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John Brownlow Assassin Eighteen Hodder & Stoughton, 15th August, £20, hb, 9781529382587 Assassin Seventeen is the world’s most infamous hitman. Whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen needs to kill him. Second in the series.


with her newborn son, in a new home, until her neighbour Paul steps in. But he wants something in return.


Christmas


Alexandra Benedict The Christmas Jigsaw Murders Simon & Schuster, 12th October, £14.99, hb, 9781398525375 Puzzle setter, loner and Christmas sceptic Carla Murphy tries to prevent a murder by solving a series of jigsaw clues.


Brian Freeman Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Defiance Aries, 3rd August, £20, hb, 9781803285917 The new Jason Bourne sees Treadstone agents being hunted down and murdered… and Bourne may be next on the list.


Baby


Abigail Burdess Mother’s Day Wildfire, 29th February 24, £10.99, pb, 9781472295552 Adopted Anna discovers she is pregnant on the day she meets her birth mother. What will she sacrifice for a real family?


Dorothy Koomson Every Smile You Fake Headline Review, 15th February 24, £17.99, hb, 9781472298102 When profiler and therapist Kes finds a baby on the back seat of her car, with a note asking her to take care of him, she is torn over what to do—especially when she realises his mother could be in danger.


Niki Mackay Due Date Headline Review, 26th October, £9.99, pb, 9781035404537 Pregnant Alison moves to the suburbs where she bonds with Rebecca, whose baby is due the same day. But weeks after their due date, Rebecca denies ever having been pregnant at all.


Nora Murphy The New Mother Macmillan, 28th September, £16.99, hb, 9781529068863 Natalie is mostly alone


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David Stuart Davies (ed) Classic Christmas Crime Stories Macmillan Collector’s Library, 14th September, £10.99, hb, 9781529097566 An anthology of wintry crime stories by authors including Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh.


Sophie Hannah Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night HarperFiction, 26th October, £22, hb, 9780008380793 Poirot and Christmas? Must be a winner. Hannah’s latest sees the Belgian detective out to solve a murder before 25th December 1931.


Shirley Ballas Murder on the Dance Floor HQ, 26th October, £18.99, hb, 9780008558000 This début from the “Strictly” judge sees dance legend Lily Richmond and former student-turned-private- investigator Susie Cooper investigate when a dancer dies during the open- ing tango of a festival. Irresistible title!


Tess Gerritsen The Spy Coast Bantam, 18th January 24, £20, hb, 9780857505194 Retired spy Maggie Bird makes her début, inves- tigating the dead body found on her driveway, in this new series from the Rizzoli & Isles author. TV rights have been optioned by Amazon Prime.


Robert Goddard The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction Bantam, 17th August, £20, hb, 9781787635104 The second outing for private detective Umiko Wada sees her hired by a businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son.


C L Miller


Denzil Meyrick Murder at Holly House Bantam, 9th November, £16.99, hb, 9781787637184 A Christmas murder mystery from the bestsell- ing Scottish novelist, author of the DCI Daley series, which sees a dead stranger found lodged in a chimney in a remote village in 1952.


Peter Swanson The Christmas Guest Faber & Faber, 28th September, £10, hb, 9780571378777 Ashley, an American studying in London, is invited to spend Christmas with her classmate’s family in their Cotswolds mansion, in this Christmas thriller from the always excellent Swanson. Faber is going for gift appeal with this £10 hardback.


The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder Macmillan, 29th February 24, £16.99, hb, 9781035021802 Freya investigates when her estranged mentor, antiques dealer Arthur, dies in suspicious circum- stances. First in a new series from the daughter of Judith Miller.


Greg Mosse Murder at Bunting Manor Hodder Paperbacks, 9th November, £9.99, tpb, 9781399715164 Second in the cosy crime series set in the Sussex countryside from Mosse sees amateur sleuth Maisie Cooper helping out her estranged aunt Phyllis, who believes someone is out to kill her.


Orlando Murrin Knife Skills For Beginners


Cosy


Bantam, 1st February 24, £14.99, hb, 9781787636811 The cookbook author turns his pen to cosy crime with the launch of a new series in which chef Paul Delamare investigates the murder of an old friend.


