BOOKS: Contraband

My name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I can’t tell you about. Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad has good reason to believe there’s a new, much deadlier pandemic coming. He’s determined to get them to the safety of his lockdown hideaway. NOW. "I wasn't sure there could be a great pandemic novel. Here it is." Ian Rankin

“He’s back, Carrie. The Scribbler is back.” DI Gayther and his rookie colleague DC Carrie have been assigned a new caseload. Or rather, an old one… cold murder cases of LGBTQ+ victims. Georgia Carrie wasn’t even born when the notorious serial killer began his reign of terror across the East of England, but Roger Gayther was on the force that failed to catch him and remembers every chilling detail.

A thrilling historical novel based on the true story of Lady Grange, who in 1732 was kidnapped on the orders of her husband and exiled to a remote island – St Kilda.

*****SHORTLISTED: CrimeFest Last Laugh Award, 2021***** The intrepid librarian Shona McMonagle finds herself in an isolated French mountain village, which has no sunlight because of its topography. It’s reeling from a spate of unexplained deaths, and Shona has once again travelled back in time to help out.

The idea is simple, vain, exciting. Tap the app, upload a picture, find your #deadringer. When Ella and Jem connect, the resemblance is uncanny, but their lives are polar opposites. One is stuck in a rut in her Northern hometown, while the other, an aspiring actor living in a multimillion-pound mansion, is a Chelsea socialite who knows she’s skating on thin ice.