BOOKS


Cornerstone, 14th March 24, £16.99, hb, 9781529917093 Frankie Elkin is asked by an imprisoned serial killer to track down her long lost sister before she faces the death penalty.


Anthony Horowitz Close to Death Cornerstone, 14th March 24, £22, hb, 9781529904239 Detective Hawthorne investigates when a man is found murdered with a crossbow in an exclusive gated community, in this latest from the always bestselling Horowitz.


Category Spotlight Crime & thriller


slitting throats in London. To solve the crime, she must delve into the dark- est corners of the internet.


Lynda La Plante Taste of Blood Zaffre, 17th August, £22, hb, 9781804181492 Detective Jane Tennison has moved to a station closer to home, but wonders if any serious crimes will ever be committed in Bromley. This is the penultimate title in a series which will end in 2024.


Peter James Stop Them Dead Macmillan, 28th September, £22, hb, 9781529089967 DS Roy Grace investigates when a young farmer is murdered, in this latest in the bestselling series.


Alan Johnson Untitled Novel Wildfire, 17th March 24, £20, hb, 9781035403448 DS Louise Mangan inves- tigates the explosion of a houseboat in this third in the series from the former MP.


Tony Kent The Legend of the Monk Elliott & Tompson, 15th February 24, £16.99, hb, 9781783966684 Barrister Michael Devlin and agent Joe Dempsey try to find out who is behind a terror attack in the Hague.


Vaseem Khan Death of a Lesser God Hodder & Stoughton, 10th August, £16.99, hb, 9781399707602 The fourth in the excellent Malabar House series from the Harrogate chair, featuring Persis Wadia, India’s first female police detective, in Bombay, 1950. This time round, Persis is investigating the killing of a prominent lawyer.


Alex Khan The Scorned Hera, 5th October, £9.99, tpb, 9781804364970 DS Mumtaz “Moomy” Ali is up against a serial killer


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Kate London The Misper Corvus, 3rd August, £14.99, hb, 9781838954482 Book four of The Tower series—now a major ITV drama—sees DI Sarah Collins investigating a missing teenager and drawn into a much bigger investigation.


Alexander McCall Smith From a Far and Lovely Country Abacus, 7th September, £18.99, hb, 9780349145938 A new adventure for Mma Ramotswe in the 24th in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.


Whistleblower. This follow- up starring journalist Gil Peck sees the apparent suicide of a director of the Bank of England after Gil writes a story that sparks a run on a bank. Peston is, obviously, a financial journalist, and this sounds really interesting. “Big” campaign planned.


Nita Prose The Mystery Guest HarperFiction, 18th January 24, £16.99, hb, 9780008435776 Molly, the maid from the bestselling The Maid, investigates when a famous mystery writer dies in the tea room at the Regency Grand Hotel.


Caro Ramsay The Devil Stone Canongate Books, 31st August, £9.99, tpb, 9781838858889 This first in a new series sees DCI Christine Caplan in the Scottish Highlands investigating the brutal massacre of a wealthy family.


Kathy Reichs The Bone Hacker Simon & Schuster, 3rd August, £20, hb, 9781398510838 The new Temperance Brennan sees her investi- gating the disappearance of young male tourists on the islands of Turks and Caicos.


Val McDermid Past Lying Sphere, 12th October, £22, hb, 9781408729076 In the new DCI Karen Pirie, Pirie investigates when an author’s manuscript appears to be the blue- print for an actual crime.


Ian Moore The Man Who Didn’t Burn Duckworth, 12th October, £14.99, hb, 9781788424318 The author of the bestsell- ing Death and Croissants tells of the brutal murder of English expat Graham Singleterry in the Loire Valley, and the investiga- tion into his death by juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard. First in a new series.


Robert Peston The Crash Zaffre, 14th September, £16.99, hb, 9781838777784 I really enjoyed Peston’s début thriller The


Lloyd Devereux Richards Maidens of the Cave HQ, 1st August, £8.99, tpb, 9780008648343 This sequel to TikTok sensation Stone Maidens sees forensic anthropolo- gist Christine Prusik after a killer who leaves an unusual mark on their victims.


Rebecca Tope A Discovery in the Cotswolds Allison & Busby, 24th August, £19.99, hb, 9780749030377 The 21st in the Cotswold Mysteries series sees Thea Osborne looking for her friend’s missing niece.


Orenda Books, 12th October, £16.99, hb, 9781914585968 I adore Tuomainen’s hilari- ous creation, the insur- ance mathematician and amusement park entre- preneur Henri Koskinen. This is the final part of the Rabbit Factor trilogy, and sees him (again) dealing with a mounting body count, as a rival adventure park looks to expand their operations. Tuomainen is headlining Harrogate, Capital Crime and Bloody Scotland, and Steve Carell is starring in “The Rabbit Factor”. As Chris Brookmyre put it: “In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary?”


stop a radical environ- mental group taking extreme action.


Joseph Kanon Shanghai Simon & Schuster, 9th May 24, £16.99, hb, 9781398519770 Daniel Lohr sets out for Shanghai on learning the Nazis are closing in on Jews in Berlin. He must deliver a package to his shady uncle.


is out to track down his father, taken into witness protection years earlier, before his enemies find him.


Matthew Blake Anna O HarperFiction, 1st February 24, £14.99, hb, 9780008607791 This will be a “major” title for HC in 2024, acquired in a fast pre-empt. It tells the story of a young woman who kills her two best friends in her sleep, and the therapist tasked with waking her up.


Tom Wood Blood Debt Sphere, 23rd November, £20, hb, 9780751584868 Enigmatic assassin Victor is a key suspect when his new employer, who is part of the Russian Mafia, is shot dead in London.


Spy


Elly Conway Argylle Bantam, 9th November, £18.99, hb, 9781787635913 Troubled CIA agent Argylle must take on one of the world’s most powerful men in this début which is likely to generate a lot of buzz, thanks to an upcoming film adaptation starring Henry Cavill and Dua Lipa.


Charles Cumming Kennedy 35 HarperFiction, 26th October, £18.99, hb, 9780008363512 Cumming is a super-classy spy novelist; this third in the series about covert intelligence organisation BOX 88 follows a mission to Senegal to find a war criminal in the wake of the Rwandan genocide.


Antti Tuomainen The Beaver Theory


Adam Hamdy White Fire Pan, 31st August, £8.99, tpb, 9781509899289 The latest in the Scott Pearce series from a James Patterson co-author, in which the ex-MI6 officer is out to


Chris Merritt Committed Wildfire, 13th October, £10.99, pb, 9781035407293 Former CIA agent Ellen McGinley stumbles across a domestic terror plot, but no one will believe her and she finds herself locked in a psychiatric ward.


Stella Rimington The Puppet Master Bloomsbury Publishing, 6th June 24, £16.99, hb, 9781526652737 CIA agent Manon Tyler investigates an élite Chinese study centre in Oxford which is secretly recruiting students to steal high-value research and intellectual property. Second in the series from the ex-head of MI5.


Paul Vidich Beirut Station No Exit Press, 4th January 24, £18.99, hb, 9781915798596 Young Lebanese- American CIA agent Analise is given a mission to assassinate a Hezbollah terrorist, but she reveals a dark truth.


Thriller


Rachel Abbott Don’t Look Away Wildfire, 3rd August, £8.99, pb, 9781035403387 Eleven years after her sister Lola ran away from their aunt’s Cornish cottage, Abbott’s narrator is back to find out what really went on. Latest from the Kindle top seller.


Linwood Barclay The Lie Maker HQ, 31st August, £22, hb, 9780008555696 The bestselling Barclay tells the story of Jack, who


Sharon Bolton The Fake Wife Orion, 9th November, £16.99, hb, 9781398709812 I always think Bolton is excellent, and this latest has a great premise: a stranger sits down at Olive’s table and pretends to be her wife, but Olive has secrets of her own.


Amanda Cassidy The Returned Canelo Crime, 24th August, £14.99, hb, 9781804365205 A detective is called back to her home town and a crime she thought she’d left behind, when some- one seemingly returns from the dead. Début from an award-winning Irish journalist.


Steve Cavanagh Kill For Me Kill For You Headline, 3rd August, £14.99, hb, 9781035408153 Two women meet by chance, and agree to kill the men who destroyed the other one’s family. Cavanagh is always great.


Emma Cook You Can’t Hurt Me Orion, 29th February 24, £14.99, hb, 9781398717251 When Anna becomes a ghostwriter to Dr Nate Reid, a neuroscientist renowned for his work at The Pain Laboratory, she finds herself becoming obsessed with his late wife.


Alex Dahl Girl Friends Aries, 11th April 24, £9.99, pb, 9781801108331


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