Suk Pannu Mrs Sidhu’s Dead and Scone HarperFiction, 12th October, £16.99, hb, 9780008562922 This “cosy culinary crime thriller” (I love how that rolls off the tongue) sees Mrs Sidhu get a job as a chef at a celebrity rehab clinic, where a therapist winds up dead. Mrs Sidhu Investigates was adapted by BBC Radio 4.


James Patterson Holmes, Miss Marple & Poe Investigations Cornerstone, 4th January 24, £20, hb, 9781529136494 I wanted to mention this Patterson, among the almost-dozen others out over the period, because it sounds such fun—Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and August Poe run a PI firm in New York, and we’re promised plenty of nods to Golden Age crime. Start of a series, and there’ll be an “unmissable” marketing campaign.


R V Raman The Last Resort Pushkin Vertigo, 7th December, £9.99, pb, 9781782279402 A murderer strikes at a luxury resort in the fourth Harith Athreya mystery, a contemporary Indian cosy crime series.


Josephine Tey and DCI Archie Penrose are after a murderer stalking the set of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”. The success of the subgenre means Faber is positioning this as cosy crime, but it could equally be historical or series.


Friends reunited


Six old friends go on a glamping weekend, but things veer off course when one of them goes missing.


Gangland


Martina Cole Loyalty Headline, 12th October, £25, hb, 9781472249456 Cole has collaborated with Jacqui Rose on this latest gangland thriller, in which loyalty is needed to survive.


Andreina Cordani The Twelve Days of Murder Zaffre, 26th October, £14.99, hb, 9781804182208 The jackpot—this is a locked-room, friends reunited, Christmas mystery, in which eight university friends who used to run The Masquerade Murder Society, until one member of the group disappeared, get together again 12 years later.


Lexie Elliot


Bright and Deadly Things Corvus, 3rd August, £8.99, pb, 9781838950507 Emily is on a trip with friends to a chalet in the French Alps when a student goes missing and she sees her deceased husband’s number in her call history. Elliot is a great psychological thriller writer and I’m looking forward to this.


Leonie Swann The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp Allison & Busby, 21st September, £16.99, hb, 9780749030384 This cosy crime mystery sees a body discovered at the old people’s home where Agnes Sharp resides. She investigates. A second in the series will follow in 2024.


Nicola Upson Shot with Crimson Faber & Faber, 2nd November, £16.99, hb, 9780571373673


Oskar Jensen Helle and Death Viper, 25th January 24, £14.99, hb, 9781800811720 Art historian Torben Helle travels to a remote Northumbrian mansion for a reunion with old univer- sity friends, only for them all to get snowed in and cut off after an apparent suicide.


Louise Mumford The Hotel HQ Digital, 17th August, £9.99, tpb, 9780008589943 Three friends return to the hotel they visited 10 years earlier as students, when a fourth friend disappeared.


Hannah Richell The Search Party Simon & Schuster, 18th January 24, £16.99, hb, 9781398527959


Martin Kemp The Game HarperFiction, 9th November, £20, hb, 9780008626792 Incredible scenes: the founding member of Spandau Ballet has writ- ten a gangland thriller in which former 1980s pop star Johnny Klein is dragged into east London’s underbelly. A national PR and marketing campaign is planned, says HarperCollins.


Roberta Kray Cheated Sphere, 16th November, £21.99, hb, 9780751581386 The new East End gang- land crime novel from Kray, who Sphere says has sold more than one million copies of her books.


High concept


Jayne Cowie I Did it For You Cornerstone, 31st August, £8.99, pb, 9781529158908 This speculative thriller has an intriguing twist: what if you could test your child for a gene that predicts violence? Sisters Antonia and Bea are doting mothers; one has tested, one hasn’t—and one of them is hiding a monster.


Christina Dalcher The Sentence HQ, 17th August, £16.99, hb, 9780008559472 This high-concept thriller from the author of Vox is set in a world where if the convicted are later found innocent, the lawyer who requested the execution will be sentenced to death.


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