Mark Billingham, Carol Birch, DV Bishop, Fanny Blake and William Boyd
Rabbit Hole - Mark Billingham
They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and the accusations begin to fly. Was it one of his fellow patients? A member of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside? DC Alice Armitage is methodical, tireless, and she's quickly on the trail of the killer. The only problem is, Alice is a patient too.
Turn Again Home - Carol Birch
A story of ambition and opportunity, providence and survival, that explores a family's bond of unspoken love and loyalty. Beginning in Manchester in 1930, it follows Nell, who grows up to work in a factory, and her younger brother, Bobby, who finds himself fighting in the jungles of Malaya.
The Darkest Sin - DV Bishop
Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he enters a community divided by bitter rivalries and harbouring dark secrets. His case becomes far more complicated when a naked man's body is found deep inside the convent, stabbed more than two dozen times.
Unthinkable as it seems, all the evidence suggests one of the nuns must be the killer. Meanwhile, Constable Carlo Strocchi finds human remains pulled from the Arno that belong to an officer of the law missing since winter.
The dead man had many enemies, but who would dare kill an official of the city's most feared criminal court? As Aldo and Strocchi close in on the truth, identifying the killers will prove more treacherous than either of them could ever have imagined.
A Fresh Start – Fanny Blake
A collection of brilliant short stories from the best writers around.
This collections contains original stories from Fanny Blake, Louise Candlish, Mike Gayle, Mari Hannah, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Adele Parks, Ian Rankin, Mahsuda Snaith and Keith Stuart.
Restless - William Boyd
What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976.