THE WHOLE TRUTH by Cara Hunter

THE WHOLE TRUTH Cara Hunter Penguin Books (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 A sexual assault and harassment complaint seems an unusual case to land on Detective Inspector Adam Fawley’s desk, but that’s where it ends up. A university student’s word against a well-respected professor. Except there’s a twist. Strapping rugby player Caleb Morgan claims that the diminutive Marina […]

An Extract From DON’T TURN AROUND by Jessica Barry

DON’T TURN AROUND Jessica Barry Vintage (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Start from Chapter 1 at A Little Book Problem. Or find Chapter 13 at Shaz’s Book Blog. CHAPTER 14 TWO YEARS EARLIER The cut and scrape of silverware on good china. The tinkling of champagne glasses clinking together in a toast. The murmur of polite conversation, gentle […]

COMPETITION: Win a copy of EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline

EMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Thanks to the lovely people at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, I have a copy of Cherie Dimaline’s Empire of Wild to give away. Let’s have some fun with it: at its heart, Empire of Wild is a werewolf story, relying on the stories and legends […]

EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline

EMPIRE OF WILD Cherie Dimaline (cheriedimaline.com) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk) £14.99 Stepping outside to cool off after an argument, Victor disappears into the forest and his wife, Joan, spends eleven months and six days trying to find him. On the seventh day of that fateful twelfth month, a hungover Joan pulls into the parking lot […]

THE FALL OF KOLI by M. R. Carey

THE FALL OF KOLI (The Rampart Trilogy, Book 3) M. R. Carey Orbit Books (orbitbooks.net) £9.99 And so Koli Faceless – who we’ve known by many names over the course of his tale: Woodsmith, Rampart, Witless – and his friends come to the source of the broadcast claiming to be the Sword of Albion. From […]

THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET by Catriona Ward

THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET Catriona Ward Viper (serpentstail.com/viper) £12.99 Ted Bannerman lives in the house at the end of Needless Street with his cat, Olivia. Sometimes his daughter, Lauren, comes to stay; sometimes the visits are fun, and often they’re stressful. Delilah Walters has one mission in life: to find and punish the […]

An Extract from KID by Sebastian de Souza

KID: A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE SEBASTIAN DE SOUZA ( offlinerpress.com ) OFFLINER PRESS (offlinerpress.com) £9.99 CHAPTER 1 CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA I’m definitely coming up. They must be too. The CD in my Walkman skips a little before finding itself again. Liam Gallagher singing about a champagne supernova and being caught beneath a landslide… The Roxi […]

LATER by Stephen King

LATER Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £8.99 Looking back on it, I sometimes think my life was like a Dickens novel, only with swearing. From a young age Jamie Conklin has been able to see dead people. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell, because they don’t look like anyone’s conventional idea of a ghost, […]

THE KILLING CHOICE by Will Shindler

THE KILLING CHOICE Will Shindler Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £16.99 A man walks with his adult daughter through a quiet park in East London. Confronted by a man in a strange mask and carrying a knife, he is offered a choice: walk away and allow his daughter to be raped, or stay and die. This […]

INSCAPE by Louise Carey

INSCAPE Louise Carey(louise-carey.com) Gollancz (gollancz.co.uk) £14.99 In the future, London is run by giant corporations. Less like a city and more like a series of campuses, everyone who lives in the city is affiliated with one “Corp” or other, while those who live outside in the Unaffiliated Zone are seen as outcasts at best, dangerous […]