'All you have to do is find out why Harry is
prepared to blame an innocent man. That's the thread. Follow it. You'll reach
the Silent Ones. This is your way - our way - of making a difference.' With
this challenge from Father Edmund Littlemore, Anselm returns to the Old Bailey
to fight the most difficult and troubling case of his life. The man in the dock
is Littlemore himself. He is charged with grave offences against Harry
Brandwell who, it seems, is both a victim and a liar. But he's the only link to
these others who've chosen silence over their right to justice. Unknown to
Anselm, Robert Saunders, a journalist, has been investigating Littlemore's
background. And he's a man with a troubled past, always on the move, from
Boston in the USA to Freetown in Sierra Leone, finally running from a London
police station rather than explain himself. More disturbingly, Robert uncovers
details of a carefully planned scheme to entice Anselm back into court,
exploiting his reputation for honesty to secure a shock acquittal. Meanwhile
Harry Brandwell - abused, abandoned and betrayed - has decided to take matters
into his own hands. The Silent Ones
examines the one crime that Church, State and Family thought they could hide in
their own best interests; Anselm's return is a compelling novel about the
anatomy of silence, the courage of victims and the redemptive power of public
justice. The Silent Ones is by William Brodrick and is due to be published
in July 2015.
Splinter the Silence is by Val McDermid
and is due to be published in August 2015. 'That day, waiting had been almost
unbearable. He wanted something more spectacular, something that couldn't be
ignored. These deaths needed to make a mark ...' Psychological profiler Tony
Hill is trained to see patterns, to decode the mysteries of human behaviour,
and when he comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious
online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than
meets the eye. Similar circumstances, different deaths. Could it be murder? But
what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Former DCI Carol
Jordan has her own demons to confront, but with lives at stake, Tony and Carol
begin the hunt for the most dangerous and terrifying kind of killer - someone
who has nothing to fear and nothing to lose ...
A Masterpiece of Corruption is by L C
Tyler and is due to be published in December 2015. It is December 1657. John Grey has returned
to the study of law in London. He receives a mysterious invitation which seems
to have come from some of his mother's royalist friends - possibly members of
the largely ineffectual secret organisation, the Sealed Knot. He is amused
rather than otherwise that they would think him stupid enough to join them and
thinks it may be entertaining to tell them so to their faces. On arriving at
Sir Richard Willys's chambers at Gray's Inn, however, he finds that the
invitation was never intended for him - to his horror, Grey is warmly greeted
as a royalist conspirator sent over from Brussels to murder Oliver Cromwell. It
soon becomes clear that the man he has been mistaken for is his own father, a
long-time royalist exile. The question is how he can prevent the murder without
betraying his father ...
Mma
Ramotswe is not one to sit about. Her busy life gives her little time for
relaxation (apart from the drinking of tea, of course, which is another matter
altogether). Nonetheless, she is persuaded to take a holiday from the No.1
Ladies' Detective Agency. But Mma Ramotswe finds it impossible to resist the
temptation to follow the cases taken on by her business partner, Mma Makutsi,
and to interfere in them - at one remove. This leads her to delve into the past
of a man whose reputation has been called into question. Meanwhile, Violet
Sephotho, Mma Makutsi's arch enemy, has had the temerity to set up a new
secretarial college - one that aims to rival that great institution, the
Botswana Secretarial College. Will she get her comeuppance? It will be a
close-run thing. The Woman who Walked in Sunshine is by Alexander McCall Smith and
is due to be published in September 2015.
A
twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve
this epic riddle? When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in
Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He
begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are
inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn son of the victim and the
unexpectedly captivating daughter of the main suspect. Over the next twenty
years we follow their lives as Sasagaki pursues the case - which remains
unsolved - to the point of obsession. Stark, intriguing and stylish, Journey Under the Midnight Sun is an
epic mystery by the bestselling Japanese author Keigo Higashino and is due
to be published in October 2015.
