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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Stiastny0241678412|title=Acts The Proof of OmissionMy Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe
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|summary=In 1998 Mark Lucas was a recently-appointed minister in Life after university hasn't worked out quite the Foreign Office, determined to do his best, but not yet long enough in the job to have abandoned his principles and beliefsway that Phyl anticipated. ItShe's these that are tested when back home, living with her parents and on a disc containing the names zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of British informants becoming a writer seem to have come to the Stasi has fallen into government handsnothing. Understandably the Germans want the information back so that they can complete their opening up of the StasiThe situation improves when 'Uncle's archiveChris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Lucas believes that the Germans should be accommodated on this: he was elected on Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a platform of transparency and openness - handing think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the information back seems right 1980s. It plans to him - but there are those within push the government, both politicians in a more extreme direction and civil servants, who are determined that this should not happenis ready to act.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794280</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=A Kill in the MorningThe Midnight Feast|author=Graeme ShimminLucy Foley|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Nazis Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are amongst promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the most infamous group that has ever walked the planetwealthy and famous. They may have been evilHer husband, Owen, but there was something pantomime about them that has made them the perfect foil for countless cheesy action films architect and pulp fictionwork is still ongoing on parts of the site. To enjoy these you have to disengage yourself from the history The heat is oppressive and see amongst the Nazis of fiction guests are enemies as well as separate from those of real lifefriends. Can I enjoy a book like Old scores are going to be settled and it won''A Kill in the Morning'' set in an alternative 1950s were the Nazis have taken over mainland Europe and are building an ultimate weapon? Can t be long before a maverick secret agent take out SS Commander Reinhard Heydrich and change the tide of history?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073533</amazonuk>body is found.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben FergussonSaima Mir|title=The Spring of Kasper MeierVengeance|rating=43.5
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|summary=Germany may be defeated as I was instantly intrigued by the embers premise of World War II grow cold but Kasper Meier is making this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the most north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it. His trade was the second in black market goods a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and casual private investigation work augment the meagre rations for him screen) and his dying father. When a woman asks him to find it needn't be a missing British airman he refuses – hindrance if it's not really his linegood enough. She blackmails Kasper and still he refuses but then the note arrives:''This is bigger than you. You donAnd that wasn't have a choiceproblem here. Queers still die in Berlin. Find the pilot.'' It seems that he's been seen with another man Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and now he has a decision to make that will either cost or save his lifeI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408705044</amazonuk>0861541561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The ProfessionalsDavid Chadwick|authortitle=Owen LaukkanenHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The professional criminal It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is the type a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of person who gets LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in, does the job Hicks. A silver mine and then gets out again. Sounds like a defence contractor are the perfect way to stay undetected as a lifelong miscreantmain local employers but otherwise, but does there's not sound like the most exciting narrative for a storymuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. InsteadLife is quiet, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own success, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up the wrong markuntil.. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782393668</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Axeman's Jazz1399613073|authortitle= Ray Celestin|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Based on a true story, ''The Axeman's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut novel. It tells of a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 - the Axeman - who torments the city and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselves, as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin to despair of ever catching the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Patricia Watkins|title=Voyage into LimboChristie Watson
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|summary=Colwyn YeatsOlivia, veteran Laura and Anjali met on the first day of the war in Afghanistan medical school and top-class sailor found himself at their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a loose end over the summer monthscentury. A planned research trip fell through Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when he'd already rented out his apartmentyou aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It ''seemed'' fortuitous when an acquaintance approached him to skipper himself Laura is a perfectionist and two friends across a trauma doctor. Anjali is the Atlantic, in aid free spirit of the group and she becomes a charityGP. Yeats had his doubts when he realised that his 'crew' weren't kitted out for the trip (flip flops? I mean, ''honestly''!), When we first meet them they didn't appear to get on with each other particularly well re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and despite what heit'd been told they didns going to end in tragedy. We don't seem to know much about sailingwho suffered the tragedy or the consequences. But Twenty- five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it was only a few weeks, when he'd nothing else to do, wasn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00JWQVET4</amazonuk>s their teenage children who are involved.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsSunny Singh|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settledThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. His stud was prosperingHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. He was deeplyAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, enduringly happy he forms a bond with his wife Sam who was expecting their second child and despite the loss of his arm some years before which had put an end refuses to his acting careerbe cowed by events, life was good. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even and keeps on venturing out of bed. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was a ransom demandroom to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Reluctant to lose Although they only ever talk over the mare - or phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be beaten - O'Keeffe help her keep safe and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping they both wait to see if they will be back that night, or - at rescued before they are discovered by the worst - the next day. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw his home againterrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerCody Goodfellow|title=Children of War: A Bruno Courreges ThrillerVertical|rating=43.5
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|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help There's something about tall buildings that just a few hours before his tortured and mutilated body was found in the woods, but despite his being a policeman the Brigadier didncaptures my imagination. Who doesn't see the case as love a priority. He sees good view from up high, after all? Even the wider picture, whilst Bruno drabbest office building is only the chief of police in a small French country town. A young Muslim by the name of Sami has turned up at a French army base in Afghanistan and hesomewhere I's keen m intrigued to get home to St Denis and although inside if it's possible to smuggle him back into the country, the FBI are not far behind him40 stories tall. It seems that Sami has been involved in bomb making in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for the deaths of soldiers of all nationalitiesfun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairNo Reserve|author=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)Felix Francis
