Black Water is by Louise Doughty and is
due to be published in June 2016. John
Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical Island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the
rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to
happen than of what he’s already done.
In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragichistory. They begin an affair, but can offer each
other redemption? Or do the ghosts of the past always catch up with us in the
end? Moving between Europe during the Cold War, Civil Rights-era California,
and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the subsequent military
dictatorship, Black Water explores
some of the darkest events of recent history through the story of one troubled
man.
Long Time Lost is by Chris Ewan and is
due to be published in May 2016. Nick
Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating
at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and new lives. Nick
excels at what he does for a reason: he's spent years living in the shadows
under an assumed name. But when Nick steps in to prevent the attempted murder
of witness-in-hiding Kate Sutherland on the Isle of Man, he triggers a chain of
events with devastating consequences for everyone he protects - because Nick
and Kate share a common enemy in Connor Lane, a man who will stop at nothing to
get what he wants, even if it means tearing Nick's entire network apart.
Nick
Alston, a Los Angeles private investigator, is hired to find the kidnapped son
of America's richest and most hated man. Hastings, a mob hitman in search of
redemption, is also on the trail. But both men soon become ensnared by a
sinister cabal that spreads from the White House all the way to Dealey Plaza. Decades
later in Dallas, Alston's son stumbles across evidence from JFK conspiracy
buffs that just might link his father to the shot heard round the world.
Violent, vivid, visceral: Fever City is a high-octane, nightmare journey
through a Mad Men-era America of dark powers, corruption and conspiracy. Fever City
is by Tim Baker and is due to be published in January 2016.
West
Virginia: A church congregation vanishes in mysterious circumstances, only to
be found dead some miles away. The evidence on the ground appears to indicate a
ritual killing and the work of demonic forces.
Enter Jessica Blackwood, the FBI's specialist in all things unusual. A
former illusionist, Jessica's talent and experience enable her to see what
others cannot, as she proved in the infamous 'Warlock' case. Maybe now, once
again, the devil will be in the details.
Following the trail from West Virginia to Mexico and Miami, Jessica
uncovers a deadly conspiracy that might lead all the way to the Vatican itself.
Only with her unique understanding of the powers of deception can they hope to
stop a ruthless killer from exacting a revenge that's been thirty years in the
planning . . . Name of the Devil
is by Andrew Mayne and is due to be published in June 2016.
Sunset City is by Melissa Ginsburg and
is due to be published in April 2016. Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford
reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before
Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the
murder, Charlotte's life unravels and she descends into the city's underbelly,
where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded
Danielle in the years they were estranged. Ginsburg's Houston is part of a
lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly. In this
shadowy world, culpability and sympathy blur in a debut novel which thrillingly
brings its three female protagonists to the fore. Scary, funny and almost
unbearably sad, Sunset City is
written with rare grace and empathy holding you transfixed, praying for some
kind of escape for Charlotte.
The Travelers is by Chris Pavone and is due
to be published in March 2016. Will Rhodes is an award-winning correspondent
for The Travelers, on assignment at a luxury Argentinian resort - fine wines
and gourmet food, polo fields and the looming Andes. But Will's life is about
to be turned upside down when a new flirtation turns into something far more
dangerous, and he only realises too late. Turns out he's been targeted, he just
doesn't know why. He doesn't know what these people truly want and how far into
his life they will reach, to his friends and his colleagues, to his boss and
his wife. He doesn't know that they will stop at nothing in their pursuit, and
he doesn't know about the secrets he has already been keeping... The Travelers is an ingenious,
compulsive thriller - taking us from New York to Washington, Mendoza to Capri,
London to Paris, Edinburgh to Dublin, Stockholm to the wilds of Iceland - about
marriage, deceit, betrayal, and the secrets we should watch out for.
