Meet
Mollel, a former Maasai warrior whose beloved wife died in the bombing of the
The Siege is by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and is due
to be published in July 2013. Cadiz Spain is battling for independence while America Europe , other battles are taking place. A serial killer
is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes
place near the site where a French bomb has just fallen. It is the job of
policeman Rogelio Tizon to find the murderer and avoid public scandal in a city
already poised on the brink. Cadiz is a complex chessboard on which an unseen
hand - a ruthless assassin, artillery fire, the direction of the wind, the
calculation of probabilities - moves the pieces that will decide the fate of
its protagonists: a corrupt and brutal policeman, the female heir to important
shipping company; an unscrupulous corsair captain; a sinister taxidermist who
is also a spy, a hardened soldier, and an eccentric French artilleryman. The Siege tells the story of a world
that could have been but never was. It documents the end of an era and
characters condemned by history to a life that will never be the same.
In
her hey-day, ex FBI agent, Brigid Quinn, not only worked serial killer cases
but became their prize. Small and blond, from a distance she looked vulnerable
and slight...the perfect bait to catch a killer. But as Quinn got older, she
realised she needed to find a protégé, a younger field agent to take her place.
So Quinn trains a twenty-two year old and lets her loose in the field. The plan
works. Until the Route 66 killer not only takes the bait, but kills the bait.
Years on, Quinn is trying to move past the fact that she has a young woman's
death on her conscience. She's now the perfect Stepford Wife - until she gets a
knock on her door. The girl's body has finally been discovered. Quinn is pulled
back into the case and the more she learns about the killer the more she comes
to believe, despite the overwhelming forensic evidence to hand, that they have
the wrong man. Rage Against the Dying
is a debut novel by Becky Masterman. It
is due to be published in February 2013.
Capital Punishment is by Robert Wilson and is due to be
published in January 2013. Meet Charles Boxer - ex-army, ex-police and now a
high-stakes kidnap recovery specialist, he knows only too well how the dark
forces in the city can reach out and ensnare an innocent victim. The hostage is
the beautiful Alyshia D'Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Francisco 'Frank'
D'Cruz. After a boozy night out she gets into the wrong cab home and Boxer is
the only man Frank will trust to go down into the criminal underworld to
retrieve her. Boxer knows that Frank's crooked business empire has made him
plenty of enemies, but despite the vast D'Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don't
want his cash. They prefer a crueller, more lethal game and to have any chance
of saving Alyshia, Boxer must play it out with religious fanatics, London
A
professional assassin must break into an experimental maximum security prison,
targeting a woman with an explosive secret.. Charlotte Alton is forced to
re-visit her criminal past as a manipulator of information when Simon
Johanssen, a professional killer, wants her to do another job for him. His target is in an experimental prison, the
Program, where people go- but never come out.
To get to the truth Charlotte
The 9TH Girl is by Tami Hoag and is due to be published in June 2013. It focuses on the ninth unidentified body to
turn up in Minneapolis
Before the investigation is through, the case will take the two detectives deep
into the life and death of a teenage girl who wanted nothing more than to be
'normal'. They will come perilously close to the bullies who tormented her, the
twisted family dynamics that may have contributed to her death, and ultimately
to the haunting details of a young love that just may hide the secret of Jane
Doe 9's terrible fate.
The
United States and Russia are on the brink of war and only Will Cochrane - can
find and unmask the diabolical double agent responsible for it all. Fourteen
days ago, CIA headquarters in 
The Devil and The River is by Roger Ellory and is due to be
published in June 2013. 'When the rains
came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it
appeared ...' When Sheriff John Gaines is called down to the riverside, it is
to supervise the recovery of the body of a teenage girl. The corpse is
perfectly preserved - she could have died yesterday. But the locals of 
Never Saw It Coming is by Linwood Barclay and is due to be
published in February 2013. Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that's what
she passes herself off as. The truth is, Keisha's real powers have more to do
with separating troubled families from their money than actually seeing into
the netherworld. Keisha watches the news for stories of missing family members.
