hasngood enough. And that wasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in bya problem here. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going Vengeance swiftly brings you up to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughspeed, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someoneI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Louise CandlishDavid Chadwick|title=The HeightsHeadload of Napalm

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. SheIt's on siteSeptember 1973 in Hicks, visiting California. Hicks is a client for Mojave desert town of a lighting consultation when she spies him 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 building across defence contractor are the way. There are lots of thingsmain local employers but otherwise, lots there's not much of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any note other daythan dive bars and Joshua trees. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsLife is quiet, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderuntil....|isbn=1471183483B0D321VJ76

|isbn=18388538041399613073|title=The Cursed GirlsMoral Injuries|author=Caro RamsayChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory 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 of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondruthlessly ambitious, only which is a bonus when you aim to find that he'd hanged himselfbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Twenty years later she's back home again Laura is a perfectionist and this time the occasion is no less sada trauma doctor. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who Anjali is dying the free spirit of anorexiathe group and she becomes a GP. As she dies, Melissa whispers When we first meet them they'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor re at a drug and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry alcohol- or was fuelled party and it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? going to end in tragedy. The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the County and money was never in short supply consequences. Twenty- but five years later there did seem to will be a cursean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. In addition to MelissaThis time, it's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeteenage children who are involved. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbnauthor=1409181669Sunny Singh|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Mariana was convinced The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Hiding from the death of Tara Hampton terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecesite, Zoethere is Sam, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend a wartime photographer and she was struggling to copeAbhi, the hotel manager. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having As Abhi continues to go try to Cambridge, but she caught care remotely for the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all residents who are still alive in the more so hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the death events, and keeps on venturing out of Marianaher room to try to capture what's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierhappened through her photography. Zoe had been Although they only ever talk over the phone, their surrogate daughter after 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 death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizaterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|author=Sarah LanganCody Goodfellow|title=Good NeighboursVertical|rating=43.5

|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, itThere's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''something about tall buildings thatjust captures my imagination. Who doesn's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live t love a world apart good view from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescentup high, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like after all ? Even the other families (hedrabbest office building is somewhere I's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and m intrigued to get inside if it's all going ok40 stories tall. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens So when I picked up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but this book – about people who scale tall buildings for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comefun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn=17890982111803363991

|isbn=00083955941804183210|title=Both of YouNo Reserve|author=Adele ParksFelix Francis

|summary=You could be forgiven Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresauction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeTo say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Mark, Oli and Seb are shatteredTwo men had been bidding against each other. Well, Mark Brian Kitman and Seb are but OliElliot 'Mitch's sixteen Mitchell were well-known and at respected in the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookracing industry. He's 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 a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing deliberately bid up and starting to become independentthat figure. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hardBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. Then Daan JanssenThe following morning, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracethe horse was dead in its stall.

|isbn=18484584281405951680|title=Local Woman MissingThe Safe House|author=Mary KubicaCameron Ward

|summary=Eleven years agoJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was luxury property in the habit of going out Australian outback for a run late at nightcouple of months. It was After the only time problems she 'd had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was out she would meet up with no longer a man, grateful data analyst for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband returning to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and the country of her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed in need of the space to be under some strain for get over the last couple traumatic end of weeks or soher relationship with Charles. Her body was eventually found A few weeks in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point the Otway Ranges in looking for herVictoria sounded like just the ticket.

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1448309743|title=RabbitsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to In the world village of The Game. Or should that be Cronchie on the gameWest coast of Scotland, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. It's also called Rabbits, although The only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like item missing from the game of life then. Yes, this home is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – Devil Stone: myth says that if the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack stone is removed from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, KOtterburn House, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possibledeath will follow. K and his bezzies The only suspects are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst known Satanists but in many things the most unique of high score boardsways, for the lists that's an easy conclusion given that two of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itthem 'discovered's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwisebody. Unfortunately for K The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..shadow' him.|isbn=1529016932

|isbn=1529124255B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The WhispersLast Person in the World|author=Heidi PerksMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be Our narrator was a bodyscholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going had money to have to go back to the previous September. throw around on a Grace Goodwin has Rolex watch, vintage wines and a soft Australian accent state-of-the- she's lived there since her teens art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to livecertainly more than acquaintances. Her husbandFinns had no intention of going on to University, Graham, works unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughterWellingford, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment sheUK's foundthird most prestigious university. Grace's best friendBefore going up, Anna Robinsonhe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, is still Clouds Manor in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tooWest Dorset. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Girls Who LieThe House at the End of the World|rating=34

