BOOKS


Emily Houghton Before I Saw You Black Swan, 22nd, £7.99, 9781784165574


Début Alice, who has been badly


burned, moves into the hospital bed next to Alfie, who has been recovering from an accident for months, and who starts getting to know her. The marketing and publicity campaign will focus on partnerships and digital advertising, says Transworld.


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HarperFiction, 22nd, £8.99, 9780008346997 James tells the 158 people in his phone that he’s going to end his life in the morning. For him, it’s the end of his story, but for the people he’s contacted, it’s only the beginning. HarperCollins promises a “mammoth” social adver- tising campaign.


Crime & thriller


Erica James Summer at the Lake Orion, 22nd, £8.99, 9781398704770 Floriana is at Lake Como for the wedding of the love of her life—to another woman—in this novel about lost love and second chances.


Fern Michaels Yesterday Kensington, 27th, £12.99, 9781496734471 Four childhood friends’ lives collide again at a wedding.


Sophia Money-Coutts The Wish List HQ, 22nd, £8.99, 9780008370572 Florence, asked by an eccentric love coach to write a list describing her perfect man, is surprised when a man who ticks all her boxes walks into the bookshop where she works. Slipped from April.


B A Paris The Therapist HQ, 22nd, £8.99, 9780008412043 Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together the grisly events which happened in her new home before she moved there.


Cecily von Ziegesar Cobble Hill Orion, 22nd, £7.99, 9781398704367 The bestselling author of Gossip Girl tells of four dysfunctional families in trendy Brooklyn.


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Lucy Atkins Magpie Lane Quercus, 8th, £8.99, 9781784293833 This thriller about a Scottish nanny, Dee, who is asked for help when the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night was one of my Editor’s Choices for April, from whence it has slipped. It’s great!


Parker Bilal The Divinities Black Torn, 1st, £8.99, 9781838855147 DS Cal Drake and forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane investi- gate when two bodies are found at a building site in Battersea.


Lucy Clarke The Castaways HarperFiction, 8th, £7.99, 9780008340919 A thriller about seven strangers surviving together on a beautiful, remote island. Backed by an “ambitious” marketing and communications campaign. HarperCollins says it is planning a “relentless” digital adver- tising campaign.


and DS Fran Millhaven find themselves forced to protect a man they are sure is guilty.


Emily Freud My Best Friend’s Secret Quercus, 22nd, £8.99, 9781529407532


Début Kate, who has pieced her life


back together after getting sober, finds every- thing she now has is threatened after a run-in with old friend Becky.


Sarah Gailey The Echo Wife Hodder & Stoughton, 8th, £8.99, 9781529354515 Evelyn’s husband has left her for a younger woman, who is now pregnant, and too familiar for it to be a coincidence.


Lisa Gardner Before She Disappeared Arrow, 22nd, £7.99, 9781787464377 Frankie Elkin is an aver- age middle-aged woman who spends her time searching for the missing people the police have given up on. Gardner has been invited to Harrogate Crime Festival 2021 as its US guest of honour.


Patricia Gibney Broken Souls Sphere, 22nd, £8.99, 9780751582680 Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene when a bride-to-be is found hanged in her home.


Araminta Hall Perfect Strangers Orion, 8th, £7.99, 9781409196105 When Nancy is murdered, her friends Eleanor and Mary, who have known her since college, must come together to uncover her killer. Previously Imperfect Women in hardback.


Joanne Fluke Carrot Cake Murder Kensington, 27th, £10.99, 9781496731968 Hannah Swensen, owner of The Cookie Jar bakery, investigates when a family reunion takes a deadly turn.


Matthew Frank The Killer Inside Michael Joseph, 22nd, £8.99, 9780718187194 Army veteran Detective Constable Joseph Stark


Janice Hallett The Appeal Viper, 1st, £8.99, 9781788165303


Début Law students Charlotte and


Femi investigate a tragic death in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood, believing that the wrong person has been sent to prison. Profile says the hardback sold out before publication date due to huge pre-order demand following a Sunday Times review which called it “dazzlingly clever cosy crime”.


