Is there anything more satisfying than setting off on holiday with a handful of thrillers? If you, like us, feel a holiday without a chilling read is unthinkable, look out for these, brand new on the bookshelves.
You had us a Jeffery Deaver. And Hunting Time is him at his best. It’s the story of woman and her teenage daughter who’re on the run … they’re being stalked by her ex-husband, a former police detective, who’s just been released from jail and has a score to settle. A tracking expert has been hired to find and protect her – should be simple but he’s met his match in this brilliant engineer who appears to be exceptional at evading detection. Add in a couple of hit men and you’ve got a top notch thriller. HarperCollins
My Husband’s Killer keeps you guessing from start to finish. We loved Laura Marshall’s Friend Request and The Anniversary, so knew we were in for a smashing read with this one … the story of three couples who go on holiday to an excusive luxury villa for a 50th birthday. Five of the six have been friends since uni days, the sixth is new to the group. Affairs – current and past, secrets that go back months and centuries, love and jealousy … when one of the six goes missing, and when his body is finally found and the police suspect murder, all sorts of horrors come to the surface. Loads of twists … loved it! Little Brown
“Just let him go.” When a sister tells her parents to let her younger brother go to a party, these are the words she’ll always regret. The young boy, celebrating high school graduation with his friends, is murdered in a busy Sydney restaurant. And no one – not the police, not the friends who were with him – appear to know what happened. Karen Slaughter, queen of the thriller, says Tracey Lien’s All That’s Left Unsaid is “a gripping and unflinching narrative that is as heart-wrenching as it is unputdownable”. Harper Collins
Livid is Patricia Cornwell’s latest Kay Scarpetta novel. The chief medical examiner is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder. When she’s told the judge’s sister has been found dead, in what is staged to look like a home invasion, but obviously isn’t, she’s up against clever killer, and she hasn’t got much time to catch him. If crime’s your thing, you’ll love it. Little Brown.