July 2018
At long last, a final reckoning is coming for Frieda Klein...
On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in
the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire
blazes: in the flames lies the next victim. As autumn leaves fall, a serial
killer runs amok in the capital, playing games with the police. The death toll
is rising fast, and the investigation is floundering. But this is no ordinary
killer, and every new victim is intended as a message to just one woman.
Because psychologist Frieda Klein is in hiding. And someone is coming to find
her . . . Day of the Dead is by Nicci
French
The Break Line is the debut novel by James Brabazon. Officially, Max McLean doesn't exist.
.' The
British government denies all knowledge of the work he does on their behalf to
keep us safe. But Max and his masters are losing faith in each other. And
they've given him one last chance to prove he's still their man. Sent to a
military research facility to meet a former comrade-in-arms, Max finds the
bravest man he ever knew locked up for his own protection. His friend lost his
mind during an operation in West Africa. The reason? Absolute mortal terror.
Max is determined to find out why. Ahead lies a perilous, breathtaking mission
into the unknown that will call into question everything that Max once believed
in. Acting alone, without back-up, Max lands in Sierra Leone with his friend's
last words ringing in his ears: 'They're coming, Max. They're coming . .
Former homicide detective Kosuke Iwata is on the run from his
past. Living in LA and working as a private detective he spends his days spying
on unfaithful spouses and his nights with an unavailable woman. Still he cannot
forget the family he lost in Tokyo. But that all changes when a figure from his
old life appears at his door demanding his help. Meredith Nichol, a transgender
woman and his wife's sister, has been found strangled on the lonely train
tracks behind Skid Row. Soon he discovers that the devil is at play in the City
of Angels and Meredith's death wasn't the hate crime the police believe it to
be. This is dangerous territory. But Iwata knows that risking his life and
future is the only way to silence the demons of his past. Reluctantly throwing
himself back in to the dangerous existence he only just escaped, Iwata
discovers a seedy world of corruption, exploitation and murder - and a river of
sin flowing through LA's underbelly, Mexico's dusty borderlands, and deep
within his own past. The Sins As Scarlet
is by Nicolás Obregón.
A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely
alive... No one knows whom they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no
Missing Persons reports that match their profile. And the elderly man who owns
the house claims he has never seen them before. The inhabitants of the quiet
Oxford street are in shock - how could this happen right under their noses? But
DI Adam Fawley knows that nothing is impossible. And that no one is as innocent
as they seem . . . In the Dark is by Cara Hunter.
August 2018
Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she
left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled
on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting
takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code
he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help.
But now Martin Haugen is missing too. As Wisting prepares to investigate
another missing persons case he's visited by a detective from Oslo. Adrian
Stiller is convinced Martin's involved in another disappearance of a young
woman and asks Wisting to close the net around Martin. But is Wisting playing
cat and mouse with a dangerous killer or a grief-stricken husband who cannot
lay the past to rest? Set between the icy streets and dark forests of Norway,
The Katharina Code is by Jorn Lier Horst and is a heart-stopping story of one
man's obsession with his coldest case.
The Guilty Dead is by P J Tracey. Gregory Norwood, wealthy businessman and
close friend of Minnesota's leading candidate for Governor, is found dead on
the first anniversary of his son's drug overdose. It seems clear to Detectives
Gino and Magozzi that grief drove him to suicide. Until they realise the
left-handed man seems to have used his right hand to pull the trigger. And they
find the second body. As the seemingly open-and-shut case becomes a murder
enquiry, the detectives begin to delve into the dark secrets of one of the
city's most powerful families. It seems the murders are not the first in the
Norwoods' tragic story - and they won't be the last . . .
The Liar’ s Room is by Simon Lelic. Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years
ago she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a counsellor and
starting a new life. It was the only way to keep her daughter safe. But
everything changes when Adam Geraghty walks into her office. She's never met
this young man before - so why does she feel like she knows him? Adam starts to
tell her about a girl. A girl he wants to hurt. And that's when Susanna
realises she was wrong. She doesn't know him. He knows her. And the girl he plans
to hurt is her daughter.
September 2018
The Spy and the Traitor is by Ben McIntyre and is a thrilling
Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians. On a warm July evening in
1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of
Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like
any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with
the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior
KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with
a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine.
No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to
activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of
the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.
They say you killed...BUT WHAT IF THEY'RE WRONG? Sixty
seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart The police
tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car
Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing. When
Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has
disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter's funeral. What really
happened that day at the river? Where is Maggie's husband? And why can't she
shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow, her daughter is still alive? The
Day of the Accident is by Nuala Ellwood.
October 2018
A photograph found in the effects
of a murdered polar explorer reveals evidence of something that should not be
there. A military team from a top-secret unit is dispatched. But the South
Atlantic in winter is about the most hostile environment on earth. And before
you can fight, first you have to survive.
Deception Island is by Chris Larsson.
Murder by the Book is by Claire Harman. A gripping investigation into the crime that
scandalized literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray On a spring morning in
1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to
discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed
with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost severed. The whole of
London, from monarch to maidservants, was scandalized by the unfolding drama of
such a shocking murder, but behind it was another story, a work of fiction. For
when the culprit eventually confessed, he claimed his actions were the direct
result of reading the best-selling crime-novel of the day. This announcement
amazed the key literary figures of the time, from Thackeray to Dickens, and
posed the question: can a work of fiction do real harm?
November 2018
On a crowded tourist beach in Portugal, US operatives use a
high-tech drone to watch a French arms dealer flirt with a beautiful woman.
It's only when she leaves that they realise she has shot him dead. In Iran, protests are growing against the
oppressive regime, whipped up by a charismatic student. Most external observers
are excited, but on the ground a spy of questionable loyalty senses something
is badly amiss. And meanwhile, with the
United States reeling from a string of natural disasters, Russian troops and
ships are massing on the borders of the Ukraine, bringing the two powers ever
closer to war. Across the globe a
conspiracy is brewing, so darkly brilliant that no-one has yet joined the dots.
And the distracted President Ryan has no time to play catch-up: little does he
know that he faces a madman with a plan more devastating than he could possibly
imagine... Tom Clancy’s Oath of Office is by Marc Cameron.
