January 2019
Sometimes the people we trust are the ones we should fear. We
all recognise them. Those who sit just on the fringes of society. Who send
prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers. The liars. The manipulators.
Those who have the potential to go that one step too far. And then take another
step. Jessamine Gooch makes a living from these people. Each week she
broadcasts a radio show looking into the past lives of convicted killers;
asking if there was more that could have been done to prevent their terrible
crimes. Then one day she is approached by a woman desperate to find her missing
friend, Cassie, fearing her abusive husband may have taken that final deadly
step. But as Jessamine delves into the months prior to Cassie's disappearance
she fails to realise there is a dark figure closer to home, one that threatens
the safety of her own family . . .
The Dangerous Kind is by Deborah O’Connor.
Nemesis is by Rory Clements.
A race against time to unmask a Nazi spy. In a great English house, a young
woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the
land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . .
On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student
Julian Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International
Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the
Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland.
Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many
casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb
in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various
strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find
himself in great personal danger. For just who is Julian Marfield? And where
does his loyalty lie?
February 2019
Dolly, Linda, Shirley and Bella are back. And this time it’s a fight to the finish.
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the
impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off - at the cost of
their lives. But though they may be in the money, they're far from easy street.
Shocked by her husband's betrayal, Dolly discovers Harry Rawlins isn't dead. He
knows where the four women are and he wants them to pay. And he doesn't just
mean getting his hands on the money. The women can't keep running. They have to
get Harry out of their lives for good. But can they outwit a criminal
mastermind who won't hesitate to kill? Especially when one of them has a plan
of her own . . . to kill or be killed.
Revenge is by Lynda La Plante.
March 2019
For psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen, life is
good. She and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren, have just returned from
a dream holiday in Greenland and the symptoms of her early onset dementia seem
to be under control. Then they are asked to go to the small, sleepy industrial
town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case: ten years earlier a five-year-old
girl's remains were found in a cairn near the town. With her dementia creeping
back again, Hanne starts to keep a diary noting down everything she is likely
to forget. She will go to any lengths to keep up appearances so she doesn't
lose her job, or worse: Peter. Then Hanne is found wandering around the
outskirts of Ormberg lost, hurt and confused - and Peter is missing. When the
body of a woman is found at the cairn and one of Hanne's shoes is found nearby
covered in the victim's blood, can Hanne's diary hold the key to what happened?
How does this new murder connect to their old one - and where is Peter? After She’s Gone is by Camilla Grebe.
April 2019
Stasi 77 is by David Young.
A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime. Karin Muller of the
German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east
of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned
nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was he targeted? Could his
murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory's nationalisation,
as Muller's Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner
behaving so strangely? As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there is
a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge. Soon Muller begins to
realise that in order to solve these terrible crimes, she will need to delve
into the region's dark past. But are the Stasi really working with her on this
case? Or against her? For those who really run this Republic have secrets they
would rather remain uncovered. And they will stop at nothing to keep them that
way.
May 2019
Your Deepest Fear is by David Jackson. ...They're here. They're-' The message on
Sara Prior's phone contains the last words she will ever hear from her husband.
Racing to find him, she discovers he has been brutally murdered. While the
police struggle to uncover evidence around this shocking crime, it becomes
clear that Sara is no ordinary bereaved wife. And she is not the sort of woman
to let things lie. Following a hidden clue in her husband's last desperate
phone-call, Sara follows the trail to the house of the last person she'd expect
. . . Meanwhile DS Nathan Cody finds himself drawn into the darkest and most
twisted case of his career. And this time things are about to get very very
personal.
Things are about to go viral in Marc Dane's most dangerous
adventure yet . . . Marc and his partner - former US Delta Force sniper Lucy
Keyes - are pitted against their most terrifying challenge yet, when a genius bio-researcher
with the ability to create a deadly biological weapon is kidnapped by a
ruthless terrorist. Their desperate search for the missing scientist takes them
across the world, from the desolate wilderness of Iceland to the slums of the
Near East and the dark underbelly of a fracturing Europe, where they will
discover a shocking atrocity in the making. Backed by shadowy interests, a cadre
of hardline ultra-right-wing extremists plan to unleash a lethal virus among
the population of a major European city. Only Marc Dane can prevent this
devastating attack from taking place - before a whole continent is plunged into
terror... Shadow is by James
Swallow.
June 2019
The Holiday is by T M Logan.
Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the
perfect holiday - a group of families enjoying a week together in the sun. Four
women who have been best friends for as long as they can remember - Kate,
Rowan, Jennifer and Izzy - making the most of a luxurious villa in the south of
France. But Kate has a secret: her husband is having an affair. And a week away
might just be the perfect opportunity to get the proof she needs - to catch him
in the act once and for all. Because she suspects the other woman is one of her
two best friends. One of them is working against her, willing to sacrifice
years of friendship to destroy her family. But which one? As Kate closes in on
the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the
stakes are far higher than she ever imagined . . . Because someone in the villa
may be prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden.
The Possession is by Michael Rutger. A team of explorers are drawn to Northern
California to investigate mysterious stone walls whose presence has never been
explained. Soon they will become drawn
into a missing person’s case being investigated nearby – and come to realise
that the two are connected in terrifying ways.
Stone Cold Heart is by Caz Frear. When Joseph Madden approaches DC Cat
Kinsella, he's looking for her help with his wife, Rosa, who he says has been
threatening him, although he refuses to discuss why. Dismissing it as a
marriage on the rocks, Cat tells him that there's not much the police can do
without firm evidence of harassment. When Joseph is then arrested for the
murder of Naomi Petrovic, his defence is that his wife is setting him up. Naomi
was at a party attended by the couple and hosted by Rosa's best friend and
sister-in-law, Kirstie Connor. A woman who is described as being 'close' to
Joseph. Appearing genuinely outraged at her husband's arrest, Rosa insists that
he is innocent, but when key pieces of evidence against Joseph start to look
shaky, Cat begins to consider that he might be telling the truth. But why would
Rosa frame her husband for murder? And who, then, killed Naomi Petrovic? The
truth is never simple. Who would you believe?
A.D. 79. Parthia is gripped by civil war. One king vying for
the throne, desperate for help, welcomes an alliance from an unlikely source: a
man claiming to be Nero, the dethroned Roman emperor. Meanwhile, young Gaius
wishes he could spend his summer on the Bay of Naples amongst his books.
Instead Pliny, the famous admiral, has sent him to befriend the nephew of
Ulpius, the mysterious blind senator from Spain. A man Pliny does not trust.
But when a Parthian hostage is nearly killed, days before Parthian emissaries
are expected, and as rumours of the False Nero entering the land reaches Rome,
Gaius and Pliny race to learn how these events are connected. As the political
intrigue comes to a head, something happens that only the mysterious
clairvoyant Sybil could have foreseen: Mount Vesuvius erupts, and black ash
fills the sky . . . The Exiled is by
David Barbaree.
August 2019
Renowned surgeon Michael Trenchard locks his office door and
prepares for a relaxing evening – Wagner and a fine Scotch. A knock at the dorr: the person who excites
him more than anyone else. But what
follows will turn his dreams into a living nightmare …. for he will be
discovered later that night in a locked-in coma, the victim of auto-erotic
asphyxiation .. Can this really be an accident?
It is left to Dr Kash Devan, Trenchard’s young protégé to uncover the truth. What he discovers is chilling: in his
ruthless pursuit of wealth and success Trenchard has left a trail of wrecked
lives behind him. Which of his victims
hated him so much they wanted to ruin not only his reputation, but also his
life. Control is by Hugh
Montgomery.
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