ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Joy Ellis DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans lead a crack team of investiga- tors solving murders and other crimes across the atmospheric Lincoln- shire Fens in this grip- ping crime series. The Guilty Ones (Jackman & Evans Book 4) Joffe Books, April 2020, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781789312775 The most difficult case of Detective Inspector Rowan Jackman’s career. Who are the guilty ones and is anyone really innocent? This time it’s personal for Jackman. The Patient Man (Jackman & Evans Book 6) Joffe Books, June 2020, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781789312799 Jackman’s old nemesis is back in town and ready to tidy up unfinished business. Can Jackman and Evans catch a serial killer, or will the hunters become the hunted?
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Detective Nikki Galena Detective Nikki Galena is a compelling heroine obsessed with aveng- ing her daughter. She’s been given an ultima- tum: work with your new sergeant, DS Joseph Easter, or you're out.
Nuala Ellwood The House on the Lake Penguin, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780241985151 Penguin General, 20th February, audiobook, £13, 9780241986097 No matter where you run, he’s never far behind.
Clare Empson Mine Orion, 19th March, pb, £7.99, 9781409177760 The Girl Before meets Then She Was Gone.
Amy Engel The Familiar Dark Hodder & Stoughton, 31st March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529368079 From the bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls comes a suspenseful tale of a murdered child and a mother’s quest for answers.
Fiona Erskine The Chemical Reaction Point Blank, 16th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786077578 High-octane thriller featuring globe-trotting engineer Dr Jaq Silver.
Janet Evanovich The Big Kahuna Headline Review, 3rd March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472260949 He’s a conman. She’s in the FBI. But putting him in gaol is the last thing on her mind.
CM Ewan A Window Breaks Pan, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529009675 Thriller from the author of Safe House. If your family was targeted in the middle of the night what would you do to protect them?
Crime on the Fens (Detective Nikki Galena Book 1) Joy Ellis Joffe Books, April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781789312782 Greenborough is terror- ized by a masked gang. Then a talented student disappears on the marsh. Nikki and her team find themselves joining forces with a master criminal.
RJ Ellory Three Bullets Orion, 19th March, pb, £8.99, 9781409163169 Ellory returns with a high-concept thriller set in an alternate period America and delves into the heart of the USA’s murky political landscape.
Andrew Ewart Forget Me Orion, 20th February, pb, £8.99, 9781409189695 The wife of an amnesiac goes to desperate lengths to bring back her husband’s memories. For fans of Before I Go To Sleep and Memento.
Toby Faber Close to the Edge Muswell Press, 6th February, pb, £8.99, 9781999313524 “A nail-biting thriller that’ll keep you up all night”—Emily Koch. “Quirky and compelling”— Val McDermid.
Reed Farrel Coleman Robert B Parker’s The Bitterest Pill No Exit Press, 21st May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857303844 The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise and police chief Jesse
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Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in the bestselling series.
Alice Feeney His and Hers HQ, 30th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008370947 Twisted and clever psychological thriller from the author of Sometimes I Lie and I Know Who You Are.
Helen Fields Perfect Kill HarperCollins, 1st February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008275242 DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that collide over a people-trafficking ring.
Tricia Fields Young Blood Severn House, 31st March, hb, eb, £20.99, 9780727892461 Maggie Wise, a retired homicide cop turned radio presenter, is asked to help the local police with the case of two missing girls.
Mick Finlay Arrowood and the Thames Corpses HQ, 23rd March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008324520 William Arrowood returns. “Crackles with energy and wit”—the Times.
Tarryn Fisher The Wives HQ, 16th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781848457980 Imagine that your husband has two other wives.
Helen FitzGerald Ash Mountain Orenda Books, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193287 Single mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A devastating, disaster-noir thriller from the author of The Cry.
Rebecca Fleet The Second Wife Doubleday, 5th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780857525499 In this menacing thriller, Fleet gives us a suspense- ful and emotionally devastating portrait of a family in turmoil.
Jack Flynn Blood in the Water Macmillan, 6th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781447298298 Boston thriller with international terrorism at its core and a family at its heart.
Lucy Foley The Guest List
HarperFiction, 20th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008297169 On a remote island, guests gather for the wedding of the year in a new murder mystery from the bestselling author of The Hunting Party.
