A
Sadistic killer is on the loose in Glasgow.
Thomas Boag escaped from his first court appearance facing charges on a
brutal murder. He's suspected in the disappearances of two other people. Now
he's out for revenge. Rosie Gilmour, crime reporter, helped put Boag behind
bars. It was her investigation that provided enough evidence to arrest him. Now
she's watching her back. Rosie tries to distract herself with a new story:
refugees trafficked into Glasgow and used as modern-day slaves - or worse. But
this investigation soon leads her into dangerous territory as it takes her up
against some of Glasgow's nastiest characters, and all the while, somewhere out
there, Boag is laying his trap... Death
Trap is by Anna Smith
The
Girl Before is by JP Delaney Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a
lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by
an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting
rules. After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a
mysterious death there - and starts to wonder if her own story will be a re-run
of the girl before.
In
1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a
picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer
heatwave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud
and slime. No one was ever convicted of
her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold
case - the toughest he has been challenged to solve. Yet when Enzo finds a flaw
in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a Pandora's Box
that not only raises old ghosts but endangers his entire family. Cast Iron is by Peter May.
February 2017
Boiled human bones have been found in
Norwich's web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they were
recently buried, DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands. The boiling
might have been just a medieval curiosity - now it suggests a much more
sinister purpose. Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance
of a local rough sleeper. The only trace of her is the rumour that she's gone
'underground'. This might be a figure of speech, but with the discovery of the
bones and the rumours both Ruth and the police have heard that the network of
old chalk-mining tunnels under Norwich is home to a vast community of rough
sleepers, the clues point in only one direction. Local academic Martin
Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history - but can his
assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true? As the weather
gets hotter, tensions rise. A local woman goes missing and the police are under
attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and
discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart - before it claims
another victim. The Chalk Pit is by Elly
Griffiths
A
Harvest of Thorns is by Corban Addison. A
beloved American corporation with an
March 2017
I
was there when it happened. I watched her disappear. Lillian had phoned telling
her to get Skype up and running. 'I have so much to tell you.' Then, the knock
on the door. 'Sorry Orla, I'd better see who it is' she said. Orla waited.
Seconds became minutes. She didn't know how long she waited before she realised
that something terrible had happened. For more than a decade, Lillian's
disappearance has remained unsolved, and Orla has found it impossible to move
on. Then she receives an unexpected visit from Ned Moynihan, the detective who
led the original investigation into her friend's vanishing. Moynihan has been
receiving anonymous notes accusing him of having failed to investigate the case
properly. He assumes the notes are coming from Orla, yet Orla knows nothing of
these letters. Is somebody trying to tell them the truth about what really
happened to Lillian that night? Without
a Word is by Kate McQuaile.
The
Last Act of Hattie Hoffman is by Mindy Mejia. Eighteen-year-old Hattie Hoffman
is a talented actress, loved by everyone in her Minnesotan hometown. When she's
found stabbed to death on the opening night of her school play, the tragedy
rips through the fabric of the community. Sheriff Del Goodman, a close friend
of Hattie's dad, vows to find her killer, but the investigation yields more
secrets than answers: it turns out Hattie played as many parts offstage as on.
Told from three perspectives, Del's, Hattie's high school English teacher and
Hattie herself, The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman tells the story of the Hattie
behind the masks, and what happened in that final year of her life...
INFILTRATOR
One-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from the
life prison sentence he escaped, and from the Polish drug mafia he
double-crossed. Only Hoffmann's handler, Erik Wilson, knows he now hides in
Cali, Colombia, living under a false identity with his wife Zofia and sons
Rasmus and Hugo. INFORMANT But life on the run is precarious. And so when
Hoffmann, in order to survive, accepts employment as a bodyguard and hit man
for the Colombian cocaine mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA
to infiltrate the same cartel, he chooses to say yes to both. Hoffmann has a
new, lucrative double life. IN TOO DEEP However, Hoffmann's successful
balancing act is short lived. When Timothy D. Crouse, Chairman of the US House
of Representatives, is kidnapped while on a trip to Colombia, US forces settle
on a new enemy for their next War on Terror. This gives the cartel and the US
government the same problem. Piet Hoffmann. Condemned and hung out to dry,
Hoffmann is stranded, and marked. Yet Erik Wilson will find him help from the
most unlikely of figures - the stubborn, acerbic Swedish detective who has
never forgotten Piet Hoffmann's face. DCI Ewert Grens - the enemy who Hoffmann
once tricked - will now become the only ally he can trust. Three Minutes is by Roslund and Hellström.
