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|summary=''Hidden'' is written backwards. Chapters One Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and Two open with their friendship would keep them inseparable for a shooting in quarter of a hospital and the rest of the book tracks back in timecentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, following various characters as events lead which is a bonus when you aim to the day of the shootingbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Every chapter Anjali is told from the point of view free spirit of the group and she becomes a different character, including GP. When we first meet them they're at a first person account by drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the murderer (whose identity is concealed until tragedy or the end)consequences. This structure would Twenty-five years later there will be rather confusing were it not for the fact an eerily similar event that each chapter is very short, and conveniently starts with will impact the datethree friends. This time, time and characterit's name, making it all very easy to followtheir teenage children who are involved. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jason StarrSunny Singh|title= Savage LaneHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Savage Lane – The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a peaceful suburb of New Yorkterrorist group. When Karen Daily moves Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there following is Sam, a marriage breakdownwartime photographer and Abhi, she expects the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a quieter, calmer lifestylebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and soon becomes friends with keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her neighbours – Mark and Debphotography. Mark and Deb seem happy Although they only ever talk over the phone, but their marriage is failing fast, friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Mark is slipping into fantasies of a new relationship with Karenthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3. As Deb5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's suspicions growsomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, dangerous obsessions and deadly decisions will come after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to haunt the group get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – leaving Savage Lane irrevocably changedI was instantly intrigued. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843446812</amazonuk>1803363991

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Ridpath1804183210|title=Shadows Of War (Traitors)No Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=A Thirty-four-year after returning from Germany and an unsuccessful attempt -old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on Hitler's life Conrad de Lancey finds himself in the British army preparing rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for warauction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. His friendship with Theo remains strong despite Theo now wearing To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an Abwehr uniformunderstatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. De Lancey still does work for British Intelligence therefor Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when they hear about another proposed Germany coup de Lancey seems the natural choice two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to investigatethat figure. It's not straightforward thoughBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. As The following morning, the days darken, allegiances aren't always what they seem and betrayal can cut both wayshorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1405951680|title=The UndesiredSafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=If you're lucky enough Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to go to Iceland they will tell you, even caretake a luxury property in this day and age, that the place is heavily populated with trollsAustralian outback for a couple of months. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may not agree with thatAfter the problems she'd had at work, but it seemed like just the break she certainly peoples her world with ghostsneeded. Here is Odinn, and She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to some extent his ghost – certainly there's the ghost country of 'what if' around him, her birth and in need of the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned space to get over the young mother traumatic end of his childher relationship with Charles. Here is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is A few weeks in the spirit of failure as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a children's care home Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went onticket. And that place certainly should be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- 21/10 -->Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Chris CalderCaro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Celeste Three is MissingThe Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=Celeste 3 is the first successful commercial passenger carrying space/aircraft to go beyond Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the Earth's atmosphere for any length of timeLondon-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. This advance in travel didn't come easily It was an unusual relationship as the two previous prototypes demonstrated Ralph was a boarder and so there's much interest as the date of each of its flights approaches. Two people are paying closer attention than the rest of the world's population due had money to the presence of throw around on a certain passenger as much as the vehicle itself. One Rolex watch, vintage wines and a state-of -the high rollers will be the ruthless Russian billionaire Karenkov-art sound system. Gregory Topozian and Jack Smith have seen Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and colleagues die certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at his whim so they have Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a bone loose invitation to pick and an ambitious way to do it… as long as nothing and no one gets visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in the wayWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1515171817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellDean Koontz|title=Vortex... The House at the EndgameEnd of the World

|summary=In 2014 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 your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the financial markets were tumbling map and live out your days in Bangkok. The recession was deepening peace and unemployment figures were risingsolitude. The recession wasnThat't affecting all layers of society equally and in consequence the government s what Katie thought she was facing a financial 'doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and'' a social crisis. It all would take little to spark street violence equal to that of 2010. But not everyone viewed have been the situation with dismay: this was exactly what Tanawat Chanpol had been hoping for. If all went according to plan - aforementioned peace and solitude were it was planned - his employer, businessman Narong Sunarawaninot for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, would be brought to power by popular acclamation as the only man who could save neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the country. It would take months name of science and a lot quite possibly bringing about the end of hard work thoughall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1499532504</amazonuk>1662453159

