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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia WatkinsSaima Mir|title=DYFED ODYSSEY: Connell O'Keeffe and The Spider's WebVengeance|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connell O'Keeffe looked to be settled3. His stud was prospering. He was deeply, enduringly happy with his wife who was expecting their second child and despite the loss of his arm some years before which had put an end to his acting career, life was good. Then one morning Morgan, his manservant brought bad news before he was even out of bed. Khayri, one of his brood mares, was missing from her stable and there was a ransom demand. Reluctant to lose the mare - or to be beaten - O'Keeffe and Morgan set off to retrieve Khayri, hoping to be back that night, or - at the worst - the next day. Little did O'Keeffe know that it would be many months before he saw his home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957210469</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Walker|title=Children of War: A Bruno Courreges Thriller|rating=45
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|summary=Rafiq had phoned Bruno Courreges for help just a few hours before his tortured and mutilated body I was found instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the woods, but despite his being north of England run by a policeman Muslim woman. The fact that it was the Brigadier second in a series I hadn't read didn't see the case as stop me – I've jumped midway into a priority. He sees the wider picture, whilst Bruno is only the chief of police in a small French country town. A young Muslim by the name of Sami has turned up at a French army base in Afghanistan few series before (on page and screen) and heit needn's keen to get home to St Denis and although t be a hindrance if it's possible good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to smuggle him back into the countryspeed, the FBI are not far behind him. It seems that Sami has been involved in bomb making in Afghanistan and has quite possibly been indirectly responsible for the deaths of soldiers of all nationalitiesI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184866401X</amazonuk>0861541561
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Truth about the Harry Quebert AffairDavid Chadwick|authortitle=Joel Dicker and Sam Taylor (translator)Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5
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|summary=Confession - when I chose to review this bookIt's September 1973 in Hicks, I had no idea it had made such huge waves worldwideCalifornia. I chose it because I hadn’t read Hicks is a thriller for Mojave desert town of a while few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and this looked like Las Vegas both a good onesignificant drive away. Before Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the book arrivedmain local employers but otherwise, I heard all about it – there's not much of note other than dive bars and it was just as well as I had heard so much positivityJoshua trees. Life is quiet, as I also hadn’t realised it was such a hefty tomeuntil... (I’m not intimidated by hefty tomes, but experience has taught me that they don’t always justify themselves).|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857053094</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Kelly1399613073|title=The Ties That BindMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When writer Luke falls we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in love with Jeremy, tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the fact consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Jem (to his will impact the three friends) offers to support Luke. This time, allowing him to write it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a bookterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a bonuswartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As soon as Luke discovers an unsolved murder from around 50 years agoAbhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, the bookand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's subject is assuredhappened through her photography. However both Although they only ever talk over the subject matter phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Jem's endless support they both wait to see if they will present Luke with problems (and not a little danger) that he couldn't have foreseenbe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444728369</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt CarrellCody Goodfellow|title=VortexVertical|rating=43.5
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|summary=Andy DuncanThere's father offered him the money to travel the world for something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a yeargood view from up high, but first he must do a three-month internship with Berwick Archer, an investment company based in Hong Kong. It would be decent experience after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to put on his CV. But when Andy got to Berwick Archer he liked what he saw - and stayed. Before long he was second in command at the firmget inside if it's new Bangkok office and had a talent for what he did40 stories tall. There was even a girlfriend, Caroline Chan, So when I picked up this book – about people who seemed more permanent than those who had gone before her. Caroline scale tall buildings for fun – I was a dealer, but not in a big way - although she was well connected to a very influential businessmaninstantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494805812</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sinead Crowley1804183210|title=Can Anybody Help Me?No Reserve|author=Felix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Yvonne and Gerry are proud new parents. HoweverThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, as they've only recently moved to Gerryhadn's native Dublint arrived, Yvonne mourns the lack of a support networkso he continued his session. This all changes To say that he was shocked when she turns to Mammynet, a webthe bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal -based online forum but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and chat room for new Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and soon-to-be mumsrespected in the racing industry. It works too - Yvonne quickly makes a local online friend but then Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the friend disappears without warninghorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Meanwhile Garda Sergeant Claire Boyle is investigating the murder of a young womanBoth were happy that they had insurance in place. There may be a connection but will Claire discover it before The following morning, the killer strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067221</amazonuk>horse was dead in its stall.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The AbductionSafe House|author=Jonathan HoltCameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The teenage daughter of Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a US Army Major is kidnapped when off basecamp at luxury property in the Australian outback for a Venetian nightclubcouple of months. She is abducted by a masked team during After the carnevale celebrationsproblems she'd had at work, when people not wearing masks are more conspicuous than those whose identities are hiddenit seemed like just the break she needed. Everything about She was no longer a data analyst for the abduction seems perfectly orchestrated leaving very little Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the way country of her birth and in need of clues apart from the very fact that it is carried out space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with such military precisionCharles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853711</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=SoloThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=William BoydCaro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, or even In the characters from village of Cronchie on the BibleWest coast of Scotland, James Bond is no longer just the property five members of its original authora wealthy family are found murdered. Ian Fleming may have had The only item missing from the home is the imagination to create BondDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but since in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Casino Royalediscovered'' rolled onto the scene Bond has been a changing man who mimics the times body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he currently finds himself disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in. William Boyd’s to 'shadow'Solo'' reverts back to Fleming’s original timeline and continues the story of that Bond, but is this a reflection of the past or today?