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|summary=Our narrator 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 an American sleeper spy in China whose mission ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to improve his Mandarin be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and attempt she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to blend as best he can into Shanghai societyend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. A chance meeting results in Twenty-five years later there will be an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who becomes his perfect teacher even though he are involved.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) and a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that he is constantly under surveillancehas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. In time he infiltrates known affiliates of Hiding from the Guoanbu terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and proves himself very valuable Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to both try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the US and Chinese intelligence serviceshotel, becoming he forms a pawn in a high stakes game bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of chess between two powerful her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and paranoid nationsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High RollersCody Goodfellow|authortitle=Jack BowmanVertical

|summary=Tom Patrick is There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a far good view from popular air crash investigatorup high, who is nonetheless after all? Even the best there drabbest office building issomewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. He has more than ruffled a few feathers and is suspended from working on cases. Despite So when I picked up this the largest case of his career is forced upon him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalities. Tom recognises a possible link between the two and potentially many more airplanes, a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracybook – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Howard1804183210|title=Shadow WomanNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|summary=Prelude: Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the President of rostrum when the United States and colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the First Lady are on what is not being called a campaign tourchairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. It is To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. It is most definitely a reA lovely animal -election campaign; itbut three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's just not supposed to beMitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. They retire to their suite for Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the night, two men came in and their conversation revealed that the protection detail of the Secret Service are looking forward horse had been deliberately bid up to a shift change at that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the end of a long dayhorse was dead in its stall. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Pineiro1405951680|title=A Crack in the WallThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5

|summary=Pablo Simó is Jess Walker accepted an architect on the verge of a mid life crisis. His workoffer (OK, marriage and general life is governed more actually she was gently nudged into it by habit and routine than anythingher friend, leaving him Rupert) to ponder over caretake a luxury property in the attractions Australian outback for a couple of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationshipmonths. When a young girl enters After the office asking if anyone knows a man called Nelson Jaraproblems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the three architects deny all knowledge, but they do know himbreak she needed. He She was involved in no longer a claim that one of data analyst for the practice's projects caused a crack Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the wall country of his apartment her birth and how this was resolved is something all three in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of them would rather forgether relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntosh1448309743|title=The Lavender Keeper|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) to avenge the death of his adoptive Jewish family. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester is recruited by the Special Operations Executive Devil Stone (SOEDCI Christine Caplan), a group of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back to the homeland. Their paths will cross as Lisette is sent into France with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. The mission is clear cut on paper, but life can be messier than any plan can predict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)|title=Plan DCaro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=October 2011 and In the Berlin wall is still intact. Inspector Martin Wegener village of Cronchie on the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts West coast of Scotland, five members of his luscious ex-lover Karolina and worka wealthy family are found murdered. On this particular day 'work' The only item missing from the home is a body found hanging from the GDR section of gas pipeline Devil Stone: myth says that joins Russian to Europeif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Not The only is he hangingsuspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: a Stasi trademarkbody. Who The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he and why are the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and they're sending a West Berlin detective disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to help 'shadow' him find them; not the best start to a day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd JonesB0CCCPJJ5B|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into Last Person in the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while the life blood slowly seeps out of him. They run to escape the evil that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generations. Some people see it as a Hungarian legend but to the Wildes it's real and insatiable and won't forget them. They know what to do: verify everyone, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! Although one day that may not be enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWorld|author=Joseph Clyde|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombMatthew Tree|rating=3.54

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off in Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the centre of London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. Julie's first thought is It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to reach her daughter, waiting to be collected from school within the danger zonethrow around on a Rolex watch, but when this becomes impossible she must take refuge indoors vintage wines and await rescue. Forcing her way into a beauty salon she finds herself among a disparate group state-of strangers, some of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hers. Also sheltering in the salon are -the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anya, a beautician/call girl and her Chechen client, Safia, a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and an American gentlemancertainly more than acquaintances. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male Finns had no intention of black Caribbean descent. It seems going on to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As a DoctorUniversity, Julie maintains her calm and does her best her to help, and the American remains a gentleman, displaying unlike our storyteller who had a touching act of nobility place at one point, but tensions flare Wolverton College in the cramped quartersWellingford, especially after Kingman begins to show signs of radiation poisoning. After the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are JulieUK's estranged husband Martinthird most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent and finally a pair of terrorists connected loose invitation to the first attackvisit Ralph at his home, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and JaysonClouds Manor in West Dorset. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter WalkerDean Koontz|title=Crime The House at the End of Privilegethe World

