April
2017
There's
a new killer on the streets. A woman is
found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the
police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. He's in
your house. He's in your room. Under pressure from the media to find the
murderer, the force know there's only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is
reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he
starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed case. He's out for blood. When another victim is found, Harry realises
he will need to put everything on the line if he's to finally catch the one who
got away. The Thirst is by Jo Nesbo.
May
2017
In
the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn’t pick up the
phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And
Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for
good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid.
So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that
Nel would never have jumped. And most of all she’s afraid of the water, and the
place they call the Drowning Pool . . .
Into the Water is by Paula Hawkins
What
Alice Knew is by T A Cotterell. How far would you go to keep a secret? Alice
has a perfect life - a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he
goes missing one night; she receives a suspicious phone call; things don't
quite add up. Alice needs to know what's going on. But when she uncovers the
truth she faces a brutal choice. And how can she be sure it is the truth?
Sometimes it's better not to know.
Frost
at Midnight is by James Henry. August,
1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. Detective Sergeant Waters should be on
top of the world with less than a week to go until he marries Kim Myles. But
the Sunday before the big day, instead of a run-through with his best man, the
church is sealed off. The body of a young woman has been found in the churchyard,
and their idyllic wedding venue has become a crime scene. Detective Sergeant
Jack Frost has been homeless for the past three months, ever since his wife's
family sold the matrimonial house. He's been staying with Detective Constable
Sue Clarke but with a baby to take care of and the imminent arrival of her
mother, she's given him his marching orders. But as best man to Waters, he's
got a responsibility to solve the mystery of the dead girl in the churchyard.
Can he put his own troubles aside and be the detective they need him to be? All
in all, August looks set to be a wicked month in Denton...
Jack
'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of
women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for
our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack
Reacher has been collected into one volume. A brand-new novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those
previously only published in ebook form: Second
Son, James Penney's New Identity,
Guy Walks Into a Bar, Deep Down, High
Heat, Not a Drill and Small Wars.
Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: Everyone Talks, Maybe They Have a Tradition, No
Room at the Motel and The Picture of
the Lonely Diner. Read together,
these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew
up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of
millions around the world. No Middle Name
is by Lee Child.
June
2017
Vicky
thought that nobody would know if she just stepped out for twenty minutes.
Everything was quiet; it was so easy for her to slip away ...One little lie.
One little secret. One little mistake has changed everything. Now Vicky's best
friend is going to help stop her whole life from falling apart. But if she's
keeping Vicky's secret, then Vicky is going to have to keep hers in return...One
Little Mistake is by Emma Curtis.
Fierce
Kingdom is by Gin Phillips. Lincoln is a good boy. At the age of four, he
is curious, clever and well behaved. He does as his mum says and knows what the
rules are. "The rules are different today. The rules are that we hide and
do not let the man with the gun find us." When an ordinary day at the zoo
turns into a nightmare, Joan finds herself trapped with her beloved son. She
must summon all her strength, find unexpected courage and protect Lincoln at
all costs - even if it means crossing the line between right and wrong; between
humanity and animal instinct. It's a line none of us would ever normally dream
of crossing. But sometimes the rules are different.
The
Child is by Fiona Barton. When a
paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers
barely give it a glance. But for three strangers it's impossible to ignore. For
one woman, it's a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her. For
another, it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about
to be discovered. And for the third, a journalist, it's the first clue in a
hunt to uncover the truth.
July
2017
There
are some surprises that no-one should ever have to experience. Standing over
the
body of your beloved - and murdered - niece is one of them. For Detective
Inspector Harry Virdee, a man perilously close to the edge, it feels like the
beginning of the end. His boss may be telling him he's too close to work the
case, but this isn't something that Harry can just let lie. He needs to dive
into the murky depths of the Bradford underworld and find the monster that
lurks there who killed his flesh and blood. But before he can, he must tell his
brother, Ron, the terrible news. And there is no predicting how he will react.
Impulsive, dangerous and alarmingly well connected, Ron will act first and
think later. Harry may have a murderer to find but if he isn't careful, he may
also have a murder to prevent. Girl Zero
is by A A Dhand
They
All Fall Down is by Tammy Cohen. She
knows there's a killer on the loose. But no-one believes her. Will she be next?
Hannah had a normal life - a loving husband, a good job. Until she did
something shocking. Now she's in a psychiatric clinic. It should be a safe
place. But patients keep dying. The doctors say it's suicide. Hannah knows
they're lying. Can she make anyone believe her before the killer strikes again?
A
Stranger in the House is by Shari Lapena.
Why would you run scared from a happy home? You're waiting for your
beloved husband to get home work. You're making dinner, looking forward to
hearing about his day. That's the last thing you remember. You wake up in
hospital, with no idea how you got there. They tell you that you were in an
accident; you lost control of your car whilst driving in a dangerous part of
town. The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to
believe it. Your best friend isn't so sure. And even you don't know what to
believe…
Here
and Gone is by Haylen Beck. Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She's
taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in
the back. This is their chance for a fresh start. She keeps to the country
roads to avoid attention and finds herself on an empty road in the Arizona
desert, far from home. Looking for a safe place to stay for the night she spots
something in her rear-view mirror. A police car is following her and the lights
are flickering. Blue and red. As Audra pulls over she is intensely aware of how
isolated they are. Her perfect escape is about to turn into a nightmare beyond
her imagining.
Someone
is Watching You is by Arne Dahl. Someone
is watching. At each abandoned crime scene there's a hidden clue: a tiny metal
cog, almost invisible to the naked eye. Someone is sending Detective Sam Berger
a message, someone who knows that only he will understand the cryptic trail.
