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|isbn=18469761460241678412|title=The Bone RoadProof of My Innocence|author=N E SolomonsJonathan 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Heather Bishop, It's midsummer on the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan MackinnonDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. She even took It's their bikes so they could have a few daysopening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It' break in the regions all headed up by Francesca Meadows. It The Manor was a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see her: ancestral home and she even wondered if he had a woman in 's converted it into an impressive retreat for the hotel roomwealthy and famous. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still fit but her reactions ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and her memory were not up to amongst the standard she would need to race againguests are enemies as well as friends. Sometimes she couldn't Old scores are going to be certain about what she had or hadn't done settled and she simply couldnit won't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfbe long before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1408712172Saima Mir|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreVengeance|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Many I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of them didnEngland run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't know each other, one of them read didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?stop me – I'' That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place ve jumped midway into a few series before (on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, page and screen) and itneedn's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford t be a hindrance if it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run itgood enough. SheAnd that wasn's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting t a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutproblem here. Added Vengeance swiftly brings you up to thatspeed, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's and I never met, on the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakfelt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1529125790David Chadwick|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In July 2019It's September 1973 in Hicks, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the River Thames when he came across a bag few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of what appeared to be human bonesLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow to defence contractor are the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - main local employers but the bones had otherwise, there's not been in the river longer much of note other than a yeardive bars and Joshua trees. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationLife is quiet, some of which was quite unusualuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbn=17873017451399613073|title=ConfidenceMoral Injuries|author=Denise MinaChristie Watson|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We're back in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the world first day of podcasters Anna medical school and Fintheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, Laura is now with her best friend, Estelle a perfectionist and her children are living with thema trauma doctor. Fin (who was married to Estelle) Anjali is there too the free spirit of the group and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was she becomes a bad mistakeGP. SofiaWhen we first meet them they's difficult re at a drug and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation alcohol- a lighthouse, fuelled party and it's going to end in a storm - she begins talking about Annatragedy. We don's past, including her real name and t know who suffered the tragedy or the rapeconsequences. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls Twenty- twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the time was rightthree friends. And this wasnThis time, it't the right times their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbnauthor=178763566XSunny Singh|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=We're The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Boston with Amyan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. When she set out for university this morning it was Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a spring day wartime photographer and she wore her newAbhi, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to be ruined - and unsafe - care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the roadhotel, he forms a car comes bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of nowhere and hits her. It doesnroom to try to capture what't stops happened through her photography. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender of Although they only ever talk over the suburb of Reverephone, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time they both wait to watch what's happening in see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Cody Goodfellow|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksVertical|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her nameThere's not ''actually'' Natalya: something about tall buildings that's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskijust captures my imagination. If you're thinking of 'escortWho doesn' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by t love a pimpgood view from up high, who's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget it. Dora is a professional in after all senses of ? Even the word. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora drabbest office building is going somewhere I'm intrigued to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majestyget inside if it's Revenue and Customs40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. |isbn= 1803363991
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|isbn=140595115X1804183210|title=A Stranger on BoardNo Reserve|author=Cameron WardFelix Francis|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Right from Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the beginningcolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, we know this will not turn out wellbut Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. Eight days into To say that he was shocked when the trip to deliver the superyacht 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 Elliot 'Mitch'Escape'' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes Mitchell were well-known and six decks will be floundering without power respected in the Atlanticracing industry. Those Jennings was in one of the crew who are left will be cowering cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in fear a fellow crew member tries and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to pick them off, one by onethat figure. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way of making contactBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. But let's go back to when all this startedThe following morning, the horse was dead in Southamptonits stall.
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|isbn=02419890271405951680|title=We All Have Our SecretsThe Safe House|author=Jane CorryCameron Ward|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was failing gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was caretake a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of luxury property in the ability to cook Australian outback for a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadscouple of months. The first person who came to After the house was Francoiseproblems she'd had at work, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit it seemed like just the bill perfectlybreak she needed. She got was no longer a data analyst for the job but Francoise didn't know about the advertMetropolitan police in London: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and she came in need of the space to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in Londonget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madeA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.
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|isbn=07515815771448309743|title=Lying Beside YouThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Michael RobothamCaro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the carnage - Eliasstone is removed from Otterburn House, who was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until the police found himdeath will follow. Twenty years laterThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and hethat's been told an easy conclusion given that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results two of them 'discovered' the crime? Can body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he bear disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?'shadow' him.
