CHILDREN OF THE SUN by Beth Lewis

CHILDREN OF THE SUN Beth Lewis (bethlewis.co.uk) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Summer 1982. Following the death of his lover in a horrible car accident, journalist James Morrow has spent months trying to get information about what happened. A tip gives him the name of a woman […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

BORN THE SAME by Antony Dunford

BORN THE SAME Antony Dunford (antonydunford.com) Hobeck (hobeck.net) £9.99 Colm Reid is writing twelve puff pieces a day for a dying Dublin newspaper when his soon-to-be-ex-editor convinces him to go and cover a story in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s remote Garamba National Park. He will join Norwegian conservationist Kennet Haven on his hunt for […]

THE LAST PASSENGER by Will Dean

THE LAST PASSENGER Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Caz Ripley steps onboard the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete, it’s the start of the holiday of a lifetime. Caz is a homebird, a café owner slowly repaying a debt run up by her father […]

CUT AND SHUT – Jonathan Peace

CUT AND SHUT Jonathan Peace (jpwritescrime.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Three young lads steal a car belonging to a Pakistani family and go for a joyride. The car, a “cut-and-shut” job, suffers a catastrophic failure and all three die horribly. The same night, two young Pakistani men make the mistake of going into a pub […]