Paris
Spring is by James Naughtie and is due to be published in March
2016. Paris in 1968 - seething with
revolutionaries and spies - sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after
a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival
operative. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will finds himself in the
thick of the action, a young spy whose first adventures behind the Iron Curtain
have already given him a secret glamour. But now he gets news that threatens
the closest and most complicated relationship in his life, with his younger
brother. In the unforgettable weeks of a crisis that claims blood and tests his
deepest loyalties, Flemyng lives and loves the tumult of a city in which his
private fears teach him the secrets that lie beneath the raucous politics of
the streets. This is the making of the man whose journey leads to The Madness
of July - Will Flemyng, trapped with his friends and enemies in The Paris
Spring.
A
KILLER WITH A MESSAGE The first victim was a bully who liked using his fists.
The second was a thug who favoured steel-capped boots. Their bodies bore the
marks of a killer who knew their sins. A single clue was left at the scene: a
class photo from 1982, with two faces neatly crossed out. A DETECTIVE WHO CAN'T
LET GO There are eighteen men and women in the photo who are still alive - and
one of them is the lead detective on the case. Fabian Risk thought he'd left
his schooldays behind. Now his classmates are dying for the sins of their
childhood ...Who is the faceless killer who's come back to haunt them? Victim Without a Face is by Stefan
Ahnhem and is due to be published in January 2016.
Three
nights. Three brutal murders. And a killer with a warped imagination. In a
smart part of Liverpool, old men and women are being murdered in their beds.
DCI Eve Clay is baffled. These people are all nearing the end of their lives.
Who would want to kill them? Why? Only one woman has the answer. And she is
deaf, mute, and locked up in an exclusive psychiatric ward. As Eve tries
desperately to communicate with this woman, and hunt down the killer, her own
shadowy past comes back to haunt her... Blood
Vow is by Mark Roberts and is due to be published in April 2016.
The
Guilty One is by Sophie Littlefield and is due to be published in
January 2016. Once upon a time, Maris was an ordinary, suburban mother. Then
her daughter was murdered, and everything fell apart. Now, one year later, a
man stands on the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge, a phone in his hand. He's
just offered his life to Maris to atone for the sins of his son. At one word
from her, he'll jump to his death...The Guilty One is a powerful thriller about
guilt, retribution and forgiveness. Maris has lost her daughter, and now she
has a choice ...Should the father of her daughter's killer live or die? And
will this shocking offer free her - or destroy her?
Papercuts
is by Colin Bateman and is due to be published in February 2016. The Bangor
Express has been around for a hundred years. Through World Wars and civil strife,
it has never missed an issue, but now it's limping towards an inevitable doom
and it looks like the owner has no choice but to shut it down - until
London-based journalist Rob Cullen arrives on the scene. He believes that just
perhaps, if he looks hard enough, he can find a way to resurrect it...what
could possibly go wrong? Lured back to Northern Ireland for the first time in
20 years by the demise of his one-time mentor, the Guardian reporter can't
resist fighting for the paper where he first made his name. After all, it has
been a long time since Rob had a real story to get this teeth in to...and with
the Bangor Express, that's just what he's going to get.
The
Secrets of Gaslight Lane is by M R C Kasasian and is due to be
published in June 2016. London, 1884:
Things are returning to normal at 125 Gower Street. Sidney Grice is engrossed
in the finite points of tree frog dissection, his ward, March Middleton, is of
sound mind once again, but the household is strangely quiet. So, when a young
woman turns up at the door, imploring London's foremost personal detective to
solve the mystery of her father's murder, Grice can barely disguise his glee.
Nathan Garstang was found slaughtered in his bed, with no trace of a weapon or
intruder. But what piques Sidney's interest is the crime's link to one of
London's most notorious unsolved murders. Ten years ago, Nathan's Uncle, Aunt
and servants were murdered in their sleep in the very same house, 2 Burton
Crescent. Now, it seems, the Garston murderer is back.
The
Salt Marsh is by Clare Carson and is due to be published in March
2016. It is a year since Sam's father
died, but she cannot lay his ghost to rest. Jim was an undercover agent living
a double life, and Sam has quit university to find out the truth about his
work. Her journey will take her from the nightclubs of 80s Soho to the salt
marshes and shingle spits of Norfolk and Kent. Here, in a bleak windswept
landscape dotted with smugglers' huts and buried bones, Jim's secret past calls
to her like never before. Now Sam must decide. Will she walk away and pick up
her own life? Or become an undercover operative herself and continue her
father's work in the shadows...
Beside
the old woollen mill in Blarney, Cork, a worker's cottage guards its secrets.
In 1921, a mother, father and their two young children disappeared from this
house. And now, ninety-five years later, their mummified bodies have been
discovered under the floorboards. The gunshot wounds in each skull look like
the mark of the IRA. But as DS Katie Maguire investigates, the flames of old
rivalries flare up once more. Because in this part of Ireland, where people
neither forget nor forgive, the past can never stay buried... Buried is by Graham Masterton and is
due to be published in February 2016
Joe
Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds
and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones
looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special
forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say - but to make a
deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red
Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear...But Joe's
not sure they can be trusted. And they can't. They have a very different plan
in mind, and it just may be something that takes them all down - Nate and Joe
included. Off the Grid is by C J
Box and is due to be published in April 2016.
A
chilling new case for the Detective's Daughter. The summer of 1976 was the
hottest in living memory. Britain sweltered, trees and plants wilted, fire ripped
through forests and rivers ran dry. In London's Kew Gardens a ten year old girl
was parted from her friends and, dizzied by scorching heat, wandered lost into
its secluded undergrowth. Forty years later, the detective's daughter Stella
Darnell takes on a chilling new case. Along with Jack, a train driver, she will
be drawn to the secret spaces of Kew, and to an unsolved murder that has lain
dormant for decades. The
Detective’s Shadow is by Lesley Thomson and is due to be published in
May 2016.
The Lost
Island is by Preston & Child and is due to be published in June 2016.
Gideon Crew - brilliant scientist, master thief - is living on borrowed time.
When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission,
he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book
of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable
security. Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon learns that hidden beneath the parchment
is a treasure map dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. As he ponders
the strange map, he realizes that the treasure it leads to is no ordinary
fortune. It is something far more precious: a discovery that could save his
life. Together with his new partner, Amy, Gideon follows a trail of cryptic
clues to an unknown island in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. There, the
pair realize the extraordinary treasure they are hunting conceals an even
greater shock - a revelation so profound that it may benefit the entire human
race...if Gideon and Amy can survive.
