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Bolton, S.J.: Now you see me
Despite her fascination with Jack the Ripper, Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a big case or seen a dead body up close. Until she finds a woman who has been viciously stabbed, right next to Lacey's car. Thrown into her first murder hunt, Lacey's quiet life changes overnight. Then Lacey receives a familiar hand-delivered letter, written in red blood, and it is clear the police have a Ripper copycat on their hands. But that´s not all… |
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Cutter, Kimberly: The maid
It is the early part of the fifteenth century and the tumultuous Hundred Years War rages on. A twelve-year-old peasant girl, Jehanne, hears a voice that will change her life - and the course of European history. The tale of Jehanne d'Arc, the saint and warrior who believed she had been chosen by God to save France, and who led an army of 10,000 soldiers against the English is also the story of Jehanne – the girl |
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Toyne, Simon: Sanctus
A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world. For a handful in the know, it is what they have been waiting for. But to the fanatics that live in the Citadel it could mean the end of everything they have built – and they will kill, torture and break every law to stop that. For Liv Adamsen, New York crime reporter, it begins the next stage of a journey into the heart of her own identity. |
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Watson, S.J.: Before I go to sleep
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life. She wakes every morning besides a stranger that claims they have been married for years and she is decades older than she think she is. What happened? And what happens |
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William, Andrew: To kill a Tsar
St Petersburg, 1879, Russia is alive with revolutionaries. Tsar Alexander II`s ruthless secret police will stop at nothing to unmask those who plot his assassination and the overthrow of the Imperial regime. For Dr Frederick Hadfield these are dangerous times. Drawn into a desperate cat-and-mouse game of undercover assignations, plot and counter-plot, he risks all in a perilous double life, when he falls in love with a revolutionary woman |
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Waite, Urban: The terror of living
Hunt, an ex-convict doing the odd drug smuggling job. Drake, a deputy sheriff doing his father´s old job. Drake is on Hunt's trail when a big drug deal in the mountains goes awry and so begins a terrifying race against time. Although Hunt evades Drake's attempts at capture the traffickers soon unleash a merciless hired killer to reclaim what's theirs. As the chase closes in and loyalties are tested, Drake's quest for justice contends with a hitman's quest for blood, and Hunt must face a terrible choice... |
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Duncan, Glen: The last Werewolf
Jake is a 202 years old werewolf, the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely. Jake’s depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicide! But two dangerous groups are pursuing him and he will not go down quitly. And maybe he is not the last. |
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Colfer, Eion: Plugged
Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy, small-time casino the fact that his girlfriend was just murdered in the parking lot is uppermost in his mind. Tjat is until lots of people around him start dying, and not of natural causes. Suddenly Daniel's got half the New Jersey mob, dirty cops and his man-crazy Upstairs neighbor after ham and he still doesn't know what's going on. Bullets are flying, everybody's on the take and it all may be more than Daniel's new hair plugs can handle. |
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Bauer, Belinda: Blacklands
Twelwe year old Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his mother, his brother, and himself. Steven´s uncle disappeared 18 years ago, likely murdered by the convicted peadophile Avery, who killed 6 children and burried them at the moor next door. Steven is concinced that his then 12 year old uncle lies there and starts writing to Averyin prison, having absolutely no idea what he is starting… |
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May, Peter: The blackhouse
Fin Macloed, a detective living in Edinburgh, is sent to Lewis when a murder very like the one his is working on, happen here. Fin, who is originally from Lewis, gets an unexpected welcome by old friends and enemies alike, in a closed island society where time moves slowly and memories are long. And his past starts to come to life in a way he never imagined… |
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