THE BRAMBLE AND THE ROSE Tom Bouman (www.tomboumanbooks.com) Faber & Faber (www.faber.co.uk) £8.99 When a headless body, half-eaten by bears, is found in the woods outside the small town of Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, local policeman Henry Farrell finds himself partnered with biologist and bear expert Dr Mary Weaver, hunting the bear before its new-found taste […]
Read More THE BRAMBLE AND THE ROSE by Tom BoumanTHE BELL IN THE LAKE Lars Mytting (www.larsmytting.net) Translated by Deborah Dawkin MacLehose Press (www.maclehosepress.com) £16.99 Norway, 1880. Young, inquisitive Astrid is unlike the other girls in the secluded village at the end of the valley. She dreams of a life that consists of more than marrying, having children, and eventually dying from hard work […]
Read More THE BELL IN THE LAKE by Lars MyttingWIDOW’S WELCOME D.K. Fields (dkfields.blogspot.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £8.99 What inspired Widow’s Welcome? In short: “Mi dispiace, il mio italiano non va bene”. This became a mantra for us when travelling in Italy – “I’m sorry, my Italian is not good”. Whether Kath was trying to order peach ice cream but kept saying ‘fish’, […]
Read More INFLUENCES: What Inspired WIDOW’S WELCOME by D.K. FieldsROBERT LUDLUM’S THE TREADSTONE RESURRECTION Joshua Hood Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £18.99 Adam Hayes is living and working as a carpenter in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, his life far from perfect, but a far cry from his time in Treadstone, the top-secret CIA Black Ops programme that trained him, and many like him, […]
Read More THE TREADSTONE RESURRECTION by Joshua HoodBORN SLIPPY Tom Lutz (www.tomlutzwriter.com) Repeater Books (repeaterbooks.com) £10.99 He left the bank and got in a cab. The cabbie turned and looked at him, waiting for an address. Frank pointed to the Bank of China bankbook; the driver looked confused, but then nodded and took him to a branch. Frank went in, waited briefly […]
Read More An Excerpt from BORN SLIPPY by Tom LutzTHE BURNING MEN Will Shindler Hodder & Stoughon (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 When an ex-fireman is doused in accelerant and set alight at his wedding, Detective Inspector Alex Finn finds himself leading the investigation despite the fact that he shouldn’t even be working. The deceased paid for the lavish party out of his own pocket, and when […]
Read More THE BURNING MEN by Will ShindlerWATCHING FROM THE DARK Gytha Lodge Michael Joseph (www.penguin.co.uk) £12.99 While Skyping his girlfriend late one evening, Aidan Poole watches as someone enters her apartment and apparently kills her while she is in the bath. He sends an email to the police providing them with as many details as he can. But he can’t provide […]
Read More WATCHING FROM THE DARK by Gytha LodgeALL THE RAGE Cara Hunter Penguin Books (penguin.co.uk) £7.99 Teenager Faith Appleford is abducted from a bus stop on the busy Oxford road during the morning rush hour, bundled into a van and taken to a shed on an allotment. Before her abductor can finish what he started, he is frightened off by the sound […]
Read More ALL THE RAGE by Cara HunterPAYBACK 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 […]
Read More PAYBACK by R.C. BridgestockTHE 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 […]
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