The Three is by Sarah Lotz and is due to
be published in May 2014. They're here
...The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there's so
many ...They're coming for me now. We're all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len
warn them that the boy he's not to-- The last words of Pamela May Donald (1961
- 2012) Black Thursday. The day that will never be forgotten. The day that four
passenger planes crash, at almost exactly the same moment, at four different
points around the globe. There are only four survivors. Three are children, who
emerge from the wreckage seemingly unhurt. But they are not unchanged. And the
fourth is Pamela May Donald, who lives just long enough to record a voice
message on her phone. A message that will change the world. The message is a
warning.
Three
brutal attacks. One near-fatal beating. And a deadly score to settle. DI Jack
Brady is
riding high after the successful outcome of his previous case, but his
world is about to come crashing down. There's a serial rapist plaguing the
streets of Whitley Bay. Three young women have been horribly abused, and his
boss and the press are screaming for answers. Everything seems to point to his
old friend and foe, gangster Martin Madley, though Brady still struggles to
believe he's capable of such acts. With time running out before the villain
strikes again, Brady must follow every scrap of evidence. But there are forces
at work he knows nothing about, and his persistence is leading both him and
those close to him ever further into danger...
Blind Alley is by Danielle
Ramsay and is due to be published in January 2014.
A
new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more
devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin
Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But
instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a lethal
poison which will render targets dead before they can even entertain the
prospect of escape ...Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme
and his associate Amelia Sachs have little to go on but a series of cryptic
messages left etched into the skin of the deceased. As the pair struggle to
discover the meaning behind the designs, they are led down a treacherous and twisting
path where nothing is as it seems. And with the clock rapidly ticking before
the killer strikes again, they must untangle the twisted web of clues before
more victims - or they themselves - are next. The Skin Collector is by Jeffrey Deaver and is due to be published
in May 2014.
The Queen’s Man is by Rory Clements and
is due to be published in February 2014.
England is a Judas nest of conspiracy.
It is 1582, and the conflict between Protestant and Catholic threatens
to tear the country in two. While Queen Elizabeth I holds the reins of power,
there are those whose loyalty lies with her imprisoned cousin, Mary Queen of
Scots. On his first major mission for
Sir Francis Walsingham, the young John Shakespeare is ordered to discover a
conspiracy to free the Stuart queen from Sheffield Castle. All too soon, he
realises that the tentacles of the plot reach deep into his native Warwickshire
and threaten his own friends and family. His duty lies with Elizabeth - but how
far will he go to protect those he loves?
Those Who Wish Me Dead is by Michael
Koryta and is due to be published in June 2014.
When Jace Wilson accidentally witnesses a brutal murder, his life is
changed forever. An ordinary teenager growing up in Indiana, Jace is suddenly
forced into the Witness Protection Program and given a new name and history.
Taken in by a couple ho run a wilderness program for young boys, Jace finds
himself hiking through the Montana mountains, tortured by his memories and by
the fear that he'll never be safe again. The killers, known as the Blackwell
Brothers, are two of the most heinous criminals the country has ever known.
Jace was the one person to catch them in the act, and he slipped through their
fingers. Now they've tracked him down and are making their way across the
country, ruthlessly slaughtering anyone who gets in their way.
The
third book in the Chris Ryan Extreme series is Most Wanted. The world order may be changing, but for ex-Blade John
Bald, old habits die hard. Lured out of retirement for one last mission, he
heads to the snow-capped peaks of Courchevel, where old splendour meets new
money - and a chance to redeem his dark past. Amidst the debauched oligarchs
and the corrupt politicians, Bald must kill a man who poses a major threat to
Western security interests. But when the mission goes badly wrong and the
target escapes, Bald suddenly finds himself implicated in a deadly deceit that
goes right to the very core of the establishment. Most
Wanted is due to be published in January 2014.
