July
2018
What would you do for the perfect life? Would you LIE? Would you CHEAT? Would you KILL? Cecilia Wilborg has THE PERFECT LIFE. A handsome husband, two beautiful daughters and a luxurious house in the picture-postcard town of Sandefjord. But Cecilia also has A DARK SECRET. A secret so damaging it can never be brought to light. Then Tobias enters her life. He is a small, friendless eight-year-old boy who just wants to find a home. But he threatens to bring Cecilia's world crashing down. The Boy at The Door is by Alex Dahl.
The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand
years, but now it is upon us. A secret
war was raged for millennia, a bitter conflict as old as time itself: the
battle between Good and Evil. Brother and sister Emma and Bravo Shaw now stand
at the epicentre of the confrontation, for they possess the only copy
of The Book of Deathly Things - the fallen Archangel Lucifer's first
and last Testament. While Emma and Bravo
struggle to decipher the book's dreadful secrets, Lucifer's advance guard, the
Fallen, are awakening. Should they can reclaim the Testament, Humankind will be
irrevocably enslaved by the forces of evil. Time is running out, leviathan is
coming, the apocalypse is nigh. Four
Dominions is by Eric Van Lustbader.
September 1939. A new day dawns in Sackwater, not that
this sleepy backwater is taking much notice...
Inspector Betty Church - one of the few female officers on the
force - has arrived from London to fill a vacancy at Sackwater police
station. But Betty isn't new here. This is the place she grew up. The
place she thought she'd left behind for good.
Time ticks slowly in Sackwater, and crime is of a decidedly lighter shade. Having solved the case of the missing buttons, Betty's called to the train station to investigate a missing bench. But though there's no bench, there is a body. A smartly dressed man, murdered in broad daylight, with two distinctive puncture wounds in his throat. While the locals gossip about the
Suffolk Vampire, Betty Church readies herself to hunt a dangerous killer.
Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire is by M R C Kasasian.
August 2018
In southeast London, a young mother has been accused
of an unthinkable crime: poisoning her own child - and then leaving him to
die. The mother, Ellie, is secretive and
challenging - she's had a troubled upbringing - but does that mean she's
capable of murder? Balancing the case
with raising her disabled five-year-old son, criminal defence lawyer Sarah
Kellerman sets out in desperate pursuit of the truth. But when her own child
becomes unwell, Sarah realises she's been drawn into a dangerous game. In The Blood is by Ruth Mancini.
You have to know when to say no. That's one of the first
things they tell you. But from the first day I arrived in Los Angeles, I said
yes. Jessica Harris is a struggling Hollywood reporter hungry for her big break. When her editor asks her to profile movie star Clark Conrad, Jessica is sure her luck is on the turn. Clark is an A-lister with access to everyone. If Jessica can impress him, she's made it. When she arrives at Clark's mansion in the
Hollywood Hills, he is just as she always imagined. Charming, handsome yet
disarmingly vulnerable. But then things take a darker turn. Clark's world
is not as straightforward as it seems and Jessica's puff piece soon becomes
something much more delicate - and dangerous. As Jessica draws herself deeper
into Clark's inner circle, events begin to spiral out of her control. Transfixing, insightful and unsettling, Through His Eyes drops is by Emma
Dibdin and drops you into the mind of a young woman with everything to
play for - and everything to lose...
The Psychology of Time Travel is a time travel murder mystery
by Kate Mascarenhas. 1967: Four female
scientists invent a time travel machine. They are on the cusp of fame: the
pioneers who opened the world to new possibilities. But then one of them
suffers a breakdown and puts the whole project in peril... 2017: Ruby knows her beloved Granny Bee was a
pioneer, but they never talk about the past. Though time travel is now big
business, Bee has never been part of it. Then they receive a message from the
future - a newspaper clipping reporting the mysterious death of an elderly
lady... 2018: When Odette discovered the body she went into shock. Blood
everywhere, bullet wounds, that strong reek of sulpher. But when the inquest
fails to find any answers, she is frustrated. Who is this dead woman that
haunts her dreams? And why is everyone determined to cover up her murder?
Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading,
Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military
history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso
Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna
Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a
desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead
that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the
bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a non-stop plot
that goes from back-road gun running to high-stakes perfume heist, and manages
to touch everyone from the CIA to the Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister
criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively
violent scale. The Bouncer is by David Gordon.
September 2018
Gallows Court is by Martin Edwards. LONDON, 1930.
Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like
this. A spate of violent deaths - the details too foul to print - has horrified
the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake - the
enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge - is no ordinary woman. To
Scotland Yard's embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she's
on the trail of another killer. Jacob
Flint, a young newspaperman temporarily manning The Clarion's crime desk, is looking for the scoop that will make his name. He's certain there is more to the Miss Savernake's amateur sleuthing than meets the eye. He's not the only one. His predecessor on the crime desk was of a similar mind - not that Mr Betts is ever expected to regain consciousness after that unfortunate accident...Flint's pursuit of Rachel Savernake
will draw him ever-deeper into a labyrinth of deception and corruption.
Murder-by-murder, he'll be swept ever-closer to its dark heart - to that
ancient place of execution, where it all began and where it will finally end:
Gallows Court.
In Kossuth square, Lajos Kolompar, a local politican is found
dead, face down in a pond in front of Parliament. With his blood alcohol
nudging fatal levels, he's believed to have fallen and drowned Gypsy cop
Balthazar Kovacs of the Budapest murder squad reads of Kolompar's death in the
news. It stays in the back of his mind until his old girlfriend, journalist
Eniko Szalay, receives a tip-off from the coroner's office that Kolompar's
autopsy results were tampered with. And
his body accidentally cremated. Soon,
Kovacs is drawn into the Budapest underworld of people smuggling, blackmail and
violent political tensions - always caught between the two worlds of the Gypsy
and the non-Gypsy, of the law and family loyalty. Kossuth Square is by Adam Lebor.
The Accusation is by Zosia Wand. Eve and Neil live in the beautiful
Cumbrian town of Tarnside. After years of trying for a baby, they are in
the final stages of adopting four-year-old Milly. They just have to pass the 'settling in'
period - three months of living together as a family under watchful
eyes - and then they can make it official.
For Eve, her heartbreak is nearly at an end. She now has
this perfect little girl in her life, a little girl who calls her
mummy. But Eve's dream of a happy
family is fragile. Any hint of trouble and the adoption could
collapse. One misunderstanding, one rumour, one accusation, could smash
Eve's family to pieces.
October 2018
She arrived into Heathrow after a difficult week at work. Her
bag had been stolen. Her whole life was in there - passport, wallet, house key.
When she tried to report the theft, she couldn't remember her own name. All she
knew was her own address. Now she is at
the door of Tony and Laura, a young couple living in Wiltshire. She says she lives in their home. They say they have never met her before. One of them is lying. But which one? Forget my Name is by J S Munroe.
Christmas whodunits starring Poirot, Marple, Rebus, More,
Rumpole, Sherlock, Cadfael and many many more. Festive felonies, unscrupulous
santas, deadly puddings, and misdemeanors under the mistletoe... From Victorian detective stories to modern
mysteries, police procedurals to pulp fiction, comic gems to cozy crime,
there's something for every festive mood in this must-read collection starring
sixty of the world's favourite detectives.
Featuring an all-star cast of authors including Isaac Asimov, Mary
Higgins Clark, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Colin Dexter, Thomas Hardy,
H.R.F. Keating, Ngaio Marsh, John Mortimer, Ellis Peters, Sara Paretsky, Robert
Louis Stevenson and - of course - Agatha Christie, this is the biggest and best
Christmas crime anthology in print today.
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries is edited by Otto Penzler.
November 2018
Imagine inheriting two billion dollars. Then imagine the
money is left to you by your mortal enemy...
Blind Special Ops agent Jenny Aaron has just survived the worst thirty-six
hours of her life. She has a standing offer to re-join the Department, the secret elite unit she used to belong to before she lost her sight. But first she must rest, and think. Then Aaron
receives a message that changes everything. The man she hates most in the world
has left her an enormous fortune. The money is life-changing - but why is it in
her hands? A Shadow Falls is by Andreas
Pflüger.
After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last
found contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles
in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and
little sign of trouble on the horizon.
But once again, trouble comes to him, this time in the form of a wealthy
Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons.
Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend's nine-year-old son, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character from his past.The plot is a chess game and all of the
pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a
vigilante called 'Silence', because he's the last thing his victims will ever
hear. In The Galway Silence is by Ken Bruen.
Swords in the East is by P F Chisholm. 1592. Courtier Sir Robert Carey and Carey's
surly, larcenous, and loyal henchman Henry Dodd, Land Sergeant of Gilsland, are
back in Carlisle and the Debateable Lands.
As Carey struggles to solve the murder of a local minister, he battles
with his deep adoration for Lady Elizabeth Widdrington, while despising her
elderly, abusive husband - will the man never die? Plunging readers straight into the raucous
world of late-sixteenth century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan
intrigue, Swords in the East, the third chronicle of Sir Robert Carey's
adventures, collects the novels A Chorus of Innocents and A
Clash of Spheres under one volume.
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