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|isbn=0241678412|title=The Proof of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipated. She's back home, living with her parents and on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gunnar StaalesenSaima Mir|title=Bitter FlowersVengeance

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Varg Veum is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to workMuslim woman. However, The fact that it was the quiet job hesecond in a series I hadn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet read didn't stop me – I's house quickly turns ve jumped midway into a murder investigation, few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a mystery around hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a missing womanproblem here. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an oldVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was I never foundfelt lost. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X0861541561

|author=Dean KoontzDavid Chadwick|title=QuicksilverHeadload of Napalm|rating=24.5

|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for heIt's lived September 1973 in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingHicks, and now California. Hicks is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes Mojave desert town of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of him that he go to a derelict diner, find LA and Las Vegas both a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamsignificant drive away. And all this is just Not much happens in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Hicks. A silver mine and suggest hea defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of interest to themnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Helped to escape, he finds his flight Life is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlquiet, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besidesuntil....|isbn=1542019885B0D321VJ76

|isbn=14711793111399613073|title=The UnheardMoral Injuries|author=Nicci FrenchChristie Watson

|summary=TessOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a teacher and Jasoncentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a headmaster, have split up: she perfectionist and Poppy have moved out a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the family home group and Jason is now married to Emilyshe becomes a GP. The separation was amicable When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol- they had just drifted apartfuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy We don't know who has her bedroom in what was suffered the family home and another in tragedy or the flat she shares with her motherconsequences. It ''seemed'' to Twenty-five years later there will be working well until an eerily similar event that will impact the day three friends. This time, 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 Poppy came home with has suddenly been violently taken over by a menacing drawing of a woman falling terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a tall building wartime photographer and she started swearingAbhi, using words she was unlikely the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to have heard care remotely for the residents who are still alive in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and there were problems at nursery schoolkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Tess turns Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to a therapist for help, then her doctor keep safe and finally they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|author=Will CarverCody Goodfellow|title=Psychopaths AnonymousVertical

|summary=Maeve is There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing after all? Even the AA steps she drabbest office building is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets somewhere I'm intrigued to feed her desire to hear of peopleget inside if it's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour40 stories tall. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and So when she's unable to find like-minded I picked up this book – about people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornscale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn=19131937561803363991

|isbn=14711966151804183210|title=IcedNo Reserve

|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=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.5 To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be 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 and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405951680|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4

|summary=Miles Pussett used Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to be caretake a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runproblems she'd had at work, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourit seemed like just the break she needed. He She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in St Moritz London: she was Jess who was returning to the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake country of her birth and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling in need of the horses. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore that he'd never go back space to itget over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in dangerVictoria sounded like just the ticket.

|isbn=147228612X1448309743|title=The Late Train 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 Gipsy Hill'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Alan JohnsonMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of themOur narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. They live quietIt was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watch, uneventful lives vintage wines and stay mostly under a state-of-the radar-art sound system. In a city like London, that's Both were probably quite easy - surprised when they became almost friends and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himcertainly more than acquaintances. The highlight Finns had no intention of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work going on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for University, unlike our storyteller who had a date but he doesnplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK't have the courages third most prestigious university. ThenBefore going up, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks he took up a loose invitation to him and asks for visit Ralph at his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobstershome, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeClouds Manor in West Dorset.

|isbnauthor=0008433631Dean Koontz|title=Next The House at the End of Kin|author=Kia Abdullahthe World|rating=54

|summary=It was the sort of thing When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephewthere is no one on your side, Maxyou can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a panicsmall chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. He That's what Katie thought she was supposed to be taking Max doing when she shut down her old life to school but hestart afresh on Jacob'd s Ladder; and all would have been called into work the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, the delay neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out name of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could science and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into quite possibly bringing about the back end of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskall mankind.|isbn=1662453159

|isbn=17841652631787636607|title=Invite Me InThe Trap|author=Emma CurtisCatherine Ryan Howard

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to be get home . Some are lucky and manage to make his lunch for get one o'clock on of the dot, despite few taxis available. Others squash onto the fact night bus that she was actually painting will only go as far as one of their properties prior to it being letthe outlying villages. If she didnThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem't get home, there would be troubleparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. There was some excuse: Martin was For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a paraplegic long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and confined to a wheelchair, collect her - but donher phone't be too quick s dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to be understandinglet her use his. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in ElizaThere's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about no option but to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road start walking - unsuitably clothed and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablehigh-heeled shoes.

