Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Claver1399613073|title=Hider/Seeker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Harry Bridger is an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappear. His clients aren't always whiter than white, but when a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him to help, his chivalrous instincts override the doubts that lurk in the back of his mind. A few things about Angela Linehan don't chime right but she's been vouched for by an old friend and Harry's basic decency won't allow him to leave a woman and her child in danger. And there's another advantage to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into the orbit of his ex-wife Bethany. And Harry would do almost anything to redeem himself in her eyes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Julia Heaberlin|title=Black Eyed SusansChristie Watson

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it - other than Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the intriguing title first day of medical school and the scant information that it is their friendship would keep them inseparable for a psychological mystery about quarter of a girl who survives abduction by a serial killercentury. For those who Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, like me, can't resist suspense (and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according which is a bonus when you aim to the bestseller lists at least), this be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is enticement enough. And I was not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty a perfectionist and suspense from start to finisha trauma doctor. The narrative alternates between present day Anjali is the free spirit of the group and the past, each section lasting just she becomes a couple of pagesGP. I found this structure tricky When we first meet them they're at first, although each chapter does offer a helpful timeline drug and alcohol-fuelled party and the chapters are short enough that it's easy going to reorient yourselfend in tragedy. Once I got used to We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the choppy style I found consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that it did workwill impact the three friends. This time, and it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, the protagonist's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaSunny Singh|title= Pretty BabyHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionThrillers |summary= On her morning commute to work, Heidi sees something The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that shakes herhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. A young girl Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, barely older than her own pre-teen daughtera wartime photographer and Abhi, huddling the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the rain on the platformhotel, clutching he forms a tiny baby. Itbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's a distressing situation and it stays on happened through her mind for the rest of the dayphotography. So much so that when she sees Although they only ever talk over the girl againphone, she feels obligated their friendship grows as Abhi tries to helpher keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>086154742X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth LittleCody Goodfellow|title= Dear DaughterVertical|rating= 2|genre= Thrillers|summary= Janie Jenkins is fresh out of prison, released early when an issue with the evidence is brought to life. Evidence concerning the death of her mother. Who she may or may not have killed. Hmmm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sharon Bolton|title= Little Black Lies|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Catrin is a mother without childrenThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. It’s Who doesn't love a horrible situation to be ingood view from up high, and a role that will define her for after all? Even the rest of her lifedrabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. A few years ago, her two boys were killed as a result of her best friend’s actions. It So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was an accident but that doesn’t make it any better. And Catrin can neither forgive nor forgetinstantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>059306920X</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosamund Lupton1804183210|title=The Quality of SilenceNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=MattThirty-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, a wildlife film maker is reported to have perished in a fierce fire that sweeps through the first nation Alaskan village in which chairman, hadn't arrived, so he's workingcontinued his session. All To say that's left of him is his wedding ringhe was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? This is a huge shock to his wife Yasmin who has flown to see him with their 10 year old daughter RubyTwo men had been bidding against each other. Yasmin has come to talk to Matt to see if they still have a relationship worth savingBrian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Some would say Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that his death is an answer the horse had been deliberately bid up to that question but Yasmin doesn't accept figure. Both were happy thatthey had insurance in place. She doesn't even accept he's The following morning, the horse was dead and will search the frozen Alaskan wastes to prove itin its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349408122</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E M Davey1405951680|title=Foretold by ThunderThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=54

