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Will DI Clare Mackay end up with blood on her hands? A young man is found dead near a nightclub. He has marks on his neck, the signature of the Choker, a killer who has been targeting gay men across the country. Now, it seems he's in DI Clare Mackay’s territory. She discovers this victim has links to notorious criminals in the area. Is it possible his death was at the hands of someone else? More men, including ones linked to the victim, are attacked and left injured. It’s only a matter of time before someone else is killed. But Clare’s desire for justice leaves her with blindspots which put her job – and her life – at risk. A thrilling new instalment from one of the best-loved voices in Tartan Noir and former Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year nominee Marion Todd. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Alex Gray and Neil Lancaster. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804362174 • Author: Marion Todd • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Pages: 352 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 4 cm

Can true love win the day? Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau, Lorcan, is away at war and has recently stopped replying to her letters but she is determined to keep her spirits up. When she meets wealthy shipbuilder’s son Victor Perryman, they pass the time of day and they both feel a connection but she can’t allow herself to think anything more of it - not only does she have Lorcan to think of, but she and Victor are divided by wealth and class. Yet they meet again and Hetty is charmed and intrigued by Victor and his openness towards her. It becomes harder to ignore the attachment growing between them. When Lorcan comes back on leave, Hetty is forced to face her true feelings. Who does she really love, and can that love conquer everything in its path? An uplifting, emotional WW1 saga perfect for fans of Ginny Bell and Jean Fullerton Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804368466 • Author: Francesca Capaldi • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Pages: 368 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 2.06 cm

She won her freedom. Now someone wants her silenced. After serving nine years of a life sentence for the manslaughter of a former beauty queen, Shona Pickton returns to her home town of Felixstowe, exonerated after an appeal quashed her conviction. She has always protested her innocence – despite being tried and convicted by the media long before her trial. Determined to clear her name, Shona insists that one man can corroborate her story: well-known police informer Karl Cuskie, her alibi for the night Cassandra Norton died. But then Cuskie is found dead, throwing the reopened case wide open. Terrified for her life, Shona turns to police specialist Dr Cora Lael, whose insight might reveal Norton and Cuskie’s murderer. But Cora is torn: should she help Shona behind the back of DS Rob Minshull and her police colleagues? And when a trail of corruption leads to the heart of South Suffolk CID, can Cora unmask the killer before they come for Shona? A fast-paced, atmospheric, utterly gripping detective novel that will keep you guessing from the first page to the last. Perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths, LJ Ross and Kate Ellis. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804367117 • Author: MJ White • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 2.24 cm

London, 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields, Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady of the Robin Hood pub. But Cathy has a secret from her life before – a daughter, June, whom she had to leave behind. After all these years, can June accept her? Cathy’s friend Sofia faces her own dilemma. Encountering a man from her past, Sofia is given the opportunity to return to her hometown, Naples. It would mean escaping her own troubles in the Sixteen Streets… if only she dares take the chance. Cathy and Sofia have worked hard to shed the sorrows of their youth. But maybe by revisiting the past, they can work towards a happier future… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398708990 • Author: Elsie Mason • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3 cm

Love could be a recipe for disaster, or the best thing they ever cooked up… Kieran O’Neill should be on top of the world. He’s just won a cooking reality TV show, he’s on track to open his own restaurant before he turns thirty, and he’s even got a high-paying cookbook deal. Still he can’t impress his stuck-up family, his ADHD makes planning ahead impossible and, worst of all, his ghostwriter is the most uptight, humourless woman he’s ever met. But to be seen as a serious chef like he’s always wanted, he needs to finish this book… Ellie Wasserman is barely holding it together. She’s a thirty-year-old widow living with her needy in-laws, her little brother won’t adult without her help, and instead of working on her own cookbook, she’s ghostwriting one for the chaotic, impulsive Kieran O’Neill. Or would be, if he’d ever answer her emails. But to own her own home like she’s always dreamed of, she needs to finish this book… As their deadline gets closer and the heat between them builds, can these two driven, lonely people let go of their past hurts and make something truly sweet together? Or will their fragile new love go up in smoke? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781408730195 • Author: Sarah Chamberlain • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm

Annie Radford swore she’d never work in college basketball again, but eight years after fleeing her job with the Ardwyn Tigers, she has no choice but to accept a role as the team’s hype woman and videographer. Annie’s old friend and colleague, Ben Callahan, is as sexy and wholesome as ever, but why is he so determined to undermine her? Clearly, he hasn’t forgiven her for disappearing on him in senior year. When Annie and Ben find themselves competing to keep their jobs, tensions rise and old feelings come sizzling to the surface. With everything on the line, including their hearts, can they put their differences aside to work together and save the team? Or will the truth of why Annie left destroy their tentative new relationship . . . ? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529433036 • Author: Jamie Harrow • Publisher: Quercus Publishing plc • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm

When life is at a crossroads, only you can choose the right path. One year ago today, Tress Walker’s husband was killed in a car accident, on a trip with his secret mistress whilst Tress gave birth to their son. But as time moves on, Tress has to choose whether to protect her fragile heart or open it to love again. Noah Clark was equally devastated to discover his wife and his best friend were having an affair. Now the love of his life is asking for a second chance. But can there ever be a way back once the trust is broken? For forty years, the fabulous Odette Devine has been a beloved actress on a Scottish TV show. Today she is broken, betrayed, and desperate to find out if this is her payback for a lie she told four decades ago. Noah’s sister Keli Clark has recently been ghosted by the man she loves. When a message from a complete stranger reveals the reason why, Keli will have to decide whether to forgive, forget, or make sure he pays. Twenty-four hours. Four shocking secrets. One tumultuous tale of love, loss and second chances. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836784913 • Author: Shari Low • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.85 cm

Meet your new favourite couple in the breathtaking next book of the angsty SUMMER series – perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover and Mia Sheridan. I wanted her out of my house. Now I can’t imagine her leaving at all. Once upon a time, my buddy’s younger niece was following me around the beach with stars in her eyes. Now Daisy’s twenty-one, the loveliest thing I’ve ever laid eyes on, and blackmailing me into letting her stay for the summer. If she’s not bent over on my deck in yoga pants, she’s in a bikini that covers far less. She makes me laugh when I want to stay pissed off and forces me to remember all the things I used to love. If only she weren’t so damn young and so incredibly off-limits. The sizzling tension between us is getting harder to resist, but giving in would destroy some of my oldest friendships. Worst of all, though? It might destroy Daisy too. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349440811 • Author: Elizabeth O'Roark • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm

Millions of people walked into Auschwitz, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel is inspired by the true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose fate altered the course of history… Nobody leaves Auschwitz alive. Mala, inmate 19880, understood that the moment she stepped off the cattle train into the depths of hell. As an interpreter for the SS, she uses her position to save as many lives as she can. Edward, inmate 531, is a camp veteran and a political prisoner. Crucially, he’s also part of the underground Resistance. And he has an escape plan. When Mala meets Edward, he makes her believe in the impossible: they will leave this death camp. A promise is made–they will escape together or they will die together. What follows is one of the greatest love stories in history… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836180678 • Author: Ellie Midwood • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm

From the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once comes a thrilling and emotional ride about the ties we have to our past – and the devastating lies that bind us together… Surfing an online dating site, detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé, the man who shattered her heart-and whom she hasn’t seen in eighteen years. But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate, her feelings are challenged about everyone she’s ever loved-even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398724969 • Author: Harlan Coben • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.6 cm

1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a compartment with the lecherous Giles Blanchard. It is a lucky encounter for her, as she steps off the train after picking his pocket and in possession of scandalous material for a potential blackmail. It is a less fortuitous meeting for Blanchard, who will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight alive. Detective Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are swiftly dispatched to sift through the evidence. With Queen Victoria poised to spend the summer on the island, a speedy resolution to the case is imperative for their superiors. Tracing Blanchard’s killer is an endeavour freighted with difficulties, but will the fact that their inquiries lead them to the door of a royal residence be one complication too many? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780749030179 • Author: Edward Marston • Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.61 x 12.8 x 2.59 cm

Rosie Maxwell has a plan: move to New York, get her creative writing degree from NYU, become a bestselling romance writer. But that plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington, an obnoxious, surly, unreasonably gorgeous literary fiction writer who has no patience for romance – or for Rosie. Exhausted by Rosie and Aiden’s constant verbal sparring, their professor gives them an ultimatum: leave her class, or cowrite a novel that blends their respective genres. As Rosie and Aiden collaborate on their (accidentally steamy) novel, they try to put their differences aside. Could their manuscript-in-progress be just the outlet they need to confess their feelings – and explore their mutual attraction? But a potentially career-changing opportunity soon reignites the flames of their old rivalry. Rosie and Aiden’s once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved – unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804996348 • Author: Katie Holt • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.9 cm

You made a bargain... Your soul for his - and now, you are mine.  Cate Holloway knows the unspoken rule of New Orleans: avoid the powerful Gage crime family at all costs. Of course, that was before her brother got caught in their chaos. Now Cate has no choice but to confront the dark and forbidding prince of New Orleans himself... and beg for her brother's life. But Lachlan Gage is as lethal as he is beautiful... and the only currency he's interested in is her soul. Because Lachlan isn't just some ruthless criminal. He's fae. And he has his own secret reasons for binding her to him. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781408750346 • Author: Geneva Lee • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm

The greater the evil, the deadlier the game... When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work. With the investigation quickly gathering momentum, Kim finds herself exposed to great danger and in the sights of a lethal individual undertaking their own twisted experiment. Up against a sociopath who seems to know her every weakness, each move Kim makes could be deadly. As the body count starts to mount, she will have to dig deeper than ever before to stop the killing. And this time - it's personal. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836180470 • Author: Angela Marsons • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 3.2 cm

Two girls go missing. Only one will return. The parents who offer the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing parents will not. Make no mistake. One child will die. When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms the unthinkable: that the girls are the victims of a terrifying kidnapping. And when a second text message pits the two families against each other for the life of their children, the clock starts ticking for Detective Kim Stone and the squad. Seemingly outwitted at every turn, Kim realises that these ruthless killers might be the deadliest she has ever faced. And that their chances of bringing the girls home alive are getting smaller by the hour... Untangling a dark web of secrets from the families' past might hold the key to solving this case. But can Kim stay alive long enough to do so? Or will one of the girls pay the ultimate price? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836180500 • Author: Angela Marsons • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm

Dimitri Hardy and I were never really supposed to be friends. He was a risky, over-the-top investor. I was trying to avoid the glamorous lifestyle my parents had raised me in. He was fun and laid back. I was wound tight and dramatic. He had his life put together. I did not. So having Dimitri witness my breakup was a low moment. Especially since my boyfriend was also my professor, and after cheating on me, he decided to make me redo my master’s thesis. But Dimitri saw an opportunity. He offered to assist with my thesis. In exchange, I would help him gain the trust of the upscale town where I’d grown up-one he’d just heavily invested in. His proposal: Move back home and fake a relationship with him for the summer. Show my town he’s trustworthy. Adore one another in public and pretend there’s no desire brewing in private. It seems like an easy plan. But what Dimitri doesn’t understand is that a few months in my hometown can ruin you . . . and one summer of denying my desire of his stolen touches and longing stares just might ruin me too. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399736718 • Author: Shain Rose • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm

He’s almost perfect . . . but he works for Death Nora Clanton sells caskets. It wasn’t her dream job, but it’s the family business. She lives in a sleepy town in the middle-of-nowhere, and her only friends are decades older than her. Her life might be comfortable but sometimes she finds herself wanting more. Then Garrett Bishop turns up and sweeps her off her feet. He’s handsome, charming and seems to have a good (if vague) job. There is one little thing though . . . death seems to follow him and rumours never stay buried in her tiny town. But when Nora finds out what Garrett has been hiding and all the ghosts left in his wake, she wonders whether it is time to lay their love to rest too . . . Brimming with characters you cannot help but fall for, Casket Case is a heartfelt small-town romance bursting with life, heart and light. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398723948 • Author: Lauren Evans • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm

The best way to gain confidence after years with the wrong guy? Get lessons in love from my best friend. Hayden Owens is the hottest defenseman in pro hockey, my confident best friend, and my new dating coach. He'll teach me to be a player, but convinces me to practice with him... and our flirting lessons and practice kisses push the bounds of friendship. All that relationship stuff he's always avoided? He doesn't seem to mind it anymore. Rule number one of being a player is no attachments, but when Hayden sees me picking up other guys, he's jealous enough that I wonder... Maybe my wingman's been waiting for me all along. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398724310 • Author: Stephanie Archer • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.6 cm

This old flame just might set them on fire . . . Conceited, unattainable, and downright delicious, renowned Michelin-starred chef Ambrose Casablancas has one passion in life―food. Women are a distraction, and he doesn’t do those. Especially not Cal Litvin, his little sister’s best friend. Although the two of them have a secret shared past, now her entire existence is a complication for him: she’s awkward, eccentric, infuriating . . . and she’s also hotter than his kitchen. But Cal is back in their hometown after her father’s death to nurse her mother’s broken heart. And, finding herself jobless, hopeless and penniless, she is forced to show up on the doorstep of Ambrose’s new restaurant to find work. For Cal, falling for the bad boy the second time around would be a huge mistake, But Ambrose’s resolve, like this patience, is ebbing each day Cal works at his restaurant . . . Because Cal is no longer a doe-eyed girl. Now, she’s a woman that Ambrose will do anything to conquer. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399743952 • Author: L.J. Shen • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton  • Format: Paperback • Pages: 512 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken, but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood... Years later, a headmistress is found strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. But when human remains are discovered at a former children's home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed. Detective Kim Stone fast realises she's on the hunt for a twisted individual whose killing spree spans decades. As the body count rises, Kim needs to stop the murderer before they strike again. But to catch the killer, can Kim confront the demons of her own past before it's too late? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836180449 • Author: Angela Marsons • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm