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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz0241678412|title=The Writing RetreatProof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in Life after university hasn't worked out quite the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent herway that Phyl anticipated. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compactback home, back catalogue of works that started living with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of childhoodHeathrow Airport. Alex, All those ideas of becoming a writer-slash-editorseem 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 than a little obsessed with Roza, extreme direction and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited ready to be part of her month-long writers' retreatact.|isbn=0861544439
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|isbn=18004652700008385068|title=The Lensky ConnectionMidnight Feast|author=Conrad DelacroixLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, itIt's June 1995 midsummer on the Dorset coast and he's guests gather at the Serafimov Cemetry in St PetersburgThe Manor. HeIt's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-relatedtheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Valeri and TimurIt's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted all headed up by what his son had becomeFrancesca Meadows. Valeri thinks differently: heThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's determined to make his own stand against organised crime converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and avenge Timur's deathfamous. Within a matter of monthsHer husband, Owen, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha was the architect and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalistwork is still ongoing on parts of the site. She's determined to expose any The heat is oppressive and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be about her own safety. To her, he's a good source. For him, settled and it's a way to get information published, which wouldnwon't otherwise be possiblelong before a body is found.
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|isbnauthor=1529356660Saima Mir|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It I was instantly intrigued by the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, rather, premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the absence north of the noise which was England run by a constant in New YorkMuslim woman. Here The fact that it was silent and the heat was overwhelming. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and his two Manx cats screen) and she remembered it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that shewasn'd been out with Franny t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and Rocco last nightI never felt lost. She knew that she|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It'd had quite s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a lot to drink but how could she have got to the Mojave desert from New York? She had no memory town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of getting on LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a plane defence contractor are the main local employers but as she thought backotherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a memory quarter of sirensa century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, flashing lights which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of being pushed into the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a car snagged on drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the edge of her mindthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|author=Lisa GraySunny Singh|title=The Dark RoomHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across The Hotel Arcadia is a photograph luxury hotel in an unnamed city that seemed to show their murder happened in has suddenly been violently taken over by a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storyterrorist group. He Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is an ex-crime reporter for Sam, a newspaper, wartime photographer and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldAbhi, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homethe hotel manager. One of these photographs turns out As Abhi continues to try to show care remotely for the murder scene of residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a young woman he met some years agobond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and who he keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotels happened through her photography. He'd felt guilty Although they only ever since that nighttalk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering they both wait to see if she hadn't really died they will be rescued before they are discovered by the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?terrorists.|isbn=154203535X086154742X
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|isbnauthor=1473680883Cody Goodfellow|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin KellyVertical|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=There''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for the rest of s something about tall buildings that just captures my lifeimagination. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didnWho doesn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit love a good view from it - in factup high, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'd better explain. m intrigued to get inside if it''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churchers 40 stories tall. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of the So when I picked up this book - and all the parts were discovered except – about people who scale tall buildings for the pelvis. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandishfun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1804183210|title=Red as BloodNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the policechairman, hadn't arrived, so instead he enlists the help of Arora, a financial investigatorcontinued his session. She manages to persuade Flosi To say that they will need the help of the police, and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearanceshocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the suspicion racing industry. Jennings was in one of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the more horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they uncoverhad insurance in place. The following morning, the more confusing things becomehorse was dead in its stall.|isbn=1914585321
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|isbn=18469761461405951680|title=The Bone RoadSafe House|author=N E SolomonsCameron Ward|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Heather BishopJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, the former Olympic cyclistactually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, flew to Bosnia Rupert) to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnon. She even took their bikes so they could have caretake a few days' break luxury property in the regionAustralian outback for a couple of months. It was a little worrying that he didnAfter the problems she't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he d had a woman in at work, it seemed like just the hotel roombreak she needed. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after She was no longer a traumatic brain injury four years beforedata analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was still fit but Jess who was returning to the country of her reactions birth and her memory were not up in need of the space to get over the standard she would need to race againtraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfVictoria sounded like just the ticket.
