The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
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Detective Matthew Venn returns in The Raging Storm, the next captivating novel in the Two Rivers series from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland.
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Operation Nassau by Dorothy Dunnett
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Dr B. McRannoch, a savvy and tough young woman, is staying in the Bahamas with her father. However, when Sir Bart Edgecome, a British agent who has been positioned with arsenic falls ill on his way back from New York, she becomes involved in a series of events beyond her wildest imagination.Drawn into an espionage plot with multiple suspects, it is only the presence of enigmatic portrait painter Johnson Johnson on his yacht, Dolly, that saves the day. But nothing is quite as straightforward as it at first seems.
Read MoreIbiza Surprise by Dorothy Dunnett
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When Sarah Cassells, a young British woman who has just completed her training as a chef, hears of her father’s violent death on Ibiza, she refuses to believe it is suicide. She goes to Ibiza to investigate and becomes involved with an art dealer; with two beautiful jetsetters; with her brother’s strange predicament; with a remarkable American woman who is not all what she seems – and with Johnson Johnson, the mysterious portrait painter who shows up on his yacht, Dolly. As Ibiza prepares to celebrate Holy Week with the traditional processions, events become more and more macabre….
Read MoreKiller Bodies by Heleen Kist
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In a prestigious Edinburgh apartment building, gym receptionist Evie whiles away long hours doodling the deaths of residents who’ve annoyed her. On her birthday of all days, a man slumps off the exercise bike — dead. She tries to get help, but someone has locked the doors and the phones are out of reach. When another resident collapses inexplicably, Evie realises the deaths resemble those she drew … and her sketchbook is missing. Was she framed….or is she next?
Read MoreThe Chemical Code by Fiona Erskine
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Racing towards the dark heart of Brazil, explosives expert Jaq Silver has one goal - vengeance. When her enemies take what she values most she resolves to make them pay. Unsure who to trust, alert to hidden agendas, Jaq is hunting solo s the web of danger and corruption tightens round her.
Read MoreRum Affair by Dorothy Dunnett
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Tina Rossi, the world's leading coloratura soprano, has travelled to Edinburgh, ostensibly to sing in the Festival but really to meet her lover. Instead of finding top scientist Kenneth Holmes at their rendezvous she discovers the corpse of a stranger. Enter Johnson Johnson, a famous but enigmatic portrait painter whose yacht Dolly is about to sail in a race around the Inner Hebrides.
Read MoreTropical Issue by Dorothy Dunnett
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Rita, a small, tough Scottish makeup artist, is on Madeira trying to find out who killed Kim-Jim, an American makeup supremo. Anchored off the island is Dolly, the yacht of Johnson Johnson, with whom she teams up.
Read MoreChicken Wars by Adam Leigh
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Jack Fogel always wanted to work in TV, not run the family business. He thought he'd escaped, until his father's heart attack saddled him with Fogel's Kosher Chickens.
Read MoreThe Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
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Dark, moving and wry, The Funeral Cryer is both an illuminating depiction of a 'left behind' society and proof that it's never too late to change your life.
Read MoreWahala by Nikki May
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‘Wahala’ is the Yoruba word for ‘trouble’. In May’s funny and perceptive debut novel, the trouble is created by a pushy outsider who intrudes herself into the lives of a tight-knit friendship group. Ronke, Simi and Boo have been friends ever since they met at university in Bristol…
Read MoreThe Startup Wife by Tahmina Anam
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Brilliant Asha has created an algorithm that could change the nature of social media. Her charismatic husband Cyrus has the personality and charm which are essential to popularise her platform. Will their passionate marriage survive the stress of a tech startup?
Read MoreFactory Girls by Michelle Gallen
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It’s summer 1994, and three eighteen year old girls are working in a shirt factory in a country town. They’re waiting for the exam results and all they want is to earn some money while having as much fun as possible. But this is Northern Ireland, so there are obstacles to overcome before Maeve, Caroline and Aoife can head off into the big wide world.
Read MoreLove Marriage by Monica Ali
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‘They kept each other in the dark. Only when the light got in did the Ghoramis start falling apart.’ Yasmin’s attempts to cast light on her family’s secrets is touching and funny.
Read MoreLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality.
The Lock In by Phoebe Luckhurst
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It looks as if the long-standing friendship of Ellen and Alexa is about to crumble and fall, taking with it Alexa and Ben’s promising love affair. There are lots of laughs while flatmate Jack tries to save the situation.
Read MoreImpossible by Sarah Lotz
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Bee is working all hours to build up her dressmaking business and Nick is freelancing as a literary editor. Both of them are lonely and open to a relationship, but through no fault of their own, unimaginable difficulties stand in the way of their love affair. Fortunately the nature of their problem allows plenty of scope for humour.
Read MoreThe Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
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The Hanrahan clan gather to support famous artist and notorious egoist Ray, as he prepares for his first exhibition in decades. He is sure it will polish his reputation for good. But what will happen if his family make the changes necessary for their own happiness?
Read MoreThe Purgatory Poisoning by Rebecca Rogers
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When Dave wakes up in his own personal purgatory, he’s shocked to discover he’s dead. And worse – he was murdered.
Heaven doesn’t know who did it so with the help of two rogue angels, Dave must uncover the truth.
Read MoreThe Hive by Scarlett Brade
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Hell has no fury like a woman dumped on Twitter. The pain suffered by Charlotte Goodwin after her celebrity boyfriend leaves her is intense. Not only does she have to cope with being abandoned by her lover, but she is jeered at by a Twitter group called the Hive. Meanwhile her rival is praised and envied. In her debut novel Scarlett Brade takes the reader inside the head of a woman at the centre of a perfect storm of resentment and humiliation. The resulting despair and anguish finds its outlet in premeditated murder.
Read MoreVillager by Tom Cox
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Villager is a ramble through the history of a village at the foot of a tor. Hares and wild ponies, a stone circle and a church are on the map. Crows circle the crown of the hill. Mystical voices from distant eras comment on the doings of the living. At times the past of the village orbits eerily close to its present, with startling results…
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