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|isbn=1405940980B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The BirdcageLast Person in the World|author=Eve ChaseMatthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 and we know that Our narrator was a body has been pulled out of scholarship day boy at the sea at Zennor in CornwallLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. We don't know whose body it is. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Four days earlierRolex watch, Flora, Kat vintage wines and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a state-of-the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artist-art sound system. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closecertainly more than acquaintances. Finch was known for his fecundityFinns had no intention of going on to University, if not for his fidelity. It's been unlike our storyteller who had a long time since the girls have been place at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoWolverton College in Wellingford, at the time of the total eclipseUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was he took up a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|author=Vanda SymonDean Koontz|title=FacelessThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one mis-step. Set in New Zealandon your side, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgageyou can either suck it up, saddle up and what he feels is ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an unappreciative wife. Then there’s Billy, island that sits snugly in a homeless teenage girl who is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Max, who is also living small chain of tiny dots on the streets map and who keeps an eye on Billylive out your days in peace and solitude. He is a shell of a man, barely able That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to take any care of himself, start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress all would have been the aforementioned peace and anxietysolitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, neighbouring island and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and a spiral away from quite possibly bringing about the person he thought he was into someone very differentend of all mankind.|isbn=19145850461662453159
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1787636607|title=The ClubTrap|author=Ellery LloydCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=1529195977
|title=None of this is True
|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The party of the year turned into the murder mystery On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of the decade.'' Just off Littlesea, friends in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood Landsdown pub on an islandSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. It She, too, was now known as Island Homeout celebrating her 45th birthday, one of The Home Group's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend only she was going to be something specialjust with her husband, even by Home's standardsWalter. Speedboats It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs they were converging on the island, which was linked to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tideboth born in St Mary's hospital. HomeThat's CEOwhere the similarities end, though: Alix, Ned Groomwith her husband, is determined that everythingNathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not 'everything'exactly' will be perfect' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Home has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the weekendsense that Walter's not too happy. Those who have He's not been invited have not stopped ringing..used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.
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|isbn=00083849831803136383|title=The Paris ApartmentTin Soldiers|author=Lucy FoleyDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things are not what they seem''Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. It was a Friday What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in Paris. She'd come across from London on Eurostarnobody is sure exactly what took place, courtesy but an act of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that the police would be on heroism leading to her yet but she'd like a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was on the third floorconsensus. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able Wat himself is keeping his cards close to get in touch with Benhis chest, as he always does.
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|authorisbn=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerB0C7J9D21B|title=Unhinged A Captive in Algiers (Volume 3) (Blix and RammMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=This When we first meet our hero, his name is the third book in a series Ettore and he lives at The House of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistBeautiful Swallows. In Idyllic as this book we find that when one of Blixmight sound, it's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Before she can reach himHe's not been short of mothers, howeverthough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, she is murdered, and Blixit's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered toodifficult to obtain decent employment. We then find ourselves a few days later The stint working with Blix the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and Ramm, who bastards are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and killed someone, determined - and Ramm saw it all happenwas not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003He was even saving some money.
