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|isbn=15293828230241678412|title=The Last PassengerProof of My Innocence|author=Will DeanJonathan Coe|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers Life after university hasn'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petet worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. TheyShe're off s back home, living with her parents and on a cruise zero-hours contract serving sushi to New York on ''Atlantica''tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointednothing. TheyThe situation improves when 'Uncle've not been a couple for that long Chris comes to stay and the trip will be an excellent opportunity introduces Phyl to get to know him a bit betterhis adopted daughter, Rashida. Meanwhile, Gemma Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiainvestigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It's going plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to be good, isn't it?act.
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards0008385068|title=Keep Her SecretThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Matthew It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and Helena splendid celebrations are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metpromised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking Manor was her ancestral home 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 's converted it nearly does when into an impressive retreat for the edge of a ravine gives way wealthy and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just famous. Her husband, Owen, was the snagged strap of her rucksack between her architect and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she work is going to die, Helena must purge herself still ongoing on parts of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewsite. Just moments later their heroic, The heat is oppressive and frankly very amongst the guests are enemies as well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena as friends. Old scores are going to safety be settled and Matthew it won't be long before a body is left wondering what he just learned about Helenafound.|isbn=166250893X
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Saima Mir|title=Thirty Days of DarknessVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an unlikeable, bitter organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at The fact that it was the second in a book fair, she flukes her way series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying hefew series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writegood enough. Cue the bet And that she cannot live wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Icelandspeed, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it alland I never felt lost. 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=19145856150861541561
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|isbnauthor=0861544056David Chadwick|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Belle and DavidIt's twin daughters are just coming to the end September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of their first term at universityLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's Not much happens in ExeterHicks. ItA silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length much of time - but they've also been apart from each note otherthan dive bars and Joshua trees. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a whileLife is quiet, until. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1399613073|title=Her Deadly GameMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the life's work first day of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence a quarter of his clientsa century. Along with an indisputable talent for the lawOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Patsy also has which is a gift for drinking himself bonus when you aim to oblivion be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and inevitably a trauma doctor. Anjali is the latter was beginning to overshadow free spirit of the formergroup and she becomes a GP. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and proven Seattle Prosecutor it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who finds herself in suffered the tragedy or the hideous position of asking her father for a job at consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleaguethree friends. This time, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1662500181
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|author=Vanda SymonSunny Singh|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Detective Sam Shepherd The Hotel Arcadia is approaching a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the start of her maternity leave when terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a brutalwartime photographer and Abhi, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinthe hotel manager. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hunt for hotel, he forms a killer targeting pregnant women, bond with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails againstSam who refuses to be cowed by events, she just can't let the case go and she starts keeps on venturing out of her room to follow every thread try to uncover capture what's actually happeninghappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextterrorists.|isbn=1914585577086154742X
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|isbnauthor=1787301036Cody Goodfellow|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochVertical|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 sheThere's something about tall buildings that just ten years oldcaptures my imagination. SheWho doesn's t love a carefulgood view from up high, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who after all? Even the drabbest office building is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, Julysomewhere I's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead m intrigued to the necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and heget inside if it's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible40 stories tall. July's teacher is concerned and brings So when I picked up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but this book – about people who scale tall buildings for himfun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991
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|isbn=00084544931804183210|title=All the Dangerous ThingsNo Reserve|author=Stacy WillinghamFelix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't really slept have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for a year - wellauction, but Peter Radway, apart from the odd occasion chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when she lost track of time or drifted off for a momentthe bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. ItBrian Kitman and Elliot 's now a year since her son, Mason, Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was stolen from his bed in the middle one of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief cubicles in the morning toilets when she thought he was sleeping the two men came in. In and their conversation revealed 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 horse had been deliberately bid up to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote that figure. presentationBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. On The following morning, 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 conferenceshorse was dead in its stall.
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|isbn=18484584361405951680|title=Just the Nicest CoupleThe Safe House|author=Mary KubicaCameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of controlJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, turning actually she was gently nudged into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scottit by her friend, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as Australian outback for a foursome but it's not a regular thingcouple of months. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasnAfter the problems she't said anything yetd had at work, but it seemed like just the break she's pregnantneeded. She has was no longer a lengthy history data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of miscarriages so she doesn't want her birth and in need of the space to tempt fate by making get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the knowledge publicticket.
