crime & thriller
THE UNQUIET GRAVE: CORMAC REILLY # 4
Dervla McTiernan
$ 34.99
For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long deceased. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey. Progress on the case is frustratingly slow, except when Cormac is sure that he has found Grey’ s killer another mutilated body is discovered. Two days later, a third body is found. Is there a serial killer at work in Ireland? Has Cormac been on the wrong trail? And if so, can he find the murderer before they strike again?
THE EMPRESS MURDERS
Toby Schmitz
$ 32.99
It’ s 1925 and the Empress of Australia is making her regular Atlantic crossing, New York-bound, with a full manifest of passengers. When a dead body is uncovered onboard, it is up to Inspector Archie Daniels to find the killer. But solving one murder quickly turns into solving two, then three, and it becomes clear that Daniels must act fast to avoid an all-soulslost-level calamity. No one, from the horrendously wealthy and entitled first-class passengers to those they consider the dregs of empire below deck, is safe. And no one can get off...
THE TENANT Freida McFadden
$ 34.99
available may 6
A new, jawdropping thriller from the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller of The Housemaid! Blake Porter is riding high, until he’ s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he’ s desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’ s exactly what Blake’ s looking for. Or is she? Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realises it, it’ ll be far too late. The trap is already set.
WE’ RE NOT US WITHOUT YOU
Christine Keighery
$ 34.99
High school friends Lani, Tinker, Maya and Stig were inseparable until an unthinkable act shook the group. Now in their 30s, three of the friends are still close while Stig has disappeared completely, unable to face what happened in high school. With Lani’ s wedding fast approaching, she is determined to bring the group back together. This leads them to a spiritual retreat where Stig has been living off-the-grid, and to Stig’ s enigmatic partner – or leader – Acharya. Is it too late to save Stig from himself? And will bringing him back into the fold threaten the silence that has been keeping them safe all these years?
VANISH: LANE HOLLAND # 3
Shelley Burr
$ 34.99
People go to the isolated Karpathy farm looking for a new life. Is it a commune? Is it a cult? Or something far more dangerous? Lane Holland’ s crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago. Against the odds, Lane finds a lead – a mysterious farm community where Matilda lived briefly, led by the enigmatic Samuel Karpathy. The farm attracts lost souls. People looking for answers. People hiding from their past. But some of those who go to the farm seem to vanish without a trace.
NIGHT- SHADE: DETECTIVE STILWELL # 1
Michael Connelly
$ 34.99
available may 20
Detective Stilwell of the Los Angeles County Sherriff’ s department has been exiled. Once he manned a mainland homicide desk; now internal politics have relegated him to a low-key post, policing rustic Catalina Island. He’ s beginning to think he could get used to it. It’ s all business as usual in his new territory, until Stilwell receives a report of a body found wrapped in plastic at the bottom of the harbour. He begins working the case, and soon he’ s forced to cross all lines of protocol and jurisdiction in pursuit of justice. Is Catalina really the serene island it appears to be or is it brewing a deadly poison?
The much-anticipated new novel in the Cormac Reilly series, from the no. 1 bestselling author of The Rúin and What Happened to Nina.
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