Martin O'Brien
Jacquot And The Waterman

The Waterman is no ordinary killer, but then Daniel Jacquot is no ordinary detective. An ex-international rugby player, he is now a chief inspector, with homicide in Marseilles. It's here, in this city by the sea, that a shadowy, elusive killer steps on to the field of play, drugging, raping and drowning three young women in as many months. With a new partner, a rising body count and only a three-word tattoo to work with, Jacquot tracks his quarry, gradually closing on a ruthless, yet sometimes eccentric murderer the press have christened The Waterman.

Catherine Shaw
The Three Body Problem

Cambridge University, 1888. The world of Miss Vanessa Duncan, a young schoolmistress. is shattered when a Fellow of Mathematics, Mr Akers, is found dead with a violent blow to the back of his head. Discussing the murder, she learns of a competition set by the King of Sweden on the 'n-body problem', an as yet unsolved puzzle set by Sir Isaac Newton. It is thought that Akers had been working towards a solution to win the prestigious prize. As the months pass and the murder is left unsolved, news breaks of the death of another mathematician, Mr Beddoes. Vanessa's new love, Arthur Weatherburn, becomes a prime suspect. Convinced of his innocence, Vanessa sets about trying to prove her case.

Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to the King, summons the gentleman spy Henry Gresham to his deathbed to give his arch enemy one final, deadly case. An unknown Cambridge bookseller has obtained devastating correspondence between King James I and Robert Carr, and Gresham is the one man who can return the letters, saving the monarch from a potentially scandalous downfall. Also in the bookseller's possession are two stolen manuscripts by Shakespeare. And just as these plays contain a deadly secret, so too does Gresham's mission. For Gresham is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I....