|summary=A university professor is randomly killed Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a thunderbolt after posting luxury property in the Australian outback for a package couple of history texts to journalist Jake Wolseymonths. Was his death really that random? Jake doesnAfter the problems she't have long to ponder that before he's off to Turkey with archaeologist Florence Chung to investigate d had at work, it seemed like just the ancient religion of the Etruscansbreak she needed. He's not the only one interested; MI6 are tailing him She was no longer a data analyst for a reason even the agents concerned don't know. As history starts Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to reveal its secrets the country of her birth and connects in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with names centuries after Charles. A few weeks in the Etruscans died, Jake and Florence realise this is as much a fight for their lives as it is for knowledgeOtway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649930</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark1448309743|title=The Melody Lingers onDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Mary Higgins Clark’s latest thrillerIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, ‘’The Melody Lingers on’’, follows the author’s usual successful formulafive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The main character, Lane, only item missing from the home is a young woman with a prestigious job as the assistant of an exclusive interior designer. She is instantly likeableDevil Stone: thoroughly nice – as underlined several times by other characters - un-snobbish and of course beautiful. We witness her performing small everyday acts of kindness and she myth says that if the stone is just vulnerable enough to be relatable toremoved from Otterburn House, having tragically lost family membersdeath will follow. Vulnerable, The only suspects are known Satanists but not troubled; no reckless drugsin many ways, drinking or sleeping around for Mary Higgins Clark heroinesthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. Lane The Senior Investigating Office is clean and decentDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, with a strong moral fibreDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148521</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam LeBorB0CCCPJJ5B|title=Washington StratagemThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=“More than ever before in human historyOur 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 had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, we share vintage wines and a common destinystate-of-the-art sound system. We can master it only if we face it together Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. And that Finns had no intention of going on to University, my friendsunlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, is why we have the United Nations.” So said former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. ThereUK's little of that brotherly solidarity on show in The Washington Stratagemthird most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a United Nations-set thriller by Adam LeBorloose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lucy AtkinsDean Koontz|title= The Other ChildHouse at the End of the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Tess When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is giving no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up a lot and ride on or you can retreat to leave England for Massachusetts but she’s happy to do it too, happy your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her son Joe will old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have new been the aforementioned peace and exciting adventures, happy she will be living with Gregsolitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the father neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of her unborn child. But pretty soon, unsettling things start happening. The neighbours are behaving strangely. Things mischief in the house are mysteriously getting moved out name of place. Nothing is as it seems science and her dream is quickly becoming a nightmarequite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782069879</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean Zimmerman1787636607|title= Savage GirlThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Bronwyn is 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 wild way to get home. Some are lucky and seemingly mute sideshow attraction, known 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 as regret the 'taxi problem'Savage Girl, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. Apparently raised by wolves For one young woman, she is swiftly adopted by the final stop on the bus leaves her a wealthy Manhattan couple, and, once cleaned up, introduced long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to high society. Darkly beautiful, intelligent, come and with no end of suitors, Bronwyn seems destined for a good life – until these suitors start turning up collect her - but her phone's dead. Could The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There''Savage Girl'' be living up s no option but to her name? Or is someone else the killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670014850</amazonuk>start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irvine Welsh1529195977|title=The Sex Lives None of Siamese Twinsthis is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary=“Numbers are On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the great American obsession” opines Lucy BrennanLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, the protagonist of The Sex Lives of Siamese Twinstoo, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in her case at least that’s definitely trueSt Mary's hospital. Whether it’s thinking about an argument That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her boyfriend Miles (6”1husband, 210 lbs)Nathan, noting the are in the stats midst of “sneaky, squeaky” fellow personal trainer Mona (5”9, blonda joyful, 36-34-36) or noting down how many calories her lunch monied group of steamed broccoli friends and spinach with a peanut-butter-and-banana protein shake will set her back (460 cal)whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. As a personal trainer obsessed with keeping in shape Josie, Lucy never stops thinking about calories and body crunches. There’s several amusing passages where she rants about on the clients she has other hand, holds her handbag close to deal with, particularly one woman who will obviously never lose any weight her tummy and simply wants validation for making you get the effort sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to do so in the first place. Having just joined spending this much money on a gym myself, I felt like the perfect person for this novelmeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Wilson1803136383|title=The Devil's CocktailTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Alexander Wilson, author Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the ''Wallace'' series, was a writer, spy cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and secret service officer. Interesting that the biog-writer makes a distincation between the last two of those professions. Be that as it maynobody is sure exactly what took place, Wilson was one but an act of the early writers in the genre that would lead heroism leading to Bond a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and Smileydisgrace seems to be the consensus. Whilst perhaps not quite reaching the literary style and fame of those who would follow in Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his footstepschest, as he created characters and plots that were very popular at the time, are very much of their time and are now getting a well-deserved re-issuealways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018100</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle B0C7J9D21B|title=Raging Heat A Captive in Algiers (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5 |genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=Fans When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of the television series ''Castle'' will come to Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this book ready-prepared for what’s going onmight sound, but for those unaware, in the series there is it's a character called Richard Castle who is an authorbordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He observes a homicide detective, Kate Beckett's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in her work and then writes a novellate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it''Heat Wave'', based on her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own s difficult to Jameson Rookobtain decent employment. After The stint working with the book was written (in the television series) it was actually published in real life. Being a fan preparation of anchovies didn''Castle'' I immediately bought it t work out and read itbastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. To be honest, I found that the concept messed with my head too much! I kept thinking about who Ettore was who, within the book, translating Nikki’s name to Kate’s, nothing if not resourceful - and Rook’s to Castle, determined - and it all became very confusing because was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even though Kate and Castle are 'real' they are, of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this onesaving some money. It’s been a little while since I watched the TV series, and somehow coming at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe0241996104|title= Half the World AwayComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travelling, Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and visits China – working as a private English tutor. Back in Manchesterher step-brother, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blogMartin, “Lori in has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Orient”court, after Martin receives a life sentence. When all communication stops and silence persists, the parents report The barrister tells her missing, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchester, set out to China in order she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to search live with what happened for their daughterthe rest of her life. Flying to Chengdu Of course, they have no knowledge it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of the country, customs or language, it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1529135389|title=Keep Your Friends CloseThe Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Natty and Sean seem to have a good marriage 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- to have everything, art music system installed in factThe Glass Barn. They didn't have a particularly propitious start: Natty's pregnancy precipitated d not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the marriage high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and meant that Sean couldndidn't do the law degree he'd set his heart on, but work as reliably as they now own an upmarket hotel in the lake district, have should. It had all come about through a lovely home ten-million-pound lottery win and drive the they were still getting used to having that sort of cars more commonly associated with premier league footballersmoney, too. Their daughters are Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in their teens now and it's when the younger, Felicity, is on swimming pool with a school trip wound to France that the problems starthis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055216934X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lori LansensAlan Parks|title=The Mountain StoryTo Die in June

