Playing
Dead is the debut novel by Julia Heaberlin and is due to be
published in July 2012. The letter that
turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days
after her father’s death. The woman who
wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a
baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a girl who grew up
on a Texas ranch finds herself linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of
a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping
of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie
races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined
to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who
Tommie always thought was her real mother.
With everything she has ever believed in question, and no one she can
trust, Tommie must discover the truth about the girl who vanished—and the very
real threats that still remain.
The Devil I Know is a thrilling novel of greed and
hubris, set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram, in the form of a mysterious
testimony. It recounts his return home
after a self-imposed exile only to find
himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides – by a grotesque builder
he has known since childhood on the one hand, and a shadowy businessman he’s
never met on the other. Caught between
them, as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth, it
follows Tristram’s dawning realisation that all is not well. The Devil I Know is by Claire Kilroy and
is due to be published in August 2012.
Seventy Times Seven is the debut novel by actor J (ohn) G
(ordon) Sinclair and is due to be published in September 2012. Danny
McGuire doesn't like his job, but he's good at it. Since his brother's murder eight years
earlier he has become a professional killer: a hit man for hire, bent on
retribution. The Job: Danny's been contracted to eliminate the 'Thevshi' - the
Ghost - the most elusive informant that has ever penetrated the Republican
movement in Northern Ireland. But
there's a problem: the Thevshi claims to know who's responsible for his
brother's death. Danny's never killed
someone he needed to talk to first. The Target: When Finn O'Hanlon (A.K.A.
the Thevshi) is attacked in a bar in Alabama he realises that his past has
finally caught up with him. Forced to
flee, he embarks on a desperate journey to find Danny McGuire before it's too
late. The Complication: But Danny and Finn are up against someone who's
spent years hiding a secret, and it's a secret they'll go to any lengths to
protect.
Time
On My Hands is by Giorgio Vasta and is due to be published in August
2012. Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has
just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th
May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a car.
A trio of eleven-year-old schoolboys, Nimbo, Raggio, and Volo, avidly
follow the news of the abduction as their admiration for the brigatisti
grows. When the boys themselves resolve
to abduct a classmate and incarcerate him in a makeshift 'people's prison', the
darkness within their world, and the world of the novel, becomes
all-pervasive. A vivid and hellish
description of Sicily in the late seventies, Time on my Hands is an unforgettable novel from a significant new
voice in Italian fiction.
Pierced is the
follow-up novel to Thomas Enger’s debut novel Burned and once again features Henning Juul. A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining
his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime
scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter, Henning
Juul, is contacted by Pulli, who claims that if Henning can help clear his name
he can give him details of who was responsible for the fire which killed his
six-year-old son, Jonas. A Double Threat: Desperate to continue
his own search for justice, Henning realises that the information Pulli
promises is life threatening, to both of them and to others. As events take a deadly turn, Henning finds
himself on the trail of two killers for whom the stakes have never been higher… Pierced
is due to be published in July 2012.
When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a
motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he claims was travelling with
him, doesn't exist. The woman he
describes bears a striking resemblance to his recently deceased sister, Laura,
but has he really only imagined her? Rob
sets out to find the answers to who Lena is and where she has gone. He is aided by Rebecca Lewis, a London-based
PI, who has come to the Isle of Man at the behest of his parents to investigate
his sister's suicide. But who is Rebecca
really and how did she know his sister? Together
Rob and Rebecca follow the clues to discover who took Lena. In doing so they discover that even on an
island where most people know each other, everyone hides a secret, and that
sometimes your best option isn't to hide but to stay and fight. Safe
House is by Chris Ewan and is due to be published in August 2012.
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