Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 34 The Silent Sister Diane Chamberlain From the bestselling author of The Midwife’s Confession comes a potent story about family secrets and the ties that bind us What if everything you believed in turned out to be a lie? Riley MacPherson is returning to her childhood home in North Carolina. A place that holds cherished memories. While clearing out the house she finds a box of old newspaper articles – and a shocking family secret begins to unravel. Riley has spent her whole life believing that her older sister Lisa died tragically as a teenager. But now she’s starting to uncover the truth: her life has been built on a foundation of lies, told by everyone she loved. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? Diane Chamberlain is the bestselling author of numerous novels. Her storylines are often a combination of family drama, intrigue and suspense. She lives in Northern Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole. Visit www.dianechamberlain.com Publication date: 01 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447211303 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 35 The Year of Taking Chances Lucy Diamond The bestselling author of The Beach Café is back with another warm and witty novel, all about New Year’s Eve and brand new starts . . . In the small Suffolk village of Larkmead, Gemma is throwing a New Year’s Eve party. It was supposed to be a small do but sociable husband Spencer has gone overboard with the invites and now the whole village is there. Including some new residents: Caitlin, who has returned to the village where she spent her teenage years to pack up her much-missed mum’s house and try and figure out what to do with her life; and Saffron, a PR whizz who is hiding a life-altering secret which no amount of spin can change. At the party, the three women meet over a glass or two of bubbly and pass around fortune cookies as Big Ben counts down to midnight. There’ll be no futile diet vows or promises to hit the gym for these women: they are interested in taking a chance on a brighter future. As the year unfolds the women come to lean on each other more and more as shocks, disappointments and rifts test them to their limits. But those fortune cookie messages start seeming strangely accurate . . . Lucy Diamond lives in Bath with her husband and their three children. When she isn’t slaving away on a new book (ahem) you can find her on Twitter @LDiamondAuthor or on Facebook www.facebook.com/LucyDiamondAuthor Publication date: 01 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447257783 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 350 Rights: WELXUSA Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 36 The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg You’re never too old to have some fun . . . The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends – the League of Pensioners – have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and are enjoying the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their opportunity for a new lease of life and they plan to make the most of it. But before long, they are up to their old tricks. And with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit the security system at one of the casinos. As their antics become more and more daring, Martha and her friends head back to Sweden to continue their money-making schemes. However, they aren’t the only ones planning on stealing bucket loads of cash and soon find themselves pitted against a gang of dangerous criminals. Can the group of elderly friends work together to outsmart the younger robbers and get away with their biggest heist yet? Or will this job be a step too far for the League of Pensioners? Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg is a Swedish author who has written seventeen books in several genres, including popular science, cartoon, children’s and historical fiction. Her bestselling novel The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules was her first book to be published in English. Publication date: 15 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447274902 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 450 Rights: WEL ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 37 Scarred for Life Kerry Wilkinson The ninth novel in the DS Jessica Daniel series from the number one bestselling author DI Jessica Daniel is not having a good week. Her wallet’s been nicked, the refurbished incident room is already falling apart, and a new football-mad constable is driving her crazy. She also has bigger things on her mind. A student’s body has been dumped in a wheelie bin at the back of a university building, with a vague link to an Olympic medallist and a theory that it could have been an induction that went wrong. There’s the tattooed shop raider who has her team stumped; someone attacking lone women; a chief inspector who seems to have a problem with her; and someone putting letters through her front door insisting that she’s caught ‘the wrong man’. Worlds are colliding for Jessica – and, if she’s not careful, someone close to her might not make it out in one piece. Kerry Wilkinson’s debut, Locked In, the first title in the detective Jessica Daniel series, was written as a challenge to himself but became a UK Number One Kindle bestseller within three months of release. Kerry has a degree in journalism, plays cricket badly and complains about the weather a lot. He was born in Somerset but now lives in Lancashire, thus explaining the climate gripes. Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447247890 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 38 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah Two sisters. One needs to learn to be brave. One needs to learn to be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war Despite their differences, sisters Viann and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Viann finds herself isolated, so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters’ relationship and strength is tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Viann and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions. Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with atrocities, but also humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah’s novel will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they finish reading. Kristin Hannah is a New York Times bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle, and Hawaii. Night Road was a 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read selection. Publication date: 29 Jan 15 Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447283270 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 9781447283058 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 39 Total War Rome: Untitled 2 David Gibbins The second book in the epic Total War series Inspired by the bestselling game, Total War: Rome II . Through David Gibbins’ powerful storytelling and astonishing historical research, he takes us on a journey to the core of Roman times, through a world of extraordinary military tactics and political intrigue that Rome’s warriors and citizens used to cheat death. David Gibbins is the author of eight previous historical adventure novels that have sold over two million copies and are published in twenty-nine languages. He taught archaeology, ancient history and art history as a university lecturer, before turning to writing fiction full-time. He is a passionate diver and has led numerous expeditions, some that led to extraordinary discoveries of ten-thousand-yearold artefacts. David divides his time between England and a farm and wilderness tract in Canada where he does most of his writing. www.davidgibbins.com Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447237112 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR (US and CAN Sold) ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 40 Welcome Home Margaret Dickinson There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive . . . Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over twenty years, sharing the joys and sorrows of a tough life as the wives of fishermen in Grimsby. So it was no surprise that their children were close and that Edie’s son, Frank, and Lil’s daughter, Irene, would fall in love and marry at a young age. But the declaration of war in 1939 changed everything. Frank went off to fight, and Irene and baby Tommy, along with Edie’s youngest son, are sent to the countryside for safety. With Edie’s husband, Archie, fishing the dangerous waters in the North Sea and daughter Beth in London doing ‘important war work’, Edie’s family is torn apart. Friendship sustains Edie and Lil, but tragedy follows and there’s also concern that Beth seems to have disappeared. But it is Irene’s return, during the VE day celebrations, that sends shock waves through the family and threatens to tear Edie and Lil’s friendship apart forever. Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. Her 2012 and 2013 novels, Jenny’s War and The Clippie Girls, were both top twenty best sellers and her 2014 novel, Fairfield Hall, featured on the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list. Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447237259 Price: £6.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS Publication date: 29 Jan 15 ISBN: 9781447237303 Price: £20.00 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 41 Life Deluxe Jens Lapidus From father to daughter. From sister to brother. The legacy is passed on Drug dealer Jorge is just out of prison but already bored with his new existence selling lattes and cappuccinos at a cafe. Who wouldn’t be? But big money looms, if he can pull off an audacious last heist. What he doesn’t know is that the police are already closing in: an undercover investigator has wormed his way deep into Stockholm’s criminal circles, close to Jorge. And also close to JW, the part-time student, part-time cab driver who turned to crime – and got in over his head – in order to keep himself in with a rich party crowd. At the same time, someone is trying to take down the Godfather himself, Radovan Kranjic. What would Stockholm be like with Radovan gone? Who would be Stockholm’s new king – or queen – of crime? As the novel unfurls, answers will be found amid the voracious hunt for money, power and a carefree life. The goal is easy – and the life deluxe. Jens Lapidus is the man behind the most talked about Swedish – first novel in a decade: Easy Money – the first title in the internationally bestselling Stockholm Noir Trilogy. A young and highly successful criminal defense lawyer, Lapidus’ professional experience of representing some of the most notorious criminals in the country has given him unique insights into a world that most people would rather not acknowledge. Jens Lapidus lives in Stockholm with his wife. Publication date: 12 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447256434 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUS Non-Exclusive Rest of Europe ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 42 Mightier than the Sword Jeffrey Archer The fifth gripping novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series When the bomb goes off, how many passengers on the Buckingham lose their lives? You will only find out if you read the opening chapter of Mightier than the Sword. When Harry visits his publisher in New York, he’s told that he’s been elected the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who’s imprisoned in a Russian gulag in Siberia. Babakov’s crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. Emma Clifton, now the chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, but her son Sebastian Clifton, newly elected to the board, is determined that she’ll remain Chairman. Once again, Giles’s political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher. Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include Kane and Abel, A Prisoner of Birth and Cat O’ Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 270 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction. He is married and lives in London and Cambridge. Publication date: 26 Feb 15 ISBN: 9780230748262 Price: £20.00 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 43 War Babies Annie Murray From the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls comes a brand new novel set in Birmingham during World War II Rachel Booker has had a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends meet, but becomes so hardened she has little room left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work at the open market in Birmingham, selling whatever they can find just to put a little food on the table. But the market has a silver lining: it’s there that Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny. As they grow older, the friendship turns into something more and their innocent romance gives Rachel the care and comfort she’s always craved. But at just sixteen, as World War II breaks out, Rachel falls pregnant. They marry in haste but it isn’t long before Danny is called up. Left on the homefront with a new baby and little else, Rachel must scrape by with the other residents of Sparkbrook. But if Danny ever makes it home, will he be the same boy she loved so fiercely? And if Rachel can sustain the family until then, will she end up as hardhearted as her own mother? Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John’s College, Oxford. Annie has four children and lives near Reading. Publication date: 26 Feb 15 ISBN: 9781447234012 Price: £20.00 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 340 Rights: WELXUS Publication date: 9 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447234029 Price: £6.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 340 Rights: WELXUS ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 44 No Place to Die Clare Donoghue The second book in the DI Lockyer series Imagine your worst nightmare . . . DS Jane Bennett takes charge of South London’s Lewisham murder squad following the temporary suspension of her boss, DI Mike Lockyer. His involvement with a female witness resulted in her murder. Jane is sent to a site in Elmstead Woods where she stumbles upon a sinister murder scene. It seems that the body is that of missing university student, Maggie Hungerford. Her killer recorded her last moments, until the game lost its thrill . . . Two men admit to having had a sexual relationship with Maggie. Both deny murder. Someone is lying. Lockyer returns to work and is shocked into supporting Bennett in a case where it is evident that their hunt is for a killer with a mind so twisted that he, or she, is likely to stop at nothing. After ten years in London, working for a City law firm, Clare Donoghue moved back to her home town in Somerset to undertake an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University. Never Look Back was her first novel and in 2011, whilst still an unpublished manuscript under the title of Chasing Shadows, was long-listed for the CWA Debut Dagger. Publication date: 12 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447239345 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: World ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 45 Secrets of the Singer Girls Kate Thompson A heart-warming and moving novel about the brave, hardworking women who kept the homefires burning in the East End of London during World War Two 1942. Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at the gates of Trout’s clothing factory in Bethnal Green with no idea what her new life might have in store. There to start work as a seamstress and struggling to get to grips with the noise, dirt and devastation of East London, she can’t help but miss the quiet countryside of home. But Poppy harbours a dark secret – one that wrenched her away from all she knew and from which she is still suffering . . . And Poppy’s not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at the factory is hiding something painful. Vera Shadwell, the forelady, has had a hard life with scars both visible and concealed; her sister Daisy has romantic notions that could get her in trouble; and Sal Fowler, a hardworking mother, worries about her two evacuated boys for good reason. Bound by ties of friendship, loyalty and family, the devastating events of the war will throw each of their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined. Kate Thompson is a journalist with over fifteen years’ experience as a writer for the broadsheets and women’s weekly magazines. She is now freelance and, as well as