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Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putin's Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington's most sensitive penetration of the Kremlin. As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss; faces assassination attempt and counter-intelligence ambushes, and must rescue a compromised agent and somehow spirit him out of Russia from under the noses of her pursuers. Complicating it all is Dominika's relationship with her CIA handler, Nate Nash. And when a mole in Moscow finds her name on a classified list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence.  Palace of Treason is by Jason Matthews and is due to be published in January 2016

 Cal McGill is the sea detective: an oceanographer and one-of-a-kind investigator who uses his knowledge of the waves to find where objects came from, or track where they've gone. For five years Priest's Island has guarded the mystery of Max Wheeler's disappearance. In this isolated township on the edge of the Atlantic, there are no secrets - except what really happened to fourteen-year-old Max. Now Cal McGill has taken up the quest. A grieving father, a community riven by tragedy - and resentful of the suspicion - all make a powder keg of secrets and vengeance ready to explode.  The Malice of Waves is by Mark Douglas-Home and is due to be published in April 2016.

Forensic investigator Darby McCormick queues to enter Boston Police Headquarters on a freezing winter morning. Lured back to her home town to help solve a cold case, Darby won't get far inside the station - and this will be no ordinary homecoming...Because someone suddenly takes a woman hostage and a stand-off ensues. The man has explosives strapped to himself and other bombs hidden around the city, rigged to explode - every three hours - until he gets what he wants. Working desperately against the clock, Darby realizes she is trapped between a kidnapper who would kill to expose the truth and people who would let others die to hide their lies.  Every Three Hours is by Chris Mooney and is due to be published in March 2016.

McLean must investigate the seedy goings on of an exclusive and secretive society, catering for the rich and powerful of the city. Somehow it is linked to a particularly gruesome cold case from twenty years ago, McLean's first case with the force.  The Damage Done is by James Oswald and is due to be published in February 2016.

A series of uniquely brutal murders targets victims from totally different walks of life.  In a society divided according to Zodiac signs, those differences are cast at birth and binding for life.  All eyes are on Detective Jerome Burton and astrological profiler Lindi Childs – divided in their beliefs over whether the answer is written in stars but united in their conviction that there is an ingenious serial killer executing a grand plan.  Together, they will unravel a dark tale of betrayal, lost love, broken promises and a devastating truth with the power to tear their world apart.  Zodiac is by Sam Wilson and is due to be published in June 2016.

Orphan X is by Gregg Hurwitz and is due to be published in April 2016. “Do you need my help?” It was always the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a boy he was chosen, then taken from the orphanage he called home. Raised and trained as part of a top secret programme he was sent to the worst places in the world to do the things his government denied any knowledge of. Then he broke with the programme, using everything he'd learned to disappear. He wanted to help the desperate and deserving. But now someone's on his tail. Someone who has issues with his past. Someone who knows he was once known simply as Orphan X.

A hit-and-run on a woodland road near Amsterdam involving an Afghan boy is connected to a powerful international crime syndicate.  Journalist Farah Hafez, together with her colleague Paul Chapelle, gets caught up in an investigation that takes them all the way to Moscow and has great political and personal ramifications than they bargained for.  After this perilous journey, their lives will never be the same. Butterfly on the Storm is the first instalment of The Heartland Trilogy by Walter Lucius and is due to be published in July 2016.

Little Boy Blue is by M J Arlidge and is due to be published in March 2016.  Helen's most

personal case yet as she investigates the shocking and unexpected murder of a close friend found cocooned in plastic. It looks like it was a tragic accident - a sex game gone wrong. The investigation soon threatens to expose Helen's private life and she has to make some tough personal choices along the way, as she hunts a twisted and elusive killer, who is swiftly racking up more murders. As Helen closes in on her prey, a shocking truth is revealed - these murders are part of a calculated attempt to bring Helen down.

Many changes have happened to the Murder Squad.  Rash actions have cost Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith his job, and in response he has set up his own private detective agency.  Inspector Walter Day has been missing for a year and no one knows where he is though there is a strong suspicion that Saucy Jack has him.  Hammersmith has made finding day his primary case, and he has company – a pair of bounty hunters, a man and a woman.  It is only gradually that he has come to realise that they are not what they seem.  Lost and Gone Forever is by Alex Grecian and is due to be published in June 2016.

