June 2016
The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich and Lee
Goldberg featuring FBI agent Kate O'Hare and her secret partner, fugitive
Nicolas Fox. FBI agent Kate O'Hare's covert partner has been kidnapped. But she
is in hot pursuit...Nicolas Fox, con man, thief, and one of the top ten
fugitives on the most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a retreat in Hawaii.
The kidnapper doesn't know that Nick Fox has been secretly working for the FBI
and that his partner, Special Agent Kate O'Hare, is on their trail. The pursuit
leads to Belgium, France and Italy, and pits Nick and Kate against a deadly
adversary: Dragan Kovic, an ex-military officer from Serbia. He's plotting a
crime that will net him billions...and cost thousands of lives. Nick and Kate
have to mount an audacious con to avert catastrophe. The pressure's on for them
to make this work - even if they have to lay their lives on the line...
On a
cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon
the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to
this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this
well-dressed, middle-aged woman can be found. Even Jeb Fisher, the local
rag-and-bone man, swears he's seen nothing. Meanwhile, Ben's wife Lizzie is
trying to suppress a scandal: family friend Edgar Wellings has a gambling
addiction and no means of repaying his debts. Reluctantly, Lizzie agrees to
visit his debt collector's house in Deptford, but when she arrives she finds
her husband is investigating the murder of the woman in question. Edgar was the
last man to see Mrs Clifford alive and he has good reason to want her dead, but
Ben and Lizzie both know that a case like this is rarely as simple as it
appears... The Dead Woman of Deptford is by Ann Granger.
July 2016
Set
in London in 1837, Anna Mazzola's The
Unseeing is the story of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother, sentenced to
hang for her role in the murder of Hannah Brown on the eve of her wedding.
After Sarah petitions for mercy, Edmund Fleetwood is appointed to investigate
and consider whether justice has been done. Idealistic, but struggling with his
own demons, Edmund is determined to seek out the truth. Yet Sarah refuses to
help him, neither lying nor adding anything to the evidence gathered in court.
Edmund knows she's hiding something, but needs to discover just why she's
maintaining her silence. For how can it be that someone would willingly go to
their own death?
August 2016
Curious Minds is by Janet Evanovich and
screenwriter Phoef Sutton They couldn't be less compatible, but they make a
great team...Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little-to-no
sense of social etiquette. Good thing he's also brilliant, rich and (some
people might say) handsome. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard. Her
assertive (some people might say aggressive) spitfire attitude has helped land
a dream job at Blane-Grunwald bank. At least, Riley Moon thinks it's her dream
job until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight. An
inquiry about missing Knight money leads to a missing man, missing gold and a
life-and-death race across the country. Through the streets of Washington D.C.,
and down into the underground vault of the Federal Reserve in New York City, an
evil plan is exposed. A plan so sinister that only a megalomaniac could think
it up, and only the unlikely duo of the irrepressibly charming Emerson Knight
and the tenacious Riley Moon could hope to stop it...
Psychiatrist
Dr. Evelyn Talbot thought she had experienced her darkest nightmare when she
was targeted as a teenager by a killer, but she's about to find out that some
nightmares return again and again... Dr. Evelyn Talbot has learnt to live with the
fear. As a teenager she was targeted by her boyfriend, Jasper Moore, and
survived days of torture. She escaped with her life, but Jasper disappeared
before he could be caught. Now Evelyn Talbot lives in a world of psychopaths.
As the pioneering head of the Hanover House institute in Alaska, she engages
daily with killers who have no conscience, no remorse and an ever-increasing
desire to murder her. Her only desire is to try and figure out why they do what
they do and stop them. But when a mutilated body is found in her sleepy Alaskan
town Evelyn is forced to question herself, her inmates and whether her darkest
nightmare has come back to haunt her... Her Darkest Nightmare is by Brenda
Novak.
Dark Serpent is by Paul Doherty. Summer 1311, and Sir Hugh Corbett has taken
up a life of
September 2016
A
very egalitarian killer. The nun is dead, her body lies on the mayor's lawn.
