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|summary=Clarissa is 38Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, secretary 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 university department head writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and just emerging from introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a broken relationshipthink tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. Rafe also works for It plans to push the university, wants Clarissa government in a more extreme direction and Clarissa wants him. He's absolutely certain she does, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runsis ready to act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Atlantis GeneMidnight Feast|author=AG RiddleLucy Foley|rating=34.5

|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is It's midsummer on the tail of a large terrorist organisationDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. He The Manor was her ancestral home and she's been after them since 9/11converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, but Owen, was the huge scope architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the organisation makes them difficult to pin down or predictsite. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. His only leads Old scores are a few cryptic messages from the 1940s going to be settled and research scientist Dr Kate Warner, who has become intricately connected with the terrorists without knowing itwon't be long before a body is found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>

 {{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|author=Adam HamdySaima Mir|title=PhaseVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer I was kidnapped and since instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and it was the people who abducted her. Itsecond in a series I hadn't read didn's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job and - in all probability - his sanity. Het stop me – I's reached the stage where - far from moving ve jumped midway into a few series before (on - letting go is not an option page and screen) and many of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can it needn't be described as having an upside a hindrance if it's good enough. And that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cultswasn't a problem here. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers Vengeance swiftly brings you up to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amber's abductionspeed, and I never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>0861541561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Love Like BloodDavid Chadwick|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickHeadload of Napalm

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=One day towards the end of World War TwoIt's September 1973 in Hicks, Charles Jackson California. Hicks is dragged to a museum Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of antiquities just outside LA and Las Vegas both a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimesignificant drive away. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefacts, Jackson finds something Not much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker happens in the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her necklineHicks. Years later, Jackson returns to Paris for reasons to do with his medical career, A silver mine and finds a defence contractor are the same man in the company of someone whomain local employers but otherwise, were he only aware of the fact, is to become the first and possibly only love of his life. But thatthere's not the only time the paths much of Jackson note other than dive bars and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liz Nugent1399613073|title=Unravelling OliverMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary=Oliver had expected more of a reaction the first time that he hit AliceOlivia, but she just lay Laura and Anjali met on the floor holding her jawfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. He was stunned that he could do this Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to his wife, but later that evening he returned be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and beat her so viciously that she lapsed into a comatrauma doctor. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was Anjali is the man otherwise known as Vincent Dax, famous writer free spirit of children's books and he the group and Alice (shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they'd illustrated the books) had lived re at a life of ease drug and alcohol-fuelled party and privilegeit's going to end in tragedy. In We don't know who suffered the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells tragedy or the story of what had happened over consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the last five decades and how this had led to his becoming a monsterthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James NaughtieSunny Singh|title=The Madness of JulyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A dead body The Hotel Arcadia is found a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a Houses of Parliament broom cupboard terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a hot 1970s summer daywartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. A sinister enough event normally but As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concerns. The fact the deceased has Will's phone number residents who are still alive in his pocket triggers the hotel, he forms a series bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of events that not her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only tests his loyalty ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to work, country help her keep safe and family but they both wait to see if they will take Will from be rescued before they are discovered by the everyday political cut and thrust to his old job. The job he hoped he'd walked away from: spyingterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil HoganCody Goodfellow|title=A Pleasure and a CallingVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it rightThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. He owns a successful estate agency and yet isnWho doesn't too noticeable. He's helpful, but not in love a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just the way he likes itgood view from up high, living a life that assists society. Take after all? Even the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to clear up his dogget inside if it's leavings 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for instance. It's ok fun – Heming didn't break in. He already has the key as he once sold the house. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually kept, you wonder? The answer's easy: all of themI was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Jawbone LakeNo Reserve|author=Ray RobinsonFelix Francis

|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on her plate 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 New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and is then seen herself by respected in the pursuerracing industry. The victim Jennings was in one of the crash was a larger than life man called CJ cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and we follow his son Joe as he deals with their conversation revealed that the event and attempts horse had been deliberately bid up to rediscover who his father that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse wasdead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Atheist's Prayer1405951680|author=Amy R Biddle|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summarytitle=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with them. On the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? But, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=No Regrets, CoyoteSafe House|author=John DufresneCameron Ward

