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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samantha Hayes1399613073|title=You Belong To MeMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Isabel is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a Brit abroad who century. Olivia is running away from somethingruthlessly ambitious, or someonewhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. There are Laura is a perfectionist and a lot trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of these about, 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 my experience, but few tragedy. We don't know who have such suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an intriguing, and worrying, historyeerily similar event that will impact the three friends. She left the UK to escape a controlling ex but now has to return suddenly This time, for family reasons, even though she swore she would never go home againit's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893396</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard BeardSunny Singh|title=Acts 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 Assassinsterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatThere's something about tall buildings thatjust captures my imagination. Then someone steals the body. The police appoint Cassius Gallio to investigate but it Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all goes terribly wrong. He not only fails to find the body, the police informant from the initial conviction is killed in a way that mimics suicide. Gallio's career and life both stall until ? Even the case drabbest office building is secretly re-opened and hesomewhere I's deemed the man for the investigation as hem intrigued to get inside if it's already comparatively invisible40 stories tall. It seems straightforward in that Gallio must uncover the truth but the So when I picked up this book – about people he needs to speak to are being culled one by one by the most innovative and bloodthirsty meanswho scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>1803363991
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Oliver1804183210|title=Vanishing GirlsNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Dara and Nick used to be inseparableThirty-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 before shocked when the accident that left Darabidding 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's beautiful face scarred Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two sisters totally estranged. Nicole, known as Nick, men came in and younger sister Dara, have their lives and relationship torn apart by a serious car accidentconversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. Once extremely close The following morning, Nick and Dara now barely speak to each other, both sisters weighed down by feelings of guiltthe horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786792</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright1405951680|title=The Khazar CodexSafe House|author=Cameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a brutal introduction to luxury property in the story as Australian outback for a man is killed in couple of months. After the way that they did problems she'd had at work, it in those days: two trees were pulled to the ground and seemed like just the man lashed between them and then the trees were releasedbreak she needed. But that's only She was no longer a data analyst for the background Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the story which is set in the here country of her birth and now and most of it is in The Kemble, a rather rundown theatre, which is presenting a revival need of Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia''. On the opening night there's apparently a fire, but whilst most of space to get over the hostages are shepherded out of the theatre a group of seven members traumatic end of the audience, two cast members and the prime minister's son, Nigel Hastings, are taken hostageher relationship with Charles. The 'terrorists' (for what else can you call people who take others hostage?) represent New METRO, a group of activists who are campaigning for disused underground stations to be converted for use by A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the homelessticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784621277</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michel Bussi1448309743|title=After The CrashDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It’s December 1980, almost Christmas time. But, for many families this won’t be a special festive time. A plane, carrying 169 passengers en route from Istanbul to Paris crashes in In the mountains during a terrible storm. There’s no hope village of survivors and yet, miraculously, there is one passenger who lives. A 3 month old baby girl is found close by Cronchie on the wreckage, apparently unharmed. Her parents have perished in the crash but she is a miracleWest coast of Scotland, a ray five members of hope for her family… whoever they may be. For there were 2 young babies on board the flight, and although a mother would surely know her own child, it’s harder when it’s grandparents who need to identify and lay claim to a child they have never met beforewealthy family are found murdered. Both families believe The only item missing from the little one home is theirs and in the days before DNA testing and when it’s harder to access medical records across borders, it’s left to a judge to decide who should raise her, Devil Stone: myth says that if the wealthy and powerful de Carvilles or the less fortunate but loving Vitrals. In each casestone is removed from Otterburn House, the baby death will have a young sibling with whom to grow up, but will she ever feel like she truly belongs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871420</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Kardos|title=Before He Finds Her|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The newspaper reports at the time were unanimous: in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held a party for all his neighbours and then, when it ended, killed his wife Allie and toddler daughter Meg, then ran away, remaining a fugitive from justicefollow. The newspapers were wrong. Meg isn't dead only suspects are known Satanists but has been kept hidden by her Uncle Wayne and Aunt Kendrain many ways, had her name changed to Melanie and has led a sheltered life. No photos, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from home. Thatthat's no way to live and now she approaches her 18th birthday, Melanie/Meg wants to end her half-life in order to live fully and yet to do an easy conclusion given that she must risk any form two of life. She must find her father before he finds her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802123198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Influx|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn them 'discovered' the frontbody. