BOOKS


Maz Evans Over My Dead Body Headline, 3rd August, £16.99, hb, 9781035402304 Dr Miriam Price is dead. From the afterlife, she needs to prove to her inquest that her death was not a misadventure. By the bestselling children’s author.


Category Spotlight Crime & thriller


Derek B Miller The Curse of Pietro Houdini Doubleday, 25th January 24, £18.99, hb, 9780857529268 In 1943 Italy, young Massimo works for eccen- tric Pietro protecting a monastery’s priceless art from the Nazis, but both are hiding secrets. Latest from the Norwegian By Night author.


Sarah Moorhead The Treatment Canelo, 31st August, £9.99, tpb, 9781804365366 Set in a world where the (brutal) future of law enforcement has arrived thanks to Janus Justice’s “Offender Treatment Programme”, this sees rehabilitation psychiatrist Grace discover a flaw in the system. Great cover.


L J Shepherd The Trials of Lila Dalton Pushkin Vertigo, 1st February 24, £16.99, hb, 9781782279853 This high-concept legal thriller follows Lila, who has no memory of how she got to the courtroom where she is the barrister for a man accused of mass murder, stranded on an island where the most serious crimes go to trial.


Historical Amy Chua


The Golden Gate Corvus, 21st September, £16.99, hb, 9781838959487 Detective Al Sullivan’s investigation into the death of a former presi- dential candidate in 1944 California leads back to the death of a seven- year-old 10 years earlier. Atlantic describes this as “Chinatown” meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo—which sounds good to me!


Anita Frank The Good Liars HQ, 17th August, £16.99, hb, 9780008455224 Six years after a boy vanished in 1914, his case is reopened, and the once esteemed Stilwell family of Darkacre Hall find themselves under police scrutiny.


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Marija Pericic Exquisite Corpse Ultimo Press, 2nd November, £16.99, hb, 9781761152696 Stunning cover (and great title) for this historical thriller set in Stockholm, 1930, where an eccentric doctor becomes obsessed with bringing a beautiful patient back from beyond the grave.


Historical adventure


Fifteen years after the events of The Firm, Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan when a mentor in Rome asks him for a favour. This is bound to be big.


luxury transatlantic liner “RMS Lusitania”, and civil servant Patrick Gallagher investigates.


Dann McDorman West Heart Kill Raven Books, 24th October, £16.99, hb, 9781526666222 There has been a murder at a prestigious country club, and the reader has a part to play in solving it too, says Bloomsbury, describing this début as “fiendishly brilliant” and original.


Boyd Morrison & Beth Morrison The Last True Templar Aries, 14th September, £20, hb, 9781801108683 In 1351 Italy, knight Gerard Fox and his companion Willa are on a quest for the treasure of the Templar Knights. Second in the series.


Reissue


James Patterson Lion & Lamb Cornerstone, 11th April 24, £8.99, pb, 9781529159783 James Patterson has 11 new hardbacks out over the period this preview covers, basically one a month. I’ve not listed them all, but a rule of thumb is: if it is a month of the year, there will be a new Patterson thriller published. Lion & Lamb is a standalone in which one spouse in a celebrity couple is murdered, and the other becomes suspect number one. Private investigator Cooper is acting for the defence; attorney Veena for the prosecution.


Rob Rinder The Suspect Cornerstone, 20th June 24, £20, hb, 9781529196405 Morning TV star Hannah Holby dies live on screen; celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks is the main suspect. But junior barris- ter Adam Green discovers there is more to the case than meets the eye, in this latest in the barrister and broadcaster’s legal series.


Locked room


Dorothy Dunnett Roman Nights Farrago, 3rd August, £8.99, tpb, 9781788424172 Duckworth is, quite brilliantly, reissuing the legendary Dunnett’s series of Dolly mysteries. They look good, and Dunnett deserves more attention. Watch out for all of them.


Legal


John Grisham The Exchange Hodder & Stoughton, 17th October, £22, hb, 9781399724821


Jo Furniss Dead Mile Zaffre, 4th July 24, £9.99, tpb, 9781804183441 This is a really fun idea for a locked-room thriller—a “grid-locked” thriller, in which Sergeant Belinda Kidd, driving home from the airport, hits terrible traffic and discovers a body in a black sedan. The killer can’t have left the scene—so they must be one of the nearby motorists.


