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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241678412|title=The Proof of My Innocence|author=Alexa CamouroJonathan Coe|rating=4|titlegenre=Thrillers|summary=Dixon Grace: 1Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated.9 She's back home, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport.7 Hamburg All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living a complicated life in HamburgIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. She juggles her live-in, ambitious, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employeesIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. But however complicated that seems, itIt's about to get worseall headed up by Francesca Meadows. The police come for Manor was her in the early hours, although it's not till ancestral home and she's ensconced in converted it into an impressive retreat for the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged with espionage wealthy and murderfamous. The problem Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is complex but still ongoing on parts of the answer is simple: she must escape to prove her innocencesite. Having said that, 'simple' The heat is a relative termoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. From the language school for which she works Old scores are going to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping up, nothing be settled and it won't be long before a body is what it seems, including Dixon Gracefound.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Excalibur CodexSaima Mir|authortitle=James DouglasVengeance

|summary=Jamie Saintclair is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an expert organised crime syndicate in tracing works of arts. But he has just as much the north of England run by a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art workMuslim woman. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refuse. A chance to find The fact that it was the legendary sword of Arthur, but he wonsecond in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be dealing with knights or chivalry in this adventure, instead he will come up against the very worst of human nature. This book will take him on a quest beginning in one of humanityhindrance if it's darkest chapters, the rise of Nazi Germanygood enough. The evil perpetuated in this era will be mirrored by modern men who are prepared to plunge the world into darkness once again, this time in the name of British purityAnd that wasn't a problem here. Although the sword is associated with supernatural powers, there will be nothing supernatural in the evil Jamie faces, only the unbridled hatred and lust for power that comes so naturally Vengeance swiftly brings you up to some menspeed, and because of this is ever so much more terrifying than magic or monsters. What is even more disturbing is the thought that under the right circumstances, many of us could become monsters as wellI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>0861541561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hell to PayDavid Chadwick|authortitle=Jenny ThomsonHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5

|summary=Nancy It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is trying to escape a naff Christmas Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with her naff boyfriend, but walks into its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary at her parents' home – a professional, violent, nay fatal, burglarysignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. When she comes out of A silver mine and a therapeutic stay in an institute afterwardsdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, shethere's seeking one thing – revengenot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Her brother and his rap sheet might have something to do with those responsibleLife is quiet, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against heruntil....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=The Shanghai FactorMoral Injuries|author=Charles McCarryChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Our narrator Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is an American sleeper spy in China whose mission ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to improve his Mandarin and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai societybe a cardiothoracic surgeon. A chance meeting results in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he Laura is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) a perfectionist and that he a trauma doctor. Anjali is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates the free spirit of the Guoanbu group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and proves himself very valuable alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to both end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the US and Chinese intelligence servicesconsequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, becoming a pawn in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=High RollersHotel 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Jack BowmanCody Goodfellow|title=Vertical

|summary=Tom Patrick is There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a far good view from popular air crash investigatorup high, who is nonetheless after all? Even the best there drabbest office building issomewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. He has more than ruffled a few feathers and is suspended from working on cases. Despite So when I picked up this the largest case of his career is forced upon him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalities. Tom recognises a possible link between the two and potentially many more airplanes, a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracybook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>1803363991

{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=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 chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Howard1405951680|title=Shadow WomanThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=Prelude: Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the President Australian outback for a couple of months. After the United States and problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the First Lady are on what is not being called a campaign tour. It isbreak she needed. It is most definitely She was no longer a re-election campaign; it's just not supposed data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to be. They retire to their suite for the night, country of her birth and the protection detail in need of the Secret Service are looking forward space to a shift change at get over the traumatic end of a long dayher relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia PineiroB0CCCPJJ5B|title=A Crack The Last Person in the WallWorld|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect on the verge of Our narrator was a mid life crisis. His work, marriage and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him to ponder over scholarship day boy at the attractions of his colleague Marta with whom London-based public school where he suspects his boss may be having a met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship. When as Ralph was a young girl enters the office asking if anyone knows boarder and had money to throw around on a man called Nelson Jara Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the three architects deny all knowledge, but -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they do know himbecame almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. He was involved Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in a claim that one of Wellingford, the practiceUK's projects caused third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a crack loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved is something all three of them would rather forgetWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona McIntoshDean Koontz|title=The Lavender KeeperHouse at the End of the World|rating=4.5

