Adventure, Crime & Horror
Fast-paced story. Profiler Alex Gregory investigates a Hollywood stalking case.
LJ Ross Berwick Penguin, 10th September, pb, £9.99, 9781804960691
New DCI Ryan thriller in which his wife is accused of murder. Jess Ryder
The Holiday Home Penguin, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804960837
Most people go to Tuscany for the wine. But someone came for the blood.
Celine Saintclare The Feminine Art of Revenge
Corvus, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838958244
Dishonour has consequences in this intoxicating revenge thriller from the author of TikTok winner Sugar, Baby.
Mina Sakurai The Murdered Husband Returns Bonnier Books, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781806175925
Zaffre, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781806172184
Mana sees her husband and is surprised. Didn’t she kill him five years earlier?
Anbara Salam The Salvage Baskerville, 5th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781399806657
Gothic masterpiece from the author of the critically acclaimed Hazardous Spirits, which was shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Books Awards 2024.
Vanessa Santos In Your Heart a Devil Dead Ink Books, 8th October, hb, £16.99, 9781917792226
Inspired by local Scottish folklore, In Your Heart a Devil is an eerie tale of love and alienation. All about loneliness, yearning and the unholiest of unions.
Louisa Scarr Leicester Square Canelo Crime, 15th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835985861
A bomb explodes in Oxford Street and the capital grinds to a halt. Alongside bomb detection dog Otto PC Lucy Halliday must prevent a second tragedy.
Simon Scarrow The Sword of Rome Headline, 5th November, hb, £22, 9781035431403
Roman army heroes Cato and Macro face a new
Autumn/Winter 2026
enemy far from Rome in the 25th book in the super-selling Eagles of the Empire series.
Simon Scarrow Warlord of Britannia Headline, 14th January, pb, £9.99, 9781472287663
Epic episode in the story of the barbarian king Caratacus, who led the tribes of Britannia against Rome.
Colin Schiller Maybe Baby Troubador, 28th August, pb, £10.99, 9781806345298
Psychological road-trip thriller that investigates the social and sexual dialectic between two individuals from opposite ends of society.
Lauren Schott Very Slowly All at Once HQ, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008732295
Never lie to each other. Never cheat on each other. And never, ever, accept free money.
Claire Schultz Even Your Bones Would Do Daphne Press, 19th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781837841585
Sapphic tragedy that retells the Bluebeard fairytale. After marrying the mysterious Thackeray Alice discovers the ghosts of past wives haunting the halls of his mansion.
Milli Schweizer Whispers From the Deep The Book Guild, 28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781835744888
A retired detective seeking peace by a Swiss lakeside is drawn into a murder investigation.
Lisa Scottoline This Changes Everything No Exit Press, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835013465
A woman risks her life and her sanity to solve the murder of her best friend’s grandmother.
Claude Seignolle The Unwelcome British Library, 3rd December, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780712369817
Tale of the evil unleashed upon a small community in rural France when a farmer unearths an ancient pagan statue.
Shylashri Shankar The Scorpion Palace Canelo Crime, 5th November, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781835981979
Indian detective Soob and his British counterpart, Inspector Wilberforce, investigate the case of a stolen diamond. Christie- esque murder mystery set in imperial India.
Vladimir Sharov, Oliver Ready The Kingdom of Agamemnon NYRB Classics, 8th December, pb, eb, £21, 9798896230380
Final novel by a titan of post-Soviet literature is both a rewrