PAYBACK by R.C. Bridgestock

PAYBACK 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 […]

THE GOD GAME by Danny Tobey

THE 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 […]

THE LAST HUNT by Deon Meyer

THE 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 […]

I WILL MISS YOU TOMORROW by Heine Bakkeid

I 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 […]

An Extract From RULE BRITANNIA by Alec Marsh

RULE 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 […]

An Extract from THE DAUGHTER IN LAW by Nina Manning

THE DAUGHTER IN LAW Nina Manning (www.ninamanningauthor.com) Boldwood Books (www.boldwoodbooks.com) Annie My favourite room is the spare bedroom at the front of the house. It gets all the light in the morning and looks so inviting. I’ve done it up like a picture I saw in a lifestyle magazine: a checked throw across the […]

LOST YOU by Haylen Beck

LOST YOU Haylen Beck (www.haylenbeck.com) Harvill Secker (www.penguin.co.uk) £14.99 Libby has decided on a well-deserved holiday and finds herself, with her three-year-old son Ethan, relaxing by the many pools of a resort complex on Florida’s gulf coast. When she befriends a married couple, one of whom takes an immediate shine to the precocious Ethan, Libby […]

Competition – Win a Copy of LOST YOU by Haylen Beck

LOST YOU Haylen Beck (www.haylenbeck.com) Harvill Secker (www.penguin.co.uk) £14.99 To mark the release of Haylen Beck’s excellent second novel, Lost You (Reader Dad review to follow later today), we’re very pleased to be giving away a copy of the book thanks to the lovely folks at Harvill Secker. To enter, leave a comment below before midnight […]

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT by Gary Bell

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT Gary Bell & Scott Kershaw Raven Books (www.bloomsbury.com) £12.99 Elliot Rook, Queen’s Counsel, is one of the greatest barristers practicing in Britain. Rarely beaten in the courtroom, Rook has a gift for proving guilty men innocent, and little in the way of a conscience to prevent him from doing his best […]

An Extract From PROXIMITY by Jem Tugwell

PROXIMITY Jem Tugwell (www.jemtugwell.com) Serpentine Books (www.serpentinebooks.com) £8.99 1 Thief For the first time in ten years, the real me walked free. I savoured every beat of excitement that pulsed through me. All those failures, but now it was working. I let the corners of my mouth drag up an unfamiliar smile. They couldn’t […]