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|summary=Oliver had expected more I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a reaction the first time that he hit Alice, but she just lay on the floor holding her jawMuslim woman. He was stunned that he could do this to his wife, but later that evening he returned and beat her so viciously The fact that she lapsed into a coma. It was difficult to understand how this had happened - this it was the man otherwise known as Vincent Dax, famous writer of childrensecond in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's books ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and he screen) and Alice (sheit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn'd illustrated the books) had lived t a life of ease and privilegeproblem here. In the disbelieving aftermath Oliver tells the story of what had happened over the last five decades Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and how this had led to his becoming a monsterI never felt lost.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844883094</amazonuk>0861541561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James NaughtieDavid Chadwick|title=The Madness Headload of JulyNapalm

|summary=A dead body It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is found in a Houses Mojave desert town of Parliament broom cupboard on a hot 1970s summer dayfew thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A sinister enough event normally silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but for Foreign Office Minister Will Flemyng it heralds greater concerns. The fact the deceased has Willotherwise, there's phone number in his pocket triggers a series not much of events that not only tests his loyalty to worknote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, country and family but will take Will from the everyday political cut and thrust to his old jobuntil... The job he hoped he'd walked away from: spying.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781856001</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan1399613073|title=A Pleasure and a CallingMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|summary=Estate agent William Heming has got it rightOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. He owns Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a successful estate agency and yet isn't too noticeablecardiothoracic surgeon. He's helpful, but not in Laura is a perfectionist and a memorable waytrauma doctor. A bit on Anjali is the beige side perhaps but that’s just free spirit of the way he likes it, living group and she becomes a life that assists societyGP. Take the time he entered the home of the gentleman who refused to clear up his dogWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's leavings for instancegoing to end in tragedy. It's ok – Heming didnWe don't break inknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. He already has the key as he once sold Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the housethree friends. How many of his former clients' keys has he actually keptThis time, you wonder? The answerit's easy: all of themtheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521888</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jawbone LakeSunny Singh|authortitle=Ray RobinsonHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Rabbit The Hotel Arcadia is a young woman with plenty on her plate and New Year’s Day brings her luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a lot more worriesterrorist group. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued wartime photographer and is then seen herself by Abhi, the pursuerhotel manager. The victim of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the crash was hotel, he forms a larger than life man called CJ bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and we follow his son Joe keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as he deals with the event Abhi tries to help her keep safe and attempts they both wait to rediscover who his father wassee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>086154742X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Atheist's PrayerCody Goodfellow|authortitle=Amy R BiddleVertical

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edge, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one of There's something about tall buildings that just captures my favourite authors and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themimagination. On the surface Who doesn''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem to be courting controversy; why else have such t love a provocative titlegood view from up high, after all? But, Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it really that shocking? Nope's 40 stories tall. This is a story So when I picked up this book – about how people deal with the modern world and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupwho scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>1803363991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Regrets, CoyoteReserve|author=John DufresneFelix Francis

|summary=You may or may not Thirty-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, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be aware that there is a style an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known as and respected in the South Florida Noirracing industry. The action tends to take place Jennings was in daylight, one of the cubicles in the glare of toilets when the Florida sun rather than two men came in nightclubs or dark alleywaysand their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. If you’re not familiar with South Florida Noir, ''No Regrets, Coyote'' is a good Both were happy that they had insurance in place to start. And if you are, well The following morning, be assured that it is a perfectly crafted example of the genrehorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689759</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Parker1405951680|title=The Baby and the BrandySafe House|author=Cameron Ward

|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken he's a free manJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, but actually she was gently nudged into it's by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the first time in many long Australian outback for a couple of months. Twenty minutes before he After the problems she'd had escaped from HMP Manchesterat work, better known to many people as Strangewaysit seemed like just the break she needed. He had been an army captain but he'd been forced into She was no longer a situation where he felt that he had no option but data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to act against the law country of her birth and this resulted in his dishonourable discharge and need of the space to get over the prison sentence. It did nothing for his traumatic end of her relationship with his parents eitherCharles. Right now he's not got that many people he can call friends but he's buoyed by a feeling of patriotism, despite what's happened to himA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=Then We Take BerlinThe Last Person in the World|author=John LawtonMatthew Tree

