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horror of everyday life for the Black community in the American South of the Jim Crow era. Exploring racism and the human toll of activism, they take you behind headlines and restore a lost star of Black literature to the canon. Oliver was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident in 1966, aged just 22. BookScan
Crime & thriller
Martine Bailey Sharp Scratch Allison & Busby, 22nd, £16.99, hb, 9780749030841 A killer roams Salford Memorial Hospital in this “chilling” new contempo- rary crime series from a historical novelist, which draws on the author’s time working for the NHS.
Cory Doctorow The Bezzle Ad Astra, 1st, £20, hb, 9781804547793 The second book in the Marty Hench series sees Silicon Valley’s top foren- sic accountant delve into California’s Department of Corrections, a lucrative playground for the state’s tycoons. This seething rebuke of the privatised prison system exposes the financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, says Ad Astra.
Tina Baker What We Did In The Storm Viper, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781800811843 From the author of Call Me Mummy and Nasty Little Cuts comes an ensemble thriller exploring class, wealth and the
Literary Madeleine Gray
Green Dot W&N, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9781399612760
misguided love affair between a 20-something in her first office job and a married senior colleague. Drenched
in existential angst and millennial ennui, it is an age-old tale of power and obsession for readers of Naoise Dolan and Imogen Crimp. Early fans include Meg Howrey, Elizabeth Day, Lucie Whitehouse and Caitlin Moran, who says, “every sentence spar- kles.” A writer from Sydney, Gray is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester.
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Nicci French Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 29th, £18.99, hb, 9781398524088 A true-crime podcast investigating the disap- pearance of a mother reawakens an East Anglian village’s buried secrets, in the latest thriller from the husband- and-wife writing team. BookScan
James Henry The Winter Visitor riverrun, 1st, £20, hb, 9781529431735 A wanted drug smuggler
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abuse of power, set on the Scilly Isle of Tresco—a beautiful island populated by wealthy holidaymakers and the staff who work all hours to keep them happy. BookScan
returns to his old Essex haunts, only to be sent to a watery grave in this police procedural set in the early 1990s, from the author of the DI Nick Lowry series.
William Hussey Jericho’s Dead Zaffre, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9781804181614 The second novel in the Scott Jericho series, featuring crime fiction’s first Traveller detective on the trail of a serial killer targeting psychics, palm readers and fortune tellers.
Dorothy Koomson Every Smile You Fake Headline Review, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781472298102 A therapist is anony- mously asked to take care of a baby, then tries to track down his influencer mother, in the latest thriller from the author of The Ice Cream Girls. BookScan
T M Logan The Dream Home Zaffre, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9781804181324 The new novel from the author of The Holiday and The Catch, both adapted for TV, is about a family who discover a secret room in their new house, and soon find themselves in terrible danger. BookScan
Jahmal Mayfield Smoke Kings Melville House, 8th, £16.99, tpb, 9781685891114
Début In this “explo- sive” revenge
thriller, a young Black political activist’s cousin is
killed, so he leads three grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descen- dants of perpetrators of historic hate crimes. It explores decades of racial tensions and what it means to pursue justice in the context of a broken system, says Melville House.
OTT cast of characters”, says Ellery Lloyd.
memory loss who must defend a client at trial on a remote island.
Orlando Murrin Knife Skills for Beginners Bantam, 15th, £14.99, hb, 9781787636811
Début This cosy locked- room mystery
Alex Michaelides The Fury Michael Joseph, 1st, £18.99, hb, 9780241575536 The author of the brilliant The Silent Patient and The Maidens is back with another twisty thriller, in which a reclu- sive movie star invites her intimate circle to her private Greek island and, within 48 hours, one is dead. A “huge” marketing and PR campaign is in the pipeline. BookScan
C L Miller
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder Macmillan, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9781035021802
Début In this new cosy crime series, a
woman’s estranged mentor, an antiques dealer, dies leaving her a mysterious letter. She follows the trail to an “antiques enthusiasts’ weekend” where the furni- ture is as suspect as its vendors. “‘Antiques Roadshow’ meets Miss Marple with a deliciously
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Début Weidenfeld is aquiver with excitement about this superlead début, the sharply narrated story of a
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Ela Lee Jaded Harvill Secker, 8th, £16.99, hb, 9781787303669
with a culinary twist is the first in a new series intro- ducing chef Paul Delamare. Murrin is a “MasterChef” semi-finalist whose six cookbooks’ combined sales total more than 800,000 copies. Bantam is whipping up an “unmissable” campaign, including advertising, influencer outreach and bookshop visits.
James Patterson Crosshairs Century, 1st, £20, hb, 9781529136432 The 16th thriller in the bestselling Michael Bennett series finds the detective on the hunt for a deadly New York sniper. This month Patterson is also releasing The 24th Hour, a new instalment in the Women’s Murder Club series. BookScan
L J Shepherd The Trials of Lila Dalton Pushkin Vertigo, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9781782279853
Début ”Shutter Island” meets The Seven
Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in this specula- tive courtroom thriller about a barrister with
Rosemary Shrager Too Many Cooks Constable, 15th, £22, hb, 9781472135414 Book three in the Prudence Bulstrode cosy crime series unfolds in a Cornish girls’ boarding school. The author’s TV appearances include “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!”, Netflix’s “Best Leftovers Ever!” and “Cooking with the Stars”.
Tracy Sierra Nightwatching Viking, 8th, £14.99, hb, 9780241639863
Début A “heart-grip- ping” thriller
about a woman at home alone with her young chil- dren who hears an intruder in the night. Viking is positioning it as “the next word-of-mouth thriller”. Film rights have been optioned.
L D Smithson The Escape Room Bantam, 29th, £14.99, hb, 9780857504807 “Squid Game” meets “The Traitors” in this début thriller about a reality TV show that turns deadly in a remote sea fort off the coast of England.
Benjamin Stevenson Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect
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Début Vintage’s “sharp and honest” divisional lead début will have a “huge, market-leading campaign” and
will appeal to fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age. Jade is a high-achieving child of immigrants who has done all that is expected of her—
become a lawyer, settled down, made her parents proud—until one night unravels her world, leaving her wondering who she truly is. “A thoughtful, hard- hitting exploration of race, identity and the rippling effects of sexual assault”, says Cecile Pin. The author is a British-Korean-Turkish, second-genera- tion immigrant and former lawyer who will be key to the campaign, says Harvill Secker.
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