Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother Isobel, only fifteen years older than he, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great aunt Luce is a wealthy textile designer. Her partner, Liberty, is a barrister. The women are independent and unconventional. But eighteen-year-old Toby's world is a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Internet at night. Toby senses trouble at once when his mother takes up with an enigmatic, but fascinating scientist: Roehm.
Who is this man called Roehm?
He enters their lives and begins a slow dance of courtship and seduction. The encounter with Roehm transforms their lives. Daily reality becomes unstable, duplicitous. But who is this huge, sinister, yet irresistible man with no identifiable past? Toby hunts the Web, searching for clues. Roehm appears to leave a trail through the computer's screen. The trail points to the highest mountain in the Alps.

A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double murder. The notoriously dangerous suspect, Frankie Koehler, was still at large. Rosenzweig resolved to find the killer and close the case.

Philip Gourevitch brings together the story of Rosenzweig's pursuit with a mesmerizing account of Koehier's criminal personality and years on the run, transforming a criminal investigation into a searing literary masterpiece, reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers.

Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, which won the Guardian Prize for best first book. He lives in New York City.

From the author of ne Dead School and The Butcher Boy

McCabe's hilarious novel about Pat McNab, the small town serial killer. Or is he? Meet Pat McNab, forty five years old, often to be found endlessly puffing smokes and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar or sitting on his mother's knee, both of them singing away together like some ridiculous two-headed human juke box. But that was all before the story really begins. Emerald Germs of Ireland is, in essence, Pat McNab's post-matricide year. This another great romp from the master of black comedy.

A photo shoot in the Thames, playing dead: a corpse for the gallery walls. This is Mercy Alexander's work. Enigmatic, glamorous, beautiful - not many people know the real Mercy. She's been an image far too long. But Rose knows her friend from childhood, her soulmate.
Then Rose meets a terrible death and Mercy must turn to someone for help who himself has much to hide ...

George Tiffin is a writer and film maker. He lives with his wife and two children in London, close to the river. Mercy Alexander is his first novel.

'An entertaining, urbane thriller' Vogue
'A stylish, edgy noir thriller ... vivid and intriguing' Manchester Evening News