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Game Theory (Katerina Carter Fraud Thriller #2) by Colleen Cross

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. A DEADLY GAME OF CORRUPTION A Katerina Carter Legal Thriller Fraud investigator Katerina Carter is struggling to cope with her uncle’s dementia when she lands the biggest case of her career. Yet everything has a price. . . When billionaire Zachary Barron hires Kat to investigate a...

Exit Strategy by Colleen Cross

Blurb from Goodreads.com please scroll down for my review. Fraud investigator, Katerina Carter just doesn’t know when to quit, which lands her in some pretty messy and precarious situations. Now that’s she’s out of work and running out of money, Kat needs to get more clients, or she’ll be forced to go crawling back to...

A Mind to Kill by John Nicholl

Book Description: The hunters become the hunted... ‘I’m in here. Come on. I’m in here. Come and play with me. I’ve been waiting for you…’  When Rebecca's childhood abuser avoids prosecution, it sets her on the path to revenge, revenge on any man who preys on the innocent. Twenty-three-year-old Rebecca poses as a child online...

Death Stalks Kettle Street by John Bowen

Book Description:     Some accidents are no accident. Someone is murdering Greg Unsworth's neighbours and staging the deaths to look like accidents. Greg knows the truth, but when he's grappling with OCD and simply closing his front door and crossing the road are a battle, how is he supposed to catch a serial killer?...

Brick by Conrad Jones

  A standalone novel When a teenager is the victim of an unprovoked attack while walking his dog, a murder investigation begins. A cruel twist of fate makes his innocent family the targets of a vicious campaign of terror. As the detectives of Liverpool’s Major Investigation Team try to contain the violence, several key members...

Will to Live (DI Kay Hunter) by Rachel Amphlett

Reputation is everything. When a packed commuter train runs over a body on a stretch of track known to locals as “Suicide Mile”, it soon transpires that the man was a victim of a calculated murder. As the investigation evolves and a pattern of murders is uncovered, Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter realises the railway’s recent...

Portraits of the Dead by John Nicholl

blurb from goodreads.com Emma didn’t know how long he hid, silent and unmoving, in the large Victorian wardrobe to the side of her single bed. She didn’t know how long he peered, salivating and drooling, between the two heavy dark oak doors, and watched, mesmerised, as she slowly drifted into fitful sleep. She didn't know...

Ragdoll (Detective William Fawkes #1) by Daniel Cole

blurb from goodreads.com A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet, nicknamed by the press as the 'ragdoll'. Assigned to the shocking case are Detective William 'Wolf' Fawkes, recently reinstated to the London Met, and his former partner Detective Emily Baxter. The 'Ragdoll Killer' taunts the police...

A Game For All The Family by Sophie Hannah

Blurb from goodreads.com Justine thought she knew who she was, until an anonymous caller seemed to know better... After fleeing London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine Merrison plans to spend her days doing as little as possible. But soon after the move, her daughter Ellen starts to seem strangely withdrawn. Checking Ellen's...

Blood Lines (D.I. Kim Stone 5) by Angela Marsons

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace? A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But forDetective Kim...

Evil Games by Angela Marsons

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that...

Mistake Creek by Rachel Amphlett

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review There's a storm coming... When Nina O’Brien returns to the small town of Mistake Creek after ten years, she’s in a race against time to protect her father’s business from an incoming storm so it can be sold to pay for his urgent medical treatment. As...

Only the Brave (DS Allie Shenton 3) by Mel Sherratt

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review When one of the notorious Johnson brothers is murdered and a bag of money goes missing, a deadly game of cat and mouse is set in motion. DS Allie Shenton and her team are called in to catch the killer, but the suspects are double-crossing each...

Second Captive by Maggie James

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Stockholm syndrome: the psychological tendency of a hostage to bond with his or her captor. What happens when you love the man you should hate? Beth Sutton is eighteen years old when Dominic Perdue abducts her. Held prisoner in a basement, she’s dependent upon him for...

The Dolls´s House by MJ Arlidge

The Doll's House by MJ Arlidge The Doll's House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge. Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel, and has been dubbed 'the new Jo Nesbo'. A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark...

