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|summary=Nancy is trying to escape a naff Christmas Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, living with her naff boyfriend, but walks into parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a nightmare writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when she interrupts a burglary at her parents' home – a professionalUncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, violent, nay fatal, burglaryRashida. When she comes out of Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a therapeutic stay think tank which originated at Cambridge University in an institute afterwards, she's seeking one thing – revengethe 1980s. Her brother and his rap sheet might have something It plans to do with those responsible, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – push the need for vengeance against those who inflicted government in a double rape more extreme direction and such violence against heris ready to act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Shanghai FactorMidnight Feast|author=Charles McCarryLucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai societysplendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. A chance meeting results in an intelligent The Manor was her ancestral home and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working 's converted it into an impressive retreat for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) the wealthy and that he famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates still ongoing on parts of the Guoanbu site. The heat is oppressive and proves himself very valuable amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to both the US be settled and Chinese intelligence services, becoming it won't be long before a pawn in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsbody is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High RollersSaima Mir|authortitle=Jack BowmanVengeance

|summary=Tom Patrick is a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the best there is. He has more than ruffled north of England run by a few feathers and is suspended from working on casesMuslim woman. Despite this The fact that it was the largest case of his career is forced upon him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting second in many fatalities. Tom recognises a possible link between the two series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and potentially many more airplanes, it needn't be a link hindrance if it's good enough. And that could uncover wasn't a far reaching problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and very dangerous conspiracyI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>0861541561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda HowardDavid Chadwick|title=Shadow WomanHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Prelude: the President It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of the United States LA and the First Lady are on what is not being called Las Vegas both a campaign toursignificant drive away. It isNot much happens in Hicks. It is most definitely A silver mine and a re-election campaign; itdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's just not supposed to bemuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. They retire to their suite for the nightLife is quiet, and the protection detail of the Secret Service are looking forward to a shift change at the end of a long dayuntil.... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1399613073|title=A Crack in the WallMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the verge first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a mid life crisiscentury. His work Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, marriage which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and general life a trauma doctor. Anjali is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him to ponder over the attractions free spirit of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having the group and she becomes a relationshipGP. When we first meet them they're at a young girl enters drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jara, tragedy or the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do know himconsequences. He was involved in a claim Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that one of will impact the practicethree friends. This time, it's projects caused a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved is something all three of them would rather forgettheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=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 terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened 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 terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona McIntoshCody Goodfellow|title=The Lavender KeeperVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) to avenge good view from up high, after all? Even the death of his adoptive Jewish family. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester drabbest office building is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a group of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back somewhere I'm intrigued to the homeland. Their paths will cross as Lisette is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilianget inside if it's 40 stories tall. The mission is clear cut on paper, but life can be messier than any plan can predictSo when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)1804183210|title=Plan DNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=October 2011 and Thirty-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, the Berlin wall is still intactchairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. Inspector Martin Wegener of To say that he was shocked when the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious exbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal -lover Karolina and workbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. On this particular day Brian Kitman and Elliot 'workMitch' is a body found hanging from Mitchell were well-known and respected in the GDR section racing industry. Jennings was in one of gas pipeline the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that joins Russian the horse had been deliberately bid up to Europethat figure. Not only is he hanging, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: a Stasi trademarkBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. Who is he and why are The following morning, the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and they're sending a West Berlin detective horse was dead in to help him find them; not the best start to a dayits stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones1405951680|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out of him. They run to escape the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but to the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget them. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSafe House|author=Joseph Clyde|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombCameron Ward|rating=3.54

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the centre Australian outback for a couple of Londonmonths. Julie After the problems she's first thought is to reach her daughterd had at work, waiting to be collected from school within it seemed like just the danger zone, but when this becomes impossible break she must take refuge indoors and await rescueneeded. Forcing her way into She was no longer a beauty salon data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she finds herself among a disparate group of strangers, some of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hers. Also sheltering in the salon are the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anya, a beautician/call girl and her Chechen client, Safia, a devout Muslim (was Jess who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems was returning to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As a Doctor, Julie maintains country of her calm birth and does her best her to help, and the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act in need of nobility at one point, but tensions flare in the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins space to show signs get over the traumatic end of radiation poisoningher relationship with Charles. After A few weeks in the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are Julie's estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent and finally a pair of terrorists connected to Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the first attack, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jaysonticket. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker1448309743|title=Crime of PrivilegeThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest at a party in the Cape Cod home village of Cronchie on the West coast of Senator GregoryScotland, patriarch five members of America's most loved and influential a wealthy family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with his sister but in the library George was present when Jamie Gregory and Peter Gregory Martin raped a young woman who was too drunk to either assent or protestare found murdered. It was The only George's intervention which prevented item missing from the home is the assault becoming more violent. But for Devil Stone: myth says that if the young woman, Kendrick Powellstone is removed from Otterburn House, the rape was devastating and before long she was deaddeath will follow. She too was the child of an influential and wealthy family. But the Gregory clan sticks together and no action was taken against Jamie or Peter and it was the senator's influence which secured George Becket a post The only suspects are known Satanists but in the Cape Cod DAmany ways, that's office. It might seem an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the matter was closed - body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but the Powell family were determined that George would suffer for not having spoken out against the Gregory familywhen he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB0CCCPJJ5B|title=PenitenceThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Phil Davis is Our narrator was a detective in a small town in Texas and scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees the body of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decadesmet Ralph Finns. There's no suggestion that the death It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was anything other than accidental but Davis starts a boarder and had money to wonder when he hears of other men with similar scars who have throw around on a met an untimely Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state- if seemingly innocent of- death recentlythe-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the agency whoUK's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlierthird most prestigious university. To cap it allBefore going up, someone was tried for the crime and has been in he took up a mental institution sinceloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, so what is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>Clouds Manor in West Dorset.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeDean Koontz|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)The House at the End of the World