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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1448309743|title=The Writing RetreatDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in In the world village of publishing knows Cronchie on the nameWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Writers want to be her The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, agents want to represent herdeath will follow. She The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works easy conclusion given that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out two of childhoodthem 'discovered' the body. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and The Senior Investigating Office is stunned DCI Bob Oswald but whenhe disappears, following a series of unexpected events, she DCI Christine Caplan is invited pulled in to be part of her month-long writers' retreatshadow' him.|isbn=0861544439
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|isbn=1800465270B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Lensky ConnectionLast Person in the World|author=Conrad DelacroixMatthew Tree|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the Serafimov Cemetry in St PetersburgLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer boarder and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined money to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. throw around on a Within a matter of monthsRolex watch, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha vintage wines and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journaliststate-of-the-art sound system. She's determined to expose any Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and all corruption - and she's less concerned certainly more than she ought to be about her own safetyacquaintances. To herFinns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, hethe UK's a good sourcethird most prestigious university. For himBefore going up, it's he took up a way loose invitation to get information publishedvisit Ralph at his home, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleClouds Manor in West Dorset.
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|isbnauthor=1529356660Dean Koontz|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonHouse at the End of the World|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up - and ride on or, rather, the absence you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the noise which was a constant map and live out your days in New York. Here it was silent peace and the heat was overwhelmingsolitude. When That's what Katie thought she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did doing when she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she'd all would have been out with Franny the aforementioned peace and Rocco last night. She knew that she'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the desert from New York? She had no memory neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory mischief in the name of sirens, flashing lights science and of being pushed into a car snagged on quite possibly bringing about the edge end of her mindall mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1787636607|title=The Dark RoomTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youIt'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across s a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a different place and time? This is what happens way to Leonard in this storyget home. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaper, Some are lucky and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls manage to get one of film and develops them in his own dark room at homethe few taxis available. One Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of a young outlying villages. The woman he met some years ago, and who he all regret the 'taxi problem'thought, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' he had watched die in front of him . For one night in young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a hotellong way short of her home. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, She had intended to ring someone to come and lost everything because of it 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 fiancee . There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and his career in high- but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xheeled shoes.
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|isbn=14736808831529195977|title=The Skeleton KeyNone of this is True|author=Erin KellyLisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the rest of my lifeLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. How can I trust anyone? She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It all leads back to you!turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That' Nell didn't want to go to s where the reunion to celebrate similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the fiftieth anniversary midst of the publication a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'The Golden Bones'rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. She'd had no benefit from it - in factJosie, on the other hand, it had made holds her handbag close to her life precarious tummy and unbelievably challenging. Iyou get the sense that Walter'd better explains not too happy. He''The Golden Bones'' was s not used to spending this much money on 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 meal - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of the book - and but it is Josie's birthday after 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.
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1803136383|title=Red as BloodTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingWat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, all the evidence but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to point towards her having been kidnappedbe the consensus. The ransom note tells him not Wat himself is keeping his cards close to have any contact with the policehis chest, as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, so instead his name is Ettore and he enlists the help lives at The House of AroraBeautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a financial investigator. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, bordello and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met Ettore's mother died when he was investigating her sister’s disappearanceborn. Together He's not been short of mothers, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearancethough - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, trying not it's difficult to arouse obtain decent employment. The stint working with the suspicion preparation of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things becomeanchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|isbn=1914585321
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|isbn=18469761460241996104|title=The Bone RoadComing to Find You|author=N E SolomonsJane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Heather BishopNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, the former Olympic cyclistMartin, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonhas been convicted of their murder. She even took their bikes so they could have We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a few days' break in the regionlife sentence. It was The barrister tells her that she's received a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to see live with what happened for the rest of her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel roomlife. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she was still fit but inherited five million pounds from her reactions mother - and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race againpapers are making the most of it. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfrich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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|isbn=14087121721529135389|title=The Cliff HouseFall|author=Chris BrookmyreGilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of them quite possibly hated her, and two husband but opera was playing on the state-of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's -the round-up for Jen's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barraart music system installed in The Glass Barn. They're all staying d not been in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for millions but is staying on long and were still getting used to run itall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely Some of late them fought with each other and wouldndidn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutwork as reliably as they should. Added It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having thatsort of money, he's just about forced her to bring his sistertoo. Eventually, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on Nicole found Tom dead in the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home swimming pool with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breaka wound to his head.
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|isbnauthor=1529125790Alan Parks|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellTo 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=In July 2019, Jason Mott was mud larking Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on the banks of the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared cruise to be human bonesNew York on ''Atlantica''. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigateshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had They've not been killed by a blow to the head many years ago - probably as couple for that long as twenty-five - but and the bones had not been in the river longer than trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a yearbit better. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetationMeanwhile, some of which was quite unusualGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?