Christmas Eve 1985 -The shaved, exsanguinated body of a young man is found in Red Square; frozen solid - like marble to the touch - missing the little finger from his right hand.  A week later, Alex Marston, the fifteen year old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer, Tom Fox, posted to Moscow following the death of his own daughter, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption.  But as Fox's investigation drags him deeper towards the dark heart of a Soviet establishment determined to protect its own so his fears grow, with those of the girl's father, for her safety. A flayed cat, hung by its hind legs from the ceiling of Fox's flat is just a warning.  And if Fox can't find Alex soon, it looks as if she could become a sadistic killer's next human victim . . .  Moskva is by Jack Grimwood and is due to be published in May 2016.

When Zoo agrees to take part in the latest reality television show, In the Dark, she knows that her skills of endurance will be tested to the limit.  Beating twelve competitors in a series of survival tasks deep in the forest will be her ultimate challenge before motherhood.  But as the contestants are overtaken by hunger, injury and psychological breakdown, the mind games and hazards to which they are subjected seem increasingly extreme and dark beyond measure.  This isn’t what Zoo signed up for.  Is she in a game with no end?  Discovering the truth is just the beginning. The Last One is by Alexandra Oliva and is due to be published in July 2016.

A Fever of the Blood is by Oscar de Muriel and is due to be published in February 2016. 

New Year's Day, 1889. In Edinburgh's lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Londoner-in-exile Inspector Ian Frey. Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patient - a girl who had been mute for years. What made her suddenly break her silence? And why won't she talk again? Could the rumours about black magic be more than superstition? McGray and Frey track a devious sychopath far beyond their jurisdiction, through the worst blizzard in living memory, into the shadow of Pendle Hill - home of the Lancashire witches - where unimaginable danger awaits..

An 'innocent' killer. A politician's missing daughter. An unidentifiable corpse. What connects these crimes? An unidentifiable murder victim may be the missing piece of the puzzle for a massive expose that journalist Helen Norton is writing about the links between politics, business and crime in the north-east. Her former colleague Tom Carney receives a letter from a convicted murderer who insists he is innocent. Tom decides to meet the man face-to-face. Meanwhile, Detective Ian Bradshaw searches for a politician's missing daughter - who it seems has run away to the bright lights and seedy streets of London's Soho. As the three cases become intertwined, Helen, Tom and Bradshaw realize too late what they've uncovered.  Behind Dead Eyes is by Howard Linskey and is due to be published in March 2016.

Among Thieves is by John Clarkson and is due to be published in May 2016. Unfairly imprisoned by the State of New York, ex-con James Beck is a man with a keen sense of right and wrong. But when a friend's niece turns to him for help, he soon discovers that the men at whose hands she's suffered are more dangerous than he could possibly have imagined. In order to prevail, he and his gang of friends will have to outwit, out-flank and out-fight a formidable array of opponents the like of which they've never before encountered. Or die trying.

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The Eye of Heaven is the outstanding new Fargo Adventure from Clive Cussler. Baffin Island, North-Western Canada: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on an environmental expedition to the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artefacts from Mexico. It's a combination history suggests shouldn't be possible. As the couple plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl - and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven-begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people...Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, temples, and secret tombs, caught between treasure hunters, crime cartels, and those with a far more personal motivation for stopping them. At the end of the road will be the solution to a thousand-year-old mystery-or death.   The Eye of Heaven is due to be published in January 2015.

Raker understands missing people; he knows how they think.  But even Raker's long experience can't prepare him for the deceit and darkness that follows his sometime colleague, ex-copper Healy's decision to find the people that killed his daughter.  Cry is by Tim Weaver and is due to be published in May 2015.

'Are you ready to be reborn?'  The search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder.  In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification.  Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. The baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But it is not the only thing about this case that McLean will find beyond belief.  Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, he must track down a killer driven by the darkest compulsions, who will answer only to a higher power...  'Are you ready for the mysteries to be revealed?'  Prayer for the Dead is by James Oswald and is due to be published in February 2015.

The Assassin is by Clive Cussler and is due to be published in March 2015. As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin - shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range - kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent refinery ablaze. Bell summons his best detectives to scour the site of the crime for evidence. Who is the assassin and for whom did he kill? But the murders-shootings, poisonings, staged accidents-have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the "oil fever" regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington, D.C., to the tycoons' enclave of New York, to Russia's war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all.

