July 2018
He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed
Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like,
he disappears. Ten years ago he blew a
plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's killed dozens in a London
strike. But one of the latest victims is
related to the acting head of MI5, who knows exactly who she wants on the case:
Spider Shepherd. Dean Martin, a psychologically damaged former Navy SEAL, is
the only person in the world who can identify Saladin. But Martin was killed
ten years ago - wasn't he? Shepherd must
find Martin and take him back to the killing fields on the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border. Revenge on the world's most wanted terrorist is long overdue, and
Shepherd is determined to be the one to deliver it . . . Tall
Order is by Stephen Leather.
Careless Love is by Peter Robinson. A young local student has apparently
committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why? Meanwhile a man in his sixties is found dead in a gully up on the wild
moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post-mortem
findings indicate he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was
he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity? As the inconsistencies multiply and the
mysteries proliferate, Annie's father's new partner, Zelda, comes up with a
shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an
old enemy in a new guise. This is someone who will stop at nothing, not even
murder, to get what he wants - and suddenly the stakes are raised and the hunt
is on.
The only thing worse than finding out that your husband is
dead, is discovering the secrets he left behind. Annabel's seemingly perfect ex-patriate life
in Geneva is shattered when her banker husband Matthew's plane crashes in the Alps. When Annabel finds clues that his death may not be all it seems, she puts herself in the crosshairs of powerful enemies and questions whether she really knew her husband at all. Meanwhile,
journalist Marina is investigating Swiss United, the bank where Matthew worked.
But when she uncovers evidence of a shocking global financial scandal that
implicates someone close to home, she is forced to make an impossible choice. The Banker’s Wife is by Cristina Alger
Some Die Nameless is by Wallace Stroby. Ex-mercenary Ray Devlin is living a
simple life off the grid in Florida, when a visit from an old colleague stirs
some bad memories - and ends with a gunshot. Soon Devlin is forced to face a
past he'd hoped to leave behind, as a member of a private military force that
helped put a brutal South American dictator in power. Tracy Quinn is an investigative
journalist at a struggling Philadelphia newspaper. What appears at first
to be a straightforward homicide draws her and Devlin together, ultimately
entangling them in a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the US
government. Before long, they become the
targets of a ruthless assassin haunted by his own wartime memories. For
Devlin, it could mean a last shot at redemption. For Tracy, the biggest story
of her career might just cost her her life.
The Death Knock is by Elodie Harper. Three women have been found dead in East
Anglia. The police deny a connection. TV news reporter Frankie smells a
story... Ava knows that the threat is real. She's been kidnapped by someone claiming to be the killer: a stranger who seems to know everything about her. As
Frankie follows the case, she enters a terrifying online world where men's rage
against women may be turning murderous - and where her persistence might just
make her a target. And Ava must struggle not only to stay alive... but to stay
sane.
Make Them Sorry is by Sam Hawken. Camaro
doesn't particularly want to get involved with other people's lives, other
people's problems. But she can tell that the woman in her gym is looking for
help. And when she learns that Faith has a stalker, she agrees to give her a
few defence lessons. She's not expecting
the stalker to become so violent so quickly. Or to have been hired by someone.
Faith, it seems, has made some serious enemies... and now they're going after
Camaro too. They're about to find out
that that was a mistake.
This is a fact: Ryan Summers walked into Three Rivers College
and killed thirteen women, then himself.
But no one can say why. The
question is one that cries out to be answered - by Ryan's mother, Moira; by
Ishbel, the mother of Abigail, the first victim; and by DI Helen Birch, put in
charge of the case on her first day at her new job. But as the tabloids and the
media swarm, as the families' secrets come out, as the world searches for
someone to blame... the truth seems to vanish.
All The Hidden Truths is by Claire Askew.
The Red Ribbon is by H B Lyle. Captain Vernon Kell's fledgling secret
intelligence service faces being shut down before it has even begun its job of
saving the Empire from German and Russian spies. Harassed by politicians, like the ambitious
Winston Churchill, bullied by Special Branch, undermined by his colleague
Cumming's ill-advised foreign ventures and alarmed at his wife's involvement
with militant suffragettes, Kell is making no progress in tracking high-profile leaks from the government. To make matter worse, his only agent, Wiggins, would rather be working on cases of his own. Wiggins grew up on the streets, one of the urchins trained in surveillance by Sherlock Holmes and known as the Baker Street Irregulars. He has promised to avenge the death of his best friend, and to track down a missing girl. But when
his search takes him towards a club in Belgravia - a club containing a lot of
young women and presided over by the fearsome Big T, one of his former
gang-mates - Wiggins is drawn into a conspiracy that will test both his
personal and his professional resolve.
September 2018
London, 1952. Dick Bourton is not like the other
probationer policemen in Notting Hill. He's older, having fought in Europe and
then Korea. And he's no Londoner, being from a different planet. Cotswold farming stock. Then
there's Anna, the exotically beautiful White Russian fiancee he has brought
back to these drab streets and empty bombsites. She may as well come from The new copper also
has a mind of his own. After an older colleague is shot by a small-time
gangster they are chasing in a pea-souper fog, something nags at Bourton's
memory. He begins to make connections which his superiors don't want to see,
linking a whole series of deaths and the fogs that stop the city in its tracks.
Desperate to prove himself and his theories, Bourton fails to notice the fear
which his mysterious bride is doing her best to conceal - and overcome. Soon both Anna and Bourton are taking
dangerous paths into the worst fog London has ever known... "London had gone. As he stepped through
the wicket, a dry smoky chill puffing over the lintel, everything that made the
city - skyline, street signs, crowds, scarlet double-deckers - had disappeared,
lost in the murk. I can't see the kerb, for God's sake, let alone Barker's
across the road. He looked both ways, the chill crawling down his neck . .
