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[[Category:New Reviews|Thrillers]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Hogan1399613073|title=A Pleasure and a CallingMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{newreview|title=Jawbone LakeFrontpage|author=Ray Robinson|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Rabbit is a young woman with plenty on her plate and New Year’s Day brings her a lot more worries. Rabbit witnesses a car careen off a bridge into a lake (with fatal consequences) whilst being pursued and is then seen herself by the pursuer. The victim of the crash was a larger than life man called CJ and we follow his son Joe as he deals with the event and attempts to rediscover who his father was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022039</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSunny Singh|title=The Atheist's Prayer|author=Amy R BiddleHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=I don’t shy away from The Hotel Arcadia is a book with luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a little edgeterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] killing everyone on site, there is one of my favourite authors Sam, a wartime photographer and his books can be so sharp you can shave with themAbhi, the hotel manager. On As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be courting controversy; why else have such a provocative title? Butcowed by events, is it really that shocking? Nopeand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. This is a story about how people deal with Although they only ever talk over the modern world phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and what happens when dangerous ideals infect a vulnerable groupthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>086154742X
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|rating=3.5
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|summary=When we first meet Ben Bracken heThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a free mangood view from up high, but after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's the first time in many long months40 stories tall. Twenty minutes before he had escaped from HMP Manchester, better known to many So when I picked up this book – about people as Strangeways. He had been an army captain but he'd been forced into a situation where he felt that he had no option but to act against the law and this resulted in his dishonourable discharge and the prison sentence. It did nothing who scale tall buildings for his relationship with his parents either. 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 himfun – I was instantly intrigued.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1494998564</amazonuk>1803363991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=Then We Take BerlinNo Reserve|author=John LawtonFelix Francis
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Do we really need another Cold WarThirty-era thriller? Especially one that also covers four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the already saturated Second World War years? Well yescolt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, if the thriller in question is John Lawtonchairman, hadn's new offeringt arrived, so he continued his session. 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 'Then We Take BerlinMitch'Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Despite sounding like a chant from a mob Jennings was in one of England football fans rampaging through Germany the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the 1980shorse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, Then We Take Berlin tells the story of cockney John 'Joe' Holderness, better known as Wilderness to all of his female acquantanceshorse was dead in its stall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611856124</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Rice1405951680|title=The Heavens RiseSafe House|author=Cameron Ward
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Marshall Ferriott thinks he has Niquette Delongpre; Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she wants him as much as he obsesses about was gently nudged into it by her. He's certain until friend, Rupert) to caretake a late night struggle luxury property in her family's swimming pool disavows him the Australian outback for a couple of the ideamonths. However they arenAfter the problems she't alone in d had at work, it seemed like just the waterbreak she needed. Something unwelcome She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth and uninvited lives there that will shape both their abilities and their futuresin need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. Fast forward through A few weeks in the years and Marshall is completely paralysed yet, oddly, things die around him. And Niquette? She's missing along with Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the rest of her familyticket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1448309743|title=Warm BodiesThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Isaac MarionCaro Ramsay|rating=54|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more In the village of Cronchie on the power West coast of thought than most, and JulieScotland, five members of a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about otherswealthy family are found murdered. In short, R has far more humanity than The only item missing from the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of home is the traits Devil Stone: myth says that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than if the human race itselfstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Two other characters The only suspects are important to this storylineknown Satanists but in many ways, ''M'', Rthat's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or an easy conclusion given that two of finishing it. I couldnthem 'discovered't with this onethe body. I loved this book, The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but I did feel dissatisfied with the endingwhen he disappears, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isnshadow't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever readhim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The AbominationLast Person in the World|author=Jonathan HoltMatthew Tree
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Captain Katerina Tapo of Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the Italian Carabinieri police force, Holly Boland, London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a Second Lieutenant in the US Army boarder and Daniele Barbo had money to throw around on a reclusive web expert Rolex watch, are each individually investigating seemingly separate events that become more vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more entwinedthan acquaintances. Their collective probing uncovers Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a massive conspiracy and seems to implicate the US Armyplace at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the Catholic Church and the Italian MafiaUK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, three incredibly powerful organisations that it is best not he took up a loose invitation to rile visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in any way, as the three characters are quick to discoverWest Dorset.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185369X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A P McCoyDean Koontz|title=Taking The House at the End of the FallWorld|rating=3.54
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Back 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 the nineteen seventies Duncan Claymore was a promising conditional jockey - a talented rider who should never have been short small chain of a ride, but he was struggling, probably because he could neither take instructions nor keep his mouth shuttiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude. HeThat'd been taught everything he knew by his father, Charlie, a trainer whose reputation s what Katie thought she was ruined doing when personal rivalries got out of hand. He hasn't been able she shut down her old life to set foot start afresh on a racecourse since. His sonJacob's determined to beat Ladder; and all would have been the top jockeys aforementioned peace and to bring down solitude were it not for the men responsible for what happened to his fatherpesky US Government occupying Ringrock, but can he do both or will he have to make some hard choices?the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409129578</amazonuk>1662453159
