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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brenda Novak1399613073|title= Hello AgainMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Still scarred by Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma inflicted on her by her boyfriend Jasper Moore more than twenty doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years previouslylater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, Evelyn Talbot works as it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a psychologist at Hanover Houseterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a dumping ground wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for psychopathic criminals the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a remote corner bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Alaskaher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. A murder in Although they only ever talk over the nearby town seemed to indicate inmate involvementphone, but their friendship grows as the situation grew worse, Evelyn started to wonder whether Jasper might have returned Abhi tries to finally finish help her off. After a book full of false clues keep safe and misleading hints, it was a genuine shock they both wait to find out who was responsible after allsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472240995</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Asa AvdicCody Goodfellow|title= The Dying GameVertical|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary=In There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a futuristic dystopian Swedengood view from up high, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except after all? Even the offer, drabbest office building is more of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and everything somewhere I'm intrigued to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Annaget inside if it's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the house. Once the experiment is finished, she will report her findings back to the chairman40 stories tall. However, while So when I picked up this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymorebook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786090201</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Scoop of the YearNo Reserve|author=Tom ClaverFelix Francis

|summary=Martin is an ambitious journalist working Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - accuratecame up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, dedicatedhadn't arrived, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoopso he continued his session. But Martin is also uninterested in To say that he was shocked when the culture that comes with reportingbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. He has a wife Brian Kitman and two daughters at home and he doesnElliot 'Mitch't want to waste time Mitchell were well-known and money respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the pub, talking macho nonsense with cubicles in the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab toilets when the limelight though - he also grabs two men came in and their conversation revealed that the promotion horse had been deliberately bid up to industrial correspondentthat figure. And Both were happy that is they had insurance in place. The following morning, the job Martin not only wanted, but neededhorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Krysten Ritter|title= Bonfire|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Laura Wilson1405951680|title= The Other Woman|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Based on the blurb on the back, Sophie might not be the most likable heroine. She's a quote-unquote perfect woman, with the house, the husband, the children and the dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the husband is successful, but her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch), though there's a sort of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yes. So Sophie is the sort of woman, one imagines, who might rub other people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSafe House|author=Stephen Norman|title=Trading DownCameron Ward

|summary=Chris Peters Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was happy gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in his work the Australian outback for a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when he was promoted and sent back to Londoncouple of months. The job After the problems she'd had at work, it all: a hectic trading floor, targets which were impossible and some of the fastest computers in seemed like just the world under his supervisionbreak she needed. He's happy at home too: he and Olivia met She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in Hong KongLondon: now they're married she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and thinking about starting a family. But ... has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those in need of the bank who think so, particularly when things start space to go badly wrongget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sourA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Lelic|title= The House|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Syd loved the house, despite the fact that it was crammed full of the seller's stuff and they had to take the whole lot as a job lot. The seller had run off to Australia apparently and was up for a quick sale, lock, stock and barrel. Jack wasn't so sure. He found the place creepy, and it wasn't just the stuffed birds, there was an air about the place that he just didn't like.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241296544</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Martin Cruz Smith1448309743|title= The Girl from Venice|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at the close of the war is enticement enough. Add a backdrop of partisans, Mussolini and the desperate fight of the losing SS and my interest is certainly piqued, but present the aforementioned along with the mystery of a young woman found floating in the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Marjorie Orr|title=By the Light of a LieCaro Ramsay

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed in a hit-and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmith. She'd left her getting into a taxi at 11 o'clock In the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was village of Cronchie on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out West coast of Scotland, five members of her waya wealthy family are found murdered. The police didn't seem likely to pursue only item missing from the case on home is the grounds Devil Stone: myth says that it had probably been an accidentif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but being in many ways, that's an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasneasy conclusion given that two of them 't going discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to leave her friend unavenged'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Jon HalaszB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Prancing JacanaLast Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=Mabel Pembrose's latest novel ''The Prancing Jacana'' has been on Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for a couple of weeks: her husband, Robert Bersley, isn't doing anything like as wellLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. He writes children's books and his editor is adamant that