This preview highlights titles to be published in January 2022
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Début In Northern Ireland, best
friends Keeley and Jude are teenagers who share everything: clothes, booze and secrets. So when they wake up after a New Year’s Eve party to find Keeley’s boyfriend stabbed to death beside them, they agree to share something else: the story they tell the police. But who will the story protect?
than a million copies in the author’s native France, and won the Prix Goncourt. Rights have sold in 40 territories. Following terrifying turbulence on a flight from Paris to New York, the plane mysteri- ously doubled; for every one person on board, there are now two. When it is time for the doubles to meet, they must confront their extraordinary fate.
Stephen Leather Standing Alone Hodder & Stoughton, 6th, £16.99, HB, 9781529367461 Standalone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series. A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, sell- ing his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. His bosses need him taken down: enter SAS trooper Matt Standing, a lethal killing machine who is prepared to get his hands dirty. BookScan
Simon Mason A Killing in November Riverrun, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781529415674 First in a new series set in Oxford featuring unlikely police duo DI Ryan Wilkins, who has a strong dislike of the rich and entitled, and DI Ray Wilkins, a Balliol college graduate of affluent Nigerian heritage. But the pair must co-operate to solve a mysterious murder investigation. Author Mason is a former m.d. of David Fickling Books.
and child, and a mutilated body found in a slum.
Nick Petrie The Runaway Aries, 11th, £20, HB, 9781801109109 The latest thriller to feature Iraq War veteran Peter Ash sees him help a young pregnant woman stranded on a remote Nebraska road by offering her a lift. But her angry ex-cop husband is hot on their trail. Seventh in the series.
C R Robertson The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill Hodder & Stoughton, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781529367645 Insular and friendless by choice, Grace McGill has her own business in Glasgow, deep- cleaning the houses of “Undiscovereds”: people who die alone and are not found until weeks, some- times months, later. Then one house she works in arouses her suspicions…
Hervé Le Tellier The Anomaly Michael Joseph, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780241540480 This high-concept thriller has sold more
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Jo Browning Wroe A Terrible Kindness Faber & Faber, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780571368297
campaign. Based in part on the real-life tragedy of Aberfan, it tells of 19-year- old William Lavery, a newly qualified
embalmer who volunteers his services that terrible night in 1966, an act which forces him to contem- plate his own losses. A celebration of the power of community, love and redemption, says Faber. Author Wroe is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia.
Liam McIlvanney The Heretic HarperCollins, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780008259969 Sequel to The Quaker, which won the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Glasgow, 1975, and DI Duncan McCormack has two crimes on his mind: an arson attack on a ware- house that killed a mother
Jacqui Rose The Streets Macmillan, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781529076523 “Hard-hitting” gangland thriller following a woman who is released on license after serving 12 years of a life sentence. Given a new identity by the courts, Jo Martin can pretend to be anyone, so who will she choose to be?
Hans Rosenfeldt Cry Wolf HarperCollins, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9780008464332 In the remote northern Swedish town of Haparanda, human remains are discovered
in the stomach of a dead wolf. Detective Hannah Wester makes a link to a bloody drug deal across the border in Finland—but where are the drugs and money now? From the creator of “The Bridge” and one half of crime- writing duo Hjorth & Rosenfeldt.
Jacqueline Roy The Gosling Girl S&S Adult Fiction, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781398504219 Michelle has just been released from prison, known as the Black girl who murdered a little white girl—and evil incar- nate, according to the media. When a new friend is found dead in Michelle’s flat, she is brought in for questioning by Natalie Tyler, a senior Black police officer who feels a compli- cated need to protect her.
Box” and “A Quiet Place”, reckons Sphere.
Brad Taylor End of Days Aries, 6th, £20, HB, 9781838937799 When the former head of Israeli intelligence is killed on a paragliding trip, Mossad’s terrorist hunters need to find out who was behind the attack. So they call Pike Logan. The 16th in the Taskforce series.
Rebecca Tope The Threlkeld Theory Allison & Busby, 20th, £19.99, HB, 9780749028510 After a wedding in the pretty village of Threlkeld, a young man is found mysteriously injured nearby. An accident, or something more sinister? The 11th in the Lake District Mysteries series.
young woman is brutally attacked.
Alafair Burke The Girl She Was Faber & Faber, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9780571345595 Fourteen years ago, the woman who calls herself Hope Miller was found thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no memory and no clues to her identity. She built a life but now she is miss- ing, and the only lead is a strange connection to an infamous murderer in Kansas. BookScan
Mandy Byatt Just Another Liar Avon, 20th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008459918 Denise is falling for David online, but after weeks of texts and calls, they still haven’t met. Then she discovers he is doing the same thing to two other women. Why are they all being targeted by the same man? And who is he really?
Marie Rutkoski Real Easy Tinder Press, 18th, £18.99, HB, 9781472277480
Début First novel for adults from the
YA author is billed as a feminist crime novel set in a Midwestern strip club where Samantha has danced for years. One night, she gives a new dancer a lift home, but their car is run off the road. When the police arrive, they find only one body.
Trevor Wood Dead End Street Quercus, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781529414783 Third and final part of the Newcastle-set crime series featuring PTSD-suffering veteran turned sleuth Jimmy Mullen. It follows The Man on the Street, winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger, and One Way Street. When his mate Gadge is set up for murder after confronting vigilantes, Mullen tries to help. Quercus plans a local publicity campaign.
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Inga Simpson The Last Woman in the World Sphere, 27th, £14.99, HB, 9780751578584 A “literary horror thriller” set in the Australian bush, where recluse Rachel answers the door one night to Hannah and her baby, who are running for their lives from a mysteri- ous death sweeping the Australian countryside. One for fans of “Bird
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Juneau Black Shady Hollow Hodder Paperbacks, 27th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529399547 Agatha Christie meets Beatrix Potter is the pitch for this cosy crime series set in Shady Hollow, where the animals live happily side by side, until a toad is found murdered. Reporter Vera Vixen (a fox) catches the scent of a story and investigates…
Helen Bridgett One by One Choc Lit, 18th, £8.99, PBO, 9781912550432 An academic who lectures on criminology and hosts the podcast “Criminal Thoughts” is forced into action when a
Anders de la Motte Dead of Winter Zaffre, 6th, £8.99, PBO, 9781785769467 Laura inherits her aunt Hedda’s cabin in southern Sweden after Hedda’s death. It was the scene of a tragic Christmas fire that killed Laura’s best friend back in 1987. Now she learns her aunt may have discovered some- thing about that fateful night, not long before she died.
Mari Hannah Her Last Request Orion, 20th, £7.99, PBO, 9781409192459 DCI Kate Daniels finds a note from the victim concealed at a crime scene with the instruc- tion: Find Aaron. But is Kate searching for a potential second victim, or a killer? Follow-up to Without a Trace, which won the Capital Crime International Crime Writing Festival’s Book of the Year.
Debbie Howells The Secret
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