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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241678412|title=Then We Take BerlinThe Proof of My Innocence|author=John LawtonJonathan Coe
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Do we really need another Cold War-era thriller? Especially one Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yes, if the thriller in question is John LawtonPhyl anticipated. She's new offeringback home, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Then We Take BerlinUncle'Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Despite sounding like Christopher Swann (described by some as a chant from lefty blogger) is investigating a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s, Then We Take Berlin tells . It plans to push the story of cockney John 'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness government in a more extreme direction and is ready to all of his female acquantancesact.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Rice0008385068|title=The Heavens RiseMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; she wants him as much as he obsesses about herIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. HeIt's certain until a late night struggle in her familytheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's swimming pool disavows him of the ideaall headed up by Francesca Meadows. However they arenThe Manor was her ancestral home and she't alone in s converted it into an impressive retreat for the water. Something unwelcome and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities wealthy and their futuresfamous. Fast forward through Her husband, Owen, was the years architect and Marshall work is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around himstill ongoing on parts of the site. And Niquette? The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. SheOld scores are going to be settled and it won's missing along with the rest of her familyt be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Warm BodiesFrontpage|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSaima Mir|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac MarionVengeance|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it3. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Abomination|author=Jonathan Holt|rating=4
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|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Italian Carabinieri police force, Holly Boland, north of England run by a Second Lieutenant Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in the US Army a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and Daniele Barbo it needn't be a reclusive web expert, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events hindrance if it's good enough. And that become more and more entwinedwasn't a problem here. Their collective probing uncovers a massive conspiracy and seems Vengeance swiftly brings you up to implicate the US Armyspeed, the Catholic Church and the Italian Mafia, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best not to rile in any way, as the three characters are quick to discoverI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178185369X</amazonuk>0861541561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A P McCoyDavid Chadwick|title=Taking the FallHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5
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|summary=Back It's September 1973 in the nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was Hicks, California. Hicks is a promising conditional jockey - Mojave desert town of a talented rider who should never have been short few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a ride, but he was struggling, probably because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shutsignificant drive away. He'd been taught everything he knew by his father, Charlie, a trainer whose reputation was ruined when personal rivalries got out of handNot much happens in Hicks. He hasn't been able to set foot on A silver mine and a racecourse since. His sondefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's determined to beat the top jockeys not much of note other than dive bars and to bring down the men responsible for what happened to his fatherJoshua trees. Life is quiet, but can he do both or will he have to make some hard choices?until....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409129578</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Bronze Gods1399613073|author=A A Aguire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summarytitle=One of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have created. Where is the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customs, et cetera, et cetera. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings of a really good time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Alexa Camouro|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a complicated life in Hamburgcentury. She juggles her live-in, Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English which is a bonus when you aim to local company employeesbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. But however complicated that seems, it's about to get worseLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The police come for her in Anjali is the free spirit of the early hours, although group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's not till she's ensconced going to end in the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged with espionage and murdertragedy. The problem is complex but We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the answer is simple: she must escape to prove her innocenceconsequences. Having said Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that, 'simple' is a relative termwill impact the three friends. From the language school for which she works to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping upThis time, nothing is what it seems, including Dixon Grace's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Excalibur CodexHotel 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=James DouglasCody Goodfellow|title=Vertical
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Jamie Saintclair is an expert in tracing works of arts. But he has There's something about tall buildings that just as much of a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art work. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refusecaptures my imagination. A chance to find the legendary sword of Arthur, but he wonWho doesn't be dealing with knights or chivalry in this adventurelove a good view from up high, instead he will come up against after all? Even the very worst of human nature. This book will take him on a quest beginning in one of humanitydrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's darkest chapters, the rise of Nazi Germany40 stories tall. The evil perpetuated in So when I picked up this era will be mirrored by modern men book – about people who are prepared to plunge the world into darkness once again, this time in the name of British purity. Although the sword is associated with supernatural powers, there will be nothing supernatural in the evil Jamie faces, only the unbridled hatred and lust scale tall buildings for power that comes so naturally to some men, 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 wellfun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Hell to PayNo Reserve|author=Jenny ThomsonFelix Francis|rating=34