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he was the legitimate heir to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going to be easy and time after timedisappears, Suarez fell short. That DCI Christine Caplan is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez pulled in the same illustrious company as Crichton.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S J Watson|title=Second Life|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Julia lives two lives. Life 1: the wife of surgeon Hugh and adopted parent of her sister Kate's son Connor. Life 2: Secret erotic dating site surfer. It seems a bit extreme but she has good reason as Julia is searching for information while posing under an assumed name. This is the same site on which Kate hung out. Past tense? Yes, Kateto 's dead and Julia wants to find Kateshadow's killer. Be careful what you wish for, Juliahim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David ThorneB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Nothing SacredThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Just over Our narrator was a year ago I described Thorne's first book [[East of Innocence by David Thorne|East of Innocence]] as ''Raymond Chandler meets Ray Winstone''scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. I gather that It was an eightunusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of-way auction saw Tiger Aspect securing the option rights for a TV series-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. I'm looking forward Finns had no intention of going on to it. Can't help wondering if they roped Winstone University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in (and if IWellingford, the UK'm s third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up for a cut of the agent fees?)loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus DalrympleDean Koontz|title=Killing Time: True FictionThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=English university graduate James Cooper Brown When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is travelling around 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 US with his friend Tobymap and live out your days in peace and solitude. When Toby returns That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to England start afresh on family business, James decides to visit Mexico. Soon after arriving heJacob's kidnapped by a local drug baron. Elsewhere in Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the country Monica Gonzalespesky US Government occupying Ringrock, a doctor, is looking forward to an evening of good company the neighbouring island and pizza but it turns into an evening of other things as she too is taken. Behind each perpetrating all manner of the 402 kidnappings mischief in Mexico during 2003 there is a story. This is the story name of James, Monica science and quite possibly bringing about the people fighting for their return; sometimes literallyend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1477428534</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penny Hancock1787636607|title=A Trick of the MindThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellie doesn’t know what happened on It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the road night bus that nightwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. She felt her car bump something The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', but it was only slightparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. But now For one young woman, the newsreader final stop on the radio is telling bus leaves her there was a hit long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and run on that stretchcollect her - but her phone's dead. Can The bus had driven off before she had the two things be connected? Could she really have knocked down chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and injured an innocent man and not even noticed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115089</amazonuk>in high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SK Tremayne1529195977|title=The Ice TwinsNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Angus inherits On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a Scottish island from his grandmother that holds fond memories from his childhoodcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Although it's totally remote AngusShe, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, his wife Sarah Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and daughter Kirstie decide to move there from London. YesJosie birthday twins, daughter singular but they havenwere both born in St Mary't always only had the one childs hospital. Kirstie used to have That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a twinjoyful, Lydiamonied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, till 13 months agothey're enjoying themselves. Lydia died in a tragic accidentJosie, on the circumstances of which have never fully been revealedother hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. At least everyone believes He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it was Lydia who died but what if…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007563035</amazonuk>is Josie's birthday after all.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joakim Zander1803136383|title=The SwimmerTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary='On a remote Swedish island, a little girl, Klara, grows up without Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a fathercloud. NowWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, twenty years later, she discovers but an act of heroism leading to a secret: a secret that powerful men will kill rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to keep hiddenbe the consensus.' The Swimmer begins in 1980, with a bombing in DamascusWat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, and a tragedy that can be felt across decadesas he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins B0C7J9D21B|title=Quarry's ChoiceA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about a hit man with a heartWhen we first meet our hero, why not try one his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of the Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it''Quarry'' series? This is s a man who is hired to kill bordello and does not think too much about it; itEttore's just a jobmother died when he was born. Usually Quarry arrives He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in a townlate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, makes a hit and gets out immediately, but there is something about it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the world preparation of the Dixie Mafia that is making him stay 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 little longerguide for visitors. Is it the blackmail, the attractive young women, or the sense of revenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>He was even saving some money.