The Dark is by V M Giambanco and is due to be published in
September 2014. Seattle Homicide
Detective Alice Madison is bound to jailed murderer John Cameron and attorney
Nathan Quinn by a debt that cannot be repaid, by a nightmare that changed their
lives forever. When the remains of
Quinn's younger brother - murdered when he was a boy - are discovered in a
shallow grave, Madison vows to follow the trail of brutal deaths that leads to
the truth. A sadistic killer stalks the
investigation, as Madison's own demons threaten her future career with the
police and darkness closes in. How far
is she prepared to go to save a life?
Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less
than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate
in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents'
names to prove it. This is the moment a
CIA director most dreads. Weber turns to
a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet
Operations Centre. He's the CIA's
in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on
a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction one that takes the reader into the
hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia
and betrayal. Like the new world of
cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The
Director is a maze of deception and double dealing, about a world where
everything is written in zeroes and ones and nothing can be trusted. The CIA has belatedly discovered that this is
not your father’s Cold War, and Weber must play catch-up, against the clock and
an unknown enemy, in a game he does not yet understand. The
Director is by David Ignatius and is due to be published in June 2014.
The Arc of
the Swallow is by Sissel-Jo Gazan and
is due to be published in November 2014.When controversial Immunology Professor
Kristian Storm is found hanged in his office his assistant Marie Skov refuses
to believe that he has committed suicide. Grappling with Storm’s disputed
legacy, she uncovers a scandal behind vaccination programmes in West Africa,
leading her behind the scene of the cut-throat pharmaceutical industry.
The Root of
all Evil is the second book in the
Commissario Michele Balistreri series by
Roberto
Research is by Philip Kerr and is due to be published in July
2014. The rolling strip across the
bottom of the screen shouts the news: BESTSELLING NOVELIST JOHN HOUSTON'S WIFE
FOUND MURDERED AT THEIR LUXURY APARTMENT IN MONACO. Houston is the richest writer in the world, a
book factory publishing many bestsellers a year - so many that he can't possibly
write them himself. He has a team that feeds off his talent; ghost writers,
agents, publishers. So when he decides
to take a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes
and critical acclaim, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's
murder, has disappeared. He owns a boat
and has a pilot's licence - he could be anywhere and there are many who'd like
to find him. First there's the police. If
he's innocent, why did he flee? Then
again, maybe he was set up by one of his enemies. The scenario reads like the plot of one of
Houston's million-copy-selling thrillers...
A suspicious device is found inside a suitcase near a
nursery in Holon, Tel Aviv. The children
are
Bavaria, Germany, 1947. At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to
her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to
raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury, and the loud whispers
of the neighbours begin to weigh upon her.
She doesn't believe in her sin.
But everyone else does. And
someone brings judgement down upon her.
Many years later, Hermann Muller is throwing a drunk out of his
tavern. A traveller, who won't stop
ranting about a murder left unsolved, about police who never investigated. Out of curiosity, the file is reopened. And in the cold light of hindsight, a
chilling realisation creeps upon the community.
No one ever atoned for Afra's death.
But her story is waiting to be told. The Dark Meadow is by Andrea Maria Schenkel and is due to be
published in August 2014.
Lake Wales, Central Florida. Ten years ago, a political fundraiser became
a bloodbath when a hooded assassin carried out a savage public execution. Three men were massacred, casting a dark
shadow over the Sunshine State. A decade
on, history is threatening to repeat itself.
