January 2017
London,
1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an
invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring
and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her
to take on an impossible task—saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from
execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia,
Ramsforth will face the hangman’s noose if Veronica cannot find the real
killer. But Lady Sundridge is not all
that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of the many
secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural historian colleague
Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer… A Perilous Undertaking is by Deanna
Raybourn.
February 2017
Snatch is by Gregory McDonald. Whether it’s a Middle East oil crisis in the
1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding
trouble on the home front, too. That’s how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N.
Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and
how Robby Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the
snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby’s famous namesake taught us, the
best-laid plans don’t always work out as intended. Especially not when you’re a
kidnapper in the hands of Gregory McDonald.
The Threateners is a Matt Helm novel by
Donald Hamilton. A ruthless South
American drug lord has a plan to bring the United States to its knees. A group
of renegade American agents has plans to smash the kingpin and his cartel, by
any means necessary. Caught in the middle, Matt Helm’s got to do double duty to
stop them both, and to protect a woman with information both sides would kill
for…
The Killing Bay is by Chris Ould. When a group of international activists
arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts,
tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found
murdered only hours after a violent confrontation at a whale drive, the
circumstances seem purposely designed to increase animosity between the two
sides. For English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti Hentze, the case
quickly exposes personal connections and con icts of interest. But as they dig
deeper it becomes increasingly clear that the murder has other, more sinister
aspects to it. Knowing evidence is being hidden from them, neither policeman
knows who to trust, or how far some people might go to defend their beliefs.
The aristocratic Charles Bromley arrives at 221B Baker
Street to beg Sherlock Holmes for his help. Bromley believes that his wife is
in danger, as she has refused an offer to sell the Moonstone, a fabulous
diamond that has been in her family for generations but which is said to be
cursed. When a jeweller is found murdered, it seems as if the Moonstone
deserves its reputation. Then the diamond is stolen, and Holmes must try to
unravel a mystery centuries in the making. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Moonstone’s Curse is by Sam Siciliano.
March
2017
Private
Investigator George Kocharyan is on the trail of a runaway maid, the employee
of a famous TV surgeon and his beauty-queen wife. The maid is accused of
stealing confidential documents, and Kocharyan’s investigation leads him to the
city’s Filipino community, where he discovers the risks faced by those working
far from home. Meanwhile, the discovery of a teenager’s body brings the
permanently unpleasant DI Vicky Stubbing back into George’s life, and as two
violent strangers cross his path also looking for the missing maid, he begins
to wonder if his celebrity employers are everything they seem. The Surgeon’s Case is by E G Rodford.
Follow Me Down is by Sherri Smith. Mia Haas has built a life for As Mia re-evaluates
their difficult, shared history and launches her own investigation into the
grisly murder, she uncovers secrets that could exonerate Lucas—or seal his
fate. In a small town where everyone’s history is intertwined, Mia will be
forced to confront her own demons, placing her right in the killer’s crosshairs herself far
from the small town where she grew up, but when she receives word that her twin
brother is missing, she’s forced to return home. Once hailed as the golden boy
of their community, Lucas Haas disappeared the same day the body of one of his
teenage students is pulled from the river. Trying to wrap her head around the
rumours of Lucas’s affair with the teen, and unable to reconcile the media’s
portrayal of Lucas as a murderer with her own memories of him, Mia is desperate
to find another suspect. All the while, she wonders, if he’s innocent,
why did he run?
Sherlock Holmes: A Betrayal of Blood is
by Mark A Latham. It is 1894, and the
news of a Transylvanian nobleman’s death at the hands of a certain Professor
Van Helsing is the talk of London.
Unsatisfied at the acquittal of the professor, Mycroft Holmes asks
Sherlock to investigate what truly led to the deaths of Lucy Westenra and the
mysterious aristocrat. The newspapers are full of inconsistencies and wild
supernatural theories, and as Holmes digs deeper, he suspects that those hailed
as heroes are not what they seem. The clues point to an innocent man framed and
murdered for crimes he did not commit, and Holmes and Watson find themselves
targeted at every turn, as what began as a quest to clear one man’s name
reveals a conspiracy that draws them to the mountains of Transylvania and the
infamous Castle Dracula.
How far would you go to provide for your child? Adam Shaw is dying, and knows he’ll leave his disabled son with nothing. His solution? Rob a bank. It’s no surprise that things go wrong. What is surprising is that when another customer is accidentally shot, no one in the bank is in a hurry to hand Adam over to the police. There’s the manager who’s desperate to avoid an audit, the security guard with a serious grudge against the dead man, and the woman who knows exactly how bad the victim really was... Eight people, twelve hours, one chance to cover up a murder. But it’s not just the police they have to fool. When many lives intersect, the results can be explosive. Parallel Lines is by Steven Saville.