|summary=Ellen Martin When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is a drivingno one on your side, ambitious US lawyeryou can either suck it up, so saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her boss sends her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja (Barranca aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for shortthe pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, mercifully) the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a touch of charity work it would be career threatening way to protest too stronglyget home. Besides it only amounts Some are lucky and manage to getting someone out get one of prisonthe few taxis available. Soon after arriving Ellen realises Others squash onto the night bus that there's more than will only go as far as one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself to of the listoutlying villages. Luckily for her Barranca is also The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the home light of her personal trainer's nephew andthe missing women'. For one young woman, luckier still, he has the final stop on the bus leaves her a housemate called Alexlong way short of her home. Indeed during EllenShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's stay Alex is going dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to be more than usefullet her use his. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going There's no option but to be indispensablestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya1529195977|title=The WatchNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= Nizam pushes On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a barrow up to a fortified US army base crowd of friends in Afghanistanthe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. What is She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she doing there? was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. How will That's where the soldiers react? What do they believesimilarities end, though: their experienceAlix, their trainingwith her husband, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee Nathan, are in the middle midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the desert who may be other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Beukes1803136383|title=The Shining GirlsTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=As ''The Shining Girls''’ tagline says, this is Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a thriller that breaks all the boundariescloud. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction conceptsWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. I haven’t read anything like it before, rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading ''The Shining Girls'', you won’t disgrace seems to be for longthe consensus. This book sets out Wat himself is keeping his cards close to cut you up insidehis chest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert WiltonB0C7J9D21B|title=Traitor's FieldA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1648 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and the embers of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour he lives at The House of Oliver Cromwell's CommonwealthBeautiful Swallows. HoweverIdyllic as this might sound, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny a bordello and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which Ettore's mother died when he longswas born. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped been short of mothers, though - but among the confusion and brutality that tears Britain for someone of his background in halflate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, former lawyer Cromwellit's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the taskpreparation of anchovies 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0241996104|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are Coming to Find You?|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the typical Mumcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. SheThe barrister tells her that she's got received a husband and three children and she's permanently tired. Her fullsilent sentence' -time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life and she's constantly chasing around trying not been found guilty of anything but will have to catch up live with what she ought to have done. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and they can only just manage to afford happened for the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake districtrest of her life. ItOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl rich - really only a child she inherited five million pounds from her mother - is abducted and brutally rapedthe papers are making the most of it. Then another girl of about the same age goes missing ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Lisa was responsible for her safety. What do you say, what do you do in that situation? Lisa ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is about to find outundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John le Carre1529135389|title=A Delicate TruthThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2008 and Paul is recruited by, apparently, Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the government to assist -art music system installed in an undercover operation in GibraltarThe Glass Barn. ItThey's perfectly straightforward d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and its success will impede a cell of Al Qaedawere still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Paul performs, is thanked Some of them fought with each other and taken home without complicationsdidn't work as reliably as they should. Fast forward to 2011 It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Toby Bell is promoted they were still getting used to the role having that sort of private secretary for Paul's recruitermoney, MP Fergus Quinntoo. Whilst acquainting himself Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with Quinn's CVa wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, Toby uncovers the story accidental death of a homeless man on the missionstreets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been as straightforward as all thatfor years. Quinn At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also appears dealing with a move to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seemsa different police station, unfortunately for and the arrival there of a particular pillar woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of a Cornish community for whom life will never the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the same again.woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey1529382823|title=4 Bones SleepingThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=ThereCaroline Riley (she prefers 's quite Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a contrast between the settings in cruise to New York on ''4 Bones SleepingAtlantica''. To begin with thereCaz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's the timerelieved or disappointed. Just about everything They've not been a couple for that happens goes back to long and the end of the Second World War and just afterwards, when people were coming trip will be an excellent opportunity to terms with having won the war, but not quite knowing what get to do with the peaceknow him a bit better. Then thereMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's 1980 when we wondered if we'd won the war, but lost the peacecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the post-war yearsIt's going to be good, but what are they all doing in a one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? And where did the money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper and make Harry the landlord of the pubisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Van LustbaderMark Edwards|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)Keep Her Secret

