January 2016
The Night Wanderer is by Alys Clare.
The latest title in the Aelf Fen series sees Lassair investigating a
series of brutal murders after rumours that the legendary demon, The Night
Wanderer, has returned. Can she discover his identity before she, too, becomes
a victim?
Crime
blogger and radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover as a teenage runaway to
discover why young people are going missing. On the streets, she enters an
unpredictable world and wanders into the clutches of a dangerous psychopath. Goodbye
Forever is by Bonnie Hearn Hill.
When
Eden Radley is told her mother has killed herself and her severely disabled
half-brother, Eden sets out to discover why. The more she learns, the more she
becomes convinced that her mother’s death was no suicide. How much did she
really know about her mother or her troubled step-father, Flynn Darby? Don’t
Believe a Word is a psychological stand-alone thriller from Patricia
MacDonald. 
Quick and the Dead is an exciting new series from Susan Moody,
introducing candid female sleuth Alex Quick. Alex’s business partner, acclaimed
art historian and university professor Helena, disappears and Alex is consumed
by guilt. Helena had complained of a stalker, and Alex had dismissed her
worries. Now she must figure out what happened to her friend. But is Helena a
victim . . . or is she a killer?
The
latest addition to the long-running Pennsylvania-Dutch series sees Magdalena
Yoder welcome some aristocratic British guests to the inn. But they are by no
means the easiest of guests, and then one of the guests disappears over the
edge of Lover’s Leap. Did he fall? And where is the body? Tea with Jam and Dread is
another hilariously quirky mystery from Tamar Myers.
An
astonishing new order has usurped power in Rome and Libertus’ wealthy patron is
endangered. He must take Marcus’s young family to safety in order to protect
him from an anonymous and vindictive enemy. But his task brings problems as he uncovers
a grisly secret and an ancient crime – with ramifications stretching to the
present day. The Ides of June is by Rosemary Rowe is set against the
backdrop of the Roman Empire.
Intrepid
nineteenth-century private investigators Grand and Batchelor return in their
second mystery. The pair are commissioned with looking into the mysterious
death of Lafayette Baker, head of the US National Detective Police. Even in
death, Baker remains one of the most hated men in the country – it seems almost
everyone wanted him gone. Can the investigators survive long enough to uncover
the truth? The Circle is by M J Trow
February 2016
To The Last Drop is the ninth in Sandra Balzo’s coffeehouse cozy
mystery series sees a dead body discovered outside Maggy Thorsen’s ex-husband’s
dental practice, and Maggy tries to piece together the clues. But her beau,
Jake, has just dropped a bombshell on her – can she keep her emotions in check
long enough to find out the truth about this possible murder?
Crime
writer sleuth Donald Langham is invited to a remote Scottish castle where an
attempt is being made to raise the wreck of a German fighter plane from the
loch. But progress is halted when one of the guests is brutally murdered. Murder
at the Loch is by Eric Loch and is a traditional murder mystery set in the
1950’s.
Shortly
before Christmas, Professor James Lowell is found brutally attacked in the
university where Anna works. She soon discovers that her fellow dogwalker, Isadora,
knew the deceased in the Sixties when she was a member of the ‘Oxford Six’. It
turns out that Isadora has been keeping a surprising secret all these years.
Could the attack on the Professor have its roots in a fifty-year-old murder? Written
in Red is by Annie Dalton.
Dangerous Minds is by Priscilla Masters. Can a psychiatrist prevent a crime when it
exists only in a patient’s mind? After receiving a wedding invitation from a
former patient, Claire is alarmed. Jerome is a highly dangerous man and he
appears to have intimate details of her other patients. Can Claire prevent a
tragedy in this tense psychological thriller?
Computer
hacker Nicole Jones, now living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Quebec,
is startled when her computer is hacked, showing a ‘shadow’ inside her laptop which
watches her every move. Afraid she’ll be tracked down, she goes on the run
again. Can she escape her past a second time? Shadowed is by Karen E.
Olson.
March 2016
High Jinks is by Shannon Esposito. Doggie-yoga instructor Elle Pressley is back
for the latest ‘Paws & Pose’ mystery series, where she discovers a body
hanging from the kitchen rafters at a Halloween party. Elle turns to her new
boyfriend, a local P.I. called Devon, to help her. But Devon is distracted by
new evidence in his parents’ murder case. Is fate about to deliver them both
into the hands of a determined killer?
Think Wolf is Michael Gregorio’s second Mafia thriller, set
against the glorious landscape of Italy’s Umbria region. When the headless body
of a fellow ranger is found in the woods, Sebastiano is convinced that he
himself was the target. He is convinced his friend’s death heralds the return
of the ‘ndrangheta, the most
formidable criminal organization in Italy. Sebastiano must now draw on his
finely-honed survival skills and think wolf if he is to discover what happened
to his companion.
