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Nora Roberts The Best Mistake Severn House, 31st March, hb, eb, £20.99, 9780727889270 Ex-model Zoe Fleming is now a hardworking single mum who doesn’t have time to find a man. Is the man of her dreams right under her nose?
Craig Robertson Watch Him Die Simon & Schuster, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471165368 Two killers, one motive and only one chance to catch them.
Peter Robinson Many Rivers to Cross Hodder Paperback, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781444787009 The twenty-sixth instal- ment of the internation- ally bestselling DCI Banks series gives Banks and Annie a homegrown case.
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Inspector Banks Peter Robinson Vol 10: In a Dry Season Pan, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509859948 A village that no longer exists holds the key for Banks in the series which became a major British ITV drama. Vol 11: Cold is the Grave 9781509859955 Banks must race to find Chief Constable Riddle’s missing daughter. Vol 12: Aftermath 9781509859962 The spectacular 12th novel in the series.
James Rollins The Last Odyssey William Morrow, 2nd April, hb, £20, 9780062892898 Latest instalment in the Sigma Force series, which blends cutting- edge science, historical mystery and action.
Anders Roslund, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Boerge Hellstroem Three Hours riverrun, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784295394 New Grens-Hoffmann thriller and the third in the trilogy that began with Three Seconds.
LJ Ross Bedlam Whole Story Audiobooks, 10th February, audiobook, £17.01, 9781528882248 In a world gone mad, who can you trust? Criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory travels to New York for his third case.
Kristen Roupenian Cat Person and Other Stories Vintage, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784709204 From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes a compul- sive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you.
Emma Rowley You Can Trust Me Orion, 14th April, pb, £14.99, 9781409175810 Psychological thriller about a ghostwriter tasked with writing the autobiography of a woman desperate to bury a deadly secret.
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Inspector Andy Horton Pauline Rowson Vol 11: Shroud of Evil Fathom, 8th April, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781916091511 Fathom, 8th April, download, £4.60, 9781916091528 When a private investiga- tor’s body is discovered wrapped in a sail cloth on a private Isle of Wight shore DI Andy Horton is sent to investigate. Vol 12: Fatal Catch pb, eb, £6.99, 9781916091535 download, eb, £4.60, 9781916091542 Two fishermen haul a gruesome catch: a human hand. DI Horton becomes immersed in a complex case where everyone has a reason to lie and no one is who they seem.
Leigh Russell Deadly Revenge No Exit Press, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857303059 To everyone else, the case seems clear cut but Geral- dine can’t shake off her suspicion that there’s more going on. And then a body is found. Latest in the DI Geraldine Steel series.
Chris Ryan Black Ops Coronet Books, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473668102 Seventh book in the bestselling Danny Black series.
Chris Ryan Circle of Death Coronet Books, 19th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529324853 Fifth book in the Strike Back series by an SAS hero.
Catherine Ryan Howard Rewind Corvus, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786496584 Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive
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story about a twisted voyeur and a terrible crime from the bestselling author of Distress Signals and The Liar’s Girl.
Sadie Ryan
Behind Closed Doors Ruby Fiction, 11th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781912550241 Simmering sense of dread dominates this début thriller. Highly recommended.
Brandon Sanderson Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds Gollancz, 25th June, pb, £8.99, 9781473230095 The complete tales of the mysterious Stephen Leeds.
Andrzej Sapkowski The Tower of Fools Gollancz, 16th July, hb, £18.99, 9781473226128 New trilogy from the author of the legendary Witcher series.
Kate Saunders Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar Bloomsbury, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781408866900 MC Beaton meets Miss Marple in the second book in the charming Laetitia Rodd Mysteries, centred on a Victorian lady detective.
Simon Scarrow Traitors of Rome Headline Book Publishing, 19th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781472258410 Roman army officers Centurion Marco and Tribune Cato confront treachery in the ranks in the thrilling new adventure from the bestselling author of The Blood of Rome.
Mi-ae Seo
The Only Child Point Blank, 6th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781786078551 Shockingly unnerving psychological thriller from a bestselling Korean author.
