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Ben Sanders Rebecca Starford Rebecca Wilson Richard Beasley Tom Gilling FEBRUARY 2021 Sandra Hogan n ew book s THE DEVILS YOU KNOW Ben Sanders Allen & Unwin 9781760877873 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Ben Sanders, author of American Blood, strikes again in a mile- a-minute, white-knuckle ride through the heart of darkness in sunny California Vincent needs a change. He's spent the last fifteen years in covert operations for the U.S. government, but after a botched and fatal mission, he decides he's done with pulling triggers for shadowy officialdom. He wants a rest from the violence. Vincent accepts a job in Santa Barbara, California, as head of security for supermarket mogul Eugene Lamar. It's perfect: his main duty is driving the boss to and from golf, which means ample down-time for contemplating life—and how to live it with a zero body-count. He's intrigued too by Lamar's daughter— journalist Karen Jones—on tour to promote a book about the benefits of war. There's only one problem: if Lamar's business is confined to supermarkets, why does he need a panic room full of assault rifles, and a .357 revolver in his car? It seems that Santa Barbara is a sunny town full of dark talent, and Vincent worries he'll have to revert to dark talents of his own if he's going to stay alive . Ben Sanders is the author of American Blood, Marshall's Law and The Stakes, as well as three New Zealand Fiction Bestsellers: The Fallen, By Any Means and Only the Dead. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Allen & Unwin 9781760877873 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 THE IMITATOR Rebecca Starford Allen & Unwin 9781760529796 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises the only way to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her real self behind the manners and attitudes of those around her and by the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939, she has perfected her performance. War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White, the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial potential, White assigns her the dangerous task of infiltrating an underground group of Nazi sympathisers working to form an alliance with Germany. But befriending people to betray them isn't easy. Evelyn is drawn deeper into a duplicity of her own making and her increasing distrust of everyone, including herself, begins to test her better judgement. Evelyn's loyalty is pushed to breaking point, forcing her to make an impossible decision. A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name. Rebecca Starford is publishing director of Kill Your Darlings magazine and the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviour, which is being adapted into a TV series. She lives in Brisbane. Allen & Unwin 9781760529796 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 CRACKENBACK WHAT COULD BE Lee Christine SAVED Liese O'Halloran Schwarz Allen & Unwin 9781760878900 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction Allen & Unwin 9781760879266 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction A thrilling tale of snow-bound rural suspense, from the bestselling author of Charlotte Pass 'A harrowing tale of the lies of omission and the lies of commission that can break a family When an injured man bursts into the Thredbo apart, . a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, lodge that Eva Bell manages, her first thought is and elegance: rich with detail, lush in language, to protect her daughter, Poppy. But the bloodied and capable of keeping you on the edge of your figure turns out to be Jack Walker, the man she'd seat.' - Jodi Picoult had a brief fling with four years earlier—Poppy's father. His arrival turns Eva's world upside down, An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok as she tries desperately to shield Poppy from the in 1972 and Washington, DC in 2019 about dangerous consequences of her father's return. an expatriate child who goes missing, and a ‘…a delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance… family who is contacted decades later by a man capable of keeping you on the edge of your seat.’ Meanwhile, Detective Pierce Ryder of the Sydney JODI PICOULT claiming to be the vanished boy. Homicide Squad is on the hunt for serial killer Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Gavin Hutton. After months of dead ends, he's Alternating between past and present as all of finally got some solid leads that trace Hutton the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is WHAT back to the Crackenback Range in the Snowy an unforgettable novel about a family shattered Mountains. Though they don't know it yet, by loss and betrayal, and the beauty that can Jack Walker and Ryder are tangled in the same exist even in the midst of brokenness. COULD treacherous web—and they'll both do anything in BE their power to protect the ones they love . Liese O'Halloran Schwarz is an emergency medicine doctor and much-praised author of Lee Christine is the author of six romantic Near Canaan and The Possible World. She lives SAVED suspense novels. She lives in Newcastle, NSW. in the USA. Allen & Unwin 9781760878900 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 Allen & Unwin 9781760879266 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 THE SHAMAN Roland Perry Allen & Unwin 9781760529758 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction A gripping international thriller from a bestselling author When a maverick genius called the Shaman develops a cold-fusion reactor that could change our world, he finds himself the target of a ruthless international organisation who will do A CROOKED TREE anything to gain control of the new technology. Una Mannion All that stands in their way is Victor Cavalier, an investigative reporter and former soldier with Faber lethal skills and a talent for getting to the bottom 9780571357963 | $27.99 | | PB | Fiction of the story. Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Roland Perry is one of Australia's best-known Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard- authors. He has written 28 books including Bill shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the Bastard, Bradman's Invincibles, The Changi the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her Brownlow and Monash: The Outsider Who Won other children, she accelerates away, leaving a War. Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades. This is the story of Libby and her siblings over one long hot summer, and how one decision can have terrible unintended consequences . Una Mannion has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award. She lives in Ireland. Faber 9780571357963 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 Allen & Unwin 9781760529758 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 THE THREE PARADISES THE SPIRAL LITTLE SCRATCH Robert Fabbri Iain Ryan Rebecca Watson Corvus Echo Faber 9781786498014 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781760686178 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9780571356584 | $27.99 | | PB | Fiction In the second instalment in the breakneck, Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but little scratch tells the story of a day in the brutal Alexander's Legacy series, the fight entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower- to control the largest empire in the world in a targeted attack by a colleague, her quiet case world of office politics, clock-watching continues . Alexander the Great's sudden existence is shattered in an instant. With and WhatsApp notifications. In a voice and unexpected death has left the largest, her would-be murderer dead, no one can that is fiercely wry, touchingly delicate and most formidable empire the world has ever give Erma the answers she needs to move increasingly neurotic, the protagonist relays seen leaderless. As the fight to take control on from her trauma. Why her? Why now? what it takes to get through that single descends into ruthless scheming and bloody So begins Erma's quest for the truth and a trajectory while processing recent sexual battles, no one—man, woman or child—is dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart violence. It is a powerful evocation of what it safe. Can one champion vanquish all? of darkness. means to live out the course of a single day consumed by trauma. Robert Fabbri is the author of the Iain Ryan is the author of Four Days and bestselling Vespasian series. He lives in The Student which were both shortlisted Rebecca Watson is a British writer and London and Berlin. for the Ned Kelly Award. He lives in editorial assistant at the Financial Times. Melbourne. Corvus 9781786498014 $29.99 PB Fiction Echo 9781760686178 $29.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 Faber 9780571356584 $27.99 PB Fiction NZ$32.99 NZ$32.99 A RIVER CALLED TIME THE MASK FALLING LIGHTSEEKERS Courttia Newland Samantha Shannon Femi Kayode Canongate Bloomsbury Bloomsbury 9781838854096 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781408865576 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction 9781526617606 | $29.99 | | PB | Fiction The Ark was built to save the lives of the The triumphant fourth instalment of the The launch of a major new international many, but rapidly became a refuge for international bestselling Bone Season crime series featuring investigative the elite. A chance of survival is granted series: an unforgettable adventure in the psychologist Philip Taiwo. 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