July 2017
It's
always darkest before the light. In the chilling seventh instalment of the
bestselling, critically acclaimed Frieda Klein series, evil circles close to
home. Psychotherapist Frieda Klein's home is her refuge. Then she returns to
find it has become a crime scene. Beneath the floorboards the police have found
the body of a man she had hired to help protect her. The message from the
killer is clear: you're mine. But when those closest to Frieda begin to be
targeted the picture becomes more confused, the patterns uncertain. And unless
Frieda can find and stop whoever is threatening her friends and family her love
and loyalty could come at a fatal cost .... Sunday Morning Coming Down is by
Nicci French.
The
Marriage Pact is by Michelle Richmond. Your marriage is for ever. Would you stake
your life on that? Jake believes Alice is the perfect woman to spend the rest
of his life with. So when they're offered a mysterious wedding gift - the
chance to join a society which ensures they'll never divorce - he doesn't
hesitate to sign the contract. Always answer when your spouse calls. Exchange
thoughtful gifts each month. Plan a trip together once per quarter. Have no
secrets from your spouse. They are initially seduced by the elite society, with
its glamorous parties and like-minded couples. Then one of them breaks the
rules. Don't even think about trying to escape ...The Pact will stop at nothing
to enforce the contract. And once you're in, there's no way out. As the
society's punishments grow more extreme, Jake and Alice fear for their lives.
Members never divorce, but why are they so often widowed? Is their love for
ever, as The Pact demands ...or have they made a fatal mistake? The marriage of
their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
I Am
Missing is by Tim Weaver. A man with no
memory of who he is or where he is from enlists the help of missing persons
investigator David Raker. When a young
man wakes up bruised, beaten and with no memory of who he is or where he came
from, the press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man'. Ten months later, Richard Kite - if that is
even his real name - remains as desperate as ever. Despite appeals and the
efforts of the police, no one knows this man.
Kite's last hope may be private investigator David Raker – a seasoned
locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers. Who is Richard Kite? Why does no one know him? And what links him to the body of a woman
found beside on a London railway line two years ago?
August
2017
When
Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a
crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything about the setting is
all too familiar. And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body,
their worst fears are confirmed there s a serial killer operating in the city
for the first time in years. Across town, Grace MacBride and her
unconventional partners at Monkeewrench Software find themselves at both
personal and career crossroads. Weary of the darker side of their computer work
for law enforcement, they agree to take on a private missing-persons case in a
small farming community in southwestern Minnesota. As the violence
accelerates in Minneapolis, Magozzi and Gino soon realize their killer is
planning to complete the deck, and they enlist Monkeewrench to help stop the
rampage. As a baffling tangle of evidence accumulates, the cops and
Monkeewrench make the unlikely connections among a farmer s missing daughter, a
serial killer, and a decades-old stabbing that brings them face-to-face with
pure evil. Nothing stays Buried is by P
J Tracy
September
2017
Romanov
Ransom is by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell.
From Russia to Jamaica to South America, husband-and wife
treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo are plunged into a dark and disturbing
mystery. Adventurers Sam and Remi Fargo
soon learn that a long-lost fortune may be back in play, but those responsible
are behind a series of unspeakable crimes. As the Fargos follow the trail across
Europe, Northern Africa, and South America, they know only
one thing, this adventure will be greater than anything before. Should they
fail, the world may witness the resurgence of one of the most terrifying evils
of the modern world.
A
Legacy of Spies is by John Le Carré.
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the
British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his
family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old
Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to
claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London
are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody
must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater
good.
November
2017
Seventy
years after the end of World War II, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon
find themselves in deep waters as they try to stop a war that would engulf the
entire continent of Asia. A search for
an art collection worth half a billion dollars leads the Oregon to Salvador
Locsin, the vicious Filipino rebel leader. But with access to a powerful serum
designed to create an army of supersoldiers, Locsin's insurgency threatens more
than just the Philippines. To stop him, the crew of the Oregon must battle a
ruthless South African mercenary, hundreds of swarming torpedo drones and an
approaching catastrophic megastorm. If
Juan and his team of elite operatives can't defeat Locsin and destroy all
remnants of the horrific drug, the fall of the Philippines will be imminent.
And with it, will come the beginning of a new and apocalyptic world war. Typhoon Fury is by Clive Cussler
Shoot
the Crows is by Karen Perry. 'Three months before the killings I returned to
Thornbury Hall . . .' It's been nearly twenty years since Patrick Bagenal stood
with this group of friends at Thornbury Hall - his family's crumbling home that
he can no longer afford to keep. The last time was Patrick's eighteenth
birthday, an occasion swiftly followed by his father's suicide. Before Patrick
sells up, he and his sister Rachel, school friends Niall, Hilary and Marcus and
old flame Lindsey are back here for one last visit, a shooting party to rid the
grounds of the legion of crows. But as the weekend wears on, the layers of the
past are stripped away and murky secrets begin to surface. Ones that compel
revenge at any cost . . .
Nobody
remembers the young men entering the abandoned London flat a few weeks ago.
Nobody cares if they left. Until the
unbearable smell of decay. DCI Antonia
Hawkins is called in to view the dead men; three, lying neat in a row. There's
no damage to the bodies, no obvious cause of death. Is this a suicide pact? Or
is that just how it's meant to look? But Hawkins soon discovers the link between
the three men. They had all been fascinated by the supernatural and the occult.
And they had recently met in a tiny village just outside London. A village named Cold Christmas . . . Cold Christmas is by Alistair Gunn
December
2017
Someone
took Daisy mason. Someone you know. How
can a child vanish without a trace? Last
night, 8-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a summer party at her home. No
one at the party noticed her leave. Even her parents aren't sure of the last
time they saw her. DS Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows
that in nine cases out of ten, it's someone close to the victim. When a pair of
bloody tights is discovered, Fawley's worst suspicions are concerned. Someone
knows where Daisy is. And her time is running out. Close to Home is by Cara Hunter.
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