R L Graham


Death on the Lusitania Macmillan, 25th January 24, £16.99, hb, 9781035021918 This sounds tons of fun—in 1915, there is a murder on


Cate Quinn The Clinic Orion, 18th January 24, £18.99, hb, 9781398720459 When a troubled pop star is found dead at rehab clinic, her sister checks in to find out why.


master criminal Miles Faulkner out to steal the Crown Jewels. Ambitious!


Lee Child & Andrew Child The Secret Bantam, 24th October, £22, hb, 9781787633773 A “widespread” campaign for the third Jack Reacher collaboration between Child and his brother Andrew sees Reacher investigating eight appar- ently unconnected deaths across the US.


Ajay Chowdhury The Spy Harvill Secker, 4th April 24, £16.99, hb, 9781787304017 The latest in the Kamil Rahman series sees the former detective turned cook, and his no-nonsense partner Anjoli, infiltrating a terrorist cell when MI5 asks for help.


L D Smithson The Escape Room Bantam, 14th March 24, £14.99, hb, 9780857504807 Eight contestants arrive to take part in reality TV series “The Fortress”, where the consequences of failure are deadly. “‘Squid Game’ meets ‘The Traitors’,” says Transworld—which can only be a good thing.


Akimitsu Takagi The Noh Mask Murder Pushkin Vertigo, 4th April 24, £9.99, pb, 9781782279655 The head of the Chizurui family is found dead inside his study, locked from the inside, in this first English translation of a classic Japanese mystery.


Rachel Wolf Five Nights Aries, 29th February 24, £9.99, pb, 9781803287829 This luxury liner locked- room mystery sees Wolf’s narrator invited on a five-day cruise by the infamous Scarmado family.


Series


Jeffrey Archer Traitors Gate HarperFiction, 26th September, £22, hb, 9780008474379 The sixth in the William Warwick series sees


Ann Cleeves The Raging Storm Macmillan, 31st August, £22, hb, 9781529077698 In Cleeves’ latest Detective Matthew Venn crime novel, he investigates when the body of a local celebrity and sailor is found in a dinghy.


S A Cosby


All The Sinners Bleed Headline, 1st February 24, £9.99, pb, 9781472299154 Former FBI agent Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia, and he is investigating the shooting of a teacher by a former student.


Janet Evanovich Dirty Thirty Headline, 31st October, £22, hb, 9781035401987 The 30th Stephanie Plum sees her out to find a million dollars’ worth of diamonds.


Michael Connelly Resurrection Walk Orion, 7th November, £22, hb, 9781398718968 Lincoln lawyer Mickey Haller and his half-brother Harry Bosch are out to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband in the latest from the bestselling Connelly.


Patricia Cornwell Unnatural Death Sphere, 23rd November, £22, hb, 9781408728697 Kay Scarpetta is called in when two mutilated bodies are found—both of


Felix Francis No Reserve Zaffre, 28th September, £20, hb, 9781804183212 Theo, an auctioneer at the thoroughbred sales ring, has made the biggest sale of his life when he overhears two bidders suggesting they colluded over it. He investigates when the horse is found dead the next morning. Zaffre is taking over Francis’ publishing from S&S.


Robert Galbraith The Running Grave Sphere, 26th October, £25, hb, 9781408730942 The latest instalment in Galbraith/J K Rowling’s series about Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, all six of which to date have been number one Sunday Times bestsellers.


Lisa Gardner Still See You Everywhere


whom were killed on the verge of their arrest for cybercrimes. Cornwell’s 2022 title Livid sold 90,000 copies in its first four months, says Sphere.


Jeffery Deaver The Watchmaker’s Hand HarperFiction, 23rd November, £22, hb, 9780008503864 Lincoln Rhyme, who I have a great fondness for as a character, as his was one of the first series I really got into, is in danger in this latest from Deaver.


Garry Disher Day’s End Viper, 3rd August, £9.99, tpb, 9781800817371 Constable Paul Hirschausen investigates a body found in a suit- case on his rural South Australia beat in this latest from the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award winner.


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