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|isbn=14711660231399613073|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)Moral Injuries|author=Kate RhodesChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=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 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 later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|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 terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.
|isbn=086154742X
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{{Frontpage
|author=Cody Goodfellow
|title=Vertical
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest 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.
|isbn= 1803363991
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1804183210
|title=No Reserve
|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|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 lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their 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, the horse was dead in its stall.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1405951680
|title=The Safe House
|author=Cameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1448309743
|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)
|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and only item missing from the home is the occasion for Devil Stone: myth says that if the usual bonfire celebrationsstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but it would be marred this year by the discovery in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of Professor Alex Roganthem 's discovered' the body on . The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our narrator was a bonfirescholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. He'd obviously been alive when he It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was put a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-the fire -art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and can only have died a terrible deathcertainly more than acquaintances. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenFinns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he speaks little or nothing took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The House at the End of the World|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and his only concern feel that there is the welfare no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the birds he looks aftermap and live out your days in peace and solitude. His instinct is That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to cover Roganstart afresh on Jacob's body Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and he uses his sheepskin coat to do thissolitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, with the result that he's neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the prime suspectend of all mankind.|isbn=1662453159
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|isbn=178730101X1787636607|title=Keep Him CloseThe Trap|author=Emily KochCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Louislooking for a way to get home. Lou's seventeen Some are lucky and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out manage to celebrateget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Someone has to find something to celebrate The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the letterslight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, D, D and Ethe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Alice has always She had a good relationship with nineteenintended to ring someone to come and collect her -year-old Benny but ither phone's a dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. touch problematic with Lou and being honest, heThere's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming no option but to my mind were ADHDstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.
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|authorisbn=Gregg Hurwitz1529195977|title=Into The FireNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Grant Merriweather is On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a forensic accountantcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Or ratherShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she wasjust with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashThat's where the similarities end, though: Alix, his friend pleading with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the medics other hand, holds her handbag close to keep him aliveher tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He was needed alive just long enough 's not used to give up spending this much money on a namemeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all. His cousin, Max}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|isbnsummary=0718185501Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always does.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008297169B0C7J9D21B|title=The Guest ListA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Lucy FoleyA J Lewis
|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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0241996104
|title=Coming to Find You
|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529135389
|title=The Fall
|author=Gilly Macmillan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alan Parks
|title=To Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirWhat first seems like the unfortunate, off accidental death of a homeless man on the Irish coaststreets, might have been enough suddenly starts to put some guests offfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, but it was the wedding of the yearand then another. Will Slater (television personalityThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, if not yet but all the more so because his own father is a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegandown and out alcoholic, online magazine publisherwith no fixed abode, in the ruined chapel on the islandand he has been for years. The bride's sisterAt the same time as facing these possible murders, OliviaHarry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and arrival there of a woman who claims her husbandlittle boy has gone missing, Freddyonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. They gave a huge discount to get Something feels wrong - not just with the couple to woman’s story but also with the islandother officers where he has been stationed, but surely it would be worth it for the publicitycan Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784
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|isbn=15290096771529382823|title=A Window BreaksThe Last Passenger|author=C M EwanWill Dean|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tom Sullivan Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and his wife Rachel are having problemshas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. ItThey's not just the usual growing apart after more than re off on a decade of marriagecruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Their sonCaz's sister, MichaelGemma, was killed reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi suit pocket and at sixteen wasnshe doesn't legally entitled to driveknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canThey't think about Michael without ve not been a sense of shame couple for that long and guiltthe trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Rachel Meanwhile, Gemma is broken, but she wants to forgive Michaellooking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. To give some space, TomIt's moved out of the family home, but stresses going to his thirteen-year-old daughterbe good, Holly, that isn't it is only a trial separation.?
