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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lori Lansens1399613073|title=The Mountain StoryMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary= Wolf’s mother is dead. His father is inept at bestOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a dead beat at worstcentury. Wolf’s one joy in life Olivia is his best friendruthlessly ambitious, Byrd. The two frequently escape their homes and hike up which is a nearby mountain, revelling in the freedom and closeness bonus when you aim to naturebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. But Byrd dies, Laura is a perfectionist and a year later, on trauma doctor. Anjali is the date free spirit of his 18th birthday, Wolf decides to kill himself – heading up to the same mountain where he spent so much time happy. However, Wolf soon meets three women – Bridget, Nola group and Vonnshe becomes a GP. Lost on the mountain, When we first meet them they will spend days fighting to survive 're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to escape end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the wildernessconsequences. One Twenty-five years later there will not make be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it down alive's their teenage children who are involved. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471137996</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lee ChildSunny Singh|title=Personal|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you've never read a Lee Child novel but have seen the trailers for a film starring Tom Cruise… can I seriously suggest you read at least one of the books before seeing the film. To be fair, I haven't seen the film and Cruise might do a decent job of whatever script they've given him… but Jack Reacher he isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857502662</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen King|title=Mr MercedesHotel Arcadia
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|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Bill Hodges The Hotel Arcadia is a retired cop, spiralling down into luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a seemingly inescapable depressionterrorist group. Stuck at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, toying with the idea of shooting himselfkilling everyone on site, it there is only with the sudden arrival of a letter claiming to be from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murder, one of Hodges’ old casesSam, that he finds a new interest in staying alive. Is this actually the murderer? Why is he crawling out of the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Guy Adams|title=A Few Words For The Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Warning: spoilers for both [[The Clown Service by Guy Adams|The Clown Service]] wartime photographer and [[The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams|The Rain-Soaked Bride]] so best read them first. Remember the near-demonic Fratfield? WellAbhi, the honeymooning Toby and Tamara find themselves – and Fratfield – in the South American junglehotel manager. However, things aren’t running smoothly. Not only does Fratfield As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still control alive in the forces of naturehotel, now he has some help. Meanwhile back home forms a hit man prepares bond with Sam who refuses to continue his profession. The target? August Shiningbe cowed by events, Tobyand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's bosshappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, friend their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and wanted as an interview subject they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by MI6, should he live that longthe terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953197</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gore VidalCody Goodfellow|title= Thieves Fall OutVertical
|rating=3.5
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|summary= If you look at history it is very easy to think that human nature never changes and There's something about tall buildings that we are forever cursed to live through the same mistakesjust captures my imagination. Unstable regions remain unstable; atrocities are still being carried out. 1950s Egypt was as tricky Who doesn't love a place to live as good view from up high, after all? Even the modern equivalent drabbest office building is; a sense of revolution in the airsomewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. However, rest assured that in Gore Vidal’s ‘lost’ pulp novel you will be reading more So when I picked up this book – about gun fights and scantily clad women, than politicspeople who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781167923</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samantha Hayes1804183210|title=You Belong To MeNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4.5
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|summary= Isabel is a Brit abroad who is running away from somethingThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, or someone. There are a lot of these aboutbut Peter Radway, the chairman, in my experiencehadn'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 few who have such an intriguing, three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and worrying, historyrespected in the racing industry. She left Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the UK horse had been deliberately bid up to escape a controlling ex but now has to return suddenlythat figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, for family reasons, even though she swore she would never go home againthe horse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893396</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard1405951680|title=Acts of the AssassinsThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so that's thatJess 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. Then someone steals After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the bodybreak she needed. The She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police appoint Cassius Gallio in London: she was Jess who was returning to investigate but it all goes terribly wrongthe country of her birth and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. He not only fails to find A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the body, ticket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the police informant from village of Cronchie on the initial conviction is killed in West coast of Scotland, five members of a way that mimics suicidewealthy family are found murdered. Gallio's career and life both stall until The only item missing from the case home is secretly re-opened and he's deemed the man for Devil Stone: myth says that if the investigation as he's already comparatively invisiblestone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. It seems straightforward The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that Gallio must uncover two of them 'discovered' the truth body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but the people when he needs disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to speak to are being culled one by one by the most innovative and bloodthirsty means'shadow' him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren OliverB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Vanishing GirlsThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Dara Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and Nick used had money