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578972</amazonuk>him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire KendalB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Book of You|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Clarissa is 38, secretary to a university department head and just emerging from a broken relationship. Rafe also works for Last Person in the university, wants Clarissa and Clarissa wants him. He's absolutely certain she does, no matter how vehemently she denies it, no matter how fast she runs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007531648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Atlantis GeneWorld|author=AG RiddleMatthew Tree|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Clocktower agent David Vale is 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 had money to throw around on the tail of a large terrorist organisation. He's been after them since 9/11 Rolex watch, but the huge scope vintage wines and a state-of -the organisation makes them difficult to pin down or predict-art sound system. His only leads are a few cryptic messages from the 1940s Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and research scientist Dr Kate Warnercertainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who has become intricately connected with had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the terrorists without knowing itUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00IJ219SI</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- 3/4 -->Frontpage|author=Adam HamdyDean Koontz|title=PhaseThe House at the End of the World
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's ten years since Amber Schaefer was kidnapped When you experience overwhelming tragedy and since feel that day Thomas Schaefer has devoted his life to finding his daughter and the people who abducted her. It's cost him everything - his marriagethere is no one on your side, his relationship with his sonyou can either suck it up, his job saddle up and - ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in all probability - his sanity. He's reached a small chain of tiny dots on the stage where - far from moving on - letting go is not an option map and live out your days in peace and many of his actions are irrationalsolitude. If any part of this can be described as having an upside itThat's that Schaefer has become an expert in finding missing people, particularly young adults who have become involved with cults. The tipping point is reached what Katie thought she was doing when an she shut down her old friend refers life to him a case which bears startling similarities to Amberstart afresh on Jacob's abductionLadder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956502040</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=A Love Like BloodThe Trap|author=Marcus SedgwickCatherine Ryan Howard
|rating=4.5
|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=One day towards It's a scene replicated all too often in the end early hours of World War Two, Charles Jackson is dragged to a museum the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of antiquities just outside clubs and looking for a newly liberated Paris by his commanding officer during their downtimeway to get home. While Some are lucky and manage to get one of the other looks at few taxis available. Others squash onto the unusual ancient artefactsnight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', Jackson finds something much more horrific – a man in a wartime bunker particularly in the groundslight of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, squatting over the final stop on the bus leaves her a female figure, blood on his lips that could only have come from long way short of her necklinehome. Years later, Jackson returns She had intended to Paris for reasons ring someone to do with his medical career, come and finds collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the same man in the company of someone who, were he only aware of chance to beg the fact, is bus driver to become the first and possibly only love of let her use his life. But thatThere's not the only time the paths of Jackson no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and the mysterious male are destined to cross – the prologue was set in the late 1960s…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144475193X</amazonuk>high-heeled shoes.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liz Nugent1529195977|title=Unravelling OliverNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5
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|summary=Oliver had expected more On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of a reaction friends in the first time that he hit AliceLandsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, but only she was just lay on the floor holding with her jawhusband, Walter. He was stunned It turns out that he could do this to his wifenot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, but later that evening he returned and beat her so viciously that she lapsed into a comathey were both born in St Mary's hospital. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this was That's where the man otherwise known as Vincent Daxsimilarities end, famous writer though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of children's books and he and Alice (she'd illustrated the books) had lived a life joyful, monied group of ease friends and privilegewhilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. In Josie, on the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the story of what had happened over the last five decades and how sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this had led to his becoming much money on a monstermeal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Naughtie1803136383|title=The Madness of JulyTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A dead body is found Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in a Houses Vietnam under something of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer daycloud. A sinister enough event normally What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concerns. The fact the deceased has Will's phone number in his pocket triggers a series an act of events that not only tests his loyalty heroism leading to work, country a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and family but will take Will from disgrace seems to be the everyday political cut and thrust consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his old job. The job chest, as he hoped he'd walked away from: spyingalways does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil HoganB0C7J9D21B|title=A Pleasure and a CallingCaptive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis
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|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it rightWhen we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. He owns Idyllic as this might sound, it's a successful estate agency bordello and yet isnEttore't too noticeables mother died when he was born. He's helpfulnot been short of mothers, though - but not for someone of his background in a memorable way. A bit on the beige side perhaps but that’s just the way he likes late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it, living a life that assists society's difficult to obtain decent employment. Take the time he entered The stint working with the home preparation of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dog's leavings for instance. It's ok – Heming anchovies didn't break inwork out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. He already has the key Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as he once sold the housea guide for visitors. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually kept, you wonder? The answer's easy: all of themHe was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Jawbone LakeComing to Find You|author=Ray RobinsonJane Corry|rating=4.5
