From the critically acclaimed author of Superstition and Coincidence comes a blend of mystery, metaphysics and scientific speculation that will discretely charm you into a world of terrifying suspense... 'It was some moments before Charlie turned his gaze back to Control. When he did, there were tears in his eyes. "What have you done?"' "Something that evolution wouldn't have accomplished in a million years, left to itself," Control replied calmly. "You're custom-built, Charlie, a hero for our time..."' Charlie Monk is the ultimate superhero. He has no conscience. He has no fear. But he also has no memory. Dr Susan Flemyng has found a way to give memory back. In a world where even virtual reality is controlled, that is the most dangerous knowledge of all. Can she trust those she works for, or should she take the greatest risk and trust Charlie?

The fourth - and final - novel in the thrilling Hudson series, following the turbulent life of Rain.

An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet night. just before he can get to her, he's run over by a skidding car. The casualty team fighting to save his life find Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes. Everyone is convinced that he looks like her and must be her son. Only she knows he can't be.
Recovering from a miscarriage, about to go to court with a career-changing commercial case, the last thing Trish wants is responsibility for a lost boy. But there is no one else. Her search for his identity takes her on a journey through her father's erratic past, who, she soon learns, is the chief suspect for a brutal murder.
The fourth in Natasha Cooper's Trish Maguire series, Out o f the Dark is a touching and gripping novel that looks unflinchingly at some of the most destructive crimes.

Planet earth is in danger of running dry. Brilliant scientist Francesca Carval knows her newest discovery could save the human race: she has perfected the process of desalination, and can convert salt water into fresh. But when terrorists attempt to hijack her plane as she flies to a press conference, they crash in the Venezuelan jungle and Francesca is not heard from again.
Years later, Kurt Austin discovers Francesca living among the tribe that took her in. But what to do about the treacherous group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply - and that will kill anyone who stands in its way?

Clive Cussler Shockwave books Paperback O671020552 £3.99 April

Dirk Pitt - a man of action who lives by his wits and daring.
As special Projects Director for the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), Dirk Pitt is cool and courageous, with a love of fast cars and extreme danger. After an unknown force kills thousands of marine animals plus nearly two hundred people aboard a cruise ship, Pitt traces the destruction back to a merciless Australian millionaire. From a chilling escape at a high-security diamond mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Dirk Pitt races to stop a madman's ruthless plans - before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives!

The new, enthralling ocean thriller of high-adventure from the grand master of suspense, Clive Cussler. SERPENT is the first novel in a new series, THE NUMA FILES (National Underwater Marine Association), featuring Kurt Austin, head of NUMA Special Assignments team. The discovery of a pre-Columbian antiquity off the coast of Morocco by a beautiful marine archaeologist makes her the target of a powerful Texan industrialist. Rescued by Kurt Austin, together they embark on a deadly mission, following the clues revealed by the artifact, to uncover a sinister plot whose key lies in the hulking wreck of the ANDREA DORIA which sank fifty years before.

Sixth novel in the increasingly popular mediaeval mystery series featuring Crowner John, Devon's first county coroner. May 1195, and Sir John de Wolfe is faced with a strange series of serial murders, which begins with the suffocation of a Jewish money-lender and proceeds through that of a London harlot, a dissolute priest and a burgess suspected of abusing young boys. The common factor is that an appropriate Biblical text is left at each murder scene, the mode of which reflects the alleged sin of the victim. This means that a literate and Bible-learned killer is involved - which, in an age where only 1% of the population can read or write - can only be a priest. There are seventeen parish churches in Exeter, so the killer could be any one of about a hundred clerics. Crowner John sets about to discover the identity of the homicidal priest.

