January 2017
Defender is by G X Todd. On the cusp of sleep, have we not all heard a
voice call out our name?' In a world where long drinks are in short supply, a
stranger listens to the voice in his head telling him to buy a lemonade from
the girl sitting on a dusty road. The moment locks them together. Here and now
it's dangerous to listen to your inner voice. Those who do, keep it quiet.
These voices have purpose. And when Pilgrim meets Lacey, there is a reason. He
just doesn't know it yet. Defender pulls you on a wild ride to a place where
the voices in your head will save or slaughter you. #HearTheVoices
She
stole her husband. Now she wants to take her life. After the horrors of the
past, Louisa Williams is desperate to make a clean start. Her husband Sam is
dead. Her children, too, are gone, victims of the car accident in which he
died. Sam said that she would never get away from him. That he would hound her
to death if she tried to leave. Louisa never thought that he would want to harm
their children though. But then she never thought that he would betray her with
a woman like Sophie. And now Sophie is determined to take all that Louisa has
left. She wants to destroy her reputation and to take what she thinks is owed
her - the life she would have had if Sam had lived. Her husband's lover wants
to take her life. The only question is will Louisa let her? Her Husband’s Lover is by Julia Crouch.
Right Behind You is by Lisa Gardner.
Thirteen-year-old Sharlah Nash knows that the first time her brother killed
eight years ago, he did it to save their lives. Now retired FBI profiler Pierce
Quincy and his wife Rainie Connor have offered Sharlah a new life of safety.
She desperately wants to believe this is her shot at happily ever after. Then
two people are murdered in their local convenience store and Sharlah's brother
is identified as the killer. Telly Ray Nash is on the hunt for Sharlah and as
the death count rises it becomes clear that nothing and no-one, including
Pierce and Rainie, will stop him getting to her. Now, Sharlah has one chance to
take control. She can run for her life...or turn and face the danger right
behind her.
March 2017
Marnie
and Noah are investigating a series of assaults. The attacks appear to be
random, the targets young and old, men and women, but all were convicted of
violent crimes and recently released. They are on the perpetrator's trail when
outside events come to the fore. Marnie's parents' house has been targeted by a
gang of youths, her tenants attacked in an apparent robbery and Marnie can't
help but feel there's a connection to Stephen, her foster brother. Noah's
brother Sol is about to fall foul of the gang he pretends not to be involved
in. As they investigate they begin to question whether all three cases
linked...after all some crimes are quieter and more insidious than killing... Quieter
Than Killing is by Sarah Hilary.
Gone Without a Trace
is by Mary Torjussen. No one ever
disappears completely...You leave for work one morning. Another day in your
normal life. Until you come home to discover that your boyfriend has gone. His
belongings have disappeared. He hasn't been at work for weeks. It's as if he
never existed. But that's not possible, is it? And there is worse still to
come. Because just as you are searching for him someone is also watching you.
Called
in to investigate the disappearance of a young couple during a violent storm,
Paula Maguire, forensic psychologist, has mixed feelings about going back to
Bone Island. Her last family holiday as a child was spent on its beautiful,
remote beaches and returning brings back haunting memories of her long-lost
mother. It soon becomes clear that outsiders aren't welcome on the island, and
with no choice but to investigate the local community, Paula soon suspects foul
play, realising that the islanders are hiding secrets from her, and each other.
With another storm fast approaching, Paula is faced with a choice. Leave alive
or risk being trapped with a killer on an inescapable island, as the blood tide
rushes in... Blood Tide is by Claire McGowan
April 2017
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is by
Hannah Tinti. After years spent living
on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter Loo to Olympus,
Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a
fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her
mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries
on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually
spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a
reckoning yet to come.
My Sister is by
Michelle Adams. You don't get to choose
your family. She thought she'd never go back home. But there's something in her
sister's voice she just can't refuse. And hasn't it always been that way? What
her sister asks, she does ...
When
supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found battered and strangled in her Edinburgh
flat, former Chief Constable Bob Skinner's old team instantly have a global
case on their hands. The victim's husband, world-renowned footballer and recent
Merrytown FC signing, is quickly discounted as a suspect. But there are others
in the club with less watertight alibis...Two years out of the game, Skinner
can't help getting his hands dirty. And as his old team work to convict the
prime suspect, his own daughter, Alex, is the lawyer tasked with leading the
defence. The opposing sides must work to find the culprit while the press watch
on. But in this game, no one can be trusted, and there are murkier deeds still
to uncover before the final whistle blows...
Game Over is by Quintin
Jardine.
May 2017
See What I have Done is by Sarah
Schmidt. When her father and step-mother
are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden - thirty
two years old and still living at home - immediately becomes a suspect. But
after a notorious trial, she is found innocent, and no one is ever convicted of
the crime. Meanwhile, others in the claustrophobic Borden household have their
own motives and their own stories to tell: Lizzie's unmarried older sister, a
put-upon Irish housemaid, and a boy hired by Lizzie's uncle to take care of a
problem.
June 2017
The
Wages of Sin is by Kaite Welsh. Sarah
Gilchrist has fled from London to Edinburgh in disgrace and is determined to
become a doctor, despite the misgivings of her family and society. As part of
the University of Edinburgh's first intake of female medical students, Sarah
comes up against resistance from lecturers, her male contemporaries, and -
perhaps worst of all - her fellow women, who will do anything to avoid being
associated with a fallen woman...When one of Sarah's patients turns up in the
university dissecting room as a battered corpse, Sarah finds herself drawn into
Edinburgh's dangerous underworld of bribery, brothels and body snatchers - and
a confrontation with her own past.
When
I first saw Gabriel's picture in the newspaper, I thought that's not him, it's
someone else. On the night of his 40th birthday party, Gabriel Atkinson's wife
goes missing and his mother is attacked. When police arrive he confesses to the
crimes. What made him do it? What was the tipping point for the successful man,
the ultimate golden boy, that caused him to crack? This is the story of
Gabriel, and of his mother, charting their lives from the time when she covered
up a terrible crime and has done everything she can to protect her son. How far
can a mother go with the wrong kind of love, such that it suffocates and
destroys her most precious thing? An Act
of Silence is by Colette McBeth
August 2017
Yesterday
is by Felicia Yap. How do you solve a
murder when you can only remember yesterday? There are two types of people in
the world. Those who can only remember yesterday, and those who can also recall
the day before. You have just one lifeline to the past: your diary. Each night,
you write down the things that matter. Each morning, your diary tells you where
you were, who you loved and what you did. Today, the police are at your door.
They say that the body of your husband's mistress has been found in the River
Cam. They think your husband killed her two days ago. Can you trust the police?
Can you trust your husband? Can you trust yourself?
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