sees the mood far from festive on Peppercorn Street despite the approach of Christmas.


Debbie Macomber A Season of Angels Avon, 29th, £7.99, 9780063048270 Three willing but wayward angels, Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, are each given someone’s prayer to answer.


she tells herself it was just a dream, until she sees the man from her dream in reality. “Heartbreaking and poignant,” said Glamour.


Eithne Shortall Three Little Truths Corvus, 1st, £8.99, 9781786496201 An Irish Times bestseller, this follows three women, neighbours on Pine Road, all looking for a fresh start.


Crime and thriller


Ayisha Malik This Green and Pleasant Land Zaffre, 1st, £8.99, 9781785764509 In the sleepy village of Babel’s End, Bilal Hasham tries to fulfil his mother’s dying wish to build a mosque. “An inquiry into faith, identity and the meaning of home,” said the Guardian.


Gervase Phinn Tales Out of School Hodder & Stoughton, 29th, £8.99, 9781473650671 The second book in the new Top of the Dale series set in the sleepy village of Risingdale, where Tom Dwyer takes a job as a teacher.


Rachel Abbott The Murder Game Wildfire, 29th, £7.99, 9781472254962 The second Stephanie King novel sees Lucas inviting his guests back to Cornwall a year after the tragedy that happened just before his wedding. Abbott has sold over three million copies of her nine psychological thrillers, says Headline.


Stephanie Austin From Devon With Death Allison & Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749025045 The third in the Devon Mysteries series sees Juno Browne trying to find the real identity of the killer who has taken on the identity of Cutty Dyer, Ashburton’s mythical blood-drinking demon.


Hannah Richell The River Home Orion, 29th, £7.99, 9781409152279 Margot, who left her family’s crumbling home in Somerset eight years ago, knows she must return when her sisters’ lives start to unravel.


Rebecca Serle In Five Years Quercus, 1st, £7.99, 9781529405835 Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan has her five-year plan in place. Then she wakes one morning to find herself five years in the future, in the company of a man who isn’t her fiancé. When she wakes,


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Sharon Bolton The Split Trapeze, 29th, £7.99, 9781409174219 Set on the remote island of South Georgia, where scientist Felicity took a job to escape from Freddie, this is a stark, chilling and twisty thriller which I thoroughly enjoyed.


Andrea Camilleri The Safety Net Picador, 1st, £8.99, 9781529035575 The 25th novel in the late Camilleri’s Montalbano series sees Vigàta bustling as the new filming loca- tion for a Swedish televi- sion series set in 1950, as the inspector grapples with a double mystery.


Andrea Carter The Body Falls Constable, 1st, £8.99, 9781472131126 This fifth in the series following solicitor Ben O’Keeffe, set on the isolated Inishowen


peninsula, sees a serial killer at the heart of the community of Glendara.


C J Cooper The Book Club Constable, 1st, £7.99, 9781472129673


Début Alice joins the book club for


revenge, after moving to the village.


Julie Corbin I Tell a Lie Hodder & Stoughton, 15th, £8.99, 9781473663244 When a school nurse is accused of hitting a pupil, one of them is lying, but which?


Martin Cruz Smith The Siberian Dilemma S&S Adult Fiction, 29th, £8.99, 9781849838207 Investigator Arkady Renko travels deep into Siberia when journalist Tatiana Petrovna disappears on a case.


Piatkus, 15th, £7.99, 9780349418322 The 24th in the DI Wesley Peterson series follows the investigation when a human skeleton is found under a fallen tree on an isolated Devon farm.


Christopher Fowler Bryant & May— England’s Finest Bantam, 15th, £8.99, 9780857504098 The second collection of stories from the case- books of Arthur Bryant and John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit.


David Gordon The Hard Stuff Head of Zeus, 1st, £8.99, 9781838933128 Ex-black ops specialist turned strip club bouncer Joe Brody is asked by mob bosses to help them swindle a group of opioid dealers.


Susan Hill


Luca D’Andrea Sanctuary MacLehose Press, 1st, £8.99, 9780857058690 Marlene goes on the run after stealing something from her husband, taking refuge with a tough mountain man. But her husband can’t forgive her, and makes a pact with the devil. “Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesbø,” said La Repubblica.


The Benefit of Hindsight Vintage, 1st, £8.99, 9781529110548 The 10th Simon Serailler thriller sees the sanctity of hearth and home threatened in Lafferton. A “major” marketing campaign is planned by Vintage, which says it has sold over 60,000 copies of the last Serrailler installment, The Comforts of Home.


Laura Elliot The Thorn Girl Sphere, 15th, £8.99, 9780751579970 Adele, who was born into a religious group led by Gloria Thornton, returns to the last place her mother was seen alive to find those responsible for the devastating attack on her.


Kate Ellis The Burial Circle


Joshua Hood Robert Ludlum’s™ The Treadstone Resurrection Head of Zeus, 1st, £8.99, 9781789546460 The first in a new series inspired by Robert Ludlum’s Bourne universe, in which Adam Hayes, nearly destroyed by Operation Treadstone, tries to make a new life as a carpenter, until he is attacked by an unknown hit team at work.


Susan Isaacs Takes One To Know One Grove Press, 1st, £8.99, 9781611854695 A retired FBI agent, now a Long Island housewife, begins to suspect her neighbour of hiding something.


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