The Killing II by
David Hewson is due to be published in January 2013. Thirty-nine steps rose from the busy road of
Tuborgvej into Mindelunden, with its quiet graves and abiding bitter memories. Lennart Brix, head of the Copenhagen homicide
team, felt he had been walking them most of his life. Beneath the entrance arch, sheltering from
the icy rain, he couldn't help but recall that first visit almost fifty years
before. A five-year-old boy, clutching
the hand of his father, barely able to imagine what he was about see ...The
bark of a dog broke his reverie. Brix
looked at the forensic officers, white bunny suits, mob hats, marching
grim-faced down the rows of graves, towards the space in the little wood where
the rest of the team was gathering ...Three gnarled stakes, replicas now, with
the originals in the Frihedsmuseet. A
woman was tied to the centre pole, hands behind her back, bound with heavy rope
round her torso. Blonde hair soaked with
rain and worse, head down, chin on chest, crouched awkwardly on her knees. A gaping wound at her neck like a sick second
smile. She wore a blue dressing gown
slashed in places all the way to the waist, flesh and skin visible where the
frenzied blade had stabbed at her. Her
face was bruised and dirty. Blood poured
from her nostrils, had dried down each side of her mouth, like makeup on a
tragic clown ...It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left
Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in
macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime
scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime
Denmark -- a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can
rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly
she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the
case. As more bodies are found, Lund
comes to see a pattern and she realises that the identity of the killer will be
known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed….
The
Dance of the Seagull is by Andrea Camilleri and is due to be published
in March 2013. Inspector Montalbano is
awake at dawn, sitting on his porch, when his attention is caught by a seagull,
which falls from the sky, performing a strange dance, before lying down to die. Montalbano is perplexed by what he has
witnessed and the scene hangs over him like an omen. About to depart for a holiday with his
girlfriend Livia, Montalbano makes a quick trip to the police station to tie up
loose ends. But when his dear colleague
Fazio is discovered missing – and it transpires that the policeman has been
involved in his own secret investigations – Montalbano instead launches a
desperate search for his lost friend, as time begins to run out . . . Navigating
a shadowy maze of smuggling, blackmail and the darkest murder, and moving from
the docks of Vigata to its deep, dry wells where the Mafia hide their terrible
crimes, Inspector Montalbano must have his wits about him to unravel this
tangled mystery
Her tattoo wasn't just a mark for life; it marked her for death
too. In New York's East Village, a young
girl is brutally raped, tortured and murdered.
Detective Callum Doyle has seen the victim's remains. He has visited the distraught family. Now he wants justice. Doyle is convinced he knows who the killer is. The problem is he can't prove it. In addition, the more he pushes his prime
suspect, the more he learns that the man is capable of pushing back in ways
more devious and twisted than Doyle could ever have imagined. Add to that the appearance of an old
adversary who has a mission for Doyle and won't take no for an answer, and soon
Doyle finds himself at risk of losing everything he holds dear. Including his life. Marked
is by David Jackson and is due to be published in January 2013.
The Betrayed is by David Hosp
and is due to be published in January 2013.
When Sydney Chaplin left D.C. nine years ago for college, she vowed
never to return. But when her sister is
found brutally murdered, she finds herself drawn once again into the shadowy
web of her wealthy, powerful family. Joined
by Washington detectives Jack Cassian and Darius Train, and driven by her need
to know the truth about her sister's death, Sydney will risk everything - her
life and her family's future - to find the answers. From the gritty streets and crack dens of the
District's inner city, to the smart country clubs and gilded offices of the
nation's political elite, Sydney, Cassian, and Train must slip deep into a
labyrinth of money, power, and deceit to uncover a decades-old conspiracy that
could rock the nation.
The Weeping Girl is by Håkan Nesser and is due to be published in April
2013. Winnie Maas died because she
changed her mind ...A community is left reeling after a teacher -- Arnold
Maager -- is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with
Maager's child. Years later, on her
eighteenth birthday, Maager's daughter Mikaela finally learns the terrible
truth about her father. Desperate for
answers, Mikaela travels to the institution at Lejnice, where Maager has been
held since his trial. But soon afterwards,
she inexplicably vanishes. Detective
Inspector Ewa Moreno from the Maardam Police is on holiday in the area when she
finds herself drawn into Mikaela's disappearance. But before she can make any headway in the
case, Maager himself disappears -- and then a body is found. It will soon become clear to Ewa that only
unravelling the events of the past will unlock this dark mystery...
Dead Water is the fifth book in the Shetland Island
series by Anne Cleeves and is due to be published in January 2013. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found
in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the
Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the
investigation. Since the death of his
fiancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in
this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry. Markham – originally a Shetlander but who had
made a name for himself in London – had left the islands years before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a
young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he
back? Willow and Jimmy are led to Sullum
Voe, the heart of Shetland’s North Sea oil and gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that
Markham was chasing a story in his final days.
One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death . . .
