Adventure, Crime & Horror
Shocker for fans of Lucy Rose’s The Lamb and Asako Yazuki’s Butter.
Ellie Keel A Bad Day to Hide a Body HQ, 28th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008744281
Amusing mystery about dead bodies, old secrets, and new friends. By the author of The Four.
Jonathan Kellerman Jigsaw Penguin, 29th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804941713
New Alex Delaware novel. Connelly and Baldacci enthusiasts will find something here.
Simon Kernick No One is Safe Headline, 5th November, hb, £20, 9781035436163
Unpredictable thriller from a top-selling author.
Alex Khan The Wives DK Audio Canelo, 24th September, audiofile, £14, 9780241850220
Hera Books, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835983973
When two husbands are murdered by their seemingly loving wives, DS Mumtaz “Moomy” Ali and DCI Sarah Heaton expose a conspiracy involving some very powerful players.
Vaseem Khan The Man with the Golden Compass
Zaffre, 22nd October, hb, eb, £20, 9781804188699
Murder mystery for former MI6 Head of Q branch to solve in this James Bond spin-off series.
T Kingfisher Wolf Worm Tor Nightfire, 7th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781035052745
Hugo Award-winner’s tale of scientific curiosities and monstrous creatures.
JD Kirk Better the Devil Canelo Crime, 28th January, pb, £9.99, 9781835983034
A former drug kingpin is released from prison and his associates start dying. He turns to DCI Jack Logan for help.
Tanya Kirk (ed), Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen, Charlotte Riddell, LP Hartley Chill Tidings British Library, 21st October, hb, £14.99, 9780712369565
Glittering edition of a popular collection of Christmas nightmares.
Autumn/Winter 2026
Jenny Knightsby The Bestseller Mountain Leopard Press, 10th September, pb, £9.99, 9781035436316
Suspense-filled tale about a therapist who spills her client’s confidential secrets and her friend who writes them into her next bestselling novel.
Dawn Kurtagich The Wellness Retreat Hanover Square Press, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781525809934
Horror-tinted. Set in an exclusive health retreat on a remote Scottish island where miraculous treatments offered to wealthy clientele may not be what they seem.
David Lagercrantz Post Mortem MacLehose Press, 27th August, hb, eb, £22, 9781529413281
Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas join the hunt for a serial killer in Stockholm’s literary world.
Luciano Lamberti To Bewitch a Hunter HarperVia, 3rd December, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780063455726
An adopted woman is approached by someone claiming to know what happened to her real parents. What follows is an hallucinatory odyssey into the dark years of a dictatorship and a family history of disappearances and blood sacrifice.
Neil Lancaster The Dark Heart HQ Digital, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008688370
A mix of espionage and police procedural series set in Scotland.
Charlotte Langley Sleuth No Exit Press, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835013410
In a faraway Scottish town, Detective Ruth Lindsey hunts for a vanished teenager. But when a true-crime YouTuber arrives the search turns into a circus.
Tara Laskowski The Cold Read Park Row Books, 14th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781525809842
Locked-room story. The cast of a horror film reunites a decade later at the secluded ski resort where the film was made.
Doretta Lau We Are Underlings House of Anansi Press, 3rd December, pb, £16.99, 9781487014308
Provocative black comedy of mystery,
hijinks and absurdist despair set at the only theme park devoted to death, dying and the afterlife.
Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom Penguin, 17th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804999899
A reclamation of HP Lovecraft’s most xenophobic story, “The Horror at Red Hook”, told from the perspective of a black man and set in 1920s Harlem.
Janette Leaf (ed), Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Joseph Thomas, Sheridan Le Fanu et al Fiendish Felines British Library, 17th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780712369060
Dark tales of creepy cats from some of the greats of Victorian and 20th-century horror literature.
Stephen Leather Underdogs Pan, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035083343
Andy “Birdman” Bird witnesses a murder and is drawn into a web of organised crime, geopolitics and danger.
Beverly Lewis
The Christmas House Bethany House, 13th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764247002
Liz Lantz’s neighbour’s lavishly decorated house has brought her quiet community unwanted attention.
Sally Lindsay
Madame Blanc and the Antique Affair Prelude, 19th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781788426022
Antiques dealers Jean and Rory travel to collect some valuable pieces but before the deal can be completed one of the sellers is murdered.
Josie Lloyd
Murder Most Proper HQ, 8th October, hb, eb, £20, 9780008550806
Some crimes are best solved by the book. Cosy story.
Kate London Black Earth Firefinch, 5th November, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781918107036
Masterful crime novel tells the story of a family and a community torn apart by the miners’ strike and a series of murders.
