What will you be reading this December? We’ve a handful of new books you should pack up and take with you on your holiday.
Lynda La Plante’s Whole Life Sentence is the prequel to Prime Suspect, and the final Detective Jane Tennison thriller. She’s just joined an elite team … but the job’s not easy. Sexism, snide remarks, undermining … her new colleagues are like vultures, taking away her cases and the glory. So she buckles down and does what we’ve come to expect from her … finds her prime suspect. Zaffre
One Of Us Is Dead is a fabulous thriller from Peter James … a Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel, which sees him worried about a number of suspicious deaths that he can’t quite get out of his mind. At the same time, a man attends a funeral of his friend, and notices another man in the church … a man who he’s convinced is one of his old school mates. Only problem is, that school friend is supposed to be dead. Loads of twists and turns … a great holiday read. Macmillan
In Ian Rankin’s Midnight and Blue, John Rebus, who’s spent is life as a detective putting deadly criminals behind bars, has now joined them! A murder in a locked cell adjacent from Rebus’ sees all the prisoners and guards treated as suspects … and Rebus’ detective skills come into play. Orion
They thought they’d found heaven on earth. Instead, they discover a living hell! Murder Island by James Patterson and Brian Sitts kicks off with a couple arriving on a desert island … an escape from their tumultuous pasts. But instead of utopia, they discover they’re entangled in a global conspiracy and the two, who have been violently separated, have to find one another before their enemies catch up with them. Century
Who doesn’t love a David Baldacci? In To Die For, a couple are killed, and the police report states it was a drug overdose. But their daughter, who was there when they died, claims that’s not true. So begins a rip-roaring thriller with killer twists … typical Baldacci. Macmillan
A storm. A GP performing CPR on a teenager. A loveless marriage. A remote country town. Into the Storm by Cecelia Ahern is a rollercoaster of a book … the perfect stay-up-all-night holiday read. HarperCollins
A single mother running a women’s shelter for local prostitutes. A missing girl. A violent pimp and his reign of terror. Secrets and murder in Martina Cole and Jacqui Rose’s Guilty.