In
the fifth instalment of the Kate O’Donnell mystery series, Detective Sergeant
Harry Barnard is ordered to track down a missing Soho club owner, Ray. But the
case takes on greater urgency when a body is discovered outside a gym owned by
Ray. Meanwhile, Kate O’Donnell is working on a project about the devastating
East Coast floods of 1953. As Kate and Harry are about to discover, the floods
and the murder are connected in more ways than one. Deep Waters is by
Patricia Hall.
The
third tense and compelling thriller to feature The Watchman – deep cover
specialist Marc Portman. Portman is in Russia providing covert back-up to a
former KGB officer with close links to Vladimir Putin, who hopes to use his
influence with the president to improve relations between Russia, the USA and
Europe. When the assignment takes an unexpected turn, Portman has no choice but
to provide hard cover for his client. Hard Cover is by Adrian Magson.
Classic at Bay is by Amy Myers.
The once-notorious cabaret singer Adora Ferne guards a private treasure
trove of twelve classic Jaguar cars, but hankers over the one that is missing.
Jack Colby, car detective, has been commissioned to buy the thirteenth car from
the Earl of Storrington. But when a murder follows the earl’s rejection of an
offer, Jack starts to investigate. Does this murder link to the secrets of
Adora’s past?
Lorna
Myers thinks she knows where her husband is – until two men come looking for
him. Luckily ex-police dog handler Daniel Whelan is on hand to take control of
the situation, but for Lorna it’s the start of a nightmare. Daniel finds
himself drawn into the complex affairs of the family, with potentially fatal
consequences. No Second Chances is the latest British police dog-handler
mystery from Lyndon Stacey.
April 2016
In
the latest Gillard and Langley mystery, the murder of a senior official of the
National Crime Agency sends shockwaves through MI5, MI6 and the Met. Patrick
Gillard, the deceased’s protégé and adviser to the NCA, and his wife and
working partner Ingrid Langley, vow to find his killer. Dust to Dust is by
Margaret Duffy.
Playing with Fire is by Gerald Elias. When an anxious phone call disturbs Daniel
Jacobus from his Christmas festivities, it is up to Jacobus and his team to
find out how and why Borlotti, a seemingly humble violinmaker, became a captive
of his past indiscretions. The latest Daniel Jacobus mystery holds a mirror to
the glittering façade of the concert world, delving into the
multimillion-dollar sleight-of-hand of violin dealing.
Treason in the Secret City is by Diane Fanning. Libby is woken in the middle of the night by
a distressed colleague – Marvin’s cousin Frannie has been charged with treason.
Libby, a chemist at a secret facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, agrees to help,
but her investigations soon uncover a web of indoctrinated spies, greedy
opportunists and unscrupulous collaborators. Second in the exciting new World
War II mystery series featuring intrepid research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark.
Introducing
Elizabethan cutpurse and adventurer Jack Blackjack in the first of a brand-new
historical mystery series. Light-fingered Jack knows he’s not going to have a
good day when he wakes with a sore head next to a dead body in a tavern’s yard.
But with the rebel army marching on London, Jack cannot escape the city.
Instead he must try to work out who killed the man, a troublesome task as the
rebel army comes closer and the death toll mounts. Rebellion’s Message is by
Michael Jecks.
Death at the Boston Tea Party is by Deryn Lake. A new business opportunity in America leads
to a case of cold-blooded murder for Apothecary John Rawlings. When he arrives
in Boston in 1773, John finds a place riven with tension and unrest, and the
resentment erupts into outright rebellion during the notorious Boston Tea
Party. But has someone taken advantage of the chaos to commit murder?
The
kidnapping of an innocent schoolgirl throws a glaring light on the tensions and
injustices of pre-War Egyptian society in this absorbing historical mystery. Mamur
Zapt, Head of the Secret Police, takes charge of the negotiations for her safe
return, where he learns that there is more to the girl’s kidnapping than meets
the eye and the outcome with shine a glaring light on tensions running through
Egyptian society. The Women of the Souk by Michael Pearce.
Rat Run is by Caro Ramsay. In August 1992, a young mother and her two
small sons were brutally murdered in the woods behind their home. Her neighbour
Andrew Gyle was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now,
twenty-three years later, a macabre discovery throws new light on the case.
Could there have been a shocking miscarriage of justice? The latest tense and
twisting Anderson and Costello mystery.
DCI
Monika Paniatowski returns to investigate the killing of an American guest at
the Royal Victoria Hotel. Who is this lady and what was she doing in a small
town like Whitebridge? The investigation takes an intriguing twist when Monika
learns of a possible link to a fifty-year-old murder, but the only person who
can tell her why it’s relevant is lying in a coma. Death in Disguise by
Sally Spencer.
A Maiden Weeping is by Jeri Westerson. Crispin Guest awakens in a strange bed after
a night of passion and finds his lover dead. Drunk, Crispin scarcely remembers
the night before. Did he kill her? With Crispin shackled and imprisoned, and
other bodies turning up, his apprentice Jack must hit the ground running to
solve the crime.
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