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest at 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 party in the Cape Cod home small chain of Senator Gregory, patriarch of America's most loved and influential family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as tiny dots on the Senator did an impromptu song map and dance act with his sister but live out your days in the library George was present when Jamie Gregory peace and Peter Gregory Martin raped a young woman who was too drunk to either assent or protestsolitude. It That's what Katie thought she was only Georgedoing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacob's intervention which prevented Ladder; and all would have been the assault becoming more violent. But aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the young woman, Kendrick Powellpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the rape was devastating neighbouring island and before long she was dead. She too was perpetrating all manner of mischief in the child name of an influential science and wealthy family. But quite possibly bringing about the Gregory clan sticks together and no action was taken against Jamie or Peter and it was the senator's influence which secured George Becket a post in the Cape Cod DA's office. It might seem that the matter was closed - but the Powell family were determined that George would suffer for not having spoken out against the Gregory familyend of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Crowther1787636607|title=PenitenceThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=Phil Davis is It's a detective scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a small town in Texas way to get home. Some are lucky and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the body night bus that will only go as far as one of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decadesthe outlying villages. ThereThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's no suggestion that , particularly in the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts to wonder when he hears light of other men with similar scars who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recently'the missing women'. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly For one of young woman, the big beasts of final stop on the agency who's spending time looking into bus leaves her a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlierlong way short of her home. To cap it all, She had intended to ring someone was tried for to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the crime bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and has been in a mental institution since, so what is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>high-heeled shoes.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529195977|title=Chasing Heart: 1 (Ellen Martin Disasters)None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary=Ellen Martin is On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a drivingcrowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, ambitious US lawyertoo, so when was out celebrating her boss sends 45th birthday, only she was just with her to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for shorthusband, mercifully) for a touch of charity work it would be career threatening to protest too stronglyWalter. Besides it It turns out that not only amounts to getting someone out of prisonare Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that thereThat's more than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself to where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the listmidst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Luckily for Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her Barranca is also tummy and you get the home of her personal trainersense that Walter's nephew and, luckier still, he has a housemate called Alexnot too happy. Indeed during EllenHe's stay Alex is going not used to be more than useful. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex spending this much money on a meal - but it is going to be indispensableJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya1803136383|title=The Watch|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Nizam pushes a barrow up to a fortified US army base in Afghanistan. What is she doing there? How will the soldiers react? What do they believe: their experience, their training, their gut reaction or a young girl amputee in the middle of the desert who may be the last thing they ever see?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099565773</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTin Soldiers|author=Lauren Beukes|title=The Shining GirlsDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=As ''The Shining Girls''’ tagline says, this is Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a thriller that breaks all the boundariescloud. It’s a vicious murder plot that’s based on science fiction conceptsWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but an act of heroism leading to a science fiction novel which leaves its central concepts barely, sparely explained. I haven’t read anything like it before, rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and in a strong and crowded crime fiction field it stands out like a searchlight. But beware. If you’re sitting comfortably as you begin reading ''The Shining Girls'', you won’t disgrace seems to be for longthe consensus. This book sets out Wat himself is keeping his cards close to cut you up insidehis chest, as he always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007464568</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert WiltonB0C7J9D21B|title=Traitor's FieldA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1648 When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and the embers of Charles I's reign start to fade as Britain slowly turns the monotone colour he lives at The House of Oliver Cromwell's CommonwealthBeautiful Swallows. HoweverIdyllic as this might sound, Royalist passion still exists and it's up to Sir Mortimer Shay, the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny a bordello and Survey, to gather the intelligence, maintain his spy network and fan the embers towards the Royalist victory for which Ettore's mother died when he longswas born. He's a wily veteran so not easily stopped been short of mothers, though - but among the confusion and brutality that tears Britain for someone of his background in halflate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, former lawyer Cromwellit's spymaster John Thurloe is the man charged difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the taskpreparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848878192</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0241996104|title=Just What Kind of Mother Are Coming to Find You?|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5

