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|summary=Caleb Zelic has just found his colleague Olivia, Laura and lifelong friend murdered. The two – Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a female police officer – were working as quarter of a private investigative groupcentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, tracking security flaws that led which is a bonus when you aim to be a hugely costly warehouse robbery, cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and all have training in a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the industry, so they should have seen anything cominggroup and she becomes a GP. Caleb wonWhen we first meet them they't have heard re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it coming, however – he's pretty much deaf, getting a cadence of speech and noise from hearing aids but needing going to lipread or signend in tragedy. The first signs that this murder is connected to the case are impossible to ignore – as indeed are hints that something really serious is going on, when Caleb finds he canWe don't even trust know who suffered the police looking into tragedy or the murderconsequences. The case Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will cause him to go a lot further than he would ever want – which includes to impact the door of his errant brotherthree friends. This time, and into the home of his recently-made-ex wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227362X</amazonuk>it's their teenage children who are involved.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreSunny Singh|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)Hotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers |summary=Rosie Strange The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, a wartime photographer and figuring out what on earth to do with Abhi, the Essex Witch Museum she's recently inheritedhotel manager. If Rosie had her way she'd be selling As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the museum and heading back to her flat residents who are still alive in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to a local businessman, they find themselves embroiled in dark be cowed by events once again. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, scrawled messages and keeps on the walls and apparitions walking venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the walls. Before Rosie phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Sam can start they both wait to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the restaurant - and the owner's daughter swears that a ghost was to blame..terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jessica JarlviCody Goodfellow|title= When I Wake UpVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Anna is in a coma. Only two people know who inflicted the severe injuries There's something about tall buildings that lead to her lying there unmoving in the hospital bed, the culprit who won’t talk, and Anna who can’tjust captures my imagination. If, and it’s Who doesn't love a big if, she wakes good view from uphigh, she may remember what happened, but of course there’s a chance she quite literally did not know what hit herafter all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. For her husband Erik, it’s an agonising wait. The police don’t seem that interested, but he has to know So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was responsible, and so he wonders whether he should do a bit of investigating himself. He shouldn’t, of course, because in a story like this there are secrets just waiting to be uncovered, and he may find that these are things he would rather have never knowninstantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786696096</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Parkin1804183210|title= The Winter's ChildNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating= 54|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A modern Gothic tale of twisted love, secrets lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and hauntingsElliot 'Mitch' it says on Mitchell were well-known and respected in the coverracing industry. I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe Jennings was in one of the cubicles in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the future, but toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that hasn't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her sonhorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Joel has been missing for five yearsBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen sinceThe following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=K J Lawrence1405951680|title= The CossackSafe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=54

|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he's Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a photographer of some merit and luxury property in his fifties he has the Australian outback for a settled lifecouple of months. It was After the disappearance of his assistantproblems she'd had at work, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everythingit seemed like just the break she needed. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition She was no longer a first data analyst for him. He'd been distracted for a few days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to be kept safe. The authorities, in the form country of a shadowy senior member her birth and in need of the security services, confirmed space to get over the view that Ivan was probably dead, because traumatic end of some supposed connections her relationship with organised crime and drug dealingCharles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clar Ni Chonghaile1448309743|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= It's In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a cliché wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the Irish have a picturesque turn of phrasestone is removed from Otterburn House, but clichés only exist because they're truedeath will follow. Roddy Doyle put it differently The only suspects are known Satanists but in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazinemany ways, when he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under the English''. However you express it, an easy conclusion given that art of expression is woven into every other line two of Clár's prose. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like them 'discovered'the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he was Goddisappears, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into oneDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadnesshim. Or sometimes both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil WhiteB0CCCPJJ5B|title= From The ShadowsLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= I'm Our narrator was a bit oldscholarship day boy at the London-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. I'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a story – but switching between 'now' boarder and 'had money to throw around on a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy Rolex watch, vintage wines and a way state-of creating tension -the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when all else failsthey became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. ThatFinns had no intention of going on to University, howeverunlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, is my only little gripe about the UK''From The Shadows'' and I admits third most prestigious university. Before going up, whether I like it or nothe took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, it does more or less workClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes StuartDean Koontz|title= My Name is SamThe House at the End of the World|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary=Who When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Samno one on your side, you can either suck it up, the champion 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 Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, map and the main character live out your days in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past peace and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiessolitude. He is also Earth That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's last hope Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for salvation from the Gibbus whopesky US Government occupying Ringrock, in seven days, will destroy the planet neighbouring island and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is perpetrating all manner of mischief in the decision name of the alien Sereia, his mentors science and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge quite possibly bringing about the Gibbus themselvesend of all mankind. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Dibdin1787636607|title=The Room by the LakeTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary= What would life be like if you just packed up your things and left? This is On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a thought that crowd of friends in the main protagonist Caitlyn has been mulling over for a while now but has never had the guts to do, until Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she reaches the final straw when her father fails at sobriety once againencountered Josie Fair. After throwing She, too, was out celebrating her phone in a river45th birthday, Caitlyn takes herself to the airport where only she ends up getting a plane to New York. From there was just with her life completely changes as she meets Jake who seems to be just what she needshusband, Walter. As It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they grow closer she is invited to meet his familywere both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, butNathan, are in the midst of a house surrounded by forest that is miles away from civilisationjoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, family takes on a whole new meaning. There you live by the motto ''we are here for each otherhand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and we are nothing without each otheryou get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Liam Brown1803136383|title= BroadcastTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=When David Callow is offered the lead role Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a revolutionary new online show, he snatches at the opportunitycloud. Rapidly becoming a viral sensation, David What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is propelled to stratospheric levels of celebrity. Howeversure exactly what took place, he soon realises the downside but an act of sharing every secret with the world. A prisoner heroism leading to both his fame a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and his own thoughts, David seeks disgrace seems to have be the chip removed, only consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to discover the chilling secret lurking at the heart of MindCasthis chest, and the terrifying ambition the show's creator has for himas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary KubicaB0C7J9D21B|title= Every Last LieA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Clara When we first meet our hero, his name is mother to pre-schooler Maisie Ettore and newborn Felixhe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, but now she has it's a new label: widow. Her husband Nick is dead, killed in an awful car crash that thankfully spared his daughterbordello and Ettore's life mother died when Felix is just a few days oldhe was born. For Clara, that He's not the end been short of the nightmare. As she works her way through grief and struggles to carry on mothers, though - but for the childrensomeone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, she is faced with some new worries. Maisie isn't talking much about the accident, but sheit's having nightmares that make Clara question difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the police story preparation of events. There are things in Nickanchovies didn's personal possessions that t work out and bastards are odd, things she has never seen beforeconsidered bad luck on fishing boats. What's more, Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it turns out a lot was going on at Nick's work that not long before he hadn't shared with his wifehad a successful business as a guide for visitors. And, the more she starts to look, the more she wishes she could un-see and go back to how things were He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0241996104|title= All The Wicked GirlsComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In the small town of Grace, fifteenNancy's mother and step-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and beloved by all that know herstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the incident rocks the entire towncourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of recent crimes; anything but will have to live with what happened for over the rest of her life. Of course of the year, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five young churchmillion pounds from her mother -attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance papers are making the most of these girls it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, one favourite epithet and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streets, no one ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is safeundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1529135389|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons casesNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. Over There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the course state-of his work, he-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying long and were still getting used to locate a missing person. He IS all the missing personhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Found unconscious at the mouth Some of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he canthem fought with each other and didn't remember anything work as reliably as they should. It had all come about his life. He's not even sure through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage sort of his casemoney, and without a National Insurance numbertoo. Eventually, he is basically 'off Nicole found Tom dead in the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own swimming pool with a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help wound to discover the truthhis head. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lisa JewellAlan Parks|title= Then She Was Gone|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= One day Ellie went to the library for some last minute GCSE study and she never returned. There are a lot of ''what ifs?'': what if her sister hadn't had a noisy friend over, forcing her to seek out somewhere quieter to study? What if there had been more CCTV on the high street so her journey could have been traced? What if, taking it back a bit, she had never met Theo, never fallen for him, never drifted into competition against him and never felt the need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going to happen, one way or another?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Caz Frear|title= Sweet Little Lies|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= In 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in Ireland. In 2017 a woman called Alice is found dead To Die in London. In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but she's more worried by the fact her father is too. And he cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeJune

|summary=Christmas weekWhat first seems like the unfortunate, 1999accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situationsthen another. Some of This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his friends have parted company own father is a down and out alcoholic, with him because of no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the new-fangled Playstationsame time as facing these possible murders, which his mother refuses Harry is also dealing with a move to let him waste his time on. He's built a treehouse all by himselfdifferent police station, and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he lovesarrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, but she's rejected itonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. And his best company, Something feels wrong - not just with the dog from woman’s story but also with the other house next doorofficers where he has been stationed, was injured but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a hit and run, and shot cruise to be put out of its miseryNew York on ''Atlantica''. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, heCaz's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighboursister, Gemma, the dogreckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn's sixt spotted a ring-year-old owner, shaped bulge in his suit pocket and Antoineshe doesn't know whether she's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweeprelieved or disappointed. As They've not been a couple for that long and the title suggests, there trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edgebit better. Meanwhile, where any false move could lead Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>be good, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Riley SagerMark Edwards|title=Final GirlsKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=A 'final girl' 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 last girl alive at perfect photograph to encapsulate the end of a horror moviejoy she is feeling in this moment, a gruesome description even if it kills her… which has defined it nearly does when the life of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differently. Quincy, the sole survivor edge of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to put the past behind her. But when another 'final girl' dies, the media, who have always been obsessed rockface with just the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon snagged strap of her rucksack between herand a 500 foot drop to certain death below. And Convinced she is going to make matters worse for Quincydie, Helena must purge herself of the other 'final girl' a survivor from another massacre, who shocking secret she has been in hiding for yearskeeping and makes a panicked, appears on her doorstepcryptic declaration to Matthew. Suddenly Just moments later their heroic, Quincy is not only able to move past her pastand frankly very well prepared, her past starts Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to intermingle with her present safety and she Matthew is drawn back in. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And left wondering what isn't Quincy telling us he just learned about her own massacre? Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785034022</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah StovellJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= ExquisiteThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= I was looking forward to reading ''Exquisite'' ever since I first heard about itHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, and it didn't disappointan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. It's Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a murkybook fair, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; it's she flukes her way into a compulsive, attention-grabbing read that had me hunched up public argument with the latest hot shot in bed till 1amthe world of crime fiction, desperate to finish it as soon as I could. Itsaying he's clever, excellently-paced, populist trash and uncannily realisticonly writing what anyone could write.It's just a pity Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that I managed accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to figure out Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the ending point of despairing – about a quarter her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the way in.landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633747</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Annemarie Neary0861544056|title= The OrphansTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 3.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Jess Belle and Sparrow (Ro) David's twin daughters are just children when they are playing on coming to the beach one day and turn round to find end of their parents vanished first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and their whole life changed Jess's in an instantExeter. It's not only the sort first time they've been away from their parents for any length of childhood trauma that effects people in different waystime - but they've also been apart from each other. Jess goes Belle can't wait to have them all to one extreme, studying hard, becoming herself for a successful lawyer, building the kind of stability for while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her new family ? Belle would prefer that she craved ever since that day. And Ro….he didn't come but doesn'twant to upset Kit. He does almost the opposite, never putting down roots, floating from place Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to place, woman to woman, free as the windKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. The lives of the siblings don And they't cross much, but when an item belonging to their mother resurfaces, so does the case and the interest in her disappearancell be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonRobert Dugoni|title=The FriendHer Deadly Game

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Maxie, Anaya, Hazel and Yvonne Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – four friends and school-gate-mums who meet rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for coffee, wine, gossip and momentary escape from their respective lives. Nothing unusual about that until Yvonne is found battered and half-dead no holds barred courtroom performances in the playgrounddefence of his clients. Three weeks later Cece moves into Along with an indisputable talent for the arealaw, her children starting that same school. Gradually she finds herself falling into Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the orbit of Maxie, Anaya and Hazel and hears what happened latter was beginning to overshadow the still comatose Yvonneformer. Two questions still hang Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the air though: who did it and why? The police believe that the perpetrator is one hideous position of asking her father for a job at the three remaining friends and that Cece is in the perfect position to help them family firm because a romantic entanglement with their enquiries… a very dangerous position to be insenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780895984</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham HurleyVanda Symon|title= AuroreExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=History has taught us that wars can be won or lost on Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the strength start of her maternity leave when there is a country's intelligence and on the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control that intelligence in a myriad brutal, shocking murder of game-changing ways. Who better then to drop into Nazi-occupied France as an agent than a thirty mission veteran of Bomber Command whose pre-war incarnation as actor and Quaker have shaped a man with guile enough to ''make believe'' and trust enough to see his mission through to the end? Enter stage left, Billy Angellexpectant woman in Dunedin. Soon to be ''injured'' airman