to be inseparablethrow around on a Rolex watch, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred vintage wines and a state-of-the two sisters totally estranged-art sound system. Nicole, known as Nick, Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and younger sister Daracertainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, have their lives and relationship torn apart by unlike our storyteller who had a serious car accidentplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. Once extremely closeBefore going up, Nick and Dara now barely speak he took up a loose invitation to each othervisit Ralph at his home, both sisters weighed down by feelings of guiltClouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786792</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightDean Koontz|title=The Khazar CodexHouse at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's a brutal introduction When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to the story as a man is killed in the way your own private fortress on an island that they did it sits snugly in those days: two trees were pulled to a small chain of tiny dots on the ground map and the man lashed between them live out your days in peace and then the trees were releasedsolitude. But thatThat's only the background what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the story which is set in the here aforementioned peace and now and most of solitude were it is in The Kemble, a rather rundown theatre, which is presenting a revival of Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia''. On not for the opening night there's apparently a firepesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but whilst most of the hostages are shepherded out neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the theatre a group of seven members name of the audience, two cast members science and quite possibly bringing about the prime minister's son, Nigel Hastings, are taken hostage. The 'terrorists' (for what else can you call people who take others hostage?) represent New METRO, a group end of activists who are campaigning for disused underground stations to be converted for use by the homelessall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784621277</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Michel BussiCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=After The CrashNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It’s December 1980On her 45th birthday, almost Christmas timeAlix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. But She, for many families this won’t be a special festive timetoo, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. A plane It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, carrying 169 passengers en route from Istanbul to Paris crashes they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the mountains during a terrible storm. There’s no hope of survivors and yetsimilarities end, though: Alix, miraculouslywith her husband, there is one passenger who lives. A 3 month old baby girl is found close by the wreckageNathan, apparently unharmed. Her parents have perished are in the crash but she is midst of a miraclejoyful, a ray monied group of hope for her family… whoever friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they may be're enjoying themselves. For there were 2 young babies Josie, on board the flightother hand, and although a mother would surely know holds her own child, it’s harder when it’s grandparents who need handbag close to identify her tummy and lay claim to a child they have never met beforeyou get the sense that Walter's not too happy. Both families believe the little one is theirs and in the days before DNA testing and when it’s harder to access medical records across borders, it’s left He's not used to spending this much money on a judge to decide who should raise her, the wealthy and powerful de Carvilles or the less fortunate meal - but loving Vitralsit is Josie's birthday after all. In each case, the baby will have a young sibling with whom to grow up, but will she ever feel like she truly belongs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871420</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Kardos1803136383|title=Before He Finds HerTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The newspaper reports at the time were unanimous: Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held Vietnam under something of a party for all his neighbours cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and thennobody is sure exactly what took place, when it ended, killed his wife Allie and toddler daughter Meg, then ran away, remaining but an act of heroism leading to a fugitive from justice. The newspapers were wrong. Meg isn't dead but has been kept hidden rare battlefield commission followed by her Uncle Wayne rank cowardice and Aunt Kendra, had her name changed disgrace seems to Melanie and has led a sheltered lifebe the consensus. No photos, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from home. That's no way Wat himself is keeping his cards close to live and now she approaches her 18th birthdayhis chest, Melanie/Meg wants to end her half-life in order to live fully and yet to do that she must risk any form of life. She must find her father before as he finds heralways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802123198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel SuarezB0C7J9D21B|title=InfluxA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Science Historical Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge a book by its cover When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the fronthe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Since his debut novel Idyllic as this might sound, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had it's a quote suggesting that bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was the legitimate heir born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to Michael Crichtonobtain decent employment. To compare your work The stint working with one of the best techno thriller writers preparation of all time is never going to be easy anchovies didn't work out and time after time, Suarez fell shortbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. That is until Influx, Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company successful business as Crichtona guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Watson0241996104|title=Second LifeComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Julia lives two livesNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Life 1: We first meet Nancy outside the wife 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 surgeon Hugh and adopted parent anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her sister Katelife. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's son Connorrich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Life 2: Secret erotic dating site surfer''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{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. It seems a bit extreme There was no sign of her husband but she has good reason as Julia is searching for information while posing under an assumed nameopera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. This is They'd not been in the same site architect-designed house on which Kate hung outLancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Past tense? Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. Yes, Kate's dead It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Julia wants they were still getting used to find Kate's killerhaving that sort of money, too. Be careful what you wish forEventually, JuliaNicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ThorneAlan Parks|title=Nothing SacredTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the 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?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529382823
