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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caz Frear1399613073|title= Sweet Little LiesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= In 1998 Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a girl called Maryanne disappears in Irelandquarter of a century. In 2017 Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a woman called Alice cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is found dead in Londona perfectionist and a trauma doctor. In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella Anjali is coincidentally close by, but the free spirit of the group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's more worried by going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the fact her father is tootragedy or the consequences. And he cannot Twenty-five years later there will be trustedan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaSunny Singh|title= She Be DamnedHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical) Thrillers |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the Waterloo area terrorists who are turning up deadrampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, their sexual organs mutilated a wartime photographer and removed. When another girl goes missingAbhi, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victimhotel manager. The police As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are at still alive in the hotel, he forms a loss bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and so it falls keeps on venturing out of her room to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, try to investigatecapture what's happened through her photography. With Although they only ever talk over the assistance of phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the truthterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plotWho doesn't love a good view from up high, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before after all? Even the killer strikes againdrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)1804183210|title=Three Days and a LifeNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't got have been on the best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of rostrum when the newcolt -fangled Playstationas yet unnamed - came up for auction, which his mother refuses to let him waste but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his time onsession. He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it To say that he was solely to woo shocked when the girl next door that he loves, bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but she's rejected it. three million pounds? And his best company, the dog from the Two men had been bidding against each other house next door, was injured in a hit and run, and shot to be put out of its misery. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, heBrian Kitman and Elliot 's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogMitch's sixMitchell were well-year-old owner, known and Antoine's swung some of respected in the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepracing industry. As Jennings was in one of the title suggests, there will be a very tense few days and nights while cubicles in the guilt amasses with toilets when the lad – two men came in and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edgetheir conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>the horse was dead in its stall.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Riley Sager1405951680|title=Final GirlsThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward

|genre= Thrillers|summary=A 'final girl' is the last girl alive at the end of a horror movieJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a gruesome description which has defined luxury property in the life Australian outback for a couple of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differentlymonths. Quincy, After the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying to put the past behind her. But when another problems she'final girl' diesd had at work, it seemed like just the media, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon herbreak she needed. And to make matters worse She was no longer a data analyst for Quincy, the other 'final girl' a survivor from another massacre, Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who has been in hiding for years, appears on her doorstep. Suddenly, Quincy is not only able was returning to move past her past, her past starts to intermingle with the country of her present birth and she is drawn back in. Was need of the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has space to get over the second 'final girl' come out traumatic end of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785034022</amazonuk>relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Stovell1448309743|title= ExquisiteThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= I was looking forward to reading ''Exquisite'' ever since I first heard about itIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, and it didn't disappointfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. It's a murky, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; it's a compulsive, attention-grabbing read The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that had me hunched up in bed till 1amif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, desperate to finish it as soon as I coulddeath will follow. It's clever The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, excellently-paced, and uncannily realistic.Itthat's just a pity an easy conclusion given that I managed to figure out the ending about a quarter two of them 'discovered' the way body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled into 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annemarie NearyB0CCCPJJ5B|title= The OrphansLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 3.54|genre= Thrillers|summary= Jess and Sparrow (Ro) are just children when they are playing on Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the beach one day and turn round to find their parents vanished and their whole life changed in an instantLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It's the sort of childhood trauma that effects people in different ways. Jess goes was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to one extremethrow around on a Rolex watch, studying hard, becoming vintage wines and a successful lawyer, building state-of-the kind of stability for her new family that she craved ever since that day-art sound system. And Ro… Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances.doesn't. He does almost the opposite Finns had no intention of going on to University, never putting down roots, floating from unlike our storyteller who had a place to place, woman to womanat Wolverton College in Wellingford, free as the windUK's third most prestigious university. The lives of the siblings don't cross muchBefore going up, but when an item belonging he took up a loose invitation to their mother resurfacesvisit Ralph at his home, so does the case and the interest Clouds Manor in her disappearanceWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonDean Koontz|title=The FriendHouse at the End