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Colours of Death. When a woman’s body is found in a river just outside Lisbon, Inspectors Isabel Reis and Aleksandr Voronov discover she has connec- tions to a number of miss- ing women, all Gifted.


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island owned by a million- aire philanthropist, where his fiancée Cara has been living for the past six months. Except she’s called off their engage- ment. When Ben finally arrives at the island, he gets a terrible shock… Will be supported with an “extensive” marketing and PR campaign. BookScan


Julie Mayhew Little Nothings Raven Books, 12th, £12.99, HB, 9781526606341 Liv was once best friends with fellow first-time mums Beth and Binnie, but since the arrival of glamorous Ange, Liv is feeling edged out. Now the four families are going on holiday to Corfu together, and things will take a dark turn…


Adrian McKinty The Island Orion, 26th, £12.99, HB, 9781409189633 Latest high-concept thriller from the award- winning author of The Chain. You should not have come to the island; you should not have been speeding; you should not have tried to hide the body; you should not have told your children that you could keep them safe… BookScan


Dervla McTiernan The Murder Rule HarperFiction, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9780008407971 Standalone thriller from the author of the Cormac Reilly series. A young, idealistic law student appears to be working hard to save an innocent man on Death Row. But her actual plan: to bury him.


J B Mylet The Homes Viper, 26th, £12.99, HB, 9781788167048 Based on the author’s own mother’s experi- ence of growing up in the infamous Quarriers Homes in 1960s Scotland, this follows 12-year-old Lesley and her best friend Jonesy, who investigate when a child is found murdered at The Homes, a village of unwanted children on the outskirts of Glasgow.


Richard O’Rawe Goering’s Gold Melville House, 26th, £14.99, TPB, 9781612199658 Second thriller from the former IRA operative O’Rawe follows Northern Heist and sees ex-IRA soldier James “Ructions” O’Hare on the hunt for a huge stash of gold bullion rumoured to be hidden in Ireland during the Second World War. Also searching are some modern day- Nazis and the IRA.


Sara Paretsky Overboard Hodder & Stoughton, 5th, £18.99, HB, 9781529354324 On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V I Warshawski discov- ers a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks by Lake Michigan. The girl is taken to hospital, but vanishes before anyone can uncover her identity. This is the 21st in the series.


22nd book in as many years from the power- house that is Adele Parks. Excitingly both Just My Luck and Lies, Lies, Lies have just been optioned for TV in conjunction with Netflix. BookScan 


Shelby Van Pelt Remarkably Bright Creatures Bloomsbury, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781526649645


Début Billed as a “feel-good


family mystery” this features a brilliant octopus, Marcellus, held captive at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, who forms a friendship with one of the cleaning ladies, and deduces a way to help her find out what happened to her missing son.


Valerie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle (trans) Three Europa Editions, 5th, £13.99, TPB, 9781787703766 In 1986, Adrien, Etienne and Nina are all 10 years old and inseparable. In 2017, a dead body is pulled from a car at the bottom of a lake. A local journalist follows the case, but how is the car wreck connected to their story? Why did their friendship fall apart?


Nora Roberts Nightwork Piatkus, 24th, £20, HB, 9780349430225 Romantic suspense. A skilled thief is strong- armed into robbing a Baltimore museum by a ruthless predator, forcing him to abandon his new love with no explanation. Author Roberts sells over one million books every year in the UK alone, according to the publisher. BookScan


Sascha Rothchild Blood Sugar Trapeze, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781398705609


Début Patricia Highsmith for the


Andrew Hunter Murray The Sanctuary Hutchinson Heinemann, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781529151572 Second high-concept thriller from the author of The Last Day tells of Ben, who travels to a remote


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Adele Parks One Last Secret HQ, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9780008395636 Nothing on the plot at time of writing but this domestic thriller is the


Netflix generation is the pitch for this début from screenwriter Rothschild (“The Bold Type”, “Glow”). Ruby is in an interrogation room accused of four murders. She’s only guilty of three, but it might be the crime she didn’t commit that will finally ensnare her…


