EYES OF GLASS by Gemma Metcalfe & Joe Cawley

EYES OF GLASS Gemma Metcalfe & Joe Cawley (hesaysshesays.net) Spellbound Books (spellboundbooks.co.uk) £0.99 Lyra is trying to find the follow-up to her bestselling debut novel, and trying to come to terms with the fact that she’s just found her boyfriend in her bed with another woman, when she discovers a message in a bottle on […]

HOLLY by Stephen King

HOLLY Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Bonnie Dahl disappears on an early summer evening, between work and home, leaving behind her bicycle and a short note (“I’VE HAD ENOUGH”), her mother Penny reaches out to the local private detective agency recommended by the […]

CHASING THE DRAGON by Mark Wightman

CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Wightman (markwightmanauthor.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Singapore, 1940. The body of an American archaeologist gets caught in a fishing platform off the island’s southern shore. He has been wrapped in a fishing net and has been force-fed two balls of rough opium. Inspector […]

THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS by Karin Smirnoff

THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS Karin Smirnoff Translated by Sarah Death MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £22 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop A woman’s disappearance is the catalyst for Lisbeth Salander’s trip to the small town of Gasskas, in Sweden’s wild north. This isn’t business, it’s personal as the woman has left behind […]

Spotlight: CONSUMED by Greg Buchanan

CONSUMED Greg Buchanan (gregbuchanan.co.uk) Orion Books (orionbooks.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop A slick, smart, stylish – and shocking – thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. On a lonely farmstead, a 70-year-old woman falls down outside and, unable to move, is consumed overnight by two […]

AFTER DEATH by Dean Koontz

AFTER DEATH Dean Koontz (deankoontz.com) Thomas & Mercer (amazon.com) £19.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Michael Mace is dead. Or at least he was. Now, like Lazarus, he has risen from the dead with a new – and extraordinary – ability. Michael’s plan is to help Nina Dozier, the love interest of […]

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (nanakwameadjei-brenyah.com) Harvill Secker (penguin.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxx” Stacker are two of the biggest stars in America’s new favourite reality television show, Chain-Gang All-Stars, where prisoners can win their freedom by taking part in a gladiator-like competition where they […]

DIRTY GEESE by Lou Gilmond

DIRTY GEESE Lou Gilmond (lougilmond.com) Fairlight Books (fairlightbooks.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Harry Colbey has just been promoted to the Cabinet as Minister for Personal Information, much to the delight of his social-butterfly wife. A general election is looming on the horizon and the Prime Minister wants Harry to shepherd […]

CENTRAL PARK WEST by James Comey

CENTRAL PARK WEST James Comey Aries / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Former New York governor Tony Burke has been murdered in his Central Park West penthouse. All the evidence, including damning videos and the testimony of the building’s doorman, suggests that the culprit is none other […]

RELENTLESS MELT by Jeremy P. Bushnell

RELENTLESS MELT Jeremy P. Bushnell (jeremypbushnell.com) Melville House Books (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Artie Quick is a 17-year-old Bostonian who wants to know everything there is to know about crime. By day, Artie is a shopgirl in Filene’s department store; by night, she dresses in men’s clothes so she […]