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THE WITCHES’ TREE CONSTABLE, 3RD, £16.99, HB, 9781472117229 The wonderful Agatha Raisin returns to investigate murderous goings-on in the isolated Cotswolds village of Sumpton Harcourt, which just happens to have its very own coven of witches. BookScan
ANDREA CARTER THE WELL OF ICE CONSTABLE, 5TH, £13.99, TPB, 9781472125965 Third murder mystery featuring Irish solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe set on the isolated Inishowen peninsula, where a body is found on Christmas morning, face down in the snow on Sliabh Sneacht.
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A F BRADY THE BLIND HQ, 5TH, £12.99, HB, 9781848456754 In a Manhattan hospital, a psychiatrist meets her new patient, a man reputed to be deranged and dangerous, only to find that he appears to be totally sane.
JUDITH CUTLER HEAD COUNT ALLISON & BUSBY, 19TH, £19.99, HB, 9780749020859 In Kent, headteacher Jane Cowan is very concerned when some of her pupils, the children of immigrant workers, stop coming to school.
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LUCA D’ANDREA THE MOUNTAIN MACLEHOSE PRESS, 19TH, £16.99, HB, 9780857056900
An American man stumbles across an intriguing cold case in the remote
Dolomite mountains of Italy. In 1985, three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found. A key title for Quercus, which will support with a “major” marketing campaign. Rights have sold in 30 territories.
JAMES DEEGAN ONCE A PILGRIM HQ, 19TH, £12.99,
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HB, 9780008229474 Début novel from a former SAS officer of 20 years’ standing. It launches a planned series featuring John Carr, also an ex-SAS man, now working as security for a Russian oligarch. But someone remembers him from his days in Northern Ireland.
JULIAN LEES THE BURNINGS CONSTABLE, 5TH, £13.99, TPB, 9781472123114 Second in the crime series set in contemporary Jakarta featuring Inspektur Ruud Pujasumarta (The Bone
Ritual). A killer is targeting Christians and burning their bodies.
HENNING MANKELL AFTER THE FIRE HARVILL SECKER, 5TH, £17.99, HB, 9781910701768 The last novel from the wonderful Mankell (1948-2015) is a
standalone set on a small Swedish island, where a 70-year-old retired doctor only just escapes from a house fire which destroys all his worldly belongings. Who would do such a thing, and why? BookScan
KATE MCQUAILE WITHOUT A WORD QUERCUS, 19TH, £13.99, TPB, 9781784296759 A decade ago a woman disappeared while on the phone to her friend. Now the lead detective has started receiving anonymous notes accusing him of having failed to investigate the case properly. Second suspense
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novel from the author of What She Never Told Me. BookScan
PAUL MENDELSON APOSTLE LODGE CONSTABLE, 5TH, £13.99, TPB, 9781472121882 In South Africa, Colonel Vaughn De Vries investigates the depraved crime committed at Apostle Lodge. Fourth in the series.
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suspect the victim was a drug courier from Eastern Europe, and that Thygesen is somehow involved. This won the Riverton Prize for Norway’s Best Crime novel in 2001.
JON MICHELET THE FROZEN WOMAN NO EXIT PRESS, 21ST SEP, £12.99, HB, 9781843442929 Vilhelm Thygesen, a well-known left-wing lawyer, discovers the body of a young woman in his garden, frozen and stabbed to death. The police
ZOSIA WAND TRUST ME HEAD OF ZEUS, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781786692290 Début psychological suspense about a 27-year-old stepmother who is accused of grooming her 17-year-old stepson.
LAURA WILSON THE OTHER WOMAN QUERCUS, 5TH, £19.99, HB, 9781786485212 Psychological suspense. A woman on the receiving
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FRANCESCA HORNAK SEVEN DAYS OF US PIATKUS, 19TH, £12.99, HB, 9780349415604
Billed as the perfect read for fans of “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Love Actually”, this festive novel follows a week in the lives of the solidly middle-class Birch family, who are spending Christmas together at their second home in Norfolk. Elder daughter Olivia, an aid worker, has come back from Africa but is under quarantine for a life-threatening virus—and so, therefore, is the whole family. Things are already fraught before a stranger knocks at the door . . . Author Hornak is best known for her amusing, tongue-in-cheek column in The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine, A History of the World in 100 Modern Objects.
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ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY DEVIL’S DAY JOHN MURRAY, 19TH, £12.99, HB, 9781473619869 Much-anticipated second novel from the author of The Loney, originally published by tiny Yorkshire publisher Tartarus Press as a 300-copy limited edition before being republished by John Murray and going on to scoop the Costa First Novel Award and, of course, Book of the Year at The Bookseller’s own British Book Industry Awards in 2016. Nothing was available for me to read in time for this preview sadly, but this is set on the Lancashire moors: John and his new wife have returned to the farm where he grew up, and find they must decide where their loyalties lie. BookScan
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LAURA PURCELL THE SILENT COMPANIONS RAVEN BOOKS, 5TH, £12.99, HB, 9781408888094
The launch title for Bloomsbury’s new commercial imprint Raven Books, this is a super lead, so expect “widespread” publicity and an “innovative” marketing campaign for this gothic ghost story set in a crumbling country mansion, where newly married, and newly widowed, Elsie arrives from London to find resentful servants and villagers who shun the house and its occupants. As she explores her new home she makes a couple of creepy discoveries in the attic: painted wooden life-size figures, known as Silent Companions, and a 200-year-old diary kept by a former mistress of the house that might just explain the hostility of the villagers . . .
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