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 […]

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 […]

THE CURATOR by Owen King

THE CURATOR Owen King (owen-king.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop In an unnamed city in a world not unlike our own, revolution has ousted the people who have been in charge for generations. Dora, a young maid at the university, walks out of her job with one […]

BAD CREE by Jessica Johns

BAD CREE Jessica Johns (jessicasbjohns.com) Scribe (scribepublications.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Mackenzie wakes from a vivid dream with a severed crow’s head in her hands. Moments later, it has vanished into thin air. It’s not the first item she has brought back from her dreams, and it won’t be the […]

THE DRIFT by C. J. Tudor

THE DRIFT CJ Tudor Michael Joseph (penguin.co.uk) £14.99 A bus, crashed in the wilderness, leaving a handful of survivors to fight their way out of their snowy tomb. A cable car, broken down within sight of its destination, the passengers suspended hundreds of metres above the snowy landscape with a murderer in their midst. And […]

THE LAST STORM by Tim Lebbon

THE LAST STORM Tim Lebbon (timlebbon.net) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Jesse is a Rainmaker, like his mother before him, and on back through the generations as far as the family can remember. In an America ravaged by climate change with large swathes known as the Desert, Jesse […]

THE SOUL STEALER by Graham Masterton

THE SOUL STEALER Graham Masterton (grahammasterton.co.uk) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £18.99 Trinity Fox’s friend, Margo, has had a taste of fame with a bit part in new comedy, Hilarity Jones. But now Margo wants to meet: she is terrified and doesn’t know where to turn. When Trinity arrives at the pub where they’ve agreed to […]

GWENDY’S FINAL TASK by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

GWENDY’S FINAL TASK Stephen King (stephenking.com) Richard Chizmar (richardchizmar.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) Cemetery Dance (cemeterydance.com) £16.99 / $28.00 Buy a copy: UK hardcover Cemetery Dance Trade Edition When she was twelve years old, Gwendy Peterson met a stranger named Richard Farris in her home town of Castle Rock, Maine. Farris entrusted Gwendy with a […]

ECHO by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

ECHO Thomas Olde Heuvelt Translated by Moshe Gilula (moshegilula.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Nick Grevers has a passion for climbing mountains. It’s a passion his boyfriend doesn’t share, so Nick climbs with other people while Sam Avery stays home and worries. While descending a long-planned summit, Nick and his partner spy a mountain in […]