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy is trying to escape a naff Christmas with her naff boyfriendThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but walks into a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary at her parents' home – a professionalPeter Radway, violentthe chairman, nay fatalhadn't arrived, burglaryso he continued his session. When she comes out of a therapeutic stay in To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an institute afterwards, sheunderstatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's seeking one thing – revengeMitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Her brother Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and his rap sheet might have something their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to do with those responsiblethat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against herhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Shanghai FactorSafe House|author=Charles McCarryCameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Our narrator is Jess Walker accepted an American sleeper spy offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai societythe Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. A chance meeting results She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover London: she was Jess who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) was returning to the country of her birth and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates in need of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable space to both get over the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming a pawn traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsVictoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>
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{{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|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=High RollersThe Last Person in the World|author=Jack BowmanMatthew Tree|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tom Patrick is Our narrator was a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless scholarship day boy at the best there isLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. He has more than ruffled It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a few feathers boarder and is suspended from working had money to throw around on casesa Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Despite this the largest case of his career is forced upon him Both were probably quite surprised when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalitiesthey became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Tom recognises Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a possible link between place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the two and potentially many more airplanesUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracyloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda HowardDean Koontz|title=Shadow WomanThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Prelude: the President 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 small chain of tiny dots on the United States map and the First Lady are live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on what is not being called a campaign tour. It is. It is most definitely a re-election campaignJacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it's just not supposed to be. They retire to their suite for the nightpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the protection detail name of the Secret Service are looking forward to a shift change at science and quite possibly bringing about the end of a long dayall mankind. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1787636607|title=A Crack in the WallThe 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 way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and 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. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529195977
|title=None of this is True
|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on the verge of a mid life crisisSalisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. His work She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, marriage Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anythingJosie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, leaving him to ponder over are in the attractions midst of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationshipjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. When a young girl enters Josie, on the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jaraother hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do know himsense that Walter's not too happy. He was involved in a claim that one of the practice's projects caused not used to spending this much money on a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved meal - but it is something Josie's birthday after all three of them would rather forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntosh1803136383|title=The Lavender KeeperTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) to avenge the death of his adoptive Jewish familycloud. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE)sure exactly what took place, a group but an act of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory heroism leading to send vital information back a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the homelandconsensus. Their paths will cross as Lisette Wat himself is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. The mission is clear cut on paperkeeping his cards close to his chest, but life can be messier than any plan can predictas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|authortitle=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire A Captive in Algiers (TranslatorMuhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|titleauthor=Plan DA J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=October 2011 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and the Berlin wall is still intacthe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Inspector Martin Wegener of the East German PeopleIdyllic as this might sound, it's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious ex-lover Karolina a bordello and workEttore's mother died when he was born. On this particular day He'works not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it' is a body found hanging from the GDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian s difficult to Europeobtain decent employment. Not only is he hanging, The stint working with the deceased has eight knots round his neck preparation of anchovies didn't work out and his shoe laces bastards are tied together: a Stasi trademarkconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. Who is he Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers determined - and they're sending it was not long before he had a West Berlin detective in to help him find them; not the best start to successful business as a dayguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones0241996104|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 Coming 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>}} {{newreviewFind You|author=Joseph Clyde|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombJane Corry|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker1529135389|title=Crime of PrivilegeThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherAlan Parks|title=PenitenceTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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 a discovered, and then another. This is 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 claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. met an untimely Something feels wrong - if seemingly innocent 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?