I
close my eyes and feel my heart begin racing Someone is coming They're going to
find me A mother and her teenage daughter are found brutally murdered in a
remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying
like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince. Reluctantly, clinical psychologist
Joe O'Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, calling
himself the 'Mindhunter', trading on Joe's name, has jeopardised the police
inquiry by leaking details to the media and stirring up public anger. With no
shortage of suspects and tempers beginning to fray, Joe discover links between
these murders to a series of brutal attacks where the men and women are choked
unconscious and the letter 'A' is carved into their foreheads. As the case
becomes ever more complex, nothing is quite what it seems and soon Joe's fate,
and that of those closest to him, become intertwined with a merciless,
unpredictable killer .. Close Your Eyes
is by Michael Robotham and is due to be published in August 2015.
A
brutal killer is on the streets of Rome. He leaves no trace. And shows no
mercy. A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling,
with no real clues or hard evidence to follow. Assigned to the case is Sandra
Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes
and her own past. Sandra's shared history with Marcus, a member of the ancient
Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, linked to the Vatican, and trained in the
detection of true evil, means that the two are brought together again in the
pursuit of a malignant killer. Soon Marcus and Sandra notice the emergence of a
disturbing pattern running alongside the latest killings - and every time they
think they have grasped a fragment of the truth, they are led down yet another
terrifying path. The Hunter of the Dark
is the sensational new literary thriller from Donato Carrisi and is due to be
published in November 2015. The Hunter of the Dark captures the
beautiful atmosphere of Rome and explores its dark and hidden secrets.
A
nightmare discovery in the boot of a stolen BMW plunges car thief Danny
Stapleton into the worst trouble of his life. What links his misfortune to the
mysterious disappearance of an art teacher at a private school for girls in
Chichester? Orders from above push Peter Diamond of Bath CID into investigating
a police corruption case in the Chichester force, and he soon finds himself
reluctantly dealing with spirited schoolgirls, eccentric artists and his
formidable old colleague, Hen Mallin. Dead Among the Dead Men is by Peter
Lovesey and is due to be published in July 2015.
When
Sadie Wise has a seemingly innocent conversation with a stranger on a train,
she has no idea that will set off a chain of events involving murder, deception
and danger. Dangerous Promises is by Roberta Kray and is due to be published in
November 2015.
In
and out of prison for over 40 years, Seymour Eriksson is officially 'London's
most unsuccessful criminal.' So why can't Carlyle keep him off the streets for
more than five minutes - and how can he stop hack Bernie Gilmore naming and
shaming him in his tabloid rag? Worried about his own personal profile, Carlyle
is slow to notice several alarming cases involving missing schoolgirls. So can
he get his act together and start solving crimes before Bernie brands him
publicly as 'London's most unsuccessful cop'?
Nobody’s Hero is by James
Craig and is due to be published in August 2015.
The Mountain Shadow is by Gregory David
Roberts and is due to be published in October 2015. A breath of Bombay hope, in the first glimpse
of the sea, on Marine Drive, filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away
from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and
Sanjay's recklessness. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And
I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. The end of the eighties
was the beginning of everything. The Berlin wall fell on a ruined empire, and
the Taliban took Afghanistan. Lin, on the run after escaping from prison in
Australia, working as a passport forger for a Bombay mafia gang, finds himself
standing on a tattered corner of a bloody carpet that would soon cover most of
the world. But he can't leave the Island City: not without Karla. Two years
after the events in Shantaram, Bombay is a different world, playing by
different rules. Lin's search for love and faith leads him through secret and
violent intrigues to the dangerous truth. A love story told with hope and
humour, a personal struggle for redemption, and a philosophical quest for the
wisdom of our common humanity, The
Mountain Shadow is a sublime novel, and an all-consuming, epic thriller.
Hardly
a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. His boundless
sense of adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a tendency to concoct
stories so extraordinary and so far-fetched that no one can possibly believe
him. But when Laurent disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is
faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. So
begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. And what Gamache uncovers
deep in the forest leads back to crimes of the past, betrayal and murder, with
more sinister consequences than anyone could have possibly imagined ... The
Nature of the Beast is by Louise Penny and is due to be published in August
2015.
