Book one in a new series to get your pulse pounding. Special Agent Gideon Reynolds has tried hard to put the past behind him. He escaped the violence of his cult upbringing when he was just 13 years old, and since then, routine and discipline have been his way of making sense of the world. But when a petite blonde woman crashes into his life, he begins to realise that a little bit of chaos might not be so bad. Daisy Dawson has had more than her fair share of pain too, but she's had enough of being a victim. She is determined to explore every new experience she can, including getting to know the dark and serious FBI investigator she meets when she fights off a masked attacker one night, and grabs the necklace from around his neck. What she doesn't know then is that she's found the missing link to a cold case that Gideon Reynolds has been tracking for 17 years. With her help, he finally has the opportunity to get closer to the truth than ever before. It soon becomes clear that Daisy's attack was just the beginning. Now the bloodied bodies of young women are showing up all over California and as Gideon tries to track down the killer, it?s clear he has a new target. Daisy is in more danger than they ever could have realised. 'Intense, complex and unforgettable' says James Patterson, this is a high-octane thrill ride. 536pp, paperback.

After an extremely violent first chapter, the book, set in Norway, is the story of one family and how their lives were ripped apart by the mass murder of children and the search for the body of one of them. Scottish born satirist Cal and his Norwegian wife Elsa had arrived in Oslo for a six month stint with their three young children, before their return to life in Washington DC. Their eldest daughter Licia is away at a summer camp on a small island off the coast of Oslo. A bomb ripping through a building in the town centre sends shockwaves through the city, but it is what follows that truly horrifies a nation. Gunmen alight on the island where the camp is being hosted, and mercilessly open fire on the teenagers. The death toll is staggering and a community mourns. Bodies are repatriated onto the mainland and families grieve, but for Cal and Elsa their horror is only just beginning. Did Licia survive the shooting or is she gone forever? 424pp.

Peru's foremost author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 lives in London. Here is a thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirling around a scandalous exposé that leads to murder. The Nobel Laureate has written a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. During Alberto Fujimori's turbulent presidency in 1990s Lima, two wealthy couples find themselves embroiled in a disturbing vortex of political sabotage and erotic betrayals. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. While fielding the explosive scandal, his wife suddenly begins a passionate, secret affair with his lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest revelation yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has Vargas Llosa's signature style. The novel is a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system. A twisting and unpredictable tale mixing pulpy dialogue and even pulpier characters and seedy tabloid journalists. 244pp, paperback.

From the popular Harry Bosch series. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood, and the case has haunted Harry ever since. Fearing for the worst, the case is elevated by LAPD commanders from the Missing Person Squad to the Homicide Division and it was a case that Harry couldn't crack. 13 years later he is in the Open-Unsolved Unit where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders he says is the killing of Marie Gesto. Harry is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. Meanwhile Harry's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 which could have led them to Waits and stopped the nine murders that followed. We are kept guessing until the exciting conclusion. 392pp, paperback.

Defense Attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case. He receives a text, 'Call me ASAP - 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When he learns that the victim was his own former client Gloria Dayton, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow, far from saving her, he may have been her downfall and the one who put her in danger. Haunted by the ghosts of his past he must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt. He must find out who Gloria really was and who was responsible for her death. While the themes of Connelly's LA crime novels are familiar - power, envy, corruption - his plotting is anything but. 465pp, paperback.

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms but there is no pattern - the killer appears to strike at random, but always early on Saturday mornings. When Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33am, she knows the news is bad - there is a fourth victim, and she now fears for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police. But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and her reputation. Written in 1990, we have the 30th anniversary edition and it will make you giggle when the writer refers to computers operating from the C Prompt with typed commands and using floppy discs, but that's how things were then. 415pp, paperback.

First published in 1967, we have the British Library paperback reprint of a now classic crime thriller. Set mainly in the London of the Swinging Sixties, and written in the days when John le Carré and Len Deighton were making a name for themselves, George Sims never became as famous as his two illustrious contemporaries. However, this novel was included by H. R. F. Keating in Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books. The story opens on an August afternoon in Paddington. A small man is standing on a ledge outside a window, ten floors above the street. Dizzy and frightened, he plunges to the ground 'uttering a single short cry, a noise which did not sound particularly human, simply that ignominious yelp of an animal encountering death'. Suddenly there is a switch of setting and mood and we are in Corsica, at the same time on the same day, where a middle aged dealer in manuscripts and autographed letters is in bed with a girl called Bunty who is young enough to be his daughter. At the very same time 2pm Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside his beautiful woman his fellow art dealer and Dachau survivor Sam Weiss falls ten stories to his death. Ned refuses to believe that Sam's death was intentional, and his investigation thrusts him into the deceit and fraudulence of the art world, where he unmasks more than one respectable face. A thrilling tale of vertigo, suspicion and infidelity, this is a long-forgotten classic with an intriguing plot twist written by the antiquarian book seller and unorthodox writer who was popular for his cleverly-woven narratives. 191pp, paperback.

Myron Bolitar screwed up. He was supposed to be protecting a woman and instead he fell in love with her - and then she died. So he's dropped out and run away to the Caribbean to escape his guilt, but now everything has come back to haunt him. Esperanza Diaz, his closest friend, is in trouble. Murder trouble. The victim is one of Myron's own clients, and the case seems to be watertight. It's inconceivable that Esperanza is involved, but she is refusing to deny it, so in order to help his friend, Myron must battle for her freedom against her own wishes. 344pp, paperback.

One slip was all it took to rob Matt Hunter of the life he had so well mapped out. A fight, a friend in trouble and the dull crack of someone's skull on the concrete cost him four years in jail and a small sliver of his soul. Emerging an older and wiser person, he finds a job to be proud of and a beautiful girl who agrees to marry him, but now someone is following him, threatening everything he has worked so hard for. And Matt can't trust anyone, least of all those he loves. Elegant, pacy and with tons of tension, this is a dark and gripping thriller from the master. 439pp in reprint of the 2005 original, this is an electrifying New Jersey-based thriller which plays games with notions of innocence and guilt and has satisfyingly realistic descriptions.

Brighton 1965 and when theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead, no one suspects foul play, but when the post-mortem reveals poisoning, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-Music Hall star Verity Malone. Determined to prove her innocence, Verity calls in private investigator Emma Holmes, former detective and now wife of Police Superintendent Edgar Stephens. This is her first real case, but luckily she has a lead. Her friend, actor Max Mephisto is filming a remake of Dracula starring Bert's son, Seth, but Max is playing his cards close to his chest. Emma must vie with the police including her husband to untangle the case. She's convinced the answer lies in Bert's dark past and in the glamorous, occasionally deadly days of Music Hall, but the closer she gets to the truth the more danger she finds herself in. Subtle, charming and with an unflaggingly keen eye, this is an emotionally intelligent and satisfying crime novel from the bestselling author. 346pp, paperback.