Daily Archives: January 8, 2017

Severance Kill (Martin Calvary Book 1)by Tim Stevens

Martin Calvary is going to Prague to kill a man.

First he has to rescue him.

Calvary works for The Chapel, a branch of British Intelligence that identifies enemies of the state who are beyond the reach of the law, and eliminates them. Permanently.

But Calvary has had enough of the killing and wants out. His employers make him an offer: if he carries out one more assassination, he’s free to leave. If he refuses, evidence of his involvement in all the previous killings will be passed on to the police and he’ll become a wanted criminal facing life in prison.

Trapped, Calvary travels to Prague to carry out the hit. The target is Sir Ivor Gaines, a retired senior British diplomat and Cold War traitor who escaped justice more than twenty years ago. But Calvary discovers he’s not the only one with an interest in Gaines. Also hunting him are the city’s gangland boss, and the local branch of the successor organisation to the Soviet KGB…

Calvary’s hit on Gaines fails, and he’s plunged into a race against time to locate and terminate the man before either Prague’s premier organised crime family or the Russians discover just why Gaines is so important, and what the explosive repercussions would be were he to be taken to Moscow. Haunted by the memory of a terrible error he made five years ago, Calvary must track down Gaines to achieve severance not only from his job, but from his past itself.

Severance Kill is the first book in the Martin Calvary action thriller series, which continues with Annihilation Myths.

Islandby Aldous Huxley

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.

Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn’t expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.

The Murder Gameby Catherine McKenzie writing as Julie Apple

For fans of The Secret History and How to Get Away With Murder comes an exciting new voice in suspense fiction.

Ten years working as a prosecutor have left Meredith Delay jaded and unsure of what she wants out of life. She’s good at her job, but it haunts her. Her boyfriend wants her to commit, but she keeps him at arm’s length. Then Meredith is assigned to a high-profile prosecution involving the violent murder of a fallen hockey star. At first, it appears to be just another case to work. But when her old friend Julian is accused of the murder, it takes on a whole new dimension.

Meredith, Julian, Jonathan, and Lily were a tight-knit group in law school. But now, Jonathan’s defending Julian, and Lily’s loyalties aren’t clear. And when Julian invokes a rare–and risky–defense, Meredith is forced to confront their past.

Has something they played at as students finally been brought to death?

The French Orphanby Michael Stolle

The year is 1640, and Louis XIII is on the French throne. However, as far as you’re concerned, this is all pretty meaningless. After all, as a teenage orphan living in a monastery school in Reims, all you have to worry about is dodging the unpleasant advances of a few unsavoury monks and looking forward to a life of penniless and celibate servitude in a religious order.

After a childhood and adolescence plagued by a constant longing to know who he really is, orphan Pierre has not the slightest idea that his questions are about to be answered. But you know what they say – be careful what you wish for…

Suddenly finding out who you are can bring with it not only happiness and fortune, but danger, friendship and the sort of swift education that the monastery could never have provided! The discovery of who Pierre really is affects not only Pierre and his friends, but has ramifications for the French nobility, the English crown, and most dangerous of all, the machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his fierce ambition for the Church and for himself.

……And if all that excitement isn’t enough, the adventures continue in a sequel – The Secrets of Montrésor –

Unfurled: Heroing is a Tough Gigby Eric Padilla

Heroing is a tough gig…

When seventeen year old Daniel Nickers gains superhuman abilities, he believes his dream of becoming a superhero will finally come true. But things don’t work out like they do in the comic books and he finds the job harder than he thought it would be. Lacking full control of his powers, and faced with criminals who act instead of giving speeches about their plans, he is constantly in danger of being killed as crime in his city soars.

If that is not enough, a new supervillain named Crusher has come to town and is gathering all the criminals together into one organization. Their first order of business is to eliminate the pesky superhero who is the city’s only protector.
Daniel must learn to use his powers and stop Crusher before the villain can implement his mysterious master plan or all that Daniel cares about could be lost, including his own life.

THE ALIBIby Jaime Raven

A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi…

Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth – and she’s not afraid of bending the rules to get there.

When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in her South London home, all eyes are on her ex-husband – the notorious gangster, Danny Shapiro.

Determined to expose Danny as a cold-blooded killer, Beth obsessively pursues him. But in her hunt for the truth, her family are set to pay the ultimate price…

Secrets, lies and revenge brim to the top in this gritty thriller. Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers.

The Real Dad: A Novel of Suspenseby Mary Lynn Roddy

Lulie and Nate Brannigan have had a loving, dreamlike marriage for the past four years. Nate’s stepchildren are calling him dad, and all is warm and cozy in the Brannigan home until an unexpected visit.

Police come to their door, arrest Nate, and won’t say why. Then, in an abuse of their power, they force the wife and children to come along, in a second squad. Lulie is seething. “What do you even think my husband’s done?”

She is to find out all too soon, and she wants him away from her kids. Must she choose between her long-sought love and the unthinkable?

Within nine days, Nate’s bailed out and thinks he can come home.

He keys himself in and refuses to leave, so she and the boys have to go. They run, keep moving, even hide, but they can’t shake him. “It’s not just me, he wants to be your real dad, again,” she tells them. Nate will stop at nothing to get his family back.

Be prepared to burn the midnight oil as you get lost in the horrifying realities of this dark thriller of a tale.

Alaska Wildby Helena Newbury

From the first moment I see Mason Boone, I can’t take my eyes off him. Everyone’s got a different story about the gorgeous, silent man in chains. He’s a hero, a former Navy SEAL. He’s a fugitive, on his way to a court martial. He’s a loner, a mountain man who hasn’t spoken to another soul in years. But when our plane crashes deep in the Alaskan wilderness, he becomes my only hope. I’m a FBI agent and he’s a prisoner, but to survive the wild animals, fierce weather and unforgiving terrain, I must put my faith in him.

Staying alive means staying close: but every time he touches me, I melt inside. I can’t resist this man, not when he looks at me as if he wants to push me up against the nearest tree and tear my clothes off…. Is it possible that he’s innocent? Can I help him overcome the demons of his past? I’m a city girl but to survive this I’m going to need to learn to live as wild as him…because the greatest danger we face isn’t from nature. The other prisoner from our flight is out there with his gang…and they’re hunting us.