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unburdening to the bees in the retreat’s kitchen garden set something different in motion?
Caroline Roberts The Second Chance Supper Club
HQ Digital, 17th July, £9.99, PB, 9780008769680
Cath moves to a rural Northumberland village for a fresh beginning, starts a supper club and finds the healing power of community. A snow- dusted festive follow-up, Christmas at the Second Chance Supper Club, arrives in October.
Cal Speet Spiralling HarperNorth, 31st July, £9.99, PB, 9780008767785
When Gabriel is spiralling after a scandalous break-up with his wannabe-poet ex-boyfriend and losing his job, friends Tasha and Evie try to get him back to work and dating. Manchester-set novel for West Yorkshire- based Speet.
Helene Sula Meet Me at the Christmas Market
HarperNorth, 23rd October, £9.99, PB, 9780008774349
With her life imploding, Eva swaps Texas for a festive break in the city of York, but finds more than she bargained for at the Christmas market.
Jenna Warren The Hometown Bookshop
Fairlight Books, 21st August, £9.99, PB, 9781914148781
After West End actress Charlotte’s life falls apart, she retreats to her hometown on the North Yorkshire coast. A summer job in the local bookshop leads to an unlikely friendship with Greg, the grumpy bookshop manager and, alongside handsome librarian Nick, helps Charlotte start a new chapter. Warren owns Book Corner, an independent bookshop in Saltburn.
Lucy Jane Wood Rewitched Pan, 31st July, £9.99, PB, 9781035045471
Birkenhead-born YouTube star Wood’s cosy fantasy debut. Belle
is burnt out. Working at her beloved London bookshop, Lunar Books, while handling a toxic boss and concealing her witchcraft is taking its toll. Then Belle’s 30th birthday brings a summons from her coven. The second book in the series, Uncharmed, centring on
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Annie Wildwood’s London bakery, is published in hardback in September.
Penguin, 6th November, £9.99, PB, 9781804997888
A century ago, thieves commit crimes against nature on the wild cliffs of Yorkshire, which have ramifications in the present.
Louise Candlish A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder
Bonnie Woods Fireworks HarperNorth, 28th August, £9.99, PB, 9780008753481
In the Scottish Highlands, firefighter Camden appeals to Eiley. The second, autumnal spicy romance from Manchester’s Woods.
Felicity York The Secret Sister HarperNorth, 23rd October, £9.99, PB, 9780008535766
Eliza and Harryo take part in Christmas matchmaking at Chatsworth House in 1809. Third in the Stately Scandal series from Lancashire-based York. The second in the series, The Quiet Wife, set in Victorian Liverpool’s Speke House, is published in July.
Lamia Zain The Ending Is the Best Part
Corvus, 2nd October, £9.99, PB, 9781805464976
Yara and Xander are both writers on a major TV series who must put
aside their differences to write the season finale. Sheffield-born BookTok creator Zain’s debut invited BookTok readers to contribute to the novel by voting on their favourite title, cover and plot details within the book.
Crime & thriller
Jack Anderson The Return of Moriarty: A Moriarty Mystery
Bloomsbury, 6th November, £16.99, HB, 9781526686398
Moriarty escapes the Reichenbach Falls with an empire in ruins, assuming the identity of a wealthy inventor in Bavaria, but is forced to solve a mystery himself. A Conan Doyle tribute from Sheffield’s Anderson.
Matt Baker A Taste for Murder Michael Joseph, 15th January, £16.99, HB, 9780241795262
When a British tourist is found dead on Capri, holidaying Detective Chief Inspector Joe Mottram is called into action.
Belinda Bauer The Impossible Thing
HQ, 17th July, £16.99, HB, 9780008640934
Crime turns an age-gap friendship between residents in Columbia Mansions into a surprising revenge tale. New thriller from Hexham-born Candlish.
Natalie Chandler The Voices HarperNorth, 12th February, £9.99, PB, 9780008666729
Hospitalised criminal psychiatrist Tamsin Shaw hears a deadly secret but can she recover and act on it?
MW Craven The Final Vow Constable, 14th August, £20, HB, 9781408717530
A serial killer with no discernible pattern is tracked by Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw in their seventh case. Who will find who first?
Terry Deary Actually, I’m A Murderer Constable, 12th March, £9.99, PB, 9781408720110
First in a new series of adult thrillers from County Durham’s Deary, the creator of Horrible Histories. In 1973, four people are thrown together on an early morning train from London to Sunderland, each introducing themselves, when a little man in the corner, John, says: “Actually I’m a murderer.”
AA Dhand The Chemist HQ, 15th January, £9.99, PB, 9780008645816
Local pharmacist Idris Khan finds himself in the middle of a turf war between the two most powerful drug cartels in Yorkshire.
John Donoghue Not Alive, Not Dead Atlantic Books, 4th September, £9.99, PB, 9781805464266
Liverpool-based Donoghue’s latest thriller sees Pablo Morales, a young priest in 1970s Argentina, hear a confession of government crimes, which show the church is complicit.
Kate Ellis
Killing in the Shadows Constable, 29th January, £22, HB, 9780349442990
DI Joe Plantagenet’s sixth case is in the quaint Yorkshire village of Eaglethorpe where a famous TV star has met her end.
