Coffin Road is by Peter May and is due
to be published in January 2016. A man
is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive
and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The
only clue to his identity is a map tracing a track called the Coffin Road. He
does not know where it will lead him, but filled with dread, fear and
uncertainty he knows he must follow it. A detective crosses rough Atlantic seas
to a remote rock twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With a
sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared
more than a century before - a mystery that remains unsolved. But now there is
a new mystery - a man found bludgeoned to death on that same rock, and DS
George Gunn must find out who did it and why. A teenage girl lies in her
Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her father's death.
Two years after the discovery of the pioneering scientist's suicide note, Karen
Fleming still cannot accept that he would wilfully abandon her. And the more
she discovers about the nature of his research, the more she suspects that
others were behind his disappearance. Coffin Road follows three perilous
journeys towards one shocking truth - and the realisation that ignorance can
kill us.
I
talked to my mother the night she died, losing myself in memories of when we
were happiest together. But I held one memory back, and it surfaces now,
unbidden. I see a green post-box and a small hand stretching up to its oblong
mouth. I am never sure whether that small hand is mine. But if not mine, whose?
Louise Redmond left Ireland for London before she was twenty. Now, more than
two decades later, her heart already breaking from a failing marriage, she is
summoned home. Her mother is on her deathbed, and it is Louise's last chance to
learn the whereabouts of a father she never knew. Stubborn to the end, Marjorie
refuses to fill in the pieces of her daughter's fragmented past. Then Louise
unexpectedly finds a lead. A man called David Prescott ...but is he really the
father she's been trying to find? And who is the mysterious little girl who
appears so often in her dreams? As each new piece of the puzzle leads to
another question, Louise begins to suspect that the memories she most treasures
could be a delicate web of lies. What She Never Told Me is by M R
McQuaile and is due to be published in March 2016.
Retribution is by Steffen Jacobsen and
is due to be published in February 2016. On a warm
Autumn afternoon, Tivoli Gardens
- Denmark's largest amusement park - is devastated by a terrorist attack. 1,241
people are killed. The unknown bomber is blown to bits; the security forces
have no leads. One year later, the nation is still reeling, and those behind
the attack are still at large. Amidst the increasingly frustrated police force,
Superintendent Lene Jensen is suffering the effects of tragedy closer to home.
Everyone is aware the terrorists may soon strike again. Then Lene receives a
strange call. A young desperate Muslim woman needs her help, but by the time
Lene reaches her she's already dead - supposedly suicide. Already suspicious,
Lene's initial investigations suggest that the woman was unknowingly part of a
secret services research project. Silenced by her superiors, Lene turns to her
old ally Michael Sander to dig deeper. But with even her allies increasingly
adamant her actions are a risk to national security, Lene begins to understand
that finding the truth might be the most dangerous thing of all.
Ruth
Galloway's friend Cathbad is housesitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village
famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. In an attempt to stop a
malevolent cat from escaping, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard
beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. Cathbad thinks that he may
have seen the Madonna herself but, the next morning, the woman's body, dressed
in white nightdress and blue dressing-gown, is found in a ditch outside
Walsingham. DCI Nelson and his team are called in and establish that the dead
woman was a recovering addict being treated at a nearby private hospital. Ruth,
a devout atheist, has managed to avoid Walsingham during her seventeen years in
Norfolk. But then an old university friend, Hilary Smithson, asks to meet her in
the village. When Ruth arrives at the Blue Lady cafe, she's amazed to discover
that her friend is now a priest. Hilary has been receiving vitriolic anonymous
letters targeting women priests - letters containing references to local
archaeology and a striking phrase about a woman 'clad in blue, weeping for the
world.' Then another woman is murdered - a priest. As Walsingham prepares for
its annual Easter re-enactment of the Crucifixion, the race is on to unmask the
killer before they strike again. Ruth has got herself tangled up in a grisly
mystery play ... The Woman in Blue is by Elly Griffiths and is due to be published
in April 2016.
