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tech-detective series starring Marty Hench, Silicon Valley’s most accomplished forensic accountant.
Helena Echlin Clever Little Thing Headline, 14th, £20, hb, 9781035421473
Début Kaleidoscopic and tense, this
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Lucy Steeds The Artist John Murray, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781399819565
Début Joseph is a young English journalist who secures a dream commission: to
visit the reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe in his Provençal farmhouse. There, over the summer of 1920, Joseph sinks into the world of the tyrannical genius, and his enigmatic niece Ettie. But their silences brim with secrets, and soon Joseph finds himself caught between his own desires and those of his subject. This tense and sensuous lead début, writ- ten by a young academic, explores artistic authentic- ity, the suppression of female creativity, and the psychological scars of the First World War.
octogenarian who spies on her fellow guests and manipulates situations to “liberate” them from what she sees as unhappy relationships. “The White Lotus” meets Shirley Jackson, says Borough.
Oscar-winning movie star. Part comedy, human tragedy and suspense, for fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
Neil Broadfoot Exit Wounds Constable, 30th, £21.99, hb, 9781408718797 The next in the crime series starring Connor Fraser, following Unmarked Graves.
Blake Crouch Famous Macmillan, 16th, £20, hb, 9781035058624 This standalone novel from the author of Dark Matter follows a “world-class loser” with a million-dollar face on his madcap journey of self-abandonment as he tries to become his own doppelganger, an
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Laura Dave The Night We Lost Him Century, 2nd, £16.99, hb, 9781529912043 The new thriller from the author of The Last Thing He Told Me, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, a Reese’s Book Club pick and an Apple TV series starring Jennifer Garner, features a wealthy busi- nessman who falls to his death from his Californian clifftop home. Dave has moved from Viper to Cornerstone and this is set to have a “splashy” campaign. BookScan
“mum-noir” psychological thriller follows a mother who must confront a sudden and terrifying change in her daughter after the abrupt death of their babysitter. It holds a light up to the blurred lines of diagnosis in chil- dren and to the vital power of maternal instinct, says Headline.
that pits present-day Russia against the CIA in this globetrot- ting spy thriller from the author of the novel Ground Up.
Chris Hammer The Broken River Wildfire, 2nd, £20, hb, 9781035410774 The fourth book in the series starring Detective Nell Buchanan.
Alice Feeney Beautiful Ugly Macmillan, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781035053803 An author’s wife disap- pears—then he thinks he sees her a year later on a tiny Scottish island, in this new thriller from the author of Rock Paper Scissors and Good Bad Girl.
Sophie Hannah The Opposite of Murder Hodder & Stoughton, 16th, £20, hb, 9781529352955 In the latest “unguess- able” mystery from the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library, a woman confesses to a murder, but she couldn’t have committed the crime. Her alibi? At the crucial time, she was at the police station, confessing to a murderous obsession with the victim. BookScan
Oskar Jensen Helle’s Hound Viper, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781800811768 In the second book star- ring Torben Helle following Helle and Death, the reluctant Danish sleuth investigates the death of his mentor, eminent art historian Dame Charlotte Lazerton. A modern homage to The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Golden Age whodunnit, says Viper.
important to tell her— dead. As forest fires erupt, and her reality splits into two, she must confront past secrets. Written by a former police psycholo- gist, this novel explores climate collapse and nature versus nurture.
Bonnie MacBird The Serpent Under Collins Crime Club, 2nd, £16.99, hb, 9780008380885 Holmes and Watson undertake three interlock- ing cases in the latest thriller from the author of the Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood, the sixth in the series of Conan Doyle-style Holmes & Watson novels.
Amy Jordan The Dark Hours HQ, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9780008656980
Début Set in Cork, this updated twist on
the serial killer thriller is a “brilliant, visceral” début for fans of C J Tudor and Catherine Ryan Howard, says HQ.
Keigo Higashino Invisible Helix Abacus, 30th, £15.99, tpb, 9780349147352 The new mystery in the Detective Galileo series.
Nicci French The Last Days of Kira Mullan Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 16th, £18.99, hb, 9781398524132 In the latest thriller from the husband-wife writing duo, Nancy and Felix’s new neighbour is found dead by suicide. Nancy is convinced there’s more to the death than meets the eye—but is she imagining things? BookScan
Cory Doctorow Picks & Shovels Head of Zeus, 16th, £20, hb, 9781804547830 Book three in the
Brian Freeman Robert Ludlum’s ™ The Bourne Vendetta Head of Zeus, 16th, £20, hb, 9781035910014 The latest international thriller in the Jason Bourne series.
Tom Hindle Death in the Arctic Century, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9781529927221 A killer strikes on a luxury voyage to the North Pole, in the new locked-room mystery from the author of Murder on Lake Garda. BookScan
Ørjan Karlsson, Ian Giles (trans) Into Thin Air Orenda Books, 16th, £9.99, tpb, 9781916788503
Début The first in a new Nordic noir series
sees the Chief Investigator of Nordland Police, Jakob Weber, drawn into a complex case when a teenage girl goes missing and a second woman disappears from a remote island.
Asia Mackay A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage Wildfire, 14th, £16.99, hb, 9781035419661 Headline’s super-lead thriller follows a couple of ex-serial killers as they kick their bloody habit for good, all while raising a family. TV rights have been acquired and Headline will launch with a “no-holds-barred” marketing campaign. Mackay’s début novel Killing It was the runner- up in Richard & Judy’s Search for a Bestseller competition.
Michael Idov The Collaborators Simon & Schuster, 30th, £18.99, hb, 9781398537750 A brilliant young intel- ligence officer and a troubled heiress stumble into a global conspiracy
Emma Kavanagh The Time of the Fire Orion, 30th, £22, hb, 9781409199564 This “timely” specula- tive eco-thriller follows the c.e.o.-in-waiting of a Northern California corporation who finds her father—a local firefighting hero who had something
Gillian McAllister Famous Last Words Michael Joseph, 30th, £18.99, hb, 9780241648032 The ninth thriller from the author of Wrong Place Wrong Time, which was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2023 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, is about a woman whose husband takes three people hostage. BookScan
David McCloskey The Seventh Floor Swift Press, 30th, £20, hb, 9781800753983 The third book in the acclaimed Damascus Station espionage
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