|summary= Wolf’s mother Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is deadmiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. His father is inept at best, They're off on a dead beat at worstcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Wolf’s one joy in life Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is his best friend, Byrd. The two frequently escape their homes and hike up going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a nearby mountain, revelling ring-shaped bulge in the freedom his suit pocket and closeness to natureshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. But Byrd dies, They've not been a couple for that long and a year later, on the date of his 18th birthday, Wolf decides trip will be an excellent opportunity to kill himself – heading up get to the same mountain where he spent so much time happyknow him a bit better. However Meanwhile, Wolf soon meets three women – Bridget, Nola and VonnGemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Lost on the mountain It's going to be good, they will spend days fighting to survive and to escape the wilderness. One will not make isn't it down alive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471137996</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lee ChildMark Edwards|title=PersonalKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5

|summary= If you've never read a Lee Child novel but have seen Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the trailers for edge of a film starring Tom Cruise… can I seriously suggest you read at least one of ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the books before seeing rockface with just the filmsnagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. To be fair Convinced she is going to die, I haven't seen Helena must purge herself of the film shocking secret she has been keeping and Cruise might do makes a decent job of whatever script they've given him… but Jack Reacher panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he isn'tjust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857502662</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen KingJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Mr MercedesThirty Days of Darkness

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Bill Hodges is a retired copHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, spiralling down into a seemingly inescapable depressionan author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Stuck Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVa book fair, toying she flukes her way into a public argument with the idea latest hot shot in the world of shooting himselfcrime fiction, it is saying he's populist trash and only with writing what anyone could write. Cue the sudden arrival of a letter claiming bet that she cannot live up to be that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murderDenmark to Iceland, one of Hodges’ old cases, that he finds where she is put up for a new interest in staying alivewintry month away from it all. Is this actually Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the murderer? Why is he crawling out lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams0861544056|title=A Few Words For The DeadTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary= Warning: spoilers for both [[The Clown Service by Guy Adams|The Clown Service]] Belle and [[The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams|The Rain-Soaked Bride]] so best read them David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their firstterm at university. Remember the near-demonic Fratfield? Well, the honeymooning Toby Kit's been at Bristol and Tamara find themselves – and Fratfield – Jess's in the South American jungleExeter. However, things aren’t running smoothly. Not It's not only does Fratfield still control the forces first time they've been away from their parents for any length of nature, now he has some helptime - but they've also been apart from each other. Meanwhile back home Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a hit man prepares to continue his professionwhile. The targetThen Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? August Shining, TobyBelle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's boss, friend and wanted as an interview subject by MI6, should apparently 'older': he live 's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that longshe can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gore VidalRobert Dugoni|title= Thieves Fall OutHer Deadly Game|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= If you look at history it is very easy Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to think that human nature never changes and that we are forever cursed to live through the same mistakeshis reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Unstable regions remain unstable; atrocities are still being carried out. 1950s Egypt was as tricky Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a place gift for drinking himself to live as oblivion and inevitably the modern equivalent is; a sense of revolution in latter was beginning to overshadow the airformer. HoweverEnter Keera Duggan, rest assured that former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in Gore Vidal’s ‘lost’ pulp novel you will be reading more about gun fights and scantily clad womenthe 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, than politicssouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781167923</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha HayesVanda Symon|title=You Belong To MeExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|summary= Isabel is When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a Brit abroad who is running away from somethingcareful, or someonemeticulous child. There are a lot of these about The care has been taught by her father, in my experienceMick Hooper, but few who have such an intriguingis not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and worrying, history. She left any hint that the UK conversation is heading that way will lead to escape the necessity of a controlling ex Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but now her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to return suddenlythe school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for family reasons, even