Chris Frost
The Christmas Tree Killer HarperNorth, 6th November, £9.99, PB, 9780008707675
The partial remains of a man are discovered on the Pennine Way path, in a pine forest near Hadrian’s Wall. Second outing for Marple-based Frost’s DI Tom Stonem.
Nicola Griffith The Blue Place Canongate, 3rd July, £9.99, PB, 9781837264483
First book in Leeds-born, Seattle-based Griffith’s cult classic Aud Torvingen trilogy, which is published for the first time in the UK. Published alongside Stay and Always.
Tom Hindle A Killer in Paradise Century, 22nd January, £16.99, HB, 9781529927252
Leeds’ Hindle’s latest thriller sees murder disrupt friends reuniting at the launch of a luxury hotel in the Costa Rican rainforest. Hindle’s Death in the Arctic also arrives in paperback in September.
Zaffre, 31st July, £9.99, PB, 9781804184752
Forensic profiler Jo McCready must find connections between crimes on the Yorkshire moors before a local gangster who has a different kind of justice in mind.
Steph McGovern Deadline Pan Fiction, 3rd July, £20, HB, 9781035035236
TV reporter Rose finds her child has been kidnapped when she is live on
air. Debut crime novel from Middlesbrough’s McGovern.
Sarah Mellor The Departed HarperNorth, 15th January, £9.99, PB, 9780008716240
Liverpool, 1979. When remains are found in a decaying building, new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale’s investigation is hampered by family demons, a male-dominated workplace and the winter of discontent.
Denzil Meyrick The Christmas Stocking Murders
Penguin, 6th November, £9.99, PB, 9781804995075
Second book in Meyrick’s festive 1950s Yorkshire- set detective series.
Liz Mistry Deadly Reckoning HQ Digital, 3rd July, £9.99, PB, 9780008686512
Nasheema Lennon Going, Going, Gone HarperNorth, 6th November, £9.99, PB, 9780008701918
A house renovation project brings deadly surprises.
Chris McDonald A Wash of Black HarperNorth, 31st July, £9.99, PB, 9780008744212
A film star is found dead on a Manchester ice rink in the first of three DI Erika Piper mysteries all published this summer. Also published are follow-ups Whispers in the Dark and Roses for the Dead.
Chris McDonald The Wrong Man HarperNorth, 26th March, £9.99, PB, 9780008763022
A murdered singer’s unreleased music is leaked on the dark web, providing clues on tracking their killer for PI Ethan Adler. First instalment of a new Manchester-set series.
Lesley McEvoy The Corpse Light
Third book in the Solanki and McQueen crime series from West Yorkshire’s Mistry.
Bob Mortimer The Long Shoe Simon & Schuster UK, 9th October, £22, HB, 9781398548046
Bathroom salesman Matt falls into a mystery in Middlesbrough- born national treasure Mortimer’s third novel.
Ava Morwood Untitled HarperNorth, 9th April, £16.99, HB, 9780008724665
A husband’s affair with a wild swimmer haunts a Peak District family in this suspenseful twist on the Little Mermaid from the Penistone-based winner of the Shirley Jackson award.
Max Nightingale Murder in Tinseltown HarperNorth, 9th October, £9.99, PB, 9780008726331
Choose-your-own-story mystery set in 1950s Los Angeles, asking you to identify the murderer of Hollywood leading lady Blanche Aikerman.
Rob Parker Forbidden Waters Bloomsbury, 15th January, £16.99, HB, 9781526683694
Second mystery featuring salvage diver Cam Killick from Warrington-based Parker. First title, The Troubled Deep arrives in paperback in July.
Alex Pine Cold Blooded Killer Avon, 23rd October, £9.99, PB, 9780008706845
A murderer is targeting DCI James Pine in his sixth wintry outing as he wonders if all winters are this violent in Cumbria.
Tess Sharpe No Body, No Crime Dead Ink Books, 14th August, £10.99, PB, 9781915368980
Rural PI Mel Tillman’s teenage best friend is missing and the case means digging up the past.
LD Smithson The Shame Game Penguin, 11th September, £9.99, PB, 9781804991695
To keep a secret hidden, you need to ruin your best friend’s life. Ilkley-based Smithson’s new thriller.
Helen Monks Takhar The Marriage Rule HQ, 29th January, £9.99, PB, 9780008735852
Domestic thriller sees Elle look to her husband to escape a crime scene.
Jonathan Whitelaw All at Sea… HarperNorth, 3rd July, £9.99, PB, 9780008705947
A down on his luck action movie star investigates a murder on a yacht on the set of a reality TV show.
KJ Whittle Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
HarperNorth, 11th September, £9.99, PB, 9780008738716
Seven guests narrate the aftermath of a dinner, which correctly foretells the death of one of their number.
Karen Woods The Hustle HarperNorth, 15th January, £8.99, PB, 9780008723620
Sinéad Nolan The Counting Game HarperNorth, 29th January, £9.99, PB, 9780008669010
In 1990s Ireland, a teenage girl goes missing in the woods while performing a ritual to ward off evil spirits.
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