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|isbn=14087121721448309743|title=The Cliff HouseDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Chris BrookmyreCaro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Many In the village of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one Cronchie on the West coast of them quite possibly hated herScotland, and two five members of them definitely hated each othera wealthy family are found murdered. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the round-up for Jen's hen party which stone is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff removed from Otterburn House, hosted by Lauren, and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford itdeath will follow. She's just sold her muffin business for millions The only suspects are known Satanists but is staying on to run it. Shein many ways, that's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely an easy conclusion given that two of late and wouldnthem 'discovered't explain to her what the email body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he was hurriedly deleting was about. Added to thatdisappears, he's just about forced her DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on the trip, on the grounds that sheshadow's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakhim.
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|isbn=1529125790B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Family RemainsLast Person in the World|author=Lisa JewellMatthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott Our narrator was mud larking on a scholarship day boy at the banks of the River Thames when London-based public school where he came across met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu boarder and Saffron Brown from forensics were there had money to investigate. throw around on a The bones were indeed human: Rolex watch, vintage wines and a young woman had been killed by a blow to state-of-the head many years ago - art sound system. Both were probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been in the river longer quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than a yearacquaintances. There was Finns had no identification but intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the bag contained vegetationUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, some of which was quite unusualClouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|isbnauthor=1787301745Dean Koontz|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaThe House at the End of the World|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna When you experience overwhelming tragedy and Finfeel that there is no one on your side, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exyou can either suck it up, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle saddle up and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married ride on or you can retreat to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises your own private fortress on an island that was sits snugly in a bad mistakesmall chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. SofiaThat's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouse, in a storm - what Katie thought she was doing when she begins talking about Annashut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's past, including her real name Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess neighbouring island and ten-year-old Lizzie - when perpetrating all manner of mischief in the time was right. And this wasn't name of science and quite possibly bringing about the right timeend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|isbn=178763566X1787636607|title=Listen to MeThe Trap|author=Tess GerritsenCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=WeIt're s a scene replicated all too often in Boston with Amythe early hours of the morning. When she set Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for university this morning it was a spring day way to get home. Some are lucky and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as she comes out one of the library she knows that theyoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem're going to be ruined - and unsafe - , particularly in the snow thatlight of 'the missing women's now falling. As she crosses For one young woman, the final stop on the road, bus leaves her a car comes out long way short of nowhere and hits herhome. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, She had intended to ring someone to come and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past collect her and whilst - but her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she has had the chance to beg the time bus driver to watch whatlet her use his. There's happening no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionshigh-heeled shoes.
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|isbn=00083956321529195977|title=One Last SecretNone of this is True|author=Adele ParksLisa Jewell|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is an escortOn her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. WellShe, too, was out celebrating her name's 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not ''actually'' Natalya: thatonly are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritagehospital. SheThat's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulskiwhere the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, usually known as Dora Wulski. If youmonied group of friends and whilst they're thinking of not ''exactly'escort' as being a polite description of a prostituterowdy, run by a pimp, whothey's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget itre enjoying themselves. Dora is a professional in all senses of Josie, on the word. She has an agentother hand, Elspeth, who takes 30% of holds her handbag close to her income tummy and deals with you get the payments but checks out the clients to see sense that Dora is going to be safeWalter's not too happy. Dora describes herself as He's not used to spending this much money on a selfmeal -employed clairvoyant to Her Majestybut it is Josie's Revenue and Customsbirthday after all.
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|isbn=140595115X1803136383|title=A Stranger on BoardTin Soldiers|author=Cameron WardDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Right Wat Tyler has returned from the beginning, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power fighting in the Atlantic. Those Vietnam under something of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by onecloud. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore What actually happened out there is gossiped about and there nobody is no way sure exactly what took place, but an act of making contactheroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. But let's go back Wat himself is keeping his cards close to when all this startedhis chest, in Southamptonas he always does.