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Rendell1787636607|title=Dark CornersThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Chatri Aromanadee It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and Daeng Khasajamsarun are friends, but in looking for a rather unequal wayto get home. Daeng very much has Some are lucky and manage to get one of the upper hand despite few taxis available. Others squash onto the fact night bus that Chatri is a policeman: Daeng is manipulative and it's difficult to be polite enough to say that he 'sails close to will only go as far as one of the wind'outlying villages. The man is a criminal, but he turned a woman all regret the 'taxi problem of his own (and of his own making) into a hold over Chatri', which still holds firm even when Chatri becomes the chief of police particularly in Baan Chailai, with its lively bar scene, on the Gulf light of Thailand. Their sons have a similar relationship: Daeng's son Tong is brutal in his relationships with the missing women and Chatri's son Sunan has the misfortune to work in the hotel complex owned by Daeng.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1502880806</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert L Anderson|title=Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns For one young woman, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then final stop on the rumours would start about how she and bus leaves her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to a long way short of her. Dea isn't crazyhome. She becomes curiously ill from time had intended to time ring someone to come and collect her - but she has a cure: walking through peopleher phone's dreamsdead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this no option but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important start walking - unsuitably clothed and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Righten1529195977|title=Churchill's Rogue: Volume 1 (Rogues Trilogy)None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell

|summary=Sean Ryan grew up On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in Ireland during the 20th centuryLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, 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 St Mary's first quarter and so understands death and losshospital. He learnt to defend what he felt right during his time as a bodyguard for Michael Collins. Therefore when Winston Churchill called upon his services That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in 1937 to bring the midst of a mother joyful, monied group of friends and child out of Germanywhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, Ryan doesnthey't say no. However Ryan soon discovers this is no easy escort dutyre enjoying themselves. The mother and child in question are for some reason being hunted by an elite German force led by CerberusJosie, a code name for a sadist incarnate. On on the plus sideother hand, Ryan soon discovers heholds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not alonetoo happy. There are more like him across Europe; those with pasts that forged them into violent defenders of the vulnerable in an increasingly dangerous world. These are the Rogues and, He's not used to spending this time, Ryan needs their helpmuch money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1492320242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Felix Francis1803136383|title=Front RunnerTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick

|summary=Jeff Hinkley Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an undercover investigator for act of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the British Horseracing Authorityconsensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, so as he was always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in a difficult position when Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he was approached by his friend Dave Swintonlives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Dave was champion jockey and he told Hinkley that heIdyllic as this might sound, it'd deliberately lost s a race bordello and there Ettore's mother died when he was no way that this could be kept as some confidential words between friendsborn. The following day Hinkley returned to SwintonHe's house to discuss the matter further not been short of mothers, though - and ended up trapped but for someone of his background in the blisteringlylate-eighteenth-hot saunacentury Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. He was lucky to escape The stint working with his lifethe preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Swinton Ettore was nothing if not so lucky resourceful - and determined - his charred body and it was found in his burning car at not long before he had a successful business as a deserted beauty spot in Oxfordshireguide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071817884X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0241996104|title=The UndesiredComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=If youNancy're lucky enough to go to Iceland they will tell yous mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, even in this day and ageMartin, that has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the place is heavily populated with trollscourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. Yrsa Sigurdardottir may or may The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not agree been found guilty of anything but will have to live with that, but she certainly peoples what happened for the rest of her world with ghostslife. Here is OdinnOf course, and to some extent his ghost – certainly thereit's the ghost of made worse because Nancy'what if' around him, s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the man he might have been if he hadn't abandoned papers are making the young mother most of his childit. Here ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is that very wife, who is now dead herself. Here is the spirit of failure as he takes over a job at work from someone else who had a fatal heart attack – that task, to investigate a childrenone favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''s care home in the 1970s to see if anything nefarious went on. And that place certainly should might not be haunted – already a dead child has been disposed of, and more printed but is to come…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473605490</amazonuk>undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom Claverhad 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=Hider/SeekerTo Die in June

|summary=Harry Bridger 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 an ex-policeman who now makes his living helping people disappeardiscovered, and then another. His clients aren't always whiter than white This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but when all the more so because his own father is a wealthy woman fleeing domestic violence asks him to helpdown and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, 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 and he has been vouched for by an old friend and years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry's basic decency won't allow him is also dealing with a move to leave a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman and who claims her child in dangerlittle boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. And there's another advantage to helping Angela. It brings Harry back into Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the orbit of his ex-wife Bethany. And other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry would do almost anything to redeem himself in her eyes.uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00WG9GGLA</amazonuk>1805300784

