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backlist with an “eye- catching” new package alongside an “unmissa- ble” marketing campaign for this, book 17 in the series. During a lecture at a Quebecois university, a professor discusses dangerous ideas about who deserves to live in order for society to thrive. Days later, there is a murder.


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series featuring Tekla Berg, an emergency doctor with an extraordi- nary photographic memory, who here treats a burns victim the police believe was involved in a terrorist attack. As Tekla battles to keep him alive, she is drawn into a mystery involving corrupt police, the Uzbek mafia and her own brother.


Jake Avila Cave Diver Zaffre, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781838775360


Début Adventure thriller. Explorer


Rob Nash jumps at the chance to lead a cave- diving expedition in the jungles of Papua, but finds himself on a ship heading for danger, as the band of criminals onboard intend to search for a buried Japanese submarine full of gold.


Preston & Child Bloodless Head of Zeus, 19th, £18.99, HB, 9781801104166 In Savannah, Georgia, Agent Pendergast and his partner Agent Coldmoon step up to their 20th investigation when bodies are discovered completely drained of blood, leading the local population to panic and remember the legend of the Savannah vampire.


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Anders de La Motte End of Summer Zaffre, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781785768231 Sweden, 1983. Veronica’s four-year-old brother Billy disappears, and is never seen again. In the present day, she is now a bereave- ment counsellor when a young man walks into her group, and talks about the trauma of his friend’s disappearance in 1983.


Elisabeth Carpenter The Vacancy Orion, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781409181514 Rachel answers an advert to be a live-in assistant to author Dorothy Winters. But when Dorothy’s manuscript-in-progress throws up striking similari- ties to events in Rachel’s own life, she becomes convinced that the past she’s tried to hide is catch- ing up with her. From the author of 99 Red Balloons.


Karen Rose Say Goodbye Headline, 5th, £20, HB, 9781472244239 Third in the Sacramento series, and FBI agent Tom Hunter is on the trail of the brutal cult that damaged some of his closest friends. When the mysterious cult leader is forced to seek help for a serious injury, Tom and his team see a chance to bring the whole cult down. BookScan


Christian Unge; George Goulding, Sarah De Senarclens (trans) Hell and High Water MacLehose Press, 19th, £18.99, HB, 9781529408034


Début First in a new Swedish crime


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Tammy Cohen The Wedding Party Black Swan, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9781784162481 Lucy’s nearest and dear- est are gathered on a Greek island, ready for her wedding day. But what is the secret her parents are keeping from her? And who is the silent stranger her sister brought as a plus-one? Then a dead body turns up... Slips from May. BookScan


Lesley Cookman Murder After Midnight Headline Accent, 19th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472278326 Nothing on the plot, but this is the 22nd in the cosy crime Libby Sarjeant series.


Sharon Dempsey Who Took Eden Mulligan? Avon, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008424459 Launches a new Belfast- set police procedural series featuring DI Danny Stowe and forensic psychologist Rose Lainey. Iona Gardener confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage. The crime scene is linked to the cold case of Eden Mulligan, a mother- of-five who went missing during the Troubles, but the police know Iona’s confession is false.


Vanessa escapes normal life by pretending she is a wealthy woman looking for a new house—until the day a dead body is found in one of those very expensive houses, and the finger is pointed at her... From the author of Day of the Accident. Slips from July. BookScan


Bastards are ready to investigate.


Chris Hauty Savage Road S&S Adult Fiction, 5th, £7.99, PBO, 9781471185670 Second political thriller from the Hollywood screenwriter and author of Deep State. When a series of cyber- attacks are launched on Washington DC, Hayley Chill’s hunt for the hacker will take her right to the heart of the intelligence community. BookScan


Andrew Ewart Replace You Orion, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781409189732 Speculative thriller about a woman living inside a secure hospital after a suicide attempt; her only contact with the outside world is a TV screen. One day, it starts to show videos of her sweet, gentle boyfriend, hand-in-hand with her doppelganger. Believing she has been replaced by a clone, she starts plotting her escape... Slips from February.


Candas Jane Dorsey The Adventures of Isabel Pushkin Vertigo, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781782277392 First mystery from the SF writer features a name- less, queer amateur detec- tive and her cat, Bunnywit, who trawl the mean streets of a Canadian city for leads when a friend’s granddaughter is murdered. “A droll mix of mystery and metafiction,” found Publishers Weekly.


Alice Feeney Rock Paper Scissors HQ, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9780008370985 Adam and Amelia are celebrating 10 years of marriage with a romantic weekend away in the Scottish Highlands. But when the trip takes a dark turn, they both start to wonder if they can trust the other—because their marriage is not all it seems. Two of Feeney’s previous thrillers are soon to be major TV series. BookScan


Doug Johnstone The Great Silence Orenda Books, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781913193836 Third in the Skelf series follows A Dark Matter, shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year, and The Big Chill. Keeping on top of the family funeral directors’ and private investigation businesses is no easy task for the Skelf women, and that’s before Dorothy discovers a human foot while walking the dog.


the sea, and never comes back. Her daughters are forcibly reunited by her disappearance. Meanwhile, a detective nearing retirement inves- tigates a cold case, the tragic death of an infant 20 years earlier. From the author of Found, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club and Sunday Times Crime Club pick. BookScan


Jean Hanff Korelitz The Plot Faber & Faber, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9780571368099 When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake, (himself a failed novelist) helps himself to its plot. The resulting book is a massive hit, but somebody knows what Jake has done—and it might lead to something worse than just the loss of his career.


Sandie Jones The Guilt Trip Pan, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529033052 To celebrate a forth- coming wedding, six couples—five old friends and one new fiancée—go away for the weekend to Portugal. But, by the end of the trip, there will be one dead body and five suspects. From the author of The Other Woman and The Half Sister. BookScan


Jerome Loubry The Final Chapter Hodder Paperbacks, 12th, £9.99, PBO, 9781529350548 When a young girl goes missing in the summer of 1986, David and Samuel share a terrible secret. Thirty years later, David is a famous author and Samuel his publisher when both receive an identi- cal manuscript telling the story of what really happened that summer. Can David and Samuel expose the writer of the manuscript before he exposes them?


Nuala Ellwood The Perfect Life Viking, 5th, £7.99, PB,


Maurizio de Giovanni, Antony Shugaar (trans) Bread Europa Editions, 19th, £8.99, PB, 9781787703155 Fifth in the Bastards of Pizzofalcone series. When the brutal murder of an artisan baker rattles the city of Naples, the


Angela Marsons Dying Truth Sphere, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9780751574906 When teenager Sadie jumps from the roof of her school, it is ruled as a tragic suicide. But when the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school, DI Kim Stone knows something is very wrong. Could a fellow pupil be responsible? BookScan


Erin Kinsley Missing Headline, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9781472280954 One summer’s day, a mother-of-two walks into


Chris McGeorge Half-Past Tomorrow Orion, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781409187592 When 70-year-old Shirley tunes into a


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