King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead.
In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes
of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor health and frailty of mind
render him a weakling king - Henry depends on his closest men, Spymaster Derry
Brewer and William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, to run his kingdom. Yet there
are those, such as the Plantagenet Richard, Duke of York, who believe England must be
led by a strong king if she is to survive. With England's
territories in France
under threat, and rumours of revolt at home, fears grow that Henry and his
advisers will see the country slide into ruin. With a secret deal struck for
Henry to marry a young French noblewoman, Margaret of Anjou, those fears become
all too real. As storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his
supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home. Who, or what, can save the
kingdom before it is too late? War of the Roses: Stormbird is by Conn
Iggulden and is due to be published in October 2013. It is the start of a new series.
Tell No Lies is by Greg Hurwitz and was published
in August 2013. Sharing a room with
criminals is an occupational hazard for probation counsellor Daniel Brasher.
But he's ready to move on; he's looking forward to leaving it behind for good.
That was the plan at least. Until, before leaving work for the evening, Daniel
finds a letter in his pigeonhole. Inside is a note: 'admit what you've done or you will bleed for it. you have 'till
november 15 at midnite' But the message was meant for someone else and
picked up late by Daniel. With the deadline past, the intended recipient is
already dead. Further warnings herald a series of gruesome, seemingly
inexplicable murders. Then a note is addressed to Daniel himself. And with the
clock ticking he must discover who wants him dead. And why, or become the next
victim.
Husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico when
they come upon an astonishing discovery – the skeleton of a man clutching an
ancient sealed pot, and within the pot a
Mayan book larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information
about the Mayans, their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so
powerful that some people would do anything to possess them – as the Fargos are about to find
out. Before their adventure is done,
many men and women will die for that book – and Sam and Remi may just be among
them. The Mayan Secrets is by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry and is due
to be published in November 2013.
Refusal is by Feliz Francis and is due to
be published in September 2013. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the horse
racing authority, wants Sid Halley to look into some suspicious race results,
but Sid gave up the investigating business six years ago and he thought nothing
could make him go back. He thought wrong. The following day, Sir Richard is
found dead and Sid receives a threatening call from a man with an Irish accent.
The man insists that Sid Halley should investigate the alleged race-fixing and
it is only when his six-year-old daughter goes missing that Sid realises that
he may pay the ultimate price for his refusal. With his life in tatters and his
family in mortal danger, Sid is forced to act. Maybe he has underestimated the
evilness of his foe, but has his foe underestimated the guile and determination
of Sid Halley? Extreme situations demand extreme solutions and Sid is desperate
to get his life back, or die trying...
When someone wants to find you badly enough, vanishing is
no longer an option. Sarah Keller
is a young single mother living in Oklahoma with her
five-year-old daughter, Zoe. Her day job is to hunt out people on the run and
bring them to justice. So imagine how it looks when a school bus accident sends
Zoe to the ER and tests reveal Sarah can't be Zoe's mother. Sarah has been
living a lie for years and finally the truth is coming out. Who is she? Who
were Zoe's parents? And why does Zoe's identity bring the FBI down on Sarah's
tail in mere minutes? The FBI is the least of her worries, though. Sarah needs
to keep Zoe off the grid, but with a sinister religious cult also on the trail,
where on earth can they hide? Something deadly lurks in Sarah's past and its
resurfacing brings terror to all it touches.
The Shadow Tracer is by M G
Gardiner and is due to be published in October 2013.
Never Coming Back is by Tim Weaver and was
published in August 2013. A secret that
will change lives forever. It was supposed to be the start of a big night out.
But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front
door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her
husband and their two daughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily
asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone
doesn't want the family found. But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins
to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing
countless lives. And worse, in trying to find Emily's missing family, he might
just have made himself the next target…
Alex Grecian's The
Black Country sees the Scotland Yard Murder Squad return in a gruesome
historical thriller. When members of a prominent family disappear from a
coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - the
local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Inspector
Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what
they're about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories.
