January 2019
Two women - desperate to unlock
the truth. How far will they go to lay the past to rest? Anna has been taught
that virtue is the path to God. But on her eighteenth birthday she defies her
Mamma's rules and visits Florida's biggest theme park. She has never been
allowed to go - so why, when she arrives, does everything seem so familiar? And
is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives on the same day?
Rosie has grown up in the shadow of the missing sister she barely remembers,
her family fractured by years of searching without leads. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of her
sister's disappearance, the media circus resumes in full flow, and Rosie vows
to uncover the truth. But will she find the answer before it tears her family
apart? My Name is Anna is by Lizzy Barber.
From bestselling thriller writer
James Patterson - three chilling stories in print for the first time! The House
Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of four Laura Sherman was
thrilled when her new neighbour invited her on some errands. But a few quick
tasks became a long lunch - and now things could go too far with a man who
isn't what he seems... The Killer's Wife (with Max DiLallo): Six girls have
gone missing. Detective McGrath knows the only way to find them is to get close
to the suspect's wife... maybe too close. The Witnesses (with Brendan DuBois):
The Sanderson family has been forced into hiding after one of them stumbled
upon a criminal plot. Or so they think. No one will answer their questions. And
the terrifying truth may come too late...
A predatory film director will do
anything to protect his secrets. But those who want justice will stop at
nothing. It only takes one person to break the silence. When solicitor Finn
Fitzpatrick is approached by a man to investigate the death of his daughter,
her first instinct
Welcome to Golden State, where
the worst crime you can commit is to lie. Laz Ratesic is a veteran of the
State's special police. As one of the few individuals allowed to `speculate' on
what might have happened when a crime is committed, it's his job to find the
full and final truth. But when a man falls from a roof in suspicious
circumstances, it sets in motion a terrifying series of events which will
shatter Laz's world for ever. Because when those in control of the truth decide
to twist it, only those with the power to ask questions can fight back. Golden
State is by Ben H Winters.
They left four children safe
upstairs. They came back to three. On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel,
four young boys are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when
one of the parents checks on the children at midnight, they discover one of
them is missing. The boys swear they stayed in their room. CCTV confirms that
none of them left the building. No trace of the child is found. Now the hunt is
on to find him, before it's too late - and before the search for a boy becomes
a search for a body... Gone by Midnight
is by Candice Fox.
February 2019
An uninvited guest. A missing
identity. A trail of deadly secrets. When a horrified bridesmaid finds the body
of a young woman at a wedding reception, it makes the bride and groom's choice
of a Saints and Sinners theme all the more macabre. There are no means of
identification and nobody knows the victim. The bride is convinced someone is
trying to sabotage her big day. The groom is sure it's a dreadful mistake. It's
up to brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis to
uncover the truth. They have a hundred guests to question, and a strong suspicion
that the motive for murder is personal... The party's over - and the hunt for
the killer is on. The Wedding Guest is
by Jonathan Kellerman.
Never Tell is by Lisa
Gardner. One death might be an accident.
Two deaths looks like murder. A man is shot dead in his own home, and his
pregnant wife, Evie, is found with the gun in her hands. Detective D.D. Warren
instantly recognises her. Sixteen years ago, Evie also shot her own father.
That killing was ruled an accident. D.D. doesn't believe in coincidences. But
this case isn't as open and shut as it first appears, and her job is to
discover the truth. Evie might be a victim. Or she might be about to get away
with murder again.
March 2019
Detective Lindsay Boxer fights to
protect the streets of San Francisco from an international war criminal in the
latest Women's Murder Club thriller. When three female schoolteachers go
missing in San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer must unravel the mystery of
their disappearance. But what starts as a missing person case quickly escalates
to a troubling murder investigation. As pressure at work mounts, Lindsay must
rely on her husband Joe to support her at home. Yet Joe is pursuing a
mysterious case himself, as a woman running from her past brings him terrifying
information - the notorious war criminal from her Eastern European home country
has appeared on the streets of San Francisco. As Lindsay searches for the three
missing women, a frightening new twist forces her and Joe's investigations to
collide. His mystery informant has gone missing, and all four abducted women
are in grave danger. As shocking revelations emerge, Lindsay and Joe find
themselves caught up in an international crime operation unlike anything
they've seen before. With the help of her fierce and courageous friends in the
Women's Murder Club, Lindsay and Joe fight to save their city from the corrupt
clutches of a monster. 18th
Abduction is by James Patterson.
Run Away is by Harlan Coben. You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to
drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't
want to be found. Then, quite by chance, you see her busking in New York's
Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is wasted,
frightened and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her,
beg her to come home. She runs. And you follow her into a dark and dangerous
world you never knew existed. Where criminal gangs rule, where drugs are the
main currency, and murder is commonplace. Now it's your life on the line. And
nowhere and no one is safe.
April 2019
A brave military veteran returns
home from her latest tour to discover her worst nightmare has come to life -
her entire family has been abducted. With no trace, no leads and very little
hope, she must call upon all her intuitions as wife, mother and soldier to
bring her family home. Out of Sight is
by James Patterson.
Charlotte wants to start fresh.
She wants to forget her past, forget prison, and, most of all, forget Sean. But
old habits die hard. Despite the ankle monitor she must wear as part of her
parole agreement and frequent visits to her therapist, she soon finds herself
sliding back towards the type of behaviour that sent her to prison in the first
place. The further down that path she goes, however, the closer she gets to the
crime that put her in prison all those years ago. And then, one day, Sean
tracks her down. And she is forced to face the one devastating memory she'd
much much rather forget. One More Lie
is by Amy Lloyd.
#taken is by Tony Parsons. Wrong
time Wrong place Has the wrong girl been #taken The murder team in West End
Central are reeling from the brutal death of a beloved colleague and they are
all mourning in their own way. But when a young mother is kidnapped by unknown
assailants, Max Wolfe and his colleagues suddenly have a dangerous job to do.
As Max Wolfe investigates the connection between the kidnapped woman and the
head of a crumbling criminal empire, the hunt takes him from New Scotland
Yard's Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy
strip joints to secret dungeons, and from the murderous hatreds of today to the
unspeakable crimes of half a lifetime ago. And as Max unravels the mystery of
why someone would kidnap an innocent young woman, he is plunged into a dark
world of family secrets, sexual jealousy and a lust for revenge that will come
to threaten everything Max Wolfe loves.
May 2019
This Storm is by James
Ellroy. New Year's Eve 1941, war has
been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is
gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los
Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war
profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his
time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese
Naval Attaché. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks and working in the crime
lab, but he knows he can't avoid internment forever. Newly arrived Navy
Lieutenant Joan Conville winds up in jail accused of vehicular homicide, but
Captain William H. Parker squashes the charges and puts her on Ashida's team.
Elmer Jackson, who is assigned to the alien squad and to bodyguard Ashida,
begins to develop an obsession with Kay Lake, the unconsummated object of
Captain Parker's desire. Now, Conville and Ashida become obsessed with finding
the identity of a body discovered in a mudslide. It's a murder victim linked to
an unsolved gold heist from '31, and they want the gold. And things really heat
up when two detectives are found murdered in a notorious dope fiend hangout.
Also due to be published in May
is the currently untitled Thomas Harris
June 2019
The Nanny is by Gilly MacMillan. Seven-year-old
Jocelyn Holt loves her nanny Hannah more than her own mother. When Hannah
disappears one summer night, Jo never gets over the loss. Thirty years on, now
a young widow with a daughter of her own, Jo is forced to return to her family
home, and the mother she's always despised, just as a skull is pulled out of
the lake in the grounds. Could this explain her beloved nanny's disappearance?
What other secrets will that lake give up to the police? Then an unexpected
visitor knocks at the door. And Jo's world is destroyed yet again as she's
forced to look back at what really went on that hot summer night when she was a
child. And everything that's happened since. Sometimes the truth hurts so much
you'd rather hear the lie.
FBI researcher Emma Dockery is
back with a vengeance. Obsessed with finding a link between a string of deaths
across several different states, she is convinced that there's a pattern. And
where there's a pattern, there's a serial killer to put a stop to. When
Detectives working on some of these cases start turning up dead, Emma knows
that she's onto something. These deaths are murders, and she's going to be the one
to prove it. The closer she gets to finding the killer, the more Emma feels
like she's being watched. Is she setting a trap for this depraved killer? Or
with every step she takes, is she falling further into his...? With the death
count rising, Emma must act fast to catch this killer, before she becomes the
next name on the hit list. Unsolved is by James Patterson and David Ellis.
Also due to be published in July is Hush, Hush by James
Patterson and Candice Fox.