|title=The Last Passenger
|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Just over Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a year ago I described Thornecruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's first book [[East of Innocence by David Thorne|East of Innocence]] as sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'Raymond Chandler meets Ray Winstone't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. I gather They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an eight-way auction saw Tiger Aspect securing the option rights for excellent opportunity to get to know him a TV seriesbit better. IMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz'm looking forward to its cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. CanIt's going to be good, isn't help wondering if they roped Winstone in (and if I'm up for a cut of the agent feesit?).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus DalrympleMark Edwards|title=Killing Time: True FictionKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=English Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university graduate James Cooper Brown is travelling around the US with his friend Tobyromance some twenty-odd years after they first met. When Toby returns to England The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on family business, James decides getting the perfect photograph to visit Mexico. Soon after arriving he's kidnapped by a local drug baron. Elsewhere encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the country Monica Gonzales, edge of a doctor, is looking forward ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to an evening the rockface with just the snagged strap of good company her rucksack between her and pizza but it turns into an evening of other things as a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she too is taken. Behind each going to die, Helena must purge herself of the 402 kidnappings in Mexico during 2003 there is shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a storypanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. This is the story of JamesJust moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Monica Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and the people fighting for their return; sometimes literallyMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1477428534</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Penny HancockJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=A Trick Thirty Days of the MindDarkness
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellie doesn’t know 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 happened on anyone could write. Cue the road bet that she cannot live up to that nightaccusation. She felt Her publisher duly books her car bump somethingflights from Denmark to Iceland, but where she is put up for a wintry month away from it was only slightall. But now the newsreader Just on the radio is telling point of despairing – about her there was a hit writing, about the people and run on the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that stretch. Can the two things be connected? Could she really have knocked down and injured an innocent man and not even noticed?landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115089</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SK Tremayne0861544056|title=The Ice TwinsTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Angus inherits a Scottish island from his grandmother that holds fond memories from his childhoodBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Although itKit's totally remote Angus, his wife Sarah been at Bristol and daughter Kirstie decide to move there from LondonJess's in Exeter. Yes, daughter singular It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they haven't always only had the one childve also been apart from each other. Kirstie used Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a twin, Lydia, till 13 months agowhile. Lydia died in a tragic accident, the circumstances of which have never fully been revealedThen Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. At least everyone believes it was Lydia who died Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but what if…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007563035</amazonuk>Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joakim ZanderRobert Dugoni|title=The SwimmerHer Deadly Game|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life'On a remote Swedish islands 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 little girlgift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, Klara, grows up without a former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father. Now, twenty years later, she discovers for a secret: job at the family firm because a secret that powerful men will kill to keep hidden.' The Swimmer begins in 1980, romantic entanglement with a bombing in Damascussenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, and a tragedy that can be felt across decadessouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Allan Collins Vanda Symon|title=Quarry's ChoiceExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a hit man with a heartbrutal, why not try one shocking murder of the ''Quarry'' series? This is a man who is hired to kill and does not think too much about it; it's just a joban expectant woman in Dunedin. Usually Quarry arrives Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a townkiller targeting pregnant women, makes a hit and gets out immediately, but there is something about the world of with all the Dixie Mafia extra pressure that is making him stay a little longerentails being pregnant herself. Is it the blackmailFinding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the attractive young womencase go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, or and the sense increasingly disturbing worry of revenge?just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)1787301036|title=Enter the SaintWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties therewe first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a temptation to believe that the books might not becareful, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistakemeticulous child. The first care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July''The Saint'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one s mother, and this collection any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of stories is dated 1930a Lesson. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not the subtleties Other infractions of the slightly world-weary man of the world, all-knowing about the evils his requirements also lead to which men (these Lessons and women) can sink, but theyhe're all theres not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Admittedly the Saint July's teacher is more boisterous concerned and less subtle than brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he will become - not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but that speaks more about the later works than this bookfor him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent0008454493|title=The Crooked HouseAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Many years agoIsabelle 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 tragedy shook an English villagemoment. A whole family wiped out with no warning, It's now a whole familyyear since her son, that isMason, except for one was stolen from his bed in the middle of the daughters who night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was, unbeknown sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the assailant, upstairs at the timecase. Esme was that girl She does interviews and when we meet her, but she is no more's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. She has a new name On the plane back, she's approached by a new identitypodcaster, a new lifeWaylon Spencer, far away from who points out that terrible place. As Alison she flies under the radar, not attracting any attention, with could do a menial job podcast and get to fill her days. And so many more people than she has every intention of staying that way, no intention of ever stepping foot in Saltleigh againcould by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Lythell 1848458436|title=After Just the StormNicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Rob and Anna are nearing ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.'' ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the Honduras leg story of their South American travelstwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. Here they meet Kimberley The connection between the two is that Lily and Owen, an American couple who charter out their own boat for sailing trips around Nina teach in the local islandssame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. Rob persuades Anna it will be The couples have mixed as a fun way to end their holiday foursome but Anna isnit't so sures not a regular thing. There's something about Owen Christian is a market research analyst and Kimberley that makes her hesitant about being shut away on Jake is a boat at sea with themneurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Perhaps itLily hasn't said anything yet, but she's the way that he never sleeps or the mystery as to why there are no knives in the cutlery drawerpregnant. Rob thinks AnnaShe has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn's just overly imaginative, but time will tellt want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855323</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John ConnollyJulia Bartz|title=The Wolf in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended and worked with in the past, is found hanged in a basement. It looks like suicide but Jude has been looking for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship and has just raised over $100 to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading for the small Maine town of Prosperous. Charlie decides to drop in on the good citizens of the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneer. It doesn’t take him long but there is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=The Man With A Charmed Life and his part in saving the planet from WWIII|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Englishman Henry Wright is employed by the Common Market (which would become the European Union in 1993) in Brussels and he's not entirely satisfied with his lot: he ''should'' be an interpreter but he seems to be restricted to more administrative duties. He could refuse the offer he gets, but the chance to actually use his expertise in Russian, move across to the USA and make a point to his employers is just too tempting. He's also rather taken by Alexy Geary, the attractive woman from the intelligence-gathering agency who makes the offer, and it's not long before he's on his way. Before he does he's peripherally involved in a shooting - and that's not something which usually happens to someone like him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784620203</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)|title=The Saint Closes the CaseWriting Retreat|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=On the way back to London with Patricia Holm late one night, Simon Templar saw a strange pulsing light and couldn't resist going to investigate. What he discovered was a demonstration of a weapon which could well bring the world to war a mere twelve years after the end of the Great War. Templar and his confederates concluded that the weapon could not be allowed to come into the public domain - and if necessary the inventor (who could easily recreate the weapon even if he gave assurances to the contrary) would need to be, er, sidelined. Unfortunately Templar and friends are not the only ones in search of the weapon: his old nemesis, Rayt Marius, has his own plans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PABX9XE</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chevy Stevens|title=That Night|rating=3.5
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|summary=It’s been 17 years since Toni went to prison for Roza Vallo. Anyone in the murder world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her sister. 17 years since she last saw her boyfriend RyanShe's something of a legend with an impressive, also convicted for the murderif compact, since she had a meaningful conversation back catalogue of works that started with her parentsbreakthrough novel, since she went to a coffee shop or walked on the beach. Sent down published when she was still barely out of childhood. Alex, a teenagerwriter-slash-editor, she’s been incarcerated for virtually half is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of her life and though she’s now coming up for paroleunexpected events, it’s not as easy as simply going back she is invited to be part of her old life from beforemonth-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751555088</amazonuk>0861544439
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olivier Truc1800465270|title=Forty Days Without ShadowThe Lensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix
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|summary=After an important Sámi relic is stolen from a museum When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in Kautokeino, St Petersburg. He's a smallpallbearer for his elder brother, isolated village in the middle of the snowy tundraTimur, tensions begin to rise between the residentswhose death was drug-related. Local detective Klemet Nango Valeri and new recruit Nina Nansen are called upon to investigate the disappearanceTimur's father, Keto, whereupon they discover is also a second 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 death. Within a local reindeer herder has been brutally murdered. Nina soon suspects that the two events are linkedmatter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and, together created a dubious link with KlemetNatassja Petrovskaya, embarks upon a journey full of secrets, mystery and brutality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445861</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Donato Carrisi|title=The Vanished Ones|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Room 13 in the basement of the state morgue is where the sleepers are keptjournalist. These are the unclaimed bodies that have been classified as PHVsShe's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. Potential Homicide VictimsTo her, he's a good source. They are kept indefinitelyFor him, because they are evidence that it's a crime has been committedway to get information published, possibly the only evidencewhich wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349140030</amazonuk>
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