Organised crime, fiendish deaths, hardboiled detectives and… Templars? Here are some new books in the genre colloquially known as ‘edge-of-your-seat’ fiction. We hope you enjoy them!
Cure / Robin Cook.
New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worried that she still has what it takes, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler, involving organized crime and two start-up bio-tech companies caught in a zero-sum game. Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells destined to spark a trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death was natural or something fiendish. (adapted from Amazon)
The left-handed dollar : an Amos Walker novel / Loren D. Estleman.
In his exciting 20th mystery, hardboiled detective Amos Walker is hired to help free a mobster who once tried to kill Barry Stackpole, Walker’s only true friend. (Syndetics summary)
The Templar salvation / Raymond Khoury.
The much-anticipated follow-up to the “New York Times” bestseller “The Last Templar.” With his trademark blend of incendiary history and edge-of-your-seat suspense, Khoury returns to the world of the Templars with a sequel that’s every bit as eye-popping and gripping as its predecessor. (Syndetics summary)
Secrets to the grave / by Tami Hoag.
The follow-up to Deeper Than the Dead (2009) begins in November 1986. The See-No-Evil killer’s trial is nearing when a woman’s mutilated body is found. Detective Tony Mendez and FBI profiler Vince Leone, along with Vince’s wife, Anne (who in the first book was nearly done in by the accused See-No-Evil killer), race to find the perpetrator before he kills someone else. (adapted from Amazon)
Midnight / Stephen Leather.
Jack Nightingale found it hard enough to save lives when he was a cop. Now he needs to save a soul, his sister’s. But to save her he has to find her and they’ve been separated since birth. When everyone Jack talks to about his sister dies horribly, he realises that someone, or something, is determined to keep them apart. If he’s going to save his sister, he’s going to have to do what he does best, negotiate. But any negotiation with the forces of darkness comes at a terrible price. And first Jack must ask himself the question: is every soul worth saving? (adapted from Amazon)
The lost relic / by Scott Mariani.
Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart (Book cover)
Tick, tock / James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.
A rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, throwing it into complete chaos and terrorising everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear that they are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and deadly mastermind. (Amazon)
The Gordian knot / by Bernhard Schlink ; translated by Peter Constantine.
In this Cold War spy novel, a young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. He is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. and he takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor, translating plans for military helicopters. Georg quickly realises that he is stuck between the CIA and the KGB, and further out of his depth than he can begin to comprehend. (adapted from Amazon)
Shadow sister / Simone van der Vlugt ; translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison.
A gripping psychological thriller. Lydia has her life in perfect order, marriage, career, motherhood, if only everyone else around her could be as organised as she is. Her unmarried twin sister Elisa is still struggling to find what she wants to do. And her colleagues at the school where she teaches often fail to reach her high standards. But one day, it all falls apart from Lydia and it begins when she is threatened by one of her pupils. (adapted from Amazon)
Operation Napoleon / Arnaldur Indriðason ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
