Alex Dryden
Red to Black

At the dawn of the new millennium, as the candle of democracy flickers in the Russian winter, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a colonel of the KGB, have been sent to spy on each other. Instead they find a love that becomes the only truth they can trust. A source deep within the Kremlin tells Finn of a plan, hatched in the depths of the Cold War, to dismantle the edifice of the communist state and to bring about the rise of a new imperium within Russia: a plan to control the whole of Europe. With Finn's masters in London blinded by the new wealth pouring out of Russia, Finn must work alone and in deadly secrecy to uncover the full horror of this plan and the terrifying threat it poses to the freedom of the west.

G. M. Ford
Slow Burn

Anticipating disaster, a prestigious global restaurant convention hires Seattle P. I. Leo Waterman as Special Security Officer. His assignment: to monitor the movements of two adversarial steakhouse competitors whose 'beef' has previously made for some nasty confrontations, and a food critic who's caught in between the warring factions. Leo sends his band of scruffy irregulars to shadow all three parties and report back to him. But even the simplest of plans can cascade into catastrophe. And our unconventional detective soon finds himself served up as the prime suspect in a murder - with both his life and career at stake.

From the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files comes a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator who does for the city of Chicago what E'lmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles. Chicago PI Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived.