The
Dordogne town of St Denis may be picturesque and sleepy, but it has more than
its fair share of mysteries, as Bruno, chef de police, knows all too well. But
when Bruno is invited to the 90th birthday of a powerful local patriarch - a
war hero with high-level political connections in France, Russia and Israel -
he encounters a family with more secrets than even he had imagined. When one of
the other guests is found dead the next morning and the family try to cover it
up, Bruno knows it's his duty to prevent the victim from becoming just another
skeleton in their closet. Even if his digging reveals things Bruno himself
would rather keep buried. Meanwhile, very modern battles are being fought in St
Denis between hunters defending their traditions and environmentalists
protecting local wildlife. Neither side, it seems, is above the use of violent
tactics. At the centre of it all, Bruno must use all his cunning and character
to protect his community's future from its present - and its past. The
Dying Season is by Martin Walker and is due to be published in July 2015.
After
two years in the Seattle Police Department Detective Alice Madison seems to
have found the kind of peace in her private and working life that she has not
known before. However when a burglary escalates into an horrific murder she is
put in charge of the investigation and finds herself tracking a killer who
might have stalked the city for years and whose existence is the stuff of myth
in high security prisons. Her own past comes under scrutiny and enemies close
to home want her to fail as Madison and her partner hunt down a skillful,
determined murderer with a talent for death, and Madison's private life falls
apart. Blood and Bone is by V M Giambanco and is due to be published in
August 2015.
Box 21 is by Roslund and Hellstrom and
is due to be published in December 2015.
CI Ewert Grens comes face to face with the cruel reality of human
trafficking. Lydia Grajauskas will never
forget the face. The face of the
trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three
unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery. DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name. The name of the prisoner the day his life was
destroyed: the man responsible for twenty-five years of torturous heartache. Sweden
will never forget their revenge . . . Box
21 is a steely, airtight thriller containing both the harshest aspects
of degradation and retaliation, and the toughest questions surrounding the
morality of violent and obsessive reprisal.
Taking Pity is by David Mark and is due
to be published in July 2015. They have taken DS Aector McAvoy's family. They
have taken DCI Colin Ray's foundation. They have taken DS Trish Pharaoh's
fight. Now the ruthless criminal network that has tightened its stranglehold on
Hull intends to take everything that remains from those who dare to stand in
its way. Taking Pity is a police procedural thriller that pulls no punches. It
is the story of three officers who can take no more, and a merciless nemesis
that takes no chances, no prisoners and no pity.
The Memory of Evil is the final
instalment in Roberto Costantini's internationally bestselling crime trilogy,
and revisits Commissario Balistreri in 2011, five years on from the events of The Deliverance of Evil. It is due to be published in September 2015.
Now head of Homicide in Rome, Michele Balistreri is forced again to team up
with investigative journalist Linda Nardi, as the pair follow a malevolent
trail that stretches from Nairobi to San Francisco, and which will eventually
lead Balistreri back to the island of La Moneta, the scene of his mother's
apparent suicide in the summer of 1969, where a secret and sinister truth that
has evaded him for five decades lies sickeningly in wait.
Dear
Elizabeth, I've been watching you. I hope to see you...Soon. Liz Cafferky is on
the up. Rescued from her dark past by the owner of a drop-in centre for older
men, Liz soon finds herself as the charity's face - and the unwilling darling
of the Dublin media. Amidst her claustrophobic fame, Liz barely notices a
letter from a new fan. But then one of the Centre's clients is brutally
murdered, and Elizabeth receives another, more sinister note. Running from her
own ghosts, Liz is too scared to go to the police. And with no leads, there is
little Sergeant Claire Boyle can do to protect her. Are You Watching Me is by Sinéad Crowley and is due to be published
in July 2015.
Enough Rope is by Barbara Nadel and is
due to be published in August 2015. Private
investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and superintendent Paul Venus are by no
means friends, but when Venus' son Harry is kidnapped and ransom demands arrive
from an address in Arnold's patch in east London, the superintendent doesn't
know who else to turn to. Arnold and his partner Mumtaz Hakim soon find
themselves chasing leads into several of the East End's uneasily coexisting
communities. Mumtaz uncovers a link to one of the area's powerful Bangladeshi
families, whose property empire has always seemed suspicious, while Arnold
suspects the involvement of more old-fashioned East End gangsters, and wonders
if some of the nastier rumours about Venus himself might be true. And neither
Mumtaz nor Lee like the look of the children of the super-rich, arriving in
droves in the trendy parts of Hoxton and Shoreditch and living in luxury just a
stone's throw from grinding urban poverty. The truth, however, is stranger and
more dangerous than either Arnold or Hakim imagine. Enough Rope is a powerful and thrilling novel of London's
ever-evolving dark side.
To
shed light on a recent murder in Duluth, Jonathan Stride is forced to relive
the darkest days of his and the city's past. NINE YEARS- It is almost a decade
since Duluth said goodbye to its innocence. The city creeps ever closer to the
tenth anniversary of the year in which it found itself both gripped by murder
and united in terror; and during which the pillar of its community, DS Jonathan
Stride, had his home and heart torn to ribbons by the claws of cancer. NINE LIVES - Cat Mateo, an orphan with a
knack of landing on her feet, has bid farewell to a life on the streets. This
once-stray teenager owes her rescue to Detective Stride, the father figure she
holds close to her heart. But Cat holds something else to her chest - a secret:
the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend. A secret that, once out of the bag, will not
just viciously scratch at Duluth's still-healing wounds, but will make DS
Jonathan Stride wave goodbye to his convictions about the events nine years
before, and say hello to his darkest fears.
