Salvation of a Saint
is by Keigo Higashino and is due to be published in February 2013. When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in
his empty home his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All clues point to Ayane being the logical
suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of
miles away? As Tokyo police detective
Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly unrelated sequence of events, he finds
himself falling for Ayane. When his
judgement becomes dangerously clouded, his assistant must call on an old friend
for help; it will take a genius to unravel the most spectacular web of deceit
they have ever faced...
Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in
Vienna, where his favourite film, The
Third Man, was set, but everything goes wrong and his companion, Paloma,
calls a halt to their relationship. Meanwhile,
strange things are happening to jobbing musician Mel Farran, who finds himself
scouted by methods closer to the spy world than the concert platform. The chance of joining a once-famous string
quartet in a residency at Bath Spa University is too tempting for Mel to refuse. Then a body is found in the city canal, and
the only clue to the dead woman's identity is the tattoo of a music note on one
of her teeth. For Diamond, who wouldn't
know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding
ever. Three mysterious deaths need to be
probed while his own personal life is in free fall… The
Tooth Tattoo is the thirteenth book in the Peter Diamond series by Peter
Lovesey and it is due to be published in April 2013.
Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London
there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his
officials - and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General
Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an
expression of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service. As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain,
Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why a man of known incompetence is put in
charge of investigating the attack while he is diverted to make enquiries about
the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park. He becomes even more suspicious of his
employer's motives when he discovers that the witnesses he needs to interview
have close links to the business conducted in the General Letter Office,
activities more firmly centred on intercepting people's mail than delivering it. Then human rather than avian victims are
poisoned, and Chaloner knows he has to ignore his master's instructions and use
his own considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles reach into
the very heart of the government. An
enemy who has the power and expertise to destroy anyone who stands in the way …
Death in St James’s Park is by
Susanna Gregory and is due to be published in January 2013.
David Parker is Manchester's most ingenious criminal defence
lawyer. Mike Parker is Manchester's most tenacious homicide detective. Both bear the burden of the unsolved murder
of their sister fifteen years earlier. And
both have a stake in a new series of murders that has shaken their city to its
core. Ronnie Bagley is awaiting trial
for the murder of his girlfriend and baby.
Two weeks before he's due in court, he suddenly fires his defence team,
claiming that there's only one lawyer he wants to defend him: David Parker. Despite his misgivings about taking on the
case in such strange circumstances, David decides to represent Bagley. Little does he know that Bagley is smarter
than anyone has given him credit for, and soon David will find himself pitched
against his own brother, Mike, in a race to outwit the most terrifying serial
killer the city has ever seen. It isn't
long before David and Mike's shared past comes crashing into the present in a
pulse-pounding race to find out who is next to die... Next To
Die is the first in a new series by Neil White and is due to be published
in June 2013.
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian
Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time,
waiting out an awkward scandal. But when
the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a
strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The
Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than
simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly
than he'd dared imagine. Can he catch
the assassin in time to save the city's innocents? A bestseller in Italy, The Crocodile by Maurizio de Giovanni is a dark, bloody story of
murder and revenge and is due to be published in June 2013.
Blind Faith is by
C J Lyons and is due to be published in January 2013. When her husband and son are murdered, she
thought she'd lost it all. But for Sarah
Durandt the nightmare is just beginning ...Sarah has just witnessed the
execution of the man who confessed to killing her husband and son, among others. Returning home to the small town of Hopewell,
Sarah vows to search for the graves of her murdered family - something the
killer would never reveal. But her hunt
leads to shocking revelations and in a race to save everything she holds dear,
Sarah is forced to swallow the ultimate betrayal and the cruellest of lies.
Victor the assassin is leading a solitary, peaceful life in
Iceland when he’s drawn into a job for an unidentified Swiss broker. Having passed the test, he’s introduced to a
group of mercenaries and killers who are tasked to perform the ultimate assassination. In this group Victor meets someone from his
past, someone who recruited him to the life he now knows – someone he thought
was dead. And when he wants out, it’s
too late – his former mentor has plans for him…. The Game is the third book in the series by Tom Wood to feature the
assassin Victor and is due to be published in June 2013.
Eighteen-year-old Kirsty Wilson can't believe her luck when
she lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by the beautiful Eva Magnusson,
a wealthy fellow student from Stockholm.
