BOOKS
Isaiah Quintabe (“IQ”) is asked for help to find a missing mother, but his client turns out to be connected to a dangerous paramilitary operation.
David Jackson Your Deepest Fear Zaffre, 3rd, £7.99, 9781785765568 Sara follows a hidden clue in the last phone call from her murdered husband, hoping to find his killer.
Ragnar Jónasson The Island Michael Joseph, 3rd, £8.99, 9781405930802 The second in the Hidden Iceland series, which is being told in reverse chronological order, sees Hulda Hermannsdóttir looking into a string of disappearances on the remote islands of Elliðaey.
David Mark Cold Bones Mulholland Books, 3rd, £8.99, 9781473643215 DS McAvoy investigates the death of an old woman found in a bath encased in ice, her whole house frozen.
J P Pomare Call Me Evie Sphere, 3rd, £7.99, 9780751573893 Evie has fled with her uncle Jim to an isolated New Zealand beach town, to escape something terri- ble she did in Melbourne. But as her memories start to return, she begins to wonder if Jim is her saviour or her captor.
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Verses for the Dead Head of Zeus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781788546782 Special Agent A X L Pendergast is sent with a partner to Florida to investigate a rash of ritu- alistic murders. Eighteenth in the series.
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Alex Recht discover the link between three seem- ingly unconnected cases, as old sins return to haunt those involved.
a small Minnesota town decide to stage a miracle to attract tourists, only for a dead body to show up.
Lesley Thomson The Playground Murders Head of Zeus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781786697264 Cleaner Stella Darnell’s latest case involves a man convicted of killing his mistress, whose daughter thinks he’s innocent.
P J Tracy Ice Cold Heart Michael Joseph, 31st, £7.99, 9781405936361 Detectives Gino and Magozzi investigate a serial killer who is preying on women in the snow.
Novel of the Year Award, tells of a love affair in 1925 and a nine-year-old girl who tries to piece together the secrets of her mother’s past a decade later.
one of their daughters behind. The Korean War means they cannot return for her, and the two sisters grow up in different worlds. “Poignant and richly evocative of both Korea and the immigrant experience,” said the Sunday Times.
9781787470798 Stunning cover for this story set in late 18th-century London among the Huguenot silk weavers of Spitalfields. “This exquisitely evocative novel will appeal to fans of The Miniaturist,” said Red.
Jin Yong
A L Hlad The Long Flight Home Hodder Paperbacks, 31st, £8.99, 9781529311464 A Second World War love story between a young American pilot and the owner of an extraordinary homing pigeon, whose mission is to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German- occupied France.
Hideo Yokoyama Prefecture D Riverrun, 3rd, £8.99, 9781786484666 Four novellas set in the world of Six Four, Yokoyama’s excellent, and bestselling, crime novel.
Historical
Carolyn Kirby The Conviction of Cora Burns No Exit Press, 24th, £8.99, 9780857303271
Debut Cora Burns, born in prison
and raised in a work- house, seeks a new life working as a servant in the house of scientist Thomas Jerwood in 1885 Birmingham. This was a Times historical book of the month pick, and well reviewed elsewhere.
Sarah Jio All the Flowers in Paris Orion, 17th, £7.99, 9781409190745
Debut When Caroline wakes in Paris
Håkan Nesser Intrigo Mantle, 17th, £9.99, 9781509892181 A collection of novellas and stories which have been adapted for a film trilogy.
Jeff Noon Slow Motion Ghosts Black Swan, 31st, £8.99, 9781784163532 In 1981, just after the Brixton riots, Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is investigating a brutal murder.
Kristin Ohlsson The Flood S&S Adult Fiction, 31st, £7.99, 9781471169939 Fredrika Bergman and
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James Sallis Sarah Jane No Exit Press, 3rd, £8.99, 9780857303240 Sarah Jane Pullman, a good cop with a compli- cated past, tells her life story. Sallis has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
John Sandford Neon Prey S&S Adult Fiction, 3rd, £7.99, 9781471184413 Lucas Davenport is after a serial killer who has gone undetected for years, in this latest in the series.
John Sandford Holy Ghost S&S Adult Fiction, 17th, £8.99, 9781471174902 The 11th Virgil Flowers novel sees the mayor of
with no memory of her past, she finds a stash of letters in her home, writ- ten during the Second World War, and finds herself investigating.
Kate Furnivall The Guardian of Lies S&S Adult Fiction, 31st, £7.99, 9781471172342 Eloise follows her brother to Paris in 1953, but when he is injured as a result of her actions, she sets out to find the person who attempted to kill him.
Julia Kelly The Light Over London Orion, 3rd, £7.99, 9781409189374
Debut Gunner girl Louise records
her dreams in her diary in 1941; its contents will change Cara’s life when she finds it in 2017.
Daniel Mason The Winter Soldier Picador, 3rd, £7.99, 9780330458337 Medical student Lucius is posted to a remote medical outpost in the Carpathian Mountains in the First World War.
Gill Thompson The Oceans Between Us Headline Review, 17th, £8.99, 9781472257963 An air raid leaves a mother with amnesia and her son in an orphanage waiting for her, until he is sent to Australia. Based on a true story.
Antonin Varenne Equator MacLehose Press, 3rd, £8.99, 9780857058744 In this sequel to Retribution Road, set in 1871, Pete Ferguson is a wanted man and a magnet for trouble wher- ever he goes.
A Bond Undone MacLehose Press, 17th, £8.99, 9781784299583 Quercus is calling this “the Chinese Lord of the Rings”, and says 100 million copies have been sold; this is the second volume, in which Guo Jing is drawn into the struggle for the supreme martial text, the Nine Yin Manual.
Historical adventure
Anthony Riches The Scorpion’s Strike Hodder Paperbacks, 3rd, £8.99, 9781473628700 The 10th in the Empire series, set in the second century AD, sees Marcus and the Tungrians ordered to Gaul.
Harry Sidebottom The Lost Ten Zaffre, 31st, £7.99, 9781785765612 Valens, a junior officer in the Roman Army, and a crack team of soldiers are tasked with rescuing a young prince from hostile territory.
Historical crime & thriller
Lindsey Davis A Capitol Death Hodder Paperbacks, 3rd, £8.99, 9781473658769 The new Flavia Albia sees her investigating the death of an unpopular overseer who apparently accidentally fell to his death from a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome.
Iona Grey The Glittering Hour S&S Adult Fiction, 17th, £7.99, 9781471140709 The author of Letters to the Lost, winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic
Eugenia Kim
The Kinship of Secrets Bloomsbury Publishing, 17th, £8.99, 9781526602855
Debut A South Korean family leave their
home for the US in 1948, but are forced to leave
Sonia Velton Blackberry and Wild Rose Quercus, 3rd, £8.99,
Anna Freeman Five Days of Fog W&N, 3rd, £8.99, 9781780227979 Florrie Palmer has to choose between a life with a female gang and
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