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Little Face by Sophe Hannah: book review

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Little Face
Sophie Hannah

 

Alice Fancourt returns home from her first trip out alone after the birth of her baby Florence to find the front door ajar, her husband just waking up and a somebody else’s baby in the cot. But her husband David insists that the baby is Florence. Is Alice delusional and suffering from post-natal depression, or is there something more sinister afoot? Sophie Hannah has produced a taut, haunting and subtle psychological thriller that will keep you guessing right up to its spine-tingling conclusion.

 

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson: book review

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy Book 1)
Stieg Larsson

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in the phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy by the Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Henrik Venger hires Mikael Blomkvist, a recently convicted journalist, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his niece Harriet nearly 40 years ago. When Blomkvist discovers that Vanger has also commissioned highly gifted but unpredictable private investigator Lisbeth Salander to investigate his own history, the two join forces to uncover the truth. Boasting one of literature’s most unforgettable anti-heroines, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an intelligent and riveting read.

 

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The Sculptress by Minette Walters: Book Review

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The Sculptress
Minette Walters

 

Morbidly obese ‘The Sculptress’ Olive Martin pleaded guilty to the brutal mutilation and murder of her sister and mother. When journalist Rosalind Leigh accepts a commission to write about the case and interviews Olive in prison, however, she begins to uncover discrepancies in Olive’s confession and suspects that all is not as it seems. Roz cannot resist delving deeper and deeper into the disturbing secrets of a case that will change her life forever. The Sculptress twists and turns its way towards a devastating conclusion.

 

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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Book Review

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Child 44
Tom Rob Smith

 

Child 44 is an intelligent historical thriller set in 1950s Stalinist Russia, a terrifyingly brutal regime in which anyone who dares to oppose the state is executed. At the heart of this supposedly perfect and crimeless society, State Security agent Leo Demidov is ordered to deal with a colleague who believes that his son has been murdered – an impossibility in the eyes of the state. Disillusioned with the system that has governed his career, Leo tries to atone for his blind obedience in the past and risks everything in attempt to catch a serial killer before he strikes again.

 

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No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay: book review

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No Time For Goodbye
Linwood Barclay

 

Teenager Cynthia Bigge wakes up one morning with a nasty hangover only to discover that her parents and younger brother have simply vanished without a trace. Twenty-five years later she agrees to take part in a television documentary about the case, which is still as much a mystery now as it was then. But as Cynthia and her new family are about to find out, stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she ever made… A fast-moving, well-crafted roller-coaster ride of a novel.

 

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Secret Smile by Nicci French: Book Review

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Secret Smile
Nicci French

 

Husband and wife team, journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, have produced a number of masterful psychological thrillers, of which Secret Smile is one of the best. Miranda Cotton has an affair and finishes it, and assumes that’s the end of that. But a few weeks later she discovers that Brendan is now dating her sister, and will in fact stop at nothing to be part of Miranda’s life. As events spiral out of control and what was initially an embarrassment becomes something infinitely more sinister, Miranda finds herself locked in a battle of nerves with a psychopath. A dark, brooding tale of obsession and revenge.

 

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Angels and Demons by Dan Brown: book review

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Angels and Demons
Dan Brown

 

Suspend your disbelief, embrace the melodrama and allow yourself to be sucked into Dan Brown’s breathless real-time adventure: you’re in for a roller coaster ride. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers that the historically infamous society the Illuminati are implicated in the murder of physicist Leonardo Vetra and the theft of his great but deadly discovery, and embarks on a frantic race against time to prevent the incineration of civilization. Dan Brown pulls out all the stops in this explosive thriller.

 

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The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith: book review

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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith

 

Patricia Highsmith’s subtle and chilling novel takes the reader on an uncomfortable journey into the mind of its psychopathic anti-hero, Tom Ripley. Sent on a mission by Dickie Greenleaf’s father to bring his son back home from Italy, Tom Ripley finds himself captivated by Dickie’s lifestyle of wealth, sophistication and success. At once sensitive, charming, brutal and ruthless, Tom gradually insinuates himself into Dickie’s life and redefines his own identity with an utter disregard for morality. The most disturbing thing about The Talented Mr. Ripley, however, is that you’ll find yourself desperately hoping he’ll get away with it…

 

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Tell No One by Harlan Coben: Book Review

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Tell No One
Harlan Coben

 

8 years ago, David Beck’s wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered, and he was left for dead. Now David’s life is once more turned upsidedown when an image of Elizabeth appears on his computer screen. Plunged into a desperate cat-and-mouse chase where nothing is as it seems and nobody can be trusted, David finds himself fighting for survival. Tell No One is a thrilling adventure, packed to the brim with twists and turns that will keep you guessing right until the end.

 

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The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid: Book Review

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The Mermaids Singing
Val McDermid

 

Val McDermid won a Gold Dagger Award for her first thriller to introduce criminal profiler Tony Hill, perhaps best known as the character played by Robson Green in the television adaptations The Wire in the Blood. A serial killer is brutally mutilating and torturing men in the Northern town of Bradfield, and Tony, enlisted to provide the police with an insight into a horribly twisted mind, is dragged into the very heart of the case. Alternating between the criminal investigation and the serial killer, The Mermaids Singing is a shocking and twisted narrative that is definitely not for the faint-hearted.

 

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