Adventure
- The prisoner Alex Berenson
- To unmask a CIA mole, John Wells must resume his old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi--and hope he can survive it--in the new cutting-edge.
- The cutthroat : an Isaac Bell adventure Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
- The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases
before. But none quite like this.
- Viper's blood David Gilman
- Fourth in the Hundred Years War series, "Master of war."
- Spook Street Mick Herron
- Latest in the Jackson Lamb spy thriller series.
- Painted skins Matt Hilton
- PI Tess Grey and her partner Nicolas 'Po' Villere have been hired by Margaret Norris to find her granddaughter, Jasmine Reed, who has been missing for sixteen days. But if Tess is to have any chance of finding Jazz, she needs to know the truth about the young woman's troubled past.
- The freedom broker K. J. Howe
- First in a new series featuring Thea Paris, kidnap and ransom specialist.
- The breakout Ryan David Jahn
- James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He's done two tours in Afghanistan. He's considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge.
- Takedown Stephen Leather
- When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take him down before he can carry it out.
- The Obsidian chamber Douglas J. Preston & Lincoln Child
- After a harrowing otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachusetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.
- Ring of Fire : a Pike Logan thriller Brad Taylor
- Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the Kingdom, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide a bribe to a wealthy Saudi businessman. Now a powerful player in the defense industry, he panics when the Panama Papers burst onto the public scene.
- Stasi wolf David Young
- Gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of Stasi Child.
American Fiction
- A harvest of thorns Corban Addison
- A well thought of corporation with a dark secret and a journalist looking for a scoop on globalisation and sweatshops clash.
- The bear and the nightingale Katherine Arden
- At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales.
- 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster
- 1947 and a boy is born in a New Jersey hospital - an only child whose life will take four simultaneous routes - i.e. four boys leading parallel and quite different
- Three souls Janie Chang
- In the tradition of Lisa See and Amy Tan, Three Souls is a captivating debut novel about a young woman who must make amends on earth to earn her entry into the afterlife.
- Whatever happened to interracial love? : stories Kathleen Collins
- These short stories, discovered only recently, highlight Collins's masterfully blend of the personal issues race, gender,
family, and sexuality with the ordinary moments that shape our lives.
- History of wolves Emily Fridlund
- Linda is an outsider living in Minnesota on an abandoned commune and teased at school. She meets a seemingly ordinary family but finds they are hiding something.
- Setting free the kites Alex George
- For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly,
who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Touching tale of growing up.
- Glory over everything : beyond The kitchen house Kathleen Grissom
- The author of The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes,
whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.
- Running Cara Hoffman
- From the author of the bestseller "Be safe I love you" comes a dark tale of love and friendship in the red light district of 1980s New York.
- The evening road Laird Hunt
- A novel that follows two women as they make their separate journeys to a small Midwest town where a public lynching is to take place.
- A piece of the world Christina Baker Kline
- Imagines the life story of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World," describing the simple life she led on a remote Maine farm, her complicated relationship with her family, and the illness that incapacitated her.
- The patriots Sana Krasikov
- Story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape the confining values of her family and her city, and create a life of meaning and consequence. When a new job and a love affair lead her to Moscow, she doesn't think twice about abandoning America only to discover, years later, that America has abandoned her.
- It can't happen here Sinclair Lewis
- A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. It has been republished possibly to ring a bell with readers who might find that what is happening now is no new phenomenon.
- On Turpentine Lane Elinor Lipman
- Romantic comedy about a woman who returns to her hometown. Described as a likeable screwball comedy.
- All that's left to tell Daniel Lowe
- An American taken hostage in Pakistan is bound and blindfolded and every night a woman visits him. Unusual tale about truth, imagination and second
- A book of American martyrs Joyce Carol Oates
- Tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief.
- Idaho Emily Ruskovich
- Woman tries to piece together the story of her older husband's first family and how the events of one day shattered the family forever.
- Noah's wife Lindsay Starck
- When young minister Noah and his dutiful wife arrive at their new post in the hills, they find a grey and wet little town where it's been raining for as long as anyone can remember. Noah's wife is determined to help her husband revive this soggy congregation, but soon finds her efforts thwarted by her eccentric new neighbours.
