The Mourner is by Susan Wilkins and is
due to be published in May 2015. If she
can't get justice, will she settle for vengeance? Kaz Phelps has escaped her brother and her
criminal past to become an anonymous art student in Glasgow. But can life under the witness protection
scheme ever give her the freedom she craves?
Banged up and brooding, Joey Phelps faces thirty years behind bars. Still, with cash and connections on the
outside, can an overstretched prison system really contain him? Helen Warner, once Kaz's lawyer and lover, is
a rising star in Parliament. But has she
made the kind of enemies who have no regard for the democratic process, or even
the law? Ousted from the police and
paralysed by tragic personal loss, Nicci Armstrong is in danger of going under. Can a job she doesn't want with a private
security firm help her to put her life back on track? A murder dressed up as suicide and corruption
that goes to the heart of government unite ex-cop and ex-con in a deadly quest
to learn the truth. What they discover
proves what both have always known - villainy is rife on both sides of the law.
DI
Jessica Daniel is not having a good week.
Her wallet's been nicked, the refurbished incident room is already
falling apart, and a new football-mad constable is driving her crazy. She also has bigger things on her mind. A student's body has been dumped in a wheelie
bin at the back of a university building, with a vague link to an Olympic
medallist and a theory that it could have been an induction, which went wrong. There's the tattooed shop raider who has her
team stumped; someone attacking lone women; a chief inspector who seems to have
a problem with her; and someone putting letters through her front door
insisting that she's caught 'the wrong man'.
Worlds are colliding for Jessica - and, if she's not careful, someone
close to her might not make it out in one piece. Scarred
for Life is by Kerry Wilkinson and is due to be published in January 2015.
The Wronged Girl is by David Hewson and
is due to be published in May 2015. Sinterklaas,
a beaming, friendly saint with a white beard, was set to mark his arrival in
Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it would be watched live on television
throughout the Netherlands. Today the
crowds would run into three hundred thousand or more, and the police presence
top four figures. The city centre was
closed to all traffic as a golden barge bore Sinterklaas down the Amstel river,
surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families trying to get close.’ Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with
children trying to get a glimpse of their hero and families enjoying the
occasion. The police are out in force,
struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his
young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. As Sinterklaas prepares to address the crowds
a terrorist outrage grips the heart of the city. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink
jacket is kidnapped. But the abducted
child isn't the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first
thought. She's the daughter of an
impoverished Georgian prostitute, friendless and trapped in the web of vice
that is Amsterdam's Red Light District. As
the security forces and the police clash over the ensuing investigation the
perpetrator's horrifying demands become clear.
Vos, trapped in a turf war with state intelligence, tries to unravel a
conspiracy that reaches from the brothels of the city to the hierarchy of the
security services. And at its heart lies
an eight-year-old girl, snatched from a loving mother then ferried from one
criminal lair to the next, her life in the balance as Vos and Laura Bakker
struggle to uncover the shocking truth behind her abduction. What is the life of one immigrant child worth
in the greater political game emerging around them?
From father to daughter. From sister to brother. The legacy is passed on. Drug dealer
Jorge is just out of prison but
already bored with his new existence selling lattes and cappuccinos at a cafe. Who wouldn’t be? But big money looms, if he can pull off an
audacious last heist. What he doesn’t
know is that the police are already closing in: an undercover investigator has
wormed his way deep into Stockholm’s criminal circles, close to Jorge. And also close to JW, the part-time student,
part-time cab driver who turned to crime – and got in over his head – in order
to keep himself in with a rich party crowd. At the same time, someone is trying
to take down the Godfather himself, Radovan Kranjic. What would Stockholm be like with Radovan
gone? Who would be Stockholm’s new king
– or queen – of crime? As the novel
unfurls, answers will be found amid the voracious hunt for money, power, and a
carefree life. The goal is easy – and
the life deluxe. Life Deluxe is by Jens Lapidus and is due to be published in
February 2015.
Amos
Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a
terrible injury. Now a police detective,
Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout
to find his wife, young daughter and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker
has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try and
catch the monster who killed his family.
The untitled David Baldacci novel is due to be published in April 2015
Never Look Back is by Clare Donoghue and
is due to be published in March 2015. DS
Jane Bennett takes charge of South London’s Lewisham murder squad following the
temporary suspension of her boss, DI Mike Lockyer. His involvement with a female witness
resulted in her murder. Jane is sent to
a site in Elmstead Woods where she stumbles upon a sinister murder scene. It seems that the body is that of missing
university student, Maggie Hungerford. Her
killer recorded her last moments, until the game lost its thrill . . . Two men
admit to having had a sexual relationship with Maggie. Both deny murder. Someone is lying. Lockyer returns to work and is shocked into
supporting Bennett in a case where it is evident that their hunt is for a
killer with a mind so twisted that he, or she, is likely to stop at nothing.
