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|isbn=14059409800241678412|title=The BirdcageProof of My Innocence|author=Eve ChaseJonathan Coe
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=ItLife after university hasn's t worked out quite the 7th of January 2019 and we know way that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in CornwallPhyl anticipated. We donShe't know whose body it is. Four days earliers back home, Flora, Kat living with her parents and Lauren had gathered on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at Rock point at the request terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of their father, Charlie Finch, becoming a famous artistwriter seem to have come to nothing. The girls are actually situation improves when 'Uncle'half''-sisters Chris comes to stay and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for introduces Phyl to his fecundityadopted daughter, if not for his fidelityRashida. It's been Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a long time since the girls have been think tank which originated at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time of Cambridge University in the total eclipse, something happened1980s. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was It plans to push the government in a victim more extreme direction and it's left her very wary of her sistersis ready to act.
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|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Vanda SymonLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's 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. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=FacelessVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=In I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set novel – an organised crime syndicate in New Zealand, the first north of our characters is Bradley, England run by a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifeMuslim woman. Then there’s Billy, The fact that it was the second in a homeless teenage girl who is series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a street artist working as few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needshindrance if it's good enough. And then we have Max, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell of a man, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for wasn't a prostituteproblem here. He picks Vengeance swiftly brings you up Billyto speed, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very differentI never felt lost.|isbn=19145850460861541561
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJDavid Chadwick|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It''The party s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the year turned into the murder mystery a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the decadeLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away.'' Just off Littlesea, Not much happens in Essex Hicks. A silver mine and a mile or so into defence contractor are the Blackwater Estuarymain local employers but otherwise, The Manor stood on an island. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home Groupthere's exclusive clubs not much of note other than dive bars and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standardsJoshua trees. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tide. Home's CEO, Ned Groom, Life is determined that everythingquiet, ''everything'' will be perfect. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekenduntil. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbn=00083849831399613073|title=The Paris ApartmentMoral Injuries|author=Lucy FoleyChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''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, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It was Laura is a Friday perfectionist and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Parisa trauma doctor. She'd come across from London on Eurostar, courtesy Anjali is the free spirit of the money group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd stolen from The Pervertre at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's till going to end in the Copacabana Bar in Brightontragedy. It wasnWe don't likely know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herthree friends. SheThis time, it'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her 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 luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the apartment was terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the third floorhotel manager. She's outside 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 her room to try to capture what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to get in touch with Bensee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerCody Goodfellow|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Vertical|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. In this book we find that when one of BlixWho doesn's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers t love a connection between several Oslo casesgood view from up high, she tries after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to contact her superior, Blix. Before she can reach him, however, she is murdered, and Blixget inside if it's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered too40 stories tall. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, So when I picked up this book – about people who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all happenscale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=19145850031803363991
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1804183210|title=The Wedding MurdersNo Reserve|author=Sarah LinleyFelix Francis|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the newspaper and colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the case she was covering was her big chancechairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. It To say that he was even more important to her than shocked when the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her exbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal -rock star boyfriend, Matthewbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. She was leaving her sevenBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, known and heading off to a grand manor house hotel respected in the North Yorkshire countrysideracing industry. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member Jennings was in one of the rock band was marrying Vicky cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and Libby suspected their conversation revealed that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as horse had been suggested as there deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was no ban on photos or phonesdead in its stall.
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|isbn=15291353621405951680|title=The Long WeekendSafe House|author=Gilly MacmillanCameron Ward|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a long drive to the weekend retreat luxury property in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse Australian outback for a couple of months. After the three husbands problems she'd had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making at work, it seemed like just the trip until the Saturday morningbreak she needed. Jane and Ruth had known each other She was no longer a data analyst for a long time but Emily the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was a bit returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of an outsiderher relationship with Charles. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the other two womenticket. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The friendship Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the group went back to school daysWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Paul had coached rugby at The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the school where Markstone is removed from Otterburn House, Toby and Rob were pupilsdeath will follow. Mark had married JaneThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and Toby is Ruththat's husbandan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. And Rob? Well The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, RobDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's deadshadow' him.
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|isbn=1529095522B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The InterviewLast Person in the World|author=C M EwanMatthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at Edge Communicationsthe London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It's the last interview was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of -the day at one of London's newest office buildings -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and Edge have fitted out their part certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of the building going on to be something special. MaggieUniversity, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, Katethe UK's recruitment agentthird most prestigious university. Before going up, is keen he took up a loose invitation to see that Kate approaches the interview visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyWest Dorset.
