January
2018
Southern California, 1986. Detective Ben
Wade has returned to his hometown in search of a quieter life and to try to
save his marriage. Suddenly the community, with its peaceful streets and
neighbourly concerns, finds itself at the mercy of a serial killer who slips
through windows and screen doors at night, shattering illusions of safety. As
Ben and forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt struggle to stay one step ahead
of the killer - and deal with painful episodes in the past - Ben's own world is
rocked again by violence. He must decide how far he is willing to go, and
Natasha how much she is willing to risk, to rescue the town from a psychotic
murderer and a long-buried secret.
Shadow Man is by Alan Drew.
February
2018
The Perfect Stranger is by Megan
Miranda. What happens when your best
friend becomes your worst nightmare...Having reached a dead end in Boston,
failed journalist Leah Stevens needs a change. When she runs into an old
friend, Emmy Grey, who is moving to rural Pennsylvania, Leah decides to join
her. But their fresh start is quickly threatened when a woman with an eerie
resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah helps Detective
Kyle Donovan to investigate her friend's life for clues. But with no friends,
family or digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy
Grey. Forced to question her version of reality and to save herself, Leah must
uncover the truth - no matter how dark or terrible it may be...
March 2018
The Liar’s Girl is by Catherine Ryan
Howard. Her first love confessed to five
murders. But the truth was so much worse.
Dublin's notorious Canal Killer, Will Hurley, is ten years into his life
sentence when the body of a young woman is fished out of the Grand Canal.
Though detectives suspect they are dealing with a copycat, they turn to Will
for help. He claims he has the information the police need, but will only give
it to one person - the girl he was dating when he committed his horrific
crimes. Alison Smith has spent the last
decade abroad, putting her shattered life in Ireland far behind her. But when
she gets a request from Dublin imploring her to help prevent another senseless
murder, she is pulled back to face the past - and the man - she's worked so
hard to forget.
A hot summer. A shocking murder. A town of
secrets, waiting to explode...A beautiful young teacher has been murdered, her
body found in the lake, strewn with red roses. Local policewoman Detective
Sergeant Gemma Woodstock pushes to be assigned to the case, concealing the fact
that she knew the murdered woman in high school years before. But that's not all Gemma's trying to hide. As
the investigation digs deeper into the victim's past, other secrets threaten to
come to light, secrets that were supposed to remain buried. The lake holds the
key to solving the murder, but it also has the power to drag Gemma down into
its dark depths... The Dark Lake is by
Sarah Bailey.
April 2018
When Solomon's sister is found drugged and
in a coma after an online date, Solomon can't believe this was just a terrible
accident. Determined to find out what happened to his sister and with the police unwilling to help, Solomon begins to investigate on his own. He soon uncovers a rash of similar cases of women who have been brutally murdered or assaulted after after an online date. There is a predator out there working the streets of London and preying on young women. Solomon sets out to bring him to justice, putting him on a collision course with a deadly killer who is fiendishly clever and more twisted than anyone could possibly imagine... Perfect Match is by D B Thorne.
Friends and Traitors is by John Lawton. It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick
Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita
Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip
with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so
instead takes his entire family on 'the Grand Tour' for his fifty-first
birthday: Paris, Sienna, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam. Restaurants, galleries
and concert halls. But Frederick Troy never gets to Amsterdam. After a concert
in Vienna he is approached by an old friend whom he has not seen for years -
Guy Burgess, a spy for the Soviets, who says something extraordinary: 'I want
to come home.' Troy dumps the problem on MI5 who send an agent to de-brief
Burgess - but the man is gunned down only yards from the embassy, and after
that, the whole plan unravels with alarming speed and Troy finds himself a
suspect. As he fights to prove his innocence, Troy finds that Burgess is not
the only ghost who returns to haunt him.
May 2018
My Mother’s Secret is by Sanjida Kay. Your mother has a secret. Do you really want
to know what it is? Stella's mum, Emma, has always been a little strange, but
now she's behaving really oddly. Stella is convinced her mother has a secret.