|summary=Lisa Kallisto is almost Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the typical Mumcourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. SheThe barrister tells her that she's got received a husband and three children and 'silent sentence' - she's permanently tired. Her full-time job at not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the local animal rescue centre frequently spills over into rest of her home life and she. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's constantly chasing around trying to catch up with what rich - she ought to have doneinherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Husband Joe ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is a taxi driver one favourite epithet and they can only just manage to afford ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the rent county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on their cottage the state-of-the-art music system installed in the picturesque lake districtThe Glass Barn. ItThey's normally pretty crime free but then a young girl d not been in the architect- really only a child designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high- is abducted tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and brutally rapeddidn't work as reliably as they should. Then another girl of It had all come about the same age goes missing through a ten-million-pound lottery win and Lisa was responsible for her safetythey were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. What do you sayEventually, what do you do Nicole found Tom dead in that situation? Lisa is about the swimming pool with a wound to find outhis head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593071697</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John le CarreAlan Parks|title=A Delicate TruthTo Die in June|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2008 and Paul is recruited byWhat first seems like the unfortunate, apparentlyaccidental death of a homeless man on the streets, the government suddenly starts to assist in an undercover operation in Gibraltar. It's perfectly straightforward feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and its success will impede a cell of Al Qaedathen another. Paul performsThis is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is thanked a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and taken home without complicationshe has been for years. Fast forward At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to 2011 a different police station, and Toby Bell is promoted to the role arrival there of private secretary for Paul's recruitera woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, MP Fergus Quinnonly no record of the boy having existed can be found. Whilst acquainting himself Something feels wrong - not just with Quinn's CV, Toby uncovers the woman’s story of the mission, discovering not only Quinn's involvement but hints that it may not have been as straightforward as all that. Quinn also appears to have with the other officers where he has been connected with an organisation that's not all it seemsstationed, unfortunately for a particular pillar of a Cornish community for whom life will never be the same again.but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>067092279X</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerald Wixey1529382823|title=4 Bones SleepingThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=34.5

|summary=ThereCaroline Riley (she prefers 's quite Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a contrast between the settings in cruise to New York on ''4 Bones SleepingAtlantica''. To begin with thereCaz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's the timerelieved or disappointed. Just about everything They've not been a couple for that happens goes back to long and the end of the Second World War and just afterwards, when people were coming trip will be an excellent opportunity to terms with having won the war, but not quite knowing what get to do with the peaceknow him a bit better. Then thereMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's 1980 when we wondered if we'd won the war, but lost the peacecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. The places are very different too: the people involved in this story have their being in the seedier parts of London in the post-war yearsIt's going to be good, but what are they all doing in a one-horse town in rural Oxfordshire? And where did the money come from which allowed Jack to own the local newspaper and make Harry the landlord of the pubisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471760596</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric Van LustbaderMark Edwards|title=Last Snow (Jack McClure Trilogy)Keep Her Secret

|summary= Jack McClure, aide Matthew and friend to the US presidentHelena are in Iceland, is back at work rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after the death they first met. The alien-landscape of his daughter and the resolved kidnapping of President Carson's own daughter, Alli. However, Jack hasn't fully recovered; he's still in mourning lava fields and full of selfblack beaches is breath-recrimination but taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the show must go on. When an American senator joy she is killed feeling in Capri Jack's on hand to investigatethis moment, starting even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a mission that will take him into ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the Ukraine and rockface with just the seamier side snagged strap of power on both sides of the Atlantic. Apparently not all the President's closest advisors can be trusted her rucksack between her and that's not Jack's only complicationa 500 foot drop to certain death below. After Alli's traumatic experiences at the hands Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of Morgan Herr Jack is the only person shocking secret she trustshas been keeping and makes a panicked, so she's coming along for the ridecryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, through helland frankly very well prepared, high water Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and a few murdersMatthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850771</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham ThomasJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Maria & The DevilThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary=''The Devil has ridden out''Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Maria's lover is Montana's most feared outlaw. He has left Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her alone in for an afternoon at a secluded cabin deep in the wilderness. Maria is pregnant. Left in solitudebook fair, she develops flukes her way into a familiar routine that feels safe. But public argument with the latest hot shot in the isolation is pervasive and Mariaworld of crime fiction, saying he's defences against it are crumblingpopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. And while Cue the bet that she waits for cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her lover flights from Denmark to returnIceland, where she is discovered by Rickman Chillput up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, whose gang is tracking about the people and the Devil in a relentless quest lack of stimulus for revenge. What will happen when Chill discovers Mariaher plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's identity? Will the Devil return in time? nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BFEC2NI</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis0861544056|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated Belle and the Russians (BritainDavid's ally) retain most twin daughters are just coming to the end of mainland Europetheir first term at university. The Briton Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle first time they've been away from their parents for any length of Britain that saved the nation time - but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould they'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlyve also been apart from each other. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, the same warlocks that are now being murderedBelle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. However, fighting over, Pip and Will are both warThen Kit rings up -weary and can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasupset Kit. For the Nazi experimental Ivo's apparently 'older': he'willpowers twenty-four to Kit' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped s eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with the super powers of their childhoodthat. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to And they'll be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are backsharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie HannahRobert Dugoni|title=The CarrierHer Deadly Game|rating=3.5