The sensational and utterly unforgettable thriller that exposes the soul of a culture...the heart of a people...and the mind of a killer... A bomb has not only destroyed Stockholm's new Olympic arena just months before the Summer Games, it has blown someone to pieces. Putting a city on edge with fears of a terrorist on the loose, the Bomber will become journalist Annika Bengtzon's biggest story - or the final nail in her coffin. Set against the breathtaking landscape of the Swedish winter, The Bomber draws in readers like the dark and edgy eye of a TV camera at a nighttime crime scene, delivering a climax that's a blasting cap on a short fuse, ready to detonate a reporter's world. Liza Marklund's extraordinary writing, bone-chilling plot and irresistible heroine have created an international phenomenon as explosive as the Bomber's devastating blasts.

In this state-of-the-art mystery, Steven Dunbar is sent to the Scottish village of Blackbridge, outside Edinburgh, by the Sci-Med Inspectorate. It appears that a local farmer has been paid by someone unknown to complain about a local GM crop. But this is only the beginning; ex-SAS men turn up, who may still be working for the government, and they do not have Steven's health in mind.

Ken McClure has written another up-to-the-moment thriller, dealing with the realities of GM crops and the lengths both sides will go to...

The Hills have hit hard times: they're losing cash hand over foot in the restaurants and clubs they own as fronts and, without money to launder, the family's a damn liability. As head of the villainous dynasty, it falls to Ronnie to work on their profitability. Striking a deal with his straight daughter Primrose's management-consultant boyfriend, things seem to be looking up. What with Rupert's brilliant business brain and the Hills' criminal muscle, the three innovative crimes they conspire to commit look set to make their fortune. The first two are brilliant successes, but when Rupert falls for an aristocratic femme fatale he needs to ditch Primrose in a hurry. Fearing Ronnie's wrath, he persuades one of the younger Hills to overthrow him so they can continue unimpeded with the last and most lucrative crime. But Rupert has reckoned without the cunning of a woman scorned...

Praise for Black Cabs
`A gripping tale of high finance and low cunning' Sunday Times
`This is one of those why-didn't-l-think-of-it-first ideas' Sunday Mirror

On the heels of an amazing string of fourteen bestselling crime thrillers, Robert K. Tanenbaum delivers his most colourful, morally complex, and true-to-life book yet.

For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for New York City, the police shooting of a black man raises a host of disquieting issues, chief among them the question of whether the NYPD cop's self-defence claim is really just a departmental whitewash during an election year. It doesn't help that Karp is also up to his neck in two other politically charged, high-profile cases. Meanwhile, with his wife Marlene blindly enjoying her winning from the Internet stock boom while his daughter Lucy insists on volunteering at the shelters where a serial killer may very well be lurking, Butch hasn't got it so great at home either. Desperate to find the ruthless killer before the violence strikes his own family, Karp must negotiate a delicate path through a system of corruption and conspiracy that threatens to block his every attempt.

'Tanenbaum remains an essential addiction' Publishers Weekly
'Tanenbaum is one lawyer who can write with the best of them' Joseph Wambaugh

The Medici Dagger sweeps readers up in an intriguing intellectual puzzle that delivers shattering suspense with the velocity of a 9mm bullet in this high-speed epic. A plane goes down in the Atlantic, taking with it a page from the journals of Leornardo da Vinci. Meanwhile, in Georgetown, the home of a museum curator is burned to the ground. Only a young boy named Reb survives. Twenty years later: Hollywood stuntman Reb Barnett is an art-loving, adrenaline-addicted daredevil on the run from his dreams. Then a phone call abruptly rips him from his familiar wolrd of movie illusion and beckons him to Italy. There, Reb embarks on a quest for Leornardo's elusive Circles of Truth: an ancient puzzle whose codes lead to the hidden Medici Dagger, a weapon of mysteriously powerful alloy, coveted the world over. To Reb, the dagger is his only link to the truth about his parents' death. But finding the puzzle is only the first step. Breaking its code means matching wits with the towering intellect of Leonardo himself. And staying alive means keeping one jump ahead of a shadowy adversary: the killer who made Reb an orphan - and now wants him dead.