Arnaud
Mars – a former police divsionnaire on the run after being implicated in a
seismic defence contracts scandal – has been found dead in Africa. The Smith & Wesson that killed him
belongs to Commandant Sacha Duguin, a longstanding friend of Lola’s. Who was really behind Mars’ death? And what is it that has made Duguin the ideal
scapegoat? Lola joins forces once again
with her partner-in-crime-fighting, Ingrid Diesel, in an investigation that
will take them from France to Africa to Hong Kong. Shadows
and Sun is by Dominique Sylvain and is due to be published in June 2016.
When
a young Pakistani bride falls to her death from a window, Rosie has to navigate
the
story with care, trying not to upset the girl's devastated family or the
local Pakistani community. After talking to the family, however, Rosie becomes
convinced that there is more to the story than a tragic accident, and that
something is being kept from her and the police. Meanwhile, on the other side
of Glasgow, Nikki and Julie, two prostitutes, find themselves in trouble when a
client dies during an assignment and it looks like one of them is to blame.
Their problems become far worse though, when a briefcase they steal from the
dead man turns out to contain some very valuable rough diamonds and several
fake passports. It's clear it belonged to some serious criminals, and now they
have much more to worry about than a dead body. Investigating the Pakistani
girl's death, Rosie has been talking to Laila, another young girl from the
community, who has voiced her fears of being forced into marrying a much older
man in Pakistan. When Laila disappears, Rosie is sure her fears have been
realised. Then Nikki contacts her asking for help, and Rosie senses a parallel
with her current case. Sure enough, as Rosie flies to Pakistan to try and
rescue Laila, it becomes clear that the 'accidental' death, Laila's disappearance
and the briefcase are all linked - and once back in Glasgow, she, Julie and
Nikki discover just how much danger they are in... Rough
Cut is by Anna Smith and is due to be published in January 2016.
The Man Who Wanted to Know is by M A
Mishani and is due to be published in June 2016.Called on a stormy day to his
first murder scene as the new commander of investigations, Inspector Avraham
Avraham is astounded to discover he knows the victim: a middle-aged woman who
had been assaulted in the past. His only lead is an eyewitness claiming he saw
a policeman going down the building's staircase a few minutes after the murder.
Eager to solve his first murder case, Avraham is determined to follow this lead
even though it puts him in conflict with the entire police force. It'll take
him to Mazal Bengtson - a young woman who doesn't know anything about the
murder. She remembers the day of the storm for a different reason. And she will
change everything Avraham thought about the case.
SIX
FOUR. THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE.
THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days in January 1989, the parents
of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their
daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see
their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public
listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the botched
investigation that became known as 'Six Four'. They would never forgive the
authorities their failure. For one week in late 2002, the press officer
attached to the police department in question confronted an anomaly in the
case. He could never imagine what he would uncover. He would never have looked
if he'd known what he would find. Six Four is by Hideo Yokoyama and is due
to be published in March 2016.
The Other Side of Silence is by Philip
Kerr and is due to be published in May 2016.
Bernie Gunther has done various jobs since the war. Now it's the 1950s
and he's working in a hotel on the Cote D'Azur. It's winter, and the Riviera is
empty and a little sad. In a bar one evening he bumps into Herr Leuthard, an
acquaintance from the war, who offers him a most enticing job. Leuthard owns
the Grand Hotel du Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. It's the best hotel on the Cote
D'Azur and everyone has heard of it. Leuthard knows of Bernie' skills and
thinks he could use them. Bernie's not so sure, says his detective days are
over and he couldn't find a missing person in a phone booth. No matter,
Leuthard tells him, I need a concierge, not a detective. A good concierge has
to be like a detective. He's expected to know things, to fix things - sometimes
he has to know things he's not supposed to know, and do things that others
wouldn't want to do. Pleasing guests can be a tricky business, especially the
ones with a lot of money. It sounds like a cushy number for a man like Bernie
Gunther. And so begins a new adventure for him, where he'll discover just how
many bad people pass through the doors of the Grand Hotel du
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
A
volatile Zimbabwe and the jungles of the Congo are the battlefields for a
deadly game of cat and mouse in Africa's wildlife wars. Canadian researcher
Michelle Parker jumps at the chance to visit the famed mountain gorillas, but
she is wary of the man offering it, a professional big game hunter, Fletcher
Reynolds. He represents everything that she has fought against - the slaughter
of animals for material gain - but she is reassured by his apparent support for
the stamping out of poaching. Ex-SAS officer Shane Castle has been recruited by
Fletcher to spearhead the anti-poaching campaign. Shane has seen what bullets
can do to both man and animal. He makes Michelle start to doubt the choices she
has made. Safari is by Tony Park and is due to be published in March 2016.
