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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon0241678412|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry The Proof of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July KnewMy Innocence|author=Emily KochJonathan Coe|rating=54
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|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 sheLife after university hasn's just ten years oldt worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's a carefulback home, meticulous child. The care has been taught by living with her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to discuss the death tourists at terminal 5 of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a Lessonwriter seem to have come to nothing. Other infractions of his requirements also lead The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to these Lessons stay and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visibleintroduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. July's teacher Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is concerned and brings up investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the possibility of abuse with 1980s. It plans to push the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good government in a more extreme direction and is ready to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himact.
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|isbn=00084544930008385068|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Midnight Feast|author=Stacy WillinghamLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - well, apart from s midsummer on the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. 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 their opening weekend and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping insplendid celebrations are promised. In that year sheIt's done everything she could to raise awareness about the caseall headed up by Francesca Meadows. She does interviews The Manor was her ancestral home and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. On the plane backHer husband, she's approached by a podcasterOwen, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a few hundred people at conferencesbody is found.
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|isbnauthor=1848458436Saima Mir|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just was instantly intrigued by the Nicest Couple'' is premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the story north of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake HayesEngland run by a Muslim woman. The connection between fact that it was the two is that Lily and Nina teach second in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but itseries I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's not ve jumped midway into a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst few series before (on page and screen) and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they donit needn't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but shebe a hindrance if it's pregnantgood enough. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesnAnd that wasn't want a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to tempt fate by making the knowledge publicspeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Julia BartzDavid Chadwick|title=The Writing RetreatHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
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|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone It's September 1973 in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be herHicks, agents want to represent herCalifornia. She's something Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a legend few thousand people with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue its nearest neighbours of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Alex, A silver mine and a writer-slash-editordefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, is more there's not much of note other than a little obsessed with Roza, dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is stunned whenquiet, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreatuntil....|isbn=0861544439B0D321VJ76
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|isbn=18004652701399613073|title=The Lensky ConnectionMoral Injuries|author=Conrad DelacroixChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri GrozkyOlivia, it's June 1995 Laura and he's at Anjali met on the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-relatedcentury. Valeri and Timur's father, KetoOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had becomebonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime Laura is a perfectionist and avenge Timur's deatha trauma doctor. Within a matter Anjali is the free spirit of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha the group and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, she becomes a journalistGP. SheWhen we first meet them they's determined to expose any re at a drug and all corruption alcohol- fuelled party and sheit's less concerned than she ought going to be about her own safetyend in tragedy. To her, heWe don's a good sourcet know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. For himThis time, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibletheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbnauthor=1529356660Sunny Singh|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the quiet which woke Zoey up - orterrorists who are rampaging through, ratherkilling everyone on site, there is Sam, the absence of the noise which was a constant in New York. Here it was silent wartime photographer and Abhi, the heat was overwhelming. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the deserthotel manager. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last night. She knew that she'd had quite a lot As Abhi continues to drink but how could she have got try to care remotely for the desert from New York? She had no memory of getting on a plane but as she thought backresidents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a memory of sirensbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged keeps on the edge venturing out of her mind.}} {{Frontpage|author=Lisa Gray|title=The Dark Room|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed room to try to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is capture what happens to Leonard in this story. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaper, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at homehappened through her photography. One of these photographs turns out to show Although they only ever talk over the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agophone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and who he ''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotel. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, 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 newmanage 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', buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out particularly in the light of 'the library she knows that theymissing women're going . 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 be ruined - come and unsafe collect her - in the snow thatbut her phone's now fallingdead. As The bus had driven off before she crosses had the chance to beg the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits bus driver to let heruse his. It doesn There't stops no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}Two months later{{Frontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=On her 45th birthday, we're Alix Summer celebrated with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender crowd of friends in the suburb of RevereLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, north of Bostonwas out celebrating her 45th birthday, where only she liveswas just with her husband, Walter. Nothing gets past her It turns out that not only are Alix and whilst Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her boyfriendhusband, Vince KorsakNathan, is are in Californiathe midst of a joyful, looking after his sistermonied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, she has on the time other hand, holds her handbag close to watch whather tummy and you get the sense that Walter's happening in the neighbourhoodnot too happy. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.
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|isbn=00083956321803136383|title=One Last SecretTin Soldiers|author=Adele ParksDavid Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is an escortWat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. Well, her name's not ''What actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulskisure exactly what took place, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description but an act of heroism leading to a prostitute, run rare battlefield commission followed by a pimp, who's turning tricks rank cowardice and disgrace seems to fund a drug habit, forget it. Dora is a professional in all senses of be the wordconsensus. 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 Wat himself is going keeping his cards close to be safe. Dora describes herself his chest, as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customshe always does.
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|isbn=140595115XB0C7J9D21B|title=A Stranger on BoardCaptive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Cameron WardA J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Right from the beginningWhen we first meet our hero, we know this will not turn out wellhis name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore'Escapes mother died when he was born. He'' to Antiguas not been short of mothers, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantic. Those though - but for someone of the crew who are left will be cowering his background in fear a fellow crew member tries late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to pick them off, one by oneobtain decent employment. Some The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are already deadconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. They are three days from shore Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and there is no way of making contactit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. But let's go back to when all this started, in SouthamptonHe was even saving some money.
