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dead in her car, Oslo detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim’s Kenyan scientist boyfriend has disappeared, and their investigations lead them into the shady world of international pharmaceu- tical deals.


Jack Carr In the Blood S&S Adult Fiction, 31st, £8.99, PBO, 9781398508255 Fifth in the James Reece series sees him hunting down the killer of a Mossad operative once attached to the CIA, a woman he thought he would never see again. Author Carr is a former US Navy SEAL. BookScan


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she was never a mother. But someone knows the truth and the clock is tick- ing… BookScan


California, but she left a dark secret behind. When her lodger Arun is murdered, and all traces of him removed from the apartment, does that mean Paloma is now in danger?


M H Eccleston The Trust Aries, 28th, £8.99, PBO, 9781803280363


Début Launches a new cosy crime series


featuring art restorer turned amateur sleuth Astrid Swift, who investi- gates when a man is found murdered in an English Trust stately home in Dorset. The English Trust turns out to be a bit like the mafia, but with scones, observes one local.


C J Cooper Lie to Me Constable, 12th, £7.99, PBO, 9781472129710 A former juror becomes concerned that a guilty man has walked free, so when she crosses paths with the accused after the court case by chance, she decides to do what- ever it takes to find out the truth. She already knows that sometimes you have to take justice into your own hands… BookScan


Jayne Cowie After Dark Penguin, 12th, £7.99, PBO, 9781529156768 Near-future thriller set in a world of Curfew law where men are kept at home after 7 p.m. But three women are still in danger: Sarah, whose husband is about to be released from prison; Cass, who disagrees with Curfew as men and women should be equal, right?; and Helen, whose desperation for a baby may be blinding her to her new boyfriend’s faults.


Kathryn Croft The Mother’s Secret Canelo, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781800325210 Eve once took the drastic decision to walk away from her husband and child, now she pretends


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Helen FitzGerald Keep Her Sweet Orenda Books, 26th, £8.99, PBO, 9781914585104 A middle-aged couple downsize and move to the countryside, only to be joined by their two twen- tysomething daughters who proceed to argue and fight. A family therapist decides the escalating violence is just sibling rivalry… but could it be a prelude to murder?


Laura Griffin Midnight Dunes Headline Eternal, 24th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472276056 Romantic thriller. TV reporter turned documen- tary maker Macy Burns is looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas. Until she realises that the cottage she is renting belonged to the woman whose body has just been found in the sand dunes.


Simon Lelic The Hiding Place Penguin, 5th, £7.99, PBO, 9780241990322 Twenty years ago, Ben Draper went missing during a game of hide and seek at boarding school. Now his body has been found, hidden in a crypt in the grounds. His former friends are now suspects, and they are some of the most power- ful people in the country. BookScan


controversial psychologi- cal experiments…


Louise Mumford The Safe House HQ Digital, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9780008480882 Esther’s mother has kept her safe in the house for 16 years, living off grid without meeting another soul. But today there’s a man outside the house, and he knows Esther’s name… BookScan


Mike Lupica Robert B Parker’s Stone’s Throw No Exit Press, 19th, £9.99, PBO, 9780857304971 The small town of Paradise is rocked by the mayor’s untimely death, so was he standing in the way of powerful men? The Jesse Stone series reaches book 20.


Simon McCleave The Dark Isle Avon, 12th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008524821 Launches a new series. Three years ago, DCI Laura Hart was the top hostage negotiator for the Greater Manchester Police. Then her husband was murdered and she moved to the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Now she receives a call: armed drug dealers have seized a local tourist boat and her 10-year-old son is on board. BookScan


Amanda Jayatissa My Sweet Girl Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529365320


Début Adopted from a Sri Lankan


orphanage, Paloma has led a privileged life in


Lesley McEvoy The Killing Song Zaffre, 12th, £8.99, PB, 9781838776558 At a busy train station, a man viciously attacks another passenger and then flees, apparently unaware of what he has just done. The police think it is a terrorist attack, but forensic psychologist Dr Jo McCready has seen this behaviour before, in


Linda Regan The Burning Question Headline Accent, 12th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472289575 DCI Banham and his partner DI Alison Grainger investigate when an arson attack in south London leaves three people dead, but there is no clear motive. Fifth in the series.