Once
a year, Corso Bramard receives a message from the man who destroyed his life.
He left the police after a serial killer he was tracking murdered his wife and
daughter, but fifteen years later he is still taunted by his old adversary.
Mocking letters arrive at his home outside Turin, always from a different
country, always typed on the same 1972 Olivetti. But this time the killer may
have gone too far. A hair left in the envelope of his latest letter provides a
vital clue. Bramard is a teacher now - no gun, no badge, just a score to
settle. Isa, an academy graduate whose talent just about outweighs her attitude
is assigned to fight his corner. They're a mismatched team, but if they work together
they have a chance to unmask the killer before he strikes again - and to
uncover a devastating secret that will cut Corso Barmard to the bone. The
Bramard Case is by Davide Longo and is due to be published in May 2016.
A Spring Betrayal is by Tom Callaghan
and is due to be published in April 2016.
We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the
sun stained the snowcaps of the Tian Shan mountains the colour of dried blood
and the spring air turned sharp and cold ...Inspector Akyl Borubaev of Bishkek
Murder Squad has been exiled to the far corner of Kyrgystan, but death still
haunts him at every turn. Borubaev soon finds himself caught up in a mysterious
and gruesome new case: several children's bodies have been found buried together
- all tagged with name bands. In his search for the truth behind the brutal
killings, Borubaev hits a wall of silence, with no one to turn to outside his
sometime lover, the beautiful undercover agent Saltanat Umarova. When Borubaev
himself is framed for his involvement in the production of blood-soaked child
pornography, it looks as though things couldn't get any worse. With the
investigation at a dangerous standstill, Borubaev sets out to save his own
integrity, and to deliver his own savage justice on behalf of the many dead who
can't speak for themselves ...
A
bloody and tragic run-in with ivory hunters in Mozambique left Mike Williams,
former Australian Army officer, in despair. A year on, the authorities are on
the poachers' trail and need his help to catch them. Now, as an overland tour
guide, he must choose between his duty to keep the young tourists in his care
safe, and his hunger for retribution. Thrown into the mix is tenacious English
journalist Sarah Thatcher, who is determined to cover the story. She'll risk
anything and anyone for a scoop, but little does she realize the danger that
lies ahead. The murderous hunters and the innocent travellers are on a parallel
journey through Africa's most spectacular locations. Eventually their paths
will cross and Mike will have his shot at revenge. But at what cost? Far
Horizon is by Tony Parks and is due to be published in May 2016.
Shot Through the Heart is by Isabelle
Grey and is due to be published in March 2016. Who can you turn to, if not the
police? Essex, Christmas Day. As the residents of a small town enjoy their
mince pies, shots ring out in the street. Five people are gunned down before
the lone shooter turns his weapon on himself. Grace Fisher, now Detective
Inspector, is tasked with making some sense of this
atrocity - all the more
sensitive because the first of the victims was one of their own: a police
officer. The case throws her back together with crime reporter Ivo Sweatman,
but as she investigates it becomes clear that the police connection goes much
deeper than she thought. As the evidence of corruption grows and she is
obstructed at every turn, Grace knows she is walking further into danger. Then,
her young key witness disappears ...What far-reaching compromises will Grace
have to make to safeguard the innocent?
