The Stranger you seek
Amanda Kyle Williams
"The car door opened. Then footsteps on the concrete walk, a briefcase, good shoes, a white smile, a business card, they always open the door."
The FBI are worried about Keye Street.
She's a superb criminal profiler, with two university degrees and has been a rising star with the organization. She's also attractive, tough and has brilliant instincts when it comes to reading criminal minds.
Now Keye Street has set up on her own. She's a recovering alcoholic, an obsessive adrenalin junkie who surrounds herself with oddballs, who wants to sleep with her best friend but still sleeps with her ex-husband. She's potentially violent - and quite possibly dangerous. But in Atlanta, Georgia, there's a serial killer on the loose, and the local police department need her to play their game.
She's supposed to be one of the good guys, isn't she? Welcome to the world of Keye Street.
Read the prologue here
Hardback available August 2011. Buy from Amazon here
Paperback available March 2012. Pre-order from Amazon here
Visit the author's website here
Amanda Kyle Williams
"The car door opened. Then footsteps on the concrete walk, a briefcase, good shoes, a white smile, a business card, they always open the door."
The FBI are worried about Keye Street.
She's a superb criminal profiler, with two university degrees and has been a rising star with the organization. She's also attractive, tough and has brilliant instincts when it comes to reading criminal minds.
Now Keye Street has set up on her own. She's a recovering alcoholic, an obsessive adrenalin junkie who surrounds herself with oddballs, who wants to sleep with her best friend but still sleeps with her ex-husband. She's potentially violent - and quite possibly dangerous. But in Atlanta, Georgia, there's a serial killer on the loose, and the local police department need her to play their game.
She's supposed to be one of the good guys, isn't she? Welcome to the world of Keye Street.
Read the prologue here
Hardback available August 2011. Buy from Amazon here
Paperback available March 2012. Pre-order from Amazon here
Visit the author's website here
The Fall
Claire McGowan
"This is it, she thought. Her head was strangely clear despite the blood filling up her nose and mouth. An inch from her eye, the floor of the toilet was that kind of speckled plastic you get in public buildings, the dots like islands marooned in a sea of blue."
What would you do if the man you love was accused of murder?
Bad things never happen to Charlotte. She's living the life she's always wanted and about to marry wealthy banker, Dan. But Dan's been hiding a secret, and the pressure is pushing him over the edge. After he's arrested for the vicious killing of a nightclub owner, Charlotte's future is shattered.
Then she opens her door to Keisha, an angry and frustrated stranger with a story to tell. Convinced of Dan's innocence, Charlotte must fight for him - even if it means destroying her perfect life. But what Keisha knows threatens everyone she loves, and puts her own life in danger.
DC Matthew Hegarty is riding high on the success of Dan's arrest. But he's finding it difficult to ignore his growing doubts as well as the beautiful and vulnerable Charlotte. Can he really risk it all for what's right?
Three stories. One truth. They all need to brace themselves for the fall.
Read the prologue here
Trade paperback available February 2012. Pre-order from Amazon here
Visit the author's website here
Claire McGowan
"This is it, she thought. Her head was strangely clear despite the blood filling up her nose and mouth. An inch from her eye, the floor of the toilet was that kind of speckled plastic you get in public buildings, the dots like islands marooned in a sea of blue."
What would you do if the man you love was accused of murder?
Bad things never happen to Charlotte. She's living the life she's always wanted and about to marry wealthy banker, Dan. But Dan's been hiding a secret, and the pressure is pushing him over the edge. After he's arrested for the vicious killing of a nightclub owner, Charlotte's future is shattered.
Then she opens her door to Keisha, an angry and frustrated stranger with a story to tell. Convinced of Dan's innocence, Charlotte must fight for him - even if it means destroying her perfect life. But what Keisha knows threatens everyone she loves, and puts her own life in danger.
