Two
young men -Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance: Jago is a
kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and
is now on a fast-track secondment to the Berlin office. Marcantonio is one of
the new generation in the 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern
Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards
legitimate businesses all over Europe. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio commit a
vicious assault and the police seem uninterested, the Englisman refuses to let
the matter drop. But by pursuing the gangster to his grandfather's mountain
lair, Jago is stepping into the middle of a delicate surveillance operation,
which sets alarm bells ringing in Rome, London and Berlin. It also leads him to
Consolata, a young woman who sees in Jago the chance to turn her non-violent
protest campaign against the crime families into something altogether more
lethal... No Mortal Thing is by
Gerald Seymour and is novel of relentless power and mounting suspense, a
brilliant portrayal of organised crime in Europe and the under-resourced men
and women who fight it. No Mortal Thing is due to be published
in July 2015.
The Undesired is by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
and is due to be published in October 2015. The light spilling in from the
corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Aldis a boy
sitting in the gloom at the furthest table. He had his back to her, so she
couldn't see who it was, but could tell that he was one of the youngest. A
chill ran down her spine when he spoke again, without turning, as if he had
eyes in the back of his head. 'Go away. Leave me alone.' 'Come on. You
shouldn't be here.' Aldis spoke gently, fairly sure now that the boy must be
delirious. Confused, rather than dangerous. He turned, slowly and deliberately,
and she glimpsed black eyes in a pale face. 'I wasn't talking to you.' Aldis is
working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. She witnesses
something deeply disturbing in the middle of the night; soon afterwards, two of
the boys at the centre are dead. Decades later, single father Odinn is looking
into alleged abuse at the centre following the unexplained death of the
colleague who was previously running the investigation. The more he finds out,
though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the
accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?
If She Only Knew is by Lisa Jackson ad
is due to be published in December 2015. She woke up with a new face. She woke
up with no memories. And she woke up to murder...Not only has Marla Cahill
survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored
through plastic surgery. She should be grateful. Instead, she's consumed by
confusion...and panic. For the people gathered at her bedside - her family - are
strangers. And so is the woman whose haunted eyes stare back from the
mirror...Secluded at the magnificent Cahill mansion, Marla waits for something
to trigger recognition. Yet the only thing she's left with is the unshakable
feeling that she is not who everyone says she is, and that something is very,
very wrong. Determined to piece together the truth of her identity, she finds
herself drawn to her brother-in-law, Nick - a man who seems both to want and
despise her. And as her fractured mind slowly clears, Marla begins to have
flashes of another life...of cruel betrayals and deadly secrets. Marla's life
isn't just different - it's in danger, controlled by a twisted killer who's
waiting for the right moment to strike...the moment Marla remembers...
When
Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the
Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not
what they seem. Paramilitaries, drug cartels, and wildcat prospectors all want
what the jungle has to offer - while untamed local tribes will fight
desperately to protect their way of life. Maps of the region have been
doctored. And what exactly happened to the previous expedition, a government
vaccination program that went upriver and never returned? Soon finding the lost
city is the least of their troubles. The jungle hides deadly secrets that must
be hidden at all costs. And someone in the group wants to make sure they never
get out. Black River is by Tom Harper and is due to be published in
September 2015.
DI
Rio Wray returns in this breakneck-speed thriller Death Trap. A married couple and their housekeeper are brutally
murdered at their home on a quiet suburban street. But this isn't a one-off
case. There are clues linking their murders to a string of violent attacks and
burglaries on other affluent families. Who is behind them? And will DI Rio Wray
and her team catch them before they attack again? Death
Trap is by Dreda Say Mitchell and is due to be published in August 2015.