The widow of one victim, herself now running for governor, has received
an anonymous threat - a newspaper clipping from that fateful day, along with
the chilling words 'I'm back.’ Florida
detective Cab Bolton agrees to investigate the threat against this candidate,
Diane Fairmont: an attractive politician who has a complicated history with
Cab's mother, Hollywood actress Tarla Bolton - and with Cab himself. But by doing so, Cab is entering dangerous
waters. Fairmont's political party is
itself swamped in secrecy - a fact that, unknown to Cab, has led one of its
junior staff to start asking very sensitive questions about the death of a
party employee. Both Cab and this young
researcher, Peach Piper, are digging up the kind of dirt that ten years can't
wash away. And as the powerful crosswinds
of state politics swirl around Cab and Peach, and the threat of a tropical
storm hangs over Florida, this whirlwind of pressure and chaos will ultimately
unearth a poisonous conspiracy, and reawaken a killer who has lain dormant for
a decade. Season of Fear is by Brian Freeman and is due to be published in
July 2014.
Arab Jazz is by Karim Miské and is due to be published in August
2014. Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second
hand bookshop, and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan
neighbourhood where multicultural citizens live, love, and worship alongside one
another. This peace is shattered when
Ahmed Taroudant's melancholy daydreams are interrupted by the blood dripping
from his upstairs neighbour's brutally mutilated corpse. The violent murder of Laura Vignole, and the
roast pork placed next to her, set imaginations ablaze across the
neighbourhood, and Ahmed finds himself the prime suspect. However detectives Rachel Kupferstein and
Jean Hamelot have plenty to go on, as they uncover a volatile underworld of
drug trafficking and religious fundamentalism.
In this his debut novel, Karim Miské demonstrates a masterful control of
setting, as he moves seamlessly between the sensual streets of Paris and the
synagogues of New York to reveal the truth behind a horrifying crime.
A devastating analysis of the human capacity for
violence and redemption. 1957: a pacifist goes to war. 2008: a policeman on the warpath. Set between Paris and Algeria, the
overlapping fates of these two men reveal a dark conspiracy to mask the
blackest chapter of French history, which can only be undone by the most
unlikely hero: a thuggish ex-boxer who’ll do anything for cash . . . Loser’s Corner is by Antonin Varenne
and is due to be published in December 2014.
Stockholm, September 2011. Carina Dymek is on a fast track for promotion
at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when she is approached by a
stranger and given a USB stick containing a report to circulate in her
department. Unwittingly, she delivers a
time bomb of classified information that sends her career up in flames and puts
her on the radar of the security service, Sapo.
Tasked with investigating how Dymek gained access to the confidential
report, the formidable Bente Jensen of Sapo is quietly approached by the
British MI6, who have an undisclosed interest in the leak. She finds out that
Dymek's boyfriend is an Egyptian Swedish national. But it's MI6 who link his family to an
extreme faction within the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. The case explodes into
an international manhunt. Liaising with
the ruthless MI6, Bente uncovers the secretive plans contained in that leaked
report: plans for an omnipotent Europe-wide Intelligence Service. Forces hone in on Dymek, while Bente begins
to suspect she is a red herring caught in a far wider net: one in which social
media is abused for intelligence and civil rights are sacrificed to national
security. Into a Raging Blaze is by Andreas Norman and is due to be published
in July 2014.
Four lives are about to come crashing
together...Devastated by the murder of his sister in Soho seven years ago, Mark
Davis travels to London to carry out an act of violence that he believes will
avenge her death. PhD student Stella is
returning to London with her partner Paula to visit a fertility clinic. But Stella is hiding a secret that could tear
their lives apart. Recovering alcoholic
Seb has left his wild days behind him.
As he helps his wife prepare to launch her restaurant in Soho, he feels
that his life is finally back on track. But a chance encounter with a stranger
brings back tragic memories and puts his family in serious danger. Kerstin Engel is a brilliant but troubled
research analyst. Haunted by the events
of 7/7 when she narrowly escaped death, she has spent the last seven years
carrying out a self-imposed penance. But
an unseen enemy lies in wait and threatens to destroy her career and her
mind. As crowds gather in Soho to mark
the restaurant launch, a terrifying sequence of events brings these characters
together and the last days of summer to a shocking end. Summer
Lies Bleeding is by Nuala Casey and is due to be published in August 2014.