|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-era thriller? Especially one that also covers the already saturated Second World War years? Well yesbased public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, if vintage wines and a state-of-the thriller in question is John Lawton's new offering-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, 'Then We Take Berlin'. Despite sounding like unlike our storyteller who had a chant from a mob of England football fans rampaging through Germany place at Wolverton College in the 1980sWellingford, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John UK'Joe' Holdernesss third most prestigious university. Before going up, better known as Wilderness he took up a loose invitation to all of visit Ralph at his female acquantanceshome, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher RiceDean Koontz|title=The Heavens RiseHouse at the End of the World

|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; she wants him as much as he obsesses about herWhen 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 map and live out your days in peace and solitude. HeThat's certain until a late night struggle in what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her familyold life to start afresh on Jacob's swimming pool disavows him of Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the idea. However they aren't alone in pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the water. Something unwelcome neighbouring island and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities and their futures. Fast forward through perpetrating all manner of mischief in the years name of science and Marshall is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around him. And Niquette? She's missing along with quite possibly bringing about the rest end of her familyall mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>1662453159

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Warm BodiesThe Trap|author=Isaac MarionCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'It' s a zombie who has retained a bit more scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the power morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of thought than most, clubs and Julie, looking for a feisty way to get home. Some are lucky and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability manage to truly care about othersget one of the few taxis available. In short, R has Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more as one of the traits that I outlying villages. feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than The woman all regret the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, 'taxi problem'M, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, R's best friend the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and Nora, Juliecollect her - but her phone's closest friend and confidantdead. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to put aside past hurt, let her use his. There's no option but M has his redeeming points as wellto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529195977|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesNone of this is True|author=Isaac MarionLisa Jewell

|genre=Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary=I normally review a book within On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a day or two crowd of finishing itfriends in the Landsdown 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. I couldn It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary't with this ones hospital. I loved this book That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, but I did feel dissatisfied with her husband, Nathan, are in the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as midst of a prequeljoyful, monied group of friends and most of the readers will have already read whilst they're not ''exactly'Warm Bodies'rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and something about this book so compelling you get the sense that I couldnWalter't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I s not too happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order He's not used to review spending this fairly much money on a meal - I felt I had to read the authorbut it is Josie's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't birthday after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The AbominationTin Soldiers|author=Jonathan HoltDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of the Italian Carabinieri police force, Holly Boland, a Second Lieutenant in the US Army cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and Daniele Barbo a reclusive web expertnobody is sure exactly what took place, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events that become more and more entwined. Their collective probing uncovers but an act of heroism leading to a massive conspiracy rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to implicate be the US Armyconsensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, the Catholic Church as he always does. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=A Captive in 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 the Italian Mafiahe lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best 's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not to rile been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in any waylate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, as it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the three characters preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are quick to discoverconsidered 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>178185369X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A P McCoy0241996104|title=Taking the FallComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5

|summary=Back in the nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was a promising conditional jockey Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step- a talented rider who should never have brother, Martin, has been short convicted of a ride, but he was struggling, probably because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shuttheir murder. He'd been taught everything he knew by his father, CharlieWe first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a trainer whose reputation was ruined when personal rivalries got out of handlife sentence. He hasnThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she't s not been able found guilty of anything but will have to set foot on a racecourse sincelive with what happened for the rest of her life. His sonOf course, it's determined to beat made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the top jockeys most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and to bring down the men responsible for what happened to his father, ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but can he do both or will he have to make some hard choices?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409129578</amazonuk>is undoubtedly spoken.

{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. 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 had 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bronze GodsAlan Parks|authortitle=A A AguireTo Die in June

|summary=One What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the many reasons I love fantasy streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovering the new worlds that the authors have createddiscovered, and then another. Where This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are the customsmore so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, et ceterawith no fixed abode, et ceteraand he has been for years. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating and steampunk mixed At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with fantasy is the double hit. Throw in some murder most frighteningly horrid a move to a different police station, and we have the makings arrival there of a really good timewoman 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>1805300784

