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 […]

Read More LOST YOU by Haylen Beck

DEEP DOWN DEAD by Steph Broadribb

DEEP DOWN DEAD Steph Broadribb (crimethrillergirl.com) Orenda Books (orendabooks.co.uk) £8.99 Against her better judgement, bounty hunter Lori Anderson takes the only job Quinn can offer. Overdue rent and sky-high medical bills conspire to leave her with no choice. The fugitive? Robert “JT” Tate, Lori’s former lover and mentor, a man now involved in a child […]

Read More DEEP DOWN DEAD by Steph Broadribb

NO WAY BACK by Matthew Klein

NO WAY BACK Matthew Klein (matthewklein.org) Corvus (corvus-books.co.uk) £12.99 Jim Thane is a restart executive, a Silicon Valley veteran who specialises in taking on failing companies and turning them around, making them profitable. Jim’s latest assignment has taken him to the oppressive heat of Florida, where Tao Software needs his specialist skills. Within days, Jim […]

Read More NO WAY BACK by Matthew Klein

RUSH OF BLOOD by Mark Billingham

RUSH OF BLOOD Mark Billingham (www.markbillingham.com) Little, Brown Book Group (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £16.99 Released: 2nd August 2012 Six Brits – three couples – meet at the pool of a Florida Keys resort while on holiday, and become friendly over the course of the two-week holiday. On their last day, a child goes missing – a fourteen-year-old […]

Read More RUSH OF BLOOD by Mark Billingham

KILLER MOVE by Michael Marshall

KILLER MOVE Michael Marshall (michaelmarshallsmith.com) Orion (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £12.99 Michael Marshall is something of a cult writer. His first three novels, as well as the vast majority of his short stories, were published under the name Michael Marshall Smith and were mainly classified as science fiction (the novels) and horror (the stories). In 2002 he dropped […]

Read More KILLER MOVE by Michael Marshall