June
Clare
Riordan and her son Mikey are abducted from Clapham Common early one morning.
Hours later, the boy is found wandering disorientated. Soon after, a pack of
Clare's blood is left on a doorstep in the heart of the City of London. Alice
Quentin is brought in to help the traumatised child uncover his memories -
which might lead them to his mother's captors. But she swiftly realises Clare
is not the first victim...nor will she be the last. The killers are driven by a
desire for revenge...and in the end, it will all come down to blood. Blood Symmetry is by Kate Rhodes
July
Blood
Sister is by Dreda Say Mitchell.
There are two ways out of Essex Lane Estate, better known as The Devil.
You make good, or you turn bad. Jen Miller is determined not to make the same
mistakes her mother did. She's waiting to find herself a good job and a decent
man. Her younger sister Tiff is running errands for a gangster and looking for
any opportunity for fun and profit. But she might just be in over her
head...The choices you make and the plans you have don't always turn out like
you expect. Especially if you live on The Devil's Estate. When their paths
cross with the unstoppable Dee - a woman with her own agenda - Jen and Tiff
will learn that lesson the hard way. At least they can rely on each other.
Can't they?
In a
remote countryside lane in North Yorkshire, the body of a young girl is found,
bruised
and beaten, having apparently been thrown from a moving vehicle. While
DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could
possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent
Alan Banks is faced with a similar task - but the case Banks must investigate
is as cold as they come. Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity
entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton
stands accused at the centre of a historical abuse investigation and it's
Banks's first task as superintendent to find out the truth. While Annie
struggles with a controversial case threatening to cause uproar in the local
community, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence, and as each steps
closer to uncovering the truth, they'll unearth secrets much darker than they
ever could have guessed … When The Music’s Over is by Peter
Robinson.
Scotland,
1932. Aristocratic private investigator Dandy Gilver strikes again with her
witty sidekick Alec Osbourne to solve sinister goings on at a convent on a
bleak Lanarkshire moor. The convent was set alight following a mass breakout at
a neighbouring psychiatric hospital on Christmas Eve, resulting in the death of
the mother superior. Most patients were returned safely but a few are still at
large...As Dandy interviews each nun in turn she senses a stranger is still
lurking in the corridors at night - could they be the same person who left
blood-red footprints in the sacristy? Dandy Gilver and the Most Misleading Habit
is by Catriona McPherson.
A
Death at Fountains Abbey is by Antonia Hodgson. Late spring, 1728 and
Thomas Hawkins has left London for the wild beauty of Yorkshire - forced on a
mission he can't refuse. John Aislabie, one of the wealthiest men in England,
has been threatened with murder. Blackmailed into investigating, Tom must hunt
down those responsible, or lose the woman he loves forever. Since Aislabie is
widely regarded as the architect of the greatest financial swindle ever seen,
there is no shortage of suspects. Far from the ragged comforts of home, Tom and
his ward Sam Fleet enter a world of elegant surfaces and hidden danger. The
great estate is haunted by family secrets and simmering unease. Someone is
determined to punish John Aislabie - and anyone who stands in the way. As the
violence escalates and shocking truths are revealed, Tom is dragged,
inexorably, towards the darkest night of his life.
It
starts with a lie. The kind we've all told - to a former acquaintance we can't
quite place but still, for some reason, feel the need to impress. The story of
our life, embellished for the benefit of the happily married lawyer with the
kids and the lovely home. And the next thing you know, you're having dinner at
their house, and accepting an invitation to join them on holiday - swept up in
their perfect life, the kind you always dreamed of...Which turns out to be less
than perfect. But by the time you're trapped and sweating in the relentless
Greek sun, burning to escape the tension all around you - by the time you start
to realise that, however painful the truth might be, it's the lies that cause
the real damage...well, by then, it could just be too late. Lie
with Me is by Sabine Durrant
Mister
Memory is by Marcus Sedgwick. In
Paris in the year 1899, Marcel Despres is
arrested for the murder of his wife
and transferred to the famous Salpetriere asylum. And there the story might
have stopped. But the doctor assigned to his care soon realises this is no
ordinary patient: Marcel Despres, Mister Memory, is a man who cannot forget.
