Criminal – Karin Slaughter

A young woman has gone missing from the local college at a similar time as to when a notorious killer is released from prison on parole. Amanda Wagner is unusually keen to keep Will away from this case with the reasoning soon becoming clear when the young woman’s body is found. She was killed in a similar way to Will’s Mum and the recently released killer was the culprit, who also happens to be Will’s Dad. Can Will keep his personal feelings in check? What does all of this have to do with Amanda?

Snatched – Karin Slaughter

Whilst on assignment at the very busy Atlanta airport, Will Trent has only a split second to make a judgement call about a child and the man travelling with her. Does he make the right one?

Fallen – Karin Slaughter

In the fifth instalment in the Will Trent series, Faith Mitchell goes to pick her daughter, Emma, up from her Mum’s house and finds Emma locked in the shed with a trail of blood leading to the house. When she storms into the house she finds a dead man and more blood but no sign of her Mum. What has happened to Evelyn and does it relate to Will’s previous investigation into her Narcotics squad? Will must try and put the pieces together in time to save both his partner and her Mum.

Defending Jacob – William Landay

The Barber family are the same as a lot of suburban American families. Nothing stands out about them. Andy is the Assistant DA, his job is to build a case and convict criminals and he’s good at his job. When one of his son, Jacob’s class mates is found murdered in a local park he is more determined than ever to find the killer and protect his family. But when the evidence starts to point towards Jacob, Andy and his wife, Laurie, will do anything to defend their son because they know he couldn’t possibly have done this. Or do they?

Firefly Lane – Kristin Hannah

It’s 1974 and Kate Mullarkey is a teenaged girl at the bottom of the high school social pecking order until Tully Hart moves in across the road. Tully is instantly the coolest girl in school and also wants to be friends with Kate. They become best friends and begin planning the rest of their lives together and though their lives change along the way, their friendship remains the one constant until an act of betrayal changes everything. When tragedy strikes, can they put their differences aside and come back together one last time?

Love From The Pink Palace – Jill Nalder

When Jill Nalder moved to London to join drama school in the 1980s she quickly formed a close friendship group, mainly made up of young, gay men with similar dreams of stardom. They worked and played hard and life was good, until word started to spread of an illness coming to the fore in America and being dubbed the “gay flu”. Before too long Jill finds herself becoming an expert in AIDS as she works hard to support her friends as well as trying to maintain work in the West End and fundraise for a cure.

The Nothing Man – Catherine Ryan Howard

18 years ago, 12-year-old Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive when the man dubbed “The Nothing Man” broke into their home in the middle of the night. Now she has written a book about her search for the identity of the Nothing Man and how she hopes to eventually bring him to justice. Security guard, Jim Doyle, is reading Eve’s book and getting angrier by the page, because the book is about him, he was the Nothing Man but can he become the Nothing Man again in order to stop his secret from being revealed.

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing – Matthew Perry

For 10 years, Matthew Perry entertained audiences as Chandler Bing but behind the laughter there was a man fighting a desperate battle against addiction. Here Perry tells the story of growing up in Canada and his ambitions of a life in the spotlight as well as going into unflinching detail about his battles with various addictions.