'It was eleven years later, on a dull February day, wben Katie walked into her foster motber's living room, ber pale face grave. "He's coming back," she said.'

With his resignation from the police force now approved, Ray Flowers's plans to set up a security and detection business with his old friend George Mahoney are in full swing. And one of their first cases is to help an acquaintance whose daughter has joined the cult known as The Eyes of God.
The Eyes of God are disturbingly familiar to Ray. For eleven years earlier he led the inquiry into the ritualized murders of three young boys. The man convicted of the killings was cult leader Harrison Lee, whose arrest had led to the mass?suicide of cult members.
But now Lee has died in prison, and his evil can be finally laid to rest. Or can it?
For as the cultist is being cremated a nine?year?old boy disappears ? his body found in the exact same circumstances as the young victims eleven years earlier . . .
This terrifying novel of murder and alchemy confirms Jane Adams's place as the queen of supernatural crime.

A lightning-paced, high-action topical thriller where Survivor and Big Brother meet a contest to the death in a Caribbean paradise. The setting is a reality-based TV show on a remote desert island. Viewers from all round the world have complete access - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - as twelve very different contestants confront their greatest fears, in expectation of a winning payoff of two million dollars. But then someone very sinister steals the show, when a mysterious voice called CONTROL explains that each participant is harbouring a lethal virus, fatal within twenty-four hours without a daily vaccine. Each day one of the contestants will not receive this vaccine... and it's up to the viewing public ro decide which one of them to 'evict'. What will the doomed players do in their desperation to win viewer support? Which of them will win through to become the sole survivor? And who is the secret mastermind calling himself CONTROL?

Following the recent dry weather, Cranwell lake has yielded a body with a stab wound in its back. Fifty miles away, Hannah Morton is listening to a news report about the discovery. And, like the body, memories she had tried so hard to bury begin to surface . . .

Stella Duffy (Editor), Lauren Henderson (Editor)

A stunning collection of stories which offers the best of female crime writing Tart Noir writers make their own rules. Part Philip Marlowe, part femme fatale, their heroines think it is entirely possible to save the world while wearing stiletto heels. Their morals are questionable and their actions are guaranteed to shock and delight. From classic crime to magical anti-realism, hot sex to cold calculation, these stories cover all the bases. There are well loved series characters together with brand new ones, just panting for half a dozen books of their own. Stories long and short, knowing laughs and nasty glances. Some are light as air, others are downright transgressive. All are an experience you are unlikely to forget.

Paula Grey and Bob Newman return to confront their deadliest enemy yet.

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'Lecherous, crooked, filthy but loveable .... smashing' The Times

Lovejoy is in serious trouble. It appears that a local lad known as Mortimer shares his extraordinary talent for distinguishing genuine antiques from fakes. Although perhaps that's not as surprising - as it is rumoured that Mortimer is Lovejoy's son .....
With the local antiques traders up-in-arms, Lovejoy decides to use his gift of judgement to assemble as mass of antiques - with any luck he might be able to bargain his way out. But when he persuades one of his favourite ladies, the sculptress Bernicka, to help him tragedy strikes. For he finds her dead, seemingly by suicide. Now Lovejoy is running scared.
Particularly when the death toll around him starts to mount .....

The reviews for Jonathan Gash's witty Lovejoy novels say it all:
'Deviously plotted and brimming with the most delicious inside details about the antiques trade' New York Times Book Review
'Exceedingly witty, highly amusing narration' Evening Standard
'Lovejoy is definitely one of the happiest creations of crime fiction' Oxford Mail

Every Last Cent will be a welcome return of Lovejoy, if you know him well or it will be an introduction that will inspire you to read the whole series.

A debut novel that offers mystery, suspense and glorious social insight

As an Assistant District Attorney Frances Pratt has proved herself a shrewd lawyer. But nothing has prepared her for the situation she is now about to face. For in the marbled powder room of the 'old money' Fair Lawn Country Club lies the body of her stepmother, Clio.
There are many people who hated Clio enough to murder her, including a talented young surgeon, an ambitious business partner, a dissolute socialite and even someone much closer to home . . .
As she looks beneath the gilded surface of Long Island, one of America's richest communities, Frances delves into a world of crumbling pretences and cruel prejudices. Everyone has a facade. And to uncover a killer, Frances will have to face the demons that stand behind them all.

Nancy Geary is a former prosecutor for the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. This is her first novel.

'A perfect opportunity to look at what's starry in British sci-fi just now . . . There is nothing better of this ilk around' Guardian

As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to fly starships and explore the galaxy. Instead, twenty years later, he's the sergeant of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of another world, in the service of a giant corporation.
While Lawrence is on the ground, being shot at and firebombed by disturbingly effective resistance forces, he hears stories about the Temple of the Fallen Dragon - the holy place of a sect devoted to the worship of some mythical creature that fell from the sky millennia before the arrival of humans. More importantly, its priests are said to guard a hoard of treasure large enough to buy lifelong happiness for any man. That is when he feels tempted to mount a private-enterprise operation of his own.

The remote village of Compton, on the foggy Norfolk coast, holds many memories for PC Sarah Delaney - most of which she's tried hard to forget. For Compton was the place where her boyfriend Tom had lived - and where he died.
Now she has been sent to investigate a disturbing sighting - the bodies of a man and a woman on the mist-covered beach. Unfortunately, by the time Sarah arrives the tide has come in and the bodies have been washed out to sea.
As a murder investigation is launched and Sarah leads the macabre search for the victims, she is forced to confront many ghosts from her past. The time has come, it seems, for her to finally learn the truth about Tom and his tragic death . . .

