Tuesday 29 May 2018

Books to Look Forward to from Headline, Tinder Press & Wildfire Press


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June 2018
A senseless murder. A Terrifying legend. A Family haunted. 1990: In the darkest woods, three girls devote themselves to a sinister figure.  2000: A young mother disappears, leaving behind her husband and baby daughter.  2018: A teenage girl is charged with murder, and her trial will shock the world.  Three chilling events, connected by the shadow he casts.  He is the Tall Man. He can make you special...  The Tall Man is by Phoebe Locke.

July 2018
The Story Keeper is by Anna Mazzola.  Audrey Hart is on the Isle of Skye to collect the folk and fairy tales of the people and communities around her. It is 1857 and the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and a community riven by fear. The crofters are suspicious and hostile to a stranger, claiming they no longer know their fireside stories.Then Audrey discovers the body of a young girl washed up on the beach and the crofters reveal that it is only a matter of weeks since another girl disappeared. They believe the girls are the victims of the restless dead: spirits who take the form of birds.  Initially, Audrey is sure the girls are being abducted, but as events accumulate she begins to wonder if something else is at work. Something which may be linked to the death of her own mother, many years before.

When Thea Paris's flight is hijacked over the Libyan Desert, her first priority is the two former child soldiers she is escorting to a new life in London.  As an international kidnap specialist, Thea Paris negotiates for hostage release as part of her job. She knows one wrong move could lead to deadly consequences.  After she is forcibly separated from the boys and the other passengers, Thea and her tactical team quickly regroup. And in their desperate search for the hostages that follows, unearth a conspiracy involving the CIA, the Vatican and the Sicilian Mafia, and a plot far more sinister than Thea could ever have imagined.  Skyjack is by K J Howe.

Lying to You is by Amanda Reynolds.  You’d know if you were lying to yourself, wouldn’t  you? When Jess Tidy was Mark Winter's student, she made a shocking accusation. Mark maintained his innocence, but the damage was done.  Karen Winter stood by her husband through everything, determined to protect her family.  Now, ten years later, Jess is back. And the truth about that night is finally going to come out . . .




No Time to Cry is by James Oswald.  Undercover ops are always dangerous, but DC Constance Fairchild never expected things to go this wrong.  Returning to their base of operations, an anonymous office in a shabby neighbourhood, she finds the bloodied body of her boss, and friend, DI Pete Copperthwaite. He's been executed - a single shot to the head.  In the aftermath, it seems   There's no place to hide, and no time to cry.
someone in the Met is determined to make sure that blame for the wrecked operation falls squarely on Con's shoulders. She is cut loose and cast out, angry and alone with her grief... right until the moment someone also tries to put a bullet through her head.

In the ring, Cameron King is known as The Hunter. A celebrated champion. A warrior.  But when her brother, science genius Nate, deliberately crashes the car they're in and vanishes without trace Cameron is left with a career in ruins, a reconstructed body and one burning question: why?  18 months later, working to find bail-jumping fugitives, Cameron discovers a dead body - apparently killed with her gun. As a detective comes through the door, she receives a panicked call from her missing brother: 'They're coming, Cam. Get out.'  Sucked into a lethal and sinister conspiracy hidden in the darkest shadows of power, Cameron is forced to fight her toughest, bloodiest battle yet - not only to survive, but to uncover the terrifying truth. The Hunter is by Andrew Reid.

August 2018
Grist Mill Road is by Christopher J Yates.  Everyone knows what happened there. No one knows why.   Matthew and Hannah were just playing in the woods, a little way from home.  But now he's tying Hannah to a tree. And she has never been so terrified.  Patrick is there too, hidden, watching. He can't move. He can't take his eyes off Matthew's gun.  Years later, in New York City, living adult lives they never would have imagined, the three will meet again. With even more devastating consequences.  It all began on Grist Mill Road . . .

The Girl I Used to Be is by Mary Torjussen.  How can you hide your mistakes when you don't know what they are?  Gemma Brogan needs a break from her life.  A work event looks the ideal chance to get away. And a friendly new client seems like the perfect gentleman when he joins Gemma for an innocent dinner . . .  But the next morning she has no memory of how the night ended and he has vanished into thin air.  Suddenly, Gemma is plunged into a twisted nightmare she can't control. To protect her future, and her family, she will have to confront shocking secrets from her past - and the truth about the girl she used to be.

November 2018
On her own wedding night, beautiful and complicated Evie White leaps off a cliff to her death.  What drove her to commit this terrible act? It's left to her best friend and her husband to unravel the sinister mystery.  Following a twisted trail of clues leading to Evie's darkest secrets, they begin to realize they never knew the real Evie at all...  The Night She Died is by Jenny Blackhurst.

After Anna is by Lisa Scottoline.  Everyone deserves a second chance at happiness.  Dr Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, is finally content after marrying the wonderful Maggie. And they're both thrilled when Maggie gets an unexpected chance to be a mother to Anna, the daughter she once thought she'd lost forever.  But when seventeen-year-old Anna arrives everything changes - and the darkest turn of events will shatter their lives in ways no one could have imagined.  What if your perfect family becomes your worst nightmare?

Look Alive Twenty Five is by Janet Evanovich There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, coleslaw, and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, and the only clue in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffled. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whatever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.

They believed that it was over.  Having survived the lethal Pendulum conspiracy, photographer John Wallace atones for his past mistakes.  DI Patrick Bailey clings to the hope that he can, at last, return to a normal life in London.  But it’s only just beginning.  FBI investigator Christine Ash - alone and paranoid - hunts down the remaining members of the ruthless Foundation organisation.  Dark forces are rising again.  But when masked assassins strike at the heart of the UK government, a shocking new threat emerges that forces all three to reunite.  Deadlier than ever before. With time running out, they must defeat a lethal new adversary: a manipulative mastermind with sinister powers unlike anything they've seen before. Aftershock is by Adam Handy.

Cold Case is by Quintin Jardine.  Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service, but he's never far from a case. When his old mentor on the force, Jimmy Proud, finds himself in a desperate situation, Skinner gets pulled into a murder investigation that's been closed for thirty years.  The Body in the Quarry case was well-known around Edinburgh at the time: a popular priest found dead in a frozen quarry; a suspect with a clear motive charged; a guilty verdict. But with a journalist uncovering new evidence, the cold case has come back to haunt Proud - and only Skinner can help him.  With the clock ticking and his friend's reputation at stake, Skinner must uncover the truth to find out if an innocent man was convicted for murder. And if a killer is still on the loose...

So this is how it ends. It is clear to me now: one of us has to die.  Mark and Evie had a whirlwind romance. Evie brought Mark back to life after the sudden death of his first wife. Cleo, Mark's sister, knows she should be happy for him. But Cleo doesn't trust Evie... When Evie starts having accidents at home, her friends grow concerned. Could Mark be causing her injuries? Called out to their cliff-top house one night, Sergeant Stephanie King finds two bodies entangled on blood-drenched sheets.  Where does murder begin? When the knife is raised to strike, or before, at the first thought of violence? As the accused stands trial, the jury is forced to consider - is there ever a proper defence for murder?  And So it Begins is by Rachel Abbott.

Other books being published include No Mercy by Martina Cole (October) and The Coldest Blood by J S Law (November)

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