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Catherine Isaac Messy, Wonderful Us S&S Adult Fiction, 5th, £8.99, 9781471178078 Allie flies to Italy to unpick the truth about what her mother did, her best friend, Ed, who has just separated from his wife Julia, beside her. By the author of the wonderful You Me Everything.


Christina Lauren Twice in a Blue Moon Piatkus, 12th, £8.99, 9780349422770 Actress Tate is forced to confront Sam, her first love and first heartbreak, when she steps onto the set of her first big break.


Sheila O’Flanagan Her Husband’s Mistake Headline Review, 5th, £7.99, 9781472254757 Roxy has a decision to make when she comes home to find her husband of 20 years, father of their two children, in bed with the neighbour. This was in the top 10 in the Irish best- sellers charts for over three months, says Headline.


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observed take on India’s elite and the rarely smooth path to finding true love,” said Heat.


Nora Roberts Hidden Riches Piatkus, 5th, £8.99, 9780349407968 Antiques dealer Dora Conroy gets more than she bargained for when she buys a few curiosities at auction. Standalone romantic suspense from the always-joyful Roberts.


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The 17th in the Arthur Bryant and John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit series involces the death by black magic of an Indian textiles worker.


Stephanie Austin Dead on Dartmoor Allison & Busby, 19th, £8.99, 9780749024529 The second Devon mystery sees Juno Browne investigating a series of strange deaths at Moorworthy Chase.


Josie Silver The Two Lives of Lydia Bird Viking, 5th, £7.99, 9780241986165 The new novel from the author of One Day in December, which Penguin says sold 250,000 ebooks in the first six months. This follows Lydia, after her partner of a decade, Freddie, dies on her 27th birthday. She is heartbro- ken, until something unbe- lievable happens, and she gets another chance at her old life with Freddie. Penguin wants to position Silver as its Jojo Moyes.


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Lesley Pearse You’ll Never See Me Again Michael Joseph, 5th, £7.99, 9781405935548 A young woman flees a broken life, and discovers she may have psychic powers. Pearse’s The Woman in the Wood has sold 144,000 copies to date, says Penguin.


Mahesh Rao Polite Society Headline Review, 5th, £8.99, 9781472267214 Ania Khurana, who has wrapped Delhi society around her finger, finds love for her spinster aunt, and then sets out on her next matchmaking project—for her friend Dimple. “A witty, perfectly


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Lauren Acampora The Paper Wasp riverrun, 5th, £8.99, 9781529401028


Début Abby sets out for Hollywood to


work for her friend Elise, now a Hollywood star. But Elise is struggling, and Abby has a desire for greatness of her own.


Lin Anderson Time for the Dead Pan, 19th, £7.99, 9781509866243 The 14th in the series about forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod sees her looking into the disap- pearance on Skye of a group of army medics on


Helen Cox A Body in the Bookshop Quercus, 19th, £8.99, 9781529402230 Cosy crime set in York and following Kitt Hartley, a librarian with a knack for sleuthing who is look- ing into a burglary in a bookshop.


Jeffery Deaver The Never Game HarperFiction, 19th, £7.99, 9780008303761 This first in a new series from Deaver, featuring investigator Colter Shaw after a killer who has kidnapped a student, will be promoted with nation- wide outdoor advertising, “highly targeted” digital advertising including reader recruitment activ- ity, and year-round brand building, says HC.


M C Beaton Agatha Raisin: Beating About the Bush Constable, 5th, £8.99, 9781472127006 Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a hedge in this latest in the series.


Chris Carter Hunting Evil S&S Adult Fiction, 19th, £8.99, 9781471179556 Dangerous serial killer Lucien escapes from prison, determined to wreak vengeance on the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit, his former roommate.


A A Dhand One Way Out Corgi, 19th, £7.99, 9780552176538 DCI Harry Virdee’s wife has been taken hostage by a terrorist who is plant- ing bombs in Bradford. Fourth in the series.


Allison Dickson The Other Mrs Miller Sphere, 19th, £7.99, 9780751574791 There’s a woman watch- ing unhappily married housewife Phoebe, and she’s ready to upend her life.


Newt Gingrich Collusion Broadside, 5th, £10.99, 9780062859990 The former Speaker of the House and Fox News contributor tells of how CIA Russia expert Valerie Mayberry and ex Navy SEAL Brett Garrett must co-operate to smuggle a high-ranking Russian with knowledge of a plan to attack the US out of the country. First in a series.


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Sibanda and the Rainbird Constable, 5th, £8.99, 9781472130495 First in a new series introducing DI Jabulani Sibanda, who is stationed at a village on the borders of Zimbabwe National Park and investigating the discovery of a vulture- mutilated corpse. The Sunday Times compared this to Alexander McCall Smith.


R J Ellory Three Bullets Orion, 19th, £8.99, 9781409163169 In an alternate 1963 America, the shot fired at JFK misses, and photo- journalist Mitch looks into the death of his former fiancée, an investigative reporter who was working the case of a lifetime.


Colin Falconer Innocence Dies Constable, 26th, £8.99, 9781472128041 This follow-up to Lucifer Falls sees detective Charlie George investigat- ing the discovery of a schoolgirl’s body in a north London park.


Christopher Fowler The Lonely Hour Bantam, 19th, £8.99,


The Bad Place Head of Zeus, 5th, £8.99, 9781788548281 Twenty years ago, six children were held captive for two weeks in a remote farm on the Thames estu- ary. Five got out alive, and meet annually to hold a vigil for their dead friend. But this year, one of them witnesses the kidnapping of another young girl, and the truth about the past must come out.


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The Partisan Heart Muswell Press, 5th, £8.99, 9781999313593 A thriller moving between the Italian Alps in 1944, where an 18-year-old falls in love with the wife of his commander, and 1999 London, where Michael Keats discovers his wife has been killed in a hit- and-run in northern Italy.


must extract the name of a notorious serial killer’s final victim from him before he dies. Third in the series which began with the bestselling Sirens.


Gina LaManna Pretty Guilty Women Sphere, 5th, £7.99, 9780751576689 Four women confess to the murder of a man at the Serenity Resort on the Californian coast. Why? A superlead for Sphere, this was sold at auction around the world, includ- ing a six-figure deal in the US.


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The Elephant of Surprise Mulholland Books, 5th, £8.99, 9781473678101 Hap and Leonard—a self-proclaimed white trash rebel and a black, gay, Vietnam vet and Republican—try to save a girl who has survived a mob hit, but has had her tongue almost cut out. Latest in the series, which is now on Amazon Prime.


Vaseem Khan Bad Day at the Vulture Club Mulholland Books, 19th, £8.99, 9781473685383 In the fifth Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of prominent indus- trialist Cyrus Zorabian.


Joseph Knox The Sleepwalker Black Swan, 5th, £8.99, 9781784162184 Detective Aidan Watts


Jonathan Lethem The Feral Detective Atlantic, 5th, £8.99, 9781786497512 Lethem’s first detective novel since the award- winning Motherless Brooklyn tells of Phoebe, who hires loner Charles to help her find her friend’s missing daughter on the eastern edge of Los Angeles.


Peter Lovesey Killing with Confetti Sphere, 12th, £8.99, 9780751577488 Bath detective Peter Diamond is put in charge of security for the wedding of the daughter of a notorious crime baron and the son of Bath’s Deputy Chief Constable. Eighteenth in the series.


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