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New Books
Some of the new books coming soon to your library. Reserve these titles at your local library or email library@plymouth.gov.uk
David Baldacci - The whole truth (coming soon)
In 'The whole truth', David Baldacci tells a terrifying and topical tale encompassing big business and the shadowy world of intelligence agencies.
Clive Cussler - Plague ship (coming soon)
The crew of Oregon has just completed a top-secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship.
Jeffery Deaver - The broken window (coming soon)
Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. It turns out that his cousin, along with others, has been wrongly convicted because the killer knows every detail about the lives of his victims and the men he sets up. This allows him to get close to the victims, murder or rape, then set up others to fall for his cries by planting evidence.
John Drake - Flint and Silver (coming soon)
This rip-roaring adventure prequel to 'Treasure Island' follows the careers of two of literature's most famous villains, Captain Flint and Long John Silver. Together they forge an unstoppable partnership, until the arrival of Selina, a beautiful runaway slave, who triggers sexual jealousy, turning the two best friends into sworn enemies.
Barbara Erskine - The Warrior’s princess (coming soon)
Fleeing to her sister's house in the Welsh borders after being attacked in London, Jess is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. 2000 years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caractacus, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, and the invading Romans. The king is captured and taken to Rome with his wife and daughter.
Alan Furst - The spies of Warsaw (coming soon)
War is coming to Europe, and French and German operatives are locked in a life and death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attache, Colonel Jean Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn in to a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in Warsaw.
Meg Hutchinson - A step too far (coming soon)
Set in the Second World War, this is the story of a damaged woman's ruthlessly destructive quest. Just as the stalwart men and women of the Black Country were pulling together for victory, Katrin Hawley sought only to satisfy her own malignant, vindictive craving for retribution.
Anna Jacobs - Freedom’s land (coming soon)
Norah's husband was killed in the Great War. Andrew's wife is dead. They hardly know each other, but Andrew wants them to move to Australia to start a new life together. After all his kids need a mother. Norah thinks the idea is crazy, however it may also be the answer to all her dreams.
Janette Jenkins - Angel of Brooklyn (coming soon)
In January 1914, Jonathan Crane returns home to his tiny village in the north of England with a rare thing - a beautiful, glamorous American bride. So different from the bright lights of Coney Island, Beatrice struggles to adapt to this cold, gray place and tries to befriend the young women who are her neighbours.
Jonathan Kellerman - Compulsion (coming soon)
A young woman who disappeared into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women butchered in a small-town beauty parlour. Three murder cases, linked only be a lack of motive - until LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre 'crime'.
Dean R Koontz - Odd hours (coming soon)
Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the town of Magic Beach on the California coast. In his desert home, Odd once found an ocean filled with love and lost it. Now the only magic he finds is in the name of the town. He is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. But nothing prepares him for the truth of what he will discover.
Edward Marston - The Brighton Express (coming soon)
October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a close, crowds of passengers rush onto the soon to depart London to Brighton Express. A man watches from the shadows nearby, grimly satisfied when the train pulls out of the station.
Jojo Moyes - Night music (coming soon)
The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece.
James Patterson - The dangerous days of Daniel X (coming soon)
The first in a brand new James Patterson series.
Karin Slaughter - Fractured (coming soon)
A seventeen year old girl is found murdered in her home by her mother. At first the Atlanta police believe it is a simple case of one victim, one killer. But when another girl is brutally killed, and a third goes missing soon afterwards, they realise they are dealing with something far more sinister.
Danielle Steel - Rogue (coming soon)
Meet Maxine Williams, a dedicated doctor with three great kids, a challenging career, and the perfect new man in her life. Her only problem? Her irresistibly charming, utterly infuriating ex-husband, aka the rogue.
