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The Child Fiona Barton July 2017 Book of the Month. Distant threads spin ever closer to create a compelling, emotional, and dramatic story. Set in 2012, with links to the 1970’s and 80’s, several women, for... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017 
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The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter July 2017 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month. Gosh, what a story this is, dramatic, powerful, and so incredibly addictive. ‘The Good Daughter’ is a standalone novel from Karin... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Fourth Monkey J. D. Barker July 2017 Book of the Month. A humdinger of a serial killer thriller in sheer overdrive, The Fourth Monkey is a winner from the get go, even if... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/06/2017
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Persons Unknown Susie Steiner July 2017 Book of the Month. Manon Bradshaw of Missing, Presumed is back only she is now pregnant, attached to the Cambridgeshire police but working on cold cases until a murder... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Boy Who Saw Simon Toyne July 2017 Book of the Month. Click here to view the page for the KOBO edition of this book. In Solomon Creed we were introduced to a mysterious hero, a... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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They All Fall Down Tammy Cohen July 2017 Book of the Month. This smart, sharp psychological page-turner will keep crime and thriller fans gripped for ‘just’ one more chapter until the early hours. It’s a riveting, read-in-one-sitting rollercoaster... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Darkness Within Lisa Stone July 2017 Debut of the Month. A simply told, yet dramatic and readable tale about a young man whose behaviour changes beyond all recognition after receiving a heart transplant. This is the... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Other Twin L. V. Hay July 2017 Debut of the Month. Slickly suspenseful Brighton-set thriller in which the darkest recesses of human nature and social media are exposed following a young woman’s death. This dynamic debut tingles with tantalising twists, distrust... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2017
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Testimony Scott Turow Maxim Jakubowski July 2017 Book of the Month. Legal thrillers by Scott Turow, since the classic Presumed Innocent, have always proved rewarding, and presented a multi-faceted X-ray of American society and... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/07/2017
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You Belong to Me Colin Harrison Maxim Jakubowski July 2017 Highly Recommended. It's been too long since Harrison, very much a writer's writer whose sinuous and hypnotic, obsessive plots always leave their indelible mark on the reader, had published a new novel.... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Force Don Winslow A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. A doorstopper saga of a novel by Winslow, who has now moved away from his triumphant and award-winning novels about the war against drugs and now focuses his sharp intelligence and... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/06/2017
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Soot Andrew Martin A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Until now Andrew Martin has been better known for his pleasant if traditional Jim Stringer series of novels, about a railway detective in North East Edwardian England, and his non... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/07/2017
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Kings of America R. J. Ellory A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. New York in 1930 is a teeming abyss of crime and idealism at the outset of Roger Ellory's first novel in some time. Fleeing his home soil folllowing a momentous crime,... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017
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From Darkest Skies Sam Peters A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Both a spy story and a splendid space opera, this strong science fiction debut by a young British author is mighty impressive. Highly praised by no other than Joanne Harris it... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/04/2017
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The Four Horsemen Gregory Dowling A captivating, vibrant, and exciting tale of secret societies, death and disorder in the middle of Venice in the 1750’s. This is the second in the ‘Alvise Marangon Mystery series’, set after ‘Ascension’. Alvise finds himself investigating the... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2017
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The Ghost of Helen Addison Charles E. McGarry A fascinating, charmingly descriptive murder mystery, where disturbing elements of satanism, visions, and ghosts creep through the story. Leo Moran, fastidious, exacting, and a private investigator, assists the police in a murder case. I will admit that it took me... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2017
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Wolves in the Dark Gunnar Staalesen A ferociously gripping read from a Norwegian writing legend. Private investigator Varg Veum is in serious trouble, child pornography is found on his computer, from prison he starts to pull all the pieces together in a quest to discover who... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Fireman Joe Hill Tales of overwhelming pandemics striking our world are like buses: you wait for ages and all of a sudden, like a plague, they all emerge at the same time. Recent months have witnessed, among others, the Cronin trilogy reach its... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Corpus Rory Clements 1936 and the huge canvas of Europe in chaos is superbly portrayed by this renowned author of historical fiction. Previously writing about the spy world of the Tudor period we know we are in good hands here. If you have... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Betrayal Martina Cole Martina Cole’s twenty-third East End thriller is as raw and involved as one has come to expect. With huge family betrayals and some very nasty goings-on indeed. It fair pounds along leaving you breathless and probably shattered. We are introduced... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Mile High Rebecca Chance It's no secret that behind the Chance pseudonym stands mystery writer Lauren Henderson, and this background explains why her tremulous bonkbusters move along with such tremendous pace and verve. Set on a luxury plane bound for California, this highly tongue... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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The Bone Field Simon Kernick A series? By Simon Kernick? Yes please! Two faces, who were unknown to each other in previous books, join forces in this powerful, fast moving and intoxicating tale. Trouble starts to hunt Ray Mason down after he promises a grieving... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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Chaos Patricia Cornwell The twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. One summer evening in New England, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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An Act of Silence Colette McBeth A powerful psychological thriller about a mother faced with an impossible choice, and the consequences of her decision for years to come. Perfect for fans of Apple Tree Yard, Disclaimer, and television dramas State of Play and National... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Whistler John Grisham The most corrupt judge in US history. A young investigator with a secret informant. John Grisham will keep you on the edge of your seat with his electrifying number one bestseller. Lacy Stoltz never expected to be in the firing... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Sunday Morning Coming Down A Frieda Klein Novel Nicci French It's always darkest before the light. In the chilling seventh instalment of the bestselling, critically acclaimed Frieda Klein series, evil circles close to home. Psychotherapist Frieda Klein's home is her refuge. Then she returns to find it has become a... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Chalk Pit Elly Griffiths Something evil is waiting in the dark tunnels under Norwich - forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway had better watch her step... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Cast Iron Enzo Macleod 6 Peter May Peter May's new thriller, and the red-hot finale to the cold-case Enzo series. In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heatwave,... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars Miranda Emmerson An enjoyable yet penetrating read, one that can lull you into a false sense of security before it jabs and stings at your awareness. A mystery sits centre stage, yet there is much more on offer here than may first... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Good Assassin Paul Vidich A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Reluctant 1950s spy George Mueller whom we first encountered in the impressive An Honorable Man, is posted to pre-Castro Cuba to investigate the possibility that an old friend, Toby Graham,... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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Ragdoll Daniel Cole Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017. A simply sensational and thrilling debut! Met police detectives William Oliver Layton-Fawkes and Emily Baxter find themselves smack bang in the middle of the hunt for a serial killer. A... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Rather be the Devil Ian Rankin A truly fabulous blast of crime fiction. John Rebus continues to ignore retirement, and an unsolved case haunts his thoughts as he shoulders his way into the middle of a current investigation. Ok, hands up, I confess… this is my... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Girl Who Ran Nikki Owen The final book in the ‘Project Trilogy’ and it’s an absolute belter as the story surges to a fittingly dramatic conclusion. In the present day Maria finds herself back at the Project facility, and feels as though she is home.... Format: Ebook - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Boneyard Mark Sennen A hair-raising, chilling and thrilling tale, full of drama and fast-paced action. A suspected serial killer arrives in the UK and settles in Devon, one step out of place and the police are ready to pounce. This is the sixth... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Where Dead Men Meet Mark Mills Absolutely thrilling… this is a fast-paced, firecracker of a read, set in Europe as the Second World War is brewing. Why is Luke Hamilton, intelligence officer at the British Embassy in Paris the target of an assassination attempt? As Luke... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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