Taking
a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he
bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of an
ex-police captain, who spent the last years of his life as a butler to a
millionaire—also now deceased. Were both
master and servant murdered? Captain Pat Chambers thinks so. But to prove it
Hammer must travel to upstate New York to investigate the dead man’s family,
all of whom have a motive for murder. The Will to Kill is a Mike Hammer novel
by Micky Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
April
2017
The Age of Olympus is by Gavin
Scott. Duncan Forrester’s research on an
Aegean island is interrupted first by the murder of a British archaeologist,
and then by the outbreak of the Greek Civil War. The worship of ancient gods
may provide a clue to the murderer, but in such a tumultuous time, little is
what it seems.
Fatal Music is by Peter Morfoot. Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle
is called to a potential crime scene - an elderly woman found dead in her hot
tub. At first it is thought that she died of natural causes, but a surprising
link with Darac’s own life leads him to dig deeper. In doing so he uncovers
disturbing proof that there may have been a motive to kill the woman, and there
is no shortage of suspects. Allegiances past and present must be set aside
to unravel a tale of greed, deception and treachery that spans the social
spectrum. It is among the winding streets of his own neighbourhood in Nice’s
old town, the Babazouk, that Darac faces his severest test yet.
May
2017
Two Lost Boys is by L F Robertson. Janet Moodie has spent years as a death row
appeals attorney. Overworked and recently widowed, she’s had her fill of
hopeless cases, and is determined that this will be her last. Her client is
Marion ‘Andy’ Hardy, convicted along with his brother Emory of the rape and
murder of two women. The brothers were tried separately, and Emory received a
life sentence, while Andy got the death penalty, labelled the ringleader
despite his low IQ and Emory’s dominant personality. Convinced that Andy’s previous lawyers have
missed mitigating evidence that would have spared him the death penalty, Janet
investigates Andy’s past, revealing a sordid and damaging upbringing, a series
of errors on the part of his previous council, and most worrying of all, the
possibility that there is far more to the Hardy family than was first thought.
Andy may be guilty, but of what?
His
first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second begins
with the discovery of one. When a mint copy of the final album by “Valerian”—England’s great lost rock band
of the 1960s—surfaces in a charity shop, all hell breaks loose. Finding
this record triggers a chain of events culminating in our hero learning the
true fate of the singer Valerian, who died under equivocal circumstances just
after—or was it just before?— The abduction of her two-year-old son. Along the way, the Vinyl Detective finds
himself marked for death, at the wrong end of a shotgun, and unknowingly dosed
with LSD as a prelude to being burned alive. And then there’s the grave
robbing… But he does find out what happened to the missing child, and it wasn’t
what anyone expected—or wanted—to hear. The Vinyl Detective: The Run-Out Groove
is by Andrew Cartmel
June
2017
Fight or Die is by James Hilton When the
Gunn brothers Danny and Clay answer a call to help old friends, they are
plunged into a volatile and potentially deadly situation. Larry and Pamela Duke
own one of the most popular nightclubs in the Spanish resort town of Ultima,
but a local gang known as the Locos are determined to take it for themselves.
Danny and Clay are hired to protect the club, but soon new adversaries enter
the game. Against such odds there are only two choices: fight or die..
The
game’s afoot once more as Holmes and Watson face off against Moriarty’s gang,
the Pinkertons, flesh-eating horses, a parliament of imps, boredom, Surrey, a
disappointing butler demon, a succubus, a wicked lord, an overly-Canadian lord,
a tricycle-fight to the death and the dreaded Pumpcrow. Oh, and a hell hound,
one assumes. Warlock Holmes: The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles is by G S
Denning
July 2017
A
mysterious Catholic priest arrives at 221B Baker Street, only to utter the
words ‘il corpe’ before dropping
dead. Though the man’s death is attributed to cholera, when news of a similar
case in Bristol reaches Holmes, he becomes convinced that the priests have been
poisoned. He and Watson learn that the men were on a mission from the Vatican
to investigate a miracle; it is said that the body of an eighteenth-century
philanthropist and slave trader Edwyn Warwick has not decomposed. But should
the Pope sanctify a man who made his fortune through slavery? And when
Warwick’s body is stolen, it becomes clear that the priests’ mission has
attracted the attention of a deadly conspiracy... Sherlock Holmes: Cry of the Innocents is by Cavan Scott.
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