Reacher’s Rules: Life
Lessons from Jack Reacher was published in November 2012. This is not a novel, but a companion book for
Reacher fans. Reacher's own rules for
life are brought together in this irresistible collection of quotes, life
lessons and wisdom from the man himself.
As every Reacher fan knows, you don't have to break the rules if you
make the rules. If you want to survive
in this world nothing else matters. Rule
1. When in doubt, drink coffee. Rule 2.
Never volunteer for anything. Rule
3. Don't break the furniture. Rule 4.
Only one woman at a time. Rule 5. Show them what they're messing with. 'I don't want to put the world to rights; I
just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.’ 'Either you'll walk out of here yourself, or
you'll be carried out in a bucket.’ 'I'm
not scared of anybody...But I certainly preferred it when he was dead.
"Rome: AD69, The Year of the Four Emperors". Three Emperors have ruled in Rome this year
and a fourth, Vespasian, has been named in the East. As the legions march toward civil war,
Sebastos Pantera, the spy whose name means leopard, returns to Rome intent on
bribery, blackmail and persuasion: whatever it takes to bring the commanders
and their men to Vespasian's side. But
in Rome, as he uses every skill he has ever learned of subterfuge, codes and
camouflage, it becomes clear that one of those closest to him is a traitor, who
will let Rome fall to destroy him. Together
the two spies spin a web of deceit with Rome as the prize and death the only
escape. Rome: The Art of War is by
Manda Scott and is due to be published in March 2013.
Good People is by
Marcus Sakey and is due to be published in July 2013. What would you do if, like Tom and Anna Reed,
you stumbled on $400,000 that seemed heaven sent? In increasing debt from failed attempts to produce
a child, Tom and Anna can’t resist taking the money they discover hidden in
their deceased tenant’s apartment. After
the initial euphoria, the Reeds find themselves dealing with a deadly drug
dealer who wants something they don’t have, a vengeful robber looking for the
money they do have and a suspicious cop who knows they are holding out on him.
'The dead can't speak to us,' Professor Madoc had said. That was a lie. Because the body Patrick Fort is examining in
anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. Life is already strange enough for the
obsessive Patrick without having to solve a possible murder. Especially when no one believes, a crime has
even taken place. Now he must stay out
of danger long enough to unravel the mystery - while he dissects his own
evidence. But as Patrick learns one
truth from a dead man, he discovers there have been many other lies closer to
home... Rubbernecker is by Belinda Bauer and is due to be published in
January 2013.
Like This, For Ever is
by S J Bolton and is due to be published in April 2013. Bright red.
Like rose petals. Or rubies. Or balloons.
Little red droplets. Barney knows
the killer will strike again soon. The
victim will be another boy, just like him.
He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana
Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find. There
will be no warning about who will be next.
There will be no good reason for Lacey Flint to become involved. And no chance that she can stay away.
Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't
exist. The adopted son of a wealthy
American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous
retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track
him down. And it will take him to a
rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found face down in a
bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote
the book. What begins as an unusual and
challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save
America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have
to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruin on the
Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the
Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of
mass murder in the name of his God. I Am Pilgrim is by Terry Hayes and is
due to be published in June 2013.
Ghostman is the
debut novel by Richard Hobbs and is due to be published in February 2013. I make things disappear. It's what I do. This time I'm tidying up the loose ends after
a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends
being a million cash. But I only have 48
hours, and there's a guy out there who wants my head in a bag. He'll have to find me first. They don't call me the Ghostman for
nothing...
London, 1583. When
young, aspiring playwright William Shakespeare encounters Lucy Morgan, one of
Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the two fall passionately in love. He declares Lucy the inspiration for his
work, but what secret is Will hiding from his muse? Meanwhile, Lucy has her own secret - and one
that could destroy her world if exposed.
No longer the chaste maid so valued by the Virgin Queen, she also bore
witness to the clandestine wedding of Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley, a
match forbidden by the monarch. England
is in peril. Queen Elizabeth's health is
deteriorating, her throne under siege from Catholic plotters and threats of war
with Spain. Faced with deciding the fate
of her long-term prisoner, Mary, Queen of Scots, she needs a trusted circle of
advisors around her now more than ever. But
who can she turn to when those closest to her have proved disloyal? And how secure is Lucy's position at court,
now that she has learned the dangerous art of keeping secrets? His
Dark Lady is by Victoria Lamb and is due to be published in February 2013. 
The Asylum is by
Johan Theorin and is due to be published in March 2013. Dear Ivan, is it possible to write a love
letter to someone you have never met? I've
only seen your picture in the newspapers, below those terrible, screaming
headlines. There is something about the
look in your eyes, so calm and wise and yet so penetrating. I would like you to be able to look at me in
reality too. I would love to meet
you...An underground passage leads from the Dell nursery to Saint Patricia's
asylum. Only the children enter, leaving
their minders behind. On the other side
are their parents - some of the most dangerous psychopaths in the country...Jan
has just started working at the nursery.