though she swore she would never go home againhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893396</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard0008454493|title=Acts of All the AssassinsDangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatIsabelle Drake hasn's that. Then someone steals t really slept for a year - well, apart from the bodyodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. The police appoint Cassius Gallio to investigate but it all goes terribly wrong. He not only fails to find the bodyIt's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the police informant from middle of the initial conviction night and Izzy is killed consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in a way that mimics suicide. GallioIn that year she's career and life both stall until done everything she could to raise awareness about the case is secretly re-opened . She does interviews and hewhen we meet her, she's deemed just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the man for the investigation as heplane back, she's already comparatively invisible. It seems straightforward in approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that Gallio must uncover the truth but the she could do a podcast and get to so many more people he needs than she could by giving speeches to speak to are being culled one by one by the most innovative and bloodthirsty meansa few hundred people at conferences. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Oliver1848458436|title=Vanishing GirlsJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=Dara ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Nick used to be inseparableLily Scott, but that was before and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the accident two is that left Dara's beautiful face scarred Lily and Nina teach in the two sisters totally estrangedsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. Nicole, known The couples have mixed as Nick, a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and younger sister Dara, Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their lives and relationship torn apart by a serious car accidentwives. Once extremely close Lily hasn't said anything yet, Nick and Dara now barely speak but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to each other, both sisters weighed down tempt fate by feelings of guiltmaking the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786792</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightJulia Bartz|title=The Khazar CodexWriting Retreat

|summary=It's a brutal introduction to the story as a man is killed Roza Vallo. Anyone in the way that they did it in those days: two trees were pulled to world of publishing knows the ground and the man lashed between them and then the trees were releasedname. But that's only the background Writers want to the story which is set in the here and now and most of it is in The Kemblebe her, a rather rundown theatre, which is presenting a revival of Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia''agents want to represent her. On the opening night thereShe's apparently something of a firelegend with an impressive, if compact, but whilst most back catalogue of the hostages are shepherded works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of the theatre childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a group of seven members of the audiencelittle obsessed with Roza, two cast members and 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 METROis stunned when, following a group series of activists who are campaigning for disused underground stations unexpected events, she is invited to be converted for use by the homelesspart of her month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784621277</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michel Bussi1800465270|title=After The Crash|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|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 the mountains during a terrible storm. There’s no hope of survivors and yet, miraculously, there is one passenger who lives. A 3 month old baby girl is found close by the wreckage, apparently unharmed. Her parents have perished in the crash but she is a miracle, a ray 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 before. 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 to a judge to decide who should raise her, the wealthy and powerful de Carvilles or the less fortunate but loving Vitrals. 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>}}{{newreviewLensky Connection|author=Michael Kardos|title=Before He Finds HerConrad Delacroix

|summary=The newspaper reports When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the time were unanimous: Serafimov Cemetry in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held St Petersburg. He's a party pallbearer for all his neighbours and thenelder brother, when it endedTimur, killed his wife Allie whose death was drug-related. Valeri and toddler daughter MegTimur's father, then ran awayKeto, remaining is also a fugitive from justicepallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. The newspapers were wrongValeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Meg isn't dead but has been kept hidden by her Uncle Wayne and Aunt KendraWithin a matter of months, had her name changed his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Melanie Marisha and has led created a sheltered life. No photosdubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from homea journalist. ThatShe's no way determined to live expose any and all corruption - and now she approaches her 18th birthday, Melanie/Meg wants 's less concerned than she ought to end be about her half-life in order to live fully and yet to do that she must risk any form of lifeown safety. She must find her father before he finds To 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 the front. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that 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 time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez 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 outsource. Past tense? YesFor him, Kateit's dead and Julia wants a way to find Kateget information published, which wouldn's killer. Be careful what you wish for, Juliat otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>