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|isbn=02419890270241996104|title=We All Have Our SecretsComing to Find You
|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for liveNancy's mother and step-in help as he was failing to cope father were brutally stabbed at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of the ability to cook a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadstheir murder. The We first person who came to meet Nancy outside the house was Francoisecourt, after Martin receives a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlylife sentence. She got the job but Francoise didnThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't know about the advert: - she was there 's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for a completely different reasonthe rest of her life. Emily Gentle is HaroldOf course, it's daughter and she came to Willowmead House made worse because Nancy's rich - she was running away inherited five million pounds from a problem in Londonher mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Emily's a midwife 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been made''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=07515815771529135389|title=Lying Beside YouThe Fall|author=Michael RobothamGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdayNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. Voices told him to do itThere was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Only two people survived They'd not been in the carnage architect- Elias, who was sent designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to Rampton, and his thirteenall the high-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until the police found himtech systems Tom had insisted upon. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Some of them fought with each other and hedidn's been told that his brother is being releasedt work as reliably as they should. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having to live on a daily basis with the results that sort of the crime? money, too. Can he bear to have Elias living Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the same house? How will swimming pool with a wound to his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?head.
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|isbnauthor=1405940980Alan Parks|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's What first seems like the 7th unfortunate, accidental death of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of homeless man on the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body it isdiscovered, and then another. Four days earlierThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at but all the request of their more so because his own fatheris a down and out alcoholic, Charlie Finchwith no fixed abode, a famous artistand he has been for years. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and their dates the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of birth are embarrassingly closethe boy having existed can be found. Finch was known for his fecundity, if Something feels wrong - not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at with the time of woman’s story but also with the total eclipseother officers where he has been stationed, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529382823|title=FacelessThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints, several troubled people are thrown into the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is Bradley, a middle -aged man struggling and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with an overbearing boss, Pete. They're off on a weighty mortgage, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifecruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Then there’s BillyCaz's sister, a homeless teenage girl who Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes ring-shaped bulge in order to pay for the materials his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she needs's relieved or disappointed. And then we have Max, who is also living on They've not been a couple for that long and the streets and who keeps trip will be an eye on Billyexcellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. He is a shell of a manMeanwhile, barely able to take any care of himself, and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he Gemma is now. One night, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostituteafter Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. He picks up BillyIt's going to be good, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and a spiral away from the person he thought he was into someone very different.|isbn=1914585046isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=B09DD1QJKJMark Edwards|title=The Club|author=Ellery LloydKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The party alien-landscape of the year turned into lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the murder mystery edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the decaderockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below.'' Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just off Littleseamoments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in Essex and a mile or so into the Blackwater Estuaryhauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, The Manor stood on an islandauthor of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. It was now known as Island HomeSorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, one she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of The Home Groupcrime fiction, saying he's exclusive clubs populist trash and the opening weekend was going to be something special, even by Home's standardsonly writing what anyone could write. Speedboats, helicopters and blacked-out SUVs were converging on Cue the island, which was linked bet that she cannot live up to the mainland by a causeway that was inaccessible at high tideaccusation. Home's CEO, Ned GroomHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is determined that everything, ''everything'' will be perfectput up for a wintry month away from it all. Home has 5761 members: just 150 Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of them have received invites stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the weekend. Those who have not landlady's nephew has been invited have not stopped ringing...found dead…|isbn=1914585615
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|isbn=00083849830861544056|title=The Paris ApartmentTwin Truths|author=Lucy FoleyJacqueline Sutherland|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Belle and David''Things s twin daughters are not what they seemjust coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit''. It was a Friday s been at Bristol and Jess Hadley was keen to get to her half-brother's flat in ParisExeter. SheIt's not only the first time they'd come across ve been away from London on Eurostar, courtesy their parents for any length of the money shetime - but they'd stolen ve also been apart from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightoneach other. It wasnBelle can't likely that the police would be on wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her yet boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but shedoesn'd like t want to be somewhere safe and with food and drink inside herupset Kit. SheIvo's apparently 'd phoned Ben and got the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and older': he told her that the apartment was on the third floor. She's outside whattwenty-four to Kit's obviously a very upmarket building eighteen but Belle figures that she hasncan cope with that. And they't ll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been able the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to get overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in touch the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with Bena senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerVanda Symon|title=Unhinged Expectant (Volume 3) (Blix and RammDetective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=This Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the third book in a series start of stories featuring Alexander Blix, her maternity leave when there is a police officerbrutal, and Emma Ramm, a crime journalistshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. In this book we find that when one of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a connection between several Oslo caseskiller targeting pregnant women, she tries to contact her superior, Blixwith all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Before Finding herself put on desk duties, which she can reach him, howeverrails against, she is murdered, just can't let the case go and Blixshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's daughter Iselin who shares the same apartmentactually happening, narrowly escapes being murdered too. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot and killed someone, and Ramm saw it all increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happennext. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=19145850031914585577
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1787301036|title=The Wedding MurdersWhat July Knew|author=Sarah LinleyEmily Koch|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper and the case When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she was covering was her big chance's just ten years old. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendShe's a careful, Matthewmeticulous child. She was leaving The care has been taught by her seven-year-old sonfather, Mick Hooper, Patrick with her sisterwho is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, EmmaJuly's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading off that way will lead to the necessity of a grand manor house hotel in Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the North Yorkshire countrysideinjuries are visible. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter July's teacher is concerned and former member brings up the possibility of abuse with the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the wedding wasnschool, has he not? The playground wouldn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had have been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesresurfaced but for him.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=15291353620008454493|title=The Long WeekendAll the Dangerous Things|author=Gilly MacmillanStacy 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, right up near turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Scottish borders and to make it worse Nicest Couple'' is the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane story of two couples: Christian and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She Lily Scott, and Paul had married only relatively recently Nina and she was ten years younger than the other two womenJake Hayes. The friendship of connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the group went back to same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school daysalgebra. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilsThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Mark had married Jane, Christian is a market research analyst and Toby Jake is Rutha neurosurgeon: they don's husbandt have much in common except their wives. And Rob? WellLily hasn't said anything yet, Robbut she's deadpregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.
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