And the policeman assigned to his case soon realises that something else is at
stake: for why else would the criminal have been hurried off to hospital, and
why are his superiors so keen for the whole affair to be closed? This crime
involves something bigger and stranger than a lovers' fight - something with
links to the highest and lowest establishments in France. The policeman and the
doctor between them must unravel the mystery...but the answers lie inside
Marcel's head. And how can he tell what is significant when he remembers every
detail of every moment of his entire life?
Three
generations - torn apart by one bullet. Philadelphia 1965: Two street cops -
one black, one white - are gunned down in a robbery gone wrong. The killer is
never prosecuted. One of the fallen officers, Stanislaw Walczak, leaves behind
a twelve-year-old boy, Jimmy...Philadelphia 1995: Homicide detective Jim
Walczak learns that his father's alleged killer, Terrill Lee Stanton, is out of
prison. Walczak will be waiting, determined to squeeze the truth out of him -
any way he can. Philadelphia 2015: Jim Walczak's daughter Audrey, studying
forensic science in grad school, reinvestigates her grandfather's murder for
her dissertation. But the deeper Audrey digs, the more she realises: the man
everyone thinks killed Walczak didn't do it...And when the truth comes out, the
danger's only going to grow. Revolver
is by Duane Swierczynski.
August
A
journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple
return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their
guests seemingly missing. Four strangers struggle to find shelter on a
windswept spike of rock in the middle of a raging sea. They have one thing in
common: they all lied. And someone is determined to punish them... Why
Did You Lie is by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Mark
Novak's greatest mystery might just be his own ...Private Investigator Mark
Novak's relentlessness as an investigator has been his professional calling
card and curse, but the one case he has couldn't bring himself to pursue is the
one closest to his heart: that of his wife's death. Returning to the scene of
her murder, a country road outside Cassadaga, Florida, he uncovers disturbing
leads that show how her murder might be connected to Novak's own troubled youth
in Montana. The investigation leads him back to the mining towns of Montana
which he thought he'd left behind forever. On returning, he discovers there are
more than just bad memories to be found when you go digging up the past. Novak
faces an adversary more frightening than he's ever known, and a secret that has
wended its way through his entire life: from the caverns beneath Indiana to the
abandoned streets of a southern gothic town to the darkest corners of the
Northwest. Novak is about to discover that evil and heroism are inextricably
and tragically linked. Rise the Dark is by Michael Koryta.
The
Trespasser is by Tana French. Antoinette
Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from
The
Secret Place, is still on the Murder squad, but only just. She's partnered
up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working
life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious
running campaign in the squad to get rid of her. She and Stephen pull a case
that at first looks like a slam-dunk lovers' tiff, but gradually they realise
there's more going on: someone on their own squad is trying to push them
towards the obvious solution, away from nagging questions. They have to work
out whether this is just an escalation in the drive to get rid of her - or
whether there's something deeper and darker going on.
Death
in the Tuscan Hills is by Marco Vichi.
Spring, 1967. The trail of tragedy and destruction that followed the
previous winter's flood seems to have died down; Florence is beginning to
recover. But Inspector Bordelli does not feel the same sense of relief - he has
not had a moment's peace since his investigation of a young boy's murder went
disastrously wrong. Unsettled and embittered, Bordelli resigns from the force
and leaves the city. He could not continue to work as a policeman while the
perpetrators of such a terrible crime were still at large. Now, in the solitude
of his new home in the Tuscan hills, he spends his days cooking, going for long
walks and learning to grow his own vegetables. But the thought of that case -
of justice not served - is constantly with him. Until fate, in which he has
never believed, unexpectedly offers him the chance of retribution...
The
name's Gideon Tau, but everyone just calls me London. I work for the Delphic
Division,
the occult investigative unit of the South African Police Service. My
life revolves around two things - finding out who killed my daughter and
imagining what I'm going to do to the bastard when I catch him. I have two
friends. The first is my boss, Armitage, a fifty-something DCI from Yorkshire
who looks more like someone's mother than a cop. Don't let that fool you. The
second is the dog, my magical spirit guide. He talks, he watches TV all day,
and he's a mean drunk. Life is pretty routine - I solve crimes, I search for my
daughter's killer. Wash, rinse, repeat. Until the day I'm called out to the
murder of a ramanga - a low-key vampire - basically, the tabloid journalist of
the vampire world. It looks like an open and shut case. There's even CCTV
footage of the killer. Except...the face on the CCTV footage? It's the face of
the man who killed my daughter. I'm about to face a tough choice. Catch her
killer or save the world? I can't do both. It's not looking good for the world. Poison City is by Paul Crilley.
September
If
the good guys can't save you, call a bad guy.
When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's
Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still
alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to
put him in the ground. FBI Special Agent
Charlie Thompson is determined to protect him, but her hands are tied; the
FBI's sole priority is catching the terrorists before they strike again. So
Charlie calls the only person on the planet who can keep her witness safe:
Michael Hendricks. Once a covert
operative for the US military, Hendricks makes his living hitting hitmen... or
he "did," until the very organization hunting Charlie's witness--the
Council--caught wind and targeted the people he loves. Teaming up with a young
but determined tech whiz, Cameron, on the condition she leave him alone after
the case, Hendricks reluctantly takes the job.
Of course, finding a man desperate to stay hidden is challenging enough
without deadly competition, let alone when the competition's shadowy corporate
backer is tangled in the terrorist conspiracy playing out around them. And now
Hendricks is determined to take the Council down, even if that means wading
into the center of a terror plot whose perpetrators are not what they
seem. Red Right Hand is by Chris Holm.
October
The most corrupt judge in US history. A young investigator
with a secret informant. The
Whistler is by John Grisham.
Don’t Turn Out the Lights is by Bernard Minier. "You did nothing." Christine
Steinmeyer thought the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve
wasn't meant for her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced
otherwise. "You let her die..." The note and the call are only the
beginning. Bit by bit, her life is progressively turned upside down: someone is
trying to destroy her. But who among her friends and family can hate her that
much? And why? Commandant Martin Servaz is on leave in a clinic for depressed
cops, haunted by the latest crime committed by his nemesis, serial killer
Julian Hirtmann. Then he receives a key card to a hotel room - the room where
an artist committed suicide a year earlier. He soon realises that the key opens
up a most intriguing mystery. Could someone really be cruelly, consciously
driving women to kill themselves? Both he and Christine are about to find
out...but it may already be too late.
November
Thomas
De Quincey is beginning to control his opium addiction when the excitement of
his current case threatens to unravel his grip on reality once and for all. On
their way home to the Lake District, the De Quinceys become unwitting witnesses
to a truly historic murder: the first to take place on one of England's newly
constructed railways. The railways changed everything in the Victorian era,
transforming the English countryside, revolutionizing modern industry, and as
the De Quinceys discover, providing the perfect escape. Giving chase in a
cat-and-mouse game unlike any that have come before, the De Quinceys uncover a
dangerous secret that reaches all levels of English society. Ruler of the Night is by David
Morrell.
December
Expecting
to Die is by Lisa Jackson. THE
WOODS ARE DARK, AND DEEP, AND DEADLY...Some places earn their bad reputation
through tall tales or chance. Grizzly Falls is different. Here, killers aren't
just the stuff of legends and campfire lore. Someone is in the nighttime
shadows, watching the local teens in the moonlit woods. Waiting for the right
moment, the right victim. Waiting to take away a life. Detective Regan Pescoli
is counting the days until her maternity leave. Exhausted and emotional, the last
thing she needs is another suspected serial killer. Especially when her
daughter, Bianca, is swept up in the media storm. When a reality show arrives
in town, the chaos only makes it harder for Pescoli and her partner, Selena
Alvarez, to distinguish rumour from truth. Another body is found...and another.
And as the nightmare strikes closer to home, Pescoli races to find the terror
lingering in the darkness, where there are too many places to hide...and
countless places to die...