Everybody bears a secret. Superstitions abound. And the village itself is
slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics
pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them
investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave. The Black Country is due to be published
in September 2013.
Atlantis: Revelation
is by Marcus
Blake and is due to be published in October 2013. For millennia, mankind has searched for
Atlantis - the ancient lost city, sunk without a trace - and found nothing more
than myth. A young man drifts, unconscious, into a quiet Haitian harbour. He
wakes to find he can only remember one thing - his name, Achilles. Helped by
Marta, a beautiful smuggler, he begins a desperate search for his identity. But
soon they are running for their lives, pursued by a covert government agency
who will stop at nothing to track them down. The agency knows something Achilles
doesn't: he is no ordinary young man. Soon, Achilles will find himself at the
centre of a deadly game between two civilizations; the world above, and the
world below. What if a place of myth, legend and fables...was real? This is
Atlantis: Revelation.
Darkness First by James Hayman is the third book
in the McCabe and Savage series and is due to be published in December 2013. In
the dark shadows of a summer evening a young woman named Tiffany Stoddard is
brutally slain by a remorseless killer's razor sharp blade. Learning that her
closest childhood friend was nearly killed in the same incident, Portland
Detective Maggie Savage rushes to the scene to join the State Police investigation.
Maggie soon discovers the killer's name is Conor Riordan. There's only one
problem. Conor Riordan doesn't exist. The only person who can provide a clue as
to who Riordan really is, is the victim's eleven-year-old sister, Tabitha. And
now Tabitha has turned up missing. Soon Maggie and her long time partner,
Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe, find themselves in a desperate race against
time to find the missing child before she becomes a vicious killer's next
victim.
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language
teacher, has saved up enough money to take a short holiday, his first in five
years, at a small hotel on the Côte d’Azur. When he brings his photographs to
be developed by a local chemist, he finds himself arrested on suspicion of
being a spy, accused of photographing a secret naval base. The discovery that his camera has been
switched is no guarantee of freedom; in order to escape imprisonment, he must
find out which of his fellow guests at the Hôtel de la Réserve is the true spy.
Considered one of the finest thrillers in the
English language, The Tiger in the Smoke
by Margery Allingham is the gripping story of a ruthless killer and his victims,
hunters and allies. The Folio Society’s new edition features a specially
commissioned introduction by Alexander
McCall Smith, who writes that it is both for its ‘vivid characterisation and its social detail’ that The Tiger in the Smoke remains a
classic. Illustrations by Finn
Campbell-Notman evoke the ghastly charisma of malevolent Jack Hovoc – the
‘Tiger’ of the title – and the atmosphere of the ‘Smoke’, the ineluctable fog
that creeps through the dingy alleyways and secluded squares of post-war London.
Alex Grecian's The
Black Country sees the Scotland Yard Murder Squad return in a gruesome
historical thriller. When members of a prominent family disappear from a
coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - the
local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Inspector
Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what
they're about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories.
Everybody bears a secret. Superstitions abound. And the village itself is
slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics
pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them
investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave. The Black Country is due to be published
in September 2013.
Darkness First by James Hayman is the third book
in the McCabe and Savage series and is due to be published in December 2013. In
the dark shadows of a summer evening a young woman named Tiffany Stoddard is
brutally slain by a remorseless killer's razor sharp blade. Learning that her
closest childhood friend was nearly killed in the same incident, Portland
Detective Maggie Savage rushes to the scene to join the State Police investigation.
Maggie soon discovers the killer's name is Conor Riordan. There's only one
problem. Conor Riordan doesn't exist. The only person who can provide a clue as
to who Riordan really is, is the victim's eleven-year-old sister, Tabitha. And
now Tabitha has turned up missing. Soon Maggie and her long time partner,
Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe, find themselves in a desperate race against
time to find the missing child before she becomes a vicious killer's next
victim.
