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The best recent crime and thriller – review Roundup | Books

The best recent crime and thriller – review Roundup | Books

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Never flinch by Stephen King (Hodder & Stougton, £ 25)
The latest King's Jenested brings back the private detective Holly Gibney, who is consulted when the police in Ohio receives an anonymous letter in which the writer suggests “13 innocents and 1 guilty” as reconciliation for the death of an innocent. It soon becomes clear that the death of Alan Duffrey, who, incorrectly convicted of possessions of child pornography, was murdered in prison. Paper scales with names in the hands of the corpses suggest that each is a member of the jury who is responsible for the detention of Duffrey. In the meantime, Kate McKay, activist of women's rights, is found on a speech tour of religious extremists and asks Holly's services as a bodyguard. Holly intelligent, brave and modest for a mistake and is one of the most appealing investigators in contemporary crime fiction. Despite some longueurs, flinch never contains many brand -shaped moments with which the two storylines are professionally involved.

The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex (Picador, £ 18.99)
Stonex's second novel is an ambitious revenge thriller who adopted the reader on a trip from London to Devon, both geographically and about flashbacks to the early years of the two main characters who share the story. Jimmy Maguire, sprouts of the local “bad family”, was 19 when he killed the 15-year-old Providence. When he was released from prison in 1989, her older sister Birdie followed him and bought his weapon illegally. Although the mystifier-reduced swearwords will recognize an irritating and experienced crime field that one aspect of Jimmy's past is not what it seems, what it seems to be worthwhile to think about that is worth reading, the date and perceived inscription, like good intentions, misunderstandings in childhood, and split-second decrees Dedicate disaster-disaster placements, and the dividing of decondes that can devote themselves for disaster for disking, pave can go to the way to the way to the way to the path to the path to make their way.

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Meerwood of Amity Gaige (fleet, £ 20)
The fifth novel by Gage is a wilderness thriller in Maine, where Lt Beverly Miller was not planned to meet the 42-year-old Valerie Gillis, who was not planned three months after the Appalachian Trail hike of a life. When Valerie's supplies disappear and she fights against nature and the elements, she composes letters to her mother; In the meantime, the clock is ticks and Miller is increasingly concerned about the security of the missing woman. A third story focuses on the 76-year-old Lena, who lives in a retirement community and believes that Valerie came across a secret military training facility. Perhaps the readers have the feeling that the central mystery lacks the focus, but it is best to do the best if they disappear the effects of Valeries on others and the reach of the emotions that cause it to be metaphorically and not literally lost.

The mourning chain of Kate Foster (Mantle, £ 16.99)
Foster's third novel plays in the 19th century and is based on the true story of “Half-Hangit Maggie”. He is the fascinating report of a woman who received a new rental agreement for death. Although she was found guilty of killing her newborn baby, the words “until they are dead” were not used in official judgments at that time, Maggies Life as a daughter of Scottish fishermen was caused so vividly that it can almost be smelled. When the pretty Patrick Spencer comes the beautiful path, Maggie sees a way to escape the endless round from the exercise, cleaning of lines and the fixation of baits, but proves their naivety, disappears her new husband from Philandering and she strikes to London, just stranded, centered and pregnant. An extremely convincing story of a resourceful woman, whose hard life is created even more by institutional misogyny, gender -specific violence and medical ignorance.

The search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah (Quercus, £ 16.99)
Today's Edinburgh and Sierra Leone are the attitudes for Mannah's debut novel, which won the 2022 Mo Siewcharran Prize. Hawa Barrie lives on the edge of a Sierra Leonean Expat community that revolves around the Lion Mountain Church under the direction of a charismatic pastor. Ronald Ranka presents himself as a “true man of the divine distinction that goes beyond that to help Africans in this country of this white”, but he also surrounds himself with attractive young women, whose role as “ambassador” of the Church includes them in morally dubious ways. If one of them is hardly alive and was locked up in a car boot for five days and her old friend Othella disappears shortly afterwards, Hawa becomes suspicious. This sharp, impressive novel deals with morally thorny questions about the terms justifying means, religious and political corruption, luxury beliefs and the pressure on those who live abroad to deliver at home for family and community.

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