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|isbnauthor=1787301745Mark Edwards|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaKeep Her Secret|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We're back Matthew and Helena are in the world of podcasters Anna and FinIceland, whom we rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the 'family' holiday: her experfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, Hamish, is now even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with thema 500 foot drop to certain death below. Fin (who was married Convinced she is going to Estelle) is there too die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendmakes a panicked, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistakecryptic declaration to Matthew. Sofia's difficult Just moments later their heroic, and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthousefrankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended hauls Helena to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess safety and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timeMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X
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|isbnauthor=178763566XJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=We're in Boston with AmyHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. When she set out Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for university this morning it was an afternoon at a spring day and book fair, she wore flukes her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of way into a public argument with the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - latest hot shot in the snow thatworld of crime fiction, saying he's now fallingpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. As Cue the bet that she crosses the roadcannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a car comes out wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of nowhere and hits despairing – about her. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoliwriting, about the people and a keen defender of the suburb lack of Revere, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past her and whilst stimulus for her boyfriendplot, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has more or less about everything – word comes that the time to watch whatlandlady's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615
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|isbn=00083956320861544056|title=One Last SecretTwin Truths|author=Adele ParksJacqueline Sutherland|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Natalya is an escortBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Well, her nameKit's not ''actually'' Natalya: thatbeen at Bristol and Jess's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritagein Exeter. SheIt's actually thirtynot only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time -one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskibut they've also been apart from each other. If youBelle can're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks t wait to have them all to fund herself for a drug habit, forget itwhile. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of Then Kit rings up - can she bring her income and deals boyfriend home with the payments her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going doesn't want to be safeupset Kit. Dora describes herself as a selfIvo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-employed clairvoyant four to Her MajestyKit's Revenue and Customseighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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|isbnauthor=140595115XRobert Dugoni|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Right from Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the beginning, we know this will not turn out welllife'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. Eight days into Along with an indisputable talent for the trip law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to deliver oblivion and inevitably the superyacht ''Escape'' latter was beginning to Antiguaovershadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, all 300 tonnes former competitive chess prodigy and six decks will be floundering without power proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Atlantic. Those hideous position of asking her father for a job at the crew who are left will be cowering in fear family firm because a romantic entanglement with a fellow crew member tries to pick them offsenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way of making contact. But let's go back to when all this startedrather spectacularly, in Southamptonsouth.|isbn=1662500181
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|isbnauthor=0241989027Vanda Symon|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of the ability to cook her maternity leave when there is a good steakbrutal, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. The first person who came to Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the house was Francoise, hunt for a French woman in her early twentieskiller targeting pregnant women, who fit with all the bill perfectlyextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. She got the job but Francoise didnFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't know about let the advert: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter case go and she came starts to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emilyfollow every thread to uncover what's a midwife actually happening, and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madethe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577
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|isbn=07515815771787301036|title=Lying Beside YouWhat July Knew|author=Michael RobothamEmily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdayWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. Voices told him to do itShe's a careful, meticulous child. Only two people survived the carnage - EliasThe care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who was sent is not prepared to Rampton, and discuss the death of his thirteen-year-old brotherwife, CyrusJuly's mother, who hid in and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a shed until the police found himLesson. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's been told that his brother is being releasednot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Can Cyrus forgive July's teacher is concerned and brings up the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis possibility of abuse with the results of head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the crimeschool, has he not? Can he bear to The playground wouldn't have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?been resurfaced but for him.
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|isbn=14059409800008454493|title=The BirdcageAll the Dangerous Things|author=Eve ChaseStacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|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 7th middle of January 2019 the night and we know Izzy is consumed with guilt that a body has been pulled out of she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the sea at Zennor morning when she thought he was sleeping in Cornwall. We donIn that year she't know whose body it iss done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat She does interviews and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finchwhen we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a famous artist. keynote The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closepresentation. Finch was known for his fecundityOn the plane back, if not for his fidelity. Itshe's been approached by a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agopodcaster, at the time of the total eclipseWaylon Spencer, something happened. Kat who points out that she could do a podcast and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersfew hundred people at conferences.
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|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1848458436|title=FacelessJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In this book told from multiple viewpoints''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, several troubled people are thrown turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the same story thanks to just one mis-step. Set in New Zealand, the first of our characters is Bradley, a middle aged man struggling with an overbearing boss, a weighty mortgagetwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and what he feels is an unappreciative wifeNina and Jake Hayes. Then there’s Billy, a homeless teenage girl who The connection between the two is a street artist working as a prostitute sometimes that Lily and Nina teach in order to pay for the materials she needssame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. And then we The couples have Max, who is also living on the streets and who keeps an eye on Billymixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. He Christian is a shell of a man, barely able to take any care of himself, market research analyst and yet we can sense that he was once something more than he Jake is nowa neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. One nightLily hasn't said anything yet, Bradley finds himself half-crazed with stress and anxiety, driving down the street looking for a prostitutebut she's pregnant. He picks up Billy, and then with one thoughtless decision finds his life thrown into turmoil and She has a spiral away from lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the person he thought he was into someone very differentknowledge public.|isbn=1914585046
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