|summary= Due to a delayed flight home, Gaby Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to stay overnight his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in a German hotel with fellow passenger Laurendefence of his clients. During Along with an indisputable talent for the night Lauren tells Gaby about law, Patsy also has a man charged with gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the murder of his paralysed wife. At this point two things strike Gaby: 1. Lauren believes him latter was beginning to be innocentovershadow the former. 2. He's Tim BrearyEnter Keera Duggan, Gaby's former lover competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with whom she has unfinished business. Once home Gaby is determined to prove his innocence but that's easier said than donea senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980729</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin HugglerVanda Symon|title=Burden of the DesertExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Journalist Zoe Temple can't believe Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her luck maternity leave when she's sent to Iraq to cover the birth of an emerging nation, not thinking that such luck can sometimes run out. Mahmoud earns his money driving journalists from story to story, sometimes only just escaping intact. However, the most dangerous thing he will ever do there is fall in love. Rick Benes is one of the American soldiers on the news, his only ambition being to get his platoon home safely as Iraq's birth pangs are violent and unrelenting. And then there's Adela brutal, a young Iraqi lad who never dreamt shocking murder of violence; not until the day that Benes killed his family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479352047</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=J E Ryder|title=Blood Pool|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become the owner of a boatyard when her husband died an expectant woman in a cliff fallDunedin. She had worked Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - hunt for quite some time but it's a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the men of the Shelley 'blood pool' who have always inherited the land for the past two hundred yearsextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. She was aware of ill-feeling Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against her in the village, but her priority was to keep she just can't let the business running as smoothly as possible for herself case go and for the staff she employed. There was some support in the village - an old friendstarts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, known to one and all as 'the Prof' - had always been there for her and willing to listen to her outpourings or increasingly disturbing worry of just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstanceswhat might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Flynn1787301036|title=Gone GirlWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch

|summary=There’s When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a distressing moment in any long-term relationship where you realise thatcareful, in practicemeticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, happily ever after looks a lot like an eternity of smallMick Hooper, snarling arguments about who forgot is not prepared to buy fooddiscuss the death of his wife, July's mother, who should take out the rubbish and who is responsible for any hint that mouldering pile of clothes in the corner of the bedroom. Domestic bliss conversation is often more like very polite guerrilla warfare between two people who love each other so much heading that they want way will lead to spend the rest necessity of a Lesson. Other infractions of their lives fighting his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about itwhether or not the injuries are visible. You July's teacher is concerned and your partner are absolutely in each other’s pockets – brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but no matter how close you her worries aredismissed: Mick has been good to the school, there’s always one last barrier you can’t break down. You aren’t them, and they aren’t you, and so you can never truly know what’s really going on inside that well-known headhas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753827662</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel O'Malley0008454493|title=The Rook (The Checquy Files)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= A woman wakes up with amnesia surrounded by dead people wearing gloves. In her pocket she discovers a letter from Myfanwy Thomas, the previous inhabiter of her body. Myfanwy tells a strange story of working for 'the Checquy', a paranormal version of MI5 which has been permeated by a web of betrayal and danger. The problem is that Myfanwy never discovered the source before her body changed hands (so to speak). The amnesiac has a clear choice: to continue Myfanwy's investigation or to do a runner. It's her decision but Myfanwy's warning is less than encouraging: ::''Remember they want you dead.'' Something for her to bear in mind along with All the fatal, unintended consequences of permitting cheap cheese into the UK.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800372</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDangerous Things|author=Alan Furst|title=The Spies of WarsawStacy Willingham

