This preview highlights titles to be published in August


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Elle Croft Buried Orion, 5th, £14.99, TPB, 9781409187264 After an earthquake, Alice finds herself trapped underground with two others: an artist, whose million-pound-selling works each contain a deadly secret; and a serial killer. Will she protect their secrets to save her own life? From the author of The Guilty Wife.


psychopath is roaming


when a former victim seeks revenge. Trapped at sea, Charlotte realises that the person threaten- ing her must also be on board, but perhaps she can pull off her biggest con yet—persuading them of her innocence.


free inside. Known as “the Soul Breaker”, he doesn’t kill or mutilate his victims, but leaves them paralysed and catatonic, clutching a note. Head of Zeus will support with a “major” marketing and publicity campaign.


Samantha Downing For Your Own Good Michael Joseph, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9780241446881 Third thriller from the author of My Lovely Wife, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick which sold in 30 territories and is being adapted for film, is set at an elite school where a teacher seems to be deeply committed to improving his students. But not everyone agrees he has their best interests at heart. BookScan


Amber Garza Where I Left Her Sphere, 24th, £14.99, TPB, 9780751578966 When Whitney arrives to collect her teenage daughter Amelia after a sleepover, she gets a terrible shock: the elderly woman who answers the door has never seen or heard of Amelia. The clues to her daughter’s disap- pearance lie in Whitney’s own past. From the author of When I Was You.


Joanne Harris A Narrow Door Orion, 4th, £20, HB, 9781409170815 Said to be a “explosive” psychological thriller about a woman who, having carved out her own path to power, is now intent on tearing apart the elite world that tried to hold her back. A feminist whodunit with a modern Agatha Christie twist, says Orion, which will support with “unmissable” marketing and bespoke activity with booksellers to build Harris as a “versatile literary-commercial brand author”. BookScan


Anthony Horowitz A Line to Kill Century, 19th, £20, HB, 9781529124309 The island of Alderney is about to host its first literary festival, and private investigator Daniel Hawthrone arrives to talk about his new book, accompanied by the writer Anthony Horowitz. The pair find the island in turmoil over a proposed power line, the other authors seem to be harbouring unpleasant secrets, and then the festival’s wealthy sponsor is found brutally murdered… Third in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series follows The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death. BookScan


Laura Marshall The Anniversary Sphere, 5th, £14.99, HB, 9780751575033 Twenty-five years ago, a gunman on a rampage shot dead 11 people at random, including Cassie’s dad. Cassie has spent her life trying to escape her past, but is forced to return home to look after her ailing mother and, among her mother’s possessions, she discovers something that calls into question everything she thought she knew about those murders. From the author of Friend Request.


Emma Haughton The Dark Hodder & Stoughton, 19th, £12.99, HB, 9781529356601


Début Hodder’s “super- lead” début


Kate Ellis The Stone Chamber Piatkus, 5th, £20.99, HB, 9780349425726 The DI Wesley Peterson series reaches book 25. When a couple are shot dead at their Devon home, DI Peterson discov- ers their names on a list of people who were sent tickets for a tour of a former asylum on Dartmoor, and that others on the list have also died in mysterious circum- stances. Author Ellis won the 2019 CWA Dagger in Library Award.


Sebastian Fitzek, John Brownjohn (trans) The Soul Breaker Head of Zeus, 5th, £18.99, HB, 9781838935832 A violent snowstorm forces a Berlin psychiatric clinic into lockdown, but it seems a dangerous


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Mark Griffin When Silence Kills Piatkus, 19th, £14.99, TPB, 9780349428963 DCI Bishop of the Met murder squad calls in criminal psychologist Holly Wakefield when the muti- lated body of a woman is found, apparently the latest victim of a serial killer who acts every three years. The postmortem detects a cocktail of drugs that can leave a victim screaming in silence. Third in the series.


Karen Hamilton The Ex-Husband Wildfire, 19th, £14.99, HB, 9781472279385 A con artist who finds her prey aboard luxury cruise liners discovers that she has become the mark


(although the AI states the author has been published before in other genres) follows A&E doctor Kate North, who takes a job at the UN research station in Antarctica. The previous doctor died in a tragic accident out on the ice but, as darkness descends, Kate begins to suspect his death wasn’t an accident at all…


Peter Heller The Guide


W&N, 24th, £14.99, HB, 9781474623889 Second thriller from the author of The River (“glorious prose and razor-sharp tension”— Observer) is set at an exclusive Colorado fishing resort that offers boutique fishing for wealthy clients. Jack is assigned to guide a well-known singer— carry her gear and rig her line—when he realises the whole thing might be a cover for a far more sinister operation.


Catherine Ryan Howard 56 Days Corvus, 19th, £14.99, HB, 9781838951627 Ciara and Oliver met in a Dublin supermarket queue and start dating just as Covid-19 reaches Ireland. When lockdown threatened to keep them apart, Oliver suggested they move in together. Now, 56 days later, detectives arrive at Oliver’s apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.


Nicolas Mathieu Of Fangs and Talons Sceptre, 5th, £16.99, HB, 9781529331578 Mathieu’s début novel, first published in France in 2014, follows his Prix Goncourt-winning And Their Children After Them in the UK. A factory closes in the Vosges, putting hundreds out of work, and making some people desperate... so desperate that they kidnap a girl on the streets of Strasbourg with a view to making some money.


Ruth McIver I Shot the Devil Tinder Press, 19th, £18.99, HB, 9781472266019


Début Erin Sloane was 16 when high


Lynda La Plante Unholy Murder Zaffre, 19th, £12.99, HB, 9781785765421 In London, a coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic convent and the body of a young nun is found inside. But when scratch marks are discovered on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane Tennison believes she has unearthed a mystery far darker than any she has investigated before. BookScan


school senior Andre Villiers was murdered by his friends in Long Island, teenagers who were her friends too. Twenty years later, and now a journalist, she is asked to write a story about the murder that electrified the coun- try, a story that will lead her closer and closer to danger.


James Patterson The Noise Century, 5th, £20, HB, 9781529125450 Young sisters Sophie and Tennant Riggin are the only two people to withstand a massive explosion that destroys their community in the shadow of Oregon’s Mount Hood. A team of government investigators are sent to investigate, as the disturbance replicates across the Pacific Northwest. BookScan


Martina Murphy The Night Caller Constable, 12th, £13.99, TPB, 9780349134956


Louise Penny The Madness of Crowds Hodder & Stoughton, 24th, £16.99, HB, 9781529379389 Hodder has acquired Louise Penny’s Inspector Armand Gamache series and will republish the


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Begins a new crime series set on the Achill peninsula, County Mayo, where the body of a popular teacher is discovered. DS Lucy Golden, an Achill native returned from Dublin, sees a chance to prove herself to colleagues after her husband was jailed for fraud.


Sara Flannery Murphy Girl One Raven Books, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781526637413 Second novel from the author of The Possessions is billed as a feminist spec- ulative thriller. Josephine Morrow, a.k.a. “Girl One”, was once part of an experimental commune in rural America, where nine women raised nine “miracle” babies. Now a medical student, she learns her mother has gone missing. Josephine will need to track down her estranged sisters and confront the secrets of their dark shared past, before it’s too late.


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