|summary=You may or may not be aware that there is Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a style known as luxury property in the South Florida NoirAustralian outback for a couple of months. The action tends to take place in daylight After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the glare country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleyways. If you’re not familiar traumatic end of her relationship with South Florida Noir, ''No Regrets, Coyote'' is a good place to startCharles. And if you are, well, be assured that it is a perfectly crafted example of A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the genreticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Parker1448309743|title=The Baby and the BrandyDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken he's In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a free man, but it's the first time in many long monthswealthy family are found murdered. Twenty minutes before he had escaped The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from HMP ManchesterOtterburn House, better known to many people as Strangewaysdeath will follow. He had been an army captain The only suspects are known Satanists but hein many ways, that'd been forced into a situation where he felt s an easy conclusion given that he had no option but to act against the law and this resulted in his dishonourable discharge and two of them 'discovered' the prison sentence. It did nothing for his relationship with his parents eitherbody. Right now he's not got that many people he can call friends The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's buoyed by a feeling of patriotism, despite whatshadow's happened to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Then We Take BerlinThe Last Person in the World|author=John LawtonMatthew Tree

|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-era thriller? Especially one that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yesbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, if vintage wines and a state-of-the thriller in question is John Lawton's new offering-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like unlike our storyteller who had a chant from a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany place at Wolverton College in the 1980sWellingford, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John UK'Joe' Holdernesss third most prestigious university. Before going up, better known as Wilderness he took up a loose invitation to all of visit Ralph at his female acquantanceshome, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RiceDean Koontz|title=The Heavens RiseHouse at the End of the World

|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; she wants him as much as he obsesses about herWhen 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 map and live out your days in peace and solitude. HeThat's certain until a late night struggle in what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her familyold life to start afresh on Jacob's swimming pool disavows him of Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the idea. However they aren't alone in pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the water. Something unwelcome neighbouring island and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities and their futures. Fast forward through perpetrating all manner of mischief in the years name of science and Marshall is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around him. And Niquette? She's missing along with quite possibly bringing about the rest end of her familyall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Warm BodiesThe Trap|author=Isaac MarionCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'It' s a zombie who has retained a bit more scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the power morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of thought than most, clubs and Julie, looking for a feisty way to get home. Some are lucky and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability manage to truly care about othersget one of the few taxis available. In short, R has Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more as one of the traits that I outlying villages. feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than The woman all regret the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, 'taxi problem'M, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, R's best friend the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Nora, Juliecollect her - but her phone's closest friend and confidantdead. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to put aside past hurt, let her use his. There's no option but M has his redeeming points as wellto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesNone of this is True|author=Isaac MarionLisa Jewell

|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=I normally review a book within On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a day or two crowd of finishing itfriends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. I couldn It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary't with this ones hospital. I loved this book That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, but I did feel dissatisfied with her husband, Nathan, are in the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as midst of a prequeljoyful, monied group of friends and most of the readers will have already read whilst they're not ''exactly'Warm Bodies'rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and something about this book so compelling you get the sense that I couldnWalter't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I s not too happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order He's not used to review spending this fairly much money on a meal - I felt I had to read the authorbut it is Josie's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't birthday after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The AbominationTin Soldiers|author=Jonathan HoltDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the Italian Carabinieri police force, Holly Boland, a Second Lieutenant in the US Army cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Daniele Barbo a reclusive web expertnobody is sure exactly what took place, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events that become more and more entwined. Their collective probing uncovers but an act of heroism leading to a massive conspiracy rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to implicate be the US Armyconsensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, the Catholic Church as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and the Italian Mafiahe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best 's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not to rile been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in any waylate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, as it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the three characters preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are quick to discoverconsidered 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>178185369X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A P McCoy0241996104|title=Taking the FallComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=Back in 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 nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a promising conditional jockey 'silent sentence' - a talented rider who should never have she's not been short found guilty of a ride, anything but he was strugglingwill have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, probably it's made worse because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shutNancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. He'd been taught everything he knew by his father, Charlie, a trainer whose reputation 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was ruined when personal rivalries got out playing on the state-of hand-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. He hasnThey't d not been able in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to set foot on a racecourse sinceall the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. His sonSome of them fought with each other and didn's determined to beat the top jockeys t work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to bring down having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the men responsible for what happened swimming pool with a wound to his father, but can he do both or will he have to make some hard choices?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409129578</amazonuk>head.