‘Mummy dead.' The child's pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing
Brynjar - and doubtless the others - wanted to hear at that moment. 'Daddy
dead.' It got worse. 'Adda dead. Bygga dead.' The child sighed and clutched her
grandmother's leg. 'All dead.' A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour
with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were
on board when it left Lisbon? Thora
Gudmundsdottir is hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is
soon drawn deeper into the mystery. What should she make of the rumours saying
that the vessel was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she
thinks she sees one of the missing twins? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young
wife of the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up
further along the shore? The Silence of the Sea is by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and is due to be published in February 2014.
When
a Senator's wife and teenage daughter are kidnapped, Crocker and SEAL Team Six
are sent to the cities of Mexico and the jungles of South and Central America,
hot on the trail of Mexican drug lords and a Colombian narco-terrorist who is
known as the Jackal. A self-styled narcotics kingpin who has undergone plastic
surgery to disguise his looks, the Jackal is as ruthless as he is colourful,
and must be stopped. With drugs, gangs, double-crosses, and plenty of bullets,
Hunt the Jackal will throw the team into a new environment and an unexplored
corner of the world, allowing Don Mann to display his extensive knowledge about
how elite warriors can adapt and fight in any situation. Hunt
the Jackal is by Don Mann with Ralph Pezzullo and is due to be published in
May 2014.
The Wolf in Winter is by John Connolly
and is due to be published in April 2014.
Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . . The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have
suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns
outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of the Prosperous lie the ruins
of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier
by the founders of the town . . . But the death of a homeless man and the
disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted, lethal private investigator
Charlie Parker to Prosperous. Parker is a dangerous man, driven by compassion,
by rage, and by the desire for vengeance. In him the town and its protectors
sense a threat graver than any they have faced in their long history, and in the
comfortable, sheltered inhabitants of a small Maine town, Parker will encounter
his most vicious opponents yet. Charlie
Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous may survive.
Panic
began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in
the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do.
Heather never thought she would compete in panic, a legendary game played by
graduating seniors, where the stakes are high and the payoff is even higher.
She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight
to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will
discover that she is braver than she ever thought. Dodge has never been afraid
of panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game;
he's sure of it. But what he doesn't know is that he's not the only one with a
secret. Everyone has something to play for. For Heather and Dodge, the game
will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first
love for each of them-and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear
are those we need the most. Panic is by Lauren Oliver and is due to
be published in March 2014.
The
girl was found on the steps of the Foundling Museum, dressed all in white. Four
girls have disappeared in North London. Three are already dead. Britain's most
prolific child killer, Louis Kinsella, has been locked up in Northwood
high-security hospital for over a decade. Now more innocents are being slaughtered,
and they all have a connection to his earlier crimes. Psychologist Alice
Quentin is doing research at Northwood. She was hoping for a break from her
hectic London life, but she'll do anything to help save a child - even if it
means forming a relationship with a charismatic, ruthless murderer. But
Kinsella is slow to give away his secrets, and time is running out for the
latest kidnap victim, who is simply trying to survive. The Winter Foundlings is by Kate Rhodes and is due to be published
in June 2014.
Pieter
Posthumus is a member of Amsterdam's Lonely Funerals team. It's his
responsibility to give the anonymous or abandoned dead a decent send-off. A
determined, passionate man, Postumus cannot let things go when they don't seem
quite right. When a young Moroccan immigrant is found in the Prinsengracht
canal, the police write it off as an accident or suicide. Posthumus is sure
there's more to it than that. He takes up the case and starts digging...an
investigation that leads to him getting caught up in a terror plot and in the
way of the Dutch secret service. Britta Bolt is the pseudonym of the South
African-born novelist and travel writer Rodney Bolt, and the German former
lawyer Britta Bohler, who has worked on high-profile terrorism and security
cases. Amsterdam is their adopted city, and this first novel in the Posthumus
series brings both its charms and its concerns - immigration, terrorism, crime
- to thrilling life. Lonely Graves is by Britta Bolt and is
due to be published in May 2014.