Poisoned
Ground is by Barbara Nadel and is due
to be published in September 2014.
Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a
detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. An Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in
Belmarsh on terrorism charges, approaches Mumtaz. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's
innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it. But Salwa is not what she seems. Trapped in an old tunnel that leads to the
London docks, will Mumtaz escape with her life?
The Bosch
Deception is by Alex Connor and is
due to be published in July 2014. A TRUTH CONCEALED. Brabant, 1473. A clandestine brotherhood
hides a secret that could bring down the Catholic Church. Their chosen hiding place - the art of
Hieronymus Bosch. A TERRIBLE CONSPIRACY. London, 2014. An excommunicated priest
approaches both the Church and the art world, claiming to possess an artefact
that will destroy their reputations. A
TICKING CLOCK. This man, Nicholas Laverne, is poised to end over 500 years of
silence and injustice. Yet, unknown to
Nicholas, he has just summoned a killer intent on silencing him.
You'd know if someone close to you was capable of
lethal violence, right? Dead wrong. Accused of grassing up a fellow officer and
driven brutally out of home and job, Grace Fisher is thankful to survive some
dark times and find haven with the Major Investigation Team in Essex. One female student is missing, last seen at a
popular bar in Colchester. When a second
student, also out drinking, is murdered and left grotesquely posed, the case
becomes headline news. Someone is leaking
disturbing details to a tabloid crime reporter.
Is it the killer? Or a detective
close to the case? With another victim, and under siege by the media, the
murder enquiry hits a dead end. The
review team brought in to shake things up is headed by Grace's old DCI. Who is going to listen to her now? Good
Girls Don’t Die is the first in a new series by Isabelle Grey featuring Detective
Grace Fisher. It is due to be published
in September 2014.
London, 1657.
All that is known of the Seeker is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell, and
that nothing can be hidden from him. In a fashionable coffee house, a murder takes
place and a lawyer, Elias Ellingworth, found holding a knife over the bleeding
body. Despite the damning evidence, the
Seeker is not convinced of Ellingworth’s guilt.
He will stop at nothing to bring the real killer to justice. The
Seeker is by S G Maclean and is the first in a new historical thriller
series featuring Damian Seeker, one of Cromwell’s most trusted and feared
adherents. The Seeker is due to be published in October 2014.
In Mark Sullivan’s latest high-octane blockbuster,
robin Monarch must seek out and steal a mysterious and much-coveted elixir of
life, while at the same time attempting to reclaim something – or, more
accurately, someone – cruelly stolen from him.
The perilous trail begins in the deepest recesses of the Brazilian
rainforest, and will lure Monarch into a deadly trap where his nemesis will be
waiting, and where the fate of those dearest to him will be decided. Thief
is due to be published in December 2014.
Two hours to get away, 22 more to survive. Security consultant and private investigator
Michael Sander is tasked with the investigation of a video that seems to show
two people being hunted to their deaths.
His job is to find out who they are, and why they were murdered. But this isn’t just another case, and these
deaths are only one piece of the puzzle.
Michael is investigating the darkest reaches of humanity, uncovering
crimes that reach further than he ever imagined. Trophy
is by Steffen Jacobsen and is due to be published in October 2014.
Talking to
Ghosts is by Hervé Le Corre and is
due to be published in July 2014. With
his son Pablo's kidnapping still unsolved, and his marriage ruined by the
torment of hope, the brutal murder of a single mother in her own home is an
almost welcome diversion for Commandant Vilar.
The woman leaves behind a son, Victor, thrown into the foster system
with only his mother's urn for company.
Struggling with bullies, trauma and the first pangs of teenage love,
Victor carries a secret that followed his mother to her grave. Struggling for leads, Vilar is shaken when
the colleague investigating Pablo's kidnapping disappears. When a sadistic caller claims to have
information about his son, Vilar is torn between duty and a desperate chance of
redemption.
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