|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (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 you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a rural guerrilla wing small chain of tiny dots on the French Resistance) map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to avenge start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the death aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of his adoptive Jewish family. Meanwhile mischief in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a group name of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back to science and quite possibly bringing about the homeland. Their paths will cross as Lisette is sent into France with the aim end of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. The mission is clear cut on paper, but life can be messier than any plan can predictall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)1787636607|title=Plan DThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=October 2011 It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the Berlin wall is still intactfew taxis available. Inspector Martin Wegener Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious ex-lover Karolina and workoutlying villages. On this particular day The woman all regret the 'worktaxi problem' is a body found hanging from , particularly in the GDR section light of gas pipeline that joins Russian to Europe'the missing women'. Not only is he hangingFor one young woman, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: final stop on the bus leaves her a Stasi trademarklong way short of her home. Who is he She had intended to ring someone to come and why are collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the Stasi killing again? bus driver to let her use his. Martin needs answers and theyThere're sending a West Berlin detective in s no option but to help him find them; not the best start to a daywalking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones1529195977|title=The String DiariesNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Welsh mountains Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with daughter Leah her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband Nate while , Nathan, are in the life blood slowly seeps out midst of a joyful, monied group of himfriends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. They run Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to escape her tummy and you get the evil sense that has relentlessly haunted HannahWalter's family for generationsnot too happy. Some people see it as He's not used to spending this much money on a Hungarian legend meal - but to the Wildes itis Josie's real birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and insatiable nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and won't forget themdisgrace seems to be the consensus. They know what Wat himself is keeping his cards close to do: verify everyonehis chest, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enoughas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph ClydeB0C7J9D21B|title=A State Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Fear: Britain After Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a Dirty Bombbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off in the centre of London. JulieNancy's first thought is to reach mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her daughterstep-brother, waiting to be collected from school within the danger zoneMartin, but when this becomes impossible she must take refuge indoors and await rescue. Forcing her way into a beauty salon she finds herself among a disparate group of strangers, some has been convicted of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hersmurder. Also sheltering in the salon are We first meet Nancy outside the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anyacourt, after Martin receives a beautician/call girl and life sentence. The barrister tells her Chechen client, Safia, that she's received a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of black Caribbean descent. It seems anything but will have to be a regular United Nations in live with what happened for the salonrest of her life. As a Doctor Of course, Julie maintains it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her calm and does her best her to help, mother - and the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act of nobility at one point, but tensions flare in papers are making the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins to show signs most of radiation poisoningit. After the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are Julie ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent is one favourite epithet and finally a pair of terrorists connected to the first attack, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jayson''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker1529135389|title=Crime of PrivilegeThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5

|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest Nicole Booth had spent the morning at a party in the Cape Cod county fair before she returned home . There was no sign of Senator Gregory, patriarch her husband but opera was playing on the state-of America's most loved and influential family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as -the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with his sister but -art music system installed 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 protestThe Glass Barn. It was only GeorgeThey's intervention which prevented d not been in the assault becoming more violent. But architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the young woman, Kendrick Powell, the rape was devastating and before long she was deadhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. She too was the child Some of an influential them fought with each other and wealthy family. But the Gregory clan sticks together and no action was taken against Jamie or Peter and it was the senatordidn's influence which secured George Becket a post in the Cape Cod DA's officet work as reliably as they should. It might seem that the matter was closed had all come about through a ten-million- but the Powell family pound lottery win and they were determined still getting used to having that George would suffer for not having spoken out against sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the Gregory familyswimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherAlan Parks|title=PenitenceTo Die in June

|summary=Phil Davis 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 a worrying enough for detective in Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a small town in Texas down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and 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 has been inflicted over for years if not decades. There's no suggestion that At the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to wonder when he hears a different police station, and the arrival there of other men with similar scars a woman who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recentlyclaims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez Something feels wrong - seemingly one of not just with the big beasts of woman’s story but also with the agency who's spending time looking into a murder with which other officers where he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlier. To cap it all, someone was tried for the crime and has been in a mental institution sincestationed, so but can Harry uncover just what is Valdez doinggoing on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529382823|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellen Martin is a driving, ambitious US lawyer, so when her boss sends her to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja Caroline Riley (Barranca for short, mercifullyshe prefers 'Caz') for is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a touch of charity work it would be career threatening cruise to protest too stronglyNew York on ''Atlantica''. Besides it only amounts Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to getting someone out of prisonpropose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. Soon after arriving Ellen realises They've not been a couple for that there's more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to the listknow him a bit better. Luckily for her Barranca Meanwhile, Gemma is also the home of her personal trainerlooking after Caz's nephew and, luckier still, he cafe as well as their mother who has a housemate called Alexdementia. Indeed during EllenIt's stay Alex is going to be more than useful. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going to be indispensable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>good, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaMark Edwards|title=The WatchKeep Her Secret|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up to a fortified US army base in Afghanistan4. What is she doing there? How will the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experience, their training, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in the middle of the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Beukes|title=The Shining Girls|rating=5

|summary=As ''Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The Shining Girls''’ tagline saysalien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, this is even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a thriller that breaks all ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the boundariesrockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barelypanicked, sparely explainedcryptic declaration to Matthew. I haven’t read anything like it before Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops 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 be for long. This book sets out hauls Helena to cut you up insidesafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WiltonJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Traitor's FieldThirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=It's 1648 and the embers Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of Charles I's reign start failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to fade as Britain slowly turns leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the monotone colour world of Oliver Cromwellcrime fiction, saying he's Commonwealthpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. However, Royalist passion still exists and it's Cue the bet that she cannot live up to Sir Mortimer Shaythat accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Surveypoint of despairing – about her writing, to gather about the intelligence, maintain his spy network people and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory lack of stimulus for which he longs. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the confusion and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwelllandlady's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged with the task.nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0861544056|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the typical Mumend of their first term at university. SheKit's got a husband and three children been at Bristol and sheJess's permanently tiredin Exeter. Her full-time job at the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life and sheIt's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with what she ought to have done. Husband Joe is a taxi driver and they can not only just manage to afford the rent on first time they've been away from their cottage in the picturesque lake districtparents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. ItBelle can's normally pretty crime free but then t wait to have them all to herself for a young girl - really only a child - is abducted and brutally rapedwhile. Then another girl of about the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her safety? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. What do you say, what do you do in Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that situation? . Lisa is about to find outAnd they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John le CarreRobert Dugoni|title=A Delicate TruthHer Deadly Game