Stuck
in a traffic jam on her way to deliver her son's forgotten sports kit to
school, Nicki Clements sees a face she hoped never to see again. It's
definitely him, the same police officer; he's stopping all the cars on Elmhirst
Road one by one, talking to every driver. Keen to avoid him, Nicki does a
U-turn and takes a long and inconvenient detour, praying he won't notice her
panicky escape. He doesn't, but a CCTV camera does, as Nicki finds out when
detectives pull her in for questioning the next day in connection with the
murder of Damon Blundy, controversial newspaper columnist and resident of
Elmhirst Road. Nicki can't answer any of the baffling questions detectives fire
at her. She has no idea why a killer might sharpen nine knives at the murder scene,
then use two blunt ones to kill, in a way that involves no stabbing or spilling
of blood. She doesn't know what 'HE IS NO LESS DEAD' means, or why the murderer
painted it on the wall of Blundy's study. And she can't explain her desire to
avoid Elmhirst Road on the day in question without revealing the secret that
could ruin her life. Because, although Nicki is not guilty of murder, she is
far from innocent... The Telling Error is by Sophie Hannah
and is due to be published in April 2014.
AD
273. Obsessed by the solar religions of the east, the emperor Aurelian sets out
to obtain every sacred object within his realm. But one - a conical rock said
to channel the very voices of the gods - lies beyond his reach. Arabian king
Amir Adi has captured the stone and intends to use its fabled power to raise an
army against Rome. For imperial agent Cassius Corbulo and his bodyguard
Indavara, recovering the stone will constitute their toughest mission yet. Agent
of Rome: The Black Stone of Emesa is by Nick Brown and is due to be
published in June 2014.
Respect is by Mandasue Heller and is due
to be published in January 2014. Chantelle
has
everything going against her. She's a good student who only wants to pass
her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew
up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest
boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother
Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon
has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile
phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat. A part-time job seems to
be the answer to Chantelle's prayers. But the violence is about to come home to
her - with a vengeance. And the only person who's offering any help seems to be
just as bad as the people she's trying to escape from ...
The Edge of the Water is by Elizabeth
George and is due to be published in April 2014. On Whidbey Island, secrets never stay
buried. A mysterious girl who won't
speak; a coal-black seal named Nera that returns to the same place every year;
a bitter feud of unknown origin - strange things are happening on Whidbey
Island and Becca King is drawn into the maelstrom of events. But Becca, first met in The Edge of
Nowhere, has her own secrets to hide. Still on the run from her criminal
stepfather, Becca is living in a secret location. Even Derric, the Ugandan
orphan with whom Becca shares a close, romantic relationship, can't be allowed
to know her whereabouts. As secrets of
past and present are revealed, Becca becomes aware of her growing paranormal
powers and events build to a shocking climax anticipated by no one.
Luke
is a true crime write in search of a story.
When he flees to Brighton after an explosive break-up, the perfect
subject lands in his lap: reformed gangster Joss Grand. Now in his eighties, Grand once ruled the
Brighton underworld with his sadistic sidekick Jacky Nye – until Jacky washed up
by the West Pier in 1968, strangled and thrown into the sea. Luke is drawn deeper into the mystery of
Jacky Nye’s murder, was Grand there that night?
Is he really as reformed a character as he claims? And who was the girl in the red coat seen
fleeing the murder scene? Soon Luke
realises that in stirring up secrets from the past, he may have placed himself
in terrible danger. The Ties That Bind is by Erin Kelly and is due to be published in
May 2014
Lastnight is by Stephen Leather and is
due to be published in January 2014. A killer is murdering Goths with relish -
skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack
Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. Nightingale
discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to
the secretive Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order Of Nine Angles.
As Nightingale closes in on the killers, the tables are turned and he finds
himself in the firing line, along with his friends and family. The Order will
stop at nothing to protect their secrets and Nightingale realises that there is
nothing he can do to protect himself. Nor can he run, for the Order has
connections across the world. It leaves him with only one way to stop the
carnage - and that's to take his own life ...