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|summary=Confession Thirty- four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when I chose to review this bookthe colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, I had no idea it 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 made such huge waves worldwidebeen bidding against each other. I chose it because I hadn’t read a thriller for a while Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and this looked like a good respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one. Before of the cubicles in the toilets when the book arrived, I heard all about it – two men came in and it was just as well as I their conversation revealed that the horse had heard so much positivity, as I also hadn’t realised it was such a hefty tomebeen deliberately bid up to that figure. (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomes, but experience has taught me Both were happy that they don’t always justify themselves)had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1405951680|title=The Ties That BindSafe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5
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|summary=When writer Luke falls in love with JeremyJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, the fact that Jem (to his friendsRupert) offers to support Luke, allowing him to write caretake a book, is luxury property in the Australian outback for a bonuscouple of months. As soon as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years agoAfter the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the book's subject is assuredbreak she needed. However both She was no longer a data analyst for the subject matter Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and Jem's endless support will present Luke in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with problems (and not a little danger) that he couldn't have foreseenCharles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Carrell1448309743|title=VortexThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Andy Duncan's father offered him In the money to travel village of Cronchie on the world for a yearWest coast of Scotland, but first he must do five members of a three-month internship with Berwick Archer, an investment company based in Hong Kongwealthy family are found murdered. It would be decent experience to put on his CVThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. But when Andy got to Berwick Archer he liked what he saw - and stayed. Before long he was second The only suspects are known Satanists but in command at the firmmany ways, that's new Bangkok office and had a talent for what an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he did. There was even a girlfriend, Caroline Chan, who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before her. Caroline was a dealerdisappears, but not DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a big way - although she was well connected to a very influential businessman'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead CrowleyB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Can Anybody Help Me?The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4
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|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parentsOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. However, It was an unusual relationship as they've only recently moved Ralph was a boarder and had money to Gerry's native Dublin, Yvonne mourns the lack of throw around on a support network. This all changes when she turns to MammynetRolex watch, vintage wines and a webstate-based online forum and chat room for new and soonof-tothe-be mumsart sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a local online friend but then place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the friend disappears without warningUK's third most prestigious university. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of Before going up, he took up a young womanloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The AbductionDean Koontz|authortitle=Jonathan HoltThe House at the End of the World
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|summary=The teenage daughter of a US Army Major When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is kidnapped when off basecamp at 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 Venetian nightclubsmall chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. She is abducted by a masked team during That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the carnevale celebrationspesky US Government occupying Ringrock, when people not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hidden. Everything about the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the way name of clues apart from science and quite possibly bringing about the very fact that it is carried out with such military precisionend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=SoloThe Trap|author=William BoydCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Like Sherlock HolmesIt'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', Alice, or even particularly in the characters from light of 'the Biblemissing women'. For one young woman, James Bond is no longer just the property final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of its original authorher home. Ian Fleming may have She had the imagination intended to ring someone to create Bond, come and collect her - but since her phone''Casino Royale'' rolled onto s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the scene Bond has been a changing man who mimics chance to beg the times he currently finds himself inbus driver to let her use his. William Boyd’s There''Solo'' reverts back s no option but to Fleming’s original timeline start walking - unsuitably clothed and continues the story of that Bond, but is this a reflection of the past or today?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Kendal1529195977|title=The Book None of Youthis is True|author=Lisa Jewell
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|summary=Clarissa is 38On her 45th birthday, secretary to Alix Summer celebrated with a university department head crowd of friends 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. It turns out that not only are Alix and just emerging from Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a broken relationshipjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Rafe also works for Josie, on the universityother hand, wants Clarissa holds her handbag close to her tummy and Clarissa wants himyou get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's absolutely certain she does, no matter how vehemently she denies not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it, no matter how fast she runsis Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The Atlantis GeneTin Soldiers|author=AG RiddleDavid Chadwick|rating=34.5
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|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is on the tail Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a large terrorist organisationcloud. He's been after them since 9/11What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but the huge scope an act of the organisation makes them difficult heroism leading to pin down or predict. His only leads are a few cryptic messages from rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the 1940s and research scientist Dr Kate Warnerconsensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, who has become intricately connected with the terrorists without knowing itas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Adam HamdyB0C7J9D21B|title=Phase|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped and since that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriage, his relationship with his son, his job and - A Captive in all probability - his sanity. He's reached the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option and many of his actions are irrational. If any part of this can be described as having an upside it's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached when an old friend refers to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amber's abduction.Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|titleauthor=A Love Like Blood|author=Marcus SedgwickJ Lewis
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|genre=HorrorHistorical Fiction|summary=One day towards the end of World War TwoWhen we first meet our hero, Charles Jackson his name is dragged to a museum Ettore and he lives at The House of antiquities just outside a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeBeautiful Swallows. While the other looks at the unusual ancient artefactsIdyllic as this might sound, Jackson finds something much more horrific – it's a man in a wartime bunker in the grounds, squatting over a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from her necklinebordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. Years laterHe's not been short of mothers, Jackson returns to Paris though - but for reasons to do with someone of his medical career, and finds the same man background in the company of someone wholate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, were he only aware of the fact, is it's difficult to become obtain decent employment. The stint working with the first preparation of anchovies didn't work out and possibly only love of his lifebastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. But that's Ettore was nothing if not the only time the paths of Jackson resourceful - and determined - and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>even saving some money.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liz Nugent0241996104|title=Unravelling OliverComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
