Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime
novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. The terrible abuse he suffered in childhood has
not stopped him enjoying family life with his wife and two daughters, or
pursuing an impressive career with South London 's
Murder Investigation Unit. Nevertheless,
it has left him with an uncanny ability to identify the darkness in others - a
darkness he recognises still exists deep within his own psyche and battles to
keep buried there. Now Sean's on the
trail of the most dangerous killer he has ever encountered. The perpetrator has no recognisable MO,
leaves no forensic evidence and his victims have nothing in common. But Sean knows they were all murdered by the
same man. Now all he has to do is find
the evidence, convince his bosses and stop the killing ...before his adversary
gets too close to home. Cold Killing is by Luke Delaney and is
due to be published in March 2013.
Professor Morley's guide to Norfolk
is a story of bygone England ;
quaint villages, eccentric locals - and murder!
It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is
stony broke. So when he sees a
mysterious advertisement for a job where 'intelligence is essential', he
applies. Thus begins Sefton's
association with Professor Swanton Morley, an omnivorous intellect. Morley's latest project is a history of
traditional England ,
with a guide to every county. They start
in Norfolk , but
when the vicar of Blakeney is found hanging from his church's bell rope, Morley
and Sefton find themselves drawn into a rather more fiendish plot. Did the Reverend really take his own life, or
was it - murder? Beginning a thrilling
new detective series, 'The Norfolk
Mystery' is the first of The County Guides by Ian Sansom and is due to be
published in June 2013.
Touch is by Mark Sennen and is
due to be published in April 2013. Harry
likes pretty things. He likes to look at
them. Sometimes that is not enough. He wants to get closer. Naughty Harry. DI Savage and her team in Plymouth are struggling with their
investigation into a string of horrific attacks on young women. The victims are being drugged, abducted,
assaulted and then abandoned with only a dull memory of what has happened. However, when the mutilated body of one of
these women is found on a beach, the case becomes a chilling murder inquiry. Stopping at just one victim will never be
enough ...not for this killer. Part
thriller, part police procedural, Touch will take you deep into the madness of
a serial killer's mind.
The Lost
Boy is
the seventh book in the Patrik Hedstrom and Erika Falck series by Camilla
Lackberg and is due to be published in March 2013. On a late summer's night, a young woman jumps
in her car, her hands slippery with blood on the steering wheel. Taking her five-year-old son, Nathalie flees
to the only safe haven she knows: the island of Graskar off the coast of
Fjallbacka...Meanwhile, Detective Patrik Hedstrom has barely stepped foot
inside his office following a lengthy sick leave before he catches a murder
investigation. A man has been murdered
in his home: the victim, Mats Sverin, was the council's financial director,
heading up a regeneration project worth millions. But when Patrik and his team start digging
into the dead man's life, all they can uncover is unanswered questions. Why was Mats in such a rush to return to his
home town of Fjallbacka
after years in Gothenburg? And is it
pure coincidence that Mats's childhood sweetheart Nathalie has also suddenly
returned to the area? Mats visited
Nathalie on Graskar before his death. The
locals call the island 'The Ghost Isle' - they say that it is haunted, and that
the dead have something to tell the living.
But will anyone get close enough to uncover the dark secrets that lurk
there?
He's posted on your wall. He's following you on Twitter. He knows where you are right now...When Amy
receives an email from her older sister, Becky, announcing that she's off
travelling and "don't try to find me", she is worried. Becky would never do such a thing on a whim. Amy - who is recovering from an abusive
relationship that has left her terrified of love - soon finds that Becky had
started using online dating sites. Aided
by Becky's neighbour, Gary, Amy sets about tracking down the men her sister had
dated, following a trail that leads her into the darkly seductive world of
internet hook-ups. But Amy is unaware
that a sadistic killer is watching - a killer who's been using the internet to
stalk, torture and kill. Now he's got
something very special planned for Amy and she is about to find out that
romance really is dead. Slash Forward is by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards and is due to be published in July 2013.
As teenagers, Maggie Donaldson and Johnny Taylor
fell hard and fast in love. But they did
not know they were from rival gangland families in London 's criminal underworld. Going public with their relationship would
have brought them more trouble than they could handle, so for years they
concealed the truth. But their house of
cards will not be safe for much longer. Maggie's
violent father Max has always been out for the Taylors ' blood and treats his own family with
barely more sympathy. There is a
long-buried reason for the vendetta that no one talks about, a secret so
shocking it could tear each family - and Maggie and Johnny - apart... Trapped is a gritty story of bitter feuds and
unbreakable bonds by Jacqui Rose and is due to be published in March 2013.
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