Isolation is a major theme in current affairs at the moment and it’s also a theme in two or three of this week’s new books. We lead off with Jaye Ford’s psychological thriller Beyond Fear, which takes us away to into the Australian countryside. But if you check out the covers of the new books by David Baldacci, Joe Ricker and BE Jones, they also have a lost, lonely and dangerous feel to them. We’re still on lockdown due to Covid-19 here at Crime Fiction Lover, but we’re keeping the new book suggestions coming your way, along with plenty of reviews.
We’ll get through this. Stay safe and stay well.
Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford
When Jodie and three friends set off for a converted barn in the wilds of New South Wales, all they’re hoping to do is spend some time away from their family and the rat race. But some creepy knocking at the window and a group of men camping nearby reawakens something in Jodie. As a teenager, she was violently attacked and the mental scars have long outlasted the physical ones. Jodie is convinced she and her friends are all in danger, but they won’t listen to her. Then she starts to doubt herself, and that’s when things turn tragic in this suspenseful psychological thriller. Beyond Fear won awards in Australia and is published in the UK on 20 April.
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Walk the Wire by David Baldacci
A new Amos Decker book is about to arrive on 16 April, and it finds the FBI consultant with a perfect memory in London, North Dakota. It’s an oil town riding the crest of a boom, and a young woman has been gruesomely murdered. The body of prostitute Irene Cramer was expertly autopsied and then dumped in plain view – and that’s just one of the odd things that pique the interest of Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison. Because the victim was also a teacher for a local religious sect by day. As the residents of London close ranks, the body count begins to rise…
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Some Awful Cunning by Joe Ricker
If you want to disappear – for whatever reason – Ryan Carpenter is the person you go to. He’s a relocation expert, helping people escape and start again – a little bit like the FBI helps federal witnesses, but outside the law. When a Texas oil baroness asks Ryan’s help relocating her son to avoid prosecution, Ryan agrees but there’s something about the family Ryan doesn’t like and he betrays them. Now he has to relocate, and this digs up a past he thought he’d left behind. The trail takes him to New Mexico and Louisiana as well as Maine, where the person who taught him how to relocate people might also be the person who hands him over. Some Awful Cunning is out 20 April.
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Wilderness by BE Jones
Many of us have an epic road trip on the bucket list, but be careful what you wish for if this tale is anything to go by. When Liv finds out her husband Will has been unfaithful, she takes the decidedly dicey decision to take him on a 1,500-mile road trip from New York to visit some of the America’s most beautiful national parks. But Liv has an ulterior motive, and unless Will proves his mettle he may not be making the return trip in this tense psychological thriller that is already out for Kindle, and arrives in print on 23 April.
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Stop at Nothing by Michael Ledwidge
A private jet crashes into the Caribbean sea and diving instructor Michael Gannon thinks it must be his lucky day in this escapist thriller – out now – by the co-author of James Patterson’s Michael Bennett series. Gannon is first on the scene, where he discovers six dead men and a suitcase full of cash and diamonds. Looks like he’s just made some easy money, but things are about to get complicated because one of the victims is the director of the FBI. The official story is that he died of natural causes in Italy, but Gannon knows different – and soon he is on the run, chased by some of the world’s most powerful and dangerous adversaries.
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