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|isbn=0241989027B0C7J9D21B|title=We All Have Our SecretsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Jane CorryA J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he was failing to cope lives at Willowmead The House on his ownof Beautiful Swallows. His advert was fairly specific: Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was a retired lawyer needing help born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but he also spoke for someone of the ability his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to cook a good steak, enjoy obtain decent wine and be free from any food fadsemployment. The first person who came to stint working with the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise preparation of anchovies didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reasonwork out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and she came to Willowmead House because she it was running away from not long before he had a problem in Londonsuccessful business as a guide for visitors. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madeHe was even saving some money.
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|isbn=07515815770241996104|title=Lying Beside Coming to Find You|author=Michael RobothamJane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents Nancy's mother and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived the carnage step- Elias, who was sent to Rampton, father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and his thirteenher step-year-old brother, CyrusMartin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, who hid in after Martin receives a shed until the police found himlife sentence. Twenty years later, Cyrus is The barrister tells her that she's received a forensic psychologist and he'silent sentence' - she's not been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having found guilty of anything but will have to live on a daily basis with what happened for the results rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in papers are making the same house? most of it. How will his lodger, twenty-''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=14059409801529135389|title=The BirdcageFall|author=Eve ChaseGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the 7th county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out her husband but opera was playing on the state-of -the sea at Zennor -art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in Cornwallthe architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. We donSome of them fought with each other and didn't know whose body it iswork as reliably as they should. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren It had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, all come about through a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''ten-million-sisters pound lottery win and their dates they were still getting used to having that sort of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecunditymoney, if not for his fidelitytoo. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoEventually, at the time of Nicole found Tom dead in the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was swimming pool with a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterswound to his head.
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|author=Vanda SymonAlan Parks|title=FacelessTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpointsWhat first seems like the unfortunate, several troubled people are thrown into accidental death of a homeless man on the same story thanks streets, suddenly starts to just one mis-stepfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. Set in New ZealandThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the first of our characters more so because his own father is Bradleya down and out alcoholic, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgageno fixed abode, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifehas been for years. Then there’s BillyAt the same time as facing these possible murders, a homeless teenage girl who Harry is also dealing with a street artist working as move to a prostitute sometimes in order to pay for the materials she needs. And then we have Maxdifferent police station, who is also living on and the streets and who keeps an eye on Billy. He is a shell arrival there of a manwoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, barely able to take any care only no record of himself, and yet we the boy having existed can sense that he was once something more than he is nowbe found. One night, Bradley finds himself halfSomething feels wrong -crazed not just with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitute. He picks up Billy, and then woman’s story but also with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person other officers where he thought he was into someone very different.has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=19145850461805300784
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|isbn=B09DD1QJKJ1529382823|title=The ClubLast Passenger|author=Ellery LloydWill Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz'The party of the year turned into the murder mystery of the decade) is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They'' Just re off Littlesea, in Essex and on a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuary, The Manor stood cruise to New York on an island''Atlantica''. It was now known as Island Home, one of The Home GroupCaz's exclusive clubs and the opening weekend was sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to be something special, even by Homepropose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's standardsrelieved or disappointed. Speedboats, helicopters They've not been a couple for that long and blacked-out SUVs were converging on the island, which was linked trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to the mainland by know him a causeway that was inaccessible at high tidebit better. Home's CEO, Ned GroomMeanwhile, Gemma is determined that everything, looking after Caz''everything'' will be perfect. Home s cafe as well as their mother who has 5761 members: just 150 of them have received invites for the weekenddementia. Those who have not been invited have not stopped ringing...It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=0008384983Mark Edwards|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Things Matthew and Helena are not what in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they seem''first met. It was a Friday The alien-landscape of the lava fields and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her halfblack beaches is breath-brother's flat in Paris. She'd come across from London taking and Helena seems intent on Eurostar, courtesy of getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the money joy she'd stolen from The Pervert's till is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the Copacabana Bar in Brighton. It wasn't likely that edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the police would be on to snagged strap of her rucksack between her yet but she'd like and a 500 foot drop to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside hercertain death below. She'd phoned Ben and got Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the address - 12 Rue des Amants - shocking secret she has been keeping and he told her that the apartment was on the third floormakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. She's outside what's obviously a Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very upmarket building but she hasn't been able well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to get in touch with Bensafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|author=Jorn Lier Horst Jenny Lund Madsen and Thomas EngerMegan E Turney (translator)|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander BlixHannah presents as an unlikeable, a police officerbitter woman, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. In this book we find that when one Sorry to leave her bottles of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers red wine behind her for an afternoon at a connection between several Oslo casesbook fair, she tries to contact flukes her superiorway into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, Blixsaying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Before Cue the bet that she can reach him, howevercannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooput up for a wintry month away from it all. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and RammJust on the point of despairing – about her writing, who are being interviewed by about the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot people and killed someonethe lack of stimulus for her plot, and Ramm saw it all happen. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover more or less about everything – word comes that led to Blix killing someone?the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=19145850031914585615
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|isbn=B09D95TRKZ0861544056|title=The Wedding MurdersTwin Truths|author=Sarah LinleyJacqueline Sutherland|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to get a permanent job with the newspaper end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the case she was covering was her big chancefirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. It was even more important Belle can't wait to her than the celebrity wedding she was have them all to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthewherself for a while. She was leaving Then Kit rings up - can she bring her seven-year-old son, Patrick boyfriend home with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. ? Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected Belle would prefer that the wedding wasnhe didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'quiteolder': he' as highs twenty-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesfour to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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|isbnauthor=1529135362Robert Dugoni|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was a long drive to Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to make it worse the three husbands had all - his reputation for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morningno holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Jane and Ruth had known each other Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a long time but Emily gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was a bit of an outsiderbeginning to overshadow the former. She Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the other two women. The friendship hideous position of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby asking her father for a job at the school where Markfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Janegone, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellrather spectacularly, Rob's deadsouth.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbnauthor=1529095522Vanda Symon|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is going for a brutal, shocking murder of an interview expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for her dream job at Edge Communicationsa killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. It Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's t let the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings case go and Edge have fitted out their part of the building she starts to follow every thread to be something special. Maggie, Kateuncover what's recruitment agentactually happening, is keen to see that Kate approaches and the interview in a good state increasingly disturbing worry 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 recentlyjust what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=00084544421787301036|title=A Flicker in the DarkWhat July Knew|author=Stacy WillinghamEmily Koch|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=ItWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologistcareful, is completing a session with a new patientmeticulous child. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe The care has hopes of getting been taught by her through father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the trauma. You seedeath of his wife, Chloe knows what itJuly's like mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to have the necessity of a traumatic childhoodLesson. 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 Other infractions of his requirements also lead to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home these Lessons and she and her mother handed it to he's not even careful about whether or not the policeinjuries are visible. Dick Davis July's teacher is in concerned and brings up the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has had nothing been good to do with him for the last twenty years. school, has he not? Her mother is in a care homeThe playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.
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|isbn=15291355670008454493|title=One Step Too FarAll the Dangerous Things|author=Lisa GardnerStacy 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 five years now a year since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenher son, ScotMason, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty stolen from his bed in the middle of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided Izzy is consumed with guilt that Tim, who she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was experienced sleeping in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnIn that year she't come s done everything she could to raise awareness about the remaining three finally made their way back case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to town. TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timpresentation. Every yearOn the plane back, Timshe's fatherapproached by a podcaster, MartinWaylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and the four friends have been back get to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather so many more people than for Timshe could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.
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|isbn=13987069061848458436|title=The LostJust the Nicest Couple|author=Simon BeckettMary Kubica
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=''The disappearance whole thing has spiralled out of Metropolitan police firearms officercontrol, Jonah Colleyturning into someone I's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedm not. He'd fallen asleep in ' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the park whilst Theo was playing story of two couples: Christian and when he wokeLily Scott, Theo had goneand Nina and Jake Hayes. It cost him his marriage The connection between the two is that Lily and his homeNina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. Ten years later he's largely come through The couples have mixed as a foursome but it and he's out with his team when he gets not a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneyregular thing. Gavin used to be his best friend but it's Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a long time since neurosurgeon: theydon've spokent have much in common except their wives. HeLily hasn't said anything yet, but she's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quaypregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn''There's no one else I can trust'', he sayst want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.
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