But her initial delight turns to terror when Kirsty finds the Swedish
girl lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty
and, inspired by family friend Detective Superintendent Lorimer, sets out to
clear his name. Meanwhile, Lorimer calls
on his trusted colleague, psychologist Solly Brightman, to help unravel the
truth behind the enigmatic Eva's life and death. But it is not long until another woman,
bearing a marked resemblance to Eva, is brutally murdered in Glasgow. Horrified, Lorimer and his team realise that
Kirsty could be right. Is it possible
that Glasgow's finest detective has put the wrong man behind bars? And is there a cold-blooded killer out there
orchestrating the death of their next innocent victim? In this absolutely gripping read, Alex Gray
sends her dynamic Scottish detective from the gritty heart of Glasgow to the
snowy streets of Stockholm in his toughest case yet? The
Swedish Girl is the tenth book in the DC Lorimer series by Alex Gray and is
due to be published in March 2013.
It's 1959 and Lynsey Quinn has done the unthinkable. She's got herself pregnant by a cop. Rejected by her criminal family, she will pay
the price for her betrayal, and so too will her daughter. At the age of eleven, Helen is returned to
the clan. Hated by her grandfather,
loved only by her uncle, she struggles to fit into a world she doesn't
understand. As warring factions battle
for control of the East End, tragedy is about to strike again. How can she survive? And who can she trust as the murderous past
comes back to haunt her? Bad Girl is by Roberta Kray and is due
to be published in April 2013.
The Cuckoo’s Calling
is by Robert Galbraith and is due to be published in April 2013. When a troubled model falls to her death from
a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and
calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. A war veteran wounded both physically and
psychologically, Strike's life is in disarray.
The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal
cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker
things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger ...A gripping, elegant
mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London - from the hushed streets of
Mayfair, to the backstreet pubs of the East End, to the bustle of Soho - The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable
debut. Introducing Cormoran Strike, in a
classic crime novel.
Already Dead is by
Stephen Booth and is due to be published in June 2013. It’s a wet summer in the Peak District, and
the officers of Derbyshire CID have a problem.
A body is discovered lying in shallow water after torrential rain has
swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic
examination impossible. And that’s not
their only problem. The absence of DS
Ben Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious
gap. DS Diane Fry is a reluctant
temporary replacement, but now their makeshift team is about to be tested to
the limit. The fatal events of one damp
August night are likely to stay shrouded in mystery if they can’t track down a
car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a passer-by. And then there’s the victim: is there really
nothing in his life to suggest a motive for murder? Did he have no wife, no partner, and no close
relationships at all, as his elderly mother insists? As the rain turns into a deluge, loyalties
among the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve
their toughest case yet. And that is
before it emerges that Ben Cooper is not at home, but has vanished into thin
air.
The price of betrayal is more than thirty pieces of silver. Two days after Jesus Christ's crucifixion,
Judas Iscariot receives an anonymous note stating, I know what you did. Wrapped with it is an eye, complete with
trailing optic nerve, and a splintered tooth - trophies ripped from two
recently butchered friends. Someone, it
seems, knows what Judas did on that fateful night following the Last Supper. And that someone is intent on exacting a
bloody and gruesome revenge. As more
acquaintances and family members die in increasingly brutal ways, Judas finds
himself in a desperate race against time to make amends for his act of treachery,
and to uncover the identity of the mysterious hooded killer. A relentlessly paced, gripping thriller,
which further explores one of the darkest bargains in human history. You might just find yourself engaged in the
unthinkable: rooting for the man who betrayed Christ. I Know
What You Did Last Supper is by Wayne Williams and Darren Allan and is due
to be published in March 2013.
On the steps outside an empty office in New York's financial
district, a woman lies dead. It's a
bitterly cold winter and her coat and other items are missing, which initially
seems to point to a mugging gone wrong, but Lt Eve Dallas soon discovers that
the body was dumped at the newly renovated property. Now she has to find out why. Marta Dickenson was an auditor, so Eve has a
host of suspects among those who were under her scrutiny, not ruling out the
fact Marta's sister-in-law is a famous judge.
With the financial wizardry of Eve's husband Roarke at her disposal and
the faithful Peabody by her side - when not distracted by the upcoming premiere
they're all to attend - Eve starts the process of shifting through the motives
of some powerful people to catch a killer... Calculated in Death is the thirty-sixth book in the In Death series by J D Robb and is due
to be published in February 2013.
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