Sarah Lotz How to Kill a Crime Writer HarperCollins, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008464097
Meta mystery unfolds in a village full of secrets
as a bestselling crime novelist suffers an unexpected demise.
HP Lovecraft, Leslie S Klinger (ed), Tamsyn Muir At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Weird Science
Liveright, 6th November, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781324098362
Bone-chilling collection of Lovecraft’s hallucinatory visions of science, including the “definitive” (Danielle Trussoni) annotations of Klinger.
HP Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith The Weird Tales Collection
Arcturus, 1st October, hb, £19.99, 9781398869066
Printed page edges in a deluxe edition for a range of fascinating stories, from the cosmic horror of Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones to the tales of Zothique.
Carlo Lucarelli, Joseph Farrell (tr) The Darkest Winter Open Borders Press, 8th October, pb, £11.99, 9781919503356
Pitch-black Italian noir set in 1944 Bologna where Comandante De Luca is tasked with investigating three murders.
Stuart MacBride And the Corpse Wore Tartan
Pan, 22nd October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035098316
Unexpectedly chilling Scottish detective novella from the author of the Logan McRae series.
Samir Machado de Machado, Rahul Bery (tr) The Mystery of the Good Nazi Pushkin Vertigo, 5th November, pb, £9.99, 9781805336426
New in paperback: an award-winning historical mystery set in the 1930s on a zeppelin bound for Brazil from Nazi Germany.
Niki Mackay The Betrayal Headline, 29th October, pb, £12.99, 9781035441150
Psychological thriller about a nasty secret at the heart of a marriage and the woman who gets sucked in.
Series
Bad Places Tess Mackey Avon, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008810 Locked-room thrillers. 2: The Highland Retreat 13th August, 740
JD Maduro Kill Story Canelo Crime, 10th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781835985212
DK Audio Canelo, 10th September, audiofile, £14, 9780241839652
Razor-sharp satire about toxic workplaces, burnout and inter- generational conflict.
Kam Majd
The Girls With the Pale Blue Eyes Open Borders Press, 15th January, hb, £18.99, 9781068300165
An Afghanistan war correspondent goes missing and her daughter flies to Kabul to find her.
CD Major The Residency Canelo, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835984253
Suspense and atmosphere on a tucked- away Scottish island.
3: The After Party 5th November, 771 4: The Locked Room 28th January, 801
Bella Mackie Claws Out The Borough Press, 27th August, hb, eb, £20, 9780008545581
To lose one husband is unlucky. To lose two is careless. But three? Deliciously dark stuff from the author of How to Kill Your Family.
Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman The Kings of Vegas William Morrow, 13th August, hb, eb, £20, 9780063435612
The prodigal daughter of a Las Vegas casino empire who returns to take over her family business discovers that she is up against the Mob, the Feds and her own brothers.
Gilly Macmillan The Burning Library Baskerville, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399828451
Escapist thriller about a centuries-old secret set to divide and consume those who try to unearth it.
Eve Makis Where the Earth Holds Secrets Claret Press, 10th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781910461884
An anthropologist unearths human remains whose truth can heal or destroy.
Josh Malerman Pictures of You Tor Nightfire, 10th September, hb, eb, £22, 9781035073443
The nightmarish cost of artistic ambition from a superstar of horror writing.
Michael J Malone The Cutting Orenda Books, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781917764490
Fourth Annie Jackson mystery. The malevolent haunting of a woman reaches deep into Scotland’s blackest history.
Anna Maloney The 10:12 Raven Books, 7th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526689184
Story where nothing is as it seems and saving the day is only the beginning.
Henning Mankell The Madman Mountain Leopard Press, 19th November, pb, £10.99, 9781035430963
Timely novel about a small Swedish town in the shadows of war brought to fans by the multimillion-selling author of the Wallander series.
Faiqa Mansab The Sufi Storyteller Wilton Square Books, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781806770205
An estranged mother and daughter must reconnect and navigate Sufi storytelling traditions to catch a killer and save each other.
Elsie Marks Partners in Crime HQ Digital, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008762544
Assassin Maisie Baxter returns in an action- packed but funny thriller. For fans of Katy Brent, Jesse Sutanto and Ally Carter.
Natalie Marlow Death Comes as a Shadow Baskerville, 5th November, hb, £22, 9781399817929
pb, eb, £15.99, 9781399817936 Historical crime with private enquiry agent William Garrett.
RA Marno What the Fog Conceals Salt, 15th August, pb, £10.99, 9781784633905
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