writing for newspapers, she’s a seasoned ghostwriter. Secrets of the Singer Girls is her first novel. Publication date: 26 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447280866 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 46 The Einstein Code Tom West An action-packed thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author A lost cipher. A race against time to decode it. Marine archaeologists Kate Wetherall and Lou Bates are diving off Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when a torpedo-shaped object hurtles through the water towards them; the fuselage of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane. In the cockpit, they find a corroded metal cylinder the size of a baton. Landing back on US soil, Kate and Lou are arrested and interrogated by special forces, and the cylinder confiscated. Behind the arrests is Glena Buckingham, CEO of the powerful energy conglomerate Eurenergy, as she too has discovered that the wrecked plane may have held precious secret cargo. Meanwhile, an extraordinary piece of footage has come to light – of Einstein talking about a radical new defence technology he had been working on. Whoever can decrypt the lost cipher, which holds the key to Einstein’s secret defence technology, could hold the key to global power. Tom West is the pseudonym for an internationally bestselling author of nine novels. Private Down Under, which he co-wrote with James Patterson under the name Michael White, is the latest in the Private series. Tom West lives in Perth, Australia. Publication date: 26 Mar 15 ISBN: 9781447210344 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 47 Dangerous Jessie Keane Whatever the price, she is willing to pay it . . . Coronation year: 1953. Fifteen-year-old Clara Dolan’s world is turned upside down following the shock death of her mother. Battling to keep what remains of her family together, Clara vows to keep her younger siblings, Bernadette and Harry, safe whatever the cost. With the arrival of the swinging sixties, Clara finds herself swept up in London’s dark underworld where the glamour of Soho’s dazzling nightclubs sit in stark contrast to the terrifying gangland violence that threatens the new life she has worked so hard to build. Sinking further into an existence defined by murder and betrayal, Clara soon realizes that success often comes at a very high price . . . Jessie Keane was born rich. Then the family business went bust and she was left poor and struggling in dead end jobs, so she knows both ends of the spectrum and tells it straight. Her fascination with London and the underworld led her to write the number one Heatseeker Dirty Game, followed by bestsellers Black Widow, Scarlet Women, Jail Bird, The Make and Playing Dead. She now lives in Hampshire. You can reach Jessie on her website www.jessiekeane.com Publication date: 09 Apr 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WEL ISBN: 9781447254263 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447254287 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 48 The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher Ahn Do-hyun A life-affirming, inspirational modern fable about love, life and daring to be different The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, and then dying. This is the story of one salmon who dared to be different – to leap beyond its fate. It’s a story about growing up, and about aching and ardent love. For swimming upstream means pursuing something the salmon cannot see: a dream. Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million bestselling, award-winning Korean poet. He was born in 1961 in Yeocheon, Korea, and graduated from Wonkwang University where he studied Korean literature. His writing career took off when he won the Daegu Maeil Shinmun Annual Literary Contest with his poem ‘Nakdong River’ in 1981 and the Dong-A Ilbo Annual Literary Contest with his poem ‘Jeon Bong-jun Goes to Seoul’ in 1984. Ahn also received the 1996 Young Poet´s Award and the 1998 Kim So-wol Literature Prize. This is his first work to be translated into English. Publication date: 09 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447269991 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 176 Rights: WEL ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 49 The Kraken Project Douglas Preston A new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Impact NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn’s great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unstable and dangerous, requiring the probe to be outfitted with artificial intelligence software. Melissa Shepherd, a brilliant programmer, has developed ‘Dorothy’, a powerful, self-modifying AI whose potential is both revolutionary and terrifying. When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during testing, Dorothy flees into the Internet. Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to help track down the rogue AI. As Ford and Shepherd search for Dorothy, they realize that her horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her in ways they can barely imagine. Traumatized, angry, and relentlessly hunted, Dorothy devises a plan. Is the AI bent on saving the world . . . or on wiping out the cancer that is humankind? Douglas Preston is the author of The Monster of Florence and the New York Times bestsellers Impact, Tyrannosaur Canyon, and Blasphemy. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the famed Pendergast series of novels, including such bestselling titles as The Book of the Dead and The Wheel of Darkness, as well as The Relic, which was made into a number one box office hit movie. Publication date: 23 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447274384 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 50 Jørgen Brekke Untitled Book 2 Jørgen Brekke Jørgen Brekke returns at the top of his game in this nonstop thrill ride through place – and time A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered – her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, of the Trondheim Police Department, still recovering from a serious illness, is called in to investigate. Another young girl, also known for her melodic singing voice, suddenly goes missing. As the Trondheim police follow the trail of this deadly killer, it becomes clear that both cases are somehow connected to a centuries-old ballad called ‘The Golden Peace,’. This lullaby promises the soundest, sweetest sleep to the listener – and as time ticks by, the elusive killer seems as if he will stop at nothing to get his hands on this perfect lullaby. Jørgen Brekke lives in Trondheim with his wife and three children. His first novel, Where Evil Lies, was on the Norwegian bestseller lists for four months and has been sold in twelve countries. Publication date: 16 Apr 15 ISBN: 9781447222743 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 432 Rights: WELXUSCN NonExclusive EU & EFTA ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 51 Untitled Baldacci 15 David Baldacci New standalone thriller from the Sunday Times number one bestseller Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible injury. Now a police detective, Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try and catch the monster who killed his family. David Baldacci is a worldwide bestselling novelist. With his books published in over 45 different languages and in more than 80 countries, and with over 110 million copies in print, he is one of the world’s favourite storytellers. David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating illiteracy across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com Publication date: 23 Apr 15 Page extent: 368 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447277583 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 781447277804 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 52 What Doesn’t Kill Her Carla Norton ‘Brilliant. A perfect blend of literary style, psychological insight and edge-of-seat thriller’ Jeffery Deaver In this sequel to Norton’s debut novel, The Edge of Normal, Reeve is moving closer to the normal life she so craves, no longer defined by the kidnapping that changed her life. But when her abductor, Daryl Wayne Flint, escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane, Reeve’s new-found strength and tranquility are about to be tested in ways neither she nor Flint could have imagined. Carla Norton is the co-author of the number one New York Times bestselling Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box. She covered that true case of abduction, captivity and abuse as a reporter and became an authority on how women survive the misery of captivity and re-build their lives. Carla lives in Florida. Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 360 Rights: WELXUSCN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ISBN: 9781447230724 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £12.99 ISBN: 9781447284451 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 53 Tiffany Blue Karen Swan A return to the characters from the bestselling Christmas at Tiffany’s Everyone knows Cassie and Henry are meant to be together. She’s got a smile on her face and a Tiffany’s ring on her finger and all that’s needed is a date to get to the ‘I do’s.’ Only, Cassie’s Vintage Catering business is booked for every Ascot for the next five years, she won’t commit to a mortgage on a place together and she’s spending more time helping her friend Suzy plan other people’s weddings than her own. Suzy and Henry’s wild and younger cousin Gem has no such hesitations. She’s heading to the aisle at a sprint. But Cassie notices fault-lines in the relationship no one else appears to see, and her friendly advice to think twice spectacularly backfires. As Henry departs for a jade mine hunt in Africa, Cassie commits to a summer in Cornwall to try to make amends with Gem. She tells herself everyone has to be allowed to make their own mistakes, but when news comes that Henry’s disappeared, she realizes she’s made one of her own – and that a happy ending and Happy Ever After aren’t necessarily one and the same. Karen Swan was previously a fashion editor and lives in East Sussex with her husband and three children. Her first novel, Players, was published in 2010, followed by Prima Donna. In 2011 Karen’s third novel, Christmas at Tiffany’s, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Publication date: 07 May 15 ISBN: 9781447280194 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUS ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 54 The Chosen Queen Joanna Courtney 1066: A date that changed the course of history; a date that changed her life forever Love should be free – that is what Edyth Alfgarsdottir has always believed. As a young girl she witnessed Earl Harold standing barefoot to handfast himself to the beautiful Lady Svana and has yearned for her own lovematch ever since. Amongst England’s royal court, political matches are rife, while King Edward is still without an heir. When her family are exiled to the wild Welsh court, Edyth unexpectedly finds