I've
chased him for over twenty years, and across countless miles, and though often
I was running, there have been many times when I could do nothing but sit and
wait. Now I am only desperate for it to be finished. In 1944, just days after
the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man,
apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing,
telling himself afterwards that worse things happen in wars. Seven years later
he returns to the city - and sees the same man dining in the company of a
fascinating young woman. When they leave the restaurant, Charles decides to
follow...A Love Like Blood is a dark, compelling thriller about how a man's
life can change in a moment; about where the desire for truth - and for revenge
- can lead; about love and fear and hatred. And it is also about the question
of blood. A Love Like Blood is by Marcus
Sedgwick and is due to be published in March 2014.
Breathe is by Dominick Donald and is due
to be published in May 2014. Already a
veteran of two wars – in Europe and Korea – PC Richard Bourton has joined the
Met later in life than most of his fellow trainees on the rough streets of
Notting Dale, a grimy, unloved corner of west London. It is hard for him to fit in. Amongst the bomb-sites and boarding houses,
Bourton stumbles on a man who has been beaten nearly to death. This discovery, in the swirly fog of 1952,
will either make or beak his nascent career.
It's
early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily
mutliated
body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of
torture are all too visible. Inspector Malin Fors immediately draws parallels
between this case and that of Maria Murvall, the young woman who was found
raped and brutally beaten in the forest several years ago. Maria has been
living as a mute in the local psychiatric hospital ever since the attack, and
Malin is haunted by her inability to help her. In the course of her
investigation, Malin meets with a psychologist who tells her about another
similar case, and suddenly Maria appears to be a small piece of a much bigger
puzzle. But what is it that is so terrible it can't be put into words? Malin is
determined to find out the truth, no matter where it might take her. The Fifth Season is by Mons Kallentoft
and is due to be published in April 2014.
Trouble in Mind is a cunning collection of short stories from the master of
misdirection Jeffery Deaver, with tales featuring the hugely popular series
characters Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance. Tension
...An aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker
game for a reality TV show. Can he outwit his devious opponents, or is his fate
doomed from the outset? Conspiracy
...A successful crime writer dies under seemingly natural circumstances, but
for one cop, doubts are lingering. There's certainly motive for murder - or is
there more to the case than meets the eye? Murder
...Lincoln Rhyme is announced dead, shot by one of his suspects in cold blood.
Is this the end of the line for the criminalist, or just another twist in the
tale? Trouble in Mind is due to be
published in March 2014.
Enemies at Home is by Lindsey Davis and
is due to be published in April
2014. Albia is a remarkable woman
in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent,
she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired
investigator. An outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into
life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going places no man could go,
and asking questions no man could ask. Even as the dust settles from her last
case, Albia finds herself once again drawn into a web of lies an intrigue. A
mysterious death at a local villa begs may be murder and, as the household
slaves are implicated, Albia is once again forced to involve herself. Her fight
is not just for truth and justice, however; this time, she's also battling for
the very lives of people who can't fight for themselves.
The Lawless Kind is by Matt Hilton and
is due to be published in January 2014. Ex-counterterrorist
soldier Joe Hunter has been called to Mexico to bring an end to a cartel that
preys on the people they smuggle across the US border. Once the mission's
ended, however, Joe's mission leader and mentor, CIA Black Ops director Walter
Hayes Conrad, confesses that the bloody mission is not the real reason Joe has
been summoned south of the border. For years, Walter has kept the details of
his private life - especially his family - secret from everyone, even his
closest friends. But disaster has struck: his great-grandson Benjamin has been
abducted, kidnapped by Walter's sworn enemy, the leader of one of Mexico's
largest drug cartels. Walter will do whatever it takes to get the boy back. And
he know Hunter is the man for the job. But there's one complication -- the drug
boss just happens to be Benjamin's father.
Death in the Tuscan Hills is by Marco
Vichi and is due to be published in May 2014.
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 mountains, he spends his days cooking, going for long walks in the woods
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 ...
Cobra is by Deon Meyer and is due to be
published in July 2014. Benny Griessel
is first on scene at a bloodbath in a luxury guesthouse on a beautiful
Fransschoek wine farm; three dead bodies and a missing Englishman. The only clue is an engraving on a shell
casing – the flaring head of a spitting cobra.