|summary= Jack McClureMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, aide rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and friend black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the US presidentjoy she is feeling in this moment, is back at work after even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the death edge of his daughter a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the resolved kidnapping snagged strap of President Carson's own daughterher 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, Allicryptic declaration to Matthew. HoweverJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Jack hasn't fully recovered; Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he's still in mourning just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and full Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of selfDarkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-recrimination but the show must go onregarded literary short novels. When Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an American senator is killed in Capri Jack's on hand to investigateafternoon at a book fair, starting she flukes her way into a mission that will take him into public argument with the Ukraine and latest hot shot in the seamier side world of power on both sides of the Atlantic. Apparently not all the Presidentcrime fiction, saying he's closest advisors can be trusted populist trash and that's not Jack's only complicationwriting what anyone could write. After Alli's traumatic experiences at Cue the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person bet that she trustscannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, so where she's coming along is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the ridepoint of despairing – about her writing, through hellabout the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, high water and a few murders.more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Thomas0861544056|title=Maria & The DevilTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit'The Devil has ridden out's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. Maria It's lover is Montananot only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they's most feared outlawve also been apart from each other. He has left her alone in Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a secluded cabin deep in the wildernesswhile. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitude, Then Kit rings up - can she develops a familiar routine bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that feels safehe didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's defences against it are crumblingeighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in they'll be sharing a relentless quest for revengebedroom. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisRobert Dugoni|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Her Deadly Game

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the Russians (Britainlife's ally) retain most work of mainland Europe. Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Briton Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle defence of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould 'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlyclients. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, Along with an indisputable talent for the same warlocks that are now being murdered. Howeverlaw, fighting over, Pip Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and Will are both war-weary and want inevitably the latter was beginning to be left alone but overshadow the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasformer. For the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and assembling proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in England, still equipped with the super powers hideous position of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are backasking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie HannahVanda Symon|title=The CarrierExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=34.5

|summary= Due to Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a delayed flight homebrutal, Gaby has to stay overnight shocking murder of an expectant woman in a German hotel with fellow passenger LaurenDunedin. During Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the night Lauren tells Gaby about hunt for a man charged killer targeting pregnant women, with all the murder of his paralysed wifeextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him to be innocent. 2. He's Tim BrearyFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, Gabyshe just can's former lover with whom t let the case go and she has unfinished business. Once home Gaby is determined starts to follow every thread to prove his innocence but thatuncover what's easier said than doneactually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Huggler1787301036|title=Burden of the DesertWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple canWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she't believe her luck when shes just ten years old. She's sent a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to Iraq to cover discuss the birth death of an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run out. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to storywife, sometimes only just escaping intact. HoweverJuly's mother, and any hint that the most dangerous thing he conversation is heading that way will ever do is fall in lovelead to the necessity of a Lesson. Rick Benes is one Other infractions of the American soldiers on the news, his only ambition being requirements also lead to get his platoon home safely as Iraqthese Lessons and he's birth pangs not even careful about whether or not the injuries are violent and unrelentingvisible. And then thereJuly's Adelteacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; has he not until the day that Benes killed his family? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=J E RyderStacy 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Blood PoolJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=There’s a distressing moment in any long-term relationship where you realise that, in practice, happily ever after looks a lot like an eternity of small, snarling arguments about who forgot to buy food, who should take out the rubbish and who is responsible for that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner of the bedroom. Domestic bliss is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much that they want to spend the rest of their lives fighting about it. You and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – but no matter how close you are, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break down. You aren’t them, and they aren’t you, and so you can never truly know what’s really going on inside that well-known head. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel O'Malley|title='The Rook (The Checquy Files)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, the previous inhabiter whole thing has spiralled out of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for 'the Checquy'control, a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and danger. The problem is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so to speak). The amnesiac has a clear choice: to continue Myfanwyturning into someone I's investigation or to do a runnerm not. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging:

''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples:Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school:Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don'Remember they want you deadt have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn' Something for her t want to bear in mind along with the fatal, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into tempt fate by making the UKknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Alan Furst|title=The Spies of Warsaw|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The reluctant, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier is military attaché to the French embassy in the Warsaw of 1937. Decorated during World War I, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptions, parties and debriefing sessions necessary for his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged or coerced to work against the interests of other states. He watches whilst Poland is squeezed between the Nazis on one side and the increasing profile of Stalin and Russia Move on the other, convinced that war will not only be inevitable, but soon. However, no one will listen to him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from the onslaught to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]