July 2016
A Climate of Fear is by Fred Vargas. A
woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a
suicide. A strange symbol is found near the body. Then a second victim is
discovered, who was also part of a group of tourists on a doomed expedition to
Iceland ten years earlier. How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic
demon, linked to the secretive Association for the Study of the Writings of
Maximilien Robespierre? And what does the mysterious symbol signify? Commissaire
Adamsberg is about to find out.
The
death mask of Montezuma. A priceless artefact. Lost. Looted. Sold. Stolen.
Traded. Hunted. Wanted. Needed. And Anna. Anna, whose life is spiralling out of
control, Anna, whose charming fiance has been cheating on her, Anna, who has
just discovered her father's credibility as a renowned art collector is in
ruins and her own reputation as a fact checker is in tatters. But she has a
chance to redeem herself, to restore both her and her father. She needs to go
to Mexico, find the mask, and bring it to America where it will form the focal
point of a new exhibition. Because other people want that mask - and they will
stop at nothing to get it. Lili Wright's exuberant, energetic, debut takes us
into a world of heat, colour and danger, where to survive Anna must negotiate
with criminals, flatter the powerful and take her life in her hands. Dancing
with the Tiger is by Lili Wright.
So Say the Fallen is by Stuart Neville. The
fallout from DCI Serena Flanagan's last major case, which saw her home invaded
and her husband attacked, has left the previously close family fractured. When
Serena is asked to sign off the suicide of a severely disabled local
businessman, she finds herself envying the grieving widow's comfortable life and
devoted marriage, until the widow's close relationship with the local reverend
starts to sound an alarm. But with a clean crime scene and no evidence to back
her up, have Serena's instincts led her down the wrong path? With her husband
struggling to deal with the aftermath of an attack that nearly cost him his
life, and her young children anxious and unhappy, Serena's determination to
unlock the mystery of what happened in that house may cost her her job - and
her family.
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