Baptism is by Max Kinnings and is due to be published in June 2012. 07:45
Am. A monk lies dead in Snowdonia, a
knife protruding from his throat. A
young family is being held at gunpoint in a house in Wimbledon. The mission has begun. 08:56
Am. A London Underground train is
stationary in a tunnel, four hundred passengers trapped inside. All efforts to communicate with it have been
met with silence. 09:15Am. DCI Ed Mallory has just started his day. The Met's top hostage negotiator - despite
having been blinded thirteen years earlier - Mallory is about to discover that,
today, an underground train is not the only thing on the line.
Springtime in St
Denis. It's two weeks before Easter, and
Satanism has reared its ugly head. A
female body has been found on a boat, bearing the ghastly signs of a black
magic ritual. The victim is unknown and
nobody is coming forward. This is the
last thing Bruno needs. The Chief of
Police-come-culinary connoisseur has too much on his plate as it is, mediating
both a domestic abuse case and a local development proposal that seems just too
good to be true. Moreover, he has no one
to share these stresses with. His dog,
Gigi, is gone, as are his usual roster of ladies. He's never felt so alone. But Bruno soon finds himself back at his
best; which is just as well if he's to solve the mystery that's threatening to
scar his town's reputation. The Devil’s
Cave is by Martin Walker and is due to be published in August 2012.
When Sam's last adventure in France ended, he thought it'd be
a while before he went back, especially with the charms of Elena Morales to
keep him in Los Angeles. But when the immensely wealthy Francis Reboul asks him
to take a job in Marseille, it's impossible for Sam and Elena to resist the
possibility of further excitement . . . to say nothing of the pleasures of the
region. Soon the two are enjoying the coastal sunshine and the delectable wine
and bouillabaisse for which Marseille is known. Quelle joie! Yet as
a competition over Marseille's valuable waterfront grows more hotly disputed,
Sam, representing Reboul, finds himself in the middle of an increasingly
intrigue-ridden and dangerous real estate grab. Will Sam survive this caper
unscathed? Will he be able to enjoy another bowl of bouillabaisse? The Marseille Caper is by Peter Mayle
and is due to be published in November 2012.
Dark Heart is by Tony Park and is due to be
published in September 2012. Richard, Carmel and Liesl are an unlikely trio
with a complex shared past. They met while working in Rwanda during the
genocide. Now the three are back together, united both by a photograph and
attempts on their lives. After receiving a summons from the International Criminal
Tribunal of Rwanda, someone has tried to kill both Carmel and Richard. Could
this be connected to the photograph they saw in Rwanda, or to the summons?
Embarking on a mission to find the answers, they are drawn into the violent and
harrowing world of animal smuggling, a world more frightening then they ever
could have predicted. It is not just animals that are being smuggled, but human
organs from living donors. Soon, their lives are all on the line and only one
person can help them.
2012: London is hosting the Olympics and the East End is at the
centre of the world. Yet surrounding the
glamorous Olympic Park are some of the most deprived areas of the city. PI Lee Arnold and his assistant, Mumtaz
Hakim, work in these streets, in a community fraught with tensions. When Arnold is hired by a controversial
stand- up comedian, he already knows that her routine could make her a target. Arnold and Hakim's new client is being
followed. Are her fears justified? As they delve deeper, they discover that this
investigation is more complex and sinister than a simple, straightforward case
of stalking. A Private Business is
the first in a new series featuring former policeman and soldier turned PI and
his Muslim assistant by Barbara Nadel. A Private Business is due to be
published in July 2012.
The head of
Francisco Goya was stolen from his tomb in the wake of his death. No one has
ever known what happened to it. Until now. Leon Golding has always been ignored
by the art world he loves, but he's finally going to make his name as the man
who found the skull of Goya. But he's asked the wrong people to help him prove
he's right. Now everyone wants to own the most prized piece of art history ever
to come to light ...And they're ready to kill for it. Memory of Bones is by Alex Connor and is due to be published in
August 2012.
Let the Old Dreams Die is a collection of short stories by John
Ajvide Lindqvist and contains the sequel to Let
the Right One In. Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of
the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales
from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for
herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift, which enables him to see what
others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the
stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist's rich imagination. They are about love and
death and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge. Let the Old Dreams Die is due to be
published in September 2012.
A frustrated
publisher receives a mysterious angst-ridden manuscript: “a friend” must send
it in instalments; its contents would put the author in danger. As he pieces
together the story, he learns that the author is the wife of one of the two
Martelli brothers – gangsters who dominate a small town in the Brazilian
interior. Surely, her dark outpourings
are a cry for help? One by one, he
dispatches his motley collection of friends to Frondosa – a town totally obsessed
with five-a-side football – to investigate and bring her to safety. The
Spies is by Luis Fernando Verissimo and is due to be published in November
2012.
Sleepwalkers is the debut novel by Tom Grieves and is
due to be published in August 2012. Ben
is your average married man: wife, two kids, and steady job. Toby is your average schoolboy: fifteen years
old, sweet natured and shy. Two people,
two separate, unremarkable lives. Except
for their dreams. Dreams of violence. Dreams of rage. Dreams of torture. Dreams that are always followed - the next
morning - by scratches, scars, pain. When
their dreams and doubts become too powerful to ignore, one fact will become
clearer than any other: that the truth they are running towards is the very
thing that they should be running away from.
Saed Gadaffi has
escaped from Libya with a fistful of dangerous secrets. The British Government
want ex-Special Forces operative Steve Range, the go-to man for any Black-Ops
missions, to lead an ultra-covert mercenary group to seize him from his
near-impregnable desert stronghold. Saed is defended by Tuareg warriors armed
to the teeth with stolen NATO hardware. If Range's team can somehow overcome
them, then they will earn themselves gold bullion worth $500 million. But as
the bullets begin to fly and the body count rises, Range realises that he's
been double-crossed. Unwilling to lose the gold, he begins to contemplate
cutting a deal with the devil. Desert Fire is the debut novel by Phil Campion and is due to be published in September 2012.
Harry and Michel
live in the basement of a luxury apartment block, guarding the inhabitants.
No-one goes outside. The world might be at war - it might even have been
plunged into nuclear winter. No-one knows. All Harry and Michel know is that if
they are vigilant, 'the Organization' will reward them: promotion to an elite
cadre of security officers remains their shining goal. But what if there were
no-one left to guard? And if the promised relief shift arrives, how will they
fit in to Michel and Harry's studied routine of boredom and paranoia? After
months of crippling paranoia, they begin a terrifying ascent to the floors
above. The Guard is by Peter Terrin and is due to be published in September
2012.
Yukio's two best
friends are dead. Tormented and blackmailed by the Yakuza - the Japanese mafia
- they have taken their own lives. Yukio is a kendo champion and he knows all
the stories of the samurai. Heartbroken and furious, he is determined to avenge
the deaths of his beloved Hiroshi and Miko. And so begins a deadly struggle
between Yukio and the Yakuza, and between Yukio's capacity for love, and his
thirst for revenge. Summertime of the Dead is by Gregory Hughes and is due to be
published in August 2012.
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