Australian fiction
- No job for a girl Meredith Appleyard
- City girl takes a job as resident safety supervisor and nurse in a construction camp in the outback where she meets a divorced man.
- The French perfumer Amanda Hampson
- Typist gets a job in the South of France with a mysterious man and lives in an exclusive hotel among aristocrats.
- The woolgrower's companion Joy Rhoades
- 1945 is the setting for this tale of one woman's fight against the odds for her family sheep station.
British Fiction
- About last night Catherine Alliott
- Tale of a young woman struggling to make ends meet who suddenly finds she's inherited fine house in London. a
- The heart's invisible furies John Boyne
- In West Cork in the 1940s, a pregnant teenager is banished by the parish priest and goes to London for a new life. Her baby is adopted by a well off couple who will grow up wanting to understand where he came from.
- The affair Amanda Brooke
- A revealing story about a fifteen-year-old girl and the man who took advantage of her.
- Ashland & Vine John Burnside
- Grieving academic persuades an elderly woman to participate in an oral history documentary which opens up the life of a whole family.
- A year of being single Fiona Collins
- In this romantic comedy, best friends Imogen, Frankie and Grace decide to test whether the grass really is greener on the single side of the
- Mussolini's island Sarah Day
- Francesco has a memory of his father from early childhood, a night when life for his family changed: their name, their story, their living place. From that night, he has vowed to protect his mother and to follow the words of his father: Non mollare. Never give up.
- The house of new beginnings Lucy Diamond
- Number 11, Dukes Square, looks just like the other houses on the Brighton seafront: a Regency terrace with elegant sash windows, a winding
staircase, and post piled up in the hall for its tenants. It might be part of the city's history, but it's also a place of brand new beginnings.
- A secret garden Katie Fforde
- What I want to know', said Lorna, 'is what lies behind the wooded area at the back of the garden? Lorna is a talented gardener and Philly is a plantswoman.
Together they work in the grounds of a beautiful manor house in the Cotswolds.
- Darke Rick Gekoski
- Interesting debut by rare book dealer/academic is a coming of age tale about a very grumpy man who has withdrawn from the world.
- Grace Williams says it loud Emma Henderson
- The Independent gave a rave review to Emma Henderson's superb debut novel that tells the story of Grace, a woman "mangled in body and mind", and her experiences in a British mental institution in the 1950s and 1960s.
- From the heart Susan Hill
- A clever bookish girl goes to university but a mistake there makes her life difficult. A coming of age tale that has been hailed as sad and true.
- Can't help falling Kara Isaac
- Funny, heartfelt romance about how an antique shop, a wardrobe, and a mysterious tea cup bring two C.S. Lewis fans together.
- The Transition Luke Kennard
- Darkly funny debut from an award winning poet set in a near future where young people run into debt and have to live with older mentors to learn life
- All our wrong todays Elan Mastai
- "Back to the future" meets "One day" in a tale of a heartbroken man who hijacks a time machine and then has to choose between a utopian world and messy reality.
- Hame : the Fascaray archives Annalena McAfee
- A mix of literary detective story and a tale of a mother and daughter making a new life for themselves.
- Narcissism for beginners Martine McDonagh
- Coming of age tale about a boy kidnapped at the age of 5 and taken to a Brazil commune and later California and then his journey to Britain to find his mother and the truth about his childhood.
- Leopard at the door Jennifer McVeigh
- Set in Kenya against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love.
- Under the almond tree Laura McVeigh
- Story of a refugee Afghan family fleeing the Taliban in the 1990s and travelling on the Trans-Siberian Express. The author is the former director of PEN and has worked with refugees.
- A natural Ross Raisin
- Third novel by this very talented author is set in the high stakes world of professional football.
- First love Gwendoline Riley
- Writer in her 30s is married to an older man and the relationship becomes a battleground.
- The fractured life of Jimmy Dice Ronan Ryan
- Part love story and part coming of age tale about Jimmy, born a twin and not knowing it. His sibling has stayed with him.
- Orange blossom days Patricia Scanlan
- In a beautiful southern Spanish town, where the sea sparkles and orange blossoms scent the air, the gates of a brand new apartment complex, La Joya deAndalucia, glide open to welcome the new owners.
