Of course working alone in a cramped apartment typing up audio tapes the agency send can be dull, but it means that Nora Clay doesn't have to mix with people, especially men. And Nora Clay knows all about the kind of trouble you get from men.
One day Nora finds herself paying attention to what she is writing, to what the man is saying on the tape. And Nora knows she's going to have to do something about it. Otherwise the nightmares are going to come back.
For Detective Conrad Voort of the NYPD, the frenzied slayings of a series of men are a baffling unconnected puzzle, turning an oven-hot summer in the city into a cauldron of fear and horror. But Voort may not have to wait to long to find the killer. The killer may be about to find him.

Praise for Ethan Black's previous novel, The Broken Heart's Club, (which also featured the charismatic Detective Conrad Voort) :
'A very black, witty thriller' Daily Mirror
'Perversely Clever' The New York Times

Humphrey Hawksley is one of the BBC's most experienced and respected foreign correspondents. Recently reporting and working from the Balkans, he had specialised in Asia for the previous ten years and reported from more than 20 countries there.
Humphrey Hawksley draws on his own experiences as an international foreign correspondent reporting from potential war zones, to write the all too realistic and disturbing thriller, Absolute Measures.
Absolute Measures traces the lives of Yasin and Samira Omer, twin children from the Sudan, whose parents are accidentally killed during a special forces operation against weapons of mass destruction. The story moves from the Sudan to the Philippines, from India and Sri Lanka to Belgrade, Budapest and, finally, London. It is set against the back-drop of the financial crisis in Asia and a growing grass-roots revulsion there against Western money and governments.
Absolute Measures is Humphrey Hawksley's third novel. His first, Dragonstrike, was written with Simon Holberton; his second was Ceremony of Innocence. Both were published to critical acclaim.

‘Ominous and insightful. Dragon Strike is a thinking man's thriller that will glue to your chair.' Stephen Coonts, New York Times best-selling author of Cuba.
'...the economic, political and diplomatic dimensions, all of which seem credible and illuminating...come together in a tense climax.' Mail on Sunday

When she falls for the charms of a distant relation at a wedding, a lonely woman sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape from her miserable marriage and start afresh, but when her lover suggests murder is the answer to their problems, she finds herself drawn into a maze of deception, intrigue and madness. From the author of Undone.

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Praise for Steve Martini's previous novels include;
The best debut, in my opinion, is Compelling Evidence 'John Grisham
'Nice insider touches, and a hard-punching climax 'The Times
'A sensationally good courtroom thriller' Los Angeles Times

The Attorney heralds the return of Paul Madriani, hot-shot lawyer and much loved hero of Steve Martini's first four bestsellers.
Tired of the corrosive politics of Capital City, lawyer Paul Madriani has reached a watershed in his life. A new practice in San Diego, the mellow swells of the Pacific, and if things work out a future with Susan McKay - that's the plan.
Then Jonah Hale, an old client from Capital City comes to Paul with a desperate problem. His granddaughter Amanda is missing, snatched by her drug addicted, thieving mother with the help of charismatic feminist leader Zolanda 'Zo' Suade.
Amid allegations that Hale abused Amanda and is unfit to have custody, Paul watches Jonah's anger turn to rage and when Zo is found murdered, Paul Madriani is drawn into a case which destroys everything he believes in.

As an investment counsellor at McKinney Alitzer, Iris Thorne's job is pursuing business opportunities. So when her former fiancé contacts her out of the blue, inviting her to investigate a new business venture in the emerging Russian market, she's intrigued. But, only hours after she's been met by Todd at Moscow airport, he's dead and, what's worse, the Moscow police assume that she was somehow involved in his murder.
Iris manages to return to Los Angeles, taking with her Todd's ashes which she's agreed to deliver to his devastated sister. Only then does she see that Los Angeles can be even more terrifying than Moscow as Todd's guilt-laden legacy threatens to destroy her...
Smart, funny and trip-wire taut, Bianne Pugh's writing is as distinctive as her stylish heroine's attitude to her working world and this new novel, spanning two continents, sees Iris stretched to her emotional limits.

'An exciting find, only one word for it. Wow!' The Observer
'A superior piece of story-telling' Los Angeles Times