Oswald
de Lacy is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. The
Black Death changed many things, and just as it took away his father and elder
brothers, leaving Oswald to be recalled from the monastery where he expected to
spend his life, so it has taken many of his villagers and servants. However,
there is still the same amount of work to be done in the farms and fields, and
the few people left to do it think they should be paid more - something the
King himself has forbidden. Just as anger begins to spread, the story of the
Butcher Bird takes flight. People claim to have witnessed a huge creature in
the skies. A new-born baby is found impaled on a thorn bush. And then more
children disappear. Convinced the bird is just a superstitious rumour, Oswald must
discover what is really happening. He can expect no help from his snobbish
mother and his scheming sister Clemence, who is determined to protect her own
child, but happy to neglect her step-daughters. From the plague-ruined villages
of Kent to the thief-infested streets of London and the luxurious bedchamber of
a bewitching lady, Oswald's journey is full of danger, dark intrigue and
shocking revelations. The Butcher Bird is by S D Sykes and s
due to be published in October 2015.
Black Ops is by Stephen Leather and is
due to be published in July 2015. Who Can you trust
if you can’t trust
yourself. Spider Shepherd's MI5 Controller, Charlie Button, has gone rogue,
using government resources to get revenge on the men who killed her husband.
Spider is told to betray her. Worse, he's asked to cooperate with his nemesis
at MI6, Jeremy Willoughby Brown, in taking Charlie down. And he will have to
cross the assassin, Lex Harper, currently on the trail of two Irish terrorists,
who may be able to lead him to his ex-boss. Meanwhile, Spider's
sixteen-year-old son is caught with drugs, expelled from school and threatened
with prosecution. But the drug police offer Spider a deal: go undercover,
unmask a local dealer and his son will go free. Spider has no option but to
cooperate. But is he any better than Charlie, using work resources to resolve
personal issues? There's little time to debate because another high profile
mission is about to engulf him. President Vladimir Putin is about to visit the
UK and a father who lost his son on the downed Malaysian plane over the Ukraine
holds Putin directly responsible for his death and wants revenge. Along with
everything else, it's down to Spider to stop the assassination of a head of
state on British soil.
Friction is by Sandra Brown and is due
to be published in August 2015. A Texas Ranger, relegated to deskwork due to
past recklessness, petitions to regain custody of his five-year-old daughter,
and his case is assigned to a family court judge who is as attractive as she is
ambitious. When a masked gunman barges in during the custody hearing with his
sights on the judge, the Ranger reacts instinctually and goes after him. But
authorities apprehend the wrong man, and the real gunman remains unknown, at
large, and a threat. Will this take-charge lawman jeopardize his chances of
custody by going after the would-be assassin? And will this unlikely pair be
able to deny the forbidden attraction building between them?
Jude
Shelley, daughter of a prominent cabinet minister, had her whole life ahead of
her until she was attacked and left to drown in the Thames. Miraculously, she
survived. A year later, her family ask psychologist Alice Quentin to re-examine
the case. But then an elderly priest is attacked in Battersea, his body washed up
at Westminster Pier. An ancient glass bead is tied to his wrist. The river has
always demanded sacrifices, and now it seems a killer believes it's calling out
for more. Alice is certain that Jude and her family are hiding something, but
unless she can persuade them to share what they know, more victims will
drown... River of Souls is by Kate Rhodes and is due to be published in June
2015.
Before
you discovered DCI Banks, Dectective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this
vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson. In 1990s Los Angeles,
the beautiful star of a hit TV cop show is being sent strange letters. At
first, Sarah Broughton dismisses the letters as the ramblings of a lonely fan.
But when the letters take on a disturbing tone and Sarah discovers a body in
the sand outside her Malibu beach house, the experts are brought in. Working as
a detective in the LAPD Threat Management Unit, Arvo Hughes has seen it all
before: stalkers, love obsessionals,
erotomaniacs - willing to kill themselves
and their supposed love objects over their devotion. He knows the language they
use and the patterns they follow. But there is no pattern to follow here.