Silent Scream by Angela Marsons

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever… Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried,...

The Venus Trap by Louise Voss

Blurb from amazon, please scroll down for my review. Jo Atkins’ sixteenth year was disastrous: she lost her dad, was assaulted by a stranger, and then had her heart broken. For the last twenty-five years, she’s believed that nothing could ever be as bad again. She was wrong. Now, still smarting from her recent divorce,...

Follow the Leader (DS Allie Shenton 2) by Mel Sherratt

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review A man’s body is found on a canal towpath. In his pocket, a magnetic letter in the shape of an E. Days later, a second victim is found, this time with the letter V tucked into her clothing. As the body count rises, the eerie, childlike...

Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning author Lisa Scottoline is loved by millions of readers for her suspenseful novels about family and justice. Scottoline delivers once again with Keep Quiet, an emotionally gripping and complex story about one man’s split-second decision to protect his...

Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder... Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is...

Ivory Ghosts by Caitlin O’Connell

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. In a blockbuster debut thriller brimming with majestic wildlife, village politics, and international intrigue, a chilling quadruple homicide raises the stakes in the battle to save Africa’s elephants. Still grieving over the tragic death of her fiancé, American wildlife biologist Catherine Sohon leaves South Africa and...

Cost of Life by Joshua Corin

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review For readers of Preston & Child, James Rollins, and Brad Thor comes a gripping new thriller from Joshua Corin, in which an audacious hijacking is just the beginning of a twisted international nightmare. Happy Independence Day. You’re all going to die. Life can’t be better for...

No Stranger to Death by Janet O´Kane

No Stranger to Death (Westerlea Mysteries Book 1) by Janet O¨Kane Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. A Scottish village. A burning corpse. Some very dark secrets. Recently-widowed Dr Zoe Moreland moves to the Scottish Borders for a fresh start among strangers unaware of her tragic past. However, her hopes of a...

The Case Against William by Mark Gimenez

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Criminal defense lawyers must make their peace with one harsh fact of life: most of their clients are guilty. But when William Tucker, a celebrated and self-centered star college football player, is suddenly arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a college coed...

The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses to the hell of a debtors' prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend...

Suffer by E.E. Borton

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Kate Freeman opened the front door of her vacation villa to see a Florida State Trooper standing on the porch. A few moments later, 50,000 paralyzing volts shot through her body. Her world went dark after her head impacted the tile floor. She woke unable to...

Intrusion by Reece Hirsch

Blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review. When a powerful client summons him for a midnight meeting, lawyer Chris Bruen knows something is very wrong. Zapper, the world's most popular search engine, has been compromised, and its most valuable asset?search algorithms?stolen. The company suspects that this most recent in a wave of high-tech...

Special Book Review – Daughter by Jane Shemilt

This is a special review of Daughter, from my online bookclub When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought in Jane Shemilt's haunting debut novel, Daughter. THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPEARANCE She used to tell me everything. They have a picture. It'll help. But...

A Patriots Act by Kenneth G Eade

Brent Marks, whom most know from Predatory Kill, is called upon to seek justice for an innocent client held prisoner in Guantanamo Bay When a naturalized American citizen turns up missing in Iraq, Brent Marks fights the Goliath U.S. government with its own Constitution. Santa Barbara accountant Ahmed Khury responds to the plea of his...

1000 Yards by Mark Dawson

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Meet John Milton He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be...

The Verdict by Nick Stone

Blurb from goodreads.com The definitive British Legal Thriller - London's answer to John Grisham. Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite. The only problem is...

The Wronged Sons by John Marrs

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. What would you do if the person you loved suddenly vanished into thin air? Catherine’s cosy life as a housewife and mum-of-three is quickly thrown into disarray when husband Simon disappears without explanation. She is convinced he hasn’t left by choice as confusion and spiraling debts...

Pop goes the Weasel by MJ Arlidge

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. DI Helen Grace returns in Pop Goes the Weasel, the electrifying new thriller from M. J. Arlidge. The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Southampton's red-light district - horrifically mutilated, with his heart removed. Hours later - and barely cold - the heart arrives...