stranded Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the French countryside and tasked with befriending hunt for a local woman responsible for the safety of resistants and killer targeting pregnant women, with necessary ties to all the upper echelons of the occupying German forceextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. What Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can's left for us t let the case go and she starts to find out is whether Billy has talent enough follow every thread to succeed in his new role as agent ''Thesp'uncover what' s actually happening, and make it back alivethe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Dionne1787301036|title=The Marsh King's DaughterWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=Helena Pelletier was having When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a normal afternoon: making deliveries careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of jams his wife, July's mother, and jellies any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to her sales outlets and taking her younger daughter Marigold to play at the side necessity of the lakea Lesson. It was on the journey back Other infractions of his requirements also lead to meet her older daughter from the school bus that she heard the news: the notorious child abductor these Lessons and rapist Jacob Holbrook, known as he's not even careful about whether or not the Marsh King, had escaped from prison, killing two guards in the processinjuries are visible. Helena knew that she was in danger: Jacob Holbrook was her father July's teacher is concerned and she was brings up the daughter possibility of abuse with the woman head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he had abducted when she was fifteen years old. not? SheThe playground wouldn'd t have been brought up until the age of twelve as a captive. There was another problem too: she'd never actually got around to telling her husband about her backgroundresurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567388</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas and Sian Reynolds (translator)0008454493|title=A Climate of FearAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|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 takes just one policeman's iota of doubtnow a year since her son, Mason, that an elderly woman found dead was stolen from his bed in her bath the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her wrists slit relief in the morning when she thought he was not actual suicide but murder instead, for Commissaire Adamsberg to become involvedsleeping in. The woman, known In that year she's done everything she could to be dying, had struggled to get a letter posted in raise awareness about the days before her death – case. She does interviews and when the recipient is found out it immediately leads to another murder disguised as suicidewe meet her, and more deaths are she's just been to comeTrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. All indications (or at least those that can be understood) point to On the plane back, she's approached by a hushed-up murder and rape on a remote and isolated Icelandic island ten years previouslypodcaster, Waylon Spencer, but Adamsberg and his team will soon be working on the thinking who points out that the whole truth is much more peculiar, she could do a podcast and harder get to solve, so many more people than that…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784702625</amazonuk>she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caite Dolan-Leach1848458436|title=Dead LettersJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=Ava and Zelda are twins''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, their naming triggering a family joke about being opposite ends of turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the alphabet. ThatNicest Couple''s all past tense now though as Zelda is dead. Ava is told the news via her mother's tersestory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, dispassionate email before Ava can come home to the US from Parisand Nina and Jake Hayes. Zelda burnt to death in The connection between the family's barn where she sometimes slept… at least two is that's the story Lily and human remains were indeed found Nina teach in the barnsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. But then why The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is Ava still receiving emails from Zelda? Emails that taunt, emails that remind a market research analyst and emails that suggest Zelda Jake is very a neurosurgeon: they don't have much alivein common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. To discover the truth all Ava needs She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to do is follow tempt fate by making the clues and relive some painful memoriesknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maile MeloyJulia Bartz|title=Do Not Become AlarmedThe Writing Retreat|rating=3.54

|summary=ItRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's Christmassomething of a legend with an impressive, what could go wrong? More than if compact, back catalogue of works thatstarted with her breakthrough novel, it's Christmas on holiday, on a cruise down the Pacific coast published when she was barely out of Latin America from near LAchildhood. PerfectAlex, thena writer-slash-editor, for two cousins – ladies both is more than a little obsessed with their own husband and two kids each – to get away from what life's currently giving them, namely high-pressure workRoza, and grief. But labours and worries and grief will only be exacerbatedis stunned when, when following a trip ashore goes horrendously wrongseries of unexpected events, and practically the only six children on board go missing…she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241305462</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kaela Coble1800465270|title=Friends and LiarsThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4.5

|summary= Kaela CobleWhen we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's debut novel June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He'Friends s a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Liars'Timur' s father, Keto, is also a gripping read that tells the tale of pallbearer and he'the crews disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he', a group of friends who once made a pact s determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur''always be honest with eachother''s death. So what happens when none Within a matter of them keep this pact? After not being together for over ten years the crew are reunited at the wake of one of their ownmonths, Danny Deuso, who has left his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a haunting suicide note along dubious link with an envelope for each crew member containing their darkest secret. They are now faced with two options: reveal their secrets or face the risk that Danny will reveal them from beyond the grave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786492059</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tina Seskis|title= The Honeymoon|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= For as long as she can rememberNatassja Petrovskaya, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoona journalist. A fortnight She's retreat determined to a fiveexpose any and all corruption -star resort in the Maldives, complete with luxury villas, personal butlers and absolute privacy.It should she's less concerned than she ought to be paradiseabout her own safety. But it To her, he's turned into a nightmaregood source. Because the man Jemma married For him, it's a week ago has just disappeared from the island without a trace. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes. After everything theyway to get information published, which wouldn've been through together, how can this t otherwise be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>possible.