Fearing
for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese
agents who have identified him as British spy. His reputation and life are in
tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a
shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on
the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong night, a key MI6 source
is murdered minutes after meeting spy Trish Patterson. From Washington, D.C. to
the hallowed halls of Oxford University and dusty African streets, a sinister
power is stirring which will use Mangan and Patterson as its pawns - if they
survive. Deeply steeped in tension and paranoia, Spy Games is by Adam Brookes and is due to be published in July
2015.
Devil’s Bridge is by Linda Fairstein and
is due to be published in August 2015. The
Heartbreaker is by Tania Carver and is
due to be published in October 2015. After
years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her
violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one
esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly,
she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life. She
phones Safe Harbour, a women's refuge, and they tell her which street corner to
wait on and what the car that will pick her up will look like. They tell her
the word the driver will use so she knows it's safe to get in. And that's the
last they hear from her. Gemma Adderley's daughter Carly is found wandering the
city streets on her own the next day. Her mother's mutilated corpse turns up by
the canal several weeks later. Her heart has been removed. Detective Inspector
Phil Brennan takes on the case, bringing in his wife, psychologist Marina
Esposito, to try and help unlock Carly's memories of what happened that day.
The race is on to solve the case before the Heartbreaker strikes again...
The
death of Lord Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy
taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young
man-except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes
under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a
young anatomist and pioneering forensic detective from Philadelphia. Thomas
arrived in England to study under its foremost surgeon, the aging Dr.
Carruthers, and finds his unconventional methods and dedication to the grisly
study of anatomy only add to his outsider status. Against his better judgment
he agrees to examine Sir Edward's decomposing corpse, examining his internal
and external state, as well as the unusual behaviour of those still living in
the Crick household. Thomas soon learns that it is not only the dead but also
the living to whom he must apply the keen blade of his intellect. And the
deeper the doctor's investigations go, the greater the risk that he will be
consigned to the ranks of the corpses he studies. The
Anatomist’s Apprentice is the debut novel by Tessa Harris and is due to be
published in July 2015.
A Death in the Dales is by Frances Brody
and is due to be published in October 2015.
A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in
plain sight, Freda Simonson, the only witness to the crime, becomes plagued
with guilt, believing the wrong man has been convicted. Following her death, it
seems that the truth will never be uncovered in the peaceful village of
Langcliffe ...A village of secrets But it just so happens that Freda's nephew
is courting the renowned amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton, who decides to holiday
in Langcliffe with her indomitable teenage niece, Harriet. When Harriet strikes
up a friendship with a local girl whose young brother is missing, the search
leads Kate to uncover another suspicious death, not to mention an illicit
affair. The case of a lifetime As the present mysteries merge with the past's
mistakes, Kate is thrust into the secrets that Freda left behind and realises
that this courageous woman has entrusted her with solving a murder from beyond
the grave. It soon becomes clear to her that nothing in Langcliffe is quite as
it appears, and with a murderer on the loose and an ever-growing roster of
suspects, this isn't the holiday Kate was expecting ...
Into the Dark is by Alison Gaylin and is
due to be published in December 2015. Can
a stranger share your memories? That's the question that haunts PI Brenna
Spector when she first sees footage of missing webcam performer Lula Belle.
Naked but hidden in shadow, the 'performance artist' shares her deepest,
darkest secrets with her unseen male audience ...secrets that, to Brenna, are
chillingly familiar. Brenna has perfect memory, able to recall in astonishing
detail every moment of every day of her adult life. But her childhood - those
carefree years before the traumatic disappearance of her sister, Clea - is
frustratingly vague. When Brenna listens to the stories Lula Belle tells her
audience, stories only Brenna and Clea could know, those years come to life
again in vivid detail. Convinced the missing internet performer has ties to her
sister, Brenna takes the case - and in her quest for Lula Belle unravels a web
of obsession, sex, guilt, and murder that could regain her family ...or cost
her life.