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Dean Koontz|title=A Flicker in The House at the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamEnd of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 When you experience overwhelming tragedy and Dr Chloe Davisfeel that there is no one on your side, a medical psychologistyou can either suck it up, is completing a session with saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes small chain of getting her through tiny dots on the traumamap and live out your days in peace and solitude. You see, Chloe knows That's what itKatie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies Ladder; and all would have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she aforementioned peace and her mother handed solitude were it to not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the police. Dick Davis is neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the Louisiana State Penitentiary name of science and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for quite possibly bringing about the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care homeend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|isbn=15291355671787636607|title=One Step Too FarThe Trap|author=Lisa GardnerCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's five years since a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the stag weekendmorning. Five Drunken revellers spilling out of them had set out: Tim (the groom) clubs and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Joshmanage to get one of the few taxis available. The first Others squash onto the night they had plenty bus that will only go as far as one of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offoutlying villages. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timwoman all regret the 'taxi problem', who was experienced particularly in survival techniques, would go for helpthe light of 'the missing women'. When help didn't come For one young woman, the final stop on the remaining three finally made their bus leaves her a long way back to townshort of her home. Scott followed soon after She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Timher phone's father, Martin, and dead. The bus had driven off before she had the four friends have been back chance to continue beg the search although they do now acknowledge that theybus driver to let her use his. There're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tims no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=13987069061529195977|title=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 court, 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 LostFall|author=Simon BeckettGilly 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-art music system installed in The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedGlass Barn. HeThey'd fallen asleep not been in the park whilst Theo was playing architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and when he woke, Theo were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had goneinsisted upon. It cost him his marriage Some of them fought with each other and his homedidn't work as reliably as they should. Ten years later he's largely It had all come about through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now ten- Jonah can hear it in his voice million- pound lottery win and he asks Jonah they were still getting used to meet him at Slaughter Quayhaving that sort of money, too. ''There's no one else I can trust''Eventually, he saysNicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenAlan Parks|title=Bitter FlowersTo Die in June|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum What 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 a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab discovered, and then another. This is now returning to work. Howeverworrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into more so because his own father is a murder investigationdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and a mystery around a missing womanhe has been for years. Varg finds himself not only investigating At the same time as facing thesepossible murders, but Harry is also looking into an olddealing with a move to a different police station, cold case and the arrival there of an eight year old girl a woman who disappeared one night and was never claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truthgoing on?|isbn=191319308X1805300784
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529382823|title=QuicksilverThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=24.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeCaroline Riley (she prefers 's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heCaz's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three) is middle-day old foundling, aged and now is starting has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a career cruise to New York on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now 'Atlantica'subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'. Caz's sister, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-controlGemma, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him reckons that he go Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of ring-shaped bulge in his bank suit pocket and prepare she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for going on that long and the lamtrip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. And all this Meanwhile, Gemma is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest helooking after Caz's of interest to themcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Helped It's going to escapebe good, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Mark Edwards|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tess, a teacher Matthew and Jason, a headmasterHelena are in Iceland, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable rekindling their university romance some twenty- odd years after they had just drifted apartfirst met. They coThe alien-parent threelandscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in what was this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the family home edge of a ravine gives way and another in Helena finds herself clinging to the flat she shares rockface with just the snagged strap of her motherrucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. It ''seemed'' Convinced she is going to be working well until die, Helena must purge herself of the day that Poppy came home with shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearingpanicked, using words she was unlikely cryptic declaration to have heard in either homeMatthew. Her behaviour deteriorated Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns hauls Helena to a therapist for help, then her doctor safety and finally the police but no one will take Matthew is left wondering what she has to say seriouslyhe just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|author=Will CarverJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThirty 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 public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of 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 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 writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…
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|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously Belle and also, curiously, addicted David's twin daughters are just coming to attending numerous AA groupsthe end of their first term at university. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. Whilst analysing and critiquing It's not only the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetsfirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other...targets for sexual encounters, targets Belle can't wait to feed her desire have them all to hear of people's misery, and targets herself for her violent behavioura while. Yet Then Kit rings up - can she also seems bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to be searching for others who think as she does, and when sheupset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's unable twenty-four to find like-minded people in any of the groups Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borncan cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Robert Dugoni|title=IcedHer 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=Felix FrancisVanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.
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|isbn=1787301036
|title=What July Knew
|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Miles Pussett used to be When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runcareful, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourmeticulous child. He was in St Moritz The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the same weekend as White Turf - thatdeath of his wife, July's high-class horseracing on mother, and any hint that the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with conversation is heading that way will lead to the saddling necessity of the horsesa Lesson. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he swore that he'd never go back to its not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. But when he sees that something suspicious July's teacher is going onconcerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, Miles canhas he not? The playground wouldn't help have been resurfaced but look for answers, even when it puts him in danger.
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|isbn=147228612X0008454493|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillAll the Dangerous Things|author=Alan JohnsonStacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably havenIsabelle Drake hasn't taken much notice really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of themtime or drifted off for a moment. They live quietIt's now a year since her son, uneventful lives Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and stay mostly under Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the radarmorning when she thought he was sleeping in. In a city like London, thatyear she's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himdone everything she could to raise awareness about the case. The highlight of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply She does interviews and when we meet her makeup as , she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love s just been to ask her for TrueCrimeCon where she gave a date but he doesn't have keynote presentation. On the courage. Thenplane back, on his homeward commuteshe's approached by a podcaster, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstersWaylon Spencer, Russian secret agents who points out that she could do a podcast and the Metropolitan policeget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.
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|isbn=00084336311848458436|title=Next of KinJust the Nicest Couple|author=Kia AbdullahMary Kubica|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was the sort ''The whole thing has spiralled out of thing that happened every daycontrol, although turning into someone I'm not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, Max, to and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school before algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in it's not a panicregular thing. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but heChristian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don'd been called into work and the delay t have much in getting there could lead to financial lossescommon except their wives. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaLily hasn's wayt said anything yet, could but she drop him off? 's pregnant. Of course, she could and She has a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back lengthy history of her car. On miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskknowledge public.
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