Dealing with a highly unpredictable but extremely violent killer, Arvo feels
certain Sarah's stalker must have met her before. But with the squeaky-clean
star doing all she can to keep memories of a shady history locked away, Arvo
must delve into her past himself. No Cure for Love is by Peter Robinson
and is due to be published in July 2015.
After
602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't
take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple
homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective
colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants
out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend,
Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again. But Benny's unique
talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime - the high
profile murder of Ernst Richter, MD of a new tech startup, Alibi, whose body is
discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Alibi is a service that
creates false appointments, documents and phone calls to enable people to cheat
on their partners. It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in
South Africa. Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch
the killer? Icarus is by Deon Meyer and is due to be published in August 2015.
A Banquet of Consequences is by
Elizabeth George and is due to be published October 2015. The suicide of
William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of
his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between
the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?
Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara
Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with
bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant
Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs
DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime. Soon, Lynley finds himself
investigating the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, while
Havers and DS Winston Nkata look behind the peaceful facade of country life to
discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.
Last Words is by Michael Koryta and is
due to be published in August 2015. Still
mourning the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak accepts a case
that may be his undoing. On same day his wife died, the body of a teenage girl
was pulled from the extensive and perilous cave system beneath Southern
Indiana. Now the man who rescued the girl, who was believed to be her killer,
begs Novak uncover what really happened. The only problem is in small-town
Midwest, cold cases stay cold. Garrison is much like any place in America,
proud and fortified against outsiders. So Mark is forced to delve beneath the
town's secrets, and more frighteningly match wits with the man who knows the
caverns better than anyone. A man who seemed to lose his mind. A man who seems
to know Mark Novak all too well.
Darkness is by Karen Robards and is due
to be published in November 2015. Beautiful,
brilliant Dr Gina Solomon is one of a handful of scientists stationed on a
remote island off the Arctic Circle. Out conducting research in the last few
days before winter wraps the area in months-long darkness, she witnesses a
small plane crash over the Bering Sea, and rescues a survivor from the wreckage
- Mal Connolly. With a snowstorm stranding them unexpectedly, it's at least
twenty-four hours before they return to the research station. When they do,
Gina is horrified to discover that the rest of her party has been murdered.
Whoever killed the scientists is still on the island, hunting Mal, who is a
military weapons expert with a terrible secret. Someone will do anything to
stop him from revealing what he knows. And now Gina is in danger too. With no
escape until the plane comes for them the following week, Gina and Mal try to
stay one step ahead of the killers, and discover a potent sexual chemistry
...But will they get off the island before they are swallowed up in darkness
forever?
Glasgow,
1932, is a city in the grip of dance-fever. Public ballrooms and backstreet
dancehalls are thronged every night and competition for professional titles is
fierce. Even after the sudden death of one of last year's hopefuls there are
plenty willing to take his place, and few who stop to wonder why he died. In
the melting pot of the Locarno Ballroom in Sauchiehall Street, a debutante rubs
shoulders with denizens of Glasgow's meanest streets, her respectable fiance
oblivious, her parents dismayed. When she starts receiving threats from a
rival, they grow frantic enough to call on Dandy Gilver to save their precious
daughter from harm. But as Dandy and her sidekick, Alec Osborne, begin to
unravel the secrets of the dancehall, they soon discover that the rot goes much
deeper than rivalry and there's more at stake than a silver cup. Despite the
pretty frocks and dancing shoes, this apparently glittering world is a darker
place than they've ever been before ... Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the
Ballroom is by Catriona McPherson and is due to be published in July 2015.
The Tudor Vendetta is by Christopher
Gortner and is due to be published in October 2015.
