A NEW title from best-selling writer Lucinda Riley, a return for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a new DCI Banks murder mystery and the latest James Patterson release head our list of new titles added to the shelves in time
The Storm Sister
by Lucinda Riley
Ally Apliése is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father, an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt, has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage.
Ally has recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will irrevocably change her destiny. But with he life now turned upside down, she decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail her father has left her, which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway. There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who sang in the premiere of Peer Gynt, set to Grieg’s iconic music, over a hundred years before.
As Ally learns more about Anna, she begins to question who her father really was. And she starts to wonder why her seventh sister is missing…
Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, this is the second book in Lucinda Riley’s spellbinding series, based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation.
The Girl In The Spider’s Web
by David Lagercranz
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is back. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Blomkvist is contacted by renowned scientist Professor Balder.
Fearing for his life, but more concerned for his son’s well-being, Balder wants to publish his story. But more interesting to Blomkvist is Balder’s connection with a certain female superhacker.
It seems that Lisbeth Salander, like Balder, is a target of a gang of ruthless cyber criminals which soon brings terror to the streets of Stockholm, to the millenium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves.
Abattoir Blues
by Peter Robinson
When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hanger and a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground.
Things quickly become more sinister. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them.
But then a motor accident throws up a gruesome discovery, and the investigation spins into a higher gear – in another direction. As Banks and his team struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it is their turn to become the prey…
Truth or Die
by James Patterson
New York Attorney Trevor Mann’s world shatters when he receives a phone call telling him that his girlfriend has been shot dead in a mugging. But the circumstances point to something more calculated than a random attack.
Claire was a New York Times journalist. She had unearthed a secret so shocking that she was murdered to keep it from coming to light. Chasing Claire’s leads, Trevor will risk everything to discover what exactly she was killed for.
It is time to find out the truth, or die.