Who is Alice Salmon? Student. Journalist. Daughter. Lover of late nights, hater of deadlines. That girl who drowned last year. Gone doesn't mean forgotten. Everyone's life leaves a trace behind. But it's never the whole story. "I will stand up and ask myself who I am. I do that a lot. I'll look in the mirror. Reassure myself, scare myself, like myself, and hate myself. My name is Alice Salmon." When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples from her tragic drowning could be felt in the news, on the Internet, and in the hearts of those closest to her. However, the man who knows her best isn't family or a friend. His name is Dr Jeremy Cooke, an academic fixated on piecing together Alice's existence. Cooke knows that faithfully recreating Alice, through her diaries, text messages, and online presence, has become all consuming. But he does not know how deep his search will take him into this shocking story of love, loss and obsession where everyone - including himself - has something to hide ... What She Left is by T. R. Richmond and is due to be published in April 2015.

Fear the Dark is by Chris Mooney and is due to be published in February 2015. A killer watches. A town waits. Fear grips a town in Colorado as a murderer targets entire families in their own homes. As police and the FBI struggle to contain the situation, they bring in forensic investigator and serial killer expert Darby McCormick. What she finds is a brutal and elusive predator who stays one step ahead of their investigation. As Darby navigates the blood-ties and broken promises that divide the locals, she knows that all the while the killer is watching, waiting and circling his next target: her. She must not only meet evil - and somehow survive - but also be prepared to face this small town's dark heart.

Only We Know is by Karen Perry and is due to be published in June 2015.  Sometimes the secrets we keep can kill . . . Kenya, 1982.  The relentless sun beats down on the Maasai Mara. Three children, Nick, Luke and Katie bored and hot go down to the river alone. But when their innocent game by the banks of the river goes horribly wrong, their lives are changed forever and they are eternally bound by a shocking and suffocating secret.  Dublin, 2013.  Their secret is buried, but not forgotten, and when Luke goes missing in violent circumstances it becomes clear that their childhood mistakes have come back to haunt them . . .

John Holliday, army ranger turned historian, is the Indiana Jones of conspiracy thrillers. Ex-army ranger turned historian John Holliday is in search for the truth behind the ancient and deadly Templar order. Putting their lives in danger, Holliday and his good friend Eddie once again travel the world on the trail of a deadly Templar plot. Secret of the Templars is by Christopher Paul and is due to be published in January 2015.

The Doll's House is the third book in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge and is due to be published in February 2o15.  No Game. No Escape. A woman wakes up and opens her eyes. And she knows immediately that she's not in the bed she went to sleep in. It's just the beginning of her nightmare. Across town, a child discovers a woman's body buried beneath the beach. Then another victim is found . Yet neither friends nor family had even reported either woman missing. How could their killer be getting away with murder? For Detective Inspector Helen Grace it is chilling evidence that she searching for a monster who's not just twisted, but also clever and careful. And as Helen struggles to understand the motivation behind the crimes, she begins to realise that time might be running out for someone still alive...

Into the House is the second sophisticated and dark instalment in Jake Woodhouse's Amsterdam Quartet, featuring returning series character Inspector Jaap Rykel. It is due to be published in March 2015.A woman is pushed in front of a train by a man in police uniform. And a body is left on a rooftop, its hands scorched and head missing. Another day in Amsterdam: Western Europe's murder capital. The killer announces to the world that this is merely the beginning. The man tasked with stopping the body count is Inspector Jaap Rykel. But as Jaap searches the beheaded body for clues as to its identity, what he finds makes his blood run cold. Why on earth are there pictures of himself - and his home - saved on the victim's phone...? 

No Name Lane is by Howard Linskey and is due to be published in April 2015.  The hunt for a serial killer unearths an unsolved cold case from over sixty years ago. Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the North-East. Out of favour Detective Constable Ian Bradshaw struggles to find any leads - and fears that the only thing this investigation will unravel is himself. Journalist Tom Carney is suspended by his London tabloid and returns to his home village in County Durham. Helen Norton is the reporter who replaced Tom on the local newspaper. Together, they are drawn into a case that will change their lives forever. When a body is found, it's not the latest victim but a decades-old corpse. Secrets buried for years are waiting to be found, while in the present-day an unstoppable killer continues to evade justice...

This is a spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror - Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room - and no way in or out - the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss, Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray, actually believes in such supernatural nonsense. McGray's tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond reason. And once someone loses all reason, who knows what they will lose next... The Strings of Murder is by Oscar de Muriel and is due to be published in February 2015.

