LITERARY FICTION / MYSTERY / THRILLER

Wild Dark Shore
By Charlotte McConaghy

The Salts, dad Dominic and his three kids, are the only inhabitants left on Shearwater, a remote island on the edge of Antarctica. With rising sea levels, all the researchers have gone and the family, guardians of the world’s largest seedbank, are in the process of packing up the seeds for transport to safer ground as ferocious weather rolls in.

During a major storm, a woman, Rowan, is washed up on the shore and, as the fragmented family works to nurse her back to health, the Salts find themselves coming back together. But both Rowan and Dominic are hiding secrets.

MYSTERY / FICTION / SUSPENSE

I Would Die For You
By Sandie Jones

In 2011 California, Nicole Forbes lives quietly with her husband and daughter until the day a journalist knocks on her door asking about her recollections of the breakup of one of the biggest UK bands of the 1980s, Secret Oktober. That same day, Nicole’s daughter goes missing, supposedly picked up from school by a non-existent aunt.

Convinced the two events are linked, Nicole must delve into the past and her connection to Secret Oktober’s lead singer, Ben Edwards, to protect her present and the future of those she holds dear.