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British Library Crime Classics Peter Shaffer Vol 80: The Woman in the Wardrobe British Library Publishing, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712353465 A self-professed “light- hearted detective story” from the pen of the man who would go on to write the award-winning Amadeus and Equus. Witty and playful with stage-worthy dialogue.
Nicholas Shakespeare The Sandpit Harvill Secker, 21st May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787301764 Sophisticated literary thriller set in Oxford in the vein of John Le Carré, William Boyd and Robert Harris.
LC Shaw The Network Harper, 6th February, pb, £12.99, 9780062950901 Pulse-pounding thriller involving corruption, secrets and lies at the deepest levels of government and media.
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DS Cupidi William Shaw Latest in the Kent-set series from the author of The Birdwatcher and Salt Lane. Grave’s End riverrun, 14th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529401806 Deadland riverrun, 6th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781786486639
Mel Sherratt Liar Liar Avon, 19th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008368067 Pacy thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Will Shindler The Burning Men Hodder & Stoughton, 6th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529301694 First in a procedural series from a new voice in British crime writing.
Samantha Shiye A Trade in Tears Matador, 28th February, pb, £10.99, 9781838592257 Morag has it all. A happy- go-lucky, free-spirited student and martial arts enthusiast, she’s on top of the world until she finds Cindy beaten and bloodied in the graveyard.
James Siegel Safe Century, 11th June, hb, £12.99, 9781529124668 Compelling thriller about a six-year old girl who disappears in small- town America, only to reappear 12 years later.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir Gallows Rock Hodder & Stoughton, 30th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473693395 A banker hanged from Gallows Rock and an unknown child discovered in his flat. Iceland’s queen of crime is back with a murder mystery featur- ing Freyja and Huldar.
Nalini Singh Wolf Rain Gollancz, 20th February, pb, £8.99, 9781473228085 The fate of millions of lives hangs in the balance in this new Psy-Changeling Trinity novel from Singh.
Douglas Skelton The Blood is Still Birlinn, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781846975301 Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns in this follow-up to the McIlvanney-longlisted Thunder Bay. Thrill- ing murder-mystery infused with political tension and intrigue.
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The Alibi Girl HQ, 1st February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008311391 Joanne Haynes has a secret: her name is not Joanne Haynes.
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Will Trent Karin Slaughter More adventures with Will Trent and Sara Linton. Vol 9: The Last Widow HarperFiction, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008303426 Vol 10: The Silent Wife HarperFiction, 11th June, hb, eb, £20, 9780008303440
Anna Smith End Game Quercus Publishing, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787474000 The white-knuckle follow- up to Fight Back.
Eve Smith The Waiting Rooms Orenda Books, 9th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193263 One woman’s hunt for her birth mother in an all-too- believable near future in which an antibiotic crisis has decimated the popu- lation. Prescient debut.
Michael Farris Smith Blackwood No Exit Press, 19th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780857303905 From CWA Gold Dagger- longlisted author, a propulsive, lyrical story of a tortured young man.
Wilbur Smith, Corban Addison Call of the Raven Zaffre Publishing, 16th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781785767944 Global bestseller and the prequel to A Falcon Flies.
Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper Ghost Fire Zaffre Publishing, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785769436 New Courtney novel; an epic story of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage.
Susie Steiner Remain Silent Borough Press, 28th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008273798 When the body of a migrant is found hanging from a tree, DI Manon Bradshaw heads up the murder investigation.
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Jesper Stein Die for Me Mirror Books, June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912624195 Multiple women fall victim to a depraved predator and DI Axel Steen is determined to hunt the man down. A raw psychological thriller from an award-winning master of crime storytelling.
Jo Spain After the Fire Quercus Publishing, 25th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529400304 Latest Tom Reynolds mystery from author of With Our Blessing.
Jo Spain The Boy Who Fell Quercus Publishing, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787474369 A boy is found raped and murdered inside an abandoned house. Another Tom Reynolds mystery.
Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (tr) Fallen Angels Orenda Books, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193065 Ever-dogged Bergen PI Varg Veum digs deep into his own past as he investigates the murder of a former classmate. Eighth in a series of Nordic noir thrillers.
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