- Before you go Clare Swatman
- First novel from journalist in which a woman is devastated after her husband dies unexpectedly and she realises it's now too late to tell him the things she didn't say.
Fiction from the rest of the World
- The leaving of things Jay Antani
- Vikram is not your model Indian-American teenager. Rebellious and adrift in late 1980s Wisconsin, he is resentful of his roots and has no clue what he wants from his future. When a drunken weekend turns disastrous, Vikram finds himself on a one-way ride back to India after his outraged parents decide to pack up the family and return to their homeland permanently.
- Charlotte David Foenkinos
- Inspired by the life of artist Charlotte Salomon, unknown in her lifetime, died in Auschwitz with her baby, and now revered. This novel was a big bestseller.
- Exit west Mohsin Hamid
- In an unnamed city in the war-torn East, a couple meet at an evening class and their relationship grows as life in the city falls apart.
- Human acts Han Kang
- South Korean author Han Kang broke out in the U.S. last year with the Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian, a transfixing book about the
unexpected consequences of a woman's decision to forgo meat. Her new novel, Human Acts, showcases the same talent for writing about corporeal horrors, this time in the context of the 1980 Gwangju uprising, when the military killed hundreds of people protesting martial law.
- Euphoria Heinz Helle
- Somewhere in the Austrian Alps a group of men on a weekend away come down to find the world has ended.Interesting German novel about what becomes of men when all that is left is survival.
- The little old lady behaving badly Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
- Nothing can stop The League of Pensioners, a wily gang of blue-rinsed rebels. They have a plan and to realize it they are going to need money, lots of money. Martha and her friends set out to catch some of the biggest financial fish in the sea. In their hunt for the big bucks, the gang plan to cheat billionaires out of their luxury yachts in the south of France's sun-bleached Saint-Tropez.
- Mischling Affinity Konar
- Twin Polish Jewish girls go to Auschwitz to be experimented on. One disappears and later, when the camp is liberated, the other travels through Poland to find
- Mr Iyer goes to war Ryan Lobo
- Described as a Don Quixote for our times but set in contemporary India.
- The end of Eddy Edouard Louis
- Autobiographical novel that caused a sensation in France in 2014 when the author was just 21. It's based on his childhood in a poor town and exposes a
harsh world of violence, homophobia and racism.
- The refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love.
- The lonely hearts hotel Heather O'Neill
- Latest novel from the Canadian author of "Lullabies for little criminals" follows the lives of two children in 1914 Montreal and their time.
- Welcome to Lagos Chibundu Onuzo
- Second novel from the author of "The Spider King's daughter" follows various characters - a private, a militant, a runaway wife - each seeking freedom in the Nigerian capital.
- All the rivers Dorit Rabinyan
- A young Israeli translator and a Palestinian painter meet and fall in love in New York. When they return home the relationship seems doomed. This book was
banned in schools in Israel for depicting a taboo relationship.
- Moshi moshi Banana Yoshimoto
- Story of a woman having to rebuild her life after her musician father dies in a suicide pact with an unknown woman.
Fiction Selector's Choice
- A line made by walking Sara Baume
- Young artist in Dublin retreats to his deceased grandmother's bungalow in the country in this interesting novel that deals with art and life.
- Miss Treadway & the field of stars Miranda Emmerson
- Soho 1965 and an american actress vanishes after an evening performance in the West End. Her dresser searches for her.
- The doll funeral Kate Hamer
- From the author of "The girl in the red coat" comes a tale set in Forest of Dean, 1983. The Guardian called this an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free.
- The keeper of lost things Ruth Hogan
- The story of a young woman who, after her eccentric employer departs, must reunite all lost objects collected to their rightful owners. A delightful and droll tale in the tradition of novels like "The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry."
- Carnivalesque Neil Jordan
- From the Irish author and film director comes an intriguing dark tale about a teenage boy trapped within a carnival hall of mirrors.
- Love, lies & linguine Hilary Spiers
- Sequel to "Hester and Harriet."
Graphic novels
- Angel Catbird. [Vol. 2, To Castle Catula] Margaret Atwood
- The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel.
Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the war between cats and rats escalates.