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|summary=Oliver had expected more Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of a reaction their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the first time that he hit Alicecourt, but she just lay on the floor holding her jawafter Martin receives a life sentence. He was stunned that he could do this to his wife, but later that evening he returned and beat The barrister tells her so viciously that she lapsed into 's received a coma. It was difficult 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to understand how this had live with what happened - this was for the man otherwise known as Vincent Daxrest of her life. Of course, famous writer of childrenit's made worse because Nancy's books rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and he and Alice (she'd illustrated the books) had lived a life papers are making the most of ease and privilegeit. In the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells the story of what had happened over the last five decades ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and how this had led to his becoming a monster''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1529135389|title=The Madness of JulyFall|author=Gilly Macmillan
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn'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 having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead body is found in the swimming pool with a Houses wound to his head.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of Parliament broom cupboard a homeless man on a hot 1970s summer daythe streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. A sinister This is worrying enough event normally for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concernsyears. The fact At the deceased has Will's phone number in his pocket triggers same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a series of events that not only tests his loyalty move to worka different police station, country and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut and thrust to his old jobarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. The job Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he hoped he'd walked away from: spying.has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan1529382823|title=A Pleasure and a CallingThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Estate agent William Heming Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has got it rightfound herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. He owns They're off on a successful estate agency and yet isncruise to New York on ''Atlantica''t too noticeable. HeCaz's helpfulsister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but not Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in a memorable wayhis suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. A bit on They've not been a couple for that long and the beige side perhaps but that’s just the way he likes it, living trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a life that assists societybit better. Take the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dogMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's leavings for instancecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's ok – Heming didngoing to be good, isn'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 wonderit? The answer's easy: all of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jawbone LakeMark Edwards|authortitle=Ray RobinsonKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rabbit 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 breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a young woman ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with plenty on just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her plate and New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries500 foot drop to certain death below. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and Convinced she is then seen going to die, Helena must purge herself by the pursuer. The victim of the crash was shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a larger than life man called CJ panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and attempts hauls Helena to rediscover who his father wassafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atheist's PrayerJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=Amy R BiddleThirty Days of Darkness
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|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=I don’t shy away from 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 book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with a little edge, the latest hot shot in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one the world of my favourite authors crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themonly writing what anyone could write. On Cue the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. would seem Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? ButIceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it really that shocking? Nopeall. This is a story Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about how the people deal with and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable group.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=No Regrets, CoyoteTwin Truths|author=John DufresneJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
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|summary=You may or may not be aware that there is a style known as Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the South Florida Noirend of their first term at university. The action tends to take place in daylight, Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the glare first time they've been away from their parents for any length of the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleywaystime - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. If you’re not familiar Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with South Florida Noir, her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'No Regrets, Coyoteolder': he' is a good place s twenty-four to startKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And if you are, well, they'll be assured that it is sharing a perfectly crafted example of the genrebedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert ParkerDugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Baby Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the Brandyfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a 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 case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=What July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=5
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|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken heJuly Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's a free man, but itjust ten years old. She's the first time in many long months. Twenty minutes before he had escaped from HMP Manchestera careful, better known to many people as Strangewaysmeticulous child. He had The care has been an army captain but he'd been forced into a situation where he felt that he had no option but taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to act against discuss the law and this resulted in death of his dishonourable discharge wife, July's mother, and any hint that the prison sentenceconversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. It did nothing for Other infractions of his relationship with his parents either. Right now requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not got that many people he can call friends but heeven careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's buoyed by a feeling teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of patriotismabuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, despite whathas he not? The playground wouldn's happened to t have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy 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=Then We Take BerlinJust the Nicest Couple|author=John LawtonMary Kubica
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|summary=Do we really need another Cold War-era thriller? Especially one that also covers ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the already saturated Second World War years? Well yesstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, if and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the thriller two is that Lily and Nina teach in question is John Lawtonthe same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's new offering, 'Then We Take Berlin'not a regular thing. Despite sounding like Christian is a chant from market research analyst and Jake is a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany neurosurgeon: they don't have much in the 1980scommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, Then We Take Berlin tells the story but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of cockney John miscarriages so she doesn'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness t want to all of his female acquantancestempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>
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