This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Hannah’s fifth outing writing Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective. Poirot has a mystery to solve at a Norfolk hospital ward before he can celebrate Christmas.
secrets. Fifth DS Max Craigie thriller.
Catriona McPherson The Witching Hour Hodder Paperbacks, 17th, £9.99, 9781399720434 War is on the horizon but Dandy must investigate when her oldest friend Daisy is accused of murder. The 16th Dandy Gilver mystery.
Oskar Jensen Helle and Death Viper, 10th, £9.99, 9781800811744 Art historian Torben Helle is drawn to a snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a university reunion when a mysterious death leaves Helle drawing on Golden Age detectives to solve the puzzle.
JD Kirk
The Big Man Upstairs Canelo Crime, 10th, £9.99, 9781804368213 Three of Kirk’s DCI Logan crime thrillers arrive in appealing paperback covers. Also published are A Death Most Monumental and A Snowball’s Chance in Hell.
Ian Moore The Man Who Didn’t Burn Duckworth Books, 10th, £9.99, 9781788425070 In the Loire Valley, English expat juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard is called to investigate a death. The first in a new series from the author of Death and Croissants.
T F Muir
Neil Lancaster The Devil You Know HQ Digital, 24th, £9.99, 9780008551346 A cold case has a new lead but a mole is selling
Historical William Melvin Kelley
Dis//integration Riverrun, 24th, £10.99, 9781529438970
The Killing Mood Constable, 24th, £9.99, 9781408718698 The suspicious death of a university lecturer in St. Andrews occupies DCI Andy Gilchrist and DS Jessie Janes in their 12th outing.
Sam Ripley The Rule of Three Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 10th, £9.99, 9781398515000 An urban myth looks like it is coming true when bad things happen in threes.
Anne Perry A Christmas Vanishing Headline, 10th, £8.99, 9781472294517 A woman disappears from a village in bitterly cold weather in Perry’s 21st Christmas novella.
Simone St James Murder Road Michael Joseph, 24th, £9.99, 9781405962278 In a supernatural thriller, a couple experience eerie goings-on along a haunted road.
Peter Swanson The Christmas Guest Faber & Faber, 10th, £8.99, 9780571378791 A bright-eyed but lonely American studying in London is invited to spend Christmas at her
One to Watch
Previously unpublished,this is a new collection of inter- linked work from the acclaimed author of A Different Drummer. Two novellas, three stories and a play tell the story of the sentimental education of Charles “Chig” Dunford as he encounters
a host of characters in New York and abroad in Reupeo (an anagram of Europe) before settling down to bachelorhood as a professor at a small Vermont college. Riverrun anticipates great interest around the posthumous publication, expanding Kelley’s contribution to African American literature.
Crime & thriller Celia Fremlin
Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark Faber & Faber, 10th, £9.99, 9780571391288
Denzil Meyrick Murder at Holly House Penguin, 24th, £9.99, 9781804992357 A dead stranger is found lodged up a chimney. Standalone winter murder mystery, set in a snow-covered village in the North York Moors in December 1952.
James Oswald For Our Sins Wildfire, 10th, £9.99, 9781472298850 A killer stalks the streets of Edinburgh in the 13th Inspector McLean mystery.
James Patterson, Tad Safran The Twelve Topsy- Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas Penguin, 24th, £9.99, 9781529159509 A mysterious figure sends boisterous animals to widower Henry in the run up to Christmas.
Anbara Salam Hazardous Spirits Baskerville, 3rd, £9.99, 9781399806602 In 1920s Edinburgh, seances and spiritual- ism surround a Gothic literary mystery as a husband announces he can communicate with the dead.
Stephen Spotswood Murder Crossed Her Mind Headline, 10th, £10.99, 9781035409501 An elderly recluse goes missing in the fourth outing for New York female detective duo Pentecost and Parker.
classmate’s family home in the Cotswolds, but something isn’t quite right at the stately, rundown manor house.
Russ Thomas Sleeping Dogs Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 24th, £9.99, 9781398507586 A new lead on a cold case leaves DS Adam Tyler fighting for his life in the fourth book in the series.
Historical
Imogen Edwards-Jones The Witch’s Daughter Aria, 10th, £9.99, 9781838933302 As Petrograd burns and the Russian Empire crumbles, Nadezhda escapes with a book of generational magic.
A D O’Neill Circus Maximus Black & White Publish- ing, 24th, £9.99, 9781785306389 In AD69, the new Roman emperor wants to crush a chariot racing faction and a pacy jour- ney across Europe must deliver champion chariot horses to the Circus Maximus to fight back.
Tim Pears Run to the Western Shore Swift, 10th, £8.99, 9781800752993 In first-century Britain, a Welsh princess and a
Katie Daysh The Devil to Pay Canelo Adventure, 3rd, £9.99, 9781804365687 In 1802, the French Revolutionary Wars have concluded and peace reigns but Lieutenant Arthur Courtney and his close friend, Hiram Nightingale, must set a course for Malta to find a lost ship. Second book in the queer historical adventure series.
Tim Hodkinson Sword of the War God Head of Zeus, 10th, £9.99, 9781804540626 Norse mythology and European history collide in this fifth-century adven- ture of unconventional alliances in the dying days of the Roman Empire.
Roman slave become fugitives and lovers.
Historical adventure
J G Kelly The White Lie Hodder Paperbacks, 10th, £9.99, 9781529357875 In 1969, an orphan raised on Apsley
One to Watch
Fremlin’s first collection of short fiction originally published in 1972 is repackaged as Halloween ghost stories. A bright orange cover with skeletal hand does the heavy lifting here, as does the featured dramatic
comment from the Spectator, “grips like grim death”. Recent new covers for Uncle Paul, The Long Shadow and Appointment With Yesterday should ensure strong name recognition for Fremlin’s unique brand of unsettling storytelling.
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