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  A Slash of Emerald - A Dr Julia...

  Patrice McDonough

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  London, 1867: Among the genteel young ladies of London society, painting is a perfectly acceptable pastime—but a woman who dares to pursue art as a profession is another prospect, indeed. Dr. Julia Lewis, familiar with the disrespect afforded women in untraditional careers, is hardly surprised when Scotland Yard shows little interest in complaints made by her friend, Mary Allingham, about a break-in at her art studio. Mary is just one of many "lady painters" being targeted by vandals. 
   
   
   
  Painters' sitters are vanishing, too—women viewed by some as dispensable outcasts. Inspector Richard Tennant, however, takes the attacks seriously, suspecting they're linked to the poison-pen letters received by other members of the Allingham family. For Julia, the issue is complicated by Tennant's previous relationship with Mary's sister-in-law, Louisa, and by her own surprising reaction to that entanglement. 
   
   
   
  But when someone close to them commits suicide and a woman turns up dead, the case can no longer be so easily ignored by "respectable" society. Layer after layer, Julia and Tennant scrape away the facts of the case like paint from a canvas. What emerges is a somber picture of vice, depravity, and deception stretching from London's East End to the Far East—with a killer at its center, determined to get away with one last, grisly murder . . .

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  Murder in Copper

  Virgil Alexander

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  A copper theft investigation puts Arizona and the Apache Tribal Police on the trail of a deadly conspiracy in this borderland mystery thriller. 
   
   
   
  Sgt. Bren Allred has seen all manner of criminality in beautiful Graham County, Arizona. He has managed to keep the worst of it from his wife, Monica, who is having a troubled pregnancy. But it will be difficult to keep the devils at bay as a new kind of trouble erupts across the region . . . 
   
   
   
  When deputies Sanchez and Haley go undercover to investigate a rash of copper theft, they unwittingly stumble across a shadowy spy network. Meanwhile, Apache Police Sgt. Al Victor is confronted by a murder case involving a diplomat as he grapples with the ever-present problem of alcohol on the reservation.

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  Nearly Dead - The Anglesey...

  Conrad Jones

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  A powerful and emotional read. The Anglesey Murders Series is THE must-read thriller of 2020. 
   
  The renovation of a remote farmhouse on Anglesey uncovers a chamber of horrors but the crimes are historical. DI Alec Ramsay must sift through the evidence to identify both the victims and the perpetrators, while trying to dismantle the dangerous drug gangs that plague the city.

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  Serapion - A tale of Demonic...

  Gertrude Barrows Bennett,...

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  In a career that spanned a mere three years, Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis Stevens) published half a dozen books that came to define the genres that followed on. she is most popularly known as the woman who invented dark fantasy, but on the way she also invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian Sci Fi.Today, you would call this a tale of trauma-onset schizophrenia, or perhaps a terrible descent into Dissociative Identity Disorder, foretold by genetics. In 1920, the best way to make sense of it was demonic possession. A true masterwork of psychological horror, from before psychology existed."One of the most intense, complete and unrelenting tales of psychological horror ever put together. No gore, guts and physical putrescence so common to horror, but the utter dissolution of a human spirit, as told by the victim. It is also perhaps the saddest book I've ever read, a perfectly realized story of unredeemed personal degradation and its effects on all it touches.Clayton Barbour, the narrator, is a protected bourgeois son just weak enough to allow himself to be overwhelmed by a sly, dissembling force of evil, just strong enough to be constantly tormented by his weakness. Invited to a séance by a casual acquaintance, Moore, who sees in him a psychic force, he becomes the inadvertent victim of Moore's wife's contact with a channeled malignant force.From this point on, the life of Clayton, his family and his friends is slowly, inextricably ripped asunder by events and in ways that seem unconnected but are manipulated by the Fifth Presence within him. Bennett pulls no punches, provides no happy ending. In that, it is her most honest work (and perhaps a summing summing up of her own life to this point, when she had lost a husband, father and invalid mother)...Dark, wrenching, truly horrifying, but a book I can recommend without the least reservation." [Derek Davis, Goodreads]

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  Lock Me In: An absolutely...

  Kate Simants

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  ‘Intricately plotted, beautifully written…with great pace, truly sympathetic characters, and a great twist at the end’ Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange 
  Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger awardWhatever you do, don’t open the door… 
    
  By day, Ellie Power has a normal life. She has a stable home, a loving boyfriend, a future. 
    
  But at night, she suffers from a sleep disorder. She becomes angry, unpredictable, violent. Her mother locks Ellie in her bedroom every night, to keep them both safe. 
    
  Then one morning, Ellie wakes up, horrified to find the lock on her bedroom door smashed from the inside. She is covered in injuries, unable to remember anything about the night before. 
    
  And her boyfriend Matt is nowhere to be found…Praise for Lock Me In 
  ‘Intricately plotted, beautifully written’ Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange 
  ‘This ambitious and wide-reaching novel had me hooked from the very first page’ S. E. Lynes, author of The Women 
  ‘One of the best debuts I have ever read’ Clare Empson, author of Him 
  'A flawlessly written, jaw-dropping, chilling and twisty psychological thriller' Sam Carrington, author of Saving Sophie 
  ‘A disturbing psychological thriller’ Rachel Sargeant, author of The Perfect Neighbours 
  ‘The characters are fresh, the dialogue sharp’ G. D. Abson, author of Motherland 
  ‘A stunning debut. Gripping, compelling and skilfully crafted’ N J Crosskey, author of Poster Boy 
  Ellie's life is a puzzle, a mystery that even the top police detectives struggle to piece together. Her unpredictable, violent episodes, a result of her sleep disorder, turn her into an amateur sleuth in her own life, desperately trying to fill in the blanks of her memory. 
  For fans of Mike Craven (The Mercy Chair), Amy Mcculloch (Midnight), Fiona Cummins (All Of Us Are Broken), Will Dean (The Last Passenger), and Robert Gold (Nine Hidden Lives).

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  Sleeper War - An Action-Thriller

  Paul Heatley

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  America has fallen. It just doesn’t know it yet. 
    
  Kayla Morrow, Keith Wright, and Charlie Carter, once strangers and now close allies, find themselves broken and scattered, spread across the country, each with their own private wars to wage. Their enemies surround them, outnumber them, but the three have found new allies on their separate journeys. If they can all get back to each other they might just stand a chance against an overwhelming opposition. 
    
  President Turner has achieved power he never dreamed of, but his benefactors are threatening to take it all away from him. Turner isn’t willing to give it up without a fight. Civil war threatens The Order, and the nation will suffer no matter the outcome. 
    
  Book three in this adrenaline-pumping action-thriller series from bestseller Paul Heatley, and the explosive conclusion to The First Sleeper saga.

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