Louisa Scarr Blink of an Eye Canelo Crime, 19th, £8.99, PB, 9781800323506 On a beach on Christmas morning, five unrespon- sive people are discovered strewn across the shingle; one dies and the others are treated in hospital. When DC Freya West conducts her interviews, the survivors claim to be friends, but cannot explain how one of their group was killed. BookScan


Louise Sharland My Husband’s Secrets Avon, 26th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008403362 On the evening of their wedding anniversary, Ali and Matthew are involved in a fatal car accident on Dartmouth. Grief-stricken, Ali struggles to believe her beloved husband is gone. Months later, she starts to uncover secrets he was keeping, and wonders if somehow, somewhere, he is still alive?


P D Viner The Call Canelo Hera, 26th, £8.99, PB, 9781800328495 Hera’s “breakout” thriller for 2022 unfolds in real- time half-hour chapters as a man receives a frantic phone call from his wife in a hotel room, telling him she has killed a man and needs his help.


Kathy Wang Impostor Syndrome Verve Books, 26th, £9.99, PBO, 9780857308245 Julia Lerner is chief oper- ating officer of Tangerine, one of America’s biggest technology companies, based in Silicon Valley. She is also a Russian spy, funnelling information back to Russia’s largest intelligence agency—until lowly analyst Alice Wu discovers some unusual activity on a server. Verve plans an “extensive” marketing and publicity campaign.


Joachim B Schmidt, Jamie Lee Searle (trans) Kalmann Bitter Lemon Press, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781913394684 Kalmann Odinsson is the self-appointed Sheriff of his northern Icelandic town, so when he discov- ers a frozen pool of human blood, and learns of the disappearance of a local bigwig, the hunt is on to find both the body and the murderer. “Forrest Gump” meets “Fargo” is the pitch.


Julie Wassmer Murder at Mount Ephraim Constable, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781472134462 Ninth in the cosy crime series featuring Pearl Nolan, now an Acorn TV drama starring Kerry Godliman as the private detective and restaurant owner. Pearl attends the lavish wedding of an old school friend at Kent manor house Mount Ephraim, which turns deadly. BookScan


Crime & thriller short stories


Profile, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781800810631 A summery package for 10 classic crime stories from authors including Dorothy L Sayers and Margery Allingham. The entire Murder… series has sold more than 150,000 copies, says Profile.


Historical crime & thriller


Sarah Hawkswood A Taste for Killing Allison & Busby, 19th, £16.99, HB, 9780749028961 The medieval mystery series reaches book 10 with Bradecote and Serjeant Catchpoll investigating the poison- ing of unpopular bow maker Godfrey Bowyer in 12th-century Worcester.


Amanda Quick When She Dreams Piatkus, 3rd, £13.99, TPB, 9780349432267 Burning Cove, California, the glamorous seaside playground for Hollywood stars of the 1930s. The reclusive advice columnist known only as Aunt Cornelia is being black- mailed and hires private eye Sam Sage.


Derek B Miller How to Find Your Way in the Dark Doubleday, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9780857527516 Orphaned 13-year-old Sheldon Horowitz is determined to avenge the death of his father in 1930s America, a quest that will take him from industrial Hartford, Connecticut to the Catskills, to the Big Apple. From the author of Norwegian by Night, which won the CWA Best First Novel Dagger in 2013. Slips from January.


Nicola Upson Dear Little Corpses Faber & Faber, 19th, £12.99, HB, 9780571353286 Latest in the Josephine Tey series is the perfect entry point for new read- ers, says Faber. In 1939, as massive evacuation takes place across Britain, three little girls step off the train at a Suffolk village—and disappear.


Historical


Various Murder by the Seaside


Sinead Crowley The Belladonna Maze Aria, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781801105637


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