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'Right -up your blood-spattered alley' TNT

Deon Meyer broke into the Uk crime thriller scene with the stunning novel Dead Before Dying. He brings to the genre the confusions and contradictions of a country rediscovering itself'- also the heat, atmosphere and complex characteristics of South Africa and its peoples. Meyer now lives just outside Cape Town, but was brought up in Klerksdorp, arguably the worst and wildest of the mining towns in the Western Transvaal. To this day, he feels the influence of that time and place on him. That and his days in the army are reflected in this brilliant thriller so redolent of his homeland.

Van Heerden is a mess. A gourmet whose soul is touched by classical music, he is also a man whose brilliant career as a detective was touched by disaster when he coveted what he shouldn't have, and lost his best friend because of it. Leaving the police force he spiraled downward into guilt and violence and the occasional downbeat investigation job. It is only when he is hired to solve a murder and finds himself investigating a tangled and violent web of major theft, hidden identity, killing and smuggling that he can start to believe in himself again. He cannot afford to lose it all again, and the clock is ticking...

This haunting debut by South Aftican writer Natasha Mostert is beguiling in its power. Starting with a phone call by a dead woman, the story dives into intrigue from the beginning. Arriving in London from South Africa, Isa is bidden to carry out her cousin's last wishes. She finds instructions detailing how to bring about the financial downfall of Alette's former husband - a man Isa believes to have made her cousin unutterably miserable whilst she was alive.
The further into Alette's plan she plunges, however, the more of partial truths and lies she discovers, but soon one truth shines clearly from the confusion.. Alette was murdered, and it slowly dawns on Isa that she herself is now in terrible danger. Alette's lethal enemy is now stamng Isa through the twists and turns of death and life.

President Tyler Forrest was widely trusted and deeply believed in, but on the eve of his funeral, his personal quarters are robbed by a burglar who then blows himself up. When the last man to contact Tyler before his death is also killed, the First Lady must find out what is really going on.

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The new cutting-edge thriller from the internationally bestselling author.

Nat Hennessy saw his father battered to death by a drunken black looter. Twenty years later, Nat, now a cop, has the chance to avenge the brutal murder.
Gush Walker - witnessed his father's lynching at the hands of the Ku-Klux-Klan. Now a pioneering brain surgeon, he has dedicated his life to eradicating the bigotry that caused the tragedy.
Camilla Bissonnette - loved by both men - lies in a coma and needs the technical skills of Gush to save her. But even this is not enough without a chilling personal sacrifice ...

Stan Pottinger, author of The Fourth Procedure, has had successful careers as a lawyer and an investment banker. He has three children and lives in the New York area.