The Ex is by Alafair Burke and is due to
be published in February 2016. A lawyer
agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been accused of murder - but begins to
suspect that she is the one being manipulated. Widower Jack Harris has resisted
the dating scene since the shooting of his wife by a fifteen-year-old boy three
years ago. An early morning run along the Hudson River changes that when he
spots a woman who eerily but thrillingly echoes his past. Eager to help Jack find
love again, his best friend posts a "Missed Moment" item online and
days later, a woman responds...Olivia Randall is one of New York City's best
criminal defence lawyers. When she gets the phone call informing her that her
former fiancee, Jack Harris, has been arrested for a triple homicide there is
no doubt in her mind as to his innocence. The only question is who would go to
such great lengths to frame him - and why? For Olivia, representing Jack is a
way to make up for past regrets, and the hurt she caused him, but as the
evidence against him mounts, she is forced to confront her doubts. The man she
knew could not have done this. But what if she never really knew him?
So
far, twenty-three thousand and ninety six people have seen me online. They
include my
Berlin Red is by Sam Eastland and is due
to be published in June 2016. April,
1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault
upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. To the north, at a lonely
outpost near the Baltic Sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for
the mighty V2 rocket, which has already caused massive damage to the cities of
London and Antwerp. This device, known only by the codename Diamond stream,
will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy. So
devastating is the potential of this newly-mastered technology that Hitler's
promise to the German people of a 'miracle weapon' that will turn the tide of
the war might actually come true. When a radio message sent to Hitler's
Headquarters, heralding the success of Diamond stream, is intercepted by an
English listening station, British Intelligence orders one of its last agents
operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device, desperate to evacuate
their agent from the doomed city before the Red Army swarms through its
streets, British Special Operations turns to the Kremlin for help. They ask for
one man in particular - Inspector Pekkala. Anxious to acquire the plans for
himself, Stalin readily agrees to risk his finest investigator on what appears
to be a suicide mission. But when Pekkala learns the reason that the British
have singled him out, he knows that he must make the journey, no matter what
the outcome might be. The agent he must rescue is the woman he had planned to
marry, before the Revolution tore them apart, sending her to Paris as a refugee
and Pekkala to a gulag in Siberia. This time, for Pekkala, it is personal.
In The Long Count, the first book of JM
Gulvin's masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is
called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although
the local police want the case shut down, John Q is convinced that events
aren't quite so straightforward. When his hunch is backed up by the man's son,
Isaac - just back from Vietnam, and convinced his father was murdered - they
start to look into a series of other violent incidents in the area, including a
recent fire at the local Trinity Asylum and the disappearance of Isaac's twin
brother, Ishmael. In a desperate race against time, John Q has to try and
unravel the dark secrets at the heart of this family and get to the truth
before the count is up...Dripping with atmosphere and a sense of time and
place, The Long Count is a page-turner
and a psychological puzzle and is due to be published in May 2016.
Hard Cold Winter is by Glen Erik
Hamilton and is due to be published in April 2016. When an old crony of Van Shaw's late
grandfather calls in a favour, he embarks on a journey deep into the remote
forest of the Olympic Mountains in search of a missing girl tied to his own
criminal past. Discovering a brutal murder scene, Van finds himself caught between
a billionaire businessman on the one side and vicious gangsters on the other.
In an attempt to survive Van will have to face some of the toughest questions
of his life, not least over his relationship with his iron willed girlfriend,
Luce. But with the clock ticking, a desperate Van may just need every ally he
can get, especially as someone prepares to unleash a firestorm on Seattle that
could burn them all to ashes.
After
a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New
York. But nothing's easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more
than $30,000 in student loans. Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed
at the base - a fact that could ultimately destroy him. Then he spots Teddy
Trager, tech visionary and billionaire. These two men couldn't be more
different - except for one thing: in appearance, they're identical. Danny
becomes obsessed with Trager, and before long this member of the ninety-nine
per cent is passing undetected into the gilded realm of the one per cent. But
what does Danny find there? Who does he become? And is there a route home? From
the prize winning author of Limitless, Paradime
is by Alan Glynn and is a novel for fans of the great '70s conspiracy
thrillers, rebooted for today's ever-globalising world. It is due to be published in June 2016.