Sara Foster You Don’t Know Me Legend Press, 18th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789559774 Lizzie was 18 when she vanished. Noah has never forgotten her: she was his first crush. She was also his brother’s girlfriend.
Christopher Fowler Bryant & May— The Lonely Hour Bantam Books, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857504081 Cunning killer goes about his grim work and it falls to detectives Arthur Bryant and John May to find the method in his madness.
Christopher Fowler Bryant & May— Oranges and Lemons Doubleday, 11th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857525703 Detectives Bryant and May, assisted by the Pecu- liar Crimes Unit, return to break rules, infuri- ate officialdom and just maybe, catch the criminal in this hugely entertain- ing new investigation.
Felix Francis Guilty Not Guilty Simon & Schuster, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471173196 Accused of the violent murder of his beloved wife, can Bill prove the identity of the true culprit before he becomes the next victim?
Jenny Francis The Final Straw Matador, 28th April, pb, £8.99, 9781838592974 A prisoner found hanging in his cell after serving over twenty years of a life sentence draws Detective Inspector Charlie Moon into the investigation of a 1970s murder.
Caz Frear Shed No Tears Zaffre Publishing, 23rd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785765698 Four victims, killer caught, case closed. Or is it? Suspense from the bestselling author of Sweet Little Lies.
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Te Lucian Wing Castle Freeman Vol 2: Old Number Five Farrago, 20th February, pb,
eb, £8.99, 9781788422475 Lucian Wing is an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his patch of the countryside with patience, tact and humour. Children of the Valley 19th March,
9781788422499 Sheriff Lucian Wing comes to the aid of two runaways as they are hunted by a shadowy New York lawyer and his hired thugs.
Castle Freeman Go With Me Farrago, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788422598 Somewhere in backwoods Vermont, a young woman refuses to back down in the face of threats from a violent local villain. Now a film starring Anthony Hopkins.
Nicci French The Lying Room Simon & Schuster, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471179266 Neve is a trusted colleague, friend, mother and wife. But a single mistake puts everyone around her in immense danger.
Jeremy Front, Simon Brett Charles Paris: A Doubtful Death BBC Digital Audio, 2nd July, audiobook, £9, 9781787535831 Bill Nighy returns as the louche actor cum amateur sleuth Charles Paris. Here, Paris is appearing in Hamlet when the actress playing Ophelia appar- ently commits suicide.
Eric Stanley Gardner Shills Can’t Cash Chips Hard Case Crime, 23rd June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785656361 From Erle Stanley Gard- ner—the American giant behind Perry Mason— comes a lost classic of detective fiction featur- ing private eyes Donald Lam and Bertha Cool.
Frank Gardner Outbreak Bantam Press, 11th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781787632387 MI6 operative Luke Carlton returns to the fray in Gardner’s third rollercoaster adventure. This time he—and the world—are facing the horrors of 21st century bio-terrorism.
Pascal Garnier, Emily Boyce (tr) A Long Way Off Gallic Books, 26th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781910477779 Final translation of
the late, great Garnier; one last chance to be entranced by the surreal, bleak landscape of his bizarrely brilliant world.
Pascal Garnier, John Banville, Emily Boyce (tr) How’s the Pain? Gallic Books, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910477922 Death is Simon’s business and now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job to do and he needs a driver.
Ryan Gattis The System Picador, 9th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509843831 From the acclaimed author of All Involved.
AL Gaylin Never Look Back Orion, 6th February, pb, £7.99, 9781409179054 Readers who liked Serial and S-Town will love this.
Sulari Gentill A Testament of Character Te Crime & Mystery Club, 21st May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857303752 In fear for his life, an American millionaire changes his will and appoints his old friend Rowland Sinclair as his executor. The latest in the Sinclair series.
Tess Gerritsen The Shape of Night Bantam Press, 9th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857504319 Haunting new standalone novel from the bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series.
David Gilman The Englishman Head of Zeus, 9th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781838931391 A British banker with a secret that could reveal MI6 intelligence sources has been seized at gunpoint in broad daylight on the streets of west London.
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Mayberry and Garrett Newt Gingrich, Pete Earley Bestselling author returns with his two most beloved thriller characters Vol 1: Collusion Broadside Books, 5th March, pb, £10.99, 9780062859990 Vol 2: Shakedown Broadside Books, 28th May, hb, £20, 9780062860194
Mario Giordano Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio John Murray, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473680609 All the irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her
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