A PROMISE TURNED NIGHTMARE

The school year is almost over. Anxious families await word of college acceptances. In these last pressure cooker months of high school, some kids will make the all too common and all too dangerous mistake of drinking and driving. But Myron is determined to help keep his friends’ children safe, and so he makes two neighborhood girls promise him: If they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they must call him. Several nights later, the call comes at 2:00 am, and true to his word, Myron picks up one of the girls in midtown Manhattan and drives her to New Jersey where she says her friend lives. The next day, the girl’s parents discover that their daughter is missing. And that Myron was the last person to see her. Desperate to fulfill a well-intentioned promise turned nightmarishly wrong, Myron races to find her before she’s gone forever. But his past will not be buried so easily for trouble has always stalked him, and his loved ones often suffer. Now Myron must decide once and for all who he is and what he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of saving a young girl’s life.

AUTHOR: HARLAN COBEN

TITLE: PROMISE ME

GENRE: Detective, Mystery

JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED

 Thirty years of closed minds and fear . It is all about to change. A Sheffield prostitute has disappeared. With no family to fight for her, she’s just the latest in a long line of missing girls stretching back three decades. Nobody cares about their names. Nobody remembers their faces. They are the unloved, the damaged, the forgotten, the damned. Amongst the women working South Yorkshire’s streets, rumours of a serial killer have long circulated. But the police’s top brass don’t want to know about it. Talk of serial killers panics the public and embarrasses the department.But two very different detectives, each driven by their own dangerous obsessions, are being drawn into a murky world of perversion, murder and corruption that stretches from the streets to the corridors of power.

AUTHOR: BEN CHEETHAM

TITLE: JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED

GENRE: Thriller

My Opinion: A Must Read

MYSTERIES WITH NO SOLUTION

Andy Dalziel of the Mid-Yorks CID has witnessed a murder, but it was though dark glass and he was being sick at the time. Now he finds the case shrouded in uncertainty and a string of contradictory statements. And who is his anonymous letter writer threatening suicide? Meanwhile Dalziel’s colleague, Peter Pascoe, has returned from a long convalescence uncertain about his job, his marriage, or his motivations whilst having to act as a moderator to the strong-willed Dalziel. In the background and, occasionally, the foreground, are the York Mystery Plays with their Director, Eileen Chung, who uses and abuses her vast range of talents to get the cast, site, and show she wants. But mysteries linger long after the performances, mysteries with no solution.

AUTHOR: REGINALD HILL

TITLE: BONES AND SILENCE

GENRE: Mystery,Thriller & Suspense

SOME SECRETS COME AT A PRICE

The Southern Strangler is speeding up his gruesome game. He’s becoming careless, but not careless enough: three bodies and still the only clue is his calling card. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene-the prior victim’s severed hand. Each one has been a beautiful young girl killed in one city, dumped in another, the latest in Nashville. What did they have in common, what could link them to a savage serial killer? As the Strangler’s murderous rampage through America’s South East gathers pace, local homicide chief Taylor Jackson and FBI profiler Dr John Baldwin, are at a loss. And a media leak is making matters worse. Ambitious TV reporter Whitney Connolly knows she’s onto a scoop that just might be her ticket out of Nashville. But she’s not going to tell. She’s going to keep quiet until the time’s right, guard her secret well. Though Whitney should know already that secrets come at a price, this time she has no idea what it will cost her, or how close to this story she really is.As the killer spirals out of control, everyone involved must face a horrible truth-the purest evil is born of private lies.

AUTHOR: J.T ELLISON

TITLE: ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS

GENRE: Thriller,Mystery & Suspense

THE MONSTROUS PLAN OF SHADOW

When award-­winning journalist Max Richmond lands at Dubai airport, hoping for a relaxing holiday, he finds himself ‘volunteering’ for a special assignment alongside an Australian Federal Agent and an ex-­NYPD detective. Their small task force is assigned to work for Sheikh Mahmoud, who is distressed to discover that men whose true loyalty is to the radical preacher, British-­born Mullah Khaweini, have infiltrated his own security forces. Whilst the trio try to unravel two complex frauds that are funding Middle Eastern terrorism, they uncover a plot that nobody anticipated,a monstrous plan to bring Dubai to its knees. The three agents have very little time to stop Khaweini, but all they know is that somehow the infamous bomb-­maker, The Shadow, and the radical Mullah are in this together.

AUTHOR: J JACKSON BENTLEY

TITLE: SHADOW OF THE BURJ

GENRE: Thriller

THE BLACKMAILER

The text on Josh Hammond’s BlackBerry was blunt and chilling.If you don’t pay me £250,­000.­00 in the next 48 Hours you will die”. Surely it must be a joke, but when Josh is attacked in broad daylight and people around him start to die he knows that his blackmailer is deadly serious. Can Josh raise the money? Can his attractive new bodyguard protect him? Who is blackmailing him and why? He has 48 hours to find out.

AUTHOR: J JACKSON BENTLY

TITLE: 48 HOURS

GENRE: Crime,Thriller,Mystery