Blood Roses'Historical crime fiction at its best Chris Lloyd, author of The Unwanted Dead 'One of the UKs finest crime writers Ben Kane, Sunday Times bestselling author of Napoleons Spy As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed September 1939. A city ruled by fear. A population brutalised by restrictions and reprisals. Amid the devastation, another hunter begins to prowl. What are a few more deaths amid scores of daily executions? Former chief

Newly divorced Jo is delighted to move into her best friends spare room almost rent-free

her colleagues and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved

Christina Dalcher's Vox and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood

Detective Carson Ryder is good at this sort of thing crazies and freaks

'The world will need a Hero

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons

is a mysterious stowaway who equally has reasons for wanting to track down the young Frenchman called Rene Marechal

Superb writing

The result is "rocket of a read

landing her in a fight to the death against his son

always startling and almost painfully human

a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people including spinner Sal Clitheroe