{{Frontpage |authorisbn=Robert Peston 1529195977|title=The Whistleblower None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=3 5

|summary=I'm not On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the first to point 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. It turns out how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thrillerthat not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, so Ithey were both born in St Mary'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originalitys hospital. It That's an interesting plot where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a good pacejoyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, but it does very little they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to differentiate itself her tummy and I suspect before you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much time has passed I'll have forgotten money on a lot of meal - but itis Josie's birthday after all. |isbn=1838775242 }}

|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll1803136383|title=Her Perfect FamilyTin Soldiers|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5

|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is all wrong. Suddenlysure exactly what took place, Gemma receives but an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In act of heroism leading to a twist of events, rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in disgrace seems to be the midst of her graduation ceremonyconsensus. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows Wat himself is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues keeping his cards close to grow the further you readhis chest, as he always does.|isbn=1542028752

|isbn=0008370982B0C7J9D21B|title=Rock Paper ScissorsA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Alice FeeneyA J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=Amelia Wright is fortyNancy's mother and step-two father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Her husbandWe first meet Nancy outside the court, Adam, isn't so keen on the ideaafter Martin receives a life sentence. Like Amelia, he knows The barrister tells her that their marriage has been under strain: heshe's received a screenwriter and he'silent sentence' - she's never shy not been found guilty of making it clear anything but will have to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time live with what happened for the novels he's hoping to adapt than with rest of herlife. AmeliaOf course, it's made worse because Nancy's annoyed that he never enquires about how rich - she inherited five million pounds from her day has been mother - and working with the dogs, many papers are making the most of whom have been abused, is never easyit. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - 'Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

|isbn=00084217141529135389|title=Mrs MarchThe Fall|author=Virginia FeitoGilly Macmillan

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the publication of George March's most successful novel to datecounty fair before she returned home. Everyone There was no sign of her husband but Mrs March (we know her first name only opera was playing on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done sostate-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. Every day Mrs March went to They'd not been in the local patisserie architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping all the bread, ''but isnhigh-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't this the first time he's based work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a character on you?'' She mentioned ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that Johannasort of money, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''too. Perhaps this would not have matteredEventually, except for Nicole found Tom dead in the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''swimming pool with a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchwound to his head.''

|isbnauthor=0241989094Alan Parks|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodTo Die in June

|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and Caroline Riley (sheprefers 's viewing a house in GoringCaz') is middle-on-Thames aged and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclayhas found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. The boys are They're off on a bit of a handful which is why shecruise to New York on ''Atlantica''s making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them. ItCaz's the same month sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but now weCaz hasn're t spotted a ring-shaped bulge in Wimbledon his suit pocket and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she doesn't know whether she's job hunting relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and living in her sisterthe trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, GeorgieGemma is looking after Caz's, spare room, where shecafe as well as their mother who has dementia. It's been since she broke up with her boyfriendgoing to be good, Connor.isn't it?

|isbnauthor=1787634493Mark Edwards|title=All Keep Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraSecret

|summary=It had seemed like one Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of those serendipitous events the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which sometimes happenit 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 certain death below. Marissa Irvine had Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milokeeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to go on a play dateMatthew. She was concerned that Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he didn't have any friends at his new schooljust learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob author of failing if well- and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterregarded literary short novels. What could be better? OnlySorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, when Marissa arrived at she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the houseworld of crime fiction, expecting to meet Jacobsaying he's mother, Jenny, populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacobbet that she cannot live up to that accusation. The phone number Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she'd been given is put up for Jenny was not recogniseda wintry month away from it all. Milo had disappeared. And so had JennyJust on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nanny.nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615

|authorisbn=Claire McGowan0861544056|title=I Know YouTwin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=45

|summary=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 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 have them all to herself for a while. ThenKit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older':he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they' Casey returns from ll be sharing a walk bedroom.}}{{Frontpage|author=Robert Dugoni|title=Her Deadly Game|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life'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. Along with an indisputable talent for the babylaw, CarsonPatsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and comes across three bodies, almost proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a whole job at the family taken downfirm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}''Now:'' Rachel {{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 out a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedin. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a walk killer targeting pregnant women, with her dogall the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, Brandywhich she rails against, when she comes across a body in just can't let the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happening, and the woodsincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next. |isbn=15420199741914585577

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1787301036|title=The StoningWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5

|summary=In When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisoncareful, a teacher meticulous child. The care has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleytaught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared to discuss the death of his wife, and sheJuly's been taped mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a tree Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and shehe's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's had rocks bowled at teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her as if she were worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the worldschool, has he not? The playground wouldn's tallest cricket stumpst have been resurfaced but for him.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0008454493|title=All the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4. When 5|genre=Crime|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when shelost track of time or drifted off for a moment. It's discovered by the town gossip everyonenow a year since her son, including the local copsMason, are quite confident the culprit has come was stolen from his bed in the immigrant detention centre middle of the place night and Izzy is reluctantly home toconsumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping in. An arson attack on In that shows year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about the feeling – case. She does interviews and itwhen we meet her, she's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsjust been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. Cue On the arrival of George Manolisplane back, she's approached by a higher rank from the citypodcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do a podcast and get to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going so many more people than she could by giving speeches to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawfew hundred people at conferences...|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=17876318691848458436|title=The Rising TideJust the Nicest Couple|author=Sam LloydMary Kubica

|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but sheThe whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''d built a good and decent life in Just the aftermath. SheNicest Couple''s now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beachis the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Fin, Nina teach in the child she had with Danielsame school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. They The couples have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Danielmixed as a foursome but it's partner and so-called best friendnot a regular thing. Nick Christian is a market research analyst and Daniel have Jake is a history together from the time neurosurgeon: they both spent don't have much in a childrencommon except their wives. Lily hasn's home t said anything yet, but itshe's difficult to think that Nick pregnant. She has Daniela lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedt want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.