A gang of kids from an overcrowded council estate is running riot on the streets. Break-ins, car theft, vandalism - these under-age criminals know they can continue without fear of punishment. The neighbourhood police are at their wits' end, while terror, hatred and frustration have become part of life for local residents. Then, just when it seems things can get no worse, the gang turns its attention on an old folks' home. But, incredibly, Shelby House's senior citizens decide to fight back - with nightmarish consequences.

The best-selling author of twenty previous novels, Shaun Hutson lives in Buckinghamshire.

Robert Littell does for the CIA what Mario Puzo did for the Mafia; Robert Littell's The Company is an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga bringing to life, through a host of characters --historical and imagined - the nearly 50 years of this secretive and powerful organization. In a style intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only 'the good fight' against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad one as well, with the ends justifying such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, though, one question spans the length of the book... Who is the mole within the CIA? The Company - an astonishing novel that captures the life and death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War.

It's three days before Christmas and the Malworth Amateur Dramatic Society's rehearsal of "Cinderella", scripted by local GP Carl Bignall, is struggling. Then police discover the body of Carl's wife, Estelle. Is Carl a murderer? DCI Lloyd takes charge of the investigation.

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Deliverance meets Heart of Darkness for the Generation X reader. Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids on business in South America. Imagine you are accompanying them on a jaunty boat trip up the river Amazon. Imagine that late one night some foreign bandits steal onto the boat and kill the crew. Imagine that you and your charges are kidnapped at gun point. Would you give your life for theirs in the name of survival? Crossman is faced with just this dilemma. A seemingly straightforward trek through the jungle rapidly breaks down into mayhem and, after the kidnapping, nobody knows who to trust. There are five of them - the whizzkids, their two colleagues and Crossman - buried in a deep, dark pit with the ever-present threat of torture to keep them there. But an escape route is finally found and quickly five become three, stranded in a tiny boat on the enomous Amazon and facing new threats from the surrounding wildlife. But these are as nothing compared with the often violent redrawing of allegiances between the three survivors... Sunday Times Bestselling author Andrew Pyper has written a chilling, tense followup to his debut novel, Lost Girls, which confirms his mastery of thriller writing and explores new - and terrifying - territory against the dramatic backdrop of the Amazonian jungle.

Shane 'Scarecrow' Schofield (hero of Ice Station) has been sent to a top-secret US Air Force installation in the Utah desert. After the notoriety of his recent adventures in Antarctica, the Marine Corps decide they want him well out of the media's reach - so assign him to the US President's helicopter known as Marine One. In this new role, Schofield will be escorting the visiting President on an inspection tour of the base itself. But, already waiting and watching, there are certain people who don't plan on the head of state ever leaving the base alive . . .

Matthew Reilly, a native and resident of Sydney, started writing screenplays and magazine articles while studying law, then self-published his first novel, Contest. His second novel, Ice Station, became a huge international success, followed by phenomenal sales for Temple, his third.

A reissue of the second Inspector Banks novel to build on the series's growing success;

The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful folk singer with a mysterious past, a shady land-developer, Harry's editor and a local thriller writer are all suspects--and all are figures from Harry's previous, idyllic summers in the dale. A young girl, Sally Lumb, knows more than she lets on, and her knowledge could lead to danger. Inspector Banks's second case unearths disturbing secrets behind a bucolic facade.

"Wringland" is a debut novel of menace and powerful atmosphere. A novel of chilling menace and powerful atmosphere set in haunted fen country. Her new job negotiating sales for Holtbury Prestige Homes takes Abbie Parker to sinister Black Fen. From the moment she arrives, Abbie falls prey to bizarre incidents both on the building site and in the surrounding wet-lands. The unwanted attentions of a deranged clergyman, the increasingly odd behaviour of her soldier boyfriend, growing awareness of the appalling abuse heaped on a strange little girl, all of these are trial enough. But Abbie's real nightmares begins with the disembodied voices of singing children, the constant reappearance of a battered prayerbook... and the gloating laughter of Martha Robinson, hanged for infanticide a century earlier.

In a picturesque Northamptonshire village, a cold evil has thrived unhindered for centuries; In February 1830, surly Tomos Richards is ordered to take his 14-year-old mute and crippled sister Sian, along with his cattle drove, from Cardiganshire to London, hoping to find a cure there for her injuries. Her journey is beset by danger and cruelty and, when much of the drove is lost in a bog, Sian takes her chance to run away. Alone save for her pony and her loyal dog, and desperate to return to Wales, she mistakenly arrives at Tripp's Cottage in Nether Wapford, where cholera has just taken hold and she is viewed with deep suspicion... Switching to the present day, Ivan Browning, a 32-year-old pottery teacher with a tragic past, has escaped London to live in the same Tripp's Cottage. As the foot-and-mouth epidemic begins, he experiences ghostly pleas for help... while also becoming the target of two wealthy but, so far, untouchable local gangs. For his investigations into the cottage's haunted history is about to uncover a gruesome mystery which others will kill to keep buried deep.

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's-land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets.
Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know she that is entering the home of a known paedophile . . . and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are out in force . . .
Soon Sophie is trapped at the centre of a terrifying siege, with a man she has come to despise.
Whipped to a frenzy by unsubstantiated rumour, the mob unleashes its hatred. Against authority . . . the law . . . and the 'pervert'. 'Protecting Amy' becomes the catch-all defence for the terrible events that follow. And if murder is part of it, then so be it.
But is Amy really missing . . . ?

Acid Row is Minette Walters' eighth novel and will be promoted with her biggest ever marketing campaign. She lives near Dorchester.