And it isn't alone. There are four of them altogether. They've been killed at
different times, in different places, and dumped there. There should be five -
but the boy is missing. One second he was there...Jonah Quill, blind since
birth, sits in a car driven by a killer and wonders where they are going.
Though he is blind, Jonah sees more than most people do. It is his secret, and
he is counting on that to save his life. Then gone. Detective Kathy Mallory is
counting on herself to save his life. It takes her a while to realise that the
missing-person case she is pursuing is so intimately connected to the massacre
on the mayor's lawn. But there's something about the boy she is searching for
that reminds her of herself, all those years ago. She will find him - she just
hopes it will be in time. Blind Sight is by Carol O’Connell.
Murder on the Serpentine is by Anne
Perry. Pitt is on a secret mission for
the Queen, maybe his last...London, 1899: Head of Special Branch Commander
Thomas Pitt is summoned to Buckingham Palace. In the twilight of her years,
Queen Victoria is all too aware that the Prince of Wales will soon inherit her
empire and must be beyond reproach. She tells Pitt she tasked her close friend
and confidante, John Halberd, with investigating the Prince's friends,
specifically Alan Kendrick, a wealthy playboy and betting man, but before he
could report back, Halberd was found dead in a rowing boat on the Serpentine.
The death has been ruled an unfortunate accident and the investigation closed,
but the Queen is not convinced that all is as it seems and tasks Pitt with
finding the truth. Forced to act alone in this most sensitive of
investigations, Pitt finds himself embroiled in a plot that threatens not only
the reputations of men, but also the safety and reputation of the Empire...
A
return to Atlantis The lost city has defined Nina Wilde's life. Her parents'
obsession with Atlantis cost them their lives, but finding it brought Nina to
her husband Eddie Chase and a series of archaeological treasures. A secret
codex A decade later, the International Heritage Agency needs their help to
locate the Secret Codex, an account of ancient Atlantean explorer Talonor's
journeys, thought to be located in the dangerous underwater ruins of Atlantis.
Unable to resist one more adventure, the couple join the mission. A king whose
touch turns to gold But when a long-lost relative reappears in Nina's life,
asking her to use the Codex to find a hidden cave containing the secret of King
Midas, she is unprepared for the devastation that follows. The promise of
unlimited gold has aroused the greed of powerful and ruthless forces...and only
Nina and Eddie stand in their way. The
Midas Legacy is by Andy McDermott.
The Disciple is by Stephen Lloyd Jones. They
are coming... On a storm-battered road at the edge of the Devil’s Kitchen, a
woman survives a fatal accident and gives birth to a girl who should never have
lived. The child’s protection lies in the hands of Edward Schwinn - a loner who
must draw himself out of darkness to keep her safe - and her arrival will
trigger a chain of terrifying events that no one can explain. She is a child
like no other, being hunted by an evil beyond measure. For if the potential within her is realised,
nothing will be the same. Not for Edward. Not for any who live to see it.
October 2016
Betrayal is by Martina Cole. Survival. It's all down to who you trust. Aiden
O'Hara has been head of the family since he was kid, and he's going to keep it
that way. Jade Dixon is the one who watches his back. Mother of his son. The
one who makes him invincible. But Jade's been in the game a lot longer than
Aiden. She knows no one's indestructible. And when you're at the top, that's
when you've got to watch the hardest. Especially the ones closest to you ....
Christmas
1900. Victor Narraway, Thomas Pitt's former boss and his new wife Vespasia are
Fireraiser is by Torkil Damhaug.
A man obsessed with the cleansing power of fire is destroying
everything that reminds him of his youth. He calls himself the Fire Man. That
same Easter, a teenager is threatened by his girlfriend's tradition-bound family.
