Some of the titles that were released today.
Title: Blood Line
Author: Mark Billingham
Publisher: Little Brown
Summary (Amazon UK)
When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman’s fist – and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim’s mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey’s victims. Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer’s list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted…
About the Author
Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian, appearing regularly at the Comedy Store. He has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and LAZYBONES won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Award for best crime novel of the year. He has also been an award-winning children’s writer.
Title: Dead and Alinve (Bk 3) Frankenstein
Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Harper
Summary (Amazon UK)
The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! And so too does his monstrous creation ! but this creature of legend is a monster no more and his scarred face bears witness to his maker’s wrath. His name is Deucalion. As a devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans, Victor Helios, once know as Frankenstein, has unleased his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos, his engineered killers spin out of control, and the only hope rests with Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human, whose damned path has led him to the ultimate confrontation with his pitiless creator. But first, Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have imagined – an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. This is a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
About the Author
Dean Koontz is an international household name whose hugely entertaining parables for our times have been bestsellers in many countries, selling seventeen million copies each year. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he lives with his wife Gerda, their dog Anna, and the enduring spirit of their dog Trixie in southern California.
Title: Bad Moon Rising
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: Piatkus
Summary (Amazon UK)
Fang Kattalakis isn’t just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. And when war erupts among the lycanthropes, sides must be chosen. Enemies are forced into shaky alliances. When Aimee, the woman Fang loves, is accused of betraying her people, her only hope is that Fang believes in her. Yet in order to save her, Fang must break the law of his people and the faith of his brothers. That breech could very well spell the end of both their races and change their world forever. The war is on and time is running out…
About the Author
Writing as Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kinley MacGregor, she is the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and award-winning author of several series: the Dark-Hunters; the Lords of Avalon; and the League. She lives with her husband and three sons in Nashville, Tennessee.
Title: Silk
Author: Rupert James
Publisher: Ebury Press
My Review: Coming Soon
Summary (Amazon UK)
Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion…Christine Fairbrother is a high-powered barrister, the scourge of the divorce courts. Christine has ambitions to become a QC – to ‘take silk’ – after her next big case. Her talented daughter, Isabelle Cisse, is a design graduate launching herself on the London fashion scene, full of dreams and ambitions – and with a fatal weakness for unsuitable men… Victoria Crabtree loves fashion almost as much as she loves money. But her position as the mistress of Massimo Rivelli, multi-millionare owner of the House of Rivelli, one of the world’s leading manufacturer of couture fashion, is precarious. Massimo is very married, very Italian and very Catholic. He shows no sign of wanting to divorce his wife and Victoria’s always in danger of being replaced with a younger model. But he’s about to discover just what lengths Victoria will go to in order to survive… Three women set on a collision course. Their lives and conflicting ambitions become tangled as Christine handles the divorce case that could give Victoria the man she’s wanted for her own for so long – but which could wreck her daughter’s blossoming career at the same time.
About the Author
Rupert James is a celebrity and fashion journalist. He lives in London and is married to a barrister.
Title: Star Struck
Author: Anne-Marie O’Connor
Publisher: Ebury Press
My Review: Coming Soon
Summary (Amazon UK)
All Catherine wants to do is sing, but a TV show is about to make her a star… Catherine Reilly is 24, single and still lives at home with her dad and two of her sisters. The only thing Catherine’s ever been any good at is singing, but she has no connections, low confidence and isn’t exactly glamorous. However, when she sees a TV ad for the latest series of “Star Maker” – the biggest talent show on national television she decides to enter …Catherine now has the best voice coach in the business, a team of sadistic trainers and stylists and the world’s number one music mogul on her side… Can an ordinary girl’s dreams really come true?
About the Author
Anne-Marie O’Connor was born in Bradford to Irish parents. She has written plays for theatre, radio and television. She now lives in Manchester with her partner and baby.
Title: The Dead Room
Author: Chris Mooney
Publisher: Penguin
My Review: Coming Soon
Summary (Amazon UK)
A mother and her son have been executed in their home and fingerprint matches show their attacker died twenty years ago. But how can dead serial killers return to haunt the present? The answers lie in the darkest shadows of The Dead Room. When CSI Darby McCormick is called to the crime scene, it’s one of the most gruesome she’s ever seen. But the forensic evidence is even more disturbing: someone watched the murder unfold from woodland behind the house – and the killer died in a shoot-out two decades earlier. The deeper Darby digs, the more horrors come to light. Her prime suspect is revealed as a serial killer on an enormous scale, with a past that’s even more shocking than his crimes, thanks to a long-held secret that could rock Boston’s law enforcement to its core. Is it possible to steal an identity? Or are dead men walking in Darby’s footsteps? The line between the living and the dead has never been finer.
About the Author
Chris Mooney is the author of five previous thrillers, of which Remembering Sarah was nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Novel. The Missing and The Secret Friend, the first two outings for CSI Darby McCormick, are both available as Penguin paperbacks. Chris lives in Boston with his wife and son.
Title: Double Cross
Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
My Review: Coming Soon
Summary (Amazon UK)
Just this once …Please let me get away with it just this once…Tobey wants a better life – for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he’s offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few ‘deliveries’, just this once, would it hurt to say ‘yes’? One small decision can change everything… ‘Packs a punch’ – “Guardian”. ‘Shocks and twists… powerful teenage emotions’ – “Sunday Times”.
About the Author
MALORIE BLACKMAN is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. She has won many awards for her books for the Random House list, including the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award – Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice -and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has also appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial.In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books.
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There was a day when I would have picked up most of these to read! But since I've started blogging, I haven't put my hands on more than a couple. That was before I realized how many other things I was missing out on!
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Only 2 of those are my sort of reading! I got a copy of Star Struck from the pubs so am looking forward to reading it as it sounds good! Nice post
Chloe@chicklitreviews
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Sandy – I know, there are just so many books to read and not enough time to read them!
Chloe – Oh I love all genre – I couldn't imagine only reading one kind of book. I have got all these books apart from Blood Line and Bad Moon Rising, but they are already ordered from Amazon!
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Ooh the Dead Room one looks really good… I think I may have seen that one before and thought that then too, haha.
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Blood Line looks like it might be really good, and I didn't realize that the latest Koontz Frankenstein was finally out! Love Dean Koontz! Will also check out Bad Moon Rising.
Thanks for the heads up!
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