Interpol believes these shell casting belong to The Cobra, a ruthless
assassin for hire. The big question is:
Whom is he working for, and why?
Deep
inside the Arctic circle, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters its
way through the frozen sea. One day, a gaunt figure skis out of the fog. The
crew bring him aboard and give him medical treatment for prolonged exposure,
malnutrition - and a gunshot wound. The man has escaped from ice-bound research
station two hundred miles south of the pole. And the tale he tells is one of
secrets, insanity and death. Zodiac Station is by Tom Harper and is
due to e published in June 2014.
Two
books by Noah Hawley are due to be published in April 2014. In A Conspiracy of Tall Men Linus Owen is a
professional conspiracy theorist. A college professor by day, he is unable to
leave his suspicions at the classroom door. He is deeply mistrustful of money
and all signs of financial success. Little does he expect, however, that a true
conspiracy will come knocking at his door, in the form of two FBI agents. Linus's wife, Claudia, an advertising
executive, is meant to be visiting her mother in Chicago. But according to the
FBI, she has just been killed in a plane crash on a flight to Brazil. The man
who bought her ticket, and died alongside her, was the vice president of a
large pharmaceutical company. Together with two friends and fellow theorists,
Linus sets out to solve the mystery. Following a number of strange and
troubling encounters, the trio begins to realise that they have a new mission:
to try to stay alive. In The Punch two brothers must accompany
their alcoholic mother to their father’s memorial service. Along the way a family secret is revealed,
two hotels are nearly blown up and the trio explores what it means to be a
family.
London
1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games brothels
and coffee-houses to the hell of a debtors' prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own
with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little
money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor
and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the
hands of the gaol's ruthless governor and his cronies. The trouble is Tom Hawkins has never been
good at following rules - even simple ones. And the recent grisly murder of a
debtor Captain Roberts has brought further terror to the gaol. While the
Captain's beautiful widow cries for justice the finger of suspicion points only
one way: to the sly enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet. Some call Fleet a devil a man to avoid at all
costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon Tom's choice is clear: get to
the truth of the murder - or be the next to die. A twisting mystery a dazzling evocation of
early 18th Century London The Devil in
Marshalsea is by Antonia Hodgson and is a debut novel full of intrigue and
suspense. It is due to be published in
February 2014.
The
seventh novel in Anthony Riches' acclaimed Empire sequence brings
Marcus Aquila back to Rome, hunting the men who destroyed his family. But
the revenge he craves may cost him and those around him dearly. The young
centurion's urge to exact his own brutal justice upon the shadowy cabal of
assassins who butchered his family means that he must face them on their own
ground, risking his own death at their hands.
A senator, a gang boss, a praetorian officer and, deadliest of all,
champion gladiator Mortiferum - the Death Bringer - lie in wait. The
knives are unsheathed, and ready for blood . . The Emperor’s Knives: Empire VII is due to be published in March
2014.
Irrepressible
Biddy Leigh, under-cook at the foreboding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her
childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master
marries the young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of
scheming, secrets and lies. Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy,
Biddy takes with her an old household book of recipes, The Cook's Jewel, in
which she records her observations. When she finds herself embroiled in a
murderous conspiracy, Biddy realises that the secrets she holds could be the
key to her survival - or her downfall ...
An Appetite for Violets is by
Martine Bailey and is due to be published in May 2014.
Remember Me This Way is by Sabine
Durrant and is due to be published in June 2014. On the anniversary of her husband's death,
Lizzie Carter decides to lay flowers where his fatal accident took place. She
parks the car in a layby, crosses the road to the other side and walks up the
hard shoulder the way she has just come. As she trudges, trying to remember
exactly where it happened, buffeted by lorries, she thinks about their life
together. She reflects on whether she has changed since he died. She wonders
whether she will ever feel whole again. She reaches the spot. And there, tied
to a tree, is a cellophane-wrapped bunch of lilies. Another accident in the
same place, of course. But the flowers are for her husband. Someone has been
there before her...
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...
