Timebomb

Author: James Barrington
Series: Paul Richter, Book 5
Paperback: 444 pages
ISBN: 9780230014749


After two operations to arrest terrorists in Geneva and Stuttgart go badly agent Paul Richter discovers that the terrorists are being tipped off. Unfortunately after the incident in Stuttgart Richter finds himself on the run from a murder charge. Can he discover what links these apparently separate terrorist cells before any other operations are compromised, or worse the terrorists succeed in their plans.

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Fallen

Author: Karin Slaughter
Series: Georgia Stories, Book 11
Hardback: 400 pages
ISBN: 978-1846057946


Special Agent Faith Mitchell, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has left her baby daughter Emma with her mother, Ex-Atlanta Police chief Evelyn Mitchell, while she attends a training course. Faith arrives back at the house to find it has been ransacked. There is plenty of blood but no sign of her mother, while Emma has been locked in the outside shed. Can Faith and her partner Will Trent unravel Evelyn's past to find her before it is too late?

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The Dinosaur Feather

Author: Sissel-Jo Gazan
Paperback: 536 pages
ISBN: 9780857380333


Anna, already stressed by her upcoming PhD defense, is suddenly plunged into the middle of a murder case when her supervisor Professor Lars Hellend is found murdered. Now as well as finessing her argument that birds are modern day dinosaurs she has to fight the demons from her past before the entire university department disappears or turns up dead.

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Puppets In Yorkshire

Author: Walter Wilkinson
Hardback: 245 pages


During the 1920's and 1930's Walter Wilkinson toured his Punch and Judy show throughout England and the wider world. In this delightful little book he recounts his travels one summer through Yorkshire. After having journeyed from London via train he alights at Gainsborough before pulling his show north to Hull, then East to York and North to Richmond. Whenever a village green presents itself out comes the show to entertain the locals. A fascinating window onto a long forgotten past.

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The Maul And The Pear Tree

Author: P. D. James and T. A. Critchley
Paperback: 372 pages
ISBN: 9780571258086


P.D. James is best known as a writer of crime fiction. In this interesting book, along with T.A. Critchley, she turns her eye to solving a real murder case. During December of 1811 two households were rocked by violent murders. With the public baying for blood the police arrested seaman John Williams. Williams was convicted of the murders and executed. While no other murders occurred the evidence against Williams was circumstantial at best. Was he the killer, or just another victim?

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The Cobra Event

Author:Richard Preston
Paperback: 440 pages
ISBN: 0752817124


When Kate left home to go to school she thought she was getting the flu. Four hours later she is racked by convulsions and starts to chew on her own fingers. Fortunately, within minutes she is dead. Shortly afterwards a dead homeless man is discovered who also seems to have bitten himself. Before long it is clear that a new and deadly virus is at large. Alice Austen, has never seen such an efficient killer, but can she, and the rest of the CDC task force, unravel it's secrets and track down it's source before it is too late?

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Germs: The Ultimate Weapon

Author: Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William J. Broad
Paperback: 384 pages
ISBN: 074323071X


A fascinating yet terrifying look into the history of germ warfare. From small scale trials by terrorist cults to large scale manufacture by rogue states and Cold War adversaries this book details what has, until recently, been classified work into one germ based Weapons of mass destruction. Some of the examples would seem more at home in a thriller novel, but all have been proved to have happened at some point or another in the worlds recent past.

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