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.

On the heels of Jodi Compton's best-selling debut, "The 37th Hour", comes a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek, who's drawn into a tangled family mystery as she struggles with the aftermath of a case that changed her forever. On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now, a zealous D.A.'s investigator has come to town, determined to make an arrest. Surrounded by colleagues who know her to be a murder suspect, Sarah keeps her demons at bay by involving herself in the troubles of strangers. However, as she crosses one ethical line after another, Sarah increasingly fears that a mis-step on her part will end not only in her disgrace, but also in the death of one of those she has promised herself she will protect.

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard.
It’s not going to be easy. Thursday’s former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination.
With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?

'Just when I'd given up all hope, along came Thursday Next. Thank you, Jasper Fforde, for making reading fun again.' Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries series

This, the third in the Evans Delaney series, sees the welcome return of Evan's brother - riding to her rescue - introduced in Meg Gardiner's first book, China Lake. We also meet again the dangerously attractive fighter pilot, Marc Dupree, someone that the vulnerable Evan finds herself drawn to.
Every established fan of Meg's books will eagerly buy into this, another non-stop action helter-skelter that tosses the characters into the air at the beginning, juggles them mercilessly before letting them down at the end. The most complicated and edgy relationship in crime fiction, that of Evan and Jesse, is again tested to the limit - each forced to re-evaluate their needs and futures.
The author of these most satisfying of books has done it again. The advice is: set aside an evening, pull up the draw-bridge and get stuck in.

Elizabeth George is one of the most successful writers of crime fiction in the world. Her twelve novels have appeared on bestseller lists in the UK, USA and Australia, and several of them have been dramatised by BBC Television as the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. She has also written a collection of short stories and edited a crime anthology.
Now she shares this wealth of experience with would-be novelists, and with crime fiction fans. Drawing extensively on her own work, and that of other bestselling writers including Stephen King, Harper Lee, Dennis Lehane and many others, she illustrates her points about plotting, characterisation and technique with great clarity.
She also includes extracts from her own Journals – the diaries she keeps as writes each of her novels – and these give us an unprecedented insight into the creative mind, with all its highs and lows.

Elizabeth George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. Her first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France; Well-Schooled in Murder was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI (1990). Her novels have now been adapted for television by the BBC. An Edgar and Macavity Nominee as well as a New York Times and international bestselling author, Elizabeth George divides her time between California and Kensington, London.

Undercover cop Dan Shepherd is back in this gritty action adventure thriller.

When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan `Spider' Shepherd is called in.
He is ordered to infiltrate the tight-knit team, to gain their confidence and, ultimately, to betray them.
As Shepherd finds himself in the firing line, he has to decide exactly where his loyalties lie.

`As tough as British thrillers get ... gripping' Irish Independent

Stephen Leather lives in Dublin and has written 15 bestsetling novels.

A family under pressure in a brilliantly observed novel of spiralling suspense.

Novice lawyer James Carroll owes f30,000 to drug-dealer Roger Oates. Just a year of quiet business away from his dream home in Honolulu, Roger is not about to lose his grip now. So if James can't pay, his parents must. But Francis Carroll has put everything he has into a project that will finally bring him the wealth and prestige he craves. And it's no good asking his ambitious wife Rachel. Or his dangerously alluring first wife Virginia. They are holding tight to their own dreams. It seems the Carrolls are standing on a trap door. And it's a dark and vicious world below.

Grip is the first novel by Michael Wills, MP, who writes under the name David McEwen. A former TV producer and director, Michael Wills has been MP for Swindon North since 1997

Fantastically fast-paced Mark Beamon thriller from the man Tom Clancy claims is the `new genius for taut, compulsive adventure writing'.

A top-secret FBI file is missing. The unlucky student who uncovered it is dead, and now his ex-girlfriend is on the run, accused of murder. The only man everyone agrees can find her and the explosive document is 'off-duty', suspended and under the threat of prosecution by the bureau itself.
But she is a world-class rock-climber able to drop out of sight anywhere in the globe. And even if Mark Beamon does find her, who can he trust when the FBI itself is under suspicion?

Kyle Mills lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he spends his time skiing, rock climbing and writing books.

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself, but a local detective has doubts. And the Hartes and Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent's worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?

A masterly thriller set in World War II London.

Tom Wall, an American soldier wounded while fighting with the Allies in Crete, wakes up in a London hospital. Physically weakened and suffering from combat fatigue, Tom is aware only of a burning need to find his brother, a diplomat, also in London. But British Intelligence has other ideas. They want Wall to help secure a national asset - the Double Cross System, an intelligence operation now at risk from a German master spy.
Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London, Tom pursues a quest whose goals are constantly shifting, in pursuit of an enemy whose identity is ever changing.

`Masterfully told, Double Cross Blind is a superb WWII thriller. It is haunting and unforgettable. Patrica Cornwell,

Joel Ross lives in Maine, USA, with his wife.

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.

The original Gangland Britain was conceived and written at a time when organised crime in the UK was still in its infancy. Armed police patrols were a rarity, contract killings and multi-million pound drug busts still made front page news and the notion that banks and other large corporations could be in the pay of Mafia-like gangs seemed absurd. Eight years on the picture has changed dramatically. The number of gangland murders, shootings and kidnappings, along with the levels of drug trafficking, people smuggling and money laundering, have all experienced phenomenal growth. At the same time the proliferation of firearms has filtered down to such an extent that guns are now routinely carried and used by petty criminals involved in house burglary or street mugging. The day-to-day impact of organised crime on the lives of the general public has never been greater. A powerful and at times shocking read, Gangs provides a dramatic insight into the workings of contemporary organised crime from the perspective of the gang members themselves, with Tony Thompson riding shotgun with them and providing unique and vivid first-hand accounts of their lives.

Murder, mystery and intrigue in ancient Rome – the ninth Marcus Corvinus historical thriller.

When Licinius Murena, wealthy owner of a fish-farm, is found dead, drowned in one of his own eel tanks, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, and was heard bad-mouthing him drunkenly in public the day before Murena's death. Nor by the widow, a little stunner half Murena's age who allegedly spent an inordinate amount of time 'under the doctor'. Nor by his daughter or his farm manager. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out. With the help, of course, of his clever wife Perilla - if she can spare the time from her newly acquired passion for gambling...As we follow the Byzantine thought processes by which our hero solves the crime, we are entertained along with way with accounts of pisciculture and with a handy guide to 'Twelve Lines', the Roman precursor of backgammon.

Meet Charlie. An everyday bloke.
Good news is, he has a job.
Bad news is, it's in a photo kiosk.

He whiles away the hours with his rather eccentric colleague George. Customers come, customers go, and nothing much happens from one day to the next.
But appearances can be deceptive.
You see, there is one line of work where taking the world at face value can be very foolish indeed. Where trusting someone -- anyone -- is the most dangerous thing you can ever do.
The truth is, Charlie and George have not been very honest with each other.
The truth is, working in a photo kiosk isn't their number one career choice.
Their real jobs are a hell of a lot more dangerous.

When curiosity gets the better of both of them, it's time to come clean.
But the truth could very well kill them…

From the creator of [spooks] comes a thrilling tale of espionage, friendship and trust, where two unforgettable heroes stare down the barrel of the spy game -- and discover that it's not enough to expect the unexpected… you have to count on it.

David Wolstencroft was born in 1969. He grew up in Edinburgh but now lives in Los Angeles. He is the creator of SPOOKS, the BAFTA award-winning spy drama, produced by Kudos for BBC ONE. Good News, Bad News is his first novel.