Your
face is a blur to him. But your body still bleeds. The Farren family has been a
plague upon Philadelphia's most dangerous neighbourhood, the Devil's Pocket,
for generations. There, row after row of tumbledown houses hide dark secrets -
none darker than Billy, the youngest Farren. Afflicted by a syndrome that means
he can't recognise faces, Billy must use photographs to identify his family -
and his victims. And when your life has bled away, he takes a final, gruesome picture
for his wall. But what is the meaning of the horrific ritual Billy enacts with
every murder? And is there any connection to a childhood event Detective Kevin
Byrne has buried so well it's hidden even from his former partner Jessica
Balzano? Shutter Man is by Richard Montanari and is due to be published in
August 2015.
Murder-on-Sea is by Julie Wassmer and is
due to be published in October 2015.It's not the season of good will to all
men...The festive month is kicking off in style and Pearl is rushed off her
feet with her restaurant, The Whitstable Pearl. She's also busy planning her
own family Christmas and providing mulled wine for a charity church fundraiser
when Christmas cards begin arriving all over town - filled with spiteful
messages from an anonymous writer. Pearl's curiosity is piqued but having
pledged not to take on a case at her detective agency before Christmas, she
reluctantly agrees that Canterbury's DCI Mike McGuire should take over;
poisoned pen cards are after all a matter for the police. And with only the
church fundraiser now between Pearl and Christmas, she invites McGuire along as
her guest. The event appears to be a great success; St Alfred's church hall is
packed and Pearl happily finds herself standing close to McGuire beneath some
mistletoe ...but then a guest suddenly collapses. Too much of Pearl's delicious
mulled wine - or could it be something more sinister? The last thing Pearl
expects for Christmas is murder but soon the bodies are piling up. Can Pearl
possibly solve the mystery in time to make 25th December an unforgettable day -
or will the murderer contrive to ensure her goose is well and truly cooked
before then?
Also
due to be published in November 2015 is A
Painted Smile by Frances Fyfield which continues the series featuring Di
Porteous.
Silenced is the second book in the
Wheeler and Ross series by A J McCreanor and is due to be published in
September 2015. He buried his victim
alive. And now he's escaped from prison and is on the run in the city. Fiona
Henderson, the daughter of the victim who'd descended into a world of silence
following her mother's murder, has gone missing. Her sister Annabelle scours
the city in a desperate attempt to find her. And then the body of a homeless
person if found among the rubbish in a deserted alleyway. As DIs Wheeler and
Ross investigate, more suspicious deaths occur and a pattern emerges: the
victims are all homeless. And so the police are pitched against a killer who is
hellbent on a mission to rid the streets of the vulnerable and dispossessed. As
Wheeler and Ross descend further into Glasgow's netherworld, their
investigation reveals not only a flawed support system for the disaffected, but
also a criminal class ruthlessly willing to exploit them. A city of double
standards, where morality is bought and sold. But it's when the killer begins
stalking DI Wheeler, that she and Ross realise that the threat is now personal.
How
far would you go to protect the ones you love? Life has never been easy for the
three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch where
they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father's temper. One
night, a fight gets out of hand and the sisters are forced to go on the run,
only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a
small town. As events spiral out of control they find themselves in a
horrifying situation and are left with no choice but to change their names and
create new lives. Eighteen years later, they are still trying to forget what happened
to them. But when one of the sisters goes missing, followed closely by her
niece, they are pulled back into the past. And this time there's nowhere left
to run... Those Girls is by Chevy Stevens and is due to be published in
December 2015.
The Honourable
Daisy Dalrymple-Fletcher is on a convalescent trip in the countryside, visiting
old school friends. The three of them, all unmarried, have recently bought a
house together. They are a part of the generation of 'superfluous women',
brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects
after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her
husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - are
invited for Sunday lunch, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below
the house which remains resolutely locked. Alec picks the lock but when he
eventually opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the
stench of a dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch becomes
a much darker affair. Now Daisy's three friends are the suspects in a murder
and her husband Alec is a witness. So before the local detective, DI Underwood,
can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use
all her resources and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing
locked-room crime. Superfluous Women
is by Carola Dunn and is due to be published in July 2015.