What Doesn’t Kill Her is by Carla Norton
and is due to be published in May 2015. Reeve
is moving closer to the normal life she so craves, no longer defined by the
kidnapping that changed her life. But
when her abductor, Daryl Wayne Flint, escapes from a hospital for the
criminally insane, Reeve’s newfound strength and tranquillity are about to be
tested in ways neither she nor Flint could have imagined.
Death in a Rainy Season is by Anna
Jaquiery and is due to be published in April 2015. When a French man is found brutally murdered
in the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday
drawn to an abrupt halt. The victim -
Hugo Quercy - was the dynamic head of a humanitarian organisation, which looked
after the area's troubled local teenagers.
But what was Quercy doing in a hotel room under a false name? What is the significance of his recent
investigations into land grabs in the area?
And who broke into his house the night of the murder, leaving behind a
trail of bloody footprints?
A
lost cipher. A race against time to
decode it. Marine archaeologists Kate
Wetherall and Lou Bates are diving off Howland Island in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean, when a torpedo-shaped object hurtles through the water towards
them; the fuselage of Amelia Earhart's lost plane. In the cockpit, they find a corroded metal
cylinder the size of a baton. Landing
back on US soil, Kate and Lou are arrested and interrogated by special forces,
and the cylinder confiscated. Behind the
arrests is Glena Buckingham, CEO of the powerful energy conglomerate Eurenergy,
as she too has discovered that the wrecked plane may have held precious secret
cargo. Meanwhile, an extraordinary piece
of footage has come to light - of Einstein talking about a radical new defence
technology he had been working on. Whoever
can decrypt the lost cipher, which holds the key to Einstein's secret defence
technology, could hold the key to global power.
The Einstein Code is by Tom
West and is due to be published in March 2015.
Satellite
People is by Hans Olav Lahlum and is due to be published in February 2015. Oslo, 1969.
When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian
Police Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a
multimillionaire businessman and former resistance fighter, had contacted him
only the day before, fearing for his life.
It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup's ten dinner guests
is a suspect in the case. The
businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; and his
recently revised Will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests - from his current
and former wives and three children to his attractive secretary and old cohorts
in the resistance - had the greatest motive for murder? With the inestimable help of Patricia - a
brilliant, acerbic young woman who lives an isolated life at home, in her
wheelchair - K2 begins to untangle the lies and deceit within each of the
guests' testimonies. But as the
investigators receive one mysterious letter after another warning of further
deaths, K2 realises he must race to uncover the killer. Before they strike again ...
Dangerous is by Jessie Keane and is due
to be published in April 2015. Whatever the Cost, she would pay it.... Coronation year: 1953. Fifteen-year-old Clara Dolan's world is
turned upside down following the shock death of her mother. Battling to keep what remains of her family
together, Clara vows to keep her younger siblings, Bernadette and Harry, safe
whatever the cost. With the arrival of
the swinging sixties, Clara finds herself swept up in London's dark underworld
where the glamour of Soho's dazzling nightclubs sit in stark contrast to the
terrifying gangland violence that threatens the new life she has worked so hard
to build. Sinking further into an
existence defined by murder and betrayal, Clara soon realises that success
often comes at a very high price ...
Where Evil Lies is by Jørgen Brekke and
is due to be published in April 2015. 1528.
A young
Franciscan monk travels to Norway to collect a set of scalpels from a
barber surgeon with whom he shares a dark and mysterious obsession with the
dissection of human corpses. He travels
north and settles in a remote village. His
deadly legacy is a mysterious manuscript, the Book of John, bound in human skin. Nearly five hundred years later, it seems that
the ancient practice is experiencing a revival.
2010. Trondheim, Norway. Inspector
Odd Singsaker leads the investigation into the flaying of the University
librarian, Gunn Brita Dahle, and the theft of the priceless Book of John. The prime suspect is a security guard at the
library who was once an academic high-flier, and now lives an isolated, almost
twilight, existence following the unexplained disappearance of his wife and son
some years back. 2010. Richmond,
Virginia. When the curator of the Edgar
Allan Poe museum suffers the same fate as Dahle, US Detective Felicia Stone
flies to Norway to join Singsaker in the hunt for a serial killer. The more they delve into the past, the more
sinister their discoveries become. The
key to the psychopath's next move is held in the manuscript. Can they work out the clue before another
person has to die.
The Last Post is by M R Hall and is due
to be published in May 2015. The
garrison town of Highcliff is on tenterhooks waiting for the return of the last
British soldiers from war-torn Helmand. Meanwhile,
as one of the last remaining platoons prepare to leave its isolated post for
the final time, 19-year-old Private Pete Lyons is taken hostage during the night.
