There
is a secret, hidden within a body, burning within the flames that will change
it all. A man's charred corpse is found in the latest of a string of arson
attacks in the French city of Orleans. His is the first death. An extremist
group claim responsibility but their whereabouts cannot be found. Police
inspector Capitaine Ines Picault and her team must track them down before more
people die. Their only clue? The name of a woman who has been dead for over 500
years: Joan of Arc. She is one of the great enigmas of history - a young woman
who came from nowhere to lead the armies of France to victory against England.
And who died the same fiery death as the man whose body has just been
discovered. As more fires rage in Orleans and the death toll mounts, Picault
must look to the past and the secrets, which lie, buried there to unravel the
mysteries of the present. As the clock counts down, she must challenge some
fundamental truths to save those closest to her...Into the Fire is a
breath-taking collision of past and present, a brilliant race-against-time
thriller combined with an immaculately woven historical narrative. In it,
bestselling author Manda Scott demonstrates why she is one of the most
exciting, innovative and highly accomplished storytellers of our age. Into
The Fire is by Manda Scott and is due to be published in June 2015.
We
all think we know who we are. What we're capable of. Roz is a single mother, a
physiotherapist, a sister, a friend. She's also desperate. Her business has
gone under, she's crippled by debt and she's just had to explain to her son why
someone's taken all their furniture away. But now a stranger has made her an
offer. For one night with her, he'll pay enough to bring her back from the
edge. Roz has a choice to make. The
Mistake I Made is by Paula Daly and is due to be published in August 2015.
Little
Black Lies is by Sharon Bolton and is due to be published in July 2015. What's
the worst thing your best friend could do to you? Admittedly, it wasn't murder.
A moment's carelessness, a tragic accident - and two children are dead. Yours.
Living in a small island community, you can't escape the woman who destroyed
your life. Each chance encounter is an agonizing reminder of what you've lost -
your family, your future, your sanity. How long before revenge becomes
irresistible? With no reason to go on living, why shouldn't you turn your
darkest thoughts into deeds? So now, what's the worst thing you can do to your
best friend?
Ex-deniable
operator Nick Stone has spent a lifetime in harm's way - but when someone he
cares for very deeply is murdered in cold blood, he can no longer just take the
pain. A high-level internecine conflict at the dark heart of the resurgent
Russian Empire and an assassin's bullet on an isolated Alpine pass? Propel him
from an apparently run-of-the-mill close-protection task into his most brutal
and challenging mission yet. As the body count increases, Stone becomes one of
Europe's Most Wanted. He must evade the elite police forces of three nations in
his pursuit of faceless men who trade in human misery, and a lone wolf
terrorist who threatens to unleash the Western World's worst nightmare.
Vengeance of the most explosive kind is top of Stone's agenda. The fuse has
been ignited - but who really holds the detonator? Detonator
is by Andy McNab and is due to be published in October 2015.
There
are three things no-one can prepare you for when your daughter is murdered: -
You are haunted by her memory day and night - Even close friends can't
understand what you are going through. - Only in a group with mothers of other
victims can you find real comfort. But as the bereaved parents gather to offer
support in the wake of another killing, a crack appears in the group that
threatens to rock their lives all over again. Welcome to the club no one wants
to join. First One Missing is by Tammy
Cohen and is due to be published in July 2015.
Scourge
of Rome by Douglas Jackson is the sixth book in the Gaius Valerius Verrens and
is due to be published on August 2015. 70AD.
Disgraced, dishonoured and banished into exile on pain of execution if he ever
returns to Rome, the former military tribune Gaius Valerius Verrens makes his
way East through the death and destruction of the savage Judaean rebellion.
Valerius knows his only hope of long term survival and a restoration of his
family's fortunes lie with his friend Titus, commander of the Army of Judaea
and son of the newly crowned Emperor Vespasian. But when he reaches the ring of
legionary camps around the seemingly impregnable city of Jerusalem he finds
Titus a changed man. Gone is the cheerful young officer he knew, replaced by a
tough, ruthless soldier under pressure from his father to end the insurrection
at any cost. Soon, Valerius finds himself at the centre of a web of intrigue
spun by Titus' lover, Queen Berenice of Cilicia, and her sometime ally, the
general's turncoat adviser, Flavius Josephus, who have an ulterior motive for
ending the siege quickly. Yet the laurels that will regain his honour cannot be
won in the negotiations in the murky tunnels beneath Jerusalem. Only amid the
fire and blood of battle will he equal the glory that brought him the title
Hero of Rome.
