Contents Fiction 2 Picador 20 Non-fi ction 21 Children’s Books 26 Index 43 The Chosen Dead M. R. Hall cotsdale, Arizona, 1982. Roy Emmet Hudson, a man working at the very forefront of gene engineering, is Sshot dead. Seven years later, as the Berlin Wall falls, another scientist, Professor Roman Slavsky, fl ees the USSR for the West. In Bristol, the present day, Coroner Jenny Cooper begins to investigate two very troubling deaths. Adam Jordan, recently returned from aid work in the Sudan, fell from a motorway bridge, plummeting into the traffi c below. Th en a teenage girl, Sophie Freeman, died just hours aft er showing symptoms of a terrifying new strain of meningitis. Confronted with more questions than answers and fi nding her enquiries obstructed at every turn, Jenny begins to question whether somehow, inexplicably, these deaths may be linked. Before she can begin to piece together the few perplexing clues, more victims are unearthed. Soon, desperate to discover the truth she knows is out there, her inquests under threat, Jenny will fi nd herself on the run both from agents from her own government and shady, powerful men who operate beyond the law, as the dark horrors of Hudson and Slavsky’s research begin to make themselves known. M. R. Hall is a screenwriter and producer and February former criminal barrister, a profession he left due to FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General a constitutional inability to prosecute. Educated at FIC022000 Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, $19.99 978-0-230-76295-4 Oxford, he lives in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 in | 320 pp with his wife, journalist Patricia Carswell, and two sons. Aside from writing, his main passion is the Also available in hardback: preservation and planting of woodland. In his spare $28.99 | 978-0-230-75203-0 moments, he is mostly to be found amongst trees. 2 Pan Macmillan A new look for the Coroner Jenny Cooper series The Coroner When lawyer Jenny Cooper, is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she’s hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the offi ce she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected fi les hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of Marshall himself? In the face of powerful and sinister forces, Jenny embarks on a lonely and dangerous one-woman crusade for justice. Th e stunning fi rst novel in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series. February | FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General | FIC022000 | $15.99 | 978-0-330-45836-8 | PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in | 450 pp | Reissue The Disappeared Two young British students, Nazim Jamal and Rafi Hassan vanish without a trace. The police tell their parents that the boys had been under surveillance, that it was likely they left the country to pursue their dangerous new ideals. Seven years later, Nazim’s grief- stricken mother is still unconvinced. Jenny Cooper is her last hope. But as the inquest into Nazim’s disappearance gets underway, the stink of corruption and conspiracy becomes clear. How could Jenny have known that by unravelling the mysteries of the disappeared, she would begin to unearth her own buried secrets? February | FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General | FIC022000 | $15.99 | 978-0-330-45837-5 | PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in | 450 pp | Reissue The Redeemed When the body of a dead man is discovered in a cemetery in Bristol, it seems to Jenny Cooper that the evidence points to a horrifi c, if routine, suicide. Then a priest, Father Lucas Starr, entreats her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson, a high profi le political campaigner. Jenny’s lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. February | FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General | FIC022000 | $15.99 | 978-0-330-45838-2 | PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in | 432 pp | Reissue Fiction 3 Dead Water Ann Cleeves he new book in Ann Cleeves’ acclaimed Shetland series! When the body of journalist Jerry Markham Tis found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is draft ed in from the Hebrides to head up the investigation. Since the death of his fi ancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry – for Willow, his local knowledge is invaluable as the close-knit community holds many secrets. Willow and Jimmy are soon led to Sullum Voe, the heart of Shetland’s North Sea oil and gas industry. It emerges that Markham was chasing a story in his fi nal days. One that must have been – for someone – signifi cant enough to warrant his death… Ann Cleeves is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other northern writers to promote crime fi ction. In 2006 she was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Best Crime Novel for Raven Black. Visit her website at www.anncleeves.com or follow her on Twitter @AnnCleeves. Also available: February Ann Cleeves’ Shetland Series: FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General Raven Black $14.99 | 978-0-330-51294-7 | PB FIC022000 White Nights $19.99 $14.99 | 978-0-330-44825-3 | PB 978-1-4472-2957-5 Red Bones TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 in | 400 pp $14.99 | 978-0-330-44826-0 | PB Blue Lightning Also available in hardback: $14.99 | 978-0-330-44827-7 | PB $34.99 | 978-0-230-76017-2 4 Pan Macmillan Marked David Jackson etective Callum Doyle is used to solving cases on his intuition. He knows New York City and its Dreprobate scum as well as the back of his hand. So when a young girl is brutally raped and murdered in the East Village, not long aft er gett ing a tatt oo, Doyle is convinced he knows the killer. But as more incidents occur, Doyle begins to slide down a slippery slope between the apparent evidence and what he’s certain is the truth. Is he going completely off the rails or is a sick and twisted person playing a very dangerous game? Th e third blistering Callum Doyle thriller. After taking his Bachelor’s degree and then a PhD, David Jackson became a full-time academic. He is married, with two daughters and a menagerie of animals. Follow him on Twitter @Author_Dave. February Now in paperback FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General The Helper FIC022000 February $19.99 FICTION/Mystery & Detective/ General 978-0-230-76049-3 FIC022000 TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 in | 304 pp $15.99 978-1-4472-0294-3 Also available: PB | 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in | 304 pp The Pariah Previous ed: 978-0-230-76048-6 | $15.99 | 978-0-330-52026-3 | PB TPB Fiction 5 Never Screw Up Jens Lapidus irst-novelist-turned-phenomenon Jens Lapidus returns with the second volume of his Stockholm FNoir Trilogy as the coke dealers and hit men of Easy Money are joined by cops – good ones and bad ones and dirty ones – all of them caught in a deadly situation spinning out of control. Th ree men are linked by murder: Niklas, a fanatic ex-mercenary; Th omas, a fallen cop; and Mahmud, a young Arab who involuntarily fi nds himself working for Radovan, Stockholm’s own Godfather. As the web around them draws tighter, they’ll discover that the connections that bind them together also reach the top echelon of Stockholm’s fi nancial and political power in a brutal and frightening dog-eat-dog world. Jens Lapidus is the man behind Easy Money, the most talked about Swedish fi rst novel in a decade and the basis for an internationally acclaimed movie. A young and highly successful criminal defense lawyer, Lapidus’s professional experience of representing some of the most notorious criminals in the country has given him unique insights into a world that most people would rather not acknowledge. He lives in Stockholm with his wife. February FICTION/Mystery & Detective/General FIC022000 $19.99 978-0-230-76734-8 TPB | 6 x 9 1/4 in | 400 pp Also available: Easy Money $19.99 | 978-0-230-76110-0 | TPB $15.99 | 978-0-330-45763-7 | PB (December) 6 Pan Macmillan Dead Man’s Grip Peter James Carly Chase is still traumatised aft er being in a traffi c accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Th en the drivers of the other two vehicles involved are found tortured and murdered. Detective Superintendant Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: she could be next. Although the police advise her to go into hiding, Carly knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to fi nd a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and ready… Peter James worked as a screenwriter and fi lm producer in North America before returning to England. His novels, including the Number One bestselling Roy Grace series, have been translated into 34 languages, with world sales of 11 million copies.