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle- death recentlyaged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. And all Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts of the agency whosuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's spending time looking into relieved or disappointed. They've not been a murder with which he was incidentally involved as couple for that long and the trip will be an adolescent some twenty five years earlierexcellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. To cap it allMeanwhile, someone was tried for the crime and Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has been in a mental institution sincedementia. It's going to be good, so what is Valdez doingisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeEdwards|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ellen Martin Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is a driving, ambitious US lawyer, so when her boss sends her breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for shortjoy she is feeling in this moment, mercifully) for a touch of charity work even if it would be career threatening to protest too strongly. Besides kills her… which it only amounts to getting someone out nearly does when the edge of prison. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that there's more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the list. Luckily for her Barranca is also rockface with just the home snagged strap of her personal trainer's nephew rucksack between her and, luckier still, he has a housemate called Alex500 foot drop to certain death below. Indeed during Ellen's stay Alex Convinced she is going to be more than usefuldie, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is going to be indispensableleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The WatchThirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary= Nizam pushes Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter 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 a barrow up to book fair, she flukes her way into a fortified US army base public argument with the latest hot shot in Afghanistanthe world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. What is Cue the bet that she doing there? cannot live up to that accusation. How will the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experienceHer publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, their training, their gut reaction or where she is put up for a young girl amputee in wintry month away from it all. Just on the middle point of despairing – about her writing, about the desert who may be people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the last thing they ever see?landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Beukes0861544056|title=The Shining GirlsTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=As Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit'The Shining Girlss been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It'’ tagline says, this is a thriller that breaks all s not only the boundariesfirst time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. It’s Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction concepts, a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explainedwhile. I haven’t read anything like it before, and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight 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. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading Ivo's apparently 'older': he'The Shining Girlss twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they', you won’t ll be for long. This book sets out to cut you up insidesharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert WiltonDugoni|title=Traitor's FieldHer Deadly Game
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItPatrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's 1648 and the embers work of Charles IPatsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 's reign start The Irish Brawler' due to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealthhis clients. HoweverAlong with an indisputable talent for the law, Royalist passion still exists Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and it's up inevitably the latter was beginning to Sir Mortimer Shayovershadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Comptrollerate-General hideous position of asking her father for Scrutiny and Surveya job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, to gather south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the intelligencestart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, maintain his spy network and fan shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the embers towards hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the Royalist victory for which he longsextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. HeFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's a wily veteran so not easily stopped but among t let the confusion case go and brutality that tears Britain in half, former lawyer Cromwellshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's spymaster John Thurloe is actually happening, and the man charged with the taskincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1787301036|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are You?July Knew|author=Emily Koch
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|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost the typical MumWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's got a husband and three children and she's permanently tiredcareful, meticulous child. Her full-time job at The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into her home life and shedeath of his wife, July's constantly chasing around trying mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to catch up with what she ought to have donethe necessity of a Lesson. Husband Joe is a taxi driver Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and they can only just manage to afford he's not even careful about whether or not the rent on their cottage in the picturesque lake districtinjuries are visible. ItJuly's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl - really only a child - teacher is abducted concerned and brutally raped. Then another girl brings up the possibility of about abuse with the same age goes missing and Lisa was responsible for head but her safety. What do you sayworries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, what do you do in that situationhas he not? Lisa is about to find outThe playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=John le CarreStacy 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=A Delicate TruthJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=54
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|summary=It's 2008 'The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Paul is recruited by, apparentlyLily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the government to assist two is that Lily and Nina teach in an undercover operation in Gibraltarthe same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. ItThe couples have mixed as a foursome but it's perfectly straightforward and its success will impede not a cell of Al Qaedaregular thing. Paul performs, Christian is thanked and taken home without complications. Fast forward to 2011 a market research analyst and Toby Bell Jake is promoted to the role of private secretary for Paula neurosurgeon: they don's recruiter, MP Fergus Quinnt have much in common except their wives. Whilst acquainting himself with QuinnLily hasn's CVt said anything yet, Toby uncovers the story of the mission, discovering not only Quinnbut she's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all thatpregnant. Quinn also appears to have been connected with an organisation that's not all it seems, unfortunately for She has a particular pillar lengthy history of a Cornish community for whom life will never be miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the same againknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>
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