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  The Cleaner

  Mark Dawson

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  John Milton is the man the government calls when they want a problem to go away . . . but what happens when he's the one who needs to disappear? 
   
   
   
  After a botched job leaves a bloody trail, government assassin John Milton does the one thing he's never done before: he hides. 
   
   
   
  Disappearing into London's bustling East End and holing up in a vacant flat, Milton becomes involved with his neighbor Sharon and her troubled son Elijah, who are caught in an increasingly bloody turf war between two rival gangs. 
   
   
   
  Unable to ignore the threat, Milton sets about protecting mother and son, meeting violence with violence. But his involvement puts him in the sights of the government's next best killer, and before long Milton is not just fighting to save a family and a home—he's fighting to stay alive . . . 
   
   
   
  If you like Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, you won't be able to put down the compulsively addictive John Milton series.

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  The Adventure of the Second...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Second Stain", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes and the only unrecorded case mentioned passively by Watson to be written. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Second Stain" eighth in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.
  Lord Bellinger, the Prime Minister, and the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, come to Holmes in the matter of a document stolen from Hope's dispatch box, which he kept at home in Whitehall Terrace when not at work. If divulged, this document could bring about very dire consequences for all Europe, even war. They are loath to tell Holmes at first the exact nature of the document's contents, but when Holmes declines to take on their case, they tell him that it was a rather injudicious letter from a foreign potentate. It disappeared from the dispatch box one evening when Hope's wife was out at the theatre for four hours. No-one in the house knew about the document, not even the Secretary's wife. None of the servants could have guessed what was in the box.

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  The Murder of Santa

  Matt Borne, Luigi Ferro

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  Step into the snow-draped shadows of the Italian Alps, where a secluded holiday retreat becomes the stage for murder, secrets, and unrelenting danger. 
  What starts as Luigi Ferro’s quiet escape from the holidays turns deadly when a guest is found murdered in a Santa suit. As the hard-boiled detective digs into the secrets of his enigmatic companions—including a cunning dentist, a wealthy socialite, and two dangerously alluring women—he finds himself entangled in a web of lies and betrayal. 
  Amid moonlit ski trails and shadowy candlelit dinners, Ferro must navigate a chilling mystery where nothing is as it seems, and danger lurks behind every smile. In this remote winter retreat, even a seasoned investigator can become the hunted. 
  Blending the intrigue of classic noir with the seductive elegance of an alpine winter, The Murder of Santa is a gripping tale of betrayal, desire, and the razor-thin line between good and evil. 
  Will Ferro Expose the killer before the season of giving turns into one of taking lives?  
  E-book exclusive to Matt Borne and available for free at www.MattBorne.com

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  Seams Like Murder

  Anonym

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  There are two things that can’t talk—moving pictures and dead showgirls… 
  1920, Wellington, New Zealand. Grace Devine is poised to build her thriving dress design business as the twenties begin to soar. But when a fashionable client is murdered, suspicion falls on Grace as the last person to see Agatha alive. 
  As wary clients cancel and business begins to fail, Grace decides there’s only one way to prove her innocence and save her career…this seamstress will turn sleuth to find who really murdered the showgirl. 
  The more she learns, the more she uncovers of the darker side of the dead woman’s personality. Agatha liked to collect secrets and use them against people. But what target snapped that fatal night? Can Grace stitch together the clues before her life is torn apart… 
  These heart-warming historical mysteries will send you on a unique New Zealand adventure.

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  High Hand

  Traude Ailinger

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  A killing in high society leaves a detective with a chip on his shoulder grasping at straws 
   
   
   
  After a shooting party on a Scottish estate, one of the participants is found dead, having been unceremoniously hit on the head with a rock. 
   
   
   
  Getting nowhere when interviewing the arrogant son of the wealthy landowner, DI Russell McCord is quietly relieved that with her family connections, bothersome journalist Amy Thornton might help the investigation. 
   
   
   
  But with a new partner to train—one who, to his dismay, seems to have won the affections of Amy—McCord wastes no time putting the most likely suspect in jail. He'll work out the motive later. 
   
   
   
  When Amy undermines his case, he'll have to rely heavily on her to find the real perpetrator. But not before another murder throws everything up in the air.

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  The Betrayal

  Helen Dunmore

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  A “magnificent, brave, tender” novel of post-WWII Russia from the author of The Siege—shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (The Independent on Sunday).  Leningrad 1952. Andrei, a young doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, have forged a life together in the postwar, post-siege wreckage. But they know their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin’s merciless Ministry of State Security.   When Andrei is forced to treat the sick child of a senior secret police officer, his every move is scrutinized, making it painfully clear that his own fate—and that of his family—is bound to the child’s. Trapped in an impossible game of life and death, Andrei and Anna must avoid the whispers and watchful eyes of those who will say and do anything to save themselves . . .   With The Betrayal, internationally acclaimed author Helen Dunmore “vividly depicts the difficulty of living by principle in a tyrannical society, in which paranoia infects every act, and even ordinary citizens become instruments of terror” (The New Yorker).   “An emotionally charged thriller, The Betrayal unfolds breathlessly and with great skill. . . . You don’t want to put it down. . . . Elegant yet devastating.” —The Seattle Times   “With precise period detail and astute psychological insight, Dunmore brings the last months of Stalin’s reign to life and reminds us why some eras shouldn’t be forgotten.” —Publishers Weekly

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