Alongside Jack the Ripper there is another brutal serial killer roaming the streets of Victorian London Inspector Walter Day has been consigned to desk duty at Scotland Yard, but when the Harvest Man begins killing, carving people's faces off their skulls, Dr Kingsley and the inspectors of the Yard need Walter Day's unique ability to uncover the killer and find him before more are murdered.  Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith has lost his position at Scotland Yard, but when the mutilated bodies of prostitutes start materializing again in Whitechapel, he enlists the help of a criminal network to track down Jack the Ripper.  Day and Hammersmith are being played, and their lives will never be the same again.  The Harvest Man is by Alex Grecian and is due to be published in June 2015.

My Bloody Valentine is the second thrilling novel in the DCI Antonia Hawkins series by Alastair Gunn and is due to be published in January 2015. When the body of a young woman is found brutally slain on Valentine's Day the press reacts with barely disguised glee. For DCI Antonia Hawkins, still recovering from the terrible wounds inflicted by another killer, the pressure of another high profile murder investigation could barely be worse timed. But, battling her own physical limitations and under pressure from a new member of the team whose ambition to displace her is barely disguised, Hawkins must discover not just who killed the first victim, but why. Or watch helplessly as others die at the hands of a monster whose been labelled the Valentine Killer...

Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing, presumed dead, the man's family still want answers. It is one of the many unsolved crimes left for Department Q, Denmark's cold case unit headed up by Detective Carl Morck. But what Carl doesn't know is that the key to the investigation is in Copenhagen. Fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson is tough, smart and suspicious of police. Sleeping rough and hiding in the shadows is his way of life. But what is he running from - and what does he know worth killing him for?  Buried is by Jussi Adler-Olsen and is due to be published in February 2015.

 Inspector Conny Sjoberg and his police colleagues are perplexed by the brutal killing of a family in their Stockholm apartment. With no clues, the murder inquiry starts with working out how was it possible for the mother, who worked as a cleaner, to afford a multi-million dollar property? Despite a heavily reduced team, with experienced officers ill, injured or mysteriously missing, Sjoberg struggles to keep the investigation on the rails. But Conny has problems of his own - from a woman he cannot get out of his head, to a shocking revelation about his own past - all of which threaten to compromise the hunt for this heartless killer...The Last Lullaby is by Carin Gerhardsen and is due to be published in June 2015.

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Bloodline is the latest novel by Felix Francis and is due to be published in September.  When Mark Shilling ford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious.  As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won.  Did she lose on purpose?  Was the race fixed?  Why on earth would she do something so out of character?  That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, but she storms off after an explosive argument.  It's the last time Mark sees her alive.  Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel ...or so it seems.  Devastated by her death, and almost overcome with guilt, Mark goes in search of answers.  What led Clare to take her own life?  Or was it not suicide at all?

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is consulted on a grisly and seemingly unsolvable crime.  Sometimes the mind is a dangerous place to hide.  The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman.  Who is he?  Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea?  And how did the dead body find its way into her flat?  DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein.  Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to a vital clue that in turn leads to a possible identity.  Robert Poole.  Jack of all trades and master conman.  The deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig, the more of Poole's victims they encounter ...and the more motives they uncover for his murder.  But is anyone telling them the truth except for poor, confused Michelle?  And when the past returns to haunt Frieda's present, she finds herself in danger.  Whoever set out to destroy Poole also seems determined to destroy Frieda Klein.  A gritty heroine, a gruesome crime and a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer. Tuesday’s Gone is by Nicci French and is due to be published in July.

The Collini Case is by Ferdinand Von Schirach and is due to be published in September 2012.  From one of Europe's bestselling writers comes a spellbinding and utterly compelling court room drama, which will stay with you for a long time.  Ferdinand von Schirach's "The Collini Case" has been at the top of the German charts since publication.  A murder.  A murderer.  No motive.  For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz.  He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin's most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man.  Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case.  Getting Collini a not-guilty verdict would make his name.  But too late he discovers that Collini's victim - an industrialist of some renown - is known to him.  Now Leinen is caught in a professional and personal dilemma.  Collini admits the murder but won't say why he did it, forcing Leinen to defend a man who won't put up a defence.  And worse, a close friend and relation of the victim insists that he give up the case.  His reputation, his career and this friendship are all at risk.  Then he makes a discovery that goes way beyond his own petty concerns and exposes a terrible and deadly truth at the heart of German justice.....

