Just heaven! The first in a brand-new crime thriller series by Karin Slaughter. And if the following are going to be as great as We Are All Guilty Here (they will) we’re in for a massive treat. Emmy Clifton has lived in the small town of North Falls all her life. She thinks she knows her neighbours. She’s wrong. She thinks it’s just another hot Summer night like any other. She’s wrong. And when her best friend’s daughter asks for help, she thinks it’s just some teenage drama. She thinks it can wait. She’s never been more wrong in her life. Two girls disappear. Everyone in the town is on tenterhooks. No one more so than Emmy. Gripping from the very first page …. just brilliant! HarperCollins
• It’s just completely unputdownable! Lisa Jewell always writes the most suspenseful thrillers … and Don’t Let Him In is genius. He’s the perfect man. He says he loves you. He moves into your house, and your life. But then … he’s gone. For days he disappears. Always returning with a plausible story. Where is he really when he’s out of contact? Century
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The President of the US is up for re-election. And her husband’s on trial for murder. The First Gentleman by James Patterson and Bill Clinton (so all sorts of insider info to make things excitingly real) is a great read … two top-notch investigative journalists set out to uncover the truth. Century
The targeted murder of four police officers is only the tip of the iceberg in Mark Billingham’s What The Night Brings. Someone’s got it in for the police, and as detectives Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner dig into the reasons for the violence that’s leaving police scared, angry and vengeful – it appears there must be help coming from the inside. One of the best Tom Thorne novels yet. Sphere
Danielle Steel fans are in for a double treat. A Mind of Her Own, set in Paris in 1900, is a powerful historical drama about a young woman, who after the First World War erupts across Europe coupled with the fast-spreading Spanish Flu, travels to America to fight for a new life. In A Mother’s Love, a recently widowed best-selling author and mother of two girls, decides to spend her first Christmas and New Year alone in Paris, where a crime reminds her of her traumatic childhood. But as with all Danielle Steel heroines, she’s determined to face her past and no longer be controlled by threats, and learns that she’s stronger than she ever knew. MacMillan
You think it’ll never happen to you. The ring of the doorbell. The policeman. “I’m afraid …”. And Sally Lambert is afraid. And is prepared, it appears, to be desperate enough to consider the unthinkable to protect the one she loves. It’s all neighbour against neighbour and murder and twists and a last line to leave you gasping! Sophie Hannah’s No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done is funny, a little bit silly, and nothing like what you expect! Bedford Square Publishers
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