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Bronze GodsThe Trap|author=A A AguireCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=One It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the many reasons I love fantasy is discovering morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the new worlds night bus that will only go as far as one of the authors have createdoutlying villages. Where is The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the world? What kind creatures inhabit it? What are light of 'the customsmissing women'. For one young woman, et cetera, et ceterathe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. Steampunk novels are especially fascinating She had intended to ring someone to come and steampunk mixed with fantasy is collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the double hitbus driver to let her use his. Throw There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in some murder most frighteningly horrid and we have the makings of a really good timehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169497</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexa Camouro1529195977|title=Dixon Grace: 1.9.7 HamburgNone of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Dixon Grace is an Aussie living On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a complicated life crowd of friends in Hamburgthe Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She juggles , too, was out celebrating her live-in45th birthday, ambitiousonly she was just with her husband, immature boyfriend with an older wealthy industrialist lover while teaching English to local company employeesWalter. But however complicated It turns out that seemsnot only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, itthey were both born in St Mary's about to get worsehospital. The police come for That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the early hoursmidst of a joyful, although itmonied group of friends and whilst they's re not till she's ensconced in the interrogation room that Dixon realises she's charged with espionage and murderexactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. The problem is complex but Josie, on the answer is simple: she must escape other hand, holds her handbag close to prove her innocence. Having said tummy and you get the sense that, Walter'simple' is a relative terms not too happy. From the language school for which she works He's not used to the Indian corporation that keeps cropping up, nothing spending this much money on a meal - but it is what it seems, including Dixon GraceJosie's birthday after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>3981458591</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803136383|title=The Excalibur CodexTin Soldiers|author=James DouglasDavid Chadwick|rating=34.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Jamie Saintclair is an expert Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in tracing works of arts. But he has just as much Vietnam under something of a knack for finding trouble as he does for recovering art workcloud. He has just been made an offer no treasure hunter could refuse. A chance to find the legendary sword of ArthurWhat actually happened out there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took place, but he won't be dealing with knights or chivalry in this adventure, instead he will come up against the very worst an act of human nature. This book will take him on heroism leading to a quest beginning in one of humanity's darkest chapters, the rise of Nazi Germany. The evil perpetuated in this era will be mirrored rare battlefield commission followed by modern men who are prepared rank cowardice and disgrace seems to plunge be the world into darkness once again, this time in the name of British purityconsensus. Although the sword Wat himself is associated with supernatural powers, there will be nothing supernatural in the evil Jamie faces, only the unbridled hatred and lust for power that comes so naturally keeping his cards close to some menhis chest, and because of this 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 wellhe always does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552167924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0C7J9D21B|title=Hell to PayA Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=Jenny ThomsonA J Lewis|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=Nancy When we first meet our hero, his name is trying to escape a naff Christmas with her naff boyfriendEttore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, but walks into it's a nightmare bordello and Ettore's mother died when she interrupts a burglary at her parentshe was born. He' home – a professionals not been short of mothers, violent, nay fatal, burglary. When she comes out though - but for someone of a therapeutic stay his background in an institute afterwardslate-eighteenth-century Amalfi, sheit's seeking one thing – revengedifficult 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. Her brother Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and his rap sheet might have something to do with those responsible, but only one thing will fire Nancy on – the need it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for vengeance against those who inflicted a double rape and such violence against hervisitors. He was even saving some money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780998864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=The Shanghai FactorComing to Find You|author=Charles McCarryJane Corry|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Our narrator is an American sleeper spy in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and attempt her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to blend as best he can into Shanghai societylive with what happened for the rest of her life. A chance meeting results in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) inherited five million pounds from her mother - and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable to both papers are making the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming a pawn in a high stakes game most of chess between two powerful it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and paranoid nations''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855099</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=High RollersThe Fall|author=Jack BowmanGilly Macmillan|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Patrick is a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the best there iscounty fair before she returned home. He has more than ruffled a few feathers and is suspended from working There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on cases. Despite this the largest case state-of his career is forced upon him when -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting been in many fatalitiesthe architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Tom recognises Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a possible link between the two ten-million-pound lottery win and potentially many more airplanesthey were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracywound to his head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda HowardAlan Parks|title=Shadow WomanTo Die in June
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down and out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529382823
|title=The Last Passenger
|author=Will Dean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Prelude: the President of the United States Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and the First Lady are has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on what is not being called a campaign tourcruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. It Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is. It is most definitely going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a rering-election campaign; itshaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn't know whether she's just not supposed to berelieved or disappointed. They retire to their suite 've not been a couple for the night, that long and the protection detail of the Secret Service are looking forward trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a shift change at the end of a long daybit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementia. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749955848</amazonuk> It's going to be good, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudia PineiroMark Edwards|title=A Crack in the WallKeep Her Secret
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Pablo Simó Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is an architect breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the verge joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a mid life crisis. His work, marriage ravine gives way and general life is governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him Helena finds herself clinging to ponder over the attractions rockface with just the snagged strap of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having her rucksack between her and a relationship500 foot drop to certain death below. When a young girl enters Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the office asking if anyone knows shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a man called Nelson Jarapanicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, the three architects deny all knowledgeand frankly very well prepared, but they do know him. He was involved Icelandic tour guide swoops in a claim that one of the practice's projects caused a crack in the wall of his apartment and how this was resolved hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is something all three of them would rather forgetleft wondering what he just learned about Helena.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524081</amazonuk>166250893X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona McIntoshJenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=The Lavender KeeperThirty Days of Darkness|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just 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 nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the Maquis (a rural guerrilla wing of the French Resistance) Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to avenge the death end of his adoptive Jewish familytheir first term at university. Meanwhile Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester is recruited by Exeter. It's not only the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a group first time they've been away from their parents for any length of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to send vital information back have them all to the homelandherself for a while. Their paths will cross as Lisette is sent into France Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with the aim of ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilianher? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. The mission is clear cut on paper, Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but life Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be messier than any plan can predictsharing a bedroom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749013443</amazonuk>
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{{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 law, Patsy 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 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 a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)Vanda Symon|title=Plan DExpectant (Detective Sam Shephard)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=October 2011 and the Berlin wall Detective Sam Shepherd is still intact. Inspector Martin Wegener of approaching the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts start of his luscious ex-lover Karolina and work. On this particular day 'work' her maternity leave when there is a body found hanging from the GDR section brutal, shocking murder of gas pipeline that joins Russian to European expectant woman in Dunedin. Not only is he hangingSuddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the deceased has eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: a Stasi trademarkextra pressure that entails being pregnant herself. Who is he and why are Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let the Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers case go and theyshe starts to follow every thread to uncover what're sending a West Berlin detective in to help him find them; not s actually happening, and the best start to a dayincreasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846556929</amazonuk>1914585577
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Lloyd Jones1787301036|title=The String DiariesWhat July Knew|author=Emily Koch
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A dirty bomb has gone off in the centre of LondonWhen we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. Julie She's first thought is to reach her daughter, waiting to be collected from school within the danger zone, but when this becomes impossible she must take refuge indoors and await rescue. Forcing her way into a beauty salon she finds herself among a disparate group of strangerscareful, some of whom will soon find their lives interwoven with hersmeticulous child. Also sheltering in the salon are the Russian beauty-salon owner/madam, Mrs Marchusak, Anya, a beautician/call girl and The care has been taught by her Chechen clientfather, SafiaMick Hooper, a devout Muslim (who rather strangely is in very skimpy western clothing) a Frenchman and an American gentleman. They are soon joined by Kingman, a young male of black Caribbean descent. It seems not prepared to be a regular United Nations in discuss the salon. As a Doctordeath of his wife, Julie maintains her calm and does her best her to helpJuly's mother, and any hint that the American remains a gentleman, displaying a touching act of nobility at one point, but tensions flare in conversation is heading that way will lead to the cramped quarters, especially after Kingman begins to show signs necessity of radiation poisoninga Lesson. After the event, many Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these characters will find their paths crossing againLessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. The other main characters are Julie July's estranged husband Martin, a journalist, Tony an obscure MI-5 agent teacher is concerned and finally a pair brings up the possibility of terrorists connected abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the first attackschool, and planning a second dirty bomb, Amer and Jaysonhas he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Walker0008454493|title=Crime of PrivilegeAll the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In March 1996 George Becket was Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off for a guest at moment. It's now a party year since her son, Mason, was stolen from his bed in the Cape Cod home of Senator Gregory, patriarch middle of America's most loved and influential family. Outwardly everything looked wholesome and fun as the Senator did an impromptu song night and dance act Izzy is consumed with his sister but guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the library George was present morning when Jamie Gregory and Peter Gregory Martin raped a young woman who she thought he was too drunk to either assent or protestsleeping in. It was only GeorgeIn that year she's intervention which prevented done everything she could to raise awareness about the assault becoming more violentcase. But for the young womanShe does interviews and when we meet her, Kendrick Powell, the rape was devastating and before long she was dead's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. She too was On 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 senatorplane back, she's influence which secured George Becket approached by a post in the Cape Cod DA's office. It might seem podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that the matter was closed - but the Powell family were determined that George would suffer for not having spoken out against the Gregory familyshe could do a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0345541537</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848458436
|title=Just the Nicest Couple
|author=Mary Kubica
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''
''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruce CrowtherJulia Bartz|title=PenitenceThe Writing Retreat
|rating=4
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|summary=Ellen Martin is When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St Petersburg. He's a drivingpallbearer for his elder brother, ambitious US lawyerTimur, so when her boss sends her to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja (Barranca for shortwhose death was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, mercifully) for is also a touch of charity work it would be career threatening pallbearer and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to protest too stronglymake his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's death. Besides it only amounts Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to getting someone out of prisonMarisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. Soon after arriving Ellen realises that thereShe's determined to expose any and all corruption - and she's more less concerned than one person who needs rescuing; she can add herself ought to the listbe about her own safety. Luckily for To her Barranca is also the home of her personal trainer, he's nephew and, luckier still, he has a housemate called Alexgood source. Indeed during EllenFor him, it's stay Alex is going to be more than useful. Once Barranca really shows its true colours Alex is going a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be indispensablepossible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478621</amazonuk>
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