It is the final book in the Elizabeth’s
Spymaster Trilogy. November, 1558:
Elizabeth I has ascended the throne but the first days of her reign are already
fraught with turmoil, the kingdom weakened by past strife and her ability to
rule uncertain. When Brendan Prescott, her intimate spy, returns to court at
the new queen's behest, he soon finds himself thrust into a deadly gambit
against his old foe, Robert Dudley. But Elizabeth has an even more dangerous
assignation in store for him when her favoured lady-in-waiting, Lady Parry,
vanishes in Yorkshire. Sent from court to a crumbling manor that may hold the key
to Lady Parry's disappearance, Brendan becomes the quarry of an elusive
stranger with a vendetta- one that could expose both Brendan's own secret past
and a long-hidden mystery that will bring about Elizabeth's doom.
NEVER
DROP YOUR GUARD. NEVER CLOSE YOUR EYES. OR YOU'LL NEVER SEE HIM COMING...It
should be the best day of their lives. Too bad they never get to see it. On the
cusp of their twenty-first birthday, he strikes. His victims are always twins,
their ritualistic murders planned in exquisite detail, down to the moment when
they breathe their last together. An innocent man is in prison and Brianna
Hayward needs to convince the New Orleans police. Not just to free her cousin,
but to save others who will suffer until the true culprit is found. Reporter
Jason Bridges is intrigued. It's a story that could make his career - as long
as Brianna never guesses the secret in Jason's past...Detective Rick Bentz had
his doubts about the '21' conviction when he worked the case in L.A. Now the
real murderer may be loose in his backyard. Twin sisters have vanished, days
before their birthday. And as Bentz and his partner Reuben Montoya desperately
follow the trail, a killer prepares to unite his next victims in death
forever... Never Die Alone is by Lisa Jackson and is due to be published in
August 2015.
2
July 1644. Five armies converge outside York. It will be a battle for honour,
glory, and the fate of three kingdoms. And it will pit two great leaders -
Oliver Cromwell and Prince Rupert - directly against one another for the first
time. It is a day that will change the course of history. Into the cannon fire
and musket smoke marches Major Innocent Stryker, battle-scarred hero of the
Royalist cause. He must not only lead his men through the bloody horror and outwit
his Parliamentary enemies, but uncover foul treachery on his own side. He will
need every shred of experience and determination to survive. Marston Moor will
be the decisive turning point in the British Civil Wars. This is the thrilling
and shocking story of that battle. Marston Moor is by Michael Arnold and is
due to be published in July 2015.
Mumbai,
murder and a baby elephant combine in a charming, joyful mystery for fans of
Alexander McCall Smith and Rachel Joyce. On the day he retires, Inspector
Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a
drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second
is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city
of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its
murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more
to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that
when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest
man needs... The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra is the debut novel
by Vaseem Khan and is due to be published in October 2015.
The Killing Kind is by Chris Holm and is
due to be published in August 2015. Michael
Hendricks is not a good man. He doesn't deserve a good life. But he is very
good at his job. He's the killing kind. He doesn't accept contract kills. He
doesn't work for any criminal organisation. And he never kills civilians. He
only hits hitters. He's not the kind of guy you call if you want to pop
somebody who's pissed you off or done you wrong. He's not a guy you call at all
- he calls you. And when he does, you'd be advised to take his call. Because it
means that someone wants you dead, and time is running out to save your life.
It's not a bad way to make a living, but it's a great way to make enemies. And
now both the FBI and the mafia have Hendricks in their sights, he's about to
learn just how good he really is...
'The system has no place for a cop who puts
justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as
long as I did.' For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the
Communist Party and the demands made by his job. He was considered a rising
star until, after one too many controversial cases that embarrassed powerful
men, he found himself neutralised. Under the guise of a promotion, he's been
stripped of his title and his influence, discredited and isolated. Soon it
becomes clear that his enemies still aren't satisfied, and that someone is
attempting to have him killed - quietly. Chen has been charged with the
investigation into a 'Red Prince' - a high Party figure who embodies the
ruthless ambition, greed and corruption that is on the rise in China. But with
no power, few allies, and his own reputation and life on the line, he knows he
is facing the most dangerous case of his career. The Shanghai Redemption is by Qiu Xiaolong
and is due to be published in July 2015.
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