Autumn Recommendations

Painkiller by N.J. Fountain - How do people with severe chronic pain keep on living? I’ve often wondered. Finding a suicide note in my own hand would creep me out, but why would someone want to kill someone whose life after an accident consists of nothing but pain? This suspenseful psychological thriller will hook you from the go. N.J. Fountain is a British writer known for his work in radio and television and Private Eye. First published in Britain in 2015 by Sphere. 

Earth Storm by Mons Kallentoft – The award winning Swedish author has written another Malin Fors mystery, the eight in the series. A former Swedish politician is found naked and dead in a ditch and at the same time a sixteen year old girl is abducted. The two cases appear to be connected. Do you like games? Even when they are deadly? And who is playing? Malin Fors, a flawed but passionate heroine in the best Nordic Noir tradition,  has to get to the bottom of this and try and save the girl. Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith and published by Hodder & Stoughton Trade Paperback in 2018 £14.99. 

Come and Find Me by Sarah Hilary – Back in Britain, London specifically, for this the 5^th DI Marnie Rome book. This taut police procedural deals with obsession. The type that blinds, the type that doesn’t end well. You know how there are women who write to murderers in prison, men they have never met? Some even fall in love with these men? In Come and Find Me, two women are infatuated with Michael Vokey, a sadistic prisoner who manages to escape. Will DI Marnie Rome find him before he finds the women? Published in hardback by Headline in 2018, £18.99.

A Damned Serious Business by Gerald Seymour, who once again has his finger on the pulse of current affairs in this timely thriller about Russian Cyberterrorism. But don’t think there isn’t plenty of action and real-life violence. A clandestine meeting of hackers is scheduled to take place in Tallinn. Can an unconventional, even amateurish in terms of spy craft taskforce under the leadership of ‘Boots’ from MI6 bring them down? Published in 2018 by Hodder & Stoughton in Hardback, £16.99 and also in eBook.