The Black Angel
by John Connolly
(Hodder & Stoughton)
Connolly takes his Charlie Parker series from the serial-killer realm towards supernatural horror. Killer Louis is searching for his junkie-whore cousin and her abductors; Parker comes to realise that this disappearance is part of an older mystery — one linked to a church of bones in Eastern Europe.
The Closers
by Michael Connelly
(Orion)
After three years away, Harry Bosch is assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of “cold cases” that haunt the LAPD’s files. Connelly is described by The Independent on Sunday as “a crime-writing genius”.
The Innocent
by Harlan Coben
(Orion)
Matt Hunter spent four years in prison, but now his life is back on track; he has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to buy the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cellphone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger …
Garden of Beasts
by Jeffery Deaver
(Hodder & Stoughton)
Deaver’s books usually read as if sketched out by a mystery writer’s computer program (a certain number of murders sensibly spaced, so many pages of terror build-up, stilted dialogue throughout), but this one is different. It’s set in 1936 and features a mob hit-man picked up by US Naval Intelligence and offered a new identity if he will knock off Hitler’s planning chief. By chapter two he’s on his way to Germany. There’s lots of tough-guy dialogue and a terrific Damon Runyon line, one our hero cites: “Remember, all of life is six to five against.”
RAGE
by Jonathan Kellerman
(Warner Books)
This is the latest in Kellerman’s long series of novels featuring his psychologist-detective Alex Delaware. In this instalment, he revisits a case he adjudicated years before — that of two boys who killed another child. One of those boys, now a man, is coming out of jail and wants to meet Delaware to prove he’s not a bad person. But he is mysteriously killed en route to the rendezvous …
NIGHT FALL
by Nelson B de Mille
(Little, Brown)
From the author of By the Rivers of Babylon, a new thriller. Five years after a dreadful air crash, John Corey and his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, are forced to look into the accident once more. Kate believes the government’s finding of mechanical failure is wrong, but her employers don’t want the case reopened, and John and Kate are sent on leave. But that doesn’t stop them.
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