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)0241996104|title=Enter the SaintComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties thereNancy's a temptation to believe that the books might not bemother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, wellMartin, top drawerhas been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, but that would be after Martin receives a mistakelife sentence. The first of barrister tells her that she's received a 'The Saintsilent sentence'- she' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one and this collection s not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of stories is dated 1930her life. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meetOf course, but not it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the subtleties of papers are making the slightly world-weary man most of the world, all-knowing about the evils to which men (and women) can sink, but they're all thereit. Admittedly the Saint ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is more boisterous one favourite epithet and less subtle than he will become - ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but that speaks more about the later works than this bookis undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Christobel KentGilly 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=The Crooked HouseTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Many years agoWhat first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a tragedy shook an English village. A whole family wiped out with no warning, a whole family, that is, except for one of homeless man on the daughters who wasstreets, unbeknown suddenly starts to the assailantfeel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, upstairs at the timeand then another. Esme was that girl This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but she all the more so because his own father is no more. She has a new namedown and out alcoholic, a new identitywith no fixed abode, a new life, far away from that terrible placeand he has been for years. As Alison she flies under At the radar, not attracting any attentionsame time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a menial job move to fill a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her days. And she little boy has every intention of staying that waygone missing, only no intention record of ever stepping foot in Saltleigh againthe boy having existed can be found. Something 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 going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557501</amazonuk>1805300784
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell 1529382823|title=After the StormThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Rob Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and Anna are nearing the Honduras leg of their South American travelshas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. Here they meet Kimberley and Owen, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around the local islandsThey're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Rob persuades Anna it will be a fun way Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to end their holiday propose but Anna isnCaz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't so sureknow whether she's relieved or disappointed. ThereThey's something about Owen ve not been a couple for that long and Kimberley that makes her hesitant about being shut away on the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a boat at sea with thembit better. Perhaps itMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's the way that he never sleeps or the mystery cafe as well as to why there are no knives in the cutlery drawertheir mother who has dementia. Rob thinks AnnaIt's just overly imaginativegoing to be good, but time will tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John ConnollyMark Edwards|title=The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended Matthew and worked with Helena are in the pastIceland, is found hanged in a basementrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and has just raised over $100 Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even odder prospect if it kills her… which it nearly does when Annie the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself goes missing after heading for clinging to the rockface with just the small Maine town snagged strap of Prosperousher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Charlie decides Convinced she is going to drop in on the good citizens die, Helena must purge herself of the small town shocking secret she has been keeping and starts poking beneath the respectable veneermakes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. It doesn’t take him long but there Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlieleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIIIThirty Days of Darkness
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the 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 put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the Common Market (which would become the European Union end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in 1993) in Brussels and heExeter. It's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they'shouldve also been apart from each other. Belle can'' be an interpreter but he seems t wait to be restricted have them all to more administrative dutiesherself for a while. He could refuse the offer Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he gets, didn't come but the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across to the USA and make a point doesn't want to his employers is just too temptingupset Kit. HeIvo's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offer, and itapparently 'older': he's not long before hetwenty-four to Kit's on his wayeighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. Before he does heAnd they'll be sharing a bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's peripherally involved 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 shooting - gift for drinking himself to oblivion and that's not something which usually happens inevitably the latter was beginning to someone like himovershadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)Vanda Symon|title=The Saint Closes the CaseExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=On Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the way back to London with Patricia Holm late one nightstart of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, Simon Templar saw a strange pulsing light and couldn't resist going to investigateshocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. What he discovered was a demonstration of a weapon which could well bring Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the world to war hunt for a mere twelve years after killer targeting pregnant women, with all the end of the Great Warextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Templar and his confederates concluded that Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the weapon could not be allowed to come into the public domain - case go and if necessary the inventor (who could easily recreate the weapon even if he gave assurances she starts to the contrary) would need follow every thread to beuncover what's actually happening, er, sidelined. Unfortunately Templar and friends are not the only ones in search increasingly disturbing worry of the weapon: his old nemesis, Rayt Marius, has his own plansjust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00PABX9XE</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chevy Stevens1787301036|title=That NightWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It’s When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a careful, meticulous child. The care has been 17 years since Toni went taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to prison for discuss the murder death of her sister. 