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2008 and Paul is recruited by, apparently, Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the government to assist in an undercover operation in Gibraltar. Itlife's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede a cell work of Al Qaeda. Paul performs, is thanked and taken home without complications. Fast forward Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to 2011 and Toby Bell is promoted to the role his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of private secretary for Paul's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnhis clients. Whilst acquainting himself Along with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers an indisputable talent for the story of the missionlaw, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all that. Quinn Patsy also appears to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seems, unfortunately for has a particular pillar of a Cornish community gift for whom life will never be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerald Wixey|title=4 Bones Sleeping|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=There's quite a contrast between the settings in ''4 Bones Sleeping''. To begin with there's the time. Just about everything that happens goes back drinking himself to the end of the Second World War oblivion and just afterwards, when people were coming to terms with having won inevitably the war, but not quite knowing what latter was beginning to do with overshadow the peaceformer. Then there's 1980 when we wondered if we'd won the warEnter Keera Duggan, but lost the peace. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the seedier parts hideous position of London in asking her father for a job at the post-war yearsfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, 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 pub?Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Van LustbaderVanda Symon|title=Last Snow Expectant (Jack McClure TrilogyDetective Sam Shephard)

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Jack McClure, aide and friend to the US president, Detective Sam Shepherd is back at work after approaching the death start of his daughter and the resolved kidnapping her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of President Carson's own daughter, Allian expectant woman in Dunedin. However, Jack hasn't fully recovered; he's still Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in mourning and full of self-recrimination but the show must go on. When an American senator is killed in Capri Jack's on hand to investigatehunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, starting a mission that will take him into the Ukraine and the seamier side of power on both sides of the Atlantic. Apparently not with all the President's closest advisors can be trusted and extra pressure that's not Jack's only complicationentails being pregnant herself. After Alli's traumatic experiences at the hands of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person Finding herself put on desk duties, which she trustsrails against, so shejust can's coming along for t let the ride, through hell, high water case go and a few murders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graham Thomas|title=Maria & The Devil|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=''The Devil has ridden out''. Mariashe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left her alone in a secluded cabin deep in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitudeactually happening, she develops a familiar routine that feels safe. But the isolation is pervasive and Maria's defences against it are crumbling. And while she waits for her lover to return, she is discovered by Rickman Chill, whose gang is tracking the Devil in a relentless quest for revengeincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next. What will happen when Chill discovers Maria's identity? Will the Devil return in time? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1787301036|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)What July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (BritainWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's ally) retain most of mainland Europejust ten years old. The Briton in the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould She'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlys a careful, meticulous child. The nation was saved care has been taught by warlocks like Lord Willher father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the same warlocks that are now being murdered. Howeverdeath of his wife, fighting overJuly's mother, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasnecessity of a Lesson. For Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the Nazi experimental injuries are visible. July'willpower' children are now adult s teacher is concerned and assembling in England, still equipped brings up the possibility of abuse with the super powers of their childhood. head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? This means Will and Pip The playground wouldn't have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are backbeen resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>

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|summary= Due to Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a delayed flight homeyear - well, Gaby has to stay overnight in apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurenmoment. During It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night Lauren tells Gaby and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about a man charged with her relief in the murder of his paralysed wifemorning when she thought he was sleeping in. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him In that year she's done everything she could to be innocentraise awareness about the case. 2. He's Tim BrearyShe does interviews and when we meet her, Gabyshe's former lover with whom just been to TrueCrimeCon where she has unfinished businessgave a keynote presentation. Once home Gaby is determined to prove his innocence but thatOn the plane back, she's easier said approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than doneshe could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>

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|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe her luck when she's sent to Iraq to cover the birth The whole thing has spiralled out of an emerging nationcontrol, turning into someone I'm not thinking that such luck can sometimes run out. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intact. However, the most dangerous thing he will ever do is fall in love. Rick Benes is one of the American soldiers on the news, his only ambition being to get his platoon home safely as Iraq's birth pangs are violent and unrelenting. And then there's Adel, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=J E Ryder|title=Blood Pool|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the owner story of a boatyard when her husband died in a cliff falltwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. She had worked The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - for quite some time same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's the men of the Shelley 'blood poolnot a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don' who t have always inherited the land for the past two hundred yearsmuch in common except their wives. She was aware of ill-feeling against her in the villageLily hasn't said anything yet, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself and for the staff she employed's pregnant. There was some support in the village - an old friend, known She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to one and all as 'tempt fate by making the Prof' - had always been there for her and willing to listen to her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstancesknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Gillian Flynn|title=Gone Girl|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]