Goodbye to the Dead is by
Brian Freeman and is due to be published in October 2015.
Smoke and Mirrors is by Elly Grifiths
and is due to be published in November 2015. Brighton, 1951. Pantomime season is in full swing on the
snowy pier with Max Mephisto starring in Aladdin. But Max's headlines have
been stolen by the disappearance of two local children. With fairy tales in
the air, it's not long before the press have found a nickname for the case:
'Hansel and Gretel'. DI
Edgar Stephens has plenty of leads to investigate. The missing girl, Annie,
used to write plays and perform them with her friends. Does the clue lie in
Annie's unfinished - and rather disturbing - last script? Or might it lie with
the eccentric theatricals who have assembled for the pantomime? For Stan (aka the Great Diablo), who's also
appearing in Aladdin, the case raises more personal memories. Back before the
Great War, he witnessed the murder of a young girl while he was starring in
another show, an event which has eerie parallels to the current case. Once again Edgar enlists Max's help in
penetrating the shadowy theatrical world that seems to hold the key. But with
both distracted by their own personal problems, neither can afford to miss a
trick. For Annie and her friend, time is running out.
Unexplained
bloodstains appear in a young couple's apartment; a disembodied hand is found
in a rubbish dump; political prisoners resort to horrific measures in order to
make a point. In this brilliant new collection of stories, Alberto Barrera
Tyszka casts an eye on the violence that afflicts Latin America, and in
particular its intimate effects on the individuals who suffer and inflict it.
Mixing the surreal with the quotidian, the banal with the unspeakable, Tyszka
has created a fragmentary panorama of man's misdeeds against his own kind.
These windingly elliptical stories are ceaselessly surprising, and will bury
themselves into your subconscious long after the final page is turned. Crimes is
due to be published in August 2015.
Pen 33 is by Roslund and Hellstrom and
is due to be published in November 2015.
Bernt Lund harbours a sickness. He is a monster: in the mind of society,
in the mind of his two nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the mind of his
fellow inmates. Lennart Oscarsson
harbours a secret. Yet he is seen as dependable: in the eyes of his family, in
the eyes of colleagues, and in the eyes of the prisoners he oversees. These men's weaknesses will soon hand DCI
Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of both
his career and Stockholm's history. Pen 33 is both an unforgiving
collision between a time-hardened policeman and a truly heinous crime, and an
unflinching exploration of what people - whether criminals or victims - are
capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.
The First Man is by Xavier-Marie Bonnot
and is due to be published in July 2015.
Commandant Michel de Palma, known by his colleagues as 'the Baron', has
chosen early retirement and plans to travel the world. But he is dragged back
into the force when a case that has haunted him for a decade erupts once more.
Resurfacing from Le Guen's Cave, a prehistoric grotto thirty-eight metres below
sea level outside Marseille, an experienced diver mysteriously gets into
difficulties. Meanwhile, Thomas Autran, a serial killer with a peculiar
interest in the supernatural, suffering from a dangerous form of schizophrenia,
is once again on the run. Ancient cave paintings, savage murders committed
according to a precise ritual: a return to the first ages of humanity, the era
of the great Palaeolithic hunters. And despite the gory trail left at each
crime scene, de Palma must first understand the child, the secrets of a family,
a story of exploitation - and revenge - before he can track down the First Man
She
is the girl with the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit
whose burning sense of injustice and talent for investigation will never
respect boundaries of state or status. He is a campaigning journalist. Mikael
Blomkvist. A lone wolf whose integrity and championing of the truth bring him
time and again to the brink of unemployment - and prosecution. The call comes
in late at night: a superhacker has gained access to critical, top secret U.S.
intelligence. Blomkvist knows only one person who could crack the best security
systems in the world. This case has all the hallmarks of Salander. She is
accused of acting without reason, taking risks just because she can, but though
they have lost touch, Blomkvist knows Lisbeth better than that. There must be
something deeper at the heart of this - maybe even the scoop that Millennium
magazine so desperately needs for its survival. A tangled web of truth that
someone is prepared to kill to protect...
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
is by David Lagercrantz and is due to be published in August 2015
The Great Swindle is by Pierre Lemaitre
and is due to be published in November 2015.
1918. The war on the Western Front is all but over. Wanting to impress
his superiors, an ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay Pradelle, sends
two soldiers over the top and shoots them in the back to incite their comrades
to attack the German lines. When Albert
Maillard reaches the bodies and realises how they must have died, the
Lieutenant pushes him into a shellhole in the hope of silencing him for good.
But Albert is rescued by a fellow soldier, Edouard Péricourt, who takes a piece
of shrapnel in the face for his troubles. In the field hospital, Edouard
refuses cosmetic surgery and will not face his family in his current state.
Albert finds him a new identity and informs Edouard's wealthy father of his
son's "death". Back in
civilian life, Albert becomes Edouard's carer. A young girl, Louise, is
Edouard's salvation. In her company his talent for art is rekindled, as is his
sense of mischief. He devises a confidence trick that can make them a fortune -
taking money for never-to-be-built war memorials from gullible towns.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouard's sister Madeline and is
running a scam of his own . . .