DC Matthew Hegarty is riding high on the success of Dan's arrest. But he's finding it difficult to ignore his growing doubts as well as the beautiful and vulnerable Charlotte. Can he really risk it all for what's right?
Three stories. One truth. They all need to brace themselves for the fall.
Read the prologue here
Trade paperback available February 2012. Pre-order from Amazon here
Visit the author's website here
The GODS OF GOTHAM
Lyndsay Faye
Of all the sordid trials a New York City policeman faces down every day, you wouldn’t expect the one I loathe most to be paperwork. But it is. I get snakes down my spine just thinking about case files.
Police reports are meant to read x killed y by means of z. But facts without motives, without the story, are just road signs with all the letters worn off. I can’t bear reducing people’s lives to the lowest of their statistics.
I’m Timothy Wilde, and I’ll say right off, that tells you nothing. Nix. I’ve drawn pictures with charcoal all my life to busy my fingers. And a single sheet of butcher paper showing a gutted cottage with its blackened bones sticking out would tell you more than that sentence does.
But I’m getting better used to documenting crimes now that I’m a star police. And there are so many casualties in our wars over God. All those children, and not only the children, and writing it might go a ways towards being a fit memorial. When I’ve spent enough ink, the sharp scratch of the specifics in my head will dull a little, I’m hoping. I’d assumed that the dry wooden smell of October, the shrewd way the wind twines into my coat sleeves now, would have begun erasing the crimes of August by this time.
I was wrong.
Read the prologue here
Hardback available March 2012. Pre-order from Amazon here
Visit the author’s website here
Lyndsay Faye
Of all the sordid trials a New York City policeman faces down every day, you wouldn’t expect the one I loathe most to be paperwork. But it is. I get snakes down my spine just thinking about case files.
Police reports are meant to read x killed y by means of z. But facts without motives, without the story, are just road signs with all the letters worn off. I can’t bear reducing people’s lives to the lowest of their statistics.
I’m Timothy Wilde, and I’ll say right off, that tells you nothing. Nix. I’ve drawn pictures with charcoal all my life to busy my fingers. And a single sheet of butcher paper showing a gutted cottage with its blackened bones sticking out would tell you more than that sentence does.
But I’m getting better used to documenting crimes now that I’m a star police. And there are so many casualties in our wars over God. All those children, and not only the children, and writing it might go a ways towards being a fit memorial. When I’ve spent enough ink, the sharp scratch of the specifics in my head will dull a little, I’m hoping. I’d assumed that the dry wooden smell of October, the shrewd way the wind twines into my coat sleeves now, would have begun erasing the crimes of August by this time.
I was wrong.
Read the prologue here
Hardback available March 2012. Pre-order from Amazon here
Visit the author’s website here
Deity
Steven Dunne
"A second later the snap of his neck ended his fall, and the tree shook under the combined stress of the boy's weight and velocity. The rope held. Ian was pleased. Everything had gone well. He put the camera to his eye to take the money shots. 'Everyone will know you, my friend. Everyone will envy you.'"
When four Derby College students are reported missing, few in Derby CID, least of all DI Damen Brook, pay much attention. But then a film on the internet is discovered purporting to show the students committing mass suicide. If it's real, why did they kill themselves when they had such bright futures ahead of them? If the suicides are faked, why the set up and where are the students? And if they're dead and have been murdered, who on earth could have planned such a bizarre and bloody end to their promising lives? Combining intricate forensics with meticulous detection and the warped psychology of a psychopath, DEITY is a serial killer thriller of the highest order to rival the very best of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Peter Robinson.
Read the prologue here
Hardback available May 2012
Visit the author's website here
Steven Dunne
"A second later the snap of his neck ended his fall, and the tree shook under the combined stress of the boy's weight and velocity. The rope held. Ian was pleased. Everything had gone well. He put the camera to his eye to take the money shots. 'Everyone will know you, my friend. Everyone will envy you.'"