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexa Camouro1529382823|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgThe Last Passenger|author=Will Dean

|summary=Dixon Grace Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is an Aussie living a complicated life in Hamburg. She juggles her livemiddle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in, ambitious, immature boyfriend love with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employeesPete. But however complicated that seems, itThey's about re off on a cruise to get worseNew York on ''Atlantica''. The police come for her in the early hoursCaz's sister, Gemma, although itreckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn's not till t spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and shedoesn's ensconced in the interrogation room that Dixon realises t know whether she's charged with espionage and murderrelieved or disappointed. The problem is complex but They've not been a couple for that long and the answer is simple: she must escape trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to prove her innocenceknow him a bit better. Having said thatMeanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz'simple' is a relative terms cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. From the language school for which she works It's going to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping upbe good, nothing is what isn't it seems, including Dixon Grace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Excalibur CodexMark Edwards|authortitle=James DouglasKeep Her Secret|rating=34.5

|summary=Jamie Saintclair is an expert Matthew and Helena are in tracing works of artsIceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. But he has just as much The alien-landscape of a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art work. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refuse. A chance the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to find encapsulate the legendary sword of Arthur, but he won't be dealing with knights or chivalry joy she is feeling in this adventuremoment, instead he will come up against even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the very worst edge of human nature. This book will take him on a quest beginning in one of humanity's darkest chapters, ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the rise snagged strap of Nazi Germanyher rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. The evil perpetuated in this era will be mirrored by modern men who are prepared Convinced she is going to plunge die, Helena must purge herself of the world into darkness once againshocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, this time in the name of British puritycryptic declaration to Matthew. Although the sword is associated with supernatural powers Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, there will be nothing supernatural Icelandic tour guide swoops in the evil Jamie faces, only the unbridled hatred and lust for power that comes so naturally hauls Helena to some men, safety and because of this Matthew is ever so much more terrifying than magic or monsters. What is even more disturbing is the thought that under the right circumstances, many of us could become monsters as wellleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>166250893X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hell to PayJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|authortitle=Jenny ThomsonThirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy is trying Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to escape a naff Christmas with leave her bottles of red wine behind her naff boyfriend, but walks into a nightmare when she interrupts a burglary for an afternoon at her parents' home – a professional, violent, nay fatalbook fair, burglary. When she comes out of flukes her way into a therapeutic stay public argument with the latest hot shot in an institute afterwardsthe world of crime fiction, shesaying he's seeking one thing – revengepopulist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her brother and his rap sheet might have something publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to do with those responsibleIceland, but only one thing will fire Nancy where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the need lack of stimulus for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against her.plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>1914585615

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=The Shanghai FactorTwin Truths|author=Charles McCarryJacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in China whose mission is Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to improve his Mandarin and attempt have them all to blend as best he herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can into Shanghai society. A chance meeting results in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) and bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he is constantly under surveillancedidn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. In time Ivo's apparently 'older': he infiltrates known affiliates of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable 's twenty-four to both the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a pawn in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nationsbedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High RollersRobert Dugoni|authortitle=Jack BowmanHer Deadly Game|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Patrick is a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless Duggan & Associates has been the best there islife's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clients. He Along with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has more than ruffled a few feathers gift for drinking himself to oblivion and is suspended from working on casesinevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Despite this Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the largest case hideous position of his career is forced upon him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalities. Tom recognises asking her father for a possible link between job at the two and potentially many more airplanes, family firm because a link that could uncover romantic entanglement with a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracysenior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>1662500181

 {{newreview|author=Linda Howard|title=Shadow Woman|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Prelude: the President of the United States and the First Lady are on what is not being called a campaign tour. It is. It is most definitely a re-election campaign; it's just not supposed to be. They retire to their suite for the night, and the protection detail of the Secret Service are looking forward to a shift change at the end of a long day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudia PineiroVanda Symon|title=A Crack in the WallExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Pablo Simó Detective Sam Shepherd is an architect on approaching the verge start of her maternity leave when there is a mid life crisis. His work, marriage and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anythingbrutal, leaving him to ponder over the attractions shocking murder of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationshipan expectant woman in Dunedin. When a young girl enters Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the office asking if anyone knows hunt for a man called Nelson Jarakiller targeting pregnant women, with all the three architects deny all knowledgeextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, but they do know him. He was involved in a claim that one of she just can't let the practicecase go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's projects caused a crack in actually happening, and the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved is something all three increasingly disturbing worry of them would rather forgetjust what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>1914585577

