Your next good read January 2010
New Titles by popular Authors
James Patterson Worst Case
Sue Grafton U is for Undertow
Dean Koontz Breathless
JD Robb Fantasy in Death
Stephen Leather Nightfall
Lesley Pearce Stolen
Diana Gabaldon An Echo in the Bone
Raymond Feist At the Gates of Chaos
Susan Lewis The Choice
Clive Cussler (with Grant Blackwood) Spartan Gold
Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves
The author of the highly successful ‘The Historian’ has again produced a beautiful and intriguing story. Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow uncovers the past of one of his patients, a major artist, who has attacked an impressionist painting in Washington’s National Gallery of Art. In a bid to understand his patient Marlow embarks upon a journey of discovery revealing the loves and losses of his charge but also of a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.
Nigel Farndale
The Blasphemer
Zoologist Daniel survives when the plane in which he and his partner are travelling crashes into the sea. He climbs over her to save himself and to get help, but although he goes back to save her an inevitable wedge is driven between them. The event connects Daniel with his great-grandfather, a First World War soldier, and his experiences on the first day of Passchendaele. He questions whether the same mystical guardian saved both of them from dying and past and present begin to merge. A deeply moving novel taking the reader from the trenches of the First World War to present day London.
Prue Leith
A Serving of Scandal
Kath McKinnon, single mother and professional cook, has a small thriving business catering for private clients. The job fits round caring for her son Toby and all is well until she takes a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office. There she meets Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State, who is married, a father and totally off limits. However, Kath falls for him and they embark upon what she thinks is a secret affair. The press are dying for a story like this and know it will sell newspapers. An entertaining fifth novel from cook and restaurateur Prue Leith.
Belinda Bauer
Blacklands
Twelve year old Steven discovers that his uncle Billy was murdered at the age of 11 by notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. While classmates play after school Steven obsessively digs on Exmoor determined to find his uncle’s remains. He enters into correspondence with the imprisoned Avery and a dangerous game starts between them – which can only have terrifying consequences. A disturbing novel and exceptional debut from Bauer.
Rebecca Stott
The Coral Thief
Set in Paris in 1815, Daniel Connor is a young medical student from Edinburgh. He is travelling to Paris to continue his study into anatomy. Whilst travelling by mail coach he meets a mysterious woman who robs him of his precious coral specimens. The story follows his search for the woman and his stolen belongings as Paris introduces him to new radical ideas, crime and a passionate love affair.
M R Hall
The Disappeared
A follow up to debut novel The Coroner and nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime fiction. Jenny Hill is called on to help the family of Nazim Jamal who disappeared from Bristol seven years ago. The British student and friend Rafi had both been under surveillance and police felt it was likely that they left the country to pursue their dangerous new ideals. As the inquest into Nazim’s disappearance is opened Jenny is pulled into a world of conspiracy and corruption, which threatens to reveal ghosts of her own past.
