by Lisa Jewell (2016)
In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Their annual trip to the quaint seaside town is passing by uneventfully, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable, and it's not just that he's playing the role of protective older brother.--
Graham Swift
George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed ruined not so long ago. Kicked off the force for trying in all the wrong ways to put away the right man, he has recently crossed a line with a client--and upended his own life.
R. Scott Bakker
Using his photographic memory in his career as a private investigator, Disciple Manning takes a case involving a missing girl that brings him to the Pennsylvania compound of a cult that believes the Earth is about to be engulfed by the sun, a case that is complicated by the hate activities of a neo-Nazi organization.
Emlyn Rees
Danny Shanklin wakes up slumped across a table in a London hotel room he's never seen before. He's wearing a black balaclava, a red tracksuit and a brand new pair of Nikes. There's a faceless dead man on the floor and he's got a high-powered rifle strapped to his hands. He hears sirens and stumbles to the window to see a burning limousine and bodies all over the street. The police are closing in. He's been set up. They're coming for him ... With only his tech support friend, the Kid, for backup, Danny sets out on a nail-biting odyssey though the panicked city streets in a desperate bid to escape, protect the people he loves, and track down the terrorists who set him up - and make them pay. But with 500,000 CCTV cameras, 44,000 cops, 9 intelligence agencies, and dozens of TV news channels all hot on his tail, just how long will this one innocent man be able to survive?
Jean Chapman
Out on a morning run, ex-Met officer John Cannon vaults a stile, becomes ensnared in a discarded fishing line - and entangled in trouble. For there is a macabre discovery at the far end of this line, leading John into a search for a missing au pair, which puts him into conflict with the local police and involvement with international crime. He discovers that the local Health Spa has much to conceal, with its security guards and dogs patrolling the grounds. But the Portuguese owner is a ruthless businessman, and Cannon faces danger every step of the way ...