herself falling for the charismatic Griffin – first King of all of Wales. Becoming his Queen catapults Edyth onto the opposing side of a bitter feud between England and Wales. Years later, Edyth is in line to take the crown of England. This time the lines of love and duty are far more blurred. As 1066 dawns, Edyth will be asked to make a sacrifice, perhaps the greatest of all. In the midst of war, can love – and freedom – survive? Joanna Courtney has wanted to be a writer ever since she could read. So it was no surprise when Joanna pursued her passion for books at Cambridge University. Joanna is fascinated by defining moments in history and has loved being able to immerse herself in the world of the Anglo-Saxons, Normans and Vikings whilst writing The Queen’s of the Conquest trilogy. Publication date: 07 May 15 ISBN: 9781447281900 Price: £12.99 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 352 Rights: WELXUSCN ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 55 The Scarlet Gospels Clive Barker The long-anticipated new novel from bestselling author Clive Barker The last of Earth’s magicians are living in fear. A Cenobite Hell Priest known as Pinhead is killing them off, gorging on their knowledge to enhance his own magical powers as part of a quest to takeover Hell. Meanwhile, Private Investigator Harry D’Amour is fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, who communicate with his business associate, the blind medium Norma Paine. But while investigating one such case, Harry inadvertently opens up a rift between Hell and the real world. When nemesis Pinhead emerges through the portal, a vicious battle ensues. After failing to enlist Harry as one of his Scarlet Gospels – an elite group of messengers who will witness his takeover of the underworld – Pinhead captures Norma and Harry realizes he must go through hell – literally – to save her. Clive Barker is a legendary author, film-maker and visual artist. His accumen as a horror writer has been praised as some of the most influential to pop culture in recent times. Stephen King hailed Barker as ‘the future of horror’. His Books of Blood series, films, comic books, art, and his novella The Hellbound Heart, which first introduced the world to Pinhead and inspired the Hellraiser movies, have amassed a global cult following and cemented their place in pop culture history. The Scarlet Gospels marks Barker’s highly anticipated return to horror fiction. Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 288 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9781447266983 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9781447267003 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 56 The Wrong Girl David Hewson The second book in the thrilling new Amsterdam-set series Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with children trying to get a glimpse of their hero and families enjoying the occasion. The police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But the abducted child isn’t the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. She’s the daughter of an impoverished Georgian prostitute, friendless and trapped in the web of vice that is Amsterdam’s Red Light District. As the security forces and the police clash over the ensuing investigation, Vos and Laura Bakker struggle to uncover the shocking truth behind the girl’s abduction. What is the life of one immigrant child worth in the greater political game emerging around them? David Hewson is the author of ten novels in the highly acclaimed Detective Nic Costa series, and is the author to bring the Danish TV crime drama The Killing to the literary market place. David’s new detective crime series started with The House of Dolls, which published in 2014. Formerly a journalist working for the Sunday Times,The Times and the Independent, he lives in Kent. Publication date: 07 May 15 Page extent: 460 Rights: WELXUS ISBN: 9781447246183 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781447249504 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £12.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 57 Renegade Kerry Wilkinson The second book in a page-turning new trilogy by Kindle bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson Silver Blackthorn is on the run. All she really wants is to be reunited with her family and friends but the time for thinking about herself has passed. Now the fates of eleven other teenagers are in her hands – and they are all looking to her for a plan. With an entire country searching for the escaped Offerings, Silver is under pressure to keep them all from the clutches of the Minister Prime, King Victor and the Kingsmen. As expectations are piled upon the girl with the silver streak in her hair, she realises that life will never be the same again. Huge changes are on the horizon and Silver is in the thick of them . . . Kerry Wilkinson’s debut, Locked In, the first title in the detective Jessica Daniel series, was written as a challenge to himself but became a UK Number One Kindle bestseller within three months of release. Kerry has a degree in journalism, plays cricket badly and complains about the weather a lot. He was born in Somerset but now lives in Lancashire, thus explaining the climate gripes. Publication date: 14 May 2015 ISBN: 9781447235316 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 58 The Silence F. R. Tallis In the depths of the ocean, no one will hear you scream 1941. German submarine U-471 patrols the stormy inhospitable waters of the north Atlantic. It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not