Even for Private Investigations, the world's top detective agency, it's tough to find a man who doesn't exist. Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. It's not just the man whose gone missing, all evidence he ever existed has vanished too, and there are powerful figures pulling the strings who want Moss to stay 'lost'. But when a woman is found brutally murdered and a baby is missing, Private are suddenly drawn into another frantic search, and this is a case Craig has to throw everything into, because he may well be responsible for sending the killer straight to the victim's door. 453pp, paperback.

From the author of 'A Witch in Time' comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America, a family secret, sacrifice, dark magic and star-crossed love set against a backdrop of a mysterious circus. The surest way to get a ticket to Le Cirque Secret is to wish for it. Paris, 1925. To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder where women weave illusions, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Virginia 2004. Lara Barnes is on top of the world, but when her fiancé disappears on their wedding day, every plan she has for the future comes crashing down. Desperate, she searches for answers which unexpectedly lead to her great-grandmother's journals. Swept into a story of dark circus and ill-fated love, secrets about Lara's family history come to light and reveal a curse that has been claiming payment from the women in her family for generations, a curse that might be tied to her fiancé's mysterious fate. A spellbinding historical fantasy at times decadent and macabre, with depraved magic percolating through four generations. 454pp in large paperback.

A secret room, a silent girl, a shocking truth. Evie Cormac was found at a murder scene six years ago, hiding in a secret room. She has never revealed her real name, why she was in that house, or what she saw. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven wants to help the traumatised teenager and thinks unravelling her secrets will free her from the past. But he has no idea what he is about to unleash. Ignoring her warnings, he digs deep into her past only to disturb a hornet's nest of corrupt and powerful people who have been waiting to find Evie, the final witness to their crimes. Unbeknownst to him, Cyrus is leading them straight to her. The truth could get them both killed. Told with a relentless pace, this is a clever, intriguing and compelling book, suspenseful and with a strong emotional pull. Before becoming a bestselling novelist, Michael Robotham covered the serial killings of Fred and Rosemary West as a journalist. 476pp, paperback.

ISIS can't control him. MI6 can't find him. But he's coming... It was convenient for everyone to send the terrorist to Syria, back when Syria was 'friendly'. No-one expected him to survive interrogation, yet now he's out of jail. Things change quickly in the world of espionage and clandestine operations. Jude Lyon of MI6 remembers the captured terrorist bomb-maker. He watched him being flown off to Syria. Now someone has broken him out of jail. Bad news for the former foreign secretary who authorised his rendition. And Jude's boss Queen Bee who knew he wasn't a terrorist at all, but an innocent bystander. Now she calls Jude back from a dangerously enjoyable mission involving a Russian diplomat's wife. He has a new job - close down this embarrassment, fast, but embarrassment is only the beginning. Someone is using the former prisoner to front a new and unspeakably terrifying campaign, someone not even ISIS can control. He is like a rumour, a myth, a whisper on the desert wind, but he is real and he is the genius known only as The Stranger. From the corridors of Westminster to the refugee camps of Jordan, the back streets of East London to the badlands of Iraq, The Stranger is a nerve-shredding journey of suspense as Jude Lyon pieces together the shape of an implacable horror coming towards him, and a conspiracy of lies behind him. A skilful balance of action thriller with a deeper look at the war in Syria and its refugee crisis. A Times bestseller. 341pp, paperback.

The international bestseller and conclusion to the triumphant Twilight series, this is the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met it was the most unnerving and intriguing event that Edward had experienced in all his years as a vampire. Told through his eyes, we learn more fascinating details about his past and the complexity of his inner thoughts and how he can justify following his heart if it means landing Bella in danger. For ages 11 to adult, chunky 756 page paperback.

A story of war, love, ageing and the mysterious allure of birds. It is 1973 and Jim Kennoway, a distinguished ornithologist and World War Two veteran, leaves his work in the American Museum of Natural History in New York and retreats to an island in Maine. His desires are simple - to be left alone with his cigarettes, gin and his battered copy of Treasure Island. His solitude is interrupted when a remarkable young woman from the Solomon Islands arrives on her way to study medicine at Yale. She is the daughter of an island scout Jim befriended during the war, when they collected and skinned birds while spying behind enemy lines. Jim curses the intrusion as he finds his thoughts catapulting back to a dark truth from his time in the Solomons, yet she may be able to teach him what it is to be human again. Told in a lush, expressive prose, 309pp, paperback.

A novel that takes us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder. A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down. On his first day back at the head of the squad, his three-person team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb. It quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with an unusual mastermind, one whose intended target seems to be the Bomb Squad itself. As the shadowy organization sponsoring this campaign of violence puts increasing pressure on the bomb maker, and Stahl becomes dangerously entangled with a member of his own team, the fuse on this high-stakes plot only burns faster. 'You'll keep flipping the pages, ever fearful of what bloody horror will strike unlucky LA next.' - Washington Post. 372pp, paperback.

It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - passionate, brilliant and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has read only one book in his life, when Hannah hires him to install shelving for the shop, the two discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by his wife and still missing her sweet son Peter, Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy. But Hannah is a haunted woman. 24 years earlier, she had been marched to the gates of Auschwitz. With beautifully rendered characters, the novel reminds us of the redemptive power of sharing our stories. Uplifting and true, get the Kleenex handy. 293pp.

This fast-moving novel about war correspondents in the aftermath of the Iraq War follows the stories of Rita Khoury, an American-Irish-Lebanese journalist caught up in the middle eastern conflict, and her interpreter Nabil al-Jumaili, a young Muslim gay man whose career and family life are agonisingly impacted by the secret of his sexuality. We meet Rita in America in 2008 as she drives with her Jewish boyfriend Jonah to introduce him to her family at the mahrajan, the annual festival of the Lebanese Maronite community, where Rita is reunited with her mother Mary-Jo and her much-loved cousin Bobby, at the centre of the dancing with his prosthetic leg. The story then backtracks to her mother's generation, where Mary-Jo Coughlin wants to be a doctor but is directed into nursing college. Soon her tutor, George Khoury, notices that she has acquired a doctor's knowledge and invites her to be his business partner and then his wife. There are surprises in store for Mary-Jo as she has to fight off her mother-in-law's expectations and realises that George wants his daughters to reach the highest pinnacle of their careers. Rita gives every sign of fulfilling her father's ambitions but then life gets complicated as she meets Muslim girls like Yasmin who are at the centre of the struggle for women's freedoms. Meanwhile Nabil is experiencing the traumas of the Saddam years and wonders with his fellow-citizens whether an American surgical incision could possibly rid the country of its brutal dictatorship while leaving ordinary citizens in peace. The stage is set for an agonising clash of cultures. 440pp.

From the addictive series which finds ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor on the hunt for a psychotic assassin who's been killing Galway police officers, one by one. Jack Taylor has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, he's busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The assassination plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team - a trio of young killers with very different styles, united by a common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ringleader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past. Lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful, this is a starkly bleak and violent novel from the popular writer. 354pp.