The year is 1539 and the Portuguese Inquisition ushers in an era of torture and murder.  When the Royal Falconer is imprisoned on false charges to remove him from the inner circle of the boy King, the Inquisitors strike an impossible deal with his daughter, Isabela.  Bring back two rare white falcons from Iceland within the year or her father dies.  Meanwhile in Iceland, a menacing stranger appears to have possessed the soul of a woman chained up in a volcanic cave and is threatening to destroy the community.  The woman's twin sister, Eydis, is desperate to intervene but vivid dreams suggest the twins' only salvation lies with a young girl from afar, travelling in search of white feathers ...Isabela's quest might hold a more crucial purpose then she could ever imagine and there are those among her travel companions who have an interest in doing her harm.  But in order to fulfil her destiny, first she must reach Iceland's shores alive!  The Falcons of Fire and Ice is by Karen Maitland and is due to be published in August 2012.

12-21 is by Dustin Thomason co-author of The Rule of Four and is due to be published in September 2012.  An ancient prophecy foretells that the world will end on 21 December 2012...In Central America, a treasure hunter discovers a Maya relic - a mysterious and ornate codex - but when he smuggles it into the US, he brings with him an old and deadly secret...Early in December 2012, the codex comes to Chel Manu, a Maya world authority.  She is torn between the chance to translate the codex herself and her duty to alert the authorities.  Meanwhile, in an LA hospital, an unknown man is dying of a rare, contagious disease.  When Dr Gabriel Stanton is called in, he realises that this is no ordinary infection - and it will spread uncontrollably.  Stanton and Chel must race to decipher the codex's secrets and prevent the prophesised apocalypse.

The Inside Job is the second book in the series by Felix Riley to feature Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne.  Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne is too late….. Too late to save the one man who knew the truth – the star witness who was about to blow the whistle on the biggest bank scandal in history.  Too late to stop an innocent man from dying, and so plunging the world of high finance into a death spiral of violence and murder.  Because payback for bankers who gambled with other people’s money is being handed out in bullets and bombs.  And now the only person who can keep the bankers alive is Agent Byrne, who finds himself having to protect the very people he swore to take down.  Before long Byrne is locked into a deadly fight with an unseen enemy – an enemy that will stop at nothing to get what they want….. The Inside Job is due to be published in August 2012.

Dark Revelations is the concluding book in the Level 26 trilogy.  In Dark Revelations, Steve Dark faces the most intricate, intense, and explosive case of his career.  The killer calls himself Labyrinth, and the riddles, puzzles, and wordplay with which he announces his new targets have caused worldwide media sensation.  The case has already claimed a number of high profile individuals as victims – not to mention several government agencies, which have tried and failed to stop a growing global panic.  But what point is Labyrinth trying to make?  Who will be his next victim?  It’s up to Dark to assemble a team from among the smoking rubble of the international crime solving community, find Labyrinth wherever he may be, and put a stop to the mayhem once and for all.  Can Steve Dark solve the biggest riddle of them all?  Only time will tell.  Dark Revelations is by Anthony E Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski and is due to be published in December 2012.

The Montsegur Medallion points the way to the most coveted relic, the Holy Grail.  In the wrong hands it could destroy civilisation.  Finn McGuire finds himself framed for a string of murders moments after he uncovers the legendary Medallion in an ancient Syrian chapel.  The culprits are a group of Nazi SS descendants known as The Seven who will stop at nothing to possess the pendant...and the Holy Grail.  Their wish?  To resurrect the Third Reich. Over seven centuries later, Templar expert and former MI5 operative Caedmon Aisquith is stunned to learn that his daughter has been kidnapped.  Receiving an ominous ransom demand - Find the Evangelium Gaspar or she dies – Caedmon is hurled into a dangerous labyrinth of Templar intrigues.  Racing against time, he must solve a series of clues involving esoteric symbols and artfully encoded riddles.  All the while being pursued by the bloodthirsty members of the satanic brotherhood Santa Muerte.  Caedmon Aisquith is an expert in the Knights Templar and the Grail; he knows the Seven can only desire it for evil and when Finn approaches him, the two join forces in a quest to find the deadly relic and halt the bloodshed.  Their race takes them from the Louvre to a medieval citadel in the Pyrenees.  But the stakes are high for the fate of mankind hangs in the balance if they fail.  In an epic quest to save his daughter, Caedmon crosses the globe, the clues leading him from the Malabar Coast of India to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and finally to a Merovingian church in the heart of Paris.  There he discovers the most explosive secret of all – a two-thousand-year-old cover up of such magnitude that if it’s ever disclosed, it would forever change the course of history.  The Templar’s Secret is by C M Palov and is due to be published in November 2012.

