THE BURNING MEN Will Shindler Hodder & Stoughon (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 When an ex-fireman is doused in accelerant and set alight at his wedding, Detective Inspector Alex Finn finds himself leading the investigation despite the fact that he shouldn’t even be working. The deceased paid for the lavish party out of his own pocket, and when […]
Read More THE BURNING MEN by Will ShindlerWATCHING FROM THE DARK Gytha Lodge Michael Joseph (www.penguin.co.uk) £12.99 While Skyping his girlfriend late one evening, Aidan Poole watches as someone enters her apartment and apparently kills her while she is in the bath. He sends an email to the police providing them with as many details as he can. But he can’t provide […]
Read More WATCHING FROM THE DARK by Gytha LodgeALL THE RAGE Cara Hunter Penguin Books (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Teenager Faith Appleford is abducted from a bus stop on the busy Oxford road during the morning rush hour, bundled into a van and taken to a shed on an allotment. Before her abductor can finish what he started, he is frightened off by the sound […]
Read More ALL THE RAGE by Cara HunterPAYBACK R.C. Bridgestock (www.rcbridgestock.com) The Dome Press (www.thedomepress.com) £8.99 Charley Mann returns to her Yorkshire hometown of Huddersfield, following a 4-year secondment to London, to take on the role of head of CID in the station where she spent her formative years in the police force. With barely a chance to meet old friends, and […]
Read More PAYBACK by R.C. BridgestockTHE GOD GAME Danny Tobey (www.facebook.com/dannytobeybooks) Gollancz (www.gollancz.co.uk) £16.99 Charlie and his friends are high-school misfits. Nerds and losers, the group of five friends call themselves the Vindicators, and spend most of their free time in the school’s Tech Lab, coding and building robots. Charlie, once a star student, has let his work suffer following […]
Read More THE GOD GAME by Danny TobeyTHE LAST HUNT Deon Meyer (www.deonmeyer.com) Translated by K.L. Seegers Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £19.99 Ex-cop Johnson Johnson’s body is found in the wilderness, beside a railway line days after he disappears from the world’s most luxurious train. Captains Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido, stars of South African police’s elite Hawks unit are assigned what […]
Read More THE LAST HUNT by Deon MeyerI WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW Heine Bakkeid (heinebakkeid.com) Translated by Anne Bruce Raven Books (www.bloomsbury.com) £12.99 Fresh out of prison, ex-policeman and Internal Affairs investigator Thorkild Aske is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young man on the remote northern coast of Norway. Rasmus Moritzen, known by residents of the area around Tromsø as […]
Read More I WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW by Heine BakkeidTHE BLACK HAWKS David Wragg (www.davewragg.com) HarperVoyager (harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk) £8.99 ‘Kitchen’s closed.’ A hard-faced woman in a smock barred the doorway. ‘Closed? Nonsense, my jewel,’ Heali replied. ‘How could the kitchen be closed in a festival week? We’re but days from the feast!’ The woman’s eyes narrowed. She had a jaw like quarried stone and […]
Read More An Extract From THE BLACK HAWKS by David WraggRULE BRITANNIA Alec Marsh Accent Press (www.headline.co.uk) £8.99 CHAPTER ONE London, December 1936 A fog of tobacco all but concealed the strutting satyrs, winged cherubs, and nude dancing nymphs that adorned the low ceiling of the Granville Club’s Long Bar. The cloud floated over a noisy, bobbing, gas-lit landscape of gentlemen patrons, lounging […]
Read More An Extract From RULE BRITANNIA by Alec MarshIMAGINARY FRIEND Stephen Chbosky Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £20.00 Kate Reese’s life has been a series of bad decisions since her husband took his own life in the bath several years before. When her latest boyfriend hits her, Kate packs up her few possessions, and her seven-year-old son, and flees eastward in the middle of the […]
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