Karsten's attempts to protect himself put him and his sister Synne at even
greater risk. Then he disappears all together. Eight years later, Synne is
determined to find out what happened that night. But her investigation will
ignite smouldering and dangerous memories. And the Fire Man is still there,
waiting, and watching her search for the truth at every step…
November 2016
The Smoke Hunter is by Jacquelyn Benson.
Chasing a threat born in smoke...London, 1898. Archivist Eleanora Mallory discovers
a map to a legendary city. But is it the key to unravelling an ancient mystery
or a clever hoax? Compelled to find out, Ellie journeys to Central America -
with a merciless enemy hot on her heels. In a race to uncover the map's secret
first, Ellie is forced to partner with maverick archaeologist Adam Bates, a man
she's not sure she can trust. Together, they venture into an uncharted
wilderness alive with smoke and shadows, where an even greater danger awaits
them. For what lies there whispering to be unearthed has the power to bring the
world to its knees. Join Ellie and Adam as they battle rivers of scorpions,
plummeting waterfalls and pre-historic death traps on the journey to uncovering
a deadly secret that could shake the fate of the world.
Cincinnati's
children are in grave danger, and time is running out to save them...When FBI
Special Agent Griffin 'Decker' Davenport wakes from a coma, he immediately
thinks of two things: first, the ring of human traffickers he's spent the past
three years undercover to bring down was just the tip of the iceberg; second,
the brown eyes he sees upon waking belong to a woman he trusts to help him
finish the job he started. Special Agent Kate Coppola's mission is to stop the
growing menace of domestic human trafficking, starting with the customers and
suppliers of the now-broken Cincinnati trafficking ring. Decker's new
revelation is her worst nightmare - one of the traffickers' customers is
acquiring teens for the Internet sex trade. Knowing the lives of kids are at stake,
Kate and Decker ignore the risk to themselves, but the instinct to protect each
other is far harder to ignore with each day that they work together. The search
for this mystery customer becomes more difficult and dangerous with every
passing hour as witnesses, suspects, and even members of their own team, are
systematically exterminated by a predator who lets nothing stand in his
way. Every
Dark Corner is by Karen Rose.
Pendulum is by Adam Hamdy You wake.
Confused. Disorientated. A noose is round your neck. You are bound, standing on
a chair. All you can focus on is the man in the mask tightening the rope. You
are about to die. John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea
who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable. Then the
pendulum of fate swings in his favour. He has one chance to escape, find the
truth and halt his destruction. The momentum is in his favour for now. But with
a killer on his tail, everything can change with one swing of this deadly
pendulum...Targeted for death. Then fate intervenes. You have one chance. Run.
Paris,1937.
Luke Hamilton - a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy -
finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken
identity, or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding
towards war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that
predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage twenty-five
years ago. Where Dead Men Meet
is by Mark Mills.
Invictus is by Simon Scarrow. It is AD
54. The soldiers of the Roman army patrol a growing Empire, from the
Mediterranean to the North Sea, from the Atlantic to the banks of the Nile.
Rome brutally enforces its rule, and its legions are the most efficient and
aggressive fighting force in the world. Two battle-scarred veterans of this
army, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro, have survived years of campaigning in
Britannia and have been recalled to Rome. Their time in the teeming,
dangerously political city is short, and soon they are travelling with the
Praetorian Guard to Spain, a restless colony where simmering tension in the
face of Roman rule is aggravated by bitter rivalry amongst the natives. The
challenges that face two old friends and their comrades in arms are unlike any
they have seen before - in a land that declares itself unconquerable...
When
a woman and her husband, desperate for a baby, find themselves unable to
conceive, they decide to take further steps. Since it is the husband who is
infertile, the heroine decides to use a donor. And all seems to be well. Three
months pass and she is happily pregnant. But a shocking revelation occurs when
she discovers that a man arrested for a series of brutal murders is her donor -
the biological father of the child she is carrying. Delving deeper to uncover
the truth, the heroine must face her worst fears, and confront a terrifying
truth. Most Wanted is by Lisa Scottoline.
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