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ0241996104|title=The Wedding MurdersComing to Find You|author=Sarah LinleyJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the case she was covering was her big chancestep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. It was even more important to her than We first meet Nancy outside the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendcourt, Matthewafter Martin receives a life sentence. She was leaving The barrister tells her seventhat she's received a 'silent sentence' -year-old son, Patrick she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysidelife. Daniel AcroydOf course, television presenter it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that papers are making the wedding wasnmost of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter't 'is one favourite epithet and 'quite'rich bitch' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=15291353621529135389|title=The Long WeekendFall
|author=Gilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was a long drive to Nicole Booth had spent the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near morning at the Scottish borders and to make it worse county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the three husbands had all state- for one reason or another of- had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Jane and Ruth had known each other They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She and Paul were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two womeninsisted upon. The friendship Some of the group went back to school daysthem fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Paul It had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Rob they were pupils. Mark had married Janestill getting used to having that sort of money, and Toby is Ruth's husbandtoo. And Rob? WellEventually, Rob's Nicole found Tom deadin the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Alan Parks|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's What first seems like the last interview unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building streets, suddenly starts to be feel like something specialmore sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Maggie This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, Kate's recruitment agentwith no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is keen also dealing with a move to see that Kate approaches a different police station, and the interview in arrival there of a good state woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets the job boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - and she has to admit that life not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has not been easy for her recently.stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=00084544421529382823|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe Last Passenger|author=Stacy WillinghamWill Dean|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=ItCaroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz's May 2019 ) is middle-aged and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with a new patientPete. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the traumaThey're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. You see, Chloe knows what itCaz's like sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to have propose but Caz hasn't spotted a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies ring- tucked away shaped bulge in a cupboard at home his suit pocket and she and her mother handed it to the policedoesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Dick Davis is in They've not been a couple for that long and the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to do with know him for the last twenty yearsa bit better. Her Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother is in a care homewho has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1529135567Mark Edwards|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's five Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years since the stag weekendafter they first met. Five The alien-landscape of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil lava fields and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really black beaches is breath- taking and in Helena seems intent on getting the night Scot managed perfect photograph to wander off. The remaining four searched for him encapsulate the joy she is feeling in vain and this moment, even if it kills her… which it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come nearly does when the remaining three finally made their edge of a ravine gives way back and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to towncertain death below. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of Timthe shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Every yearJust moments later their heroic, Tim's father, Martinand frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and the four friends have been back hauls Helena to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timsafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah Colley's young sonHannah presents as an unlikeable, Theobitter woman, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. He'd fallen asleep 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 park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokeworld of crime fiction, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later saying he's largely come through it populist trash and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyonly writing what anyone could write. Gavin used Cue the bet that she cannot live up to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenthat accusation. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayall. ''ThereJust 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 no one else I can trust'', he says.nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615
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|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0861544056|title=Bitter FlowersTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has Belle and David's twin daughters are just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning coming to workthe end of their first term at university. However, the quiet job he Kit's supposedly taken on caretaking someonebeen at Bristol and Jess's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanin Exeter. Varg finds himself It's not only investigating these, the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundbeen apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Somehow, these disparate cases appear Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to be linked, Kit's eighteen but what is the link, and how Belle figures that she can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xcope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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|author=Dean KoontzRobert Dugoni|title=QuicksilverHer Deadly Game|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for helife's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazinework of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 's staff. But when this book starts he IS now The Irish Brawler''subject due to sudden or unpredictable changes his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of mood or mind'', his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for something – call it unearthly intuitionthe law, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – Patsy also has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare gift for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types drinking himself to turn up oblivion and suggest he's of interest inevitably the latter was beginning to themovershadow the former. Helped to escape Enter Keera Duggan, he former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being herself in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind hideous position of burgeoning power – and asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a whole lot more besidessenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=15420198851662500181
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|isbnauthor=1471179311Vanda Symon|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a headmasterbrutal, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out shocking murder of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilyan expectant woman in Dunedin. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in what was the family home and another in hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the flat she shares with her motherextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. It Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can''seemed'' to be working well until t let the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building case go and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely starts to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns follow every thread to a therapist for helpuncover what's actually happening, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take increasingly disturbing worry of just what she has to say seriouslymight happen next.|isbn=1914585577
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1787301036|title=Psychopaths AnonymousWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve is When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a high functioning alcoholiccareful, drinking continuously and alsometiculous child. The care has been taught by her father, curiouslyMick Hooper, addicted who is not prepared to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing discuss the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encountersdeath of his wife, targets to feed her desire to hear of peopleJuly's miserymother, and targets for her violent behaviourany hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. Yet she Other infractions of his requirements also seems lead to be searching for others who think as she does, these Lessons and when shehe's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's unable to find like-minded people in any teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the groups she decides to set up head but her own, hoping worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to encounter others who share similar obsessionsthe school, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornhas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|isbn=1913193756
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|isbn=14711966150008454493|title=IcedAll the Dangerous Things|author=Felix FrancisStacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's 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.
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|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past ''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 he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta RunLily Scott, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourand Nina and Jake Hayes. He was The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in St Moritz the same weekend school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as White Turf - thata foursome but it's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horsesJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. ItLily hasn't said anything yet, but she's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back to itpregnant. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles canShe has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerwant to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.
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