Someone knows. When another teenaged girl disappears without trace, Sam must
convince his superiors that they're dealing with a serial killer. As the police
continue the hunt to find the latest victim, Sam is forced to unearth
long-buried personal demons. He has no choice if he is to understand the
killer's darkly personal message before time runs out. Somebody is killing just
for him.
August
2017
I
have a secret. And someone wants to make sure I never tell ...In a house
decorated with horror movie posters, a young woman's body is found. She lies on
her bed, two bloodied objects clutched in her palm. Detective Jane Rizzoli and
Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the murder scene, but even faced
with this gruesome sight they are unable to identify the immediate cause of
death. Their investigation leads them to a high-profile murder case that was
seemingly solved years before. But when another body is found in horrific
circumstances, the link between the two victims is clear. Was the wrong person
sent to prison? Is the real killer out there right now, picking off new
targets? One woman knows the killer is coming for her next. She's the only one
who can help Rizzoli and Isles catch him. But she has a secret that she has to
keep... I Know a Secret is by Tess
Gerritsen.
Last
Stop Tokyo is by James Buckler. The
funny thing with suffering is just when you think you've suffered enough, you
realize it's only the beginning. Alex thought running away would make
everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he's made and the
people he's hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex.
The bright lights and dark corners of this alien and fascinating city
intoxicate him, and he finds himself transfixed by this country, which feels
like a puzzle that no one can quite explain. And when Alex meets the enigmatic
and alluring Naoko, the peace he sought slips ever further from his grasp.
After all, trust is just betrayal waiting to happen and Alex is about to find
out that there's no such thing as rock bottom. There's always the chance it'll
get worse...
After
helping to avert a deadly attack on London, Luke Carlton has been welcomed on
board as a full-fledged member of SIS and is assigned the role of case officer
running agents. He is sent undercover into Iran to 'turn' and recruit an
officer in that country's infamous Revolutionary Guard Corps: the word is that
a conservative group within the IRGC doesn't like the direction
post-revolutionary Iran appear to be taking and are planning something big to
embarrass their own government - and frighten the country's new 'allies' in the
West. The intelligence services need to find out who and what, and fast...but
then a senior British government minister on an official visit to Iran goes
missing, his close protection officers are found murdered... Ultimatum is by Frank Gardner.
Fatal
Sunset is by Jason Webster. In the hills above Valencia is a notorious
nightclub called Sunset. When its larger-than-life owner, Jose Luis, dies
suddenly, everyone assumes it was a heart-attack. Perfectly understandable for
a man of his age, size and lifestyle. Meanwhile, all is not well for Max Camara
at HQ. His new boss, Rita Hernandez, has it in for him and his idiosyncratic
methods. He must abandon a complex investigation into home-grown extremism to
check out what looks like a routine death at Sunset. But an anonymous
phone-call suggests otherwise...Back in the city, Max's journalist girlfriend
Alicia is working on a lead that could turn out to be the story of her career.
How her own investigation connects with Max's at Sunset, and an unholy network
of drug dealers, priests and shady officials protecting a dark government
secret, will place both their lives in jeopardy and push everything to the very
edge.
The
Accordionist is by Fred Vargas. Louis
Kehlweiler of the Three Evangelists trilogy returns, along with his beloved pet
toad, Bufo. Vauquer Clement, a young accordionist in his thirties has
disappeared, believed by police forces from Nevers to Paris to have killed two
women, both shockingly violent murders. But Kehlweiler is not so sure he’s
guilty. With his team of experts, he must go back and look at all the facts,
and see if he can clear Clement’s name before it’s too late.
Susan
Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide
in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and
now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor
in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is on the run from the
mafia, one of her children has been accused of antiquity smuggling and the
other has run off with a monk. But Susan gets an offer from a former government
official - an offer to use her power one more time and have all her charges
dropped so she can return to Denmark. Together with her family, she must track
down the last surviving members of a secret think tank of young talents founded
in the 1970s, the so - called Future Committee, and find out what was written
in the committee's final report. But the report is apparently covering up
information of great value, and some powerful people are determined it is not
revealed. The Susan Effect is by Peter
Høeg.
October
2017
Stone
has returned to London. Both the UK and
the US are in a state of unrest and ever more extreme politicians are looking
to take advantage of an unstable world.
Their motives are unclear. But their threat is real. Who are they really working for? Line of Fire is by Andy McNabb
After
The Fire is the final novel by Henning Mankell. Fredrik Welin is a
seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish
archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day,
cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes
up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing
two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the
flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of
arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his
worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why.
Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself.
November
2017
The
Badger is back! In the middle of a gang war, wanted for murder, truly alone and
outside the law, Detective Inspector LeBrock is on the run from both the police
and gangster assassins, the victim of a diabolical scheme to annihilate himself
and everyone he holds dear, engineered by mastermind crime lord Tiberius
Koenig, one of the most despicable villains in the history of detective
fiction. A fiendishly ingenious story of love, tenacity, treachery and tragedy,
featuring Grandville's trademark high-octane excitement, humour and deduction
on a Holmesian scale as we finally meet LeBrock's mentor, Stamford Hawksmoor,
and discover LeBrock's untold backstory. Fan favourite characters, Detective
Sergeant Roderick Ratzi and LeBrock's vivacious fiancee, Parisian prostitute
Billie, are joined by a new badger in town! Enter Tasso, an Italian badger
who's bigger, meaner and uglier than LeBrock - but is he a force for good - or
evil? A battle royale ensues as LeBrock fights against truly outrageous odds.
How can he possibly survive? Prepare to be royally badgered! Grandville Force Majeure is by Bryan
Talbot.
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A compelling and surreal mystery story by one of Japan's greatest
writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared
thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the
river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it
ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of
being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For
some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for
him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? The Memory
Police is by Yoko Ogawa.
