Your next good read August 2008

New Titles by popular Authors

Mark Billingham In the dark

Charlotte Bingham Land of summer

Robin Cook Foreign body

Stephen Coonts The assassin

Paul Doherty Nightshade

John Francome Final breath

Mike Gayle Life and soul of the party

Sheila O’Flanagan Someone special

Lynda Page No way out

Kathy Reichs Devil bones

Peter Robinson All the colours of darkness

Kate Atkinson
When will there be good news
Another crime novel featuring ex detective Jackson Brodie first encountered in “Case histories”. A thirty year old crime and a missing Edinburgh doctor are separate strands in the story which also sees Brodie on a journey which is fatally interrupted.

Louise Dean
The idea of love
A group of ex-pats move to a community in Provence hoping to experience the good life with wine and sunshine. However, a visit to Africa changes the lives of two of the couples and makes them doubt themselves. The idea of love seems to be the only thing that can salvage all that they hold dear.

Tana French
The likeness
Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of “In the woods”, but is persuaded to go undercover posing as a young murder victim in order to trap a killer. The girl was not only Cassie’s double physically, but her ID is in the name of Lexie Madison, an identity Cassie had used previously in undercover work.

Philippa Gregory
The other Queen
Mary Queen of Scots fights to regain her kingdom whilst under guard by Elizabeth I’s trusted accomplice Bess of Hardwick. Passion, politics and betrayal are the familiar elements of this story, and the effects are felt by Bess and her fourth husband the Earl of Shrewsbury.

Eric van Lustbader
Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne Sanction
This is based on an idea by Ludlum himself but written by Lustbader - an established thriller writer. In this latest instalment in the life of the linguist/super-spy, Bourne seems to have found a settled job, until a new terrorist organisation the “Black legion” is uncovered and he is the only man to tackle the threat.

Andrew Pyper
The killing circle
A gripping psychological thriller by the bestselling author of “Lost girls”. Members of a writing circle are haunted by a serial killer in Toronto. Patrick thinks the group will help to develop his writing talent, but things become very sinister when the stories written by the group show frightening parallels to real events and his own son is snatched.

Alex Scarrow
October skies
A photographer stumbles across the remains of a convoy of settlers who set off by wagon train in 1848 and then vanished. Clearly something horrific happened and Cooke starts to try to unravel the mystery. The horrors he uncovers may not just be confined to that one historical episode. A gripping and suspenseful thriller.

Mary Ann Shaffer
The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
A tale of love friendship set on Guernsey during World War II. The grimness of the Occupation and the individual stories of human tragedy are balanced by the courage and humour of the society’s members. Sadly the author died before the book was published.

Barbara Vine
The birthday present
A gripping psychological thriller set in the sleazy political world of the early 1990s. A sex ‘adventure’ goes very badly wrong for one MP and his married lover.