BOOKS


Avon, 6th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008400194 As the only teenagers in a small village, Hollie and Niamh tell each other everything. So Hollie tells Niamh about a devastat- ing discovery, swears her to secrecy and then disappears. When her body is found, it means someone is prepared to kill to keep that secret. From the author of The Bones of You, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.


Darynda Jones A Hard Day for a Hangover Piatkus, 20th, £9.99, PBO, 9780349427218 Nothing on the plot but this is the third in the paranormal romance series featuring sheriff Sunshine Vicram (A Bad Day for Sunshine; A Good Day for Chardonnay).


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days earlier. In 2010, the remains of the eldest Chamberlain child are discovered, and it’s clear he lived for four years after the family disappeared. How did he survive, and then die? And where is the rest of the family?


Willa C Richards The Comfort of Monsters Point Blank, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9780861543540


Début In the summer of 1991, teenager


Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly 30 years later, her sister Peg is still haunted by her disappearance, so hires a psychic and is plunged back into the past. Digging deep in her memory raises terrifying questions. One for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn, says Oneworld.


Anna Legat At Death’s Door Headline Accent, 6th, £9.99, PBO, 9781786159946 Second in the Wiltshire- set cosy crime Shires Mysteries series. When Maggie and Sam join the Bishops Well archaeo- logical dig, they are as surprised as anyone to unearth a body that is definitely not the remains of an ancient Celt.


Steven Maxwell All Was Lost Pushkin Vertigo, 27th, £8.99, PBO, 9781782277651


Début Orla finds a case of money on the


Yorkshire moors and decides to run away with it, taking her husband and baby in search of a better life. Meanwhile, two detec- tives are investigating the carnage of a botched human-trafficking deal at an isolated shooting lodge. There are two piles of bullet-ridden bodies, but no money…


Carl Nixon The Tally Stick World Editions, 20th, £12.99, PBO, 9781912987252 On 4th April 1978, the English Chamberlain family vanishes into thin air, having only arrived in New Zealand five


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Leigh Russell Guilt Edged No Exit Press, 20th, £9.99, PBO, 9780857304773 DI Geraldine Steel releases a murder suspect after a witness gives the man an alibi. That night, a second murder is committed, and the evidence points to the suspect who has just been released. Then he goes on the run. This is the 17th in the series. BookScan


faces a complex investiga- tion when a man is found drowned in a swimming pool, a young woman disappears and the eight- year-old cold case of a missing girl is revived.


Matt Wesolowski Demon Orenda Books, 21st, £8.99, PBO, 9781913193980 Scott King’s “Six Stories” podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of demonic possession in rural Yorkshire, where a 12-year- old Sidney Parsons was murdered by two boys his own age. But as his podcast begins to air, King becomes a target. Could whatever drove those boys to kill still be there?


Zaffre, 20th, £12.99, HB, 9781838777654 Sequel to A Prince and a Spy. Germany, 1945. The war is over but rumours abound that Adolf Hitler did not actually kill himself in his Berlin bunker. Enter Tom Wilde, Cambridge professor and spy, to find out the truth. Clements is the “master of the wartime spy thriller”, says the FT. BookScan


Jim Eldridge Murder at the National Gallery Allison & Busby, 20th, £19.99, HB, 9780749027339 Seventh in the Museum Mysteries series. London, 1899. Detectives Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are summoned when the artist Walter Sickert is arrested for the murder of a young woman who has posed for him.


Nicola White The Burning Boy Viper, 27th, £8.99, PBO, 9781788164146 Sequel to The Rosary Garden (“a terrific new gem of Irish noir,” said the Sunday Times). Dublin, 1986. The murder of an off-duty policeman in a notorious gay cruising ground means detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine must uncover the dead man’s lovers and friends. But Gina has a secret, which means she is withholding vital evidence.


Hansjoerg Schneider & Mike Mitchell (trans) Silver Pebbles Bitter Lemon Press, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9781913394622 Prequel to The Basel Killings. When a Lebanese drugs mule carrying stolen diamonds in his bag manages to flush them down the toilet at Basel train station before he is arrested, it triggers a hunt for the stones involving a Turkish sewage worker, his older Swiss girlfriend, Inspector Peter Hunkeler and the panicking courier himself.


Gunnar Staalesen & Don Bartlett (trans) Bitter Flowers Orenda Books, 21st, £8.99, PBO, 9781913193089 Fresh from rehab, Norwegian PI Varg Veum


Historical crime & thriller


Philip Gray Two Storm Wood Harvill Secker, 13th, £14.99, HB, 9781787302617 Historical thriller set in 1919. Captain Mackenzie remains on the First World War battlefield to see that his fallen comrades are laid to rest, but then makes a gruesome discov- ery beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.


Tom Hindle A Fatal Crossing Century, 20th, £12.99, HB, 9781529135695


Début A fresh take on the classic


locked-room mystery, says Century, of this 1920s début set on an ocean liner bound for New York. When an elderly gentleman is found dead at the foot of a staircase, the ship’s officer is keen to declare it a tragic accident. But another passenger, a Scotland Yard inspector, is not so sure…


Simon Brett Blotto, Twinks and the Suspicious Guests Constable, 13th, £20.99, HB, 9781472133922 Appalled by the Earl of Woking’s behaviour (rent- ing out part of his stately home to paying guests), the aristocratic sleuthing duo are determined to find out more about the Earl’s nefarious activities.


Rory Clements The Man in the Bunker


W C Ryan The Winter Guest Zaffre, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781838771508 Ireland, 1921. IRA intel- ligence officer Captain Tom Harkin investigates when his former fiancée Maud is killed outside her aristocratic father’s Kilcolgan house. He finds the once-grand house half-empty and filled with ghosts, both real and imagined. From the author of A House of Ghosts. BookScan


Dana Stabenow Disappearance of a Scribe Aries, 18th, £18.99, HB, 9781800249776 Second in the trilogy of Ancient Egyptian crime novels that began with Death of an Eye. When two Alexandrian fisher- men discover a skeleton anchored to the sea bed, Queen Cleopatra charges Tetisheri, her new Eye of Isis, with the investigation.


Faith Martin A Fatal Night HQ Digital, 20th, £8.99, PBO, 9780008410520 Oxford, 1962. After a New Year’s Eve party, it appears a guest froze to death overnight after crashing into a snowdrift. But every guest has a different story, and soon WPC Trudy Loveday and coroner Clement Ryder discover a tangled web of secrets that plainly points to murder. BookScan


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Charlotte Betts Letting in the Light Piatkus, 13th, £13.99, TPB, 9780349423036 Cornwall, 1914. Now that her children are nearly adults, painter Edith Fairchild is planning a future with Pascal, her faithful lover of 20 years, when her husband Benedict, who deserted her when the children were babies, makes an unwelcome reappearance. Final part of the Spindrift trilogy follows The Light Within Us and The Fading of the Light. BookScan


Te Borough Press, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9780008491451


Début Set in Brooklyn, 1948, this début


explores the tangled fates of Sofia and Antonia, best friends since birth as their fathers are part of “the Family”. Until Antonia’s father tries to escape and pays the ultimate price— and the friendship is changed forever.


Kerri Maher The Paris Library Headline Review, 11th, £16.99, HB, 9781472290762


Début Paris, 1919. Sylvia Beach


opens an English language bookshop on Paris’s bohe- mian Left Bank and Shakespeare & Co becomes a second home to the leading writers of the day, including James Joyce. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses.


Sarah Maine The Awakenings Hodder & Stoughton, 6th, £16.99, HB, 9781529385113 Yorkshire, 1890. Having lost her father and brothers in tragic circum- stances, Olwen Malkon moves in with her uncle’s family in a chilly vicarage, and starts to dream about a woman named Ælfwyn, who lived in the ninth century.


Joanna Hickson The Queen’s Lady HarperCollins, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780008305628 Second in the Queens of the Tower series. After the sudden death of Arthur, Prince of Wales, following his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, Joan Vaux is pulled into the heart of the crisis engulfing the Tudor court.


Naomi Krupitsky The Family


Anna Mazzola The Clockwork Girl Orion, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781398703780 In pre-Revolutionary Paris, 1750, a new maid arrives at the house of a celebrated clockmaker and his clever daughter. There are rumours that dark things lie behind his extraordinary clockwork creations, and children are disappearing from the streets of Paris. A gothic mystery with rollicking twists, says Orion. From the author of The Unseen.


Nathaniel Ian Miller The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven John Murray, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781529359893


Début In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves


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