HCP Media Bites Dec 2020 - Jan 2021

Beware of Dogs E L I Z AB E TH F L ANN WINNER OF THE 2019 BANJO PRIZE Not much daylight left now.

The Coffinmaker’s Garden S TUAR T MACBR I D E As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he’s got buried in his garden: human remains. With the storm still raging, it’s too dangerous to retrieve the bodies and waves are devouring the evidence. Which means no one knows how many people Smith’s already killed and how many more he’ll kill if he can’t be found and stopped. The media are baying for blood, the top brass are after a scapegoat, and ex-Detective Inspector Ash Henderson is done playing nice. He’s got a killer to catch, and God help anyone who gets in his way. stuartmacbride.com So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding in a tiny cave, she carefully rations out her meagre supplies, while desperately trying to figure out how to escape the men hunting her. She is determined not to be a victim. By day she is disciplined and lives by strict plans, but at night she finds herself haunted by questions about her life that she has never wanted to face. And her time is running out. elizabethflann.com Released: 06/01/21 TPB | 304pp AU $29.99 NZ $34.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

The Lost Boys FAY E K E L L E RMAN

When a developmentally disabled man goes missing from a local diner, detective Peter Decker is put on the case. Very quickly, he realizes there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye when he discovers his nurse is missing too, and blood is found in her house. Then, while combing the woods, searchers discover the remains of a young man who vanished during a camping trip years ago. Juggling a hot case and a cold case, Decker races to find justice for the families. But as the answers become ever more elusive, he is forced to question if the woods will ever give up their dark secrets . . . and if these intertwining cases will ever be solved.

Released: 20/01/21 TPB | 400pp AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Imprint: HarperCollins fayekellerman.net

Released: 06/01/21 TPB | 400pp AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HaperCollins

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