The
Mulberry Bush is by Charles McCarry and is due to be published in November
2015. A young spy seeks to avenge his father's lonely death by punishing those
responsible within the CIA. He's a recruiter's dream: a doctorate in Islamic
studies from a prestigious University, fluent in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and
Pashto, single, discreet and ambitious. His father was a spy so he understands
the rules. Don't ask questions, don't get impatient, learn to live with
uncertainty. But he's not as perfect as he seems. When his father died,
penniless and friendless on the streets of Washington, he decided to seek out
those who'd turned their backs. A spy with no name can seek vengeance with
ease; he's a shadow, a phantom, a spook. But can he bring down the CIA?
Clayton
Burroughs is the Sheriff of Bull Mountain and the black sheep of the brutal and
blood-steeped Burroughs clan. In the forties and fifties, the family ran
moonshine over six state lines. In the sixties and seventies, they farmed the
largest above-ground marijuana crop on the East Coast, and now they are the
dominant suppliers of methamphetamine in the Southern states. An uneasy pact
exists between the law man and his folk, but when a federal agent with the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shows up in Clayton's office with a
plan to shut down Bull Mountain, his agenda will pit brother against brother,
test loyalties, and set Clayton on a path to self-destruction. At its heart, Bull Mountain is a story about family,
and the lengths men will go to protect it, honour it, or, in some cases,
destroy it. Bull Mountain is by Brian Panowich and is due to be published in
July 2015.
Katie
Maguire hunts a serial killer targeting nuns in the gruesome new thriller from
Graham Masterton. In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun
lies dead. She has been suffocated. It looks like a mercy-killing - until
another sister from the same convent is found viciously murdered, floating in
the Glashaboy river. The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would
anyone want to kill them? But then a child's skull is unearthed in the garden
of the nuns' convent, and DS Katie Maguire discovers a fifty year old secret
that just might lead her to the killer...if the killer doesn't find her first. Blood
Sisters is due to be published in October 2015.
Blood Mist is by Mark Roberts and is due
to be published in August 2015. Every
Night a family dies every day she tries to save them. DCI Eve Clay got the call at five minutes to
midnight. A family of six, slaughtered in their beds, their bodies dragged out
to the landing to form an arcane pattern. Outside, a blizzard rages past the
well-kept houses of The Serpentine. None of the neighbours heard a sound.
Someone took great care to arrange those bodies so precisely. But who? And why?
Somewhere in Eve's minds, a long-buried memory flickers. But there is no time
for hunches. She must find the killers before they strike again. As Liverpool
holds its breath, DCI Eve Clay hunts a ruthless killer who knows more about her
past than she does...
The
beautiful game just got deadly. Scott Manson needs to leave London. His job
managing London City football team is over, and it cuts deep to watch them play
on without him. But changing your life isn't as simple as all that. When Scott
takes up a new position in Shanghai, he gets caught up in an elaborate sting
mounted by a rival team. And when he quits that for a job in Barcelona, it
turns out his new employers only want him for his detective skills: their star
player is missing, and they need to find him fast. As Scott tracks the player
from Paris to Antigua, he uncovers corruption, kidnapping - and murder... False Nine is by Philip Kerr and is due to be
published in November 2015.
Badlands is by CJ Box and is due to be
published in July 2015. Grimstad, North
Dakota. A place people used to be from - but were never headed to - has struck
oil. As pipelines snake across the prairie, oil flows out and men and money
flow in. And with them, comes crime. North Dakota's new oil capital has a
serious law and order problem and newly qualified detective Cassie Dewell has
just been appointed its deputy sheriff. Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard is one
of Grimstad's paperboys. Kyle has been written off as the 'slow' kid, but he
has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine - he wants to get out of town, take
care of his alcoholic mother, and give them a better life. While delivering
newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and now has money and a lot of white
powder in his possession. With the temperature dropping to 30 degrees below and
a gang war heating up, Cassie fears she might be in over her head. The key to
it all will come in the most unlikely form: an undersized boy on a bike who
keeps showing up where he doesn't belong.
Sherlock is edited by Otto Penzler and
is due to be published in September 2015.
In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle put pen to paper and created a legend:
Sherlock Holmes. The greatest detective of all time. His tall, slender,
hawk-nosed figure with his deerstalker hat is instantly recognisable in every
corner of the world. Alongside Doyle's original stories, Sherlock has spawned a
literature of his own in parodies and homages. More than 25,000 books, stories
and articles have been written by authors, amateurs and scholars. In this stupendous
anthology, the best and most brilliant are collected together for the first
time. Contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle, James M. Barrie, O. Henry,
Stephen King, Kingsley Amis, A.A. Milne, P.G. Wodehouse, Neil Gaiman, Anthony
Burgess, Colin Dexter and Anne Perry.
