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digging into the mystery of a former client wanted for murder —but the client died three years ago. BookScan
Ben Creed Man of Bones Mountain Leopard Press, 9th, £22, hb, 9781802793123 The third Revol Rossel thriller set in 1950s Leningrad, from the author of A City of Ghosts, which was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and New Blood Dagger.
Lloyd Devereux Richards The Runner HQ, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9780008648312 A runner realises his boss isn’t the legitimate busi- nessman he’d thought, in this thriller from the author of the Stone Maidens and Maidens of the Cave series.
Frank Gardner Invasion Bantam, 23rd, £18.99, hb, 9781787635470 The fourth instalment in the Luke Carlton series, from the BBC security correspondent. BookScan
Austin Grossman Fight Me Michael Joseph, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9780241555941 From the author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, this “love letter to superhero stories” follows a down- on-his-luck superhero whose crime-fighting days are long past. But when an old enemy resurfaces, can he and his former team put aside their differences?
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Samuel Burr The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers Orion, 9th, £16.99, hb, 9781398712300
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Hodder & Stoughton, 9th, £22, hb, 9781399730464 Hayder’s final spine- tingler stars Alex, a school coach crash survivor haunted by visions. Now a policewoman, Alex’s life starts unravelling when she meets someone who was also there that night. BookScan
Japanese-American detective Chelsey Calhoun. When a missing teenager turns up two years after disappearing, Chelsey must find out where she has been.
Vi Keeland The Unravelling Piatkus, 28th, £20, hb, 9780349438870 In the “addictive” new thriller from the TikTok- beloved contemporary romance novelist, a psychiatrist crosses all moral and ethical bound- aries as she becomes obsessed with a man who later becomes her patient.
Peter James They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy’s Story Macmillan, 23rd, £22, hb, 9781529031430 This standalone reveals the truth behind the disappearance of Sandy, the loving wife of James’ Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, in a “gripping” tale of a woman on the run. BookScan
Greg Iles
Southern Man Hemlock Press, 23rd, £22, hb, 9780008270186 Resuming Penn Cage’s story 15 years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, this timely political thriller features a mass shooting that sparks race war in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.
Emiko Jean The Next Girl Viking, 9th, £14.99, hb, 9780241675588 A new direction for the author of Mika in Real Life, this thriller launches a crime series starring
written mystery, an author touring the Amalfi Coast must investigate her ex-boyfriend’s claim that someone is trying to kill him. TV rights have been auctioned to Fox TV for series development.
John Marrs The Family Experiment Macmillan, 9th, £18.99, hb, 9781035016976 A “dark and twisted” speculative thriller about virtual babies raised on a reality TV show, set in the same universe as Marrs’ novels The One and The Marriage Act.
Camilla Lackberg The Cuckoo Hemlock Press, 23rd, £22, hb, 9780008283841 A famous photographer is found dead in his gallery, in the next instalment in the series starring Detective Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck.
Fiona McPhillips When We Were Silent Bantam, 2nd, £16.99, hb, 9781787637375 A runner-up for the 2021 CWA Début Dagger for an unpublished novel, this upmarket thriller is a major launch for Bantam. In it, a woman finally gets the chance to speak out against her élite Dublin school, exposing a culture of corruption and exploitation.
Denzil Meyrick The Estate Bantam, 9th, £14.99, hb, 9781787637191 In this standalone thriller from the author of the DCI Daley series, a killer picks off wealthy family members in a bid to inherit a billion-dollar estate. BookScan
Catherine Mack Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies Macmillan, 2nd, £16.99, hb, 9781035032068 In this pseudonymously
Abir Mukherjee Hunted Harvill Secker, 9th, £14.99, hb, 9781787302723 The award-winning author of the Wyndham and Banerjee series presents a “blistering” international
One to Watch
Acquired in an eight-way auction, this lead début is one for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and Lessons in Chemistry, says Orion. It follows Clayton Stumper, a young man raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists at the Fellowship of
Puzzlemakers. His foster mother dies, leaving a final puzzle that will allow Clayton to unlock the mystery of his parentage—but he uncovers a life- changing secret even the Fellowship have never been able to solve. Burr is a freelance TV producer whose writing was shortlisted for Penguin’s WriteNow scheme.
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Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History Fleet, 23rd, £20, hb, 9780349127057
thriller that traces the fallout from an LA bomb- ing and speaks to our polarised times, says Harvill. BookScan
everyone has secrets, some of which are fatal.
Douglas Preston Extinction Aries, 9th, £20, hb, 9781035908745 This “epic” thriller from the author of Relic explores the effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene Age. “Meaty and thought- provoking”, says Lee Child.
Olivier Norek Nick Caistor (trans) Between Two Worlds MacLehose Press, 23rd, £22, hb, 9780857059215 A standalone crime novel set in the Calais Jungle from the award- winning French author of the Capitaine Coste Investigations and a key writer on “Spiral”.
Sara Paretsky Pay Dirt Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd, £20, hb, 9781529354379 A young woman’s disap- pearance in Kansas plunges private investiga- tor V I Warshawski into an investigation involving the opioid crisis. Paretsky’s many accolades include the CWA’s Cartier Diamond Dagger Award and the Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award.
Kristina Perez The Many Lies of Veronica Hawkins Constable, 2nd, £20, hb, 9781408719015
Début Gone Girl meets Big Little Lies in
this lead thriller about an expat wife adrift in the world of Hong Kong’s super-rich, where
Tom Spencer The Mystery of the Crooked Man Pushkin Vertigo, 2nd, £16.99, hb, 9781805335108
Début A cantankerous archivist gets her
lucky break when she discovers a lost manu- script by the empress of Golden Age detective fiction—but it only brings humiliation and murder. This quirky literary puzzle mystery is one for fans of The Twyford Code, says Pushkin Vertigo.
Russell Banks American Spirits No Exit Press, 9th, £9.99, pbo, 9781915798923 Three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies, from the prize-winning author of Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift.
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Début The award-winning author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs delivers her “breakout” novel,
her most autobiographical yet. It charts the fortunes of an Algerian family torn apart by war, geography, politics and religion over
the course of three generations from 1940, as its members move between Salonica and Algeria, the US, Cuba, Canada, Argentina, Australia and France. “One of those rare novels which a reader doesn’t merely read but lives through with the charac- ters... A magnificent storyteller", says Yiyun Li.
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