THE DEFENCE Steve Cavanagh (stevecavanagh.com) Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 “Do exactly as I tell you or I’ll put a bullet in your spine.” Pushing the gun hard into my back, he said, “I’ll follow you out of the bathroom. You’ll put on your coat. You’ll pay for breakfast, and we’ll leave together. We’re going to […]
Read More THE DEFENCE by Steve CavanaghGOODHOUSE Peyton Marshall (www.peytonmarshall.com) Doubleday (www.randomhouse.co.uk) £14.99 In a near-future America, the genetic markers for violence and criminal behaviour have been identified, and the male relatives of anyone who has ever been charged with committing a crime are tested shortly after birth. Those found to possess the same genetic makeup as their criminal forebears are […]
Read More GOODHOUSE by Peyton MarshallTHE ABDUCTION Jonathan Holt (www.carnivia.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £12.99 WALL STANDING IS NOT TORTURE. AT 9 P.M. THIS EVENING, SHE WILL NOT BE TORTURED. WATCH IT LIVE ON CARNIVIA. When the teenage daughter of a high-ranking US soldier is abducted from one of Venice’s sex clubs, it seems that the protesters against the […]
Read More THE ABDUCTION by Jonathan HoltName: DAVID BALDACCI Author of: ZERO DAY (2011) THE FORGOTTEN (2012) THE ESCAPE (2014) On the web: davidbaldacci.com On Twitter: @davidbaldacci To celebrate the launch of David Baldacci’s latest novel, The Escape, as well as the paperback publication of his fourth Will Robie novel, The Target, we’re very pleased to welcome the author […]
Read More GUEST POST: Foreshadowing by DAVID BALDACCITHE DARKEST HEART Dan Smith (www.dansmithsbooks.com) Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 Having fled the slums of Rio de Janeiro as a much younger man, Zico now lives in a small town on the banks of Brazil’s Araguaia River. Here, Zico finds friendship and love and decides that Piratinga is the perfect place to settle down. Zico […]
Read More THE DARKEST HEART by Dan SmithTHE PROFESSIONALS Owen Laukkanen (owenlaukkanen.com) Corvus (atlantic-books.co.uk) £7.99 In the beginning, the whole thing had been Marie’s idea. It had started as a joke, some throwaway line spouted off one rainy night in Seattle, the gang holed up at Sawyer’s place bitching about the job market over cheap beer and pizza, scholarships almost gone and […]
Read More THE PROFESSIONALS by Owen LaukkanenNO HARM CAN COME TO A GOOD MAN James Smythe (james-smythe.com) The Borough Press (www.boroughpress.co.uk) £16.99 Laurence Walker is a good man whose dream of running for President of the United States looks set to come true. Laurence has some skeletons in his closet – the death of his son and a period of torture […]
Read More NO HARM CAN COME TO A GOOD MAN by James SmytheMR MERCEDES Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £20.00 On a foggy April morning, in an anonymous, recession-hit Midwestern city, Brady Hartfield ploughs a stolen Mercedes Benz into a group of people queued for a job fair, killing nine and injuring many more. Six months later, Detective William Hodges retires from the City Police […]
Read More MR MERCEDES by Stephen KingA COLDER WAR Charles Cummings (www.charlescumming.co.uk) HarperCollins (www.harpercollins.co.uk) £12.99 Those fine folks over at HarperCollins’ Killer Reads are running a mole hunt this week to celebrate the publication of Charles Cummings’ latest novel, A Colder War. To be in with a chance of winning a Kindle, all you have to do is visit each of […]
Read More COMPETITION: Charles Cummings’ A COLDER WAR #MoleHuntTHE KILLING SEASON Mason Cross (carterblake.net) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 The first thing you should know about me is that my name is not Carter Blake. That name no more belonged to me than the hotel room I was occupying when the call came in. Caleb Wardell killed nineteen people with a sniper rifle before he […]
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