believe in the war he is bound by duty and honour to fight in. U-471 receives a triple-encoded message with instructions to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast and transport them to the base at Brest, and British submarine commander, Sutherland, and an Austrian academic, Klein, are taken on board. Contact between the prisoners and Lorenz has been forbidden, and it transpires that this special mission has been ordered by an unknown source, high up in the SS. It is rumoured that Klein is working on a secret weapon that could change the course of the war . . . Then, Sutherland goes rogue, and a series of shocking, brutal events occur. In the aftermath, disturbing things start happening on the boat. It seems that a lethal, supernatural force is stalking the crew, wrestling with Lorenz for control. A thousand feet under the dark, icy waves, it doesn’t matter how loud you scream . . . F. R. Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has received or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the New London Writers’ Award, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Elle Prix de Letrice, and two Edgars. His latest novels include The Forbidden, The Sleep Room and The Voices. Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447236047 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 400 Rights: WOR ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 59 Meet Me at the Pier Head Ruth Hamilton Together they could take on the world . . . Headmaster Theodore Quinn has lived in Liverpool since coming over from America to fight for Britain in the 1940s. Over ten years later he is harbouring two secrets and scars that are both physical and emotional. Where women are concerned, he and his secrets are a closed shop, until Tia Bellamy walks into his life. A nuisance, and a Kentish daughter to an ageing dynasty, Tia Bellamy cuts through Theo’s reserve, and the first of his secrets is shared with her. The pair grow close to the residents of the Lady Streets, a tight community that looks after its own, and in particular to Maggie Stone and her little granddaughter Rosie. Then Theo reveals his second secret, and everything in their life begins to change . . . Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Mulligan’s Yard, The Bells of Scotland Road, Lights of Liverpool and A Liverpool Song. She is one of the north-west of England’s most popular writers. She was born in Bolton, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool. Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9780230769069 Price: £20.00 Format: Royal Hardback Page extent: 400 Rights: WEL ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 60 Coming Up Roses Rachael Lucas A charming novel from the bestselling author of Sealed with a Kiss, blooming with humour and romance! Would-be gardening journalist Daisy can’t believe her luck when her parents announce they’re off on a midlife crisis gap year, leaving her in charge of their gorgeous garden, much in need of her expert TLC. And coming after a bad break-up, some peace and quiet in the countryside is just what she needs. Only, village life turns out to be anything but – with nosey neighbours and greedy developers instantly stirring up trouble. What Daisy really needs is a good friend, or three. So when she comes across Elaine, Coral and Lauren, she’s relieved to have multiple shoulders to cry on. But each of the new friends is dealing with a drama of their own – a marriage in crisis, a family secret and juggling a hectic business. As Daisy wrestles the garden into something like beautiful order, can she get a grip on her new feelings for handsome Irish rogue Garret and stop her parents selling up to a developer? Rachael Lucas is a mother, outgoing introvert, reader, bed lover, early morning riser, night owl and a sleep deprived mass of contradictions. Rachael lives by the seaside in the North West of England with her partner, their blended family of six children, a very hairy dog and two and a half cats. For more about Rachael, visit her blog at www.talesfromthevillage.com or say hello to her on Twitter, @karamina. Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447265481 Price: £6.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 300 Rights: WELXUS ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 61 The Mourner Susan Wilkins ‘A thundering new talent – read it and be gripped’ Jessie Keane, author of Lawless Kaz Phelps has escaped her brother and her criminal past to become an anonymous art student in Glasgow. But can life under the witness protection scheme ever give her the freedom she craves? Banged up and brooding, Joey Phelps faces thirty years behind bars. Still, with cash and connections on the outside, can an overstretched prison system really contain him? Helen Warner, once Kaz’s lawyer and lover, is a rising star in Parliament. But has she made the kind of enemies who have no regard for the democratic process, or even the law? Ousted from the police and paralysed by tragic personal loss, Nicci Armstrong is in danger of going under. Can a job she doesn’t want with a private security firm help her to put her life back on track? A murder dressed up as suicide and corruption that goes to the heart of government unite ex-cop and ex-con in a deadly quest to learn the truth. What they discover proves what both have always known – villainy is rife on both sides of the law. After a degree in law and a stint as a journalist, Susan Wilkins embarked on a career in television drama. She has written numerous scripts for shows ranging from Casualty and Heartbeat to Coronation Street and Eastenders. The Informant was her first novel. Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447241447 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 600 Rights: WELXUSCN ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 62 China Miéville short stories China Miéville A new collection of short stories from this critically acclaimed and multiple awardwinning author A short story collection comprising seven previously published short stories and multiple brand new, neverbefore-seen short stories. China Miéville is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. He has written numerous novels and been published to dazzling critical acclaim. Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUSCN ISBN: 9780230770171 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9780230770188 Format: Royal Trade Paperback Price: £13.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 63 Summer at Shell Cottage Lucy Diamond The new must-pack beach read from bestselling author Lucy Diamond The Tarrant family have been holidaying in a large seaside house in Devon every summer for years. Though children Freya and Robert are now grown up, and have families of their own, the tradition has continued. But this year things are heartbreakingly different: patriarch Alec has died suddenly after forty happy years of marriage to Olivia. Now retired and widowed, Olivia is persuaded that going back to Devon is just the distraction she needs. It will also give her the peace and quiet to work through a confusing clause in Alec’s will: he’s left a sum of money to a mysterious Leo Browne, someone she’s never heard of before . . . Freya also needs to get away from it all. She’s struggling with her work, her marriage and the loss of her beloved dad and it doesn’t help that her husband is so distant. Her brother Robert seems to have a better handle on things, with a new family and exciting career to boast of. But the truth is far from rosy. Over one last summer at Shell Cottage, the Tarrants may just find that family life is rarely postcard-perfect, but are they strong enough to weather the storms? Lucy Diamond lives in Bath with her husband and their three children. When she isn’t slaving away on a new book (ahem) you can find her on Twitter @LDiamondAuthor or Facebook www.facebook.com/LucyDiamondAuthor Publication date: 04 Jun 15 ISBN: 9781447257806 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 350 Rights: WELXUSA Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 64 Blue Moon Pam Weaver A fantastic new saga novel from bestselling author Pam Weaver, her first with Pan Macmillan Worthing, 1931. Money is still tight following The Great Depression, and the Bateman family must all pull their weight to make ends meet. But this happy, hardworking family is shocked to their core when father Cecil dies tragically in a fishing accident. As they all handle their heart-breaking grief in different ways, brother Percy turns to the Black Shirts who have recently started making trouble in the town. As the troubles escalate to violence, will he see right from wrong? It falls to Polly, the daughter of the family, to hold them all together. But she has her own dreams for a life outside the seaside town and a long-buried family secret may just upturn all her hard work . . . Pam Weaver’s saga novels, There’s Always Tomorrow, Better Days Will Come, Pack Up Your Troubles and For Better For Worse, are set in Worthing during the austerity years. Pam’s inspiration comes from her love of people and their stories and her passion for the town of Worthing. With the sea on one side and the Downs on the other, Worthing has a scattering of small villages within its urban sprawl, and in some cases tight-knit communities, making it an ideal setting for the modern saga. Publication date: 21 May 15 ISBN: 9781447275886 Price: £7.99 Format: B Format Paperback Page extent: 350 Rights: WEL ebook available panmacmillan.com Spring Catalogue 2015 / Fiction 65 You Are Dead Peter James Brighton’s finest detective is back . . . the latest Roy Grace novel by the multi-million copy bestselling author Peter James The last words Nick Walton hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has driven into the underground car park beneath a block of flats in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished. That same afternoon, workmen digging in a park elsewhere in the city unearth the remains of a young woman who has been dead for thirty years. At first, to Roy Grace and his team, these two events seem unconnected. But then another young woman goes missing and another body from the past surfaces. Meanwhile, an eminent psychiatrist meets with a man who claims to know a piece of information about Logan. Later, Roy Grace makes the chilling realization that this man may hold the key to both the past and the present . . . Brighton has its first serial killer in over eighty years. Peter James is one of Britain’s bestselling crime writers. His novels, including the Sunday Times number one bestselling Roy Grace series, have been translated into thirty-six languages, with worldwide sales of fifteen million copies. He divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill, London, and near Brighton in Sussex. Publication date: 04 Jun 15 Page extent: 400 Rights: WELXUS ISBN: 9781447255741 Format: Royal Hardback Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9781447255772 Format: Royal Paperbac Price: £13.99 ebook available panmacmillan.com