The Women's Club

Literature & Fiction

Crawley, Michael

Clayton, Laurie

Literary

Max Crime

The Siren

Mak Vanderwall - a beautiful, street-smart daughter of a cop, graduate in forensic psychology, and now PI - is hired by a frantic, widowed mother to track down her missing nineteen-year-old son. Is it really possible that he has run off with a shady and bizarre troupe of French cabaret artistes? Has the dark beauty and magic of the burlesque beguiled him? Or has he been seduced by the mysterious and amoral older woman, who has a terrifying starring role in the troupe's modern performances of the Grand Guignol 'Theatre of Fear'? And what of the rumours of violence and tragedy that has plagued the troupe for the last ten years? Are these stories of their horrifying past fact or fiction? Meanwhile, Mak is increasingly obsessed with the powerful and ruthless Cavanagh family. And it seems their security advisor Mr White and his hitman, Luther Hand, may not have forgotten about her either.

Siren

Tara Moss

From the legendary director of Get Carter comes a wildly entertaining fiction debut—a deliciously dark slice of black crime comedy Today is a day Mark Miles will never forget—and it's only the beginning. Reg Turpin, the new Houdini and one of Mark's few remaining PR clients, is about to attempt a great feat of escapology, followed by the arrival in town of Dr. Herman Temple, the self-appointed guru, who will conduct a seminar on the dynamics of leadership at the Grand Atlantic Hotel. What could go wrong? Nothing, apart from the seedy private investigor who's unpacking his thermal underwear, pajamas, and a .32 Smith and Wesson at a local bed and breakfast; assorted women of easy virtue on Mark's trail; a man whose name is really Bela Lugosi; and that's just for starters. Matters invariably go from bad to worse, and the unheroic hero of this ferocious nightmare navigates the quicksand of fate with a total lack of poise and elegance.

Watching the Wheels Come Off

Humor & Entertainment

Hodges, Mike

Humor

After hours on a certain Saturday night turns out to be the busiest time for the West End Park Museum in Glasgow...but the visitors aren't there for a cultural experience. An elderly Italian Countess and her sister - at least, that's what they claim to be - have their greedy eyes fixed on a pair of golden, jewel-encrusted Shih Tzu dogs.  A memorable caper from one of the big new talents in Scottish crime fiction.

Old Dogs

Moore, Donna

Spanning 40 years of love, life, and villainy, this epic novel is a major tour de force from an author at the peak of his powers, the Spillane of Brit Noir Once upon a time in south London, three young men without a future decide to invent their own. The sixties are starting to swing and Jimmy, John, and Billy want it all: the clothes, the pills, the music, and the women. Through drugs, protection, and armed robbery, they start building their crime empire; everything they’ve always dreamed about is within their grasp. But then Billy changes sides and becomes a copand finds that his days are numbered. Now, decades later, Billy’s son, Mark, is working for John Jenner and waiting for the day when his father’s killer gets out of prison. It’s any time now and Mark is determined to be there when the doors swing open.

Guns of Brixton

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

TIMLIN, MARK

Mystery

A thrilling and twisting tale set in a dark and fateful time in history, this story by a renowned fantasy writer hints at what might have happened had Hitler been derailed early on by scandal "So we have blood and a supposed body. With all the death and riots in Munich, you believed this to be important?" The sergeant licked his lips, swallowed, and then said, "The dead girl, sir. The dead girl, she is Herr Hitler's niece."  This much is true: Hitler was obsessed with his young niece, Geli Raubal. On September 19th, 1931, two years before he came to power, Geli was found dead of a gunshot wound in Hitler's apartment in an exclusive area of Munich. Her death was ruled a suicide, but the suspicion of murder remained long after she had been laid to rest. It is 1972, and Annie Pohlmann, a young American student, arrives in Germany to interview retired detective Fritz Stecher, who headed the original investigation. She gets more than she bargained for when Stecher reveals the whole story of a case that not only nearly killed him, but almost changed the course of history.

Hitler's Angel: A Novel

Rusch, Kris

Genre Fiction

<p>Hot off the Italian charts, this serial killer chiller introduces a remarkable noir writer whose tales of bloody imagination and seductive perversity recall the films of Dario Argento This unforgettable gothic journey through the dark streets of Bologna follows a beautiful killer, a cop determined to unravel an enigmatic tale of bloody butchery, and a young medium fleeing her past. A twisted game of life and death unfolds between the hunter and the hunted, murderer and detective, night and day, and the female of the species proves as daringly evil as Hannibal Lecter, giving a whole new meaning to "femme fatale."</p>

The Girl with the Crystal Eyes

Baraldi, Barbara

A first novel of crime, gangsters, and a woman trying to walk away, from true-crime author Kate Kray Rosie was a beautiful, young actress when she fell in love with Johnny Mullins, the notorious London gangster. But their married life was far from what she had hoped it would be and was marred by drug abuse and violence. After Johnny was arrested and sentenced to 18 years, it became clear that their relationship was doomed to fail. Now, years later, and for the first time in a long time, life is finally looking up for Rosie Mullins. She has confronted her jealous husband and told him that she wants out, her acting career has taken off, and she has fallen into a new relationship with a top TV executive. All too quickly, however, she finds that Johnny’s influence extends far beyond the prison walls that contain him. To make matters worse, his intensely loyal twin brother, "Mad Dog" Eddie, is proving to be every bit as dangerous as her husband. Betrayed by those who had sworn to protect her and cornered by her past, Rosie has to fight with every breath to protect herself and her beloved daughter, Ruby. She finds herself forced to play a very, very dangerous game; setting her old family against her new one.

The Betrayed

Kray, Kate

A white knuckle ride through London's meanest streets by the author who knows the real truth about the city's underworld Malcolm Deakin, one-time warn hero, is a hitman; a classic gangland shooter with 12 ice-cold killings to his name on the streets of London. Each one of these killings is committed without remorse; Deakin does not give a second thought to his hapless victims. But then along comes target number 13—it's an old school friend, and as the hitman begins researching the contract he gets the nasty feeling that his intended victim is about to turn the tables on him. Set on the same streets and supposedly respectable suburbs where real-life public enemy number one Kenneth Noye made his name, this novel is an authentic, nail-biting, rollercoaster ride through the full, face-on brutality of southeast London's underworld.

One Behind the Ear

Clarkson, Wensley

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