July
1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind
the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser
with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended
in failure - and his own death. The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a
mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura. Unaware
of Max's fate, the team he has recruited to finish the job are already there,
where their paths cross that of former German spymaster, Fritz Lemmer, now
rebuilding his spy network in the service of a new, more sinister cause. In the
days and weeks ahead, the quest Max embarked on in Paris will reach its
dizzying end at Tomura's castle in the mountains of Honshu - and the full truth
of what occurred thirty years before will finally be laid bare... The Ends of The Earth is by Robert Goddard
and is due to be published in July 2015.
The
Voices Beyond is by Johan Theorin and is due to be published in July 2015. Summer
on the beautiful Swedish island of Oland. Visitors arrive in their thousands,
ready to enjoy the calm and relaxation of this paradise. Amongst them is Jonas
Kloss, excited at the prospect of staying with his aunt, uncle and older
cousins. But it is not as he had hoped. One night he takes a boat out onto the moonlit
sea. A
In
every detective's life there are cases that can't be discussed, and throughout
the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as
the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal. Now Arthur
Bryant has decided to open the files on eleven of these previously unseen investigations
that required the collective genius and unique modus operandi of Arthur Bryant
and John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit - investigations that range from
different times (London during the Great Smog) and a variety of places: a
circus freak show, on board a London Tour Bus and even a yacht off the coast of
Turkey. And in addition to these eleven classic cases, readers are also given a
privileged look inside the Peculiar Crimes Unit (literally, with a cut away
drawing of their offices), a guide to the characters of the Peculiar Crimes
Unit, and access to the contents of Arthur Bryant's highly individual library. Bryant & May – London Glory is by
Christopher Fowler and is due to be published in November 2015.
When
a six year old girl is found dead, hanging from a tree, the only clue the Oslo
Police have to work with is an airline tag around her neck. It reads 'I'm
travelling alone'. Holger Munch, veteran police investigator, is immediately
charged with re-assembling his homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must
convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Kruger - a brilliant but troubled
investigator - to return from the solitary island where she has retreated with
plans to take her own life. Reviewing the evidence, Mia identifies something no
one else has noticed - a thin line carved into the dead girl's fingernail: the
number 1. Instinctively, she knows that this is only the beginning. To save
other children from the same fate, she must find a way to cast aside her own
demons and confront the most terrifying, cold-hearted serial killer of her
career... I’m Travelling Alone is by
Samuel Bjork and is due to be published in July 2015.
Playing
with Fire is by Tess Gerritsen and is due to be published in October 2015. Imagine
if you were home alone and your daughter violently attacked you. Julia doesn't
understand what is happening to her daughter, but she thinks she knows what's
causing it. She is terrified for Lily, and for herself, but what scares her
more is that no one believes her. If she is going to help Lily, she will have
to find the answers alone, embarking on a search that will take her to the
shadowy back streets of Venice. There, Julia uncovers a heart-breaking,
long-buried tale of tragedy and devastation - a discovery that puts her in
serious danger. Some people will do anything in their power to keep the truth
silent...
Vanishing
Game is by Roger Hobbs and is due to be published in July 2015. I work alone. I may be the best thief in the
world but no one will ever know a single thing about me. Well, almost no one. A
lifetime ago I had a mentor, Angela. She taught me how to be a criminal, how to
run a heist. And now, six years after she vanished and left me high and dry on
a job in Kuala Lumpur, she's sent me an SOS. Or at least I think it's her. If
it is, then I've got to go. I owe her that much. So soon I'll be on a plane to
Macau, either to see a friend or walk into a trap. Or both. But that's the way
I like it. Sometimes the only thing that makes me happy is risking my life.
Time to go.
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