She gives it a few days, then moves in, tells these families she's had a
vision, that she may have some clue to where these missing people are. And by
the way, she charges for this service, and likes to see the money up front.
Keisha's latest mark is a man whose wife disappeared a week ago. She's seen him
on TV, pleading for his wife to come home, or, if she's been abducted, pleading
with whoever took her to let her go. Keisha knows a payoff when she sees one.
So she pays a visit to our troubled husband and tells him her vision. The
trouble is, her vision just happens to be close enough to the truth that it
leaves this man rattled. And it may very well leave Keisha dead...
Suspect is the new standalone novel by Robert Crais and it is due
to be published in April 2013. In the middle of the night on the streets of LA,
Officer Max Kent and his partner of eight years, Allie Baker, respond to what
they think is a routine collision incident. But when the masked occupants of
one car emerge with automatic rifles and gun down the men in the other, Allie
is killed in the crossfire and Max is left severely wounded. Eight months
later, the case remains unsolved and Homicide chalk it up to a robbery gone
wrong. Max is furious, devastated and volatile, determined to avenge the murder
of his partner. When he struggles to return to his old position in the LAPD, he
retrains as a K9 dog handler and is paired with Maggie, a German shepherd who
lost her handler in 
Speaking From Among The Bones is the fifth book in the Flavia de Luce
series by Alan Bradley. It is due to be published in March 2013. It is almost Easter in Bishop's Lacey, and
the villagers are holding their collective breath as the tomb of St Tancred in
the church that bears his name is about to be opened after five hundred years.
And as luck would have it, it's inveterate eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de
Luce who is first at the scene. But the body she finds lying there is clearly
not that of a desiccated saint. For a start, there's the pool of fresh blood,
and then there's the gasmask, from under which an unmistakeable shock of golden
hair identifies the corpse as that of Mr Collicutt, St Tancred's celebrated
organist. Despite her tender years, Flavia is no stranger to murder - but even
she is baffled by the peculiar circumstances of Collicutt's death. Especially
when soon after, an effigy of St Tancred appears to be weeping blood onto the
church floor. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Flavia soon finds
herself exploring a secret maze of underground passages beneath the church -
and is drawn into the equally dark and fetid world of one of Bishop's Lacey's
most peculiar families.
Tyrant: Destroyer of Cities is by Christian Cameron and is due to be
published in January 2013. Demetrius, son of Alexander's former comrade,
Antigonus One-Eye, was perhaps the most dashing and charismatic of the
Successors, the Macedonian generals who fought a bitter war for the spoils of
Alexander's short-lived empire. Still smarting from his epic defeat at the
hands of Ptolemy, Demetrius has his eye on one of the richest prizes in the
ancient world - the naval superpower of Rhodes .
But the Rhodians know that defeat will mean annihilation, and Demetrius's
campaign will entail five separate naval battles over several years before he
can begin to breach the city walls - leading him to employ an array of
fantastic war machines: ancient super-weapons like his gigantic lens of
polished bronze used to focus on the city's wooden ramparts and set them
ablaze. If she is to survive against such a merciless assault, Rhodes will need
the help of every ally she can muster - including the newly crowned King of the
Bosporus , Satyrus, and his fiery twin,
Melitta...
Six
years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life,
marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into
his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave
Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new
husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings,
and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the
funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for...but she is
not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for more
than a decade, and with that fact, everything Jake thought he knew about the
best time of his life - a time he has never gotten over - is turned completely
inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of
Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or
don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the
woman who broke his heart - and who lied to him - soon puts his very life at
risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully
constructed fiction. Six Years is by Harlan Coben and is due
to be published in April 2013.
It should have been the greatest day of David's life. A trip to New York New York
Stephen
Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge Cambridge
The Red Room is by Denise Mina and is due to be
published in July 2013. Alex Morrow is a
witness in the trial of a vicious arms dealer, Mark Lynch. When he is
convicted, a psychologist is charged by the court to do a risk assessment and
finds that the first case against him, the murder of his own brother, was
probably committed by someone else. But
who? And how much did the wrongful conviction make him the man he is today.