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The reluctantIsabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, recently widowed Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier is military attaché to the French embassy in apart from the Warsaw odd occasion when she lost track of 1937time or drifted off for a moment. Decorated during World War IIt's now a year since her son, Mercier would rather be a field officer than attend endless receptionsMason, parties and debriefing sessions necessary for was stolen from his unofficial role, handling citizens who are encouraged or coerced to work against bed in the interests middle of other states. He watches whilst Poland is squeezed between the Nazis on one side night and the increasing profile of Stalin Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and Russia on particularly about her relief in the other, convinced morning when she thought he was sleeping in. In that war will not only be inevitableyear she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and when we meet her, but soonshe's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. HoweverOn the plane back, she's approached by a podcaster, no one will listen Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to him as he gathers evidence and protects those he can from the onslaught so many more people than she could by giving speeches to followa few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780222203</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy McLellan1848458436|title=The Orchid FieldJust the Nicest Couple|author=Mary Kubica

|summary=In London petroleums expert Catherine Davenport ponders whether a change ''The whole thing has spiralled out of employer control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is going to be to her advantagethe story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. An ill-advised fling with her boss The connection between the two is causing her embarrassment at work, particularly now that he has a new born childLily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. An offer of The couples have mixed as a job that would take her out to Mexico to do foursome but it's not a report on an off-shore oil field is too good an opportunity to missregular thing. In Mexico Inspector Cortez Christian is languishing in Port Luz a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. the back of beyondLily hasn't said anything yet, sent in disgrace from his post in the citybut she's pregnant. He knows that he’s not - and never She has been - corrupt but no one else believes him. In fact it’s seen as normal. Then a body appears on the beach and the local fishermen point out into lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the gulf and tell him that it came from thereknowledge public. When he looks more closely he realises that they mean the oil rigs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AWELKJY</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R Julian CoxJulia Bartz|title=Shadow on the SunThe Writing Retreat

|summary=There's always been a quandary for Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the ethically-minded scientist - what name. Writers want to do when your scientific discoveries can be used for less-than-ethical purposesher, agents want to represent her. Robert Oppenheimer faced this problem She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when his work as a theoretical physicist resulted in the atomic bombings she was barely out of Hiroshima and Nagasakichildhood. Dr Jonathan Anderson faces Alex, a similar situation and writer- unbelievably slash- the consequences could be even editor, is more far reaching than the consequences a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of Oppenheimerher month-long writers's work. There's a conflict with his strong religious beliefs as well as with his professional ethicsretreat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957322607</amazonuk>0861544439

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth1800465270|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryLensky Connection|author=Conrad Delacroix|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=You could be forgiven When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely hero, given his occupation as a seller of second hand bookselder brother, but he has some illustrious connectionsTimur, not least to Sir Frederick Applebywhose death was drug-related. Some say that ''he'' runs the country Valeri and ApplebyTimur's deputyfather, Keto, Peter Tyndale is married to Debrettalso a pallbearer and he's sister, Celiadisgusted by what his son had become. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadnavenge Timur't elicited s death. Within a single cry matter of grief from a relativemonths, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett his obsession will have cost him his marriage to attend the funeral in France of Marisha and created a former business partnerdubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, Arthur Moreaua journalist. There are, apparently, some unresolved queries about Moreau She's determined to expose any and all corruption - and despite Debrettshe's estrangement from the deceased over recent years less concerned than she ought to be about her own safety. To her, he's thought a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be the person best able to obtain the answerspossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Erin Kelly|title=The Burning Air|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's the Macbrides' annual Guy Fawkes' weekend trip Move on to their Devon holiday home but much has changed since the last Bonfire Night. Their mother Lydia has died, their father Rowan copes only with alcoholic aid and the marriage of Sophie and Will has fireworks of its own. Some happiness exists though: Tara and partner Matt are deeply in love and Felix is bringing his first serious girlfriend to the gathering. Her name's Kerry and, by the end of the weekend, she'll have kidnapped Sophie's baby revealing darkest secrets that refuse to remain buried.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444728326</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]