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|isbn=14736808830241678412|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin Kelly|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some Proof of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvis. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandish.}}{{FrontpageMy Innocence|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=Red as BloodJonathan Coe
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingLife after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, all the evidence seems living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to point towards her having been kidnappedtourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. The ransom note tells him not All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists the help of Arora, a financial investigatorcome to nothing. She manages The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, stay and she calls her detective friendintroduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Daniel, whom she met when he was Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating her sister’s disappearancea think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Together, they start It plans to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse the suspicion of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet push the government in a more they uncover, the more confusing things becomeextreme direction and is ready to act.|isbn=1914585321
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|isbn=18469761460008385068|title=The Bone RoadMidnight Feast|author=N E SolomonsLucy 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=Crime
|summary=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 discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. 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 going on?
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|isbn=1529382823
|title=The Last Passenger
|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Kate Harding Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communicationsmiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. It They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something special. Maggie, Kate Caz's recruitment agentsister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is keen going to see that Kate approaches the interview propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a good state of mind: Kate assumes couple for that this is because Maggie long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a decent bonus if Kate gets the job - and she bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to admit that life has not been easy for her recently.be good, isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Mark Edwards|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's May 2019 Matthew and Dr Chloe DavisHelena are in Iceland, a medical psychologistrekindling 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, is completing even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a session ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a new patient500 foot drop to certain death below. Lacey Convinced she is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes going to die, Helena must purge herself of getting her through the traumashocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. You seeJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Chloe knows Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what it's like to have a traumatic childhoodhe just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3. Her father is Richard Davis5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agoan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging Sorry to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a cupboard at home and book fair, she and flukes her mother handed it to way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the policeworld of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Dick Davis is in Cue the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing bet that she cannot live up to do with him for the last twenty yearsthat accusation. Her mother publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is in put up for a care homewintry 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…|isbn=1914585615
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|isbn=15291355670861544056|title=One Step Too FarTwin Truths|author=Lisa GardnerJacqueline Sutherland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=ItBelle and David's five years since twin daughters are just coming to the stag weekendend of their first term at university. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) Kit's been at Bristol and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and JoshJess's in Exeter. The It's not only the first night time they had plenty 've been away from their parents for any length of alcohol time - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offbut they've also been apart from each other. The remaining four searched Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpa while. When help Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back but doesn't want to townupset Kit. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, TimIvo's apparently 'older': he's father, Martin, and the twenty-four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that . And they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timll be sharing a bedroom.
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|isbnauthor=1398706906Robert Dugoni|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettHer Deadly Game|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIrish Brawler's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself due to his reputation for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep no holds barred courtroom performances in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him defence of his marriage and his homeclients. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out Along with his team when he gets an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spokenovershadow the former. He's obviously Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him the hideous position of asking her father for a job at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust''the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, he sayssouth.|isbn=1662500181
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenVanda Symon|title=Bitter FlowersExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Varg Veum Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in rehab and is now returning to workDunedin. However, Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into hunt for a murder investigationkiller targeting pregnant women, and a mystery around a missing womanwith all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Finding herself put on desk duties, but also looking into an oldwhich she rails against, cold she just can't let the case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night go and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear she starts to follow every thread to be linked, but uncover what is the link's actually happening, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=191319308X1914585577
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1787301036|title=QuicksilverWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=2.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. He She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not had prepared to discuss the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetdeath of his wife, for heJuly's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingmother, and now any hint that the conversation is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him heading that he go way will lead to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value necessity of it out a Lesson. Other infractions of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types requirements also lead to turn up these Lessons and suggest he's of interest to themnot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Helped to escape, he finds his flight July's teacher is interrupted by other instances concerned and brings up the possibility of him acting without being in controlabuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, the discovery that has he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=14711793110008454493|title=The UnheardAll the Dangerous Things|author=Nicci FrenchStacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tess, Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a teacher and Jasonyear - well, a headmaster, have split up: apart from the odd occasion when she and Poppy have moved out lost track of the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just time or drifted apartoff for a moment. They co-parent three-It's now a year-old Poppy who has since her bedroom son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in what was the family home middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and another particularly about her relief in the flat morning when she shares with her motherthought he was sleeping in. It ''seemed'In that year she' s done everything she could to be working well until raise awareness about the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building case. She does interviews and she started swearingwhen we meet her, using words she was unlikely 's just been to have heard in either home. TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery schoolpresentation. Tess turns to On the plane back, she's approached by a therapist for helppodcaster, Waylon Spencer, then her doctor who points out that she could do a podcast and finally the police but no one will take what get to so many more people than she has could by giving speeches to say seriouslya few hundred people at conferences.
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|authorisbn=Will Carver1848458436|title=Psychopaths AnonymousJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Maeve ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is a high-functioning alcoholicthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsNina and Jake Hayes. She The connection between the two is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing that Lily and critiquing Nina teach in the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targetssame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's misery, not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and targets for her violent behaviourJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does Lily hasn't said anything yet, and when but she's unable to find like-minded people in any pregnant. She has a lengthy history of the groups miscarriages so she decides doesn't want to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is borntempt fate by making the knowledge public.|isbn=1913193756
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