New Reviews: Black, Carver, Gregory, Hannah, Hill, Lock, McGilloway, Meyer, Rees

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Here are this week's 9 new reviews:

Amanda Gillies reviews Helen Black's, Twenty Twelve, which involves terrorism at the London Olympics;

Terry Halligan reviews Will Carver's The Two the second outing for Detective Inspector January David;

Terry also reviews Susanna Gregory's The Piccadilly Plot the seventh in the Thomas Chaloner Restoration series;

Susan White reviews Mari Hannah's debut, The Murder Wall the first in the DCI Kate Charles series set in Northumberland;

Lynn Harvey reviews Antonio Hill's debut, The Summer of Dead Toys, tr. Laura McGoughlin set in Barcelona and introducing Inspector Hector Salgado;

Lizzie Hayes reviews the paperback release of Joan Lock's Dead Image the first of six in the Victorian era, Sergeant Best series;

Laura Root reviews the latest in the Ben Devlin series from Brian McGilloway, The Nameless Dead writing that it "is one of the best books I have read this year";

Maxine Clarke reviews Deon Meyer's Trackers, tr. K L Seegers of which she states "this book may be the best thriller I've ever read"

and if you travel by train in the UK you can't have missed the posters for Emlyn Rees's Hunted, just out in paperback and reviewed here by Rich Westwood.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here along with releases by year.

Publishing Deal - Will Carver

Another publishing deal to report, after the quiet the storm etc. This time, a three-book deal for debut author Will Carver:

Ben Dunn has struck his first fiction deal at Random House, acquiring world rights (including dramatic rights) to a debut thriller, Girl 4 by British newcomer Will Carver.

Girl 4 is to be the first in a series featuring detective inspector January David and will be an Arrow paperback original in May 2011, with the second book in the series following in November 2011.

Dunn called Girl 4 "cool, clever modern fiction with an intensely visual quality to the writing" and "a fast-paced page-turner with a cracking plot and compelling twists".

Read the whole article in The Bookseller.