Steamy thriller

Ten years ago Sayre Lynch escaped from her small Louisiana hometown. Now she must return to Destiny to bury her brother, and confront her manipulative father and the painful memories she attempted to flee.
As investigators raise questions about the nature of Danny’s death, Sayre examines the turbulent relationships within her own family. Complicating her attempts to learn exactly how her brother died is Beck Merchant, her father’s brilliant and canny attorney, who seems every bit as corrupt as her father. Yet despite her low opinion of Beck, Sayre finds herself irresistibly drawn to him.
Tension between the workforce and management is mounting in Sayre’s father’s steel mill. While another hotbed of lies, secrecy and depravity smoulders and then ignites within his own family . . .

Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty books, of which over fifty have been New York Times bestsellers, including the number one New York Times bestsellers The Alibi, Unspeakable, Fat Tuesday, Exclusive, The Witness, Charade, Where There's Smoke and French Kiss. Her novels have been published in thirty languages. She and her husband divide their time between homes in Texas and South Carolina.

Detective Inspector Steve Madden doesn’t believe in clairvoyance. As far as he is concerned, the dead don’t speak to anyone.

Old childhood memories are stirred when jaded psychic Lavinia Roberts tells him that one of her clients is about to become a killer. But Steve Madden isn’t interested in crimes that haven’t been committed.
A few days later Lavinia Roberts is found brutally murdered. In front of her is a pack of tarot cards.
Did she foresee her own horrific demise?
Then the body of a child is found and everything points towards a ritual murder. Suddenly, Steve Madden’s Brighton is immersed in a hunt for a killer who has no boundaries in who, or how he slays.
How many innocents must die before someone is made to pay?

Glenn Chandler was born in Edinburgh and began writing for television with a commission from Scottish Television for a number of half hour dramas. He has also contributed to such memorable series as Angels and Crown Court, as well as writing two horror novels. He has ventured into true crime with Yorkshire TV's The Life and Crimes of William Palmer and A is for Acid, as well as writing for Granada's In Suspicious Circumstances. His full-length book, Burning Poison is the true account of an unsolved Liverpool murder case. He is best known, however, as the creator and writer of the award-winning and highly praised Taggart series for Scottish Television. He now lives in Hertfordshire.

John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection, echoing masters of the genre from M R James to Stephen King, Connolly delves into our darkest fears – lost lovers, missing children, subterranean creatures and predatory demons.

Framing the collection are two substantial novellas – The Cancer Cowboy Rides charts the fatal progress of a modern-day grim reaper, while The Reflecting Eye is a haunted house tale with a twist and marks the return of private detective Charlie Parker, the troubled hero of Connolly's crime novels. The perfect antidote to Christmas cheer, Nocturnes is a masterly volume to be read with the lights on - menace has never been so seductive . . .

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968 and is a regular contributor to the IRISH TIMES. His debut -Every Dead Thing - swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. He is the first British writer to win the US Shamus award.

When workers at a vast peat extraction site in the bleak and tortured landscape of the Irish midlands uncover a long-buried, badly damaged corpse, they call in pathologist Nora Gavin. The body has apparently been strangled, slashed and drowned – the ritual ‘triple death’ of Ireland’s blood-soaked pagan past.
But moments after Nora arrives a much more recent victim is discovered. Like the ancient body, this new corpse seems to have suffered the triple death . . .
Nora and her lover, archaeologist Cormac Maguire, must team up professionally once more. Soon they are enmeshed in a web of tangled desires and terrible secrets. The danger mounts, fuelled by rumours of ancient gold, illicit liaisons and long-delayed revenge.
Though they do not realise it, Nora and Cormac have come far too close to the truth – placing them in ever-greater danger of becoming a ruthless killer’s next victims.

Erin Hart has an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She and her husband, musician Paddy O’Brien, live in Minneapolis and frequently visit Ireland. Haunted Ground is her first novel.

When half-Greek, half-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros is asked to trace a missing teenager, an immigrant of the former Soviet Union, he doesn't see any connection with the recent plague of violent killings afflicting Athens. As his search plunges him deep into the intricate network of underground crime, he is confronted by a wall of gang-inspired silence. One lead, however, takes him into a criminal organisation trading in illegal antiquites. As he follows the trail to the missing girl, he discovers that the present day killings have their roots in the brutal civil war. And that he has put himself in grave danger...

An impossible escape from the jaws of death... The secret of a Biblical prophecy revealed... A loved one brutally murdered... Forces of terrifying evil empowered... A man of hidden courage is tested and proven ready to become a new hero for our times... The Blockbusting New Series From The Author Of Left Behind Is Here! From Dr Tim LaHaye, creator of the Left Behind series, comes a brand new adventure that combines drama and revelation with non-stop suspense. Babylon Rising introduces Michael Murphy, a field archaeologist who fearlessly hunts down and authenticates ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing - but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavations and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of greatest evil.