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|author=Chris HautyMark Edwards|title=Deep StateKeep Her Secret|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighterMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. She is every kind The alien-landscape of fighter, the lava fields and wellblack beaches is breath-trained in most of them. She's army infantry taking and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physicallyfeeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and she knows how Helena finds herself clinging to deal the rockface with just the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. This fight Convinced she is against someone going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she is not expected has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to beatMatthew. And she Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is being watchedleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=1471185605166250893X
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|isbnauthor=0241985153Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodThirty Days of Darkness
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well- badly wrong - when regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the woman who was alone latest hot shot in the house world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is taken put up for a wintry month away by from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the policepeople and the lack of stimulus for her plot, but itmore or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's going to be a while before we learn exactly what nephew has happened.been found dead…|isbn=1914585615
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|isbn= 19848906460861544056|authortitle=Catherine SteadmanTwin Truths|titleauthor=Mr NobodyJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= DonBelle and David't you s twin daughters are just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as coming to my mind the end of their first term at university. Kit'fight scenes been at Bristol and Jess' at s in Exeter. It's not only the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has first time they've been hurt so many times that itaway from their parents for any length of time - but they's virtually impossible theyve also been apart from each other. Belle can'd still be alive let alone able t wait to have them all to fight off an attackerherself for a while. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to wrap everything up in the last few chaptersupset Kit. It was almost as if the author wanted Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) Kit's eighteen but then was somewhat left Belle figures that she can cope with too much to do in the closing stagesthat. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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|author=Will Dean Robert Dugoni|title=Black River Her Deadly Game
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and this third book proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into hideous position of asking her personal lifefather for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, returning her to south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the isolated town start of Gavrik and into her maternity leave when there is a desperate search brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for her missing best frienda killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. With Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the Midsommar sun blocked out by case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the dark pines increasingly disturbing worry of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendjust what might happen next. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=17860771161914585577
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|isbn=17808945111787301036|title=Die AloneWhat July Knew|author=Simon KernickEmily Koch|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and heWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop hejust ten years old. She's something of a targetcareful, but the unit meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not as secure as prepared to discuss the inmates would have hoped death of his wife, July's mother, and Mason any hint that the conversation is injured in heading that way will lead to the necessity of a riotLesson. On Other infractions of his way requirements also lead to hospital these Lessons and he's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to himnot even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. HeJuly's to assassinate teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the man who is likely head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to become the country's next prime minister and school, has he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad. not? His captors say that theyThe playground wouldn're MI6, t have been resurfaced but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadfor him.
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|authorisbn=Rory Clements0008454493|title=Hitler's SecretAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=So, Hitler had Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a secret? Twoyear - well, if you include apart from the reproductive detail mentioned in odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a certain sing-song aspersionmoment. But this is It's now a secret that is counter to thatyear since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and in fact Izzy is a secret consumed with guilt that Hitler himself doesn't even know she heard nothing and particularly abouther relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. His niece, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed In that year she's done everything she could to be very close to in raise awareness about the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backcase. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of She does interviews and when we meet her past, and the truth is she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a very rare thingkeynote presentation. Martin Bormann, On the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand manplane back, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So itshe's down to Tom Wildeapproached by a podcaster, an American history professor at OxbridgeWaylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timeso many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|isbn=1838770275
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1848458436|title=In The Absence of MiraclesJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=John Docherty's mother 'The whole thing has been taken spiralled out of control, turning into a nursing home following a massive strokesomeone I'm not. It '' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is thought unlikely that she will ever be able to live independently againthe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Faced with having to sell The connection between the family home two is that Lily and Nina teach in order to pay for her nursing care, Docherty starts the clear outsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. In the attic he finds The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a childhood picture of himself, holding regular thing. Christian is a toddler – market research analyst and Jake is a toddler he knows nothing aboutneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. He also finds She has a blood-stained shoelengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|isbn=191237479X
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|isbnauthor=0692853545Julia Bartz|title=The Things We Do|author=Kay PfaltzWriting Retreat
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist at Roza Vallo. Anyone in the state penitentiary and she world of publishing knows that the name. Writers want to be her next patient is not going , agents want to be easyrepresent her. She'Jane Doe' has been convicted s something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of the murder works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of two men childhood. Alex, a writer- one slash-editor, is more than a police officer. She pleaded guilty little obsessed with Roza, and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubt. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap stunned when , following a series of unexpected events, she was arrested, but it's been proved is invited to be false. There seem to be no family or friends who are missing part of her. Eleanormonth-long writers's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menretreat.|isbn=0861544439
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|isbn=147117316X1800465270|title=Guilty Not GuiltyThe Lensky Connection|author=Felix FrancisConrad Delacroix
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate Gordon-Russell (Bill Russell to those who knew him well) was acting as a volunteer steward When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of the violent Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death of his muchwas drug-loved wiferelated. It would get worse though: the successful insurance actuary would be accused of killing her Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and hounded he's disgusted by the mediawhat his son had become. Then Valeri thinks differently: he would lose 's determined to make his job own stand against organised crime and his homeavenge Timur's death. His best friends would turn against Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost himhis marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, as they came a journalist. She's determined to believe him guilty of the murderexpose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. Yet there was no really compelling evidence that To her, he was guilty's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.
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