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Heaberlin1529382823|title=Black Eyed SusansThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=I knew little about this book before I started it Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle- other than the intriguing title aged and the scant information that it is has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a psychological mystery about a girl who survives abduction by a serial killercruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. For those who Caz's sister, like meGemma, canreckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't resist suspense (spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and it seems that many people do fall into this category, according to the bestseller lists at least), this is enticement enoughshe doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. And I was They've not disappointed: this story offers psychological uncertainty been a couple for that long and suspense from start the trip will be an excellent opportunity to finish. The narrative alternates between present day and the past, each section lasting just get to know him a couple of pagesbit better. I found this structure tricky at first Meanwhile, although each chapter does offer a helpful timeline and the chapters are short enough that itGemma is looking after Caz's easy to reorient yourselfcafe as well as their mother who has dementia. Once I got used It's going to the choppy style I found that it did workbe good, and isn't it worked really well, reflecting the constant flashbacks and mental turmoil experienced by Tessa, the protagonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181336</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary KubicaMark Edwards|title= Pretty BabyKeep Her Secret|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary= On her morning commute to workMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, Heidi sees something that shakes herrekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. A young girl, barely older than her own pre The alien-teen daughter, huddling in landscape of the rain lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the platformjoy she is feeling in this moment, clutching a tiny baby. It's even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a distressing situation ravine gives way and it stays on her mind for Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the rest snagged strap of the dayher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. So much so that when Convinced she sees is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the girl againshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, she feels obligated cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to helpsafety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453965</amazonuk>166250893X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth LittleJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title= Dear DaughterThirty Days of Darkness|rating= 23.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Janie Jenkins is fresh out Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of prisonred wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, released early when an issue she flukes her way into a public argument with the evidence 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 brought to lifeput up for a wintry month away from it all. Evidence concerning Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the death people and the lack of stimulus for her mother. Who she may plot, more or may not have killed. Hmmm. less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587874</amazonuk>1914585615

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bolton0861544056|title= Little Black Lies|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Catrin is a mother without children. It’s a horrible situation to be in, and a role that will define her for the rest of her life. A few years ago, her two boys were killed as a result of her best friend’s actions. It was an accident but that doesn’t make it any better. And Catrin can neither forgive nor forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059306920X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTwin Truths|author=Rosamund Lupton|title=The Quality of SilenceJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=Matt, a wildlife film maker is reported Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to have perished in a fierce fire that sweeps through the end of their first nation Alaskan village in which heterm at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's workingin Exeter. All thatIt's left not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of him is his wedding ringtime - but they've also been apart from each other. This is a huge shock Belle can't wait to his wife Yasmin who has flown have them all to see him with their 10 year old daughter Rubyherself for a while. Yasmin has come to talk to Matt to see if they still have a relationship worth saving. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Some Belle would say prefer that his death is an answer to that question he didn't come but Yasmin doesn't accept thatwant to upset Kit. She doesnIvo's apparently 'older't even accept : he's dead and will search the frozen Alaskan wastes twenty-four to prove itKit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349408122</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E M DaveyRobert Dugoni|title=Foretold by ThunderHer Deadly Game

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A university professor is randomly killed by a thunderbolt after posting a package Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of history texts Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to journalist Jake Wolseyhis reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Was his death really that random? Jake doesn't have long to ponder that before he's off to Turkey Along with archaeologist Florence Chung an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to investigate oblivion and inevitably the ancient religion of latter was beginning to overshadow the Etruscansformer. He's not Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the only one interested; MI6 are tailing him hideous position of asking her father for a reason even job at the agents concerned don't know. As history starts to reveal its secrets and connects family firm because a romantic entanglement with names centuries after the Etruscans dieda senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, Jake and Florence realise this is as much a fight for their lives as it is for knowledgesouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649930</amazonuk>1662500181

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary Higgins ClarkVanda Symon|title=The Melody Lingers onExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=34.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Mary Higgins Clark’s latest thrillerDetective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, ‘’The Melody Lingers on’’shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, follows with all the author’s usual successful formulaextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. The main character Finding herself put on desk duties, Lanewhich she rails against, is a young woman with a prestigious job as she just can't let the assistant of an exclusive interior designer. She is instantly likeable: thoroughly nice – as underlined several times by other characters - un-snobbish and of course beautiful. We witness her performing small everyday acts of kindness case go and she is just vulnerable enough starts to be relatable follow every thread touncover what's actually happening, having tragically lost family members. Vulnerable, but not troubled; no reckless drugs, drinking or sleeping around for Mary Higgins Clark heroines. Lane is clean and decent, with a strong moral fibrethe increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471148521</amazonuk>1914585577