She knows something terrible happened in her mum's past, but she doesn't know
what; even her dad, Jack, says Emma won't talk to him about it.The teenager
decides to follow her mother and find out what she's hiding. But Stella has a
dark secret of her own. Nothing can prepare Stella for the shocking truth. And
now she knows that if anyone else finds out their secrets, the revelation will
tear their family apart.
June 2018
Love Will Tear us Apart is by Holly
Seddon. Kate and Paul have been married
for ten years. Childhood best friends who reconnected as adults, Paul now has a
high-flying job while Kate looks after their two adorable children. Their
friends think they're the perfect couple. Everything should be wonderful. But
Kate has a secret. One she's sure Paul doesn't know. Because if he did, would
he really love her as much as he says he does? Or would he decide that their
life together isn't worth the vow he made all those years ago...?
Seven years after a financial crisis nearly
topples America, traders chafe at government regulations on Wall Street, racial
tensions are rising, and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with
politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America
recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the
young country still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns
to prove his father's innocence, he exposes a massive fraud that has already
claimed lives, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any
cost. The body count is rising, and the looming crisis could topple the nation. The Devil’s Half Mile is by Paddy Hirsch.
Jar of Hearts is by Jennifer Hillier. This is story of three best friends: one
who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the
truth all these years . . . When she was
sixteen years old, Angela Wong―one of the most popular girls in school―disappeared
without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now
an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was
involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls
back in high school. But fourteen years
later, Angela Wong's remains are discovered in the woods near Geo's childhood
home. And Kaiser―now a detective with Seattle PD―finally learns
the truth: Angela was a victim of Calvin James. The same Calvin James who
murdered at least three other women. To
the authorities, Calvin is a serial killer. But to Geo, he's something else
entirely. Back in high school, Calvin was Geo's first love. Turbulent and often
volatile, their relationship bordered on obsession from the moment they met
right up until the night Angela was killed.
For fourteen years, Geo knew what happened to Angela and told no one.
For fourteen years, she carried the secret of Angela's death until Geo was
arrested and sent to prison. While
everyone thinks they finally know the truth, there are dark secrets buried
deep. And what happened that fateful night is more complex and more chilling
than anyone really knows. Now the obsessive past catches up with the deadly
present when new bodies begin to turn up, killed in the exact same manner as
Angela Wong. How far will someone go to
bury her secrets and hide her grief? How long can you get away with a lie? How
long can you live with it?
Selma Falck's personal life and career as a lawyer have hit rock bottom. That is until Hege Chin Morell - Norway's best female skier - approaches her desperate to overturn a doping charge. With two months to the Winter Olympics, Selma faces the seemingly almost impossible task of clearing Morell's name. However, when a male skier is found dead after a training accident, it becomes clear to Selma that there is something more serious at risk. Encountering corruption, hidden enmity and shady connections, the pattern of recent crimes and ancient sins becomes undeniable. As Selma's race against time begins, she realizes that more lives are at stake... A Grave for Two is by Anne Holt
PLAY- Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges onscreen, kills her and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself? PAUSE - Natalie wishes she'd stayed at home as soon as she arrives in the wintry isolation of Shanamore. There's something creepy about the manager. She wants to leave, but she can't - not until she's found what she's looking for... REWIND -Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive story about amurder caught on camera. You've already missed the start. To get the full picture you must rewind the tape and play it through to the end, no matter how shocking... Rewind is by Catherine Ryan Howard.
How to Play Dead is by Jacqueline Ward. She's watching over them. And he's watching her... Ria Taylor is everything to everyone. Wife and mother, the centre of her family. And the manager of a refuge for women whose partners have driven them out of their own homes. But one night, with her husband away, Ria receives a terrifyingly sinister message. Someone is watching her. Someone who seems to know everything about her. She knows what she should do - seek help, just like she tells her clients to. But Ria is the help. As events escalate, and terror takes hold, Ria must decide whether to run or hide...
