This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Head of Zeus, 3rd, £7.99, 9781788548687 On the island of Santaniki, close to Crete, a retired bookseller suggests the English residents form a choir.
derelict hospital. Sixth in the series.
Samuel Bjork The Boy in the Headlights Corgi, 17th, £7.99, 9780552170925 In the third outing for detectives Munch and Krüger, they are up against a serial killer who is inviting them to play a deadly game. A Norwegian series is in development with ITV.
Eleanor O’Reilly M for Mammy Two Roads, 3rd, £7.99, 9781473672376 The story of a very different Irish family, all of whom are shaken up when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge.
Kelly Rimmer The Things We Cannot Say Headline Review, 17th, £8.99, 9781472247315 Alice, whose son Eddie has Autism, goes to Poland to discover the secrets of her grand- mother’s past. A bestseller in Australia.
Crime & thriller
Television producer Laurie Moran and her crew, who track down and solve cold-cases, take on their most difficult yet.
murder. But when he is found dead in suspicious circumstances, she has to accept she may have been wrong.
Helen Cox Murder by the Minster Quercus, 21st, £8.99, 9781529402209 The first in a cosy mystery series set in York sees librarian Kitt Hartley look- ing into the murder of her best friend’s ex-boyfriend.
C J Box Wolf Pack Head of Zeus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781788549257 Joe Pickett, Wyoming’s Twelve Sleep County game warden, is on the trail of a remorseless quartet of killers known as the Wolf Pack. Nineteenth in the series.
Simon Beckett The Scent of Death Bantam, 31st, £8.99, 9780553824124 Forensics expert Dr David Hunter investigates the discovery of corpses in a bricked-up room at a
History Dan Jones & Marina Amaral
The Colour of Time Head of Zeus, 3rd, £9.99, 9781789541557
One to Watch
Brazilian artist Amaral has created 200 images, using contemporary photographs as the basis for her stunning full-colour digital rendi-
tions, to go alongside Jones’ history of the world between 1850 and 1960. Covering everything from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age, “the effect is transformative,” said the Telegraph. A book of the year all over the place in hardback, this mini edition is a great gift purchase.
Tom Clancy Oath of Office Michael Joseph, 17th, £7.99, 9781405935470 The latest in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series sees the distracted president trying to catch up with a global conspiracy. The Amazon Prime series and a fresh package drove a 28% year-on-year sales increase for Clancy in 2018, says Michael Joseph.
Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke You Don’t Own Me S&S Adult Fiction, 3rd, £7.99, 9781471167669
Samantha Downing My Lovely Wife Michael Joseph, 3rd, £7.99, 9781405939294 Pitchied as “‘Dexter’ meets Gillian Flynn”; a man wonders what he really knows about his wife as a serial killer stalks their town. Michael Joseph says it sold 50,000 e-books in its first four weeks on sale, with rights sold in 16 territories.
find the truth about what happened, and a mother whose secrets are catch- ing up with her.
Vintage, 3rd, £7.99, 9781784709860 This new take on Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is set in the New York Hamptons, where a young woman takes up a life of luxury with her new fiancé Max Winter. “It’s as beau- tifully written as it is (re) plotted, and the updating of the characters is superb,” said the Mail.
Karen Ellis Last Night Mulholland Books, 17th, £8.99, 9781473662841 NYPD detective Lex Cole looks into the disap- pearance of a Brooklyn teenager.
Fiona Cummins The Neighbour Pan, 3rd, £7.99, 9781509876938 The Lockwoods move into a new home looking for a fresh start, but find they’ve arrived in the middle of a serial killer’s hunting ground.
Anja de Jager A Death in Rembrandt Square Constable, 24th, £8.99, 9781472126313 A podcast is delving into a past case of Dutch detective Lotte Meerman, revealing hidden facts about the arrest of Ruud Klaver, a man Lotte still believes to be guilty of
Charlotte Duckworth The Rival Quercus, 17th, £7.99, 9781787470958 Career woman Helena, a mother without a baby, blames her former protégé Ashley for destroying her life.
Allen Eskens The Shadows We Hide Mulholland Books, 31st, £8.99, 9781473694507 Reporter Joe Talbert Jr, who has never met his namesake, looks into the murder of a Joseph Talbert in Minnesota.
Robert Goddard One False Move Corgi, 17th, £7.99, 9780552172615 Press advertising for the new Goddard, in which a man with a brain that seems to be able to outperform a computer becomes the focus of several nefarious forces.
Laura Griffin Her Deadly Secrets Headline Eternal, 31st, £8.99, 9781472265166 Private investigator Kira Vance finds herself in the path of a killer.
Lucy Foley
Jessica Eames Bad Seed Trapeze, 31st, £7.99, 9781409189763
Debut Great cover for this story about
how a man’s death haunts a daughter determined to
Historical Frances Liardet
We Must Be Brave 4th Estate, 3rd, £8.99, 9780008280154
One to Watch
In 1940 Southampton, Eleanor finds a five-year-old girl alone in a bus, and takes her into her home. But when the war ends, she realises that Pamela
was never hers to keep. HarperCollins hopes this will find the market All the Light We Cannot See hit in paperback, after selling 8,000-odd in hardback. It is “working hard to make it happen”. “Dazzling... fierce, physical and almost inexpressibly tender,” said the Guardian. Managing to be both moving and unsentimental, it is also beautifully written; a “quiet master- piece of love and loss”, said the Mail.
The Hunting Party HarperFiction, 3rd, £7.99, 9780008297152 A top-five bestseller about a group of friends who gather in a remote Scottish hunting lodge for New Year, only for a body to be found. This is a great thriller, and the cover really makes it stand out.
Lisa Gabriele The Winters
June Hampson Trust Nobody Orion, 3rd, £8.99, 9781409190240 The first in a gritty gang- land series in which Daisy Lane runs the family’s café while her husband is in jail.
Joe Ide Wrecked W&N, 3rd, £8.99, 9781474608916
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