July 2018
Cold Desert Sky is by Rod Reynolds. No one wanted to say it to me, that the girls
were dead. But I knew. Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have
returned to Los Angeles, trying to stay anonymous in the city of angels. But
when Yates, back in his old job at the Pacific Journal, becomes obsessed by the
disappearance of two aspiring Hollywood starlets, Nancy Hill and Julie
Desjardins, he finds it leads him right back to his worst fear: legendary Mob
boss Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a man he once crossed, and whose shadow he can't
shake. As events move from LA to the burgeoning Palace of Sin in the desert,
Las Vegas - where Siegel is preparing to open his new Hotel Casino, The
Flamingo - Rod Reynolds once again shows his skill at evoking time and place.
With Charlie caught between the FBI and the mob, can he possibly see who is
playing who, and find out what really happened to the two girls?
September 2018
Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt
knows that it is someone from her past trying to kill her, she just doesn't know who. Making a break for it from the cops who arrive on the scene, she sets off in search of the truth, or whatever version of it she can find. But perhaps the biggest mystery of all lies deeper than that, somewhere out there on the ever rolling highway of life. Set between modern day Las Vegas and LA, The Infinite Blacktop sees Claire at her lowest point yet, wounded and disorientated, but just about hanging on. Too smart for her own good, too damaged to play by the rules, too crazy for most - have you got what it takes to follow the self-appointed 'best detective in the world'? The Infinite Blacktop is by Sara Gran
The Shrouded Path is by Sarah Ward. The past won't stay buried forever. November,
1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills
of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the
old train tracks into the dark tunnel of the Cutting. Only five appear on the
other side. October, 2014: a dying mother, feverishly fixated on a friend from
her childhood, makes a plea: 'Find Valerie.' Mina's elderly mother had never
discussed her childhood with her daughter before. So who was Valerie? Where
does her obsession spring from? DC Connie Childs, off balance after her last
big case, is partnered up with new arrival to Bampton, Peter Dahl. Following up
on what seems like a simple natural death, DC Childs' old instincts kick in,
pointing her right back to one cold evening in 1957. As Connie starts to
broaden her enquiries, the investigation begins to spiral increasingly close to
home.
October 2018
Under the Night is by Alan Glynn. 1950s Manhattan - Ad man Ned Sweeney finds
himself 
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