Suspended
from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too
many", Anne
April 2017
The
Special Girls is by Isabelle Grey. Who
are the Special Girls? Are they victims or 'asking for it'? A case of
historical child sex abuse by a famous doctor is linked to the murder of his
young and popular colleague at a summer camp deep in the Essex woods. A young
psychiatric registrar is found beaten to death in the woods close to a summer
camp for young patients suffering from eating disorders. It is run by the
charismatic, world-renowned Professor Ned Chesham. DI Grace Fisher
investigates, but it is not long before she is pulled from the case - to head
up a Metropolitan Police review into a cold case involving Chesham himself.
Nearly twenty years ago, one of Chesham's patients made allegations that he
sexually assaulted her. The investigation at the time found no conclusive
proof, but Grace soon discovers another victim, and a witness whose account
never reached the police. Does this mean the original investigation was
bungled? Scotland Yard would certainly like her to conclude otherwise. As Grace
uncovers the lies that led to the young doctor's murder, she discovers the full
extent of the damage done to Chesham's 'special girls' - and the danger they
are still in.
Prussian
Blue is by Philip Kerr. It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by
Erich
SUMMER
OF LOVE She made a profit from her youth. She's not beautiful anymore - but she
will be young forever. Called away from his pregnant girlfriend, Detective
Sergeant Cathal Breen knows the sight of the murdered prostitute will be with
him all his life. But this is what he does: he finds killers. Helen Tozer, more
than most, understands why. SUMMER OF DEATH The girl they called Julie Teenager
had a client list full of suspects - all rich, powerful - and protected.
Someone warns off the beat coppers; someone disturbs the crime scene. Breen
begins to fear that this is more than the murder of a prostitute. It's
political. Then Helen, with her ex-copper's instincts and fierce moral sense,
gets dangerously involved. And Breen knows he has more to lose than ever
before. He is about to become a father. He can have no sympathy for the devil.
Breen and Tozer met through murder. They work in a world before forensics or
criminal databases; a world that's bigoted and brutal. Sympathy for the
Devil is by William Shaw.
May 2017
The
Night Visitor is by Lucy Atkins. How far
would you go to save your reputation? Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard
to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and
historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a
crowd at the launch of her new bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her
life has spiralled into deceit and if the truth comes out, she will lose
everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done. Vivian Tester is the
socially awkward sixty-year-old housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the
Victorian diary on which Olivia's book is based. She has now become Olivia's
unofficial research assistant. And Vivian has secrets of her own. As events
move between London, Sussex and the idyllic South of France, the relationship
between these two women grows more entangled and complex. Then a bizarre act of
violence changes everything. The Night Visitor is a compelling exploration of
ambition, morality and deception that asks the question: how far would you go
to save your reputation?
June 2017
Being
held hostage at gunpoint by her childhood friend is not Dr Heather Gilmore's
idea of a good day at work. It only gets worse when she hears that her
nineteen-year-old daughter Leah has been kidnapped. Sergeant Claire Boyle
wasn't expecting to get caught up in a hostage situation during a doctor's appointment.
When it becomes apparent that the kidnapping is somehow linked to the
hostage-taker, a woman called Eileen Delaney, she is put in charge of finding
the missing girl. What happened between Eileen and Heather to make Eileen so
determined to ruin her old friend? Claire Boyle must dig up the secrets from
their pasts to find out - and quickly, because Leah is still missing, and time
is running out to save her. One Bad Turn is by Sinead Crowley.
Sweet After Death is by Valentina
Giambanco In the dead of winter Homicide Detective Alice Madison is sent to the
remote town of Ludlow, Washington, to investigate an unspeakable crime.
Together with her partner Detective Sergeant Kevin Brown and crime scene
investigator Amy Sorensen, Madison must first understand the killer's
motives...but the dark mountains that surround Ludlow know how to keep their
secrets and that the human heart is wilder than any beast's. As the killer
strikes again Madison and her team are under siege. And as they become targets
Madison realises that in the freezing woods around the pretty town a cunning
evil has been waiting for her.
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