17 years since she last saw her boyfriend Ryanhis wife, July's mother, also convicted for and any hint that the murder, since she had a meaningful conversation with her parents, since she went is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a coffee shop Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or walked on not the beachinjuries are visible. Sent down when she was still a teenager, she’s been incarcerated for virtually half July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her life and though she’s now coming up for paroleworries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, it’s has he not as easy as simply going back to her old life from before? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555088</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc0008454493|title=Forty Days Without ShadowAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen 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 museum in Kautokeinomoment. It's now a year since her son, a smallMason, isolated village was stolen from his bed in the middle of the snowy tundra, tensions begin night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to rise between raise awareness about the residentscase. Local detective Klemet Nango She does interviews and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon when we meet her, she's just been to investigate the disappearance, whereupon they discover TrueCrimeCon where she gave a second crime: a local reindeer herder has been brutally murderedkeynote presentation. Nina soon suspects that On the two events are linkedplane back, andshe's approached by a podcaster, together with KlemetWaylon Spencer, embarks upon who points out that she could do a journey full of secrets, mystery podcast and brutalityget to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donato Carrisi1848458436|title=The Vanished OnesJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica|rating=54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Room 13 in the basement ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the state morgue Nicest Couple'' is where the sleepers are keptstory of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. These are The connection between the unclaimed bodies two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have been classified mixed as PHVsa foursome but it's not a regular thing. Potential Homicide VictimsChristian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. They are kept indefinitelyLily hasn't said anything yet, because they are evidence that but she's pregnant. She has a crime has been committed, possibly lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the only evidenceknowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)Julia Bartz|title=Loser's CornerThe Writing Retreat
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Meet Georges CrozatRoza Vallo. He's a policeman Anyone in Paris, who boxes on the sideworld of publishing knows the name. After a bout that leads Writers want to an almost embarrassing victorybe her, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sport, who seems agents want to offer represent her. She's something of a few thrown fights for Georgeslegend with an impressive, then some kind of status as assistant – trainingif compact, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation back catalogue of works that)started with her breakthrough novel, who has a friend published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a friend who wants someone to do an enemy writer-slash-editor, is more than a mischief little obsessed with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chaptersRoza, howeverand is stunned when, we're in the 1950s, and following a rookie to the forces, Pascal Veriniseries of unexpected events, she is being shipped out invited to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to itpart of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Fesperman1800465270|title=UnmannedThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he'Unmanneds at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, the title of Fespermanis also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's latest thrillerdeath. Within a matter of months, refers his obsession will have cost him his marriage to the dronesMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, the Predatorsa journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, that Captain Darwin Cole flew over Afghanistanhe's a good source. For him, from it's a shed somewhere in Nevadaway to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible. }}
It also refers to the state that those missions left Cole in, after one of them went badly wrong. A poor call-down led to a misidentified target, a house destroyed, civilians killed, including two kids lying out in the open running away, and a girl, not dead but wounded. Cole could see her from his thousands of miles away, moving, agonising, separated by a considerable distance from the arm she would never use again. A one-armed girl would haunt his dreams for a long time to follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857893424</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Shiver the Whole Night Through|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works at the local carnival and even heard that from someone else. Life is just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact he's still alive, he hears that Slaine McAuley, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herself. The only thing is that Aidan knows she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen to her and why does she choose to tell him, of all people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Thomas H Cook|title=A Dancer in the Dust|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A man that risk management consultant Ray Campbell knew a lifetime ago is found dead on the streets of New York. It's not just the fact that Ray knew him that's intriguing, it's where Ray knew him from: the African country of Lubanda where Ray once worked for an NGO. This death reminds him of another that happened out in Africa: that of a native Lubandan named Martine Aubert whom Ray loved and still loves. There must be a connection and Ray will investigate till he finds it, no matter what he finds or what he remembers along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The Piper|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated Move on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]

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