Chris Hammer Trust Wildfire, 8th, £8.99, 9781472272942 The latest from the author of the excellent slice of Australian noir, Scrublands, sees ex-jour- nalist Martin Scarsden looking into the past of his girlfriend Mandy, when she disappears after leav- ing a voicemail which is nothing but a scream.


Lesley Kara The Dare Corgi, 22nd, £7.99, 9780552177221 A “far-reaching” digital multimedia campaign is promised for this new novel from the author of The Rumour, in which Lizzie has no memory of the night her best friend died, even though she was with her for what she insists was an accident.


Christobel Kent The Viper Corvus, 1st, £8.99, 9780857893369 The final instalment of the Sandro Cellini series is set in a long-forgotten commune outside Florence, where two bodies are found.


Yun Ko-Eun The Disaster Tourist Serpent’s Tail, 1st, £8.99, 9781788163156 When one of her colleagues touches her inappropriately, Yona is paid off with a trip to the desert island of Mui. But she soon realises that her company has plans to fabricate an environmen- tal catastrophe to make


G R Halliday Dark Waters Vintage, 15th, £7.99, 9781529110807 DI Monica Kennedy is on the trail of a serial killer in the Scottish Highlands.


Adam Hamdy Red Wolves Pan, 22nd, £8.99, 9781509899241 The second in the series about ex-MI6 officer Scott Pearse sees him uncover a plot to unleash a terrifying toxin on the world.


the trip more interesting for guests. “A fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism... an entertaining eco-thriller,” said the Guardian.


Dean Koontz Elsewhere HarperFiction, 22nd, £8.99, 9780008291273 Jeff, who has been raising his daughter on his own, is given a small box contain- ing “the key to everything” by a friend, who warns that it’s worth $76bn, and that he has a demonic posse on his tail searching for it.


Jayne Ann Krentz All the Colours of Night Piatkus, 1st, £8.99, 9780349424446 This second in the Fogg Lake trilogy sees two psychics plunged into a world of deadly secrets.


Victoria Laurie To Coach a Killer Kensington, 27th, £6.99, 9781496720368


A series of violent deaths rock the community in East Hampton, and life coach Cat Cooper investigates.


Stephen Leather The Hunting Hodder Paperbacks, 22nd, £7.99, 9781529345254 British doctor Raj Patel, who treats the injured in Syria, is seized by mistake by billionaire big-game hunter Jon van der Sandt, who is after revenge for the death of his family.


researcher hired by the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, make a startling discovery concerning pages torn from Carroll’s diary.


Kwei Quartey Sleep Well, My Lady Allison and Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749025885 PI Emma Djan inves- tigates the death of a Ghanaian fashion icon and social media celebrity, Lady Araba, in this second in Quartey’s Ghana Mysteries series.


Matthew Reilly The Two Lost Mountains Orion, 22nd, £8.99, 9781409194415 A secret mythological sect seeks to rule the world in the new Jack West thriller.


Michael Robotham When She Was Good Sphere, 8th, £8.99, 9780751573497 Evie Cormac was found hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a brutal murder six years ago. But everyone who tries to find out why ends up dead. An “ambitious and unmissable” publicity and marketing campaign is planned.


Iain Ryan The Spiral Zaffre, 8th, £8.99, 9781838771416 Erma Bridges begins a quest for the truth when she is shot twice in a targeted attack by a colleague.


Robert Scragg End of the Line Allison and Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749027100 Detective Jake Porter and his partner DS Nick Styles investigate when a vlog- ger is murdered during a live broadcast.


Ellery Lloyd People Like Her Pan, 22nd, £8.99, 9781529039405 Emmy, who is famous on Instagram for telling the truth about parenthood as “Mamabare”, isn’t as honest as she would like her friends to believe, and someone out there wants to make her pay.


Guillermo Martinez The Oxford Brotherhood Abacus, 1st, £8.99, 9780349144122 Inspired by true, strange stories from Lewis Carroll’s life, this sees Kristen, a


Nicholas Shakespeare The Sandpit Vintage, 22nd, £8.99, 9781529111842 Foreign correspondent John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, but finds it just as treacherous, particu- larly when an Iranian nuclear scientist and his child disappear.


Yrsa Sigurdardottir Gallows Rock Hodder Paperbacks, 8th, £8.99, 9781473693425 A man is found hanging from the Gallows Rock outside Reykjavik and an


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