Detective
Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in
Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an
altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained
to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an
orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river
below...The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold
dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals
that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched -
could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of
sick joke? Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a
house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely
in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's
sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help? Preserve
the Dead is by Brian McGilloway and is due to be published in August 2015.
Death at Whitewater Church is by Andrea
Carter and is due to be published in September 2015. When a skeleton is discovered, wrapped in a
blanket, in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced
the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his
wedding day six years previously. But the post mortem reveals otherwise.
Solicitor Benedicta 'Ben' O'Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church, and
although an unwelcome face from her past makes her reluctant to get involved
initially, when Conor's brother dies in strange circumstances shortly after
coming to see her, she finds herself drawn in to the mystery. Whose is the
skeleton in the crypt and how did it get there? Is Conor Devitt still alive,
and if so is there a link? What happened on the morning of his wedding to make
him disappear? Negotiating between the official investigation, headed up by the
handsome but surly Sergeant Tom Molloy, and obstructive locals with secrets of
their own, Ben unravels layers of personal and political history to get to the
truth of what happened six years before.
In
the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden
Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his
mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent
case of 'suicide by cop,' he begins having second thoughts about his decision.
Now Kathy finds herself the target of a government inquiry and outrage from the
dead soldier's platoon mates. Soon she finds herself in the sights of a sniper,
as well. When the sergeant is shot outside her farmhouse, Mike joins the hunt
to find the mysterious man responsible. To do so, the ex-warden must plunge
into his friend's secret past - even as a beautiful woman from Mike's own past
returns, throwing into jeopardy his tentative romance with wildlife biologist
Stacey Stevens. As Kathy Frost lies on the brink of death and a dangerous
shooter stalks the blueberry barrens of central Maine, Bowditch is forced to
confront the choices he has made and determine, once and for all, the kind of
man he truly is. The Bone Orchard by
Paul Doiron and is due to be published in July 2015.
Agatha Raisin: Dishing the Dirt is by M
C Beaton and is due to be published in October 2015. In Agatha's newest adventure she must prove
her own innocence when a love rival turns up dead! When therapist Jil Davent
moves into the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin is not a fan. Not only is the
therapist romancing her ex-husband James but she digs up details of Agatha's
rather unsavoury origins; details she is happy to share with all in the
village. Furthermore, Jill is counselling a woman, Gwen Simple, Agatha is
convinced is a murderess - although she has no actual proof. Not one to keep
her feelings to herself, Agatha tells anyone who cares to listen that Jill is a
charlatan who is better off dead. So she can only sigh with relief when Jill
takes offices in the nearby town of Mircester. But then Jill is found strangled
to death in her offices two days later and Agatha is the prime suspect! So, together
with the detectives in her agency, she must prove her innocence and find the
real culprit - before the murderer ensures that it's Agatha who's left pushing
up the daisies!
Set
in Amsterdam, the novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a Cold Case detective still
recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A
tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved ten-year-old murder case in which her
father was the lead detective. When she discovers irregularities surrounding
the original investigation that make him a suspect, she decides to cover for
him. She doesn't tell her boss about the family connection and jeopardises her
career by hiding evidence. Now she has to find the real murderer before her
acts are discovered, otherwise her father will go to jail and she will lose her
job, the one thing in life she still takes pride in ... A Cold
Death in Amsterdam and is the debut novel by Anja de Jager and is due to be
published in November 2015.
It's
a new year in New York city, and two star-crossed lovers have just discovered
an insatiable appetite...for murder. Lieutenant Eve Dallas has witnessed some
grisly crimes in her career and she knows just how dark things can get on the
streets. But when a much-loved musician is found dead, Eve soon realises that
his murder is part of a horrifying killing spree, stretching right across the
country. Now the killers have reached New York, and they've found themselves
another victim. Eve knows she only has a couple of days to save a young girl's
life, and to stop the killers before their sadistic games escalate. Eve's
husband Roarke is ready to put his brains and his considerable resources behind
the search. But even as the couple works closely together, time is running
out... Devoted in Death is by J D Robb and is due to be published in
September 2015.
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