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abroad. But Jamie has brought a surprise: a new, young, glamorous wife, and she knows a secret about Clare that could blow the whole family apart…
pirate radio station by accident, she realises the presenter is reading tomorrow’s news. At first she thinks it must be a misunderstanding—the wrong date—but every- thing reported then comes to pass. Then the presenter starts reporting on murders that are yet to happen…
Vera Morris The Great Shroud Headline Accent, 19th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472283665 Fifth instalment of the cosy crime series set on the Suffolk coast featuring Frank Diamond, Laurel Bowman and the rest of the Anglian Detective Agency.
J P Pomare The Last Guests Hodder Paperbacks, 24th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529307108 Newlyweds Lina and Cain decide to rent out their holiday home on New Zealand’s Lake Tarawera to make some extra money. But both Lina and Cain have been keeping secrets, and strange things start to happen on the property. Then one visit takes a deadly turn.
circumstances in York, Steel struggles to remain focused on the murder investigation, distracted by the fact her colleague and partner has disap- peared. Unbeknown to her, he is undercover in London.
Anita Sivakumaran Cold Sun Dialogue Books, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9780349701561 Begins a new crime series set in Bangalore, where a serial killer targets the British foreign minister’s ex-wife, so Scotland Yard sends DI Vijay Patel to aid the Indian police investigation. He must battle local resentment and his own ignorance of his ancestral country to find the killer. Slips from April.
Douglas Skelton A Rattle of Bones Polygon, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781846975639 A centuries-old murder in the Scottish Highlands reverberates down to the present day, in the third in the Rebecca Connolly series.
Crime & thriller short stories
Deon Meyer The Woman in the Blue Cloak and Other Stories Hodder Paperbacks, 5th, £8.99, PBO, 9781444723823 Collection of short stories from South Africa’s king of crime fiction; includes the title standalone novella which features series detective Benny Grissel at a key moment in his relationship with his new love, Alexa.
Historical crime & thriller
Susanna Gregory The Chancellor’s Secret Sphere, 5th, £20.99, HB, 9780751579482 The much-loved chronicles of medieval physician Matthew Bartholomew come to an end with this, the 25th in the series (beating Ellis Peters by five books, notes the AI). The year is 1360 and Bartholomew is due to marry in under a fortnight and relinquish his official duties, but there is an overpowering stench of corruption in the city of Cambridge…
mystery series set in Victorian Edinburgh follows The Way of All Flesh and The Art of Dying. Dr Will Raven is begged by a former adversary for help escaping the hang- man, and Sarah Fisher learns of a woman who has acquired a medical degree—and determines to seek her out. BookScan
HB, 9781472123657 The Roma series concludes with this epic tale, spanning 160 years and seven generations, from Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Constantine, who changes the Roman world forever by becom- ing a Christian.
Sara Sheridan Celtic Cross Constable, 12th, £20.99, HB, 9781472134844 Latest in the Mirabelle Bevan series finds the stylish sleuth relocating to Edinburgh with her fiancé, retired superintendent Alan McGregor, when an opportunity comes up to buy a secluded house on the Firth of Forth. Then a nun dies at the nearby convent, and the pair are drafted in to investigate.
James Lee Burke Another Kind of Eden Orion, 19th, £20, HB, 9781398704695 Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard rides the rails across the American West in the 1960s, before jumping off in Denver and finding work on a farm. There he meets college student Jane, but their romance is complicated by her involvement with a profes- sor entangled with a cult. BookScan
Amanda Robson The Unwelcome Guest Avon, 19th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008430597 Saffron had the perfect marriage, until her controlling mother-in-law Caprice moved in. Saffron hopes the new nanny will dilute the tension; little does she know that Caprice is on the lookout for a new daughter-in- law… BookScan
Leigh Russell Deep Cover No Exit Press, 24th, £9.99, PBO, 9780857304643 Sixth in the DI Geraldine Steel series. When a sex worker dies in suspicious
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Tess Stimson Stolen Avon, 5th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008386054 When Alex’s three-year- old daughter vanishes during a beach wedding at an idyllic holiday destination, the hunt for her soon goes global. But why wasn’t Alex’s mother watching Lottie properly?
Sue Watson The Sister-in-Law Sphere, 5th, £7.99, PBO, 9780751583731 Clare and her errant husband Dan arrive at their Italian villa for a holiday and are joined by Dan’s brother Jamie, who is back in the family fold after years of travelling
V B Grey Sisterhood Quercus, 19th, £14.99, HB, 9781529405750 London, 1944. Newly qualified doctor Freya treats patients in the East End while her identical twin Shona has been recruited by the Special Operations Executive. Growing up, they were always able to fool people into thinking one is the other, a game that becomes very dangerous, with far-reaching conse- quences, when they do so as adults.
Camilla Bruce Triflers Need Not Apply Michael Joseph, 5th, £14.99, HB, 9780241442302 Based on the true story of Belle Guinness, America’s first female serial killer, whose murder- ous rampage began in Chicago in 1900. Early in life Belle Sorensen realises that men own everything (jobs, property, wives) so she decides to pay them back for all they have taken.
Paul Howarth Dust Off the Bones One, 26th, £16.99, HB, 9781911590538 Sequel to Only Killers and Thieves (a Times “book of the year” pick) is a tale of murder and obsession set in the 1890s Australian Outback, where Billy McBride searches for his brother Tommy, long disappeared into the bush. Also looking for Tommy is the ruthless Inspector Noone. Pushkin plans a “standout” campaign.
Ambrose Parry A Corruption of Blood Canongate, 19th, £14.99, HB, 9781786899859 Third in the medical
Mary Paulson-Ellis Emily Noble’s Disgrace Mantle, 19th, £16.99, HB, 9781529036176 When trauma cleaner Essie Pound makes a gruesome discovery in the derelict Edinburgh boarding house she is sent to clean, it brings her into contact with young policewoman Emily Noble, who has her own reasons for wanting to solve the case. From the author of The Other Mrs Walker, a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year.
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The Good Death Hodder & Stoughton, 19th, £18.99, HB, 9781473680203 England, 1370. Lord Oswald de Lacy makes a confes- sion to his dying mother. In 1349, while he was an 18-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey, he discov- ered that local women were disappearing from the village, and suspected a killer was at work…
Kate Saunders The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden Bloomsbury, 19th, £16.99, HB, 9781408866924 Third in the cosy crime series featuring private detective Laetitia Rodd, who here becomes entan- gled in the scandalous world of Victorian theatre. What starts as a simple negotiation about money becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the husk of a burned- down theatre.
Steven Saylor Dominus Constable, 3rd, £18.99,
Sarah Hawkswood Wolf at the Door Allison & Busby, 19th, £8.99, PBO, 9780749027254 Worcestershire, 1144. When the mauled body of the unpopular keeper of the King’s Forest of Feckenham is discovered beside his hearth, rumours of a man-wolf attack spread quickly. Sheriff William de Beauchamp investigates.
Tim Major The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Back to Front Murder Titan Books, 24th, £7.99, PB, 9781789096989 Mystery writer Abigail Moone imagines how she might get away with murdering real people in order to come up with her plots; but now someone is trying to frame her for an actual murder.
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