It was an unusual relationship as he's writing about Snake Ralph was a boarder and Mouse, then Mouse has had money to be eaten by Snake, because that's how it works. throw around on a Mabel's not completely free from problems though: her novelRolex watch, set in Senegal, features Police Detective Salif Bampoky vintage wines and he's gay in a country where samestate-of-sex sexual acts are outlawed and in consequence her book has been banned in the country-art sound system. The fact that it's banned isn't harming her sales in the US at all, but Mabel - or rather Caroline Parker, as Mabel Pembrose is her pen name - isn't content with this Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. She's been Finns had no intention of going on to SenegalUniversity, loves the country and she'd like the book to be unlike our storyteller who had a bestseller there too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1974689980</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Catherine Burns|title= The Visitors|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary=Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster place at Wolverton College in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bearsWellingford, Marion does her best to shut out the shocking secret that John keeps in the cellarUK's third most prestigious university. UntilBefore going up, suddenly, John has he took up a heart attack and Marion is forced loose invitation to go down to the cellar herself and face the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hidden. As questions are asked and secrets unravelvisit Ralph at his home, maybe John isn't the only one with a dark sideClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma ViskicDean Koontz|title=Resurrection BayThe House at the End of the World

|summary=Caleb Zelic has just found his colleague When you experience overwhelming tragedy and lifelong friend murdered. The two – feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and a female police officer – were working as a ride on or you can retreat to your own private investigative group, tracking security flaws fortress on an island that led to sits snugly in a hugely costly warehouse robbery, small chain of tiny dots on the map and all have training live out your days in the industry, so they should have seen anything comingpeace and solitude. Caleb wonThat't have heard it coming, however – hes what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's pretty much deaf, getting a cadence of speech Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and noise from hearing aids but needing to lipread or sign. The first signs that this murder is connected to solitude were it not for the case are impossible to ignore – as indeed are hints that something really serious is going onpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, when Caleb finds he can't even trust the police looking into the murder. The case will cause him to go a lot further than he would ever want – which includes to neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the door name of his errant brother, science and into quite possibly bringing about the home end of his recently-made-ex wife…all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178227362X</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Syd Moore1787636607|title= Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 2)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary=Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her last escapade with curator Sam Stone, and figuring out what on earth to do with the Essex Witch Museum sheIt's recently inheriteda scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. If Rosie had her Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way she'd be selling the museum and heading back to her flat in London - but when her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie get home. Some are lucky and Sam manage to a local businessmanget 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', they find themselves embroiled particularly in dark events once againthe light of 'the missing women'. Something is wrong at Le Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers For one young woman, scrawled messages the final stop on the walls bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and apparitions walking through collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the walls. Before Rosie and Sam can start chance to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, events take an even darker turn when a very real body is found in beg the restaurant - and the ownerbus driver to let her use his. There's daughter swears that a ghost was no option but to blamestart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607205X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jessica Jarlvi1529195977|title= When I Wake UpNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating= 45|genre= Thrillers|summary= Anna is in On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a coma. Only two people know who inflicted the severe injuries that lead to her lying there unmoving crowd of friends in the hospital bed, the culprit who won’t talk, and Anna who can’tLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. If She, and it’s a big iftoo, she wakes upwas out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she may remember what happenedwas just with her husband, but of course there’s a chance she quite literally did Walter. It turns out that not know what hit heronly are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. For That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband Erik, it’s an agonising wait. The police don’t seem that interestedNathan, but he has to know who was responsibleare in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and so he wonders whether he should do a bit of investigating himselfwhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. He shouldn’t Josie, of courseon the other hand, because in a story like this there are secrets just waiting holds her handbag close to be uncovered, her tummy and he may find you get the sense that these are things he would rather have never knownWalter'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>1786696096</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Parkin1803136383|title= The Winter's ChildTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre= ParanormalThrillers|summary=''A modern Gothic tale Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of twisted love, secrets a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the futurenobody is sure exactly what took place, but that hasn't stopped her spending an act of heroism leading to a fortune on psychics rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and fortune tellers in disgrace seems to be the desperate hunt for her sonconsensus. Joel has been missing for five yearsWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079034</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=K A J LawrenceLewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title= The CossackComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: heNancy's a photographer of some merit mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and in his fifties he her step-brother, Martin, has a settled lifebeen convicted of their murder. It was We first meet Nancy outside the disappearance of his assistantcourt, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everythingafter Martin receives a life sentence. It wasn The barrister tells her that she's received a 't unknown for him silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was a first live with what happened for himthe rest of her life. He Of course, it'd been distracted for a few days s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The authorities, in are making the form most of a shadowy senior member of the security services, confirmed the view that Ivan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and drug dealing''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clar Ni Chonghaile1529135389|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= It's a cliché that Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the Irish have a picturesque turn county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of phrase, her husband but clichés only exist because they're trueopera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Roddy Doyle put it differently They'd not been in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazine, when he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under the English''architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. However you express it, that art Some of expression is woven into every them fought with each other line of Clárand didn's proset work as reliably as they should. Pick a page at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that It had all come to roost in her home like about through a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus ten-million-pound lottery win and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbingthey were still getting used to having that sort of money, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawarestoo. Eventually, or tear at your heart Nicole found Tom dead in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes boththe swimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Neil WhiteAlan Parks|title= From The ShadowsTo Die in June|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a bit old-fashioned homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and therefore not then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. I'll go At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a prologue – even if it's becoming move to a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at different police station, and the beginning arrival there of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a woman who claims her little lazyboy has gone missing, a way only no record of creating tension when all else failsthe boy having existed can be found. That, howeverSomething feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wes Stuart1529382823|title= My Name is SamThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary=Who is the real enemy? This Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmosmiddle-spanning war with the Gibbus, aged and the main character has found herself somewhat surprisingly in this storylove with Pete. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. He is also Earth Caz's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus whosister, in seven daysGemma, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: reckons that Pete is the decision of the alien Sereia, going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his mentors suit pocket and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous taskshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They have their own reasons 've not been a couple for wanting Earth that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to be saved, but are too weak get to challenge the Gibbus themselvesknow him a bit better. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy Meanwhile, Sam – but this child Gemma is not quite looking after Caz's cafe as well as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma DibdinMark Edwards|title=The Room by the LakeKeep Her Secret

|summary= What would life be like if you just packed up your things 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 left? This black beaches is a thought that breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the main protagonist Caitlyn has been mulling over for a while now but has never had perfect photograph to encapsulate the guts to dojoy she is feeling in this moment, until she reaches even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the final straw when her father fails at sobriety once again. After throwing her phone in edge of a river, Caitlyn takes ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the airport where she ends up getting rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a plane 500 foot drop to New Yorkcertain death below. From there her life completely changes as she meets Jake who seems to be just what she needs. As they grow closer Convinced she is invited going to meet his familydie, but, in Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a house surrounded by forest that is miles away from civilisationpanicked, family takes on a whole new meaningcryptic declaration to Matthew. There you live by the motto ''we are here for each other Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and we are nothing without each other''hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Liam BrownJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= BroadcastThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers |summary=When David Callow is offered the lead role in a revolutionary new online showHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, he snatches an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at the opportunity. Rapidly becoming a viral sensationbook fair, David is propelled to stratospheric levels she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of celebrity. Howevercrime fiction, saying he soon realises 's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the downside of sharing every secret with the worldbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. A prisoner Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to both his fame and his own thoughtsIceland, David seeks to have where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the chip removedpoint of despairing – about her writing, only to discover about the chilling secret lurking at people and the heart lack of MindCaststimulus for her plot, and the terrifying ambition more or less about everything – word comes that the showlandlady's creator nephew has for him.been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199932</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Kubica0861544056|title= Every Last LieTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Clara is mother Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to pre-schooler Maisie the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and newborn Felix, but now she has a new label: widow. Her husband Nick is dead, killed in an awful car crash that thankfully spared his daughterJess's life when Felix is just a few days oldin Exeter. For Clara, that It's not only the end first time they've been away from their parents for any length of the nightmaretime - but they've also been apart from each other. As she works her way through grief and struggles Belle can't wait to have them all to carry on herself for the children, a while. Then Kit rings up - can she is faced bring her boyfriend home with some new worries. Maisie isnher? Belle would prefer that he didn't talking much about the accident, come but shedoesn's having nightmares that make Clara question the police story of eventst want to upset Kit. There are things in Nick Ivo's personal possessions that are odd, things she has never seen before. Whatapparently 