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end of some unpleasant messages about her husband—“He’s going to leave you. Let’s see how smug you are then, you stupid bitch”—decides to take action. But a simple plan to identify and confront the other woman goes violently wrong. Author Wilson is the Guardian’s crime reviewer.
EMILY WINSLOW LOOK FOR HER ALLISON & BUSBY, 19TH, £12.99, TPB, 9780749022662 In present day Cambridge, a girl named Annalise becomes obsessed with another girl who disappeared 40 years earlier, with whom she shares a name.
the Libby Sarjeant murder mystery series features an unexpected death at a village beer festival.
tragic accident her boyfriend Ollie wants to switch off her life support. It’s left to Claudia’s sister Erin to fight to give the baby a chance.
the reader along at breakneck speed,” says the Daily Express of the series. BookScan
Bond” by the Times returns, alive and well. Erast Fandorin is here asked to investigate the mysterious deaths of the suitors of a beautiful actress—only to fall in love with her himself. BookScan
CAROLINE ENGLAND BENEATH THE SKIN AVON, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9780008237523 Nobody close to her knows the truth about what the teenage Antonia saw all those years ago. No one except her mother . . .
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LIZ LAWLER DON’T WAKE UP ZAFFRE, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781785770579 Alex Taylor wakes up tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn’t a doctor, and he forces her to make an unspeakable choice. But when she wakes she is unharmed, and no-one believes her story.
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VIVIEN BROWN LILY ALONE HARPERIMPULSE, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9780008252113 Three-year-old Lily wakes up alone at home with only her cuddly toy for company. Where is her mother, and why has she left?
JULIA CHAPMAN DATE WITH MALICE PAN, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781509823857 Second in the Dales Detective cosy crime series (Date with Death) featuring Samson O’Brien and Delilah Metcalfe. An elderly lady turns up at the agency, convinced that someone in her old people’s home is trying to kill her. BookScan
REED FARREL COLEMAN ROBERT B PARKER’S DEBT TO PAY NO EXIT PRESS, 21ST SEP, £7.99, PBO, 9780857301024 A major Boston crime boss is murdered and Jesse Stone suspects it is the work of Mr Peepers, a psychotic assassin of his acquaintance.
LESLEY COOKMAN MURDER BY THE BARREL ACCENT PRESS, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781786152947 Eighteenth instalment in
PAUL FINCH SHADOWS AVON, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9780007551330 Second in the PC Lucy Clayburn series, set in Manchester. When Lucy’s patch is gripped by a spate of murder-robberies, the police are quick to respond. But when it transpires that the targets are Manchester’s criminal underworld, they lose interest. BookScan
SYD MOORE STRANGE SIGHT POINT BLANK, 5TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781786072054 Second in the Essex Witch Museum series, featuring Rosie Strange. The chef of a haunted restaurant is murdered—and the only witness, the owner’s daughter, swears she saw a ghost do it. BookScan
LLOYD OTIS DEAD LANDS URBANE, 12TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781911583257 London-set 1970s crime. Alex Troy is arrested for murder but gives no alibi as he is trying to protect the woman he loves.
ELINA HIRVONEN WHEN TIME RUNS OUT MANILLA, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781786580276 A young man shoots at people from his rooftop vantage point in downtown Helsinki.
PENNY KLINE THE SISTER’S SECRET ACCENT PRESS, 26TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781786154200 When pregnant Claudia is left brain dead after a
ROGER PEARCE JAVELIN URBANE, 19TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781911583745 Political thriller set over two weeks in the aftermath of “Brexit”, when extremist group Anti-Capitalist Insurrection begins a bombing campaign in London. Author Pearce is a former New Scotland Yard Special Branch commander.
ANNA SMITH THE HIT QUERCUS, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781784294854 Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour tackles her ninth big story in the series, uncovering a ring of baby-sellers and people-traffickers. “Drags
ANN TURNER OUT OF THE ICE S&S UK, 19TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781471155451 Psychological suspense. An environmental scientist sent to a remote Antarctic island to report on an abandoned whaling station uncovers more than she could ever have imagined. From the author of The Lost Swimmer.
CRIME & THRILLER SHORT STORIES
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN THE STOLEN MARRIAGE MACMILLAN, 5TH, £12.99, HB, 9781509808533 In 1940s North Carolina, a new bride moves to her husband’s home town and quickly realises she is trapped in a strange and loveless marriage with no way out. Can she unravel his secrets and win over a hostile town? BookScan
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London, 1758, and 12 girls from a refuge for fallen women are offered steady work in a factory in Clerkenwell. When the girls disappear, their would-be benefactor claims they were witches sacrificed by Satan. But the apothecary’s daughter Beatrice Scarlet has other ideas . . . BookScan
ANNE PERRY A CHRISTMAS RETURN HEADLINE, 19TH, £16.99, HB, 9781472234254 The 15th festive novella from the queen of Victorian crime sees Mariah Ellison return to Haslemere to investigate an unsolved murder.
SOPHIE HANNAH (ED) DEADLIER HEAD OF ZEUS, 5TH, £25, HB, 9781784975463 Editor Sophie Hannah presents her 100 favourite crime stories written by women. Contributors include Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier, Val McDermid, Margaret Atwood and Sarah Perry. BookScan
HISTORICAL CRIME & THRILLER
ROBERT J HARRIS THE THIRTY ONE KINGS POLYGON, 5TH, £12.99, HB, 9781846973918 John Buchan’s hero Richard Hannay is revived and Polygon is hoping for success along the lines of Sophie Hannah’s Hercule Poirot and Anthony Horowitz’s James Bond. June 1940, and Hannay is sent to Nazi-occupied France to find a missing English agent.
NICK KYME SHERLOCK HOLMES - THE LEGACY OF DEEDS TITAN, 27TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781785652066
The latest case for Holmes and Watson begins with a ballet dancer killed on stage in Covent Garden. BookScan
EDWARD MARSTON UNDER ATTACK ALLISON & BUSBY, 19TH, £19.99, HB, 9780749021238
BORIS AKUNIN ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE W&N, 5TH, £20, HB, 9781474604406 Despite appearing to die at the end of The Diamond Chariot, the man described as “a popular hero to equal Sherlock Holmes and James
Seventh in the Home Front detective series, and Inspector Marmion is on the case of a businessman whose corpse is fished from the Thames. BookScan
GRAHAM MASTERTON THE COVEN HEAD OF ZEUS, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781784976354
ROBERTO TIRABOSCHI THE APOTHECARY’S SHOP EUROPA EDITIONS, 26TH, £12.99, PB, 9781609454180
Historical thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. In medieval Venice, young Constanza, of the noble Grimani family, has disappeared. The family’s scribe Edgardo searches for her, and discovers Sabbatai’s Apothecary, where clues to Constanza’s disappearance may lie. From the author of The Eye Stone.
FRANCES BRODY DEATH IN THE STARS PIATKUS, 5TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780349414317 Seventh Kate Shackleton mystery. Imagine Miss Marple in her youth, says Piatkus of this cosy crime series. Yorkshire, 1927, and the members of a theatre troupe are dying in mysterious circumstances. BookScan
NEIL SPRING THE LOST VILLAGE QUERCUS, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781784298616 Inspired by real historical events, this follows The Ghost Hunters and again features the notorious real-life ghost-hunter Harry Price (1881-1948). Many years ago, soldiers entered
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