Adventure, Crime & Horror
of Edinburgh’s most powerful crime family.
Linda Calvey Charity Mountain Leopard Press, 22nd October, pb, £9.99, 9781035431045
Third and final instalment in gangland family saga. Calvey has been called the “most authentic new voice in crime fiction” by Martina Cole.
Ramsey Campbell, Jeremy Dyson (ed) The Show Goes On British Library, 29th September, hb, £16.99, 9780712369114
Short stories from one of Britain’s greatest living horror writers.
Ramsey Campbell Ancestral Flame Tree Press, 17th November, hb, eb, £20, 9781805520382
Centuries after rival sorcerers unleashed destructive entities their descendants unite by marriage. Dangerous ancestral powers are awakened.
Louise Candlish A Knock at the Door HQ, 5th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008641054
Psychological suspense from author of A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder.
Carol Carnac, Martin Edwards When the Devil Was Sick British Library, 10th December, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780712369862
Draws on superstition and the supernatural, dysfunctional families and the world of amateur boxing. First of Carnac’s Inspector Charles Ryvet novels to be republished.
Catherine Cavendish Ghosts of Chanterlands Flame Tree Press, 18th August, hb, eb, £20, 9781787589919
In 1940 evacuated Pamela arrives at Chanterlands where a ghostly child haunts her room.
Narisa Chakrabongse (tr) Prince Chakrabongse’s 1911 Grand Tour River Books, 14th September, hb, £25, 9786164510944
In 1911 Siam’s Prince Chakrabongse and his wife made an epic journey by boat and train across one third of the globe. This book features first- hand historical details.
Kimberley Chambers Essex Wives HarperCollins, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008366131
Three Essex women seek revenge on the Bonds.
Autumn/Winter 2026
Retribution, payback and protecting family culminates in a dramatic turn-of-the-millennium confrontation.
Joshua Chaplinsky The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me At Night Clash Books, 5th November, pb, £15.99, 9781968043261
Surreal horror in which three women uncover connected histories of abuse, a sentient house and a malevolent entity.
Clay McLeod Chapman Devil Inside Titan Books, 11th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835419120
A man back from the dead meets a woman who is from somewhere even worse. Horrormance about love, possession – and just a little murder.
Frankie Chase Bad Winner Troubador, 28th September, pb, £12.99, 9781806346431
Adventure that will unsettle the reader. Switches from the warehouse raves of England to the dense jungle of Colombia.
Seon-Ran Cheon, Gene Png (tr) The Midnight Shift Bloomsbury Archer, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526679840
A Korean bestseller that explores isolation, marginalisation and family breakdown.
Lee Child, Andrew Child Chain Reaction Bantam, 20th October, hb, eb, £22, 9781911754244
Reacher is back for the 31st time. Features General Susan Turner.
Liane Child Someone Just Followed You HQ Digital, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008807078
You are trending. They are obsessed.
Mike Chinn (ed), Peter Coleborn (ed) No Laughing Matter Flame Tree Collections, 20th October, hb, £16.99, 9781835628140
Anthology blends horror with humour, satire and absurdity. Eerie yet witty tales sure to delight fans of The Twilight Zone.
Ajay Chowdhury Eden Falls Vintage, 21st January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529966244
Author of the Kamil Rahman series presents a race- against-time thriller.
Ann Cleeves The Dying Light
Ajay Chowdhury The Patriot Harvill, 12th November, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781787305052
A priceless diamond. A deadly siege. A detective caught between a rock and a hard place. Sixth in the Detective Kamil Rahman series.
Bora Chung, Anton Hur (tr) The Midnight Timetable Dialogue Books, 1st October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781408773130
National Book Award finalist and International Booker Prize-shortlisted Cursed Bunny author ready to tantalise more readers.
David Churchill, Wilbur Smith Flashpoint
Zaffre, 27th August, hb, eb, £22, 9781806172054
New Saffron Courtney wartime thriller.
Anne Wyn Clark The Echoes in the Cabin Avon, 24th September, pb, £9.99, 9780008763466
No details at time of going to press.
Sarah Clarke Untitled HQ Digital, 28th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008725662
Clarke is a London- based writer and former marketing copywriter. A 2019 Faber Academy graduate, she writes psychological thrillers and joined HQ Digital in 2021.
Julian Clary
The Midmorning Murders Orion, 8th October, hb, £22, 9781398717350
Scandalous murder mystery from a well- known figure off the telly. For fans of Richard Coles.