A body is found in the woods . . . A Dreadful Murder is by Minette Walters and is based on the
true story of the shocking murder of Mrs Caroline Luard, which took place in
Kent in August 1908. Caroline Luard is
shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon
becomes the suspect . . . But is he guilty?
Bringing to life the people involved in this terrible crime, in A Dreadful Murder bestselling author
Minette Walters uses modern detective skills to attempt to solve a 100-year-old
crime. A Dreadful Murder is due to be published in February 2013.
When the body of his daughter’s friend is brought to his autopsy table,
Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest
corners of religion. “At first they thought it was the body of a
child. Then they noticed the pubic hair
and the nicotine stains on the fingers”
So begins the latest Quirke case, a story set in Dublin at a moment when
newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling
crimes are hushed up. Why? Because in post-war Ireland the Catholic
Church controls the lives of nearly everyone.
But when his daughter, Phoebe loses her close friend Jimmy Minor to
murder, Quirke can no longer play by the Church’s rules. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime
partner, Quirke investigates Jimmy’s death and learns just how far the Church
will go to protect its own. Holy
Orders is by Benjamin Black and is due to be published in June 2013.
When Oscar Amalfitano begins an
impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he
has no idea where it will lead. More
than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the
scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him forever. Forced to flee with his seventeen-year-old
daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a sprawling town on the
US--Mexico border. Haunted by dark tales
of murdered women, this mythical place is populated by mysterious characters. We meet Castillo, who makes his living
selling his forgeries of Larry Rivers paintings to wealthy Texans; Pancho
Monje, a son born of six generations of foundlings; and Arcimboldi, a magician
and writer whose work has been important to Amalfitano for some time, but whose
return to prominence is just beginning. Woes
of the True Policeman is an exciting, kaleidoscopic
novel, lyrical and intense yet darkly humorous.
Exploring the limits of memory and the power of art, it returns to the
world and characters of Bolano's masterpiece, 2666. Woes of the True Policeman is by Roberto
Bolaño and is due to be published in January 2013.
Returning from Death Benefit,
embattled medical student Pia Grazdani decides to take a year off from her
studies and escape New York City. Intrigued
by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology, Pia takes a job
at Nano, LLC, and a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology
institute in the picturesque foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Nano, LLC is ahead of the curve in the competitive
world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores,
tiny nano-robots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria.
But the corporate campus is a place of secrets. When Pia encounters a fellow employee on a
corporate jogging path suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes
she may have literally stumbled upon one of Nano, LLC's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the
biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first century -- a treatment option
for millions -- or have they already sold out to the highest bidder? Nano
is by Robin Cook and is due to be published in February 2013.
The Twelfth Department is by William Ryan and is due to be
published in May 2013. This is the third
Captain Korolev mystery set in 1930s Stalinist Russia, from the celebrated
author of The Holy Thief and The Bloody Meadow. Moscow, 1937.
Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a long-overdue visit
from his young son Yuri when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of
the Kremlin and Korolev is ordered to find the killer. It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it
appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research
of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power. When another scientist is brutally murdered,
and evidence of the professors' dark experiments is hastily removed, Korolev
begins to realise that, along with having a difficult case to solve, he's
caught in a dangerous battle between two warring factions of the NKVD. Then his son Yuri goes missing ...A desperate
race against time, set against a city gripped by Stalin's Great Terror and
teeming with spies, street children and Thieves.
Pure evil wears many
disguises . . . Four am on a wet stretch of the A1 and a driver skids out of
control. Quick on the scene, Senior
Investigating Officer Kate Daniels and partner DS Hank Gormley are presented
with a horrifying image of carnage and mayhem that quickly becomes one of the
worst road traffic accidents in Northumberland’s history. However, as the casualties mount up, they
soon realise that not all deaths were as a result of the accident . . . On the other side of town a house goes up in
flames, turning its two inhabitants into charred corpses. Seemingly unconnected with the traffic
accident, Kate sets about investigating both incidences separately. However, it soon becomes apparent that all is
not what it seems, and Kate and her colleagues are one always step behind a
ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Deadly
Deceit is by Mari Hannah and is due to be published in February 2013.
Coroner Jenny
Cooper investigates ...An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper
investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little
suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's thirteen-year-old
daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis.
But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days, she's drawn into
a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into
the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific
endeavour, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to
her, as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins ... The Chosen Death is by M
R Hall and is due to be published in January 2013.
Also due to be
published in June 2013 is the new Roy Grace by Peter James entitled Dead Man’s Time.
A
twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation,
but behind this a job offer. The clues
are there if you know to look for them. He
is an expert. A loner. Freelance.
Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer.
A brief. A target: Lewis
Winter. It is hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences. An arresting, gripping novel of dark
relationships and even darker moralities, The
Necessary Death of Lewis Winter is by Malcolm Mackay and is due to be
published in January 2013.
2 comments:
Woah, I'm REALLY looking forward to The Twelfth Department!
So am I. Really love the series.
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