He is a loner with many secrets but only one goal. He must get inside the asylum...What is his
connection with one of the inmates, a famous singer? What really happened when a boy in his care
went missing nine years ago? Who can we
trust when everyone has something to hide?
Morning Frost is the
third book in the prequel series, starring R. D. Wingfield's unforgettable
creation Jack Frost – younger, greener and just as uncivilised. October 5th, 1982. It's been one of the worst days of Detective
Sergeant Jack Frost's life. He has
buried his wife Mary, and must now endure the wake, attended by all of Denton's
finest. All, that is, apart from DC Sue Clark, who spends the night chasing a bogus
tip-off, before being summoned to the discovery of a human hand. And the night gets worse. Local entrepreneur Harry Baskin is shot
outside his club, an off-licence is set on fire and a famous painting goes
missing. And Superintendent Mullett's
attempts to join the Freemasons are being rudely thwarted. As the week goes on, a cyclist is found dead
in suspicious circumstances, and the arsonist strikes again. Frost is on the case, but another disaster --
one he is entirely unprepared for -- is about to strike. Morning
Frost is by James Henry and is due to be published in June 2013.
The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered
in his bed. His four-year-old son has
vanished without a trace. His wife Julia
is under suspicion and no one believes her when she says she is innocent. No one except her best friend Nina, also a
police officer. And possibly news
reporter Annika Berngtzon. Thomas has
left her and is demanding custody of their children. The newsroom at the Evening Post is in chaos
as cutbacks means many of the journalists are losing their jobs. So Annika turns all her energies to her work,
investigating the life of the murdered man.
But if Julia is telling the truth, where is their son? Lifetime
is by Liza Marklund and is due to be published in April 2013.
Linda, As in the Linda
Murder is by Leif G W Persson and is due to be published in February 2013. In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish
summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is
unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced
against everything, Backstropm is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibility,
thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really
capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of
liquor. If they are to solve the case,
his long-suffering team must work around him, following the scant few leads,
which remain after Backstrom’s intransigence, has let the trail go cold. Blackly comic, thrillingly compelling and
utterly real, "Linda, As in the Linda Murder" is the novel, which
introduces the reader to the modern masterpiece that is Evert Backlstrom, a man
described by his creator as 'short, fat and primitive'. He is, without doubt, the real deal when it
comes to modern policing.
A family man - The bodies of a man, woman and child are
found, lying in pools of blood. The
owner of the inn where the bodies are discovered has fled. However, he is not alone - he has taken his
two young sons with him. No one knows
what he's going to do next...A professional front - DC Janet Scott has survived
a terrifying attack, and is now having second thoughts about her life and
steady marriage - but if she acts on her feelings she risks tearing her family
apart. Her best friend DC Rachel Bailey
is reeling from a love affair that could have killed her - literally. It's hard to stay focussed. A united force - Gill Murray has enough of
her own problems without the team falling apart. She knows they must work together if they are
to find the desperate man before he makes his final move. But one question haunts her: what will they
have to do to stop him? The second Scott and Bailey novel by Cath
Staincliffe is due to be published in March 2013.
If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her blood on my
fingers. If only I had closed my eyes
then, or kept my mouth shut, not told anyone about our discovery by the
swimming hole, it might not have stopped our childhood, dead. We could have gone back to dreaming about
spaceships. A horrifying discovery by
two young boys while playing in a mango plantation marks the end of their
childhood. As they finally open their
eyes to the adult world, they see a place where storybook heroes don't exist
but villains and lies do... If I Close My Eyes Now is by Edney
Silvestre and is due to be published in May 2013.
AD 69. Aulus Caecina
Severus has thrown in his lot with the hedonistic Vitellius and prepares his
legions for a gruelling march over the Alps.
Driven by the desire to repay the treachery of his former patron, the
Emperor Galba, and to keep his rival Valens in check, Severus leads his army
against barbarian rebellions and against the mountains themselves in his race
to reach Italy first. With the vast Po
valley almost in sight, news reaches the army that Galba has been killed in a
coup, and that Otho has been declared Emperor by the Praetorians who he had
bribed to murder their own emperor. But
there is no turning back for Severus, even if he wanted to. The Rhine legions want their man on the
throne, and they won't stop until they reach Rome itself. Even once Otho is defeated, the battle for
supremacy between Severus and Valens is far from over. The politics of the court and the mob is the
new battleground, and Severus needs the help of his wife Salonina and his
freedman Totavalas in this constant game of thrones. When stories spread of a new power in the
east, Severus has to decide where his real loyalty lies: to his Emperor, to his
city or to himself? The Sword and the Throne is the working title of the latest book by
Henry Venmore-Rowland. It is due to be
published in June 2013.
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