'older': he's more, it turns out a lot was going on at Nicktwenty-four to Kit's work eighteen but Belle figures that he hadn't shared she can cope with his wifethat. And, the more she starts to look, the more she wishes she could un-see and go back to how things werethey'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WhitakerRobert Dugoni|title= All The Wicked GirlsHer Deadly Game|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= In Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the small town life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missinghis clients. A model student Along with exceptional musical an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and beloved by all that know her, inevitably the incident rocks latter was beginning to overshadow the entire townformer. It is even more terrifying set against Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the backdrop hideous position of recent crimes; asking her father for over a job at the course of the yearfamily firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, five young church-attending girls have had gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, and has so far evaded capture. Whilst he roams the streetsrather spectacularly, no one is safesouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim WeaverVanda Symon|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker Detective Sam Shepherd is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over approaching the course start of his workher maternity leave when there is a brutal, he's seen plenty shocking murder of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this onean expectant woman in Dunedin. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for helpa killer targeting pregnant women, but explains with all the extra pressure that his request is quite unusualentails being pregnant herself. You see Finding herself put on desk duties, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previouslywhich she rails against, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he she just can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure 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 of his let the case, go and without a National Insurance number, he is basically she starts to follow every thread to uncover what'off the grids actually happening,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thingincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lisa Jewell1787301036|title= Then She Was GoneWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= One day Ellie went to the library for some last minute GCSE study and When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she never returned's just ten years old. There are a lot of ''what ifs?'': what if her sister hadn She't had s a noisy friend overcareful, forcing her to seek out somewhere quieter to study? What if there had meticulous child. The care has been more CCTV on the high street so taught by her journey could have been traced? What iffather, taking it back a bitMick Hooper, she had never met Theowho is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, never fallen for himJuly's mother, never drifted into competition against him and never felt any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the need for extra swotting? What if, what if, what if? And what if actually, none necessity of this had made a difference, because what happened was always going Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to happenthe school, one way or anotherhas he not?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896417</amazonuk> The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caz Frear0008454493|title= Sweet Little LiesAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= In 1998 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 girl called Maryanne disappears in Irelandmoment. In 2017 It's now a woman called Alice year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is found dead consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in London. In both casesthat year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close byshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, but she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more worried people than she could by the fact her father is too. And he cannot be trustedgiving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785763350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J Tjia1848458436|title= She Be DamnedJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) Thrillers|summary= London''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, 1863turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up deadChristian and Lily Scott, their sexual organs mutilated and removedNina and Jake Hayes. When another girl goes missing, fears grow The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the killer may have claimed their latest victimsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The police are at couples have mixed as a loss and so foursome but it falls to courtesan 's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and professional detectiveJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, Heloise Chancey, to investigatebut she's pregnant. With the assistance She has a lengthy history of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the truthknowledge public. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)Julia Bartz|title=Three Days and a LifeThe Writing Retreat

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Christmas weekRoza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, 1999, and Antoine hasnagents want to represent her. She't got the best s something of situations. Some a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of his friends have parted company works that started with him because her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of the newchildhood. Alex, a writer-slash-fangled Playstationeditor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, which his mother refuses she is invited to let him waste his time onbe part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800465270|title=The Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=4. He5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's built a treehouse all by himself, June 1995 and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but she's rejected itat the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. And He's a pallbearer for his best companyelder brother, the dog from the other house next doorTimur, whose death was injured in a hit drug-related. Valeri and runTimur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and shot to be put out of its miseryhe's disgusted by what his son had become. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, Valeri thinks differently: he's visited by determined to make his very friendly own stand against organised crime and adorable neighbour, the dogavenge Timur's six-year-old ownerdeath. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and Antoinecreated a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's swung some of the wood at him – determined to expose any and killed him with one fell all corruption - and very foul sweepshe's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. As the title suggestsTo her, there will be he's a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or good source. For him, it's a lifetime of living on a knife-edgeway to get information published, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>which wouldn't otherwise be possible.