This preview highlights titles to be published in March


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November. Third in the series.


Bev Thomas


A Good Enough Mother Faber & Faber, 5th, £8.99, 9780571348398


Andrew Martin The Winker Corsair, 5th, £8.99, 9781472153975 Charles Underhill, a wealthy Englishman living in Paris, is determined to discover the identity of the “winking killer” in 1976 London. Great cover. “A highly enjoyable game of cat-and-mouse with perfect period texture and some nicely wry humour,” said the Guardian.


Alexander McCall Smith The Department of Sensitive Crimes Abacus, 5th, £8.99, 9780349143330 McCall Smith’s take on Scandi noir, Scandi blanc, this follows the investigations of Ulf Varg, who works in Malmo’s Department of Sensitive Crimes.


Dr Ruth Hartland, who is preoccupied by her son Tom’s disappearance, is floored when a new patient arrives who looks disconcertingly like Tom. Faber is aiming this at the Apple Tree Yard/Lullaby literary thriller slot.


Jonathan Carr Make Me A City Scribe UK, 12th, £9.99, 9781912854882


Début A novel spanning Chicago’s first


century, starting with the first house built on a marsh in 1800.


Morning, has sold 90,000 copies across all formats, says the publisher.


St Petersburg, leaving his wife Hester in Cornwall, in this romantic Regency thriller.


James Runcie The Road to Grantchester Bloomsbury Publishing, 5th, £8.99, 9781408886861 This prequel to the Grantchester Mysteries series follows a young Sidney Chambers in post- war London. Bloomsbury says the series has now sold over 130,000 copies (TCM) and over 550,000 copies worldwide.


Mark Timlin Reap the Whirlwind & Other Stories Te Crime & Mystery Club, 19th, £9.99, 9780857303790 A recently discovered lost novel and short stories from the ’90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman.


Rebecca Tope The Grasmere Grudge Allison & Busby, 19th, £8.99, 9780749024406 The eighth Lake District mystery involves the strangling of an antiques dealer in a house in Grasmere.


Deborah O’Connor The Dangerous Kind Zaffre Books, 19th, £7.99, 9781785762093


Début Jessamine, who broadcasts a


radio show looking into the past lives of convicted killers, is approached by a woman looking for a miss- ing friend.


Brad Parks The Last Act Faber & Faber, 5th, £8.99, 9780571346493 As actor Tommy Jump prepares to give up on his career, the FBI offers him $300,000 to spend six months in prison, acting as a failed bank robber and befriending a fellow inmate.


Kate Rhodes Burnt Island S&S Adult Fiction, 19th, £7.99, 9781471166020 Ben Kitto, deputy chief of police for the Scilly Isles, investigates when a charred body is found on the bonfire on 5th


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Martin Walker The Body in the Castle Well Quercus, 5th, £8.99, 9781786485779 The 12th Dordogne mystery sees chief of police Bruno investigating the murder of a young American art student.


Historical


Jennifer Chiaverini Resistance Women William Morrow, 5th, £10.99, 9780062841124 A novel about Mildred Harnack, the only American woman whose execution during the Second World War was personally ordered by Adolf Hitler.


Gill Thompson The Child on Platform One Headline Review, 13th, £7.99, 9781472258014 Inspired by the true story of the Kindertransport, this sees Eva in Prague send her young daughter away before she is taken to a concentration camp, and Pamela bring her home in London.


and Tribune Cato confront the enemy within their own ranks in this 18th in the Eagles of the Empire series.


Historical crime and thriller


W M Akers Westside Voyager, 19th, £9.99, 9780062854025 In 1921 New York, 28–year- old detective Gilda Carr investigates the connec- tion between her father’s death and the murder of a merchant. Historical crime steeped in the supernatural.


bestseller is set in 1850 London, where aspiring artist Iris draws the increasingly obsessive attention of collector Silas. “Full of life, colour and intelligence,” said the Sunday Times.


Sujata Massey The Satapur Moonstone Soho Press, 12th, £8.99, 9781641291316 This is the follow-up to The Widows of Malabar Hill, which I loved. It sees Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer, trying to protect the children of Satapur’s royal family from a deadly curse.


Ray Celestin The Mobster’s Lament Pan, 19th, £8.99, 9781509838967 In 1947 New York, mob fixer Gabriel Leveson is planning to flee the city, but as a blizzard descends, a serial killer is stalking the streets.


Elizabeth Cook Lux


Scribe UK, 12th, £9.99, 9781912854745


Début Cook, author of the acclaimed


Achilles, writes of David’s lust for Bathsheba and Henry VIII’s for Anne Boleyn in a novel called “masterful” by the LRB.


Simon Turney Commodus Orion, 5th, £9.99, 9781474607384 In this standalone in the Damned Emperors series, Commodus is trying to hold the fracturing empire of Rome together. Turney suggests the emperor may have suffered from bipolar disorder, leading to his megalomania—more recently made notorious by Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal in “Gladiator”.


Historical adventure


Virginia Baily The Fourth Shore Fleet, 7th, £8.99, 9780708898529 In 1929, Liliana travels from Rome to the fertile land along the Tripoli coast ready for a great adventure, but is drawn into a liaison with terrible consequences. Baily’s previous novel, Early One


Jeanne Mackin The Last Collection Berkley US, 12th, £12.99, 9780399585906 A young woman is drawn into the fierce rivalry between Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in 1938 Paris.


Katy Moran Wicked By Design Head of Zeus, 5th, £8.99, 9781786695406 Jack Crowlas undertakes a dangerous mission to


Paul Fraser Collard The Lost Outlaw Headline, 9th, £9.99, 9781472239112 The eighth in the Victorian military adventure series starring soldier, leader and imposter Jack Lark sees him defending a wagon train of cotton as it journeys down through Texas to Mexico in 1863.


Simon Scarrow Traitors of Rome Headline, 19th, £7.99, 9781472258410 In AD 56, Roman army officers Centurion Marco


Snorri Kristjansson Council Jo Fletcher Books, 5th, £9.99, 9781784298111 Uppsala healer Helga Finnsdottir is tagged as the main suspect when a delegate from King Eirik the Victorious’s trade council is murdered. Second in the Viking- based crime series.


Elizabeth Macneal The Doll Factory Picador, 5th, £8.99, 9781529002430


Début This Sunday Times top 10


John Curran Complete Agatha Christie HarperFiction, 19th, £14.99, 9780008129637 Brings together two volumes that explore the contents of Christie’s 73 notebooks, including two previously unpublished Christie stories.


Charles Todd The Black Ascot William Morrow, 19th, £9.99, 9780062678751 Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge tries to clear a family friend’s name in this 21st in the series.


Peter Treymayne Blood in Eden Headline, 5th, £9.99, 9781472238764 The 30th Sister Fidelma mystery sees the seventh- century Irish super sleuth intervening when a new priest orders the villagers to lynch a man accused of murdering a local farmer, his wife and two sons.


Saga


Pamela Bell Spring Comes to Emmerdale Trapeze, 5th, £7.99, 9781409185055 The second in the saga series following the lives of “Emmerdale”’s families


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