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that cries out to be told,” said the LA Times.
Detective Inspector Helen Grace investigates as a crime wave without apparent motive sweeps through the city in this latest in the series.
Mark Greaney Relentless Sphere, 9th, £7.99, 9780751578478 Court Gentry, “the Gray Man”, investigates when intelligence operatives around the world go missing.
Natural history
Emma Mitchell The Wild Remedy Michael O’Mara Books, 23rd, £9.99, 9781789292909
A Sunday Times bestseller, this illustrated diary—as seen on the BBC’s “Springwatch”— records Mitchell’s nature finds over the course of a year, and shows how being in nature can help with mental and physical wellbeing. “A beautiful book that explores the seasons in elegant prose accompanied by Mitchell’s charming illustrations,” said the Sunday Telegraph. “It’s a diary of nature, but also of how it can heal.” Honestly, it’s just stunning, genuinely cheer- ing and life-affirming. I gave it as a gift to a few people in hardback, and am likely to be doing the same in paperback this year.
Felicia Yap Future Perfect Wildfire, 9th, £9.99, 9781472242266 A bomb explodes during a fashion show, killing a model on the catwalk, in this speculative literary thriller. Police Commissioner Christian Verger is out to solve the murder, but his voice assistant Alexa is 99.74% sure he will die tomorrow. “Yap is a phenomenon,” said the Guardian.
Commercial Top sellers
Arrow says that hardback sales were 10% up on Blindside.
Adele Parks Both of You HQ, 9th, £8.99, 9780008440152 DC Clements investigates when two women vanish from their loving families in a week.
Danielle Steel Neighbours Pan, 9th, £8.99, 9781529021424 Hollywood star Meredith has shut herself away in her mansion for 15 years, but when an earthquake strikes San Francisco she invites her neighbours to stay.
Literary
Rosamunde Pilcher A Place Like Home Hodder Paperbacks, 9th, £8.99, 9781529350371 A new collection of romantic short stories from the late and wonderful Pilcher, with an introduction from the late Lucinda Riley. Hodder promises an “innovative and creative” marketing campaign.
he takes a job at the library—and falls for the librarian. “Brilliant,” said the New York Times.
Brian Klingborg City of Ice Headline, 30th, £9.99, 9781472281852 The body of a young woman who has been murdered is found in a remote Chinese town. Inspector Lu Fei investigates.
Helen Cooper The Downstairs Neighbour Hodder Paperbacks, 30th, £7.99, 9781529330007
Début Three families live on different
floors of a converted Georgian townhouse in south-west London. When teenager Freya disap- pears, her parents realise that the truth about her disappearance may lie closer to home than they expected.
Karen Dionne The Wicked Sister Sphere, 30th, £7.99, 9780751567441 Rachel has locked herself in a psychiatric facility for more than a decade, believing she was responsible for her parents’ deaths. But discovering new details, she returns to the remote log cabin where she felt safest, and searches for answers.
Karen Hamilton The Ex-Husband Wildfire, 9th, £8.99, 9781472279422 Charlotte has tried to put her past life of crime behind her. But when her former partner-in-crime, her ex-husband Sam, goes missing, she realises someone is threatening to expose what they did.
Dorothy Koomson I Know What You’ve Done Headline Review, 30th, £8.99, 9781472277374 Rae finds a diary on her doorstep, filled with all her neighbours’ secrets. She decides to investigate when Priscilla, the woman who gave it to her, is murdered by someone in the diary.
Alexandra Potter Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up Pan, 9th, £8.99, 9781529022803 In a world of Instagram- perfect lives, Nell’s life is a mess. Until she starts a secret podcast and forms a friendship with an elderly widow.
Crime & thriller
James Patterson The Russian Arrow, 30th, £8.99, 9781787461871 The 13th thriller in Patterson’s series about NYPD detective Michael Bennett, this sees his wedding day approaching as New York is hit by a string of murders.
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Nancy Jooyoun Kim The Last Story of Mina Lee Headline Review, 28th, £9.99, 9781472281616 A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, this follows Mina Lee, who flees Seoul for Los Angeles in 1987, and 30 years later speaks to her mother for the last time. “Painful, joyous... A story
Ellery Adams Ink and Shadows Kensington, 28th, £12.99, 9781496726421 Nora, the bookshop owner in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, finds herself investigating a murder.
M J Arlidge Truth or Dare Orion, 9th, £8.99, 9781409188476
Janet Evanovich & Steve Hamilton The Bounty Headline Review, 7th, £9.99, 9781472260994 FBI agent Kate O’Hare and conman Nicholas Fox are up against a shadowy organisation known as the Brotherhood, in a race to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold. Latest in the series.
Robyn Gigl By Way of Sorrow Kensington, 28th, £12.99, 9781496728265 Criminal defence lawyer Erin steps in when a young, Black, transgender prostitute is accused of murdering a wealthy politician’s son.
Romy Hausmann Sleepless Quercus, 9th, £8.99, 9781529408362 Nadja wants to live a normal life after being released from prison. But one of her friends kills her lover, and begs Nadja for help. Hausmann’s début, Dear Child, was Waterstones’ paperback thriller of the month in January 2020 and has sold 65,000 copies to date. Film rights have been optioned for both titles.
Lisa Jackson Close to Home Kensington, 28th, £12.99, 9781496736888 Sarah returns with her daughters to the old Victorian mansion where she grew up in rural Oregon and discovers that teenage girls are disap- pearing from the town.
Caroline Kepnes You Love Me S&S Adult Fiction, 23rd, £8.99, 9781471191916 Latest in the You stalker thriller series sees multiple murderer Joe Goldberg move to an island in the Pacific Northwest where
Andrea Mara All Her Fault Penguin, 9th, £7.99, 9780552177986 Marissa’s young son Milo isn’t there when she arrives to pick him up from a playdate. As news of his disappearance spreads through the quiet Dublin suburb she calls home, whispers start to spread about who is to blame.
G A McKevett Murder at Mabel’s Motel Kensington, 28th, £12.99, 9781496729071 Stella “Granny” Reid investigates a murder in the southern town of McGill, Georgia. Latest in the series.
Sarah Pearse The Sanatorium Corgi, 30th, £8.99, 9780552177313
Début Detective Elin Warner
has been invited to an eerie Alpine hotel for her estranged brother’s
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