BOOKS
SRL Publishing, 28th, £9.99, 9781915073303 Joshua wakes from a car accident to find his stepdaughter missing in a town full of secrets.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Victoria Cribb (trans) The Prey Hodder Paperbacks, 9th, £9.99, 9781529377477 Secret siblings, missing persons and phone calls from beyond the grave all hint at something searching for prey on the ice.
Amor Towles (ed) Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 3 Aries, 9th, £12, 9781837932993 New crime stories from Andrew Child, Jeffery Deaver, Kerry Hammond, and many more, selected by Amor Towles and Otto Penzler, proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.
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Début Dark secrets lie behind a
passionate marriage, as a wife’s calculating behaviour goes too far.
Luca Veste Trust In Me Hodder Paperbacks, 14th, £9.99, 9781529357400 A patient confesses to a murder which was committed by her therapist.
with African abolitionist Ned. Inspired by a true story.
Elodie Harper The Temple of Fortuna Apollo, 9th, £9.99, 9781838933630 In AD79, Amara is now a freed woman with wealth and influence but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is on the horizon. Final part of the Wolf Den trilogy.
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe’s Command HarperFiction, 9th, £9.99, 9780008496807 In the Peninsular War, Major Sharpe heads undercover behind enemy lines in the Spanish countryside. The 14th book in the Sharpe series.
Catriona Ward Looking Glass Sound Viper, 23rd, £9.99, 9781800810990 A betrayed writer fears the past is haunting him as he begins work on his last book. “A heartfelt exploration of obsession”, said the Daily Express.
Laure Van Rensburg The Good Daughter Michael Joseph, 23rd, £8.99, 9781405949484 A Pastor’s daughter is the only survivor of a tragedy. “A thrilling read that really gets you thinking”, said Prima.
Maud Ventura, Emma Ramadan (trans) My Husband Penguin, 2nd, £9.99,
Literary Rebecca F Kuang
Yellowface The Borough Press, 9th, £9.99, 9780008532819
Ruth Ware Zero Days Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 9th, £9.99, 9781398508422 Accused of murder, Jack goes on the run to clear her name and find her husband’s real killer.
Historical
Neil Blackmore Radical Love Penguin, 30th, £9.99, 9781529158762 In 1809, Southwark minister John Church risks everything when he secretly ordains gay marriages and falls in love
Liz Fenwick The Secret Shore HQ, 9th, £9.99, 9780008532307 Romance and danger swirl in the life of Merry, a Second World War map-maker working with an American officer on the rugged coasts of Cornwall and Brittany.
Sarah Freethy The Porcelain Maker Simon & Schuster, 23rd, £9.99, 9781398511828 Clara must uncover secrets kept by her mother and bound up with her father, the eponymous porcelain maker who was detained at Dachau.
Kristin Harmel The Paris Daughter Mountain Leopard Press, 7th, £8.99, 9781802793895 A tale of mothers, daughters and families torn apart set between Second World War Paris and 1960s New York.
Sophie Keetch Morgan Is My Name Magpie Books, 2nd, £9.99, 9780861545216
Début The early life of misunderstood
Arthurian villainess Morgan le Fay. “Beautifully written”, said the Times. First book in a planned trilogy.
When a new owner arrives, can Emmy Lake balance her work for the war effort with saving the Woman’s Friend magazine? Third book in the Emmy Lake Chronicles.
Phoenicia Rogerson Herc HQ, 9th, £9.99, 9780008589875
Début A feminist, queer retelling of the
myth of Hercules via the silenced characters in the hero’s circle.
Natasha Solomons Fair Rosaline Manilla Press, 9th, £9.99, 9781786582676 Feminist retelling of “Romeo and Juliet” from the perspective of Rosaline, Romeo’s first love. “Vivid, turbulent and compelling”, said the Independent.
Naomi Kelsey The Burnings HarperNorth, 9th, £8.99, 9780008534790
Début In 16th-century Scotland, the
North Berwick witch trials create a frenzy of paranoia, forging an alliance between Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta. An eye-catching cover for this début from the winner of two Northern Writers Awards and the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Competition 2021.
A J Pearce Mrs Porter Calling Picador, 23rd, £9.99, 9781035000807
One to Watch
June Hayward, a disappointed, jealous début author witnesses her friend Athena Liu die in a freak accident and can’t resist “borrowing” Liu’s newly completed masterpiece. This commentary on the world of contemporary publishing won huge
praise in hardback for its dark, incisive comedy, with the Times calling it “‘a wicked little satire of publish- ing, racial politics and icky internet culture”. Expect the buzz to carry over to paperback alongside the now iconic cover.
Crime and thriller
Suk Pannur Mrs Sidhu’s ‘Dead and Scone’ Hemlock Press, 9th, £9.99, 9780008562960
caterer turned amateur sleuth from Slough, Mrs Sidhu, should reach a prime readership. The character has
already had outings on BBC Radio 4 and in a new “Acorn TV” series, both featuring the talents of Meera Syal, who Pannu worked with on “Goodness Gracious Me” and “The Kumars at No 42”.
S J A Turney Caracalla Canelo Adventure, 9th, £10.99, 9781800326743 Sibling rivalry between Geta and older brother Marcus Aurelius threatens Rome in the final novel in the Damned Emperors series.
Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend Bloomsbury Publishing, 9th, £9.99, 9781526666765 In antebellum America, enslaved girl Annis must draw on her mother’s resilience and stories of her African warrior grandmother to survive the unforgiving landscapes of the American South. An “intensely lyrical novel”, said the Daily Mail. Ward
is a two time National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow.
Historical adventure
Steve Berry The Last Kingdom Hodder Paperbacks, 7th, £9.99, 9781399706407 The history of the Bavarian monarchy sets book dealer and retired spy Cotton Malone on a cross-European adventure in the 17th book in the series. Moves from October.
Matthew Harffy A Day of Reckoning Aries, 9th, £9.99, 9781804548561 In 8th-century Islamic Spain, a deadly weapon threatens the future of Europe. Third book in the A Time for Swords series.
Tim Leach The Hollow Throne Aries, 9th, £9.99, 9781800242944 In AD180, Sarmatian warrior Kai and his adopted tribe, the Votadini, struggle for survival north of Hadrian’s Wall. Third book in the Sarmatian Trilogy.
Stephen Ronson The Last Line Hodder Paperbacks, 23rd, £9.99, 9781399721271 In May 1940, a veteran discovers that evacuees
One to Watch
Début A rehab retreat therapist is found dead in a small village in this cosy crime début from Pannu, whose
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