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Vanessa Savage The Night They Vanished Sphere, 5th, £19.99, HB, 9780751583427 Hanna is estranged from her family but while browsing a true-crime website she sees her family home listed as the scene of a brutal murder. Number of victims: three. Date of crime: today. But when the police investigate they find no bodies, just an abandoned house… BookScan


Zaffre, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9781838777265 SAS warrant officer Jamie “Georgie” Carver leads a team on a deadly mission to capture missing Iranian general Omid Hardani, who is hiding somewhere in the remote wilderness in Afghanistan. British reporter Rebecca Pugh has been kidnapped in Tehran, and her captors will only release her in exchange for Hardani. BookScan


on a case with links back to the past.


and a mother whose brutal murder, years earlier, opened up hidden faultlines beneath the ordinary surface of their family life.


Jo Spain The Last to Disappear Quercus, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781529412116 Alex travels to Northern Lapland when the body of his sister Vicky, who was working as a tour guide, is pulled from an icy lake. Agatha Koskinen is the detective in charge, and she thinks there is more to Vicky’s death than an accidental drowning. From the author of The Perfect Lie. BookScan


James Swallow Airside Welbeck Fiction, 26th, £12.99, HB, 9781802790344 A businessman facing bankruptcy is bumped off the last plane home from Germany. Airside and waiting for the next flight, he stumbles on a bag of money that could solve all his problems… BookScan


G W Shaw Dead Rich Riverrun, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781529420029 When Kai is invited by his girlfriend to join her family on a Caribbean holiday, he discovers she is the daughter of a Russian oligarch, and the holiday is on board a superyacht. It transpires that a murderous impostor lurks amid the staff of the “Zinaida”, but who is it?


Yrsa Sigurdardottir The Fallout Hodder & Stoughton, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9781473693531 In Reykjavík, a baby goes missing from her pram and later her mother is found dead. Eleven years later Detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja will find themselves working


Russ Thomas Cold Reckoning S&S Adult Fiction, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781398507500 When a body is discov- ered in a frozen lake, its wrists bound, and is linked to a case from 2002, DS Adam Tyler and DC Rabbani are called in. But fresh blood is then discovered at the scene… Third in the series follows Firewatching and Nighthawking.


Kiersten White Hide Del Rey, 24th, £14.99, HB, 9781529150230 First adult novel from the YA writer is one for fans of Netflix’s “Squid Game,” says Del Rey, as it concerns a challenge in an abandoned amusement park: hide for a week, don’t get caught and win a life-changing sum of money. But Mack soon realises that this competi- tion is more sinister than she ever imagined…


Tracy Whitwell The Accidental Medium Macmillan, 26th, £20, HB, 9781529087512


Début Former TV actress Tanz


takes a job in a New Age shop, and discovers that the voices she has been hearing in her head are actually real, rather than the first sign of madness. With the help of the dead, she’s about to become an unwilling solver of crimes…


Soon Wiley When We Fell Apart S&S Adult Fiction, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781398501737


Début When the Seoul police informs


Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has taken her own life, he throws himself into finding out why she could have secretly wanted to die. Or did she? With a controlling government official father, Min discov- ers that Yu-jin’s life was much more complex than she chose to reveal.


Liz Webb The Daughter Allison & Busby, 19th, £19.99, HB, 9780749028756


Début A “superlead” for Allison &


Busby, this tells of a woman with a dementia- stricken father, an estranged TV star brother,


Glenda Young Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel Headline, 12th, £21.99, HB, 9781472285683 Second in the cosy crime Scarborough-set series (Murder at the Seaview Hotel) featuring amateur sleuth Helen Dexter and her trusty greyhound Suki. Author Young is also known for her Sunderland-set sagas.


Kjell Ola Dahl, Don Bartlett (trans) Little Drummer Orenda Books, 26th, £8.99, PBO, 9781914585128 When a woman is found


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