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Latest from the author of Kill Your Boss. After his sister was killed in the 9/11 attacks, Kennedy devoted his life to airline security. Now he is working for the CIA. BookScan
SOPHIE MCKENZIE THE BLACK SHEEP SIMON & SCHUSTER, 9TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781471133220 Fourth adult crime novel from the author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick Close My Eyes. Charlotte is picking up the pieces after her husband’s sudden death a year ago—until evidence comes to light that suggests he may have been murdered. BookScan
DREDA SAY MITCHELL BLOOD MOTHER HODDER PAPERBACKS, 23RD, £7.99, PBO, 9781473625693 Second in the Flesh and Blood trilogy, following one family over 40 years on an east London estate. In 1970s London, pregnant Babs is left high and dry by her baby’s father. When she meets Stan Miller she is thrilled, little knowing he is the devil in disguise. BookScan
MIKE NICOL AGENTS OF THE STATE OLD STREET, 7TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781910400517 Agent Vicki Khan and her boyfriend, PI Fish Pescado, are working on seemingly separate cases but then they uncover a possible link; the South African president and his son.
KERRY WILKINSON NOTHING BUT TROUBLE PAN, 9TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781447285441 Eleventh in the Manchester-set DI Jessica Daniels series. When a prison van is involved in an accident, the two criminal passengers make a break for it. Hours later one of the escapees is found hanged from a motorway bridge. Was he broken out to be killed, or is something else going on? BookScan
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The Strings of Murder). An Edinburgh playhouse due to stage “Macbeth” is home to strange happenings. Supernatural elements, or a publicity stunt? BookScan
A D SWANSTON INCENDIUM BANTAM PRESS, 23RD, £14.99, HB, 9780593076248 First in a new series from the former director of Waterstones. England, 1572, and Dr Christopher Radcliff, chief intelligencer to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, hears word of a plot that could spark insurrection at home and abroad. For fans of S J Parris.
MICHELLE BIRKBY THE WOMEN OF BAKER STREET PAN, 9TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781509809738
CHRIS MOONEY EVERY PRETTY THING PENGUIN, 9TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781405922456 Next in the ex-FBI profiler Darby McCormick series. Darby is contacted by a former colleague, Jackson Cooper, who has tracked a serial killer to Montana. But when Darby arrives in Montana, Jackson has vanished. Something is very wrong . . . BookScan
ANDREW HUGHES THE CORONER’S DAUGHTER DOUBLEDAY IRELAND, 23RD, £12.99, TPB, 9781781620175 Second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Convictions of John Delahunt. Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals her pregnancy and then murders her newborn at the home of a prominent family that is in a radical Christian sect known as the Brethren. Then she apparently takes her own life. But when Abigail Lawless, the coroner’s 18-year-old daughter, discovers a message from the maid’s seducer by chance, she sets out to discover the truth.
OSCAR DE MURIEL A MASK OF SHADOWS MICHAEL JOSEPH, 23RD, £14.99, HB, 9780718183936
Third in the Victorian crime series featuring sleuthing pair Detective “Nine-Nails” McGray and Inspector Ian Frey (A Fever of the Blood,
A new angle on the classic Victorian crime series, this features Sherlock Holmes’ redoubtable housekeeper Mrs Martha Hudson and Mary Watson, wife of Dr Watson. On her first night in St Barts hospital, Mrs Hudson believes she witnesses a murder. This is the second in the series, following The House at Baker Street.
DAVID YOUNG STASI WOLF ZAFFRE, 9TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781785760686 More Cold War action. East Germany, 1975, and Karin Muller is moved from the murder squad in Berlin to Halle-Neustadt, a new town in the south, to find a pair of infant twins who have gone missing. But the town is the pride of the communist state, and Muller and her team are forbidden by the Stasi from publicising the disappearances, lest they tarnish Halle-Neustadt’s image. From the author of Stasi Child. BookScan
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in the East India Company, is sent on a secret mission during the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
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KATIE HICKMAN THE HOUSE AT BISHOPSGATE BLOOMSBURY, 9TH, £16.99, HB, 9781408821145 London, 1611, and Paul Pindar returns to his house on Bishopsgate after 10 years abroad a wealthy man with a beautiful wife, Celia Lamprey. But by the time Celia’s old friend Annetta arrives from Venice, she finds the household in thrall to a mysterious widow, Lady Sydenham. BookScan
STEPHAN ABARBANELL DISPLACED JOHN MURRAY, 23RD, £14.99, HB, 9781473635548 Jerusalem, 1946. Lilya Wasserfall is searching for the missing Jewish scientist Raphael Lind in the ruins of post-war Germany. According to the British he was murdered in a concentration camp, but his brother in Jerusalem has evidence that Lind is still alive.
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PAUL VIDICH AN HONOURABLE MAN NO EXIT PRESS, 23RD, £7.99, PBO, 9781843449584 Cold War spy fiction set in 1953. The CIA suspects a double agent, code name Protocol, is selling secrets to the Soviets. George Mueller seems the perfect man to find the mole, until suspicion begins to fall on him as well.
BEATRICE COLIN TO CAPTURE WHAT WE CANNOT KEEP ALLEN & UNWIN, 2ND, £12.99, TPB, 9781760291723 Paris, 1887, and the construction of the Eiffel Tower forms the backdrop to the love affair between Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier. From the author of The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite. BookScan
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23RD, £18.99, HB, 9781472238191 Based on a true story, this is the story of Francesco, one of a group of gay and bisexual men rounded up and imprisoned on a tiny Italian island in 1939.
ANTONIN VARENNE RETRIBUTION ROAD MACLEHOSE PRESS, 9TH, £14.99, TPB, 9780857053749 Ripping 19th-century adventure which begins in Burma in 1852, when Arthur Bowman, a sergeant
ROBERT LAUTNER THE DRAUGHTSMAN THE BOROUGH PRESS, 9TH, £14.99, HB, 9780008126711 Germany, 1944. Ernst Beck starts a new job at the prestigious engineering firm Topf. He is assigned to the Special Ovens Department and realises that Topf’s new client is the SS, and the new crematoria are bound for the concentration camps. He has a terrible choice to make.
ANN BENNETT BAMBOO ROAD MONSOON BOOKS, 1ST, £8.99, PBO, 9789814625258
Third in the Thailand-set trilogy tells the story of Sirinya, who risks her life to resist the Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
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DAVID GILMAN VIPER’S BLOOD HEAD OF ZEUS, 9TH, £18.99, HB, 9781784974466 Fourth in the 100 Years’ War series Master of War. Winter 1360, and Edward III has invaded France . . . BookScan
VIRGINIA ANDREWS BROKEN GLASS SIMON & SCHUSTER, 23RD, £20, HB, 9781471158674 The story of identical twin sisters who are tortured by their domineering, perfectionist mother. BookScan
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JENNIFER RYAN THE CHILBURY LADIES’ CHOIR THE BOROUGH PRESS, 23RD, £12.99, HB, 9780008163709 Kent, 1940, and the women of Chilbury form a choir as part of their war effort. One for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. HarperCollins will promote as a Mother’s Day read.
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CLARE SWATMAN BEFORE YOU GO MACMILLAN, 9TH, £12.99, HB, 9781509824809 First novel from the former features editor of Bella. A woman is devastated after her husband dies unexpectedly—but is it too late to tell him all the things she never said?
MARY BALOGH SOMEONE TO HOLD PIATKUS, 7TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780349413655 Regency romance. When her parents’ marriage is declared bigamous, Camilla Wescott is left illegitimate— and without a title. BookScan
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