The
Will to Live is by Philip Hunter and is due to be published in November
2015. To Joe injured and broken, it
seems that the whole of East London is at war.
But until he recovers from the knife wound that nearly killed him, he
can’t join the fight. He is running out
of time to track down the men that killed the only woman he ever loved. But revenge is what drives him. Either they
die, or he does. There’s only one way to
find out. …..
A
young woman is brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm - a haunt of
wealthy retirees and arty weekenders. Suspicion falls first on a family of
Iraqi refugees, initially welcomed into the community but gradually feared and
shunned. But then, as the victim's story unfolds, suspicion begins inexorably
to fall elsewhere. Lena Sundman was rude, dysfunctional, and very young.
Everything a fastidious man like Dan Byrne disliked. Taking refuge on the
island after the sudden death of his wife, Dan finds himself strangely drawn to
the troubled girl, starting from the moment he reluctantly rescues her in the
teeth of a gathering snowstorm. In The Name of Love is by Patrick Smith
and is due to be published in August 2015.
A
second instalment in a trilogy of rare power and narrative scope that unlocks
the dark heart of Spain, weaving past and present together to portray a country
still scarred by civil war, still riven by fear and hatred, still plagued by
secrets that refuse to die. 1954: Comandante Guzman has been posted deep into
the Basque country to confront a man known only as 'El Lobo'. Guzman was last
here in the war though he would rather forget that. But he hasn't been
forgotten, and high in the mountains, he must fight for his life, against
someone who has been searching for him for a very long time...2010, Madrid: On
the eve of an election, the government commission Forensic Investigator Ana
Maria Galindez to investigate the scandal of the 'Ninos Robados' the thousands
of children stolen at birth during the years of the dictatorship. The
politicians hope her findings will pacify public outrage at the thefts, but
there are many who would prefer those secrets to remain hidden. And if that
means silencing Galindez, they will. The Exile is by Mark Oldfield and is due
to be published in September 2015.
Spider’s
Web is the fourth book in the Steel City series by Ben Cheetham and is due to
be published in November 2015. February
14th 1993. Sheffield United supporters remember it as the day their team won a
famous victory against Manchester United. The date is lodged in Anna Young's
brain for a different reason. That was the day her thirteen-year-old sister,
Jessica, was abducted...Fast forward twenty years. The case has long since gone
cold. But Anna won't let it die. She made a promise to look after her little
sister. And it's a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes...A
detective with one thing on his mind. Jim Monahan is equally determined to
bring down a sadistic sex-ring. But everywhere he turns he finds himself
entangled in a web of political power and silence. Then comes a bizarre
twenty-year-old clue that might just blow the whole thing apart...
Shadows of War is by Michael Ridpath and
is due to be published in July 2015. October,
1939: War has been declared, but until the armies massed on either side of the
French/German border engage, all is quiet on the Western Front. But just
because its quiet doesn't mean that it's not deadly. There are those who
believe the war no one wants to fight should be brought to a swift conclusion,
even if it means treachery. A year ago, Conrad de Lancey came within seconds of
assassinating Hitler. Now the British Secret Service want him to go back into
Europe and make contact with a group of German officers they believe are
plotting a coup. But this is the Shadow War. And the shadows are multiplying.
And it’s not only disaffected Germans who are prepared to betray their country
to save it...
Chechnya:
an incorruptible security officer is assassinated. Berlin: a small child
grieves for his father. In the East: an obese psychopath sets his feet on the
first rungs of his criminal career. A frightened Russian woman seeks DCI
Hanlon's help in finding her missing husband. Hanlon's not keen on the case.
Until she hears a name she recognises only too well. Arkady Belanov, sadistic
pimp and owner of an exclusive brothel in Oxford is involved. When DI Enver
Demirel, her former partner and friend, disappears, Hanlon is forced into an
uneasy alliance with the London underworld to rescue him from the blood-stained
hands of the Russian mafia. A Hard Woman
to Kill is by Alex Howard and is due to be published in September 2015.
Father
Aloysius Walsh spent the last years of his life painstakingly collecting
evidence of murder, mass murder - a year-long killing spree of unparalleled
savagery that blighted Ireland's borderlands at the end of the 1970s. Pinned to
his bedroom wall, a macabre map charts the grim territory of death: victims,
weapons, wounds, dates - and somehow, amid the forest of pins and notes, he had
discerned a pattern...So why did the priest deliberately drive through a cordon
of policemen and off the road to his death? Why, when Inspector Celcius Daly
arrives at the scene, does he find Special Branch already there? And why is his
mother's name on the Priest's map? The past poisons the present and Daly's life
will never be the same again. Silence is
by Anthony J Quinn and is due to be published in November 2015.
