Guilt

Guilt

by Amanda Robson

Avon Books

Miranda and Zara Cunningham are twins, different in both looks and personality. Zara is a flighty, outgoing and artistic soul with a history of self-harm. Miranda, more stable and grounded, worries for her sister. She offers Zara support and a home to get over her last bout of cutting, but her plans for a secure life come off the rails when Zara meets Sebastian Templeton.

From the get-go Zara seems obsessed by Sebastian. When Miranda meets him for the first time she feels she can’t trust the guy. Sebastian has swarthy good looks, but something behind his cavalier over-friendly attitude toward her strikes Miranda as all wrong. Matters don’t improve when he gets a position in the tax department at the firm where Miranda works as an accountant and begins to affect her good standing with her employer. As the relationship between Zara and Sebastian deepens the warning bells in Miranda’s mind sound all the louder. What is it in Sebastian’s past that drives his present behavior? Why is he doing all he can to drive a wedge between the twins? An act of sexual assault and a terrible betrayal leaves one twin dead and the other fighting for her freedom. The survivor has to put her life on the line before she can win justice for them both.

Robson put a lot of heart, soul and hard-won experience into Guilt to create a harrowing page-turning read from start to finish. Miranda, Zara and Sebastian pop off the page as real characters with believable drives and reasons all their own.

True Fiction

TrueFiction

by Lee Goldberg

Thomas & Mercer

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii is the scene of an horrific airplane crash that kills hundreds aboard the flight and the hotels off the beach. In Seattle, best-selling thriller writer Ian Ludlow is aghast when he sees the TV news feeds – because he knows he was the inspiration behind the crash. Three years before, Ludlow and a number of other writers were recruited by the CIA. Their brief was to create scenarios for terrorist atrocities to help the government prepare for the worst. Now it looks like someone in the CIA enacted Ludlow’s scenario. He discovers that someone has already killed the other writers – now they want him dead too.

Ludlow goes on the run with the reluctant help of his author’s escort, Margo French. They soon realize the scope of government surveillance in everyday life as attempt after attempt is made to kill them. Escaping by the skin of their teeth, Ludlow and Margo know they have to identify their pursuer and stop him before their luck runs out. Only one man can help – former TV star turned survivalist recluse Ronnie Mancuso. When the three team up they have a chance to turn the tables on their pursuer – but it’ll mean going into the lion’s den. Can Ian Ludlow channel his fictional hero and save the day in a plot worthy of one of his books?

Humorous, thrilling and scary, True Fiction is a great caper story of the little guys taking on the all-encompassing secret state in a knock-down drag-out fight to the finish.

The Devil's Triangle

TheDevil’s Triangle

by Catherine Coulter and J T Ellison

Simon & Schuster Pocket Books Fiction

Covert Eyes is a crack FBI team headed by Special Agent Nicholas Drummond, with a flexible brief to act against crime anywhere in the world. Drummond gets a phone call from notorious art thief Kitsune, known as The Fox. He and Kitsune have a history and mutual respect, so when she tells him she’s in deep trouble, Drummond listens.

Kitsune took a commission to steal the Staff of Moses from the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Her theft leads Covert Eyes to Venice, Italy and a firefight in the Piazza San Marco. It seems Kitsune’s mysterious employers want to ensure she never gets to expose them. Drummond and his team find a trail that leads to the Genesis institute headed by twins Ajax and Cassandra Kohath – megawealthy, sociopathic and lethal. The twins are themselves on the trail of the Ark of the Covenant, an immensely powerful artifact which they claim as their family’s birthright. Drummond discovers the Kohaths already have an uncanny century-long ability to control weather to their own advantage. Beijing was hit by a vicious sandstorm which killed thousands. Now a colossal hurricane is heading right for Washington DC. Can Drummond track the Kohaths to their secret lair and avert a major disaster?

TheDevil’s Triangle is a blend of Dan Brown and Tom Clancy with a fast plot, great characters, hissable villains and a gripping climax. One for thriller lovers.