of the World|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel When you experience overwhelming tragedy and Yvonne – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet for coffeefeel that there is no one on your side, wineyou can either suck it up, gossip saddle up and momentary escape from their respective lives. Nothing unusual about ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that until Yvonne is found battered sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and half-dead live out your days in the playgroundpeace and solitude. Three weeks later Cece moves into the area, That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the orbit of Maxie, Anaya aforementioned peace and Hazel and hears what happened to solitude were it not for the still comatose Yvonne. Two questions still hang in pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the air though: who did it neighbouring island and why? The police believe that perpetrating all manner of mischief in the perpetrator is one name of the three remaining friends science and that Cece is in quite possibly bringing about the perfect position to help them with their enquiries… a very dangerous position to be inend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1787636607|title= AuroreThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=History has taught us that wars can be won or lost on the strength of a countryIt's intelligence and on a scene replicated all too often in the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control that intelligence in a myriad early hours of game-changing waysthe morning. Who better then to drop into Nazi-occupied France as an agent than a thirty mission veteran Drunken revellers spilling out of Bomber Command whose pre-war incarnation as actor clubs and Quaker have shaped looking for a man with guile enough way to ''make believe'' get home. Some are lucky and trust enough to see his mission through 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 end? Enter stage left, Billy Angelloutlying villages. Soon to be The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'injured, particularly in the light of 'the missing women' airman stranded in the French countryside and tasked with befriending a local . For one young woman responsible for , the safety of resistants and with necessary ties to final stop on the upper echelons bus leaves her a long way short of the occupying German forceher home. What She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's left for us dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to find out is whether Billy has talent enough beg the bus driver to succeed in let her use his new role as agent ''Thesp'. There' s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and make it back alivein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Dionne1529195977|title=The Marsh King's DaughterNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=Helena Pelletier was having On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a normal afternoon: making deliveries crowd of jams and jellies to her sales outlets and taking her younger daughter Marigold to play at friends in the side of the lakeLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. It She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was on the journey back to meet just with her older daughter from the school bus husband, Walter. It turns out that she heard not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the newssimilarities end, though: the notorious child abductor and rapist Jacob HolbrookAlix, known as the Marsh Kingwith her husband, had escaped from prisonNathan, killing two guards are in the processmidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Helena knew that she was in danger: Jacob Holbrook was Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her father tummy and she was you get the daughter of the woman he had abducted when she was fifteen years oldsense that Walter's not too happy. SheHe'd been brought up until the age of twelve as s not used to spending this much money on a captive. There was another problem too: shemeal - but it is Josie'd never actually got around to telling her husband about her backgrounds birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds (translator)1803136383|title=A Climate of FearTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=34.5

|summary=It takes just one policeman's iota Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of doubt, that an elderly woman found dead in her bath with her wrists slit was not actual suicide but murder instead, for Commissaire Adamsberg to become involveda cloud. The woman, known to be dying, had struggled to get a letter posted in the days before her death – What actually happened out there is gossiped about and when the recipient nobody is found out it immediately leads to another murder disguised as suicidesure exactly what took place, and more deaths are to come. All indications (or at least those that can be understood) point but an act of heroism leading to a hushed-up murder rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previously, but Adamsberg and his team will soon disgrace seems to be working on the thinking that the whole truth consensus. Wat himself is much more peculiar, and harder keeping his cards close to solvehis chest, than that…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784702625</amazonuk>as he always does.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caite Dolan-LeachB0C7J9D21B|title=Dead LettersA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Ava When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and Zelda are twins, their naming triggering a family joke about being opposite ends he lives at The House of the alphabetBeautiful Swallows. ThatIdyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's all past tense now though as Zelda is deadmother died when he was born. Ava is told the news via her motherHe's tersenot been short of mothers, dispassionate email before Ava can come home though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to the US from Parisobtain decent employment. Zelda burnt to death in The stint working with the family's barn where she sometimes slept… at least thatpreparation of anchovies didn's the story t work out and human remains were indeed found in the barnbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. But then why is Ava still receiving emails from Zelda? Emails that taunt, emails that remind Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and emails that suggest Zelda is very much aliveit was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. To discover the truth all Ava needs to do is follow the clues and relive He was even saving some painful memoriesmoney.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maile Meloy0241996104|title=Do Not Become AlarmedComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=ItNancy's Christmasmother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, what could go wrong? Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. More than The barrister tells her that, itshe's Christmas on holiday, on received a cruise down 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the Pacific coast rest of Latin America from near LAher life. PerfectOf course, then, for two cousins – ladies both with their own husband and two kids each – to get away from what lifeit's made worse because Nancy's currently giving them, namely highrich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -pressure work, and griefthe papers are making the most of it. But labours ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and worries and grief will only ''rich bitch'' might not be exacerbated, when a trip ashore goes horrendously wrong, and practically the only six children on board go missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241305462</amazonuk>printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kaela Coble1529135389|title=Friends and LiarsThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Kaela Coble's debut novel ''Friends and Liars'' is a gripping read that tells Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the tale county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of 'her husband but opera was playing on the crew', a group state-of friends who once made a pact to ''always be honest with eachother'-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'. So what happens when none of them keep this pact? After d not being together been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for over ten years long and were still getting used to all the crew are reunited at the wake high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of one of their own, Danny Deuso, who has left a haunting suicide note along them fought with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secretother and didn't work as reliably as they should. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that Danny will reveal them from beyond sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the graveswimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tina SeskisAlan Parks|title= The HoneymoonTo Die in June|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= For What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as long as she can rememberanother body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, Jemma and he has been planning the perfect honeymoonfor years. A fortnight's retreat to a five-star resort in At the Maldivessame time as facing these possible murders, complete Harry is also dealing with luxury villasa move to a different police station, personal butlers and absolute privacy.It should be paradise. But it's turned into a nightmare. Because the man Jemma married arrival there of a week ago woman who claims her little boy has just disappeared from gone missing, only no record of the island without a traceboy having existed can be found. And now her perfect new life is vanishing Something feels wrong - not just as quickly before her eyes. After everything they've with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been through togetherstationed, how but can this be happening? Is there anyone Harry uncover just what is going on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1529382823|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= When Eamon AnsgarCaroline 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 father passes awaysister, Gemma, he makes the decision reckons that Pete is going to return to his home propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his familysuit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's estaterelieved or disappointed. He has They've not been gone a couple for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in that long and the army and survived trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a posting in Afghanistanbit better. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life Meanwhile, it seems village life back in Glencul Gemma is his only optionlooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. For most people in his position, returning home It's going to the peaceful life of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Dunculbe good, and some of Glenculisn's residents would kill for t it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Mark Edwards|title= Block 46 Keep Her Secret

|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to appear leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a Cartier event presenting some of book fair, she flukes her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept way into a public argument with the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When a young woman's mutilated body is discovered latest hot shot in a Swedish marina near Linnéathe world of crime fiction, saying he's holiday home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmedpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. But Linnéa's death is not unique; in fact Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is only put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the latest in a string point of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until nowdespairing – about her writing, about the bodies have all belonged to young boys, so what has caused people and the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice lack of stimulus for her friendplot, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child0861544056|title= No Middle NameTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 45|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= There is a theory, Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short storyend of their first term at university. Kit's heyday has passed been at Bristol and it has now put itself out to grassJess's in Exeter. This is particularly true, some say, and I have It's not only the first time they've been known to concur, away from their parents for any length of the crime and thriller genrestime - but they've also been apart from each other. Tosh! I Belle can only apologise 't wait to have them all authors involved and own to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up: I simply haven- can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't been paying attention. Not even want to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsupset Kit. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with Ivo's apparently 'No Middle Nameolder': he' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latters twenty-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacherfour to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A P McGrathRobert Dugoni|title= A Burning in the DarknessHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the needs life's work of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his guilt reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove defence of his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revengeclients. When Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated gift for drinking himself to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to unmasking a past crimeovershadow the former. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness Enter Keera Duggan, sparking memories former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything asking her father for a job at the sake of love and truthfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samantha KingVanda Symon|title= The ChoiceExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of your children more than the others at her maternity leave when there is a particular point brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in timeDunedin. Maybe Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a momentkiller targeting pregnant women, just a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 year old over his up with all night baby sister, and then later when off to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in the carpark, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End ofextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. In different ways and for different things Finding herself put on desk duties, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favouritewhich she rails against, but deep down thereshe just can's no such thing. So imagine t let the worst thing that could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun case go and making you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome she starts to follow every thread to Madelineuncover what's world actually happening, and her living nightmarethe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349414653</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley1787301036|title=Before the FallWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45

|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept the offer from the wife of When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a media mogul for a short plane ridecareful, not realising it will shape the rest of his lifemeticulous child. The private jet falls out of the skycare has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, making him a hero in who is not prepared to discuss the way he saved the only other survivordeath of his wife, the mogulJuly's small son mother, and heir JJany hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lesson. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not so much even careful about whether or not the hero as the murdererinjuries are visible. Are they rightJuly's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk> The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Pronko0008454493|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. It suits him: he gets to have his own office, which is rare. HeIsabelle Drake hasn's got space at home too: his girlfriend has not only left himt really slept for a year - well, but apart from the odd occasion when she's moved back to the States as welllost track of time or drifted off for a moment. HeIt's yet to ship all now a year since her boxes out son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of his apartment but the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought hewas sleeping in. In that year she's done that he'll be able everything she could to sleep in raise awareness about the bed againcase. White collar crime's usually non-violent, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent in Boston when he was studying) She does interviews and when an American businessman ends up dead under the last trainwe meet her, heshe's called in just been to helpTrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. He On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could have done without having do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to see the body - or the a few hundred people removing it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insistedat conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410123</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1848458436|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits Just the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNicest Couple|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Scott|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Mary Kubica

|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Whilst part ''The whole thing has spiralled out of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to Nicest Couple'' is the deciphering story of Linear Btwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The war connection between the two is now officially over (although a lot of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) that Lily and Forrester has returned to Athens with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting Nina teach in the necessary permissions to go to Crete same school: Nina teaches English and retrieve the stoneLily covers high school algebra. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of The couples have mixed as a Greek poet and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing foursome but it's not a maskregular thing. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is convinced that the poet was not the intended victima neurosurgeon: it should they don't have been a general who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communistsmuch in common except their wives. HeLily hasn't said anything yet, but she's the sort of charismatic man who could sway pregnant. She has a lot lengthy history of people miscarriages so she doesn't want to follow him adn that would mean certain wartempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BrogdenJulia Bartz|title=Hekla's ChildrenThe Writing Retreat

|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=Nathan has Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a steady job as legend with an outdoor pursuits instructor but impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that's not his first career. Ten years earlier he'd been a teacher started with her breakthrough novel, published when it all went dreadfully wrong during an orienteering event for his secondary school students. Four young people disappeared suddenly but only one she was foundbarely out of childhood. Malnourished and in shockAlex, Olivia was never able to tell anyone what happened. A decade later a body writer-slash-editor, is foundmore than a little obsessed with Roza, Nathan starts having hallucinations and Olivia crosses his path again. Whatever began that day isn't finished. is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers''Evil will find a way throughretreat.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785654381</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1800465270|title= AmnesiaThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= Alastair is When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in troubleSt Petersburg. He's had a nasty knock on the head pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and now he can't remember anything about s disgusted by what his lifeson had become. In an attempt to recover his memories, Valeri thinks differently: he is sent 's determined to convalesce in a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company of make his old friendown stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's niecedeath. Within a matter of months, Clemence. During their stayhis obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to tell the story of be about her own safety. To her grandmother, he's murder years beforea good source. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer For him, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairit's past who wants a way to make sure the past stays buriedget information published, even if that means burying Alastair along with itwhich wouldn't otherwise be possible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>