Lynda La Plante - Widows
Sphere (September)
Three thieves' widows decide to continue their late husbands' latest burglary...
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Deryn Lake - Death In Hellfire
Allison & Busby (November)
When John Rawlings is asked to investigate a secret club & some shady goings-on, he is intrigued. The disreputable Sir Francis Dashwood is believed to be involved, as well as some illustrious members of the British aristocracy. In disguise & accompanied by Sam Swann, John befriends Sir Dashwood & gains access to his home & family.
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Ward Larsen - Perfect Assassin
Gazelle (September)
Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic finds a man clinging to his life in the frigid waters. David Slaton is a Kidon, a highly-trained, highly-precise, & highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter & the hunted, & he & Christine are in grave danger.
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Stieg Larsson - Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Quercus (July)
Harriet Vanger disappeared 40 years ago off the secluded island owned by her family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence, But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan.
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Caroline Lawrence - Scribes From Alexandria
Orion (November)
A desperate quest begins in the Romano-Egyptian port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, the Library & the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes & hieroglyphics lead the search parties down the river Nile to pyramids & sphinxes, temples & tombs, crocodiles & hippos. But what lies at the end of the journey? Treasure? Or death?
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Mike Lawson - Dead On Arrival
Harper Collins (August)
Joe DeMarco is back & the corridors of power have never felt so deadly! First a bomb attack on the Baltimore Harbour tunnel is averted. Then a young American Muslim is shot down in a Cessna plane whilst trying to drive it into The Whitehouse. What follows is chaos as a ruthless senator tries to pass a xenophobic law.
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John Lawton - Second Violin
Phoenix (August)
1940: London is under siege by German bombers - & its own prejudices & paranoias. The last thing Troy wanted was to be seconded to Special Branch to round up 'enemy' aliens. It's a dirty job - & among the aliens is his brother Rod who, with other refugees are interned on the Isle of Man. In the mean time, a lunatic is killing Jews in the East End. Troy takes time off from Special Branch to return to his true calling: murder.
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James Lear - Secret Tunnel
Cleis Press Us (September)
Mitch, now a doctor in Edinburgh, is determined to live in domestic bliss with his boyfriend Vince. But when he receives a tantalising invitation to London from his ex, "Boy" Morgan, Mitch jumps aboard the Flying Scotsman expecting a quick, smooth ride. The ride turns out to be anything but smooth as Mitch discovers his fellow travellers include Belgian power bottom Benoit & butch publicist Peter Dickinson.
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Stephen Leather - Dead Men
Hodder & Stoughton (September)
Five men murder an RUC Special Branch officer in front of his wife & son. The men who killed the RUC officer have been released from prison under the Good Friday agreement. One by one someone is killing them, in exactly the same way that the RUC officer died - & possibly using his gun.
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Patrick Lennon - Steel Witches
Hodder & Stoughton (July)
Tom Fletcher has left the police force, & it's cold outside. Working as a private investigator in Cambridge, Tom is dragged back into his own troubled family history by an enigmatic message from his missing father. Somehow, he seems to be connected to the disappearance & murder of a young physics student, who was working in a hostess bar.
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Elmore Leonard - Pagan Babies
Phoenix (September)
The only survivor of a genocidal massacre in Rwanda, Father Terry Dunn returns to the U.S. to join forces with Debbie Dewey to raise money both for Rwandan orphans & to score off a Mafia associate who had once conned Debbie out of thousands of dollars.
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Elmore Leonard - Pronto
Phoenix (September)
Harry Arno, running betting scams for the Mob, decides to put his retirement plan into action after being warned of a threat to his business.
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Elmore Leonard - Up In Honey's Room
Phoenix (September)
Walter Schoen is a member of a spy ring that sends US war production data to Germany & gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, wants a divorce & in comes Carl Webster looking for an escaped POW.
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Kevin Lewis - Fallen Angel
Penguin (August)
DI Stacey Collins has seen the darker side of humanity all too often. A single mum & former child from the grim Blenheim estate, she knows only too well what terrors the world can hold. But even her jaded eyes have never witnessed a crime of such unspeakable horror. A body, broken & lifeless, is found in the gloom of a London church.
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Jeff Lindsay - Dexter In The Dark
Orion (July)
Miami crime scene investigator - & a serial killer dedicated to eliminating evil people - Dexter Morgan confronts his ultimate adversary, a sinister enemy that even terrifies Dexter's inner monster, & must use his sharpest investigative talents to find & destroy his enemy.
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Clare Littleford - The Quarry
Five Leaves (Available Now)
Jenny Carter is preparing to close up her cafe for the night. Then she receives an unexpected phone call, from her 8 year old daughter Molly, desperate for her help. A rescue trip into the darkness of Quarry Woods takes a grim turn, forcing Jenny & her family to face the truth about what happened in the quarry 17 years earlier.
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Carlo Lucarelli - Via Delle Oche
Europa Editions (October)
Commissario De Luca investigates the link between the supposed suicide of a man in the red-light district & corrupt local politicians & police members in 1948 Bologna, Italy.
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Lisa Lutz - Spellman Files
Pocket (August)
Izzy Spellman is 28, single & works for Spellman Investigations, a family-run private detective agency. Izzy decides she wants out, but before they'll let her go, her parents ask her to solve one last case - a 15-year-old, ice-cold, missing person, impossible-to-solve case.
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