A war criminal on the run. A
mercenary hunting him down. A man caught in the crossfire. Private Investigator Makana has a new
client: the powerful art dealer Aram Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down
a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All
the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an
Iraqi war criminal who doesn't want to be found. The art world is a far cry from the shady
streets and dirty alleyways of the Cairo that Makana knows, but he discovers
that this side of the city has its own dark underbelly. Before long, he finds
himself caught between dangerous enemies on a trail that leads him into the
darkness of war and which threatens to send the new life he has built for
himself up in flames. The Burning Gates is by Parker Bilal and is due to be
published in February 2015.
The
Mime Order is by Samantha Shannon and is due to be published in January 2015.
Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems
have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the
most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the
mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of
the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre
stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant
community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim begin crawling
out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven
Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the
underworld can be decided. Will Paige know who to trust? The hunt for the
dreamwalker is on.
The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste is
by Malcolm Pryce and is due to be published in March 2015. It was Tuesday the second of December 1947
when Jenny the Spiddler walked into my office: almost a month before they
nationalised my mother. Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that
fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway
Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925
to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway and all that the
good men of England fought for in two world wars, Jack keeps the trains free of
fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German
spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the
nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that
begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker
and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the
labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore - the
disappearance in 1915 of twenty-three nuns from the 7.25 Swindon to Bristol
Temple Meads, or the case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste. Shady government agents,
drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged bookseller, a missing manuscript, a
melancholic gorilla and a 4070 Godstow Castle engine - the one with a sloping
throatplate in the firebox and the characteristic double cough in the chuffs -
all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.
Haunted
by his failure to prevent the violent murders of two innocent women, Gibraltarian
Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins
is by James Runcie and is due to be published in May 2015. The loveable full-time
priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing
adventures in 1960's Cambridge. On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a
stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester's church, convinced he has murdered
his wife. Sidney and his wife Hildegard go for a shooting weekend in the
country and find their hostess has a sinister burn on her neck. Sidney's friend
Amanda receives poison pen letters when at last she appears to be approaching
matrimony. A firm of removal men 'accidentally' drop a Steinway piano on a
musician's head outside a Cambridge college. During a cricket match, a group of
schoolboys blow up their school Science Block. On a family holiday in Florence,
Sidney is accused of the theft of a priceless painting. Meanwhile, on the home
front, Sidney's new curate Malcolm seems set to become rather irritatingly
popular with the parish; his baby girl Anna learns to walk and talk; Hildegard
longs to get an au pair and Sidney is offered a promotion.
Under
the heartless vault of the Greenland's artic sky the body of a girl is
discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of
life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an
ice melt has revealed her. When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen
is flown in to investigate this horrific murder and he sees how she was
attacked, it triggers a dark memory and he realises this was not the killer's
only victim. As Simonsen's team work to discover evidence that has long since
been buried, they unearth truths that certain people would rather stayed
forgotten, disturbing details about the moral standing of some of Denmark's
political figures are revealed and powerful individuals are suddenly working
against them. But the pressure is on as it becomes clear that the killer
chooses victims who all look unsettlingly similar, a similarity that may be
used to the investigators' advantage, just so long as they can keep the suspect
in their sights. The Girl in The Ice is by Lotte & Søren Hammer and is due to be
published in June 2015.
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