- Harrow County. [4], Family tree Cullen Bunn
- The Autumnlands. Volume two, Woodland creatures Kurt Busiek
- The Punisher. [1], On the road Becky Cloonan
- Friends is friends Greg Cook
- In a series of vignettes, an old hobo, a little boy, an antisocial ghost, and other animal characters discover the difficulties of friendship.
- The ghost and the lady. 1 Kazuhiro Fujita
- The ghost and the lady. 2 Kazuhiro Fujita
- I am a hero. Omnibus 1 Kengo Hanazawa
- Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" : the authorized graphic adaptation Miles Hyman
- Sheriff of Babylon. [1], Bang. Bang. Bang Tom King
- The Omega Men : [the end is here] Tom King
- The Vision. [2], Little better than a beast Tom King,
- Outcast. Volume 4, Under Devil's wing Kirkman & Azaceta
- Arkham Asylum : a serious house on serious Earth Grant Morrison
- Starseeds Charles Glaubitz
- Inuyashiki. 6 Hiroya Oku
- Complex age. 2 Yui Sakuma
- Complex age. 3 Yui Sakuma
Historical
- The buttonmaker's daughter Merryn Allingham
- May, 1914. Nestled in Sussex, the Summerhayes mansion seems the perfect country idyll. But with a long-running feud in the Summers family and tensions in Europe deepening, Summerhayes' peaceful days are numbered.
- In the name of the family Sarah Dunant
- Retelling of the rise of Machiavelli who, as a young diplomat, is sent from Florence to shadow the unscrupulous Cesare Borgia.
- The confessions of young Nero Margaret George
- The infamous rise to power of Emperor Nero who learns early on it is better to be cruel than dead!
- The house at Bishopsgate Katie Hickman
- London 1611 and a man returns to his Bishopsgate house with his wife who finds the household is in thrall to a mysterious widow.
- The coroner's daughter Andrew Hughes
- The author of "The confessions of John Delahunt" returns with this tale set in 1816 Dublin where a nursemaid conceals her pregnancy and kills her newborn at the home of a radical sect known as The Brethren.
- The brittle star Davina Langdale
- 1860 California where a teenage boy embarks on a path of vengeance that takes him into the front lines of the American Civil War.
- The secrets of Mary Bowser Lois Leveen
- Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who returns to Virginia to spy on the Confederates, The secrets of Mary Bowser is the powerful story of a woman who must sacrifice her freedom to truly achieve it.
- Alexander. Child of a dream Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger.
Then premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king - Philip of Macedon - and his sensuous queen, Olympias.
- The witchfinder's sister Beth Underdown
- Based on the true story of Matthew Hopkins who sent hundreds of innocent women to their deaths in the 17th century, telling the story from the perspective of his widowed and pregnant sister.
Mystery
- Displaced Stephan Abarbanell
- Jerusalem, 1946, is the setting for a story about the search for a missing Jewish scientist in the ruins of post-war Germany.
- The ninth grave Stephan Ahnhem
- Second thriller from the scriptwriter of "Wallander" marks the return of Swedish sleuth Fabian Risk from "Victim without a face."
- A darkness absolute Kelley Armstrong
- Sequel to "City of the lost" has Detective Casey Duncan on the case of young women abducted and held captive in the forest.
- Death of a ghost M.C. Beaton
- Another case for Hamish Macbeth.
- The women of Baker Street Michelle Birkby
- As Sherlock and Watson return from the famous Hound of the Baskervilles case, Mrs Hudson and Mary must face their own Hound, in the swirling fog of Victorian London.
- The lost woman Sara Blaedel
- A housewife is the target of a shocking, methodical killing. Shot with a hunting rifle through her kitchen window, the woman is dead before she hits the ground. Though murdered in England, it turns out that the woman, Sofie Parker, is actually a Danish citizen who's been on the Missing Persons list for almost two decades. Danish crime thriller.
- In Farleigh Field Rhys Bowen
- World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate.
- A walk in the dark Gianrico Carofiglio
- When Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend the son of a powerful local judge of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf and one lawyer after another refuses to represent her.
- Ragdoll Daniel Cole
- Detective at The Met is reunited with his former partner, Emily, for a gory case involving dismembered corpses stitched up like puppets!