. Coshing gangs will love this. And our man. But we're on your trail,
sunshine. He raised his hat to Marling, locking up behind. Tomorrow we nab
you." Breathe is by Dominick Donald.
In The Prometheus Man, Reese hunted down his
brother's killers - and destroyed any chance at a normal life. He stole the identity of a CIA agent, exposed a grisly stem cell experiment to enhance the human body, and made himself an enemy of the United States. Now Tom lives on the run with the woman he loves, knowing he'll lose her one day because a life with him is a life without a future.Thousands
of miles away, in an abandoned oil rig off the Alaskan coast, a new Prometheus
lab operates in secret. When the test subjects - all death-row inmates - revolt
and slaughter their way out, the entire world is shocked and terrified. Knowing
authorities will hunt them to the ends of the earth, they crash the power grid
in half the continental U.S., and 100 million people are thrown into
chaos. As a nation collapses on itself,
Tom is offered a deal: help bring in the men responsible, and he can come home.
He signs on for a recon mission, but finds that it will take him to places and
force him to do things far darker than he ever imagined. The Pandora Equation is by Scott Reardon.
Do you ever feel that prickle on the back of your neck, as
though someone's watching you? Someone
is watching Hannah. Her name is Ruby,
and her job as CCTV operative means she can follow Hannah everywhere she
goes. It's against the law, but Ruby
can't help herself. And there's no harm
in just watching. Until just watching isn't enough . . . So the next time you get that feeling, and
you think you're alone . . . think again.
Her Watchful Eye is by Julie Corbin.
In the remote Swedish wetlands lies Mossmarken: the village
on the edge of the mire where, once upon a time, people came to leave offerings
to the gods. Biologist Nathalie came in order to study the peat bogs. But she has a secret: Mossmarken was once her home, a place where terrible things happened. She has returned at last, determined to confront her childhood trauma and find out the truth. Soon after her arrival, she finds an
unconscious man out on the marsh, his pockets filled with gold - just like the
ancient human sacrifices. A grave is dug in the mire, which vanishes a day after.
And as the police investigate, the bodies start to surface... Is the mire calling out for sacrifices, as
the superstitious locals claim? Or is it an all-too-human evil? The Forbidden Place is by Susanne Jansson 
The attack dog had its jaws clamped round the target's
forearm and had sunk its teeth into his flesh. Danny could see the dark stain
of blood through his night-vision goggles. The screaming had stopped. The
target was staring blindly into the darkness, but he clearly knew there were armed men approaching him... Helmand
Province, Afghanistan. The Taliban are on the rise. A top-secret SAS kill team is assassinating
high-value targets. It is bloody, violent, relentless work, suitable only for
the Regiment's most skilled and ruthless head hunters. Like Danny Black. But when Danny joins the kill team, he learns
that Taliban militants are not his only problem. There are elements within the
British Army who want to bring the SAS to book. And there are elements within
the SAS who have their crosshairs on Danny himself. Framed for a sickening war crime, Danny finds
himself hunted in a brutal, dangerous terrain where his wits, training and
strength may not be enough to survive. And
in a world where his enemies are closer than he could have imagined, he must do
whatever it takes to get to the truth. If he fails, it will mean the end not
only of Danny Black, but of the SAS itself.
Head Hunters is by Chris Ryan.
October 2018
John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi in The Reckoning to tell the story of an
unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial that followed it, and its profound and
lasting effect on the people of Ford County.
Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the
patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbour, and a faithful
member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose
early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the
Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder
wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement
about it - to the sheriff, to his defense attorney, to the judge, to his family
and friends, and to the people of Clanton - was 'I have nothing to say'. And so the murder of the esteemed Reverend
Bell became the most mysterious and unforgettable crime Ford County had ever
known.
Shell Game is by
Sara Paretsky. Legendary sleuth V.I.
Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a
murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy
network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East. In Shell Game, nothing and no one are what
they seem, except for the detective herself, who loses sleep, money, and blood,
but remains indomitable in her quest for justice.
It's been five years since Mia and Brynn murdered Summer
Marks, their best friend, in the woods.
Increasingly obsessed with a novel called The Way into
Lovelorn and by their fan-fiction imagining of its sequel, the girls were
drawn by an undertow of fantasy into the magical world they'd created. But
eventually, their delusions turned sick, and the Shadow, Lovelorn's central
evil, began to haunt them. Or so the
story goes. The only thing is: they didn't do it. Brynn and Mia have both found different ways
to hide from their notoriety, seeking refuge from a world that hates them-a
world that will never feel magical, or safe, ever again. On the anniversary of Summer's death, a
seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and
Brynn back together once again. But as past and present, fiction and reality,
begin again to intertwine, Brynn and Mia must confront painful truths they
tried for so long to bury-and face the long shadow of memory that has, all this
time, been waiting. Broken Things is by Lauren Oliver.
November 2018
Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow,
arrives in windswept Wester Ross on Valentine's Day. They've come to celebrate
Lady Lavinia's fiftieth birthday and to meet her daughter Mallory, a
less-than-suitable bride-to-be for Dandy's son Donald. But soon love is the last thing on Dandy's
mind when the news breaks that Lady Lavinia has been found dead, brutally murdered in the middle of her famous knot garden. Strange superstitions and folklore abound among the Gaelic-speaking locals. But , Dandy suspects that the tangled boughs and branches around Applecross House hide something much more earthly at work . . . A Step so Grave is by Catriona McPherson.
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