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|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty on her plate Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and New Year’s Day brings her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a lot more worrieslife sentence. Rabbit witnesses The barrister tells her that she's received a car careen off a bridge into a lake ('silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by what happened for the pursuer. The victim rest of the crash was a larger than her life man called CJ . Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and attempts to rediscover who his father was''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Atheist's PrayerFall|author=Amy R BiddleGilly Macmillan|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themNicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. On There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the surface ''-art music system installed in The Atheist’s PrayerGlass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn' t work as reliably as they should. would seem It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? Buthaving that sort of money, is it really that shocking? Nopetoo. This is a story about how people deal Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupwound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No Regrets, CoyoteAlan Parks|authortitle=John DufresneTo 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=You may or may not be aware that there Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a style known as the South Florida Noircruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. The action tends to take place in daylight Caz's sister, in the glare of the Florida sun rather than in nightclubs or dark alleyways. If you’re not familiar with South Florida NoirGemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'No Regrets, Coyotet know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They' is ve not been a good place couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to startknow him a bit better. And if you are Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as wellas their mother who has dementia. It's going to be good, be assured that isn't it is a perfectly crafted example of the genre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert ParkerMark Edwards|title=The Baby and the BrandyKeep Her Secret|rating=4.5
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|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken he's a free manMatthew and Helena are in Iceland, but it's the rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first time in many long monthsmet. Twenty minutes before he had escaped from HMP ManchesterThe 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, better known even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to many people as Strangewayscertain death below. He had Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been an army captain but he'd been forced into keeping and makes a situation where he felt that he had no option but panicked, cryptic declaration to act against the law Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and this resulted frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in his dishonourable discharge and the prison sentence. It did nothing for his relationship with his parents either. Right now he's not got that many people he can call friends but hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he's buoyed by a feeling of patriotism, despite what's happened to himjust learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Then We Take BerlinJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=John LawtonThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarHannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-era thriller? Especially one that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yesregarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, if she flukes her way into a public argument with the thriller latest hot shot in question is John Lawtonthe world of crime fiction, saying he's new offeringpopulist 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, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like where she is put up for a chant wintry month away from a mob it all. Just on the point of England football fans rampaging through Germany in despairing – about her writing, about the people and the 1980slack of stimulus for her plot, Then We Take Berlin tells more or less about everything – word comes that the story of cockney John landlady'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness to all of his female acquantances.s nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>1914585615
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Rice0861544056|title=The Heavens RiseTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; she wants him as much as he obsesses about herBelle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. HeKit's been at Bristol and Jess's certain until a late night struggle in her familyExeter. It's swimming pool disavows him not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of the ideatime - but they've also been apart from each other. However they arenBelle can't alone in the waterwait to have them all to herself for a while. Something unwelcome and uninvited lives there Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that will shape both their abilities and their futureshe didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Fast forward through the years and Marshall is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around himIvo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And Niquette? Shethey's missing along with the rest of her familyll be sharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Warm BodiesRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Isaac MarionHer Deadly Game
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of view, switching back and forth between Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler'R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. Along with an indisputable talent for the power of thought than most, and Julielaw, Patsy also has a feisty gift for drinking himself to oblivion and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability inevitably the latter was beginning to truly care about othersovershadow the former. In short Enter Keera Duggan, R has far more humanity than former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more hideous position of asking her father for a job at the traits that I feel truly make us human in family firm because a romantic entanglement with a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storylinesenior colleague, ''M''Miller Ambrose, R's best friend and Norahad gone, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Norarather spectacularly, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as wellsouth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>1662500181
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{{Frontpage|author=Vanda Symon|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787301036|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesWhat July Knew|author=Isaac MarionEmily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing itWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. I couldn She't with this ones a careful, meticulous child. I loved this book The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, but I did feel dissatisfied with who is not prepared to discuss the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequeldeath of his wife, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac MarionJuly's writing stylemother, and something about this book so compelling any hint that the conversation is heading that I couldn't quite bear way will lead to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half the necessity of a book to meLesson. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had Other infractions of his requirements also lead to read the authorthese Lessons and he's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in not even careful about whether or not the endinginjuries are visible. It isn July't after all the end - it s teacher is just concerned and brings up the beginning of one possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the best books I school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have ever readbeen resurfaced but for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=The AbominationJust the Nicest Couple|author=Jonathan HoltMary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo ''The whole thing has spiralled out of the Italian Carabinieri police forcecontrol, Holly Boland, a Second Lieutenant in the US Army and Daniele Barbo a reclusive web expert, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events that become more and more entwined. Their collective probing uncovers a massive conspiracy and seems to implicate the US Army, the Catholic Church and the Italian Mafia, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best turning into someone I'm not to rile in any way, as the three characters are quick to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185369X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsJulia Bartz|authortitle=A A AguireThe Writing Retreat
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=One of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering the new worlds that the authors have createdRoza Vallo. Where is Anyone in the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are of publishing knows the customsname. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, et ceteraif compact, et ceteraback catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and steampunk mixed with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of a really good timeher month-long writers' retreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>0861544439
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