When four Derby College students are reported missing, few in Derby CID, least of all DI Damen Brook, pay much attention. But then a film on the internet is discovered purporting to show the students committing mass suicide. If it's real, why did they kill themselves when they had such bright futures ahead of them? If the suicides are faked, why the set up and where are the students? And if they're dead and have been murdered, who on earth could have planned such a bizarre and bloody end to their promising lives? Combining intricate forensics with meticulous detection and the warped psychology of a psychopath, DEITY is a serial killer thriller of the highest order to rival the very best of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Peter Robinson.
Read the prologue here
Hardback available May 2012
Visit the author's website here
The Wrong Man
Jason Dean
"When James Bishop regained consciousness, he raised his head from the floor to look at the wall clock and calculated he'd been out for thirteen minutes. His next thought was that almost anything could have happened in that time."
Nine hundred and seventy three days.
Thinking. Planning. Waiting for the perfect moment.
Former Marine James Bishop will only have one opportunity to make his prison break. And one chance to prove that he isn't responsible for the murders for which he has been jailed.
Three years ago Bishop was the leader of an elite close protection team hired to protect a millionaire and his daughter. After being attacked, Bishop regained consciousness to find seven bodies strewn throughout the millionaire's Long Island mansion – including those of his two charges − and a mountain of evidence guaranteed to send him down for murder.
Bishop has to be free to find out who set him up and why. And now the time has come to make his move.
Read the first chapter here
Trade paperback available May 2012. Pre-order at Amazon.co.uk here
Jason Dean
"When James Bishop regained consciousness, he raised his head from the floor to look at the wall clock and calculated he'd been out for thirteen minutes. His next thought was that almost anything could have happened in that time."
Nine hundred and seventy three days.
Thinking. Planning. Waiting for the perfect moment.
Former Marine James Bishop will only have one opportunity to make his prison break. And one chance to prove that he isn't responsible for the murders for which he has been jailed.
Three years ago Bishop was the leader of an elite close protection team hired to protect a millionaire and his daughter. After being attacked, Bishop regained consciousness to find seven bodies strewn throughout the millionaire's Long Island mansion – including those of his two charges − and a mountain of evidence guaranteed to send him down for murder.
Bishop has to be free to find out who set him up and why. And now the time has come to make his move.
Read the first chapter here
Trade paperback available May 2012. Pre-order at Amazon.co.uk here
The 500
Matthew Quirk
"My death would only be the beginning of the pain. I had no good options. That's why I was about to shake hands with the devil."
Mike Ford was following in his deadbeat father's footsteps, embarking on a young life of crime, when he turned himself around and worked his way into Harvard Law School. Now the reformed con man has landed a plum job at the Davies Group, Washington's most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm. Their specialty: pulling strings and peddling influence for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway, the men and women who really run Washington—and by extension the country, and the world.
Henry Davies, Mike's boss, knows everyone who matters—and he knows their secrets. Now he's looking for a protégé to tackle his most high-stakes deal yet, and Mike fits the bill. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out. But how do you save your soul when you've made a deal with the devil?
Read the prologue here
Hardback available June 2012
Matthew Quirk
"My death would only be the beginning of the pain. I had no good options. That's why I was about to shake hands with the devil."
Mike Ford was following in his deadbeat father's footsteps, embarking on a young life of crime, when he turned himself around and worked his way into Harvard Law School. Now the reformed con man has landed a plum job at the Davies Group, Washington's most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm. Their specialty: pulling strings and peddling influence for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway, the men and women who really run Washington—and by extension the country, and the world.
Henry Davies, Mike's boss, knows everyone who matters—and he knows their secrets. Now he's looking for a protégé to tackle his most high-stakes deal yet, and Mike fits the bill. Quickly pulled into a seductive, dangerous web of power and corruption, Mike struggles to find his way out. But how do you save your soul when you've made a deal with the devil?
Read the prologue here
Hardback available June 2012
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