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam LeBor1787301036|title=Washington StratagemWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=45

|summary=“More than ever before in human history, When we share first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a common destinycareful, meticulous child. We can master it only if we face it together. And that The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, my friendsJuly's mother, and any hint that the conversation is why we have heading that way will lead to the United Nationsnecessity of a Lesson.” So said former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. There July's little teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of that brotherly solidarity on show in abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The Washington Stratagem, a United Nations-set thriller by Adam LeBorplayground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784970271</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Atkins0008454493|title= The Other ChildAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Tess is giving up Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a lot to leave England year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for Massachusetts but she’s happy to do it too, happy that a moment. It's now a year since her son Joe will have new and exciting adventures, happy she will be living with GregMason, was stolen from his bed in the father middle of her unborn child. But pretty soon, unsettling things start happening. The neighbours are behaving strangely. Things in the house are mysteriously getting moved out of place. Nothing night and Izzy is as it seems consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her dream is quickly becoming a nightmarerelief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782069879</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean Zimmerman|title= Savage Girl|rating= 3 In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Bronwyn is a wild She does interviews and seemingly mute sideshow attractionwhen we meet her, known she's just been to all as ''Savage Girl''TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Apparently raised by wolves On the plane back, she is swiftly adopted 's approached by a wealthy Manhattan couplepodcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and, once cleaned up, introduced get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to high society. Darkly beautiful, intelligent, and with no end of suitors, Bronwyn seems destined for a good life – until these suitors start turning up deadfew hundred people at conferences. Could the ''Savage Girl'' be living up to her name? Or is someone else the killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670014850</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Irvine Welsh1848458436|title=The Sex Lives of Siamese TwinsJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=“Numbers are ''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the great American obsession” opines Lucy Brennan, Nicest Couple'' is the protagonist story of The Sex Lives of Siamese Twinstwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and in her case at least that’s definitely trueNina and Jake Hayes. Whether it’s thinking about an argument with her boyfriend Miles (6”1, 210 lbs), noting The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the stats of “sneaky, squeaky” fellow personal trainer Mona (5”9, blond, 36-34-36) or noting down how many calories her lunch of steamed broccoli same school: Nina teaches English and spinach with Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a peanut-butter-market research analyst and-banana protein shake will set her back (460 cal). As Jake is a personal trainer obsessed with keeping neurosurgeon: they don't have much in shapecommon except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, Lucy never stops thinking about calories and body crunchesbut she's pregnant. There’s several amusing passages where she rants about the clients She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she has doesn't want to deal with, particularly one woman who will obviously never lose any weight and simply wants validation for tempt fate by making the effort to do so in the first placeknowledge public. Having just joined a gym myself, I felt like the perfect person for this novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander WilsonJulia Bartz|title=The Devil's CocktailWriting Retreat|rating=4.5

|summary=Alexander Wilson, author of the ''Wallace'' series, was a writer, spy and secret service officerRoza Vallo. Interesting that Anyone in the biog-writer makes a distincation between world of publishing knows the last two of those professionsname. Be that as it mayWriters want to be her, Wilson was one of the early writers in the genre that would lead agents want to Bond and Smileyrepresent her. Whilst perhaps not quite reaching the literary style and fame of those who would follow in his footsteps, he created characters and plots that were very popular at the time, are very much She's something of their time and are now getting a well-deserved re-issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018100</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Castle |title=Raging Heat (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6)|rating=4.5 |genre=Crime|summary=Fans of the television series ''Castle'' will come to this book ready-prepared for what’s going on, but for those unaware, in the series there is a character called Richard Castle who is legend with an author. He observes a homicide detectiveimpressive, Kate Beckettif compact, in back catalogue of works that started with her work and then writes a breakthrough novel, ''Heat Wave'', based on her character, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own to Jameson Rook. After the book published when she was written (in the television series) it was actually published in real life. Being a fan barely out of ''Castle'' I immediately bought it and read itchildhood. To be honestAlex, I found that the concept messed with my head too much! I kept thinking about who was whoa writer-slash-editor, within the book, translating Nikki’s name to Kate’s, and Rook’s to Castle, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are 'real' they are, of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any is more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this one. It’s been than a little while since I watched the TV seriesobsessed with Roza, and somehow coming at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cath Staincliffe|title= Half the World Away|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travellingis stunned when, and visits China – working as following a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blogseries of unexpected events, “Lori in the Orient”. When all communication stops and silence persists, the parents report her missing, and learning that there she is little they can do from Manchester, set out invited to China in order to search for their daughterbe part of her month-long writers' retreat. Flying to Chengdu, they have no knowledge of the country, customs or language, and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>0861544439

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|summary=Natty When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and Sean seem to have a good marriage - to have everything, he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in factSt Petersburg. They didnHe't have s a particularly propitious start: Nattypallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's pregnancy precipitated the marriage father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and meant that Sean couldnhe't do the law degree s disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he'd set s determined to make his heart on, but they now own an upmarket hotel in the lake districtstand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a lovely home and drive the sort of cars more commonly associated dubious link with premier league footballersNatassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Their daughters are in their teens now She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and itshe's when the youngerless concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, Felicityhe's a good source. For him, is on it's a school trip way to France that the problems startget information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055216934X</amazonuk>