This preview highlights titles to be published in July


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unknown child is found in his flat. Detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja investigate.


Daniel Silva The Order HarperFiction, 8th, £8.99, 9780008280802 Art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon is called in when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly.


Madeline Stevens Devotion Faber & Faber, 1st, £8.99, 9780571349081 A woman falls into a mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nanny.


James Swallow Rogue Zaffre, 8th, £8.99, 9781838770570 Ex-MI6 operative Marc Dane and his sniper, partner Lucy Keyes, must unpick a monstrous and deadly conspiracy threat- ening millions of lives.


Robert Thorogood The Marlow Murder Club HQ, 8th, £8.99, 9780008435912 Judith, 77, witnesses a brutal murder one evening while out swimming in the Thames. When the police don’t believe her, she and her friends form the Marlow Murder Club and investigate.


Megan Campisi The Sin Eater Pan, 8th, £8.99, 9781529019070 May Owens, 14, is sentenced to become a Sin Eater; she hears the confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and is doomed to live in exile.


Jennifer Chiaverini Mrs Lincoln’s Sisters William Morrow, 22nd, £10.99, 9780062975980 When Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, attempts suicide, her sisters step in.


Lynne Truss Murder by Milk Bottle Raven Books, 22nd, £8.99, 9781526609786 The latest in Truss’ series set in 1950s Brighton sees her trio of police detectives investigating murders carried out with a most unusual weapon.


Historical


L Annette Binder The Vanishing Sky Bloomsbury Publishing, 8th, £8.99, 9781526616746 In 1945 Germany, Etta is trying to gather the pieces of her splintering family together. Georg, the youngest son who escapes the Hitler Youth, is based on Binder’s father. “A moving tale of a


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Miranda Emmerson A Little London Scandal William Collins, 22nd, £8.99, 9780008244361 In 1967 London, Nik Christou has been a sex worker since the age of 15. One night, his life is turned upside down, by violence and then by an accusation of murder. Anna Treadway, who works as a dresser in Soho’s Galaxy theatre, believes he is innocent.


V B Grey Tell Me How It Ends Quercus, 8th, £8.99, 9781529405439 In 1960s London, Lily becomes an assistant to singing sensation Delia Maxwell, but is there more to her attachment than the admiration of a fan?


Robert Hillman


The Bride of Almond Tree Faber & Faber, 1st, £8.99, 9780571366422 Wes returns from the Second World War to his home in Australia, where


family destroyed by war,” said the Sunday Times.


Charlotte Betts The Fading of the Light Piatkus, 8th, £8.99, 9780349423029 In 1902 Cornwall, Edith has established a thriv- ing artists’ community. But when her feckless husband returns, it threat- ens the love she has found with Pascal.


his beautiful neighbour Beth is deciding to commit herself to the Communist Party, in this historical romance.


Jennifer Hofmann The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures Riverrun, 8th, £8.99, 9781529403619


Début In 1989, a Stasi agent whose


life’s work was a manual on the demoralisation of political opponents becomes preoccupied with the disappearance of a young waitress from his local café.


Carolyn Kirby When We Fall No Exit Press, 15th, £8.99, 9780857303974 RAF airman Stefan Bergel asks two women to help him expose one of the darkest secrets of the war. But where do their true loyalties lie? “Tense and tender, it captures the terrifying frailties of truth and trust in brutal time,” said the Mail.


Judithe Little The Chanel Sisters Headline Review, 22nd, £9.99, 9781472279590 The story of the Chanel sisters, and how they changed fashion forever after growing up in an orphanage.


Ian Maguire The Abstainer Scribner, 22nd, £8.99, 9781471163623 Set in 1867 Manchester, this follows a member of the Fenians (a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland) who is seeking vengeance, and a constable whose mission is to thwart the Fenians’ plans. “A vivid read, full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters,” said the Times.


Frances Quinn The Smallest Man S&S Adult Fiction, 22nd, £8.99, 9781471193439


Début Inspired by a true story, this tells of


Nat Davy, who in 1625 is hidden in a pie and sent as a gift to the queen of England.


Alexander Starritt We Germans John Murray, 8th, £8.99, 9781529317251 Based on the author’s family history, this is a letter a German


grandfather writes to his British grandson about what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war. “A visceral examination of guilt, collective and individual, centred on a small group of bedraggled German soldiers on the Eastern Front,” said the Times.