Dr Tim LaHaye's writing has had an immense impact on the Christian world. Books including the phenomenally popular Left Behind novels have reached over 50 million readers and have stirred thousands to accept Jesus Christ. Based in the U S A, LaHaye is a writer, minister and speaker on Bible prophecy. He has been married for more than 50 years and has four children and nine grandchildren.

Bled to death and left in a rubbish bin, the teenaged prostitute is just the first victim.
DI Jeff Rickman’s investigation into the Afghan refugee’s sordid death leads first to the heart of a community who can’t - or won’t - talk to him. Then the investigation comes home to Rickman’s own private life. As the body count starts rising he is framed for a crime he didn’t commit. A murderer is trying to make things personal. Very personal.
Is he on the trail of a serial killer? Or something even more sinister?

Margaret Murphy is the author of five novels, all concerned with the psychology of both the violent criminal and the victim of crime. Her first, GOODNIGHT MY ANGEL, was shortlisted for the First Blood award for debut crime novels, and her fourth, PAST REASON, has been optioned for television. A graduate in environmental biology, in 1998 she went back to university to gain an MA in writing. She is now studying psychology at the University of Liverpool. She has been a countryside ranger, biology teacher, dyslexia tutor and creative writing teacher. She lives on the Wirral.

Martin Reed comes to Whitefish Harbor in northern Michigan looking for a new beginning. He finds an old house and a young woman and soon, he knows he wants to spend the rest of his life there with Hannah LeClaire.
But Hannah has a past - a child who never was and a lover who betrayed her trust. And when Sean Colby, the boy who broke her heart, comes back to town he cannot accept that Hannah has left him behind. Sean and his father, a local police officer, seem hell-bent on driving both Hannah and Martin out of town. And when Sean’s attempts at arson and rape fail, Martin is the next victim. He wakes up in hospital to find his lover and his cousin have been arrested for attempted murder.

Fire Point is a story of love, revenge, and renewal, set against the harsh beauty of northern Michigan’s Lake Superior coast.

John Smolens is the author of five novels. He lives in Marquette, Michigan, where he is Professor of English at Northern Michigan University.

Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank – or face an inglorious return before the mast.
But this is only the first of many obstacles for a man who was pressed into the King’s Service and discovered a calling for the sea. Kydd is from humble origins, yet he attains the lofty heights of the quarterdeck as an officer in His Majesty’s Navy. If he is to avoid spending the rest of his career as a tarpaulin officer, he must also become a gentleman.
Kydd and his enigmatic friend Nicholas Renzi set sail in HMS Tenacious for the North American station. Aboard the old 64-gun ship, Kydd comes to doubt he will ever match up to the high-born gentlemen officers.
The frontier town of Halifax, which is also home to a British prince of the blood, provides a welcome diversion. Meanwhile, the young United States is in dispute with revolutionary France, the Quasi War, and Kydd finds himself in the USS Constellation in the heady days of the birth of the American Navy. On his return to Halifax, Kydd surmounts more hurdles, both personal and professional – will he ever see himself as truly one of a band of brothers?

Julian Stockwin was sent at the age of fourteen to Indefatigable, a tough sea-training school. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy, where he served for eight years in the Far East, Antarctic waters and the South Seas. In Vietnam he saw active service in a carrier task force.
After leaving the Navy (rated Petty Officer), Julian practised as an educational psychologist. He lived for some time in Hong Kong, where he was commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve. He was awarded the MBE and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He now lives in Devon with his wife Kathy.

It is 1955 and the influx of televisions do nothing to relieve the tensions in the deeply conservative town of Lydmouth. Mr Frederick, a television engineer, arrives to sell and adapt the new sets. He comes for two nights and apparently leaves. On the evening of that same day, eccentric Dr Bayswater, a retired GP, is found dead. A gentleman's yellow kid glove, slightly gnawed by rats, is found lying next to his body.
Detective Chief Inspector Richard Thornhill is drafted in to investigate. It soon becomes apparent that the case is going to be far from straight-forward. Bayswater was not liked, particularly not by his dashing successor, Dr Connolly nor by a local lorry driver with a grudge and a need for money.
Meanwhile, Jill Francis has returned after three years to take over as editor of the Gazette. But there is fierce competition from the ruthless Ivor Fuggle’s rival Evening Post and when she is not trying to keep the newspaper afloat she spends her much of her time with Dr Connolly. Nevertheless, despite himself, Thornhill is still in love with her.