January 2019
One blustery October morning in a quiet suburb of Copenhagen,
the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered
in a playground and one of her hands
BREAKING: Nuclear weapon detonates over Washington. BREAKING: London hit, thousands feared
dead. BREAKING: Munich and Scotland hit.
World leaders call for calm. Historian Jon
Keller is on a trip to Switzerland when the world ends. As the lights go out on
civilisation, he wishes he had a way of knowing whether his wife, Nadia, and
their two daughters are still alive. More than anything, Jon wishes he hadn't
ignored Nadia's last message. Twenty
people remain in Jon's hotel. Far from the nearest city and walled in by
towering trees, they wait, they survive.
Then one day, the body of a young girl is found. It's clear she has been
murdered. Which means that someone in the hotel is a killer. As paranoia descends, Jon decides to
investigate. But how far is he willing to go in pursuit of justice? And what
kind of justice can he hope for, when society as he knows it no longer exists? The
Last is by Hanna Jameson.
February 2019
Out of the Dark is
by Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from the orphanage he called
home and inducted into a top secret Cold War programme. Trained as a lethal
weapon, he and his fellow recruits were sent round the world to do the
government's dirty work. But the programme was rotten to the core. And now the
man responsible needs things to be nice and clean. All evidence must be
destroyed. That includes Evan. To survive, Evan's going to have to take the
fight to his nemesis. There's just one problem with that. Jonathan Bennett is
President of the United States and Evan isn't his only victim. To save himself
- and the country - Evan is going to have to figure out how to kill the most
well-protected man on the planet...
One night, Annie went missing. Disappeared from her own
bed. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then,
miraculously, after forty-eight hours, she came back. But she couldn't, or
wouldn't, say what had happened to her. Something happened to my sister. I can't
explain what. I just know that when she came back, she wasn't the same. She
wasn't my Annie. I didn't want to admit, even to myself, that sometimes I was
scared to death of my own little sister.
The Taking of Annie Thorne is
by C J Tudor.
'For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded
hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints
everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything on the
other luminous and untouchable.' One
night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a
brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he
used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House,
filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his
cousins. But not long after Toby's
arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in
the garden. As detectives begin to close
in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family,
his past, and himself. The Wych Elm is by Tana French.
Day of the Accident
is by Nuala Ellwood. Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world
is torn apart. The police tell her that
her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been
driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing. When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the
police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her
daughter's funeral. What really happened
that day at the river? Where is Maggie's
husband? And why can't she shake the
suspicion that somewhere, somehow, her daughter is still alive?
March 2019
Adam Brandt is a forensic psychologist, used to dealing with
the most damaged members of society. But
he's never met anyone like Kassie. The teenager claims to have a terrible gift.
With just one look, she can foresee when and how you will die. Adam knows Kassie must be insane. But a
serial killer is terrorising the city. And only Kassie seems to know who his
next victim will be. Against all his
intuition, Adam starts to believe her.
But he doesn't realise how deadly his faith might prove... A Gift
for Dying is by M J Arlidge.
She Lies in Wait is
by Gytha Lodge. Six friends. One killer.
Who do you trust? On a hot July night in
1983, six school friends go camping in the forest. Bright and brilliant, they
are destined for great things, and young Aurora Jackson is dazzled to be
allowed to tag along.
The murder of a team of U.N. scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off Detroit. An attack from tomb raiders on an archeological site along the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie with the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. From the desert sands of Egypt to the rocky isles of Ireland to the deep water lochs of Scotland, only Dirk Pitt can unravel the secrets of an ancient enigma that could change the very future of mankind. Celtic Empire is by Clive and Dirk Cussler.
It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever
worked. The Christmas holidays, and two
children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North
Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his
life. Why were they left in the house
alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his
phone? Then new evidence is discovered,
and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true.
Because this fire wasn't an accident.
It was murder. No Way Out is by
Cara Hunter.
April 2019
Ellidaey is a collection of isolated islands off the coast of
Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to
vanish. The Island is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jónasson's Hidden Iceland trilogy. This time Hulda
is at the peak of her career and is sent to investigate what happened on
Ellidaey after a group of friends visited but one failed to return. Could this have links to the disappearance of
a couple ten years previously out on the Westfjords? Is there a killer stalking
these barren outposts?
Major Leo Black was once one of the SAS's most fearsome and
effective warriors and after twenty years of war, is now striving to be a force
for peace. A junior tutor without tenure at Oxford University, his lectures on
the ethics of conflict are an inspiration to his students but a threat to
colleagues wary of admitting him to their gilded circle. When his oldest friend and comrade is
brutally murdered as a part of a dark international conspiracy, Black's
new-found principles are put to the ultimate test. There's a violent job to be
done and he's the man called upon to do it: the unrivalled expert in the art of
killing. The Black Art of Killing is
by Matthew Hall.
Liberation Square
is by Gareth Rubin. 1952. Soviet troops
control British streets. After the
disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany, and only
rescued by Russian soldiers arriving from the east and Americans from the west.
The two superpowers divide the nation between them, a wall running through
London like a scar. When Jane Cawson
calls into her husband's medical practice and detects the perfume worn by his
former wife, Lorelei, star of propaganda films for the new Marxist regime, she
fears what is between them. But when Jane rushes to confront them, she finds
herself instead caught up in the glamorous actress's death. Nick is soon arrested for murder. Desperate
to clear his name, Jane must risk the attention of the brutal secret police as
she follows a trail of corruption right to the highest levels of the
state. And she might find she never really
knew her husband at all.
May 2019
My Lovely Wife is
by Samantha Downing. Every marriage has
secrets. Everyone has flaws. Your wife isn't perfect - you know that - but then
again nor are you. But now a serial
killer is on the loose in your small town, preying on young women. Fear is
driving your well-behaved young daughter off the rails, and you find yourself
in bed late at night, looking at the woman who lies asleep beside you. Because you thought you knew the worst about
her. The truth is you know nothing at all.
On Halloween night, four households gather for a party in the
tiny Yorkshire village of Black Gale. Three hours in, they head outside, onto
the darkened moors, to play a drunken game of hide and seek. None of them
return. There's no trail, no evidence and no answers. An entire village has
just vanished. With the police investigation dead in the water, the families of
the disappeared ask missing persons investigator David Raker to find out what
happened. But nothing can prepare him for the truth. The currently untitled book in the David
Raker series is by Tim Weaver.
June 2019
If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers
spoken... Still devastated after the
loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village
of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start.
But Featherbank has a dark past. Fifteen years ago a twisted serial
killer abducted and murdered five young boys. Until he was finally caught, the
killer was known as 'The Whisper Man'.
Of course, an old crime need not trouble Tom and Jake as they try to
settle in to their new home. Except that now another boy has gone missing. And
then Jake begins acting strangely. He
says he hears a whispering at his window...
The Whisper Man is by Alex
North.
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