  {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsAlan Parks|authortitle=A A AguireTo Die in June

|summary=One What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the many reasons I love fantasy streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovering the new worlds that the authors have createddiscovered, and then another. Where This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsmore so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, et ceterawith no fixed abode, et ceteraand he has been for years. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid a move to a different police station, and we have the makings arrival there of a really good timewoman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1805300784

{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexa CamouroMark Edwards|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgKeep Her Secret

|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living a complicated life Matthew and Helena are in HamburgIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She juggles her liveThe alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-in, ambitious, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employees. But however complicated that taking and Helena seems, it's about intent on getting the perfect photograph to get worse. The police come for her encapsulate the joy she is feeling in the early hoursthis moment, although even if it's not till she's ensconced in kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged rockface with espionage just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and murdera 500 foot drop to certain death below. The problem Convinced she is complex but going to die, Helena must purge herself of the answer is simple: shocking secret she must escape has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to prove her innocenceMatthew. Having said thatJust moments later their heroic, 'simple' is a relative term. From the language school for which she works and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping up, nothing safety and Matthew is left wondering what it seems, including Dixon Gracehe just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Excalibur CodexJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=James DouglasThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=Thrillers|summary=Jamie Saintclair is Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an expert in tracing works author of artsfailing if well-regarded literary short novels. But he has just as much Sorry to leave her bottles of a knack for finding trouble as he does red wine behind her for recovering art work. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refuse. A chance to find the legendary sword of Arthurafternoon at a book fair, but he won't be dealing she flukes her way into a public argument with knights or chivalry the latest hot shot in this adventurethe world of crime fiction, instead saying he will come up against the very worst of human nature. This book will take him on a quest beginning in one of humanity's darkest chapters, populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the rise of Nazi Germanybet that she cannot live up to that accusation. The evil perpetuated in this era will be mirrored by modern men who are prepared Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to plunge the world into darkness once againIceland, this time in where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the name point of British purity. Although the sword is associated with supernatural powersdespairing – about her writing, there will be nothing supernatural in about the evil Jamie faces, only people and the unbridled hatred and lust lack of stimulus for power that comes so naturally to some menher plot, and because of this is ever so much more terrifying than magic or monsters. What is even more disturbing is the thought less about everything – word comes that under the right circumstances, many of us could become monsters as well.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Hell to PayTwin Truths|author=Jenny ThomsonJacqueline Sutherland|rating=35

|summary=Nancy is trying Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to escape a naff Christmas with her naff boyfriend, but walks into a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at her Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parentsfor any length of time - but they' home – ve also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a professional, violent, nay fatal, burglarywhile. When she comes out of a therapeutic stay in an institute afterwards, Then Kit rings up - can shebring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn's seeking one thing – revenget want to upset Kit. Her brother and his rap sheet might have something Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to do Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with those responsible, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need for vengeance against those who inflicted that. And they'll be sharing a double rape and such violence against herbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Shanghai FactorRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Charles McCarryHer Deadly Game|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in China whose mission is to improve defence of his Mandarin and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai societyclients. A chance meeting results in Along with an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) drinking himself to oblivion and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates of inevitably the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable latter was beginning to both overshadow the US former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and Chinese intelligence services, becoming proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a pawn in romantic entanglement with a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationssenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High RollersVanda Symon|authortitle=Jack BowmanExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Patrick Detective Sam Shepherd is a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless approaching the best start of her maternity leave when there is. He has more than ruffled a few feathers and is suspended from working on cases. Despite this the largest case brutal, shocking murder of his career is forced upon him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting an expectant woman in many fatalitiesDunedin. Tom recognises Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a possible link between killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the two case go and potentially many more airplanesshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracythe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Howard1787301036|title=Shadow WomanWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45

|summary=Prelude: When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the President death of the United States his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the First Lady are on what conversation is not being called heading that way will lead to the necessity of a campaign tourLesson. It is. It is most definitely a re-election campaign; it Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's just not supposed to beeven careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. They retire to their suite for the night, July's teacher is concerned and brings up the protection detail possibility of abuse with the Secret Service head but her worries are looking forward dismissed: Mick has been good to a shift change at the end of a long dayschool, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro0008454493|title=A Crack in All the WallDangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect on the verge ''The whole thing has spiralled out of a mid life crisis. His workcontrol, marriage and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him to ponder over the attractions of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationshipturning into someone I'm not. When a young girl enters the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jara, the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do know him. He was involved in a claim that one of the practice's projects caused a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved is something all three of them would rather forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Fiona McIntosh|title=The Lavender Keeper|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins ''Just the Maquis (a rural guerrilla wing of Nicest Couple'' is the French Resistance) to avenge the death story of his adoptive Jewish familytwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Meanwhile The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a group of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back to the homelandregular thing. Their paths will cross as Lisette Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kiliana neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. The mission is clear cut on paperLily hasn't said anything yet, but life can be messier than any plan can predictshe's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)|title=Plan D|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=October 2011 and the Berlin wall is still intact. Inspector Martin Wegener of the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious ex-lover Karolina and work. On this particular day 'work' is a body found hanging from the GDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian Move on to Europe. Not only is he hanging, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: a Stasi trademark. Who is he and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and they're sending a West Berlin detective in to help him find them; not the best start to a day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]