Dungeness,
Kent Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on the
murder investigation. He is a murderer himself. But the victim was his only
friend. A quiet, reticent birdwatcher, South finds himself paired with the
strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly recruited to the Kent
coast from London. Together they find the body, violently beaten, inside a
wooden chest. The man's sister, broken hearted, cannot guess why he was
murdered. But soon - too soon - they find a suspect: Donnie Fraser, a drifter
from Northern Ireland. His presence in Kent disturbs William - because he knows
him. As a boy, South and his mother fled their home in County Armagh, and, for
many reasons, he has never looked back. If the past is catching up with him,
South wants to meet it head on. For even as he desperately investigates the
connections, he knows there is no crime, however duplicitous or cruel, that can
compare to the great lie of his childhood. The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of
suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity, that forces open scars from old
terrors and faces the fear of retribution. The Birdwatcher is by William Shaw and is
due to be published in May 2016.
A Woman Much Missed is by Valerio Varesi
and is due to be published in February 2016.
A few days before Christmas, with Parma gripped by frost, Ghitta
Tagliavini, the elderly owner of a student guesthouse in the old town centre,
is found dead in her apartment by Commissario Soneri himself. The investigation
that follows holds a painful, personal element for Soneri. Tagliavini's
guesthouse is where he met his late wife Ada, and where the young couple spent
unforgettable hours in each other's company. But the present can embitter even
the sweetest memories. An old photograph of Ada with another man sends Soneri
into a spiral of despondency, ever more so when he realises her death may be
linked to Tagliavini's sideline as a backstreet abortionist. And his
retrospective jealousy is compounded when he learns that Ghitta rented her
rooms by the hour for the illicit liaisons of Parma's rich and powerful. Did
Ada have a part to play? Though Soneri would like nothing more than to be
allowed to drop the case, he doggedly persists, uncovering at last, along with
the truth behind Tagliavini's death, rife corruption at Parma's rotten heart
and a raft of ghosts from Italy's divisive past.
The Wednesday Club is by Kjell Westö and
is due to be published in May 2016. 1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are
arousing both anger and admiration, not least in the 'Wednesday Club' in
Helsinki. Something of a relaxed gentlemen's club, the group's members are old
friends of lawyer Claes Thune. They socialise, discuss politics and drink
together, but this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is
having an effect on the cohesion of the club. Thune, who has returned home
after several years serving as a diplomat in Moscow and Stockholm, has recently
divorced and is at something of a loss; he runs his law practice without any
great enthusiasm, and the growing political anxiety and the chaos in his own
life feel like two sides of the same coin. Fortunately he has the assistance of
his new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Matilda is
tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when at the age of just
seventeen she experienced things she has been trying to forget ever since. Then
one day her memories catch up with her. When the Wednesday Club gathers for a
meeting in Thune's office, she hears a voice she had hoped she would never have
to hear again. She is suddenly plunged back into the past, but this time she is
no longer a helpless victim.
One
time government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from the life prison
sentence he escaped, and from the Polish drug mafia he double- crossed. Only
Hoffmann’s handler, Erik Wilson knows he now hides in Cali, Columbia living
under a false identity with his wife Zofia and sons Rasmus and Hugo. But life on the run is precarious. And so
when Hoffmann, in order to survive, accepts employment as a bodyguard and hit
man for the Columbian cocaine mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US
DEA to infiltrate the same cartel. He
chooses to say yes to both. Hoffmann has a new lucrative double life. However,
Hoffmann’s successful balancing act is short-lived. When Timothy D Crouse, Chairman of the US
House of Representatives, is kidnapped while on a trip to Columbia, US forces
settle on a new enemy for their War on Terror.
This gives the cartel and the US government the same problem Pet
Hoffmann. Condemned and hung out to dry
by both sides, Hoffmann is stranded. Yet
help will come from the most unusual of figures – the stubborn, ascorbic
Swedish detective who has doggedly tracked his whereabouts, DC Ewert Grens –
the enemy who Hoffmann once tricked – will now become the only ally he can
trust. Three Minutes is by Roslund and Hellström
and is due to be published in June 2016.
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