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  Plot Counterplot

  William Bernhardt

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  He writes gunfights and ticking time bombs. But when he’s kidnapped and forced to plan a real-world crime, every plot twist will be explosive… 
  Dylan Taggart channels his demons through the keyboard. Knocked around by a father who believed weakness was failure, the bestselling suspense author grabs a measure of peace in his gorgeous girlfriend’s arms. But he sees fiction come horrifyingly to life when masked fanatics break in demanding he put his brilliant mind to work and help them steal a secret military super-weapon. 
  Dylan tries to refuse, but his resolve shatters when they leave his lover for dead and punish him mercilessly. Torn between terror and grief, he starts writing the heist scheme as ordered…while feverishly building a cunningly disguised sabotage. 
  Can this tortured artist use his own ingenious plotting skills to prevent the death of millions? 
  Plot/Counterplot is a fast-paced standalone thriller. If you like resourceful characters, intense drama, and endless surprises, then you’ll adore William Bernhardt’s clever caper. 
  “A man on the run... a woman on the run... in a thriller that hits the ground running... then running faster... then absolutely flying. And you're flying, too, flying through the pages with one of the masters of the modern thriller at the controls. William Bernhardt knows when to soar and when to dive, when to make you sweat and when to let you breathe, when to throw this flying machine into a barrel roll that will absolutely shock you and when to bring you home safe and satisfied. A terrific entertainment.” -- William Martin, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Lincoln Letter and December '41  

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  Guilty

  Ruby Speechley

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  “You’re invited to my farewell party. I’ve got something to tell you before I die…” 
  Heather wants to leave this world with a clear conscience. 
  One confession. One secret. Two scores to settle. 
  Heather accepted the fate of her terminal diagnosis long ago, but now the time is nearing, she arranges a huge farewell party for her nearest and dearest. 
  She wants to say goodbye to everyone personally, but there’s another reason she wants the people in her life to gather. 
  She knows who killed young Simon Eyre all those years ago, and she needs to tell. The boy deserves justice. 
  But she doesn’t realise that by freeing her own inner demons, she’s unleashing much worse secrets, and putting everyone at risk… 
  'immensely readable and hugely entertaining - so compelling that I read it in a matter of hours' Fiona Mitchell

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  A Fragment Too Far - A Sheriff...

  Dudley Lynch

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  True Detective meets X-Files in the first installment of the Luke McWhorter seriesNine physicists are dead. The medical examiner has determined that the victims died from drinking coffee laced with rat poison. The owner of the house, Professor Thaddeus Huntgardner, isn't suspected, but his claim that a piece of the debris from Roswell's 1947 UFO crash was hidden in Flagler might be true. Enter Luther "Luke" Stephens McWhorter, a Yale Divinity School-educated West Texas sheriff with all the right questions.Is the fragment real? If so, who is trying to locate it? And what has fueled the byzantine activities of Abbot County's two secret societies for the past 70 years? Working with FBI agent and girlfriend, Angie Steele, Sheriff Luke begins to put together all the pieces and come to understand the connection between seemingly unrelated phenomena.

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  Waiting for Sunrise - A Novel

  William Boyd

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  This “thoroughly entertaining” historical novel has “the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty” (The New Yorker). 
   
  Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is mystified, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape—with the help of two mysterious British diplomats—saves him from trial. But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander’s life as he knows it. He returns to London hoping to win back his one-time fiancée and banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn. The men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the brutal murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna shows up nonchalantly at a party, ready to resume their liaison. And before he knows where his new life has taken him, Lysander soon finds himself on the trail of a traitor—a man whose bizarre connection to his own family proves a cruel twist of fate. 
   
  “An absorbing spy novel that raises provocative questions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 
   
  “Breathlessly readable.” —The Independent 
   
  “Boyd effortlessly combines historical detail with a sexy, galloping narrative that proves irresistible.” —People 
   
  “Boyd is a born story teller whose clear, taut prose never gets in the way of his characters and their unpredictable fates.” —The Wall Street Journal 
   
  “A thinking person’s thriller.” —Good Housekeeping

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  Bloodshed on the Boards - the...

  Judy Leigh

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  There is excitement in the air as the travelling theatre arrives in Seal Bay. 
  When The Spriggan Travelling Theatre Company arrives in Seal Bay to perform a Cornish version of King Arthur the locals flock to be entertained. But for Morwenna Mutton, sexagenarian librarian, wild swimming enthusiast and amateur sleuth, the theatre brings intrigue too. Actor and director Daniel Kitto is not the most popular member of the cast and unbeknownst to him, his role of Uther Pendragon on the opening night is to be his swansong. 
  In front of a horrified audience, he collapses during the dying moments of the performance in a pool of fake blood, and although the police are content that the causes of his death are natural, Morwenna isn’t so sure. And once it becomes clear that there are a number of people who stand to gain from Daniel’s death, Morwenna’s investigation takes a dangerous turn. 
  If you love Miss Marple and The Thursday Murder Club, then you'll love The Morwenna Mutton mysteries. 
  Readers love Judy Leigh and Morwenna Mutton: 
  ‘This was an absolute joy to read. I absolutely loved this family and all the surrounding characters in this book… I shall really look forward to the next instalment and finding out what Morwenna's next mystery will be.’ 
  ‘Morwenna is a new kid on the cozy crime block, and looks likely to become established as a shrewder, tougher and more compassionate contender in the literary world of amateur detectives.’ 
  ‘This was a lovely read! I got into the story right away, Seal Bay is a fascinating community full of interesting people and what’s not to love about Morwenna? She’s brilliant! I enjoyed trying to solve the crime with her and I adore her eccentric fashion sense and always read what she was wearing with a smile on my face… a wonderful book, a great read and I am looking forward to reading more of Morwenna’s adventures in the future.’ 
  ‘Judy Leigh has created amateur sleuthing at its finest. I think the novel would make a fabulous television cosy crime drama. It was highly entertaining, most enjoyable, fun and light-hearted. I cannot wait for more of this fabulous series.’

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  The Spandau Complication

  Bob Orkand

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  "Casemate has a long history of publishing high quality military history non-fiction. Lately, they have expanded their range of work to include well written novels using wartime settings." – WWII History MagazineIn Cold War Berlin US Army Major Harry Holbrook is caught in the midst of assassination attempts and has to put his trust in an unknown contact and the reliability of information that may allow him to foil another assassination.Hot on the heels of a dressing-down by the U.S. Commander Berlin, U.S. Army Major Harry Holbrook receives an unexpected luncheon invitation from the Soviet commandant of Spandau Prison, where the last three remaining Nazi war criminals are incarcerated. A contact in East Berlin alerts Holbrook that the Red Army faction will attempt to assassinate West Berlin Mayor Willi Brandt and the U.S. Commander at the opening of the Fifth Annual German-American Volksfest. Holbrook helps foil the plot. Coming to trust his contact, Holbrook knows he should act when he is tipped off that a Mossad terrorist attempts to assassinate two of the three Spandau prisoners upon their release from the prison...  Set in the divided city of Berlin in the mid-1960s where recent incidents have brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before, this debut novel brings a complex tapestry of events to a breathtaking conclusion.

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