"The Killing House" is the amazing first novel in a stunning new series by Chris Mooney.  It introduces fallen angel and former profiler Malcolm Fletcher who is forced to take the law into his own hands in order to uncover the truth in his terrifying first case.  Rule number1: Don't Scream - Four years ago, Theresa Herrera's ten-year-old son Rico was abducted.  The police found little evidence and the case went cold.  Theresa's husband has told her to move on, but she won't give up hope.  Rule number 2: Don't call the police - Today a mysterious woman invaded Theresa's home and told her that Rico is alive.  Theresa talks on the phone to a young man who is, without question, her son.  Rule number 3: Don't run.  Don't fight - The woman promises to reunite Theresa with Rico only if she will follow the rules.  But it is the last rule that fills Theresa with horror...Rule number 4: Kill your husband and your son will live...Malcolm Fletcher - a former FBI profiler and now the nation's Most Wanted fugitive - arrives in Colorado to help Theresa and her husband find their son.  But his arrival coincides with a dangerous and shocking twist in the case.  Barely surviving his first encounter with a suspect, Fletcher embarks on his own secret investigation, with the police just behind him every step of the way.  Behind every door in "The Killing House", death awaits you...  The Killing House is due to be published in August 2012.

 He Is Their Judge...In death, they are purified.  Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath.  Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are.  Witches, sent to tempt and to corrupt... Jury ...No one knows about defence attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spent with the carnival that's just arrived in town.  For Charlotte, what's past is past.  But others don't agree.  And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal...  And Executioner.  At last, she is within his reach.  All his victims deserve their fate, but her guilt is greatest.  And with every scream, he will make her see what it means to suffer and repent.... Before She Dies is by Mary Burton and is due to be published in August 2012.

"Vanished" is the brilliant new missing person’s case in the "David Raker" series.  No life is perfect.  Everyone has secrets.  For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other.  But not for Sam Wren.  An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again.  No eyewitnesses.  No trace of him on security cameras.  Six months later, he's still missing.  Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down.  Raker has made a career out of finding the lost.  He knows how they think.  And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.  But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined.  For, as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him, someone is watching.  Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day.  And, with Raker in his sights, he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself.  Vanished is by Tim Weaver and is due to be published in July 2012.

Once you're part of the pack, there's no getting out...Mild-mannered stay-at-home dad Simon Burns has undergone a life changing transformation - after being indoctrinated into the pack, he has become a werewolf. Fearing that the truth would end his marriage, Simon has told his wife Alison that he is suffering from a psychological condition called lycanthropic disorder, in which a person thinks he is a werewolf. For the moment, his secret remains safe. But NYPD homicide detective Geri Rodriguez has not forgotten about the mysterious wolf-like murders that remain unsolved,and when she hears that one of the witnesses, Diane Coles, was brutally murdered outside her parents' home in Michigan, she resumes her investigation. She's focused on a group of dads - Michael, Charlie, Ramon, and Simon - who had a connection to the unsolved murders. Simon had been trying to stay away from the pack, but he has been tipped off by Michael's father that there may be a cure hidden somewhere in the Brooklyn brewery where Michael lives. He wants to find the cure, and to see that Geri doesn't become another mystery death - but his own life and the lives of his wife and son may be in jeopardy. The Craving by Jason Starr is a hair-raising thriller with a supernatural twist.  It is the sequel to The Pack.  The Craving is due to be published in October 2012.

The Blood of Crows is the fourth book in her DI Anderson and DS Costello series by Caro Ramsay and is due to be published in September 2012.  For one Scottish cop the beat is about to get dark and very bloody ...DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week.  His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe - putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets and leaving Anderson under investigation.  Add to this a gangster torched alive, a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge and the suicide of a cop who worked an unsolved child kidnapping way back in 1996 and Anderson's got his hands full.  Then one night, a young girl is tied to the river bank and left for the tide.  Anderson gets there, but she dies in his arms.  Working round the clock his team discover these strange crimes are linked to an elusive criminal mastermind known as The Puppeteer.  But unable to find him, unable to stop the murders, Anderson is forced to follow the only lead he has - Skelpie Fairbairn ...But which is worse - the devil you don't know, or the one you do...?