Ann Cleeves A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Pan, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529070552
One horrific Thursday the much-loved vicar’s wife is strangled. Inspector Ramsay is determined to find her killer but the bodies are piling up.
Macmillan, 8th October, hb, eb, £22, 9781529077797
Fourth Matthew Venn novel. A puzzling death in a luxurious holiday home needs investigating.
Colleen Coble Conspiracy Thomas Nelson, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780840714671
Conspiracy combines suspense with slowburn romance. Themes of overcoming pain and how the past does not have to define someone.
Colleen Coble, Rick Acker She Will End This Thomas Nelson, 14th January, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781400353545
Explores the choices we make and how nature vs. nurture plays into the development of character.
Julie Mae Cohen The Best of Enemies Zaffre, 20th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804189429
Someone is turning Gwen’s private grudges into a murder spree. Funny thriller full of twists from author of BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick Bad Men.
Mason Coile Exiles Baskerville, 24th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781399823807
A terrifying locked- room mystery set in a Martian outpost.
Martina Cole The Stretch Headline, 6th October, hb, £25, 9781035440627
Cole writing solo for the first time since 2019.
Bridget Collins The Naked Light The Borough Press, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008651008
The Binding author returns with a gothic novel of ancient darkness and a love that defies convention.
Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal et al The Witching Hour Sphere Fiction, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781408734674
From the creators of The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits comes a third collaboration between the biggest names in historical fiction.
Wilkie Collins, GK Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anton Chekhov, Josephine Tey The Classic Crime Collection
Arcturus, 30th November, hb, £19.99, 9781398872486
Brilliant compendium of short crime stories that will satisfy fan of the genre.
Michael Connelly The Hollow Orion, 3rd November, hb, £22, 9781398719118
Retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch delves into the darkest chapter of his past.
Michael Connelly Ironwood Orion, 28th January, pb, £10.99, 9781398726765
Detective Stillwell returns in the second Catalina Island thriller.
CJ Cooke The House of Cursed Daughters HarperCollins, 22nd October, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008775681
Feminist gothic horror: Three women, seven generations and one unbroken blood curse.
Robin Cook Bleed Macmillan, 3rd December, hb, eb, £25, 9781037414640
A lethal conspiracy is uncovered in which an equity firm is willing to sacrifice lives for profit at a New York hospital. The sixteenth title in the Jack Stapleton–Laurie Montgomery series.
William Cook The Fifteenth Man Viper, 1st October, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805229940
A journalist is hunting a Nazi war criminal who may have been with Hitler at the end.
Andreina Cordani The Murders of Christmas Past
Zaffre, 1st October, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781785126369
Festive fun with the ever popular miser turned detective Ebenezer Scrooge.
EA Coustaut Nan’s Flowers Datura, 11th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781917415286
Netflix’s Griselda meets Marvel’s Black Widow in this dark tale where a woman has to leave her peaceful life and return to her duties for an international crime family.
Charly Cox Three Days Gone DK Audio Canelo, 1st October, audiofile, £14, 9780241836330
When two girls go missing in the Montana mountains the unforgiving wilderness might not be the only threat to their safety.
Series
Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries Helen Cox Quercus, 97815294 Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Betty Rowlands and Faith Martin. A Body at the Christmas Book Fair 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99,42205
Treason at the Tower 9th October, hb, eb, £22, 51429
Robert Craig Post Mortal Salt, 11th January, pb, £10.99, 9781784634100
After noticing something suspicious on his regular route a veteran postman uncovers a mystery about the secrets hidden within the British postal system. Comic novel.
MW Craven The Killer’s Mark Constable, 13th August, hb, eb, £22, 9781408717592
More in the Washington Poe series.
Heather Critchlow Unseen Canelo Crime, 20th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835981023
The case was closed more than 30 years ago but they got the wrong man. Cal Lovett is determined to lock the real killer away.
Kathryn Croft I Know What I Saw Headline, 13th August, pb, £10.99, 9781035438334
Heartstopper of a thriller.
Jen L Crow The Psychologist HQ Digital, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008784331
Forensic psychologist Eilish Culpepper, haunted by her best friend’s drowning and a decade-long memory gap, returns to a reunion she should not attend.
Maria J Pérez Cuervo Folklore Horror Short Stories Flame Tree Collections, 18th August, hb, £20, 9781835628041
Classic stories mixed with new work by modern authors. Tales rooted in the dark side of land and nature.
Fiona Cummins The Serial Killer Survivors Club
Macmillan, 28th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781035012954
Compelling. A story of betrayal, courage and family from the Richard & Judy Book Club bestselling author of All of Us Are Broken.
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