- What you break Reed Farrel Coleman
- Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm's way when Gus is caught up in the distant aftershocks of heinous crimes committed decades ago in Vietnam and Russia.
- While you were sleeping Kathryn Croft
- You wake up to find the man beside you is dead. He is not your husband. This is not your bed. What do you do?
- Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow tragedy Freeman Wills Crofts
- A chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill's life on the night her uncle's old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Reprint of classic mystery.
- Wrong place Michelle Davies
- In this sequel to "Gone astray" a man is in a coma after failing to kill his wife and commit suicide. A family liaison officer is assigned to look after the wife but her story doesn't add up.
- Dead letters Caite Dolan-Leach
- Suspense debut about a missing woman leading her sister on a literary scavenger hunt through wine country.
- Ill met by murder Elizabeth J. Duncan
- Second in the Catskills series with murder amongst a theatrical company.
- The mermaid's scream Kate Ellis
- Why did Wynn Staniland, a legend in the literary world, suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century.
- Blackout : tomorrow will be too late Marc Elsberg
- A cold night in Milan, Piero Manzano wants to get home. Then the traffic lights fail. Manzano is thrown from his Alfa as cars pile up.
And not just on this street every light in the city is dead. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electricity grids collapse. Plunged into darkness, people are freezing. Food and water supplies dry up. The death toll soars.
- The chalk pit Elly Griffiths
- Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is on a case involving boiled bones which aren't medieval as first thought but more recent.
- Fever in the dark Ellen Hart
- When a video of their engagement goes viral on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage, Fiona and Annie turn for help to private
investigator Jane Lawless to safeguard a secret from Annie's past.
- Road kill Hanna Jameson
- Two British ex-cons travel between New York and L.A looking for the man who ripped them off and disappeared.
- Seas of snow Kerensa Jennings
- Domestic thriller set in 1950s Britain where a young girl escapes from her uncle's unwanted attentions by creating a fantasy world with her friend.
- Where she went B. E. Jones
- Psychological thriller where a TV journalist wakes up next to a strange and dead man in an unfamiliar bed.
- August Snow Stephen Mack Jones
- Son of African/American father and Mexican mother joins the Detroit police force only to be drummed out by conspiring corrupt cops before fighting back. Excellent first novel.
- Eyes like mine Sheena Kamal
- Psychological suspense tale in which private eye Nora Watts has a daughter who was adopted out 15 years ago. When the girl goes missing she has to join the search.
- At rope's end Edward Kay
- Forensic psychiatrist and criminal profiler and the case of the woman fouind in a Seattle location whose death may be the work of a serial killer.
- Bone box Faye Kellerman
- On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds.
- Time of death Lucy Kerr
- Mystery debut about an ER nurse in Chicago who saves a man's life only to have him turn up dead hours later.
- Rusty puppy Joe R. Lansdale
- Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
- Exposure Aga Lesiewicz
- Hoxton-based photographer Kristin begins to receive anonymous e-mails with sinister attachments.
- At what cost James L'Etoile
- Detective John Penley and his new partner, Detective Paula Newberry, of the Sacramento Police Department are tasked with leading the investigation into a
local serial killer who has dumped three bodies in the past six weeks, First novel by an American prison warden.
- Devil smoke CJ Lyons
- After leaving the FBI, Lucy Guardino still feels like the new kid on the block with her team at Beacon Falls. But then a new case involving a young woman with amnesia searching for her lost memories shines a spotlight on a past case involving one of Lucy's team members.
- Amy and the killers Allan Mackay
- On a dairy farm outside Beaufort, a small town south of Sydney, Brian Swanson is shot and killed when he attempts to save his girlfriend Amy's life.
When the local police make little progress with the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Michael Chaucer and Detective Sergeant Janice Mallon from Sydney are appointed to find out who the killer could be.
- Cruel mercy David Mark
- Described as "Britain's answer to Stephen King" in the thriller/horror genre. This one is a tense tale about a man plagued by paranoia.
- Dead girls dancing Graham Masterton
- In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire blazes in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars, die in the flames, their young lives cut short by a tragic accident. But where others see tragedy, DCI Katie Maguire sees murder.