Matteo Strukul Medici: Supremacy Head of Zeus, 8th, £8.99, 9781786692153 The second in a historical fiction trilogy charting the rise of the House of Medici, this opens in 1496, as the family is preparing for the marriage of its son and heir Lorenzo.


Rose Tremain Islands of Mercy Vintage, 8th, £8.99, 9781529112276 In 1865 Bath, a young woman renowned for her nursing skills finds herself torn between an affair with a female lover and a conventional marriage, while on the island of Borneo, the eccentric Sir Ralph Savage sees his schemes undermined by his own fragility. “A hell of a read—so emotionally sophisticated, so deft with shade and light, more absorbing than most fiction I’ve read this year,” said the Sunday Times.


Jeremy Vine The Diver and The Lover Coronet, 8th, £8.99, 9781529308457 The broadcaster tells of sisters Ginny and Meredith, who travel from England to Spain in 1951, searching for respite. While there, they discover the artist Salvador Dalí is staying in nearby Port Lligat.


Historical adventure


Julian Stockwin Balkan Glory Hodder Paperbacks, 1st, £8.99, 9781473698802 Captain Sir Thomas Kydd’s 23rd outing sees him leading a squadron of frigates into the Adriatic.


Historical crime & thriller


Margot Bennett The Widow of Bath British Library Publishing, 10th, £8.99, 9780712353748 The second in the 1950s series from the redis- covered Gold Dagger


Award-winning Scottish writer sees Hugh Everett investigating the murder of a judge in Bath.


Jim Eldridge Murder at the Ritz Allison & Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749025236 The first in Eldridge’s Hotel Mysteries series sees Detective Chief Inspector Coburg investigate when a man is found with his throat cut in the Ritz, in August 1940.


gay man. “A superb, atmospheric thriller,” said the Irish Independent.


Stephen Spotswood Fortune Favours the Dead Wildfire, 22nd, £8.99, 9781472274816 In New York City in the 1940s, private detective Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Willowjean Parker investigate the murder of a wealthy young widow. The first in a series.


Graham Hurley Last Flight To Stalingrad Head of Zeus, 8th, £8.99, 9781788547567 In 1942 Berlin, Werner Nehmann, a journal- ist at the Ministry of Propaganda, falls foul of the Nazi elite and finds himself heading for the hell of Stalingrad.


Alyssa Maxwell Murder at Kingscote Kensington, 27th, £12.99, 9781496720764 In 19th-century Newport, Rhode Island, journalist Emma Cross investigates when a bullying butler is found close to death under a car.


Catriona McPherson The Mirror Dance Hodder Paperbacks, 22nd, £8.99, 9781529337952 Dandy Gilver investigates the murder of a Punch and Judy puppeteer in 1930s Dundee and St Andrews, in this latest in the series.


Tony Medwar Bodies from the Library 3 Collins Crime Club, 8th, £8.99, 9780008380960 Uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr feature in this anthology of tales from the “Golden Age” of detective fiction.


Michael Russell The City Under Siege Constable, 8th, £8.99, 9781472130402 In 1941, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie investigates when Ireland’s greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a


A D Swanston Chaos Corgi, 1st, £8.99, 9780552172394 In 1574 London, intel- ligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff is after an elusive foe with an extraordinary agenda. The follow-up to The Incendium Plot.


Saga


Elizabeth Morton Angel of Liverpool Pan, 8th, £7.99, 9781529060249 Evie becomes a mother to her three siblings when her mother leaves Liverpool, but when she falls pregnant, her father is determined to marry her off to whoever will have her.


Daisy Styles Keep Smiling Through Michael Joseph, 22nd, £6.99, 9781405945219 Mary Vale, a sanctuary for expectant mothers in the Lake District in 1942, opens its doors to two women from London.


Science fiction & fantasy


Jasper Fforde The Constant Rabbit Hodder Paperbacks, 1st, £8.99, 9781444763645 The Sunday Times best- seller, set in an England also inhabited by 1.2 million human-sized, talking rabbits.


Hank Green A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor Trapeze, 13th, £8.99, 9781473224247 In the sequel to An


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