A patrol sent to rescue him finds itself in a bloody and disastrous firefight. How was Private Lyons abducted from a heavily
fortified command post? And why does the
Army close ranks to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? The bewildered wives and families of the dead
are left craving answers. Their fight
for justice is every bit as ugly as the one fought by their loved ones in the
poppy fields of Afghanistan. Their hopes lie with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who
takes on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried with the
boy soldiers. But in a town filled with
secrets and rumours, it's not only the Army that has something to hide.
NASA
is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on
Saturn's great moon, Titan. It is one of
the most promising habitats for extra-terrestrial life in the solar system, but
the surface is unstable and dangerous, requiring the probe to be outfitted with
artificial intelligence software. Melissa
Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed 'Dorothy', a powerful,
self-modifying AI whose potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe
during testing, Dorothy flees into the internet. Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to help
track down the rogue AI. As Ford and
Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the
wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. And they're not the only ones looking for the
wayward program: the AI is also being pursued by a pair of Wall Street traders
who want to capture her code and turn her into a high-speed trading bot.
Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy devises a plan. As the pursuit of Dorothy converges on a
deserted house on the coast of Northern California, Ford faces the question: is
rescuing Dorothy the right thing? Is the
AI bent on saving the world ...or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind? The
Kracken Project is by Douglas Preston and is due to be published in April
2015.
In
the depths of the ocean, no one will hear you scream 1941. German submarine U-471 patrols the stormy in
hospitable waters of the north Atlantic.
It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not
believe in the war he is bound by duty and honour to fight in. U-471 receives a triple-encoded message with
instructions to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic
coast and transport them to the base at Brest, and British submarine commander,
Sutherland, and an Austrian academic, Klein, are taken on board. Contact between the prisoners and Lorenz has
been forbidden, and it transpires that this special mission has been ordered by
an unknown source, high up in the SS. It
is rumoured that Klein is working on a secret weapon that could change the
course of the war . . . Then, Sutherland goes rogue, and a series of shocking,
brutal events occur. In the aftermath,
disturbing things start happening on the boat.
It seems that a lethal, supernatural force is stalking the crew,
wrestling with Lorenz for control. A
thousand feet under the dark, icy waves, it doesn’t matter how loud you scream
. . . The Silence is by F R Tallis and is due to be published in May
2015.
The
last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a
terrified mobile phone call from her. She
has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where
they live in Brighton. Then she screams
and the phone goes dead. The police are
on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly
parked car and telephone. That same
afternoon, workmen digging up an old asphalt pat in a park in another part of
the city, unearth the remains of a young woman in her early twenties, who has
been dead for 30 years. At first, to Roy
Grace and his team, these two events seem totally unconnected. But then another young woman in Brighton goes
missing and another body from the past surfaces. Meanwhile, an eminent London psychiatrist
meets with a man who claims to know a piece of information about Logan. Later Roy Grace makes the chilling
realization that this one thing is the key to both the past and the present
...Brighton has its first serial killer in over eighty years. You Are
Dead is by Peter James and is due to be published in June 2015.
The Liar’s Chair is by Rebecca Whitney
and is due to be published in January 2014.
Rachel Teller and her husband David appear happy, prosperous, and
fulfilled. The big house, the successful
business ...They have everything. However,
control, not love, fuels their relationship and David has no idea his wife
indulges in drunken indiscretions. When
Rachel kills a man in a hit and run, the meticulously maintained veneer over
their life begins to crack. Destroying
all evidence of the accident, David insists they continue as normal. Rachel though is racked with guilt and as her
behaviour becomes increasingly self-destructive she not only inflames David's
darker side, but also uncovers her own long-suppressed memories of shame. Can Rachel confront her past and atone for
her terrible crime? Not if her husband
has anything to do with it ..
Game of Mirrors is by Andrea Camilleri
and is due to be published in May 2015. While
Inspector Montalbano is assisting his beautiful new neighbour, Liliana
Lombardo, after her car breaks down, a bomb explodes in Vigata. While no one is hurt, it is likely the
explosion was perpetrated by one of the local mafia families as some kind of
warning ...As Montalbano investigates, he finds himself drawn ever closer to
Liliana. But is she trying to seduce the
Inspector simply because she is attracted to him or are her motives more
sinister?
There
is nobody in the world who knows that we are here ...A woman arrives in the
village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has
travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Her sole intention is to outlive her beloved
dog Castor. And to survive the torrent
of memories that threaten to overwhelm her.
Weeks before, Maria, and her husband Martin fled Stockholm under a cloud. The couple were bound for Morocco, where
Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth
behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their
destination. As Maria settles into her
lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that
Winsford isn't quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the long, dark evenings close in and
the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? And who now is trying to find her? A haunting, masterly unravelling of a
dreadful crime, in The Living and the
Dead in Winsford Håkan Nesser,
the bestselling, award-winning author of the Van Veeteren series, tightens the
tension like a noose .... The Living and the Dead in Winsford is
due to be published in April 2015.