Rain Girl by Gabi Kreslehner

Blurb from goodreads.com. Please scroll down for my review. Veteran homicide detective Franza Oberwieser prefers her job in the winter. Summer is for growing, not for dying. So when the body of a beautiful young woman is found on the autobahn, dressed in a glittering party dress and bathed in June rain, Franza is determined...

The Curse of Van Gogh by Paul Hoppe

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Tyler Sears, art thief, just released from a Federal prison, vows never again. He slides into a simple life bartending in NYC until one day an invitation arrives to the hottest art event of the season, where Tyler meets Komate Imasu, famed art collector. Suddenly Tyler's...

Lethal Code by Thomas Waite

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. America's worst nightmare has come true: a "cyberPearl Harbor" attack by unknown terrorists has crippled the nation's power grid and brought the land of the free to its knees. As widespread panic and violence ravage the country, its ruthless captors issue their ultimatums and vow an...

Terminal Value by Thomas Waite

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. “Be careful what you wish for.” That’s a warning Dylan Johnson should have listened to. When his mobile tech company is bought out by Mantric Technology, a red-hot firm about to go public, it seems like a dream come true for the young entrepreneur and his...

The Somali Doctrine by James Grenton

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. A lone man lies disfigured and dying by the roadside in the arid plains of northern Somalia... Thousands of refugees are found massacred in a camp next to the Ethiopian border... A convoy vanishes on its way to distribute food aid... Rumours circulate that Somali militia...

The Sleeper by Emily Barr

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. Lara Finch is living a lie. Everyone thinks she has a happy life in Cornwall, married to the devoted Sam, but in fact she is desperately bored. When she is offered a new job that involves commuting to London by sleeper train, she meets Guy and...

The Perk by Mark Gimenez

Blurb from the authors website. City lawyer Beck Hardin hasn't been back to the small town in Texas where he grew up for more than twenty years. He has history there. Bad memories. But when his wife dies, Beck decides to return to Fredericksburg with his two young children. Leaving the rat race behind, he...

The Color of Law & Accused by Mark Gimenez

Blurb from both books. The Color of Law. A partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing. Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall,...

Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. They were going to spend the rest of their lives together. Soul mates. But when a young couple wakes up alone together, disoriented and trapped, they are yet to grasp the true horror of their situation. They have no food, no water. Instead there is a...

The Accident by C.L. Taylor

blurb from goodreads.com , please scroll down for my review. The person you trust most may only be telling you half the story … Fast-paced, suspenseful, this is a book with more twists than a helter-skelter that will keep you reading late into the night. Perfect for fans of Before I Go to Sleep and...

The Abortionist´s Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde

blurb from goodreds.com, please scroll down for my review.  Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is found dead in her swimming pool. A national figure, Diana inspired passion and ignited tempers, but never more so than the day of her death. Her husband Frank, a longtime attorney in the DA’s office;...

Child No. 3 by Phil Martin

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review.  Child No. 3 (Book No. 1 in the Little Girl Lost trilogy)Having exposed lie after lie told by her foster parents, Amy Walker sets off on a mission of self-discovery to unearth exactly what they have kept buried from the world.After journeying from her Manchester home...

Can Anybody Help Me? By Sinéad Crowley

blurb from goodreads. com, please scroll down for my review. It was crazy really, she had never met the woman, had no idea of her real name but she thought of her as a friend. Or, at least, the closest thing she had to a friend in Dublin.Struggling with a new baby, Yvonne turns to...

Before you die by Samantha Hayes

blurb from goodreads.com please scroll down for my review.  The gripping new psychological suspense novel from the author of Until You're Mine. Oh God, please don't let me die.It has taken nearly two years for the Warwickshire village of Radcote to put a spate of teenage suicides behind it.Then a young man is killed in a freak...

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review.  Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book...

The Thieves Of Heaven (Michael St. Pierre #1) by Richard Doetsch

Blurb from goodreads.com, please scroll down for my review. The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth. An explosive ancient secret. A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican. In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the...