- Cast iron Peter May
- Sixth and final instalment of the Enzo Macleod series.
- Police at the station and they don't look friendly Adrian McKinty
- Belfast 1988 and a murder by arrow. Latest case for Northern Ireland DI Sean Duffy.
- The long drop Denise Mina
- Set in 1950s Glasgow and based on the case of the notorious Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.
- Find me J. S. Monroe
- Five years ago a man's girlfriend jumped off a pier. He is convinced he stills sees her everywhere and then he gets a message by e-mail saying "Find me, before
- The dark room Jonathan Moore
- Homicide inspector Gavin Cain is standing by a grave when he gets the call. Cain knows there's something terrible in the coffin they're about to exhume.
He and his team have received a dying man's confession and it has led them here.
- The house of four Barbara Nadel
- Latest tale in the series featuring Inspector Ikmen in Istanbul.
- Blue light Yokohama Nicolas Obregon
- Inspector Kosuke Iwata is transferred to Tokyo's homicide department for a case that involves a whole family murdered in their home by a casual killer who left in broad daylight.
- Written in bones James Oswald
- Detective Inspector Tony McLean investigates a strange murder in Edinburgh's scenic parkland.
- Behind her eyes Sarah Pinborough
- Gripping psychological thriller about a single mother attracted to her psychiatrist boss.
- Snowblind Ragnar Jonasson
- Debut crime from an Icelandic author about a woman found attacked in the snow and an elderly dramatist murdered in a small community.
- Margery Allingham's Albert Campion returns in Mr Campion's fault Mike Ripley
- Margery Allingham's Mr Campion finds himself a fish out of water when he investigates a murder in a Yorkshire mining village.
- Marshall's law Ben Sanders
- Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in California when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now? Author is a Kiwi.
- The last night at Tremore Beach Mikel Santiago
- Idyllic holiday on the Irish coast turns into a nightmare for a composer and his family in this interesting psychological thriller.
- Forgotten city Carrie Smith
- Only three months back on the job after cancer treatment, NYPD Detective Claire Codella finds herself at the center of a high profile case investigating the suspicious death of a Broadway legend.
- Incendium A. D. Swanston
- First in a new series from former director of Waterstones is an historical mystery set in 1572 where chief intelligencer to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, learns of a plot that could cause an insurrection.
- Racing the devil : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery Charles Todd
- On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead and make it through the war they will meet in Paris a year after the fighting ends.
- Below the belt Stuart Woods
- Newly ensconced in his Santa Fe abode with a lovely female companion, Stone Barrington receives a call from an old friend requesting a delicate
- The shimmering road Hester Young
- Journalist learns that the mother who gave her away as a child has been murdered.
New Zealand Fiction
- Fixing Mrs Philpott Rachel McAlpine
- Zoe Philpott packs up her yellow caravan and drives away from post-earthquake Christchurch and a husband in denial. Her very identity is under threat. That yellow caravan acts like a magnet for other women with secret struggles and satisfactions. While Zoe pulls herself together - and her marriage too - she is on the receiving end of amazing advice and outrageous revelations.
- Obsession Elspeth Sandys
- Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. It recreates the era in an atmosphere charged with New Zealand's 1980s culture, set in the very recognisable environment of Waiheke Island.
Romance
- Their meant-to-be baby Caroline Anderson
- Someone to hold Mary Balogh
- Rafael's one night bombshell Tina Beckett
- The heir's unexpected baby Jules Bennett
- Dante's shock proposal Amalie Berlin
- From enemies to expecting Kat Cantrell
- The sheikh's secret son Maggie Cox
- Bride by royal decree Caitlin Crews
- Her first-date honeymoon Katrina Cudmore
- The nurse and the single dad Dianne Drake
- A mummy for his baby Molly Evans
- The sheikh's convenient princess Liz Fielding
- The desert king's blackmailed bride Lynne Graham
- Under the southern cross Barbara Hannay
- Santorini sunsets Anita Hughes
- The billionaire of Coral Bay Nikki Logan
- The consequence of his vengeance Jennie Lucas
- The unforgettable Spanish tycoon Christy McKellen
- Vows they can't escape Heidi Rice
- Acquired by her Greek boss Chantelle Shaw
- Effortless S.C. Stephens
- Reckless S.C. Stephens
- A forever family for the Army doc Meredith Webber
- Bought to wear the billionaire's ring Cathy Williams
- The last Di Sione claims his prize Maisey Yates
Saga
- Daughters of courage Margaret Dickinson
- Sequel to "The buffer girls" sees Emily and Trip fighting to keep their lives afloat in the 1930s.
