THE UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF ZINA PAVLOU by Eleni Kyriacou

THE UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF ZINA PAVLOU Eleni Kyriacou (elenikwriter.com) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Eva Georgiou is a Greek immigrant living in London with her husband. At night she works the coat check in the Café de Paris, and her name is on the Metropolitan Police’s list […]

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 […]

HOLLY by Stephen King

HOLLY Stephen King (stephenking.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £25.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Bonnie Dahl disappears on an early summer evening, between work and home, leaving behind her bicycle and a short note (“I’VE HAD ENOUGH”), her mother Penny reaches out to the local private detective agency recommended by the […]

CHASING THE DRAGON by Mark Wightman

CHASING THE DRAGON Mark Wightman (markwightmanauthor.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Singapore, 1940. The body of an American archaeologist gets caught in a fishing platform off the island’s southern shore. He has been wrapped in a fishing net and has been force-fed two balls of rough opium. Inspector […]

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 […]

THE AXE WOMAN by Håkan Nesser

THE AXE WOMAN Håkan Nesser (nesser.se) Translated by Sarah Death Mantle (panmacmillan.com) £18.99 Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work following the sudden death of his wife as they slept in bed together. In order to ease him back into things, his boss hands him a cold case file and asks him to investigate: a man […]

THOSE WHO RETURN by Kassandra Montag

THOSE WHO RETURN Kassandra Montag (kassandramontag.com) Quercus (quercusbooks.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Hatchery House sits in the middle of the wilderness in the Great Plains of Nebraska. At various times in its history a church, an asylum and an orphanage, it’s now a treatment facility for orphaned children with psychiatric […]

THE HUNTING GROUND by Will Shindler

THE HUNTING GROUND Will Shindler Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite local bookshop Down on her luck and in need of some money, Sadie Nicholls finds herself playing waitress at a high society dinner attended by the great and good of British business. When the hand of one attendee wanders […]

THE LONG WEEKEND by Gilly Macmillan

THE LONG WEEKEND Gilly Macmillan (www.gillymacmillan.com) Century (penguin.co.uk/…/century.html) £12.99 They have been friends since childhood and every year they take a long weekend break to unwind and enjoy each others’ company. This year is the first since the death of Rob, so four couples have become three. As the women head to Dark Fell Barn, […]

THE NEWCOMER by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

THE NEWCOMER Laura Elizabeth Woollett (lauraelizabethwoollett.com) Scribe (scribepublications.co.uk) £9.99 Paulina Novak is a “mainie”, a transplant from mainland Australia, trying to make a new life on small, idyllic Fairfolk Island. When Judy – Paulina’s mother – visits the island to celebrate her daughter’s 30th birthday, Paulina disappears. Judy isn’t particularly surprised, as their relationship has […]