On a Hawaiian island a wealthy American woman – twice widowed, once divorced – hires a local driver to show her around. As their relationship develops we discover the secrets of narrator, Luis', past.

Orphaned as a young boy and raised by his aunt, he knows this central truth about himself – his father was a murderer. How does this affect his life; what about the other secrets he has been keeping? And what is the real truth behind Marcia's immediate attraction to him?

The Man Booker prize-winning novelist and poet, Ben Okri makes his Crime debut in this series with a daringly ambitious story that crosses genre. Detective Drapper feels the world is out of kilter as he investigates an alleged crime. There is a witness but no body. And then the facts begin to shift and what should be impossible seems to be happening at every turn.

Why can no one else see the truth as it soon becomes plain to Drapper and how is he to solve a problem when the very fabric of reality is torn?

In a departure from the worlds of her crime novels, Sophie Hannah has created a new character especially for this series. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse can't let a case go. It looks as if it's been solved, but he is sure that something has been missed. As he continues as investigation into the suicide of a schoolyard bully, the underbelly of village life is laid bare – as is the secret pain Waterhouse himself has carried for so long.

Featuring deranged altercations in the churchyard and a blue bear named Bully, this story by one of our leading crime writers examines the motivations of a very human police officer.

A young university student joins her family for the holidays. Father, mother, two younger brothers and a nice house – they are, it seems, a perfectly ordinary family. After a drunken night out with friends, she is concerned that someone (number unknown) is texting her with a familiarity she cannot explain. But everything will be fine now that she is home. Or will it?

In a brave examination of family, the stories and the lies we tell each other and the destructive collusion of this domestic bond, Emma Dibdin delivers a thriller that will delight her fans and attract many new ones.

The story opens in an unnamed place, in the far distant past where mammoths and sabre toothed tigers roam and humans have to hunt and forage for their food. The narrator is a twelve-year-old child, a sure, confident voice who tells of her family group's travel through this hostile land. And, then, the scene shifts and we find ourselves securely in the present day and we learn that our protagonist Skye is in sixth form and has survived cancer.

Set in Norfolk, this crime of betrayal takes us to an archaeological site on the beach where Skye's Geography class has come to observe an important new finding. Weaving together two distinct time-lines in the same location, this is a hugely ambitious work by a writer of unbridled imagination and talent.

A mob enforcer and his apprentice have breakfast in a countryside café, on their way to their next job. The unnamed narrator (enforcer, hitman) has been tasked with training up one of the bosses' nephews and this is their first job – to silence the Family bookkeeper who has been talking to the wrong people. But things don't go as expected.

With a clear eye on the voice and pacing that makes for gripping crime fiction, Bilal offers up a thoughtful interrogation on loyalty, duty and the price of a life of crime.