- The last McAdam Holly Ford
- Passed down through the same family for over a century, the remote sheep and cattle station of Broken Creek has recently been taken over by global agribusiness company, Carnarvon Holdings.
- A daughter's duty Maggie Hope
- She's bound by her duty to her family. Forced to leave school at the age of fourteen, young Rose Sharpe's dreams of independence are ruined by her domineering father and constantly ailing mother.
- Country roads Nicole Hurley-Moore
- Rural romance about a woman with a cheating boyfriend who moves to the country where she meets a local grazier.
- Spindrift Tamara McKinley
- An epic emotional journey about love and sacrifice set between the magical Isle of Skye and the promising new frontier of distant Tasmania.
- The doorstep child Annie Murray
- Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie has ever craved is a safe home and a normal existence. Her young eyes had seen so much but this never tainted her spirit. If it wasn't for her best friend Gary, and friendly dog called Whisky, Evie might never have made it to her sixteenth birthday.
- Dangerous games Danielle Steel
- Alix Phillips, a successful journalist, is always willing to put herself on the front line for her job. All that matters is getting the story. When Alix's boss suspects a major political scandal in the White House, he sends Alix to uncover the truth. This story could blow the corridors of power wide open, and Alix is feeling the heat.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
- The best American science fiction and fantasy 2016 Edited and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler ;
- Presents a collection of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories written
during 2015.
- Winter of the gods Jordanna Max Brodsky
- First in the "Olympus bound" contemporary fantasy trilogy that places the Greek gods in Manhattan with goddess Artemis prowling streets looking for prey.
- Miranda and Caliban Jacqueline Carey
- A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe. We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what of Miranda?
- Magic of blood and sea Cassandra Rose Clarke
- A pirate princess and a cursed assassin come together in this fantasy adventure tale.
- Shadowbahn Steve Erickson
- When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota, twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return the towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. A rumour overtakes the throng that someone can be seen in the high windows of the southern structure.
- The turn : the Hollows begins with death Kim Harrison
- Trisk and her hated rival, Kalamack, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. Death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato created to feed the world combines with the government's new tactical virus, giving it an unexpected host and a mode of transport. First in a series.
- Nightwalker Allyson James
- When someone targets Ansel, the Nightwalker living in Janet's hotel, Janet and Mick find themselves caught in a fight between supernatural powers, one that could prove deadly for them both.
- Eleventh grave in moonlight Darynda Jones
- 11th book in the Charley Davidson fantasy series.
- Six wakes Mur Lafferty
- A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer before they kill again.
- Once broken faith Seanan McGuire
- 10th book in the October Daye fantasy series.
- The soprano sorceress L. E. Modesitt, Jr
- A feminist fantasy starring Anna Marshal, a bored singer in Iowa. Wishing for a more liberated life, she is whisked into a parallel universe where music is magic, and helps to defeat an invader with her music. But as she subsequently finds out, even in fantasy land there is gender politics.
- Bane and Shadow Jon Skovron
- Second book in the "Empire of storms" fantasy series.
- Empire games Charles Stross
- New series set in the same world as his Merchant Princes series.
- The Bear and the Serpent Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Second book in the "Echoes of the fall" fantasy series.
- The weight of the world Tom Toner
- IN this SF debut the universe is in disarray and an ancient being has reawoken to seize the throne.
- Star Wars. Aftermath. Empire's end Chuck Wendig
- Final book of the trilogy following "Star Wars: Aftermath" and "Star Wars: Life debut."
- Last year Robert Charles Wilson
- Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past but not our past, not exactly.
Western
- Brothers of the gun B.S. Dunn
- Cross of iron Ethan Flagg
- Blaze of fury Alexander Frew
- Cheyenne cowboy Max Gunn
- Marshal of the Barren Plains I.J. Parnham
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