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that all sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the dark corners of Iceland have featured map and live out your days in their noirish thrillers peace and crime books before nowsolitude. You think, seeing That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the map that we're set in Akranes, aforementioned peace and finding solitude were it's only twenty kilometres from not for the capital citypesky US Government occupying Ringrock, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the book aims for name of science and quite possibly bringing about the usual small-town feel, itend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's not just a scene replicated all too often in Akranes that our interests liethe early hours of the morning. Six months ago Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a woman failed way to turn up for her date evening, get home. Some are lucky and was never seen againmanage to get one of the few taxis available. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed Others squash onto the night bus that she could now live permanently with will only go as far as one of the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for outlying villages. The woman all regret the girl back'taxi problem', and a couple particularly in the light of delighted adopters'the missing women'. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in For one placeyoung woman, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, final stop on the body has been discovered, in bus leaves her a third, even more remote placelong way short of her home. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy postShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in but her bodyphone's dead. Is The bus had driven off before she had the assumption that is so easy for chance to beg the reader bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

|isbn=15290473151529195977|title=The LamplightersNone of this is True|author=Emma StonexLisa Jewell

|summary=''A fisherman told him once about On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the sea having two facesLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. You have to take them bothShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, he saidonly she was just with her husband, the good Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and the badJosie birthday twins, and never turn your back on either one of themthey were both born in St Mary's hospital. That'' In 1972s where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, fifteen miles off are in the coast midst of Cornwalla joyful, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas monied group of friends and New Yearwhilst they''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that re not ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletsexactly'' but rowdy, they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock're enjoying themselves. It was broken into Josie, on the next dayother hand, but there was no sign of holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the mensense that Walter's not too happy. The table was set for He's not used to spending this much money on a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the menbut it is Josie's birthday after all.

|isbn=18385950311803136383|title=Crooked: Honest CriminalityTin Soldiers|author=Bronwen JohnDavid Chadwick

|summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by the new Banksy - and they should have made a decent profit Wat Tyler has returned from it. The problem was they were too successful: one fighting in Vietnam under something of the marks had bought a few and then discovered that they were valuelesscloud. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for a simple con What actually happened out there is gossiped about and his fathernobody is sure exactly what took place, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like that. The grifters were going but an act of heroism leading to pay. Ashia 'Ash' Cox a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed disgrace seems to be got out of the countryconsensus. In the course of bringing this aboutWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, Luke Gaines, Ash's foster father, lost his lifeas he always does.

|isbn=1838952012B0C7J9D21B|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 FavourHouse 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=Laura VaughanJane Corry

|summary=The rejection by Oxford came as a bit of a shock to Ada Howell: she wasNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, after allMartin, the daughter has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the renowned authorcourt, Anthony Howell, who'd been to this collegeafter Martin receives a life sentence. Well, The barrister tells her that she wasn't s received a 'silent sentence'actually- 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' Howells made worse because Nancy's daughter: he'd married rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother after her birth - and had then adopted her, so she was the papers are making the most of it. ''chosenFarmhouse slaughter daughter' rather than just 'madeis one favourite epithet and ', which was better really. And whilst we're being honest, we might as well admit that rich bitch'renowned author' might not be stretching 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 county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the truth a little: his books degenerated into self-published poetry which Ada couldnart music system installed in The Glass Barn. They't understandd 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. Still, Ada had felt entitled Some of them fought with each other and this was why her godmotherdidn's offer t work as reliably as they should. It had all come at such about through a ten-million-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 brilliant timewound to his head.

|author=C A SachaAlan Parks|title=Legacy: A Political ThrillerTo Die in June

|summary= Corporate boss Gene Finnegan Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a plan cruise to increase his already startling wealth and ensure his legacy: to bring the worldNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's first emission-free car to market and dominate production. The secret development project to enable thissister, BucephalusGemma, reckons that Pete is already underway going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and Finnegan bankrolls US president Joseph Montgomery into she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a second term couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to help know him carry it outa bit better. Montgomery Meanwhile, Gemma is also looking for a legacy and one that does not involve his controlling after Caz's cafe as well as their mother and her foundationwho has dementia. It's going to be good, so grabs onto Finneganisn's Feed Africa programme with both hands...|isbn=1800461976t it?

|isbnauthor=0008336830Mark Edwards|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathKeep Her Secret

|summary=Sondra was Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this 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 way home after work when she saw rucksack between her and a young woman looking as though 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she was is going to jump from die, Helena must purge herself of the Clifton suspension bridgeshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a 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. She talks Sorry to leave herbottles 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 Sondra finally persuades Satnam only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to call that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her best friend writing, about the people and flatmatethe lack of stimulus for her plot, Nevis Smithmore or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Nevis is unworldly Kit's been at Bristol and rather reserved Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - and can she canbring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't understand why Satnam hasncome but doesn't shared her problems want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with herthat. She thought And they shared everything'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=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. Satnam is taken Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to hospital oblivion and Nevis calls her mother, Honorinevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. They've not been on good terms since Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a discovery Nevis made job at the previous summer but right nowfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, Nevis needs her mothersouth.|isbn=1662500181

|author=Catherine SteadmanVanda Symon|title=The Disappearing ActExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot 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 on heading that way will lead to the cusp necessity of successa Lesson. Great success Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. If July's teacher is concerned and brings up the rumours possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are truedismissed: Mick has been good to the school, award season is going to treat her 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|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, acknowledging her apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for her latest, critically acclaimed productiona moment. She It's going places but sonow a year since her son, unfortunatelyMason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her partnerrelief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. And In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the places heplane back, she's going take him towards liesapproached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, deceit who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a pretty young few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the 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 Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the form of his new co-starsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. It The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a good time for Mia to escape, market research analyst and pilot season Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in LA provides just common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the excuseknowledge public.|isbn=1471189783