Professor
David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on demonic literature.
Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the
imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury trip to
The Vanishing is by John Connor and is due to be
published in June 2013. Twenty years ago, one-year-old Lauren disappeared in
the most terrifying way imaginable. Snatched from a creche during a momentary
blackout, Lauren was never seen again and her mother still grieves her loss.
When Tom Lomax gets a mysterious offer from Sara Eaton, heir to a massive
fortune, to fly to her private island, all expenses paid, he cannot help but be
intrigued. Sara has received her own cryptic message and, despite all the
privileges in her life, she has no one to turn to and doesn't know who to
trust. In a matter of hours, both will be thrown headfirst into a race against
time that will challenge everything they've believed in and change both their
lives for ever.
The Chalice is by Nancy Bilyeau and is due to be
published in February 2013. England,
1538. A bloody power struggle between
crown and cross tears England
As a
brilliant young biochemist studying at Oxford Brighton now has its very own serial killer at work. A killer who seems to combine an
off-the-scale IQ with a chilling brutality the city has never experienced
before. A Place of Blood and Bone is the second book in the DS Minter
series by Mark Peterson and it is due to be published in April 2013.
Ten
years ago, she disappeared without a trace ...now she's back. On 31st December 1999, ten-year-old Amy
Archer went missing from her local playground.
Her body was never found and the lives of her parents, Beth and Brian,
were torn apart. On the tenth
anniversary of the disappearance, Beth is alone, still struggling with the
enormity of her grief and the horror of not knowing the fate of her only child. However, the fear and confusion has only just
begun, and Beth's world is turned upside down when a stranger knocks on her
door, claiming to know what happened to Amy.
Beth is introduced to a little girl who is the uncanny double of her
missing daughter, who knows things that only Amy would remember; the name of
her favourite toy, the place where she scratched her initials, what Beth likes
for breakfast. But this can't be Amy;
she hasn't aged a day ...Now Beth is forced to question everything she has ever
believed in, and push her faith and her sanity to the limits, if she is to find
out the truth about what happened to Amy.
The Second Life of Amy Archer is
the debut novel from R S Pateman and is due to be published in June 2013.
Also
due to be published in June 2013 is Love
Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham, which is the second book in the Fiona
Griffiths series.
When
a body is discovered in a deserted woodland lake house Dr Kate Hanson and
Birmingham’s Unsolved Crime Unit are called in to investigate the decades old
murder. The second book (untitled) in
the Dr Kate Hanson series by AJ Cross is due to be published in July 2013. Also due to be published in July is Red Winter by Dan Smith and is a
haunting new thriller full of intrigue, murder and Russian fairy tales.
The conclusion of Hit and Run found Keller living in a big old house in post-Katrina
New Orleans, with a new name, a new wife, a new career rehabbing houses, and a
baby on the way. It certainly looked as though he was done killing people for
money. But old habits die hard, and when the economic downturn knocked out the
construction business, a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game.
His work takes him to Dallas, to settle a domestic dispute; to Florida, where
he joins a government witness on a West Indies cruise; to Wyoming, where a
house has burned down; and to New York, where he lived for so many years, and
where people might remember him. Hit Me is the fifth book in the Keller
series by Lawrence Block and is due to be published in February 2013.
A new case for Peter Grant takes him into the
heart of a crowed south London housing estate where he finds brooding
horror. Broken Homes is the latest book in Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch.
Cop shows are bringing revenue to Miami and
Dexter Morgan is asked to be an advisor for the filming of a new show on top of
his regular job as Miami PD's blood-spatter analyst. But things take a
distinctly dark turn when the leading actress on the show keels over from a
very real bullet on set in front of him. With the press going crazy that the
murder took place under the very nose of Miami's finest, Dexter and Debs are
under pressure to wrap the case. When their lead suspect turns up dead, and
then Rita and Cody are found bound, gagged and barely alive, Dexter knows he's
well and truly met his match... Dexter’s Debut is by Jeff Lindsay and is
due to be published in March 2013.
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