Blood Whispers is by John Gordon Sinclair and is due to be published
in May 2014. 'Truth is, it's all lies.'
Teresa Gow is under arrest for a string of offences ranging from prostitution
to attempted murder. Lawyer Keira Lynch wants the charges dropped and her
client taken into protective custody. The CIA and a Serbian drug trafficker by
the name of Fisnik Abazi, want Teresa dead. Keira's cool head and laid-back
approach has earned her the respect of most of the big-time players on the
Glasgow crime scene. She doesn't tell lies, she 'stylises the truth', and they
trust her with their darkest secrets. In a room full of murder suspects, Keira
will finger the culprit every time. They put her uncanny ability down to luck,
but there's a more sinister explanation. Keira has a dark secret of her own -
when she was eight years old she killed a man. It takes one to know one. In a
deadly game where nothing is what it seems and no one is who they say they are,
Keira Lynch finds herself facing the biggest challenge of her life. The
question is not will she kill again, but when...
Introducing
Jefferson Winter - A serial criminal. An ex-FBI profiler with a past. A missing
woman. Not everyone who's broken can be fixed. Death is easy - Four victims,
all young women, all tortured and then lobotomised. None of them able to tell
the police the name of their attacker. None of them able to live normal lives
again. Just broken dolls, played with then discarded. Living is hard - Ex-FBI
profiler Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator. The son of one of
America's most renowned serial killers, Winter has spent his life trying to
distance himself from his father's legacy. But are they more similar than he
can admit? Failure is worse - When another young woman goes missing, Winter has
to race against the clock to identify the attacker and find the latest victim
before it's too late. Broken Dolls is by James Carol and is
due to be published in January 2014.
The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is the debut novel
by Peter Swanson and is due to be published in February 2014. George Foss never thought he'd see her again,
but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack's
Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college
freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became inseparable in their
first fall semester, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had
committed suicide over Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of
the girl's grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their
mantelpiece - the one who had committed suicide - was not his girlfriend.
Later, he discovered the true identity of the girl he had loved - and of the
things she may have done to escape her past. Now, twenty years later, she's
back, and she's telling George that he's the only one who can help her.
1949.
Lance Curran is set to prosecute a young man for a brutal murder, in the
'Robert the Painter' case, one which threatens to tear society apart. In the
searing July heat, corruption and justice vie as Harry Ferguson, Judge Curran's
fixer, contemplates the souls of men adrift, and his own fall from grace with
the beautiful and wilful Patricia. Within three years, Curran will be a judge,
his nineteen year old daughter dead, at the hands of a still unknown murderer,
and his wife Doris condemned to an asylum for the rest of her days. In "Blue Is the Night", it is Doris who
finally emerges from the fog of deceit and blame to cast new light into the
murder of her daughter. Blue is the Night is by Eoin McNamee and
is due to be published in March 2014.
The Beast in the Red Forest is the latest book in the Inspector Pekkala series by
Sam Eastland and is due to be published in January 2014. A
soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred
body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe
that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stallin's orders, Pekkala's assistant
Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of
clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi
invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap. A new enemy has
emerged from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever
faced before. Pursuing the legend of a half-human creature, said to roam the
landscape of this war within a war, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth
about Pekkala's disappearance. Meanwhile, Pekkala's nemesis is also closing in
for the kill.
The Accident is a riveting time-bomb of a thriller. In New York
City, Isabel Reed, one of the most respected and powerful literary agents in
the city, frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early dawn
hours. This manuscript - printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous - is
full of shocking revelations and disturbing truths, things which could
compromise national security. Is this what she's been waiting for her entire
career: a book that will help her move on from a painful past, a book that
could save her beloved industry ...a book that will change the world? In
Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, wary of the CIA's obsession
with the Middle East, has been steadfastly monitoring the dangers that abound
in Europe. Even if his bosses aren't paying attention, he's determined to stay
vigilant. And he's also on the trail of this manuscript - and the secrets that
lie at its heart. For him, quite simply, it must never see the light of day. As
Isabel and Hayden try to outwit each other, the nameless author watches on from
afar. With no-one quite sure who holds all the cards, the stakes couldn't be
higher: in just twenty-four hours careers could be ruined, devastating secrets
could be unearthed, and innocent people could die. The Accident is by Chris Pavone and is due to be published in March
2014.
New
York Times bestseller Laura Lippman returns with a classic story of murder and
mystery, in which one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of his wife,
daughters - and mistress. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette
'Bambi' Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild
promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative if not
always legal businesses, she and their three -little girls live in luxury. But
on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, newly convicted
and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her
husband - or his money - might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted
young mistress, Julie. When Julie herself disappears ten years to the day that
Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her -old lover -
until her remains are found in a secluded wooded park. Now, twenty-six years
after Julie went missing, Roberto 'Sandy' Sanchez, a retired Baltimore
detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder.
What he discovers is a tangled web of bitterness, jealously, resentment and
greed stretching over the three decades and three generations that connect
these five very different women. And at the center of every woman's story is
the man who, though long gone, has never been forgotten: the enigmatic Felix
Brewer. Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present,
Sandy could find the explosive truth... After I’m Gone is due to be published in
April 2014.
Scarred by Thomas Enger is a thrilling novel of murder and
political scandal in Oslo. An elderly woman is found dead in a nursing home.
Bjarne Brogeland, who heads up the investigation, soon realises that they are
on the trail of a meticulous killer who has developed a keen taste for revenge.
A killer who has only just begun...Trine Juul-Osmundsen, Norway's Secretary of
State and Henning Juul's sister, is accused of sexually harassing a young male
politician. As the allegations cause a media frenzy, Trine receives an
anonymous threat telling her to resign. If she doesn't, the truth about what
she really did that night will be revealed. Scarred reporter Henning Juul,
finds himself torn between the two high profile cases. He wants to help his
estranged sister, but as he digs into their past, he discovers memories that
haunt them both. Memories of a broken home. Memories of a dead father. As the
two cases collide, both their worlds threaten to fall apart. Scarred
is due to be published in February 2014.
The Dead Beat is by Doug Johnstone and is due to be published in June
2014. If you're so special, why aren't
you dead? Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at
Edinburgh's The Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and
Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own. Put straight onto the
obituary page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit
suicide while on the phone, something which echoes with her own troubled past.
Setting in motion a frantic race around modern-day Edinburgh, The Dead Beat traces Martha's desperate
search for answers to the dark mystery of her parents' past and is soundtracked
by and interspersed with a series of gigs from the alternative music scene of
her parents' generation in the early '90s.
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