James Lee Burke meets Charles Frazier in a dark, atmospheric debut novel of love and revenge.

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1957. Following old custom, 18-year-old Therese Petitjean has been promised in marriage to the 52-year-old head of the rival family. But Therese has other plans for the old fool, and her drastic actions spark the feud into flame as never before...

Caroline Carver was born in the UK. At 22 she went to Australia for a holiday and stayed for 10 years, working in publishing and travelling. In 1992 she took part in the London to Saigon Car Rally, where she and her co-driver were the only all-female crew on a 63-day, 12,500 mile journey. In 1993, she fell into freelance writing and since then has worked locally while writing and travelling. In 1998, she completed the London to Cape Town Car Rally, once again the only all-female crew. She blames her love of adventure on her parents: her mother set the land speed record in Australia and her father was a jet fighter pilot.

Harlan Coben is the creator of a brilliant series starring the unlikely and oddly named hero: Myron Bolitar. He's a hot headed, tender-hearted sports agent with a biting wit and a penchant for falling into jobs he doesn't want. Think of him as more Jerry Maguire than Eric Hall.

Just as Myron is coming to terms with a life that constantly threatens to swamp his essentially cock-sure and well intentioned personality, he is caught out on the one front that he never expected to have to defend.
He may have a son.
Conceived in a one-night stand years before, and from a woman who is now married to her personal nemesis, the child swiftly dying of a vicious bone disease. And Myron is the only man with capabilities to help. There is an anonymous marrow donor, but he or she has refused to donate. They must be tracked down and persuaded or the boy will die.
But when Myron discovers that this mystery donor has not been seen since grade school, and according to the IRS, just doesn't exist, he begins to realise that he as stumbled onto something almost as important as the saving of a life...

Darkest Fear is a spellbinding novel that deftly balances realism with excitement.

Evan Webb's mother is dying. He returns to his home town in Virginia to be with her and his sister. The family has for years shared a secret: that Evan's violent, alcoholic father was not shot dead by an intruder in their house, as the outside world believes, but was killed by Evan's mother, driven beyond endurance by his behaviour. Now the intricate web of lies they have constructed begins to unravel around them, and other past secrets, unknown to Evan or his sister, begin to emerge. Thomas H. Cook has established a huge reputation for his unique crime novels, and INTO THE WEB will further enhance his standing as a master of the form.

Daniel and Nathan were six years old when they first met and became best friends. Thirty years later Dan is convicted of Nathan's murder . . .

Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan twelve years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's life has been entrusted. All the two men have left to do is rake over the last ashes of Ford's existence. So he begins to tell his story. Daniel's story takes him from his first meeting with Nathan, aged six, on the shores of a lake in 1952, through first loves, Vietnam, the death of Kennedy and finally their flight from the draft which ends in Nathan's brutal murder. But meanwhile the clock is ticking and the days are running out ...

Roger Jon Ellory lives and works in the Midlands with his wife and child.