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona McIntosh1787301036|title=The Lavender KeeperWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=4.5

|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to avenge discuss the death of his adoptive Jewish family. Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is recruited by heading that way will lead to the Special Operations Executive (SOE), necessity of a group Lesson. Other infractions of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the homelandinjuries are visible. Their paths will cross as Lisette July's teacher is sent into France with concerned and brings up the aim possibility of ingratiating herself abuse with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The mission is clear cut on paper, playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but life can be messier than any plan can predictfor him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)0008454493|title=Plan DAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham

|summary=October 2011 and Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the Berlin wall is still intactodd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a moment. Inspector Martin Wegener of the East German PeopleIt's Police faces another day dividing now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his mind between thoughts bed in the middle of his luscious ex-lover Karolina the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and workparticularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. On this particular day In that year she'work' is a body found hanging from s done everything she could to raise awareness about the GDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian to Europecase. Not only is he hangingShe does interviews and when we meet her, the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: she's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a Stasi trademarkkeynote presentation. Who is he and why are On the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and theyplane back, she're sending s approached by a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a West Berlin detective in podcast and get to help him find them; not the best start so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a dayfew hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephen Lloyd Jones|title=The String Diaries|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Hannah Wilde flees into ''Just the Welsh mountains with daughter Leah and husband Nate while Nicest Couple'' is the life blood slowly seeps out story of himtwo couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. They run to escape The connection between the evil two is that has relentlessly haunted Hannah's family for generationsLily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. Some people see it The couples have mixed as a Hungarian legend foursome but to the Wildes it's real not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and insatiable and wonJake is a neurosurgeon: they don't forget themhave much in common except their wives. They know what to do: verify everyoneLily hasn't said anything yet, trust no one and, if in any doubt, RUN! but she's pregnant. Although one day that may not be enoughShe has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472204670</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph ClydeJulia Bartz|title=A State of Fear: Britain After a Dirty BombThe Writing Retreat|rating=3.54

|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off Roza Vallo. Anyone in the centre world of Londonpublishing knows the name. Julie's first thought is Writers want to reach be her daughter, waiting agents want to be collected from school within the danger zone, but when this becomes impossible she must take refuge indoors and await rescuerepresent her. Forcing her way into She's something of a beauty salon she finds herself among a disparate group legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of strangersworks that started with her breakthrough novel, some published when she was barely out of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with herschildhood. Also sheltering in the salon are the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, AnyaAlex, a beautician/call girl and her Chechen client, Safiawriter-slash-editor, a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) more than a Frenchman and an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingmanlittle obsessed with Roza, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems to be a regular United Nations in the salon. As a Doctor, Julie maintains her calm and does her best her to help, and the American remains a gentlemanis stunned when, displaying following a touching act series of nobility at one pointunexpected events, but tensions flare in the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins she is invited to show signs be part of radiation poisoning. After the event, many of these characters will find their paths crossing again. The other main characters are Julieher month-long writers's estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent and finally a pair of terrorists connected to the first attack, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jaysonretreat. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>0861544439

{{newreview|author=Walter Walker|title=Crime of Privilege|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was a guest at a party in the Cape Cod home of Senator Gregory, patriarch of America's most loved and influential family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as the Senator did an impromptu song and dance act with his sister but in the library George was present when Jamie Gregory and Peter Gregory Martin raped a young woman who was too drunk Move on to either assent or protest. It was only George's intervention which prevented the assault becoming more violent. But for the young woman, Kendrick Powell, the rape was devastating and before long she was dead. She too was the child of an influential and wealthy family. But 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 family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Crowther|title=Penitence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Phil Davis is a detective in a small town in Texas and he's intrigued rather than professionally involved when he sees the body of an elderly road accident victim whose back is covered with scars which have obviously been inflicted over years if not decades. There's no suggestion that the death was anything other than accidental but Davis starts to wonder when he hears of other men with similar scars who have met an untimely - if seemingly innocent - death recently. And all his investigative instincts are alive when he encounters FBI agent Luis Valdez - seemingly one of the big beasts of the agency who's spending time looking into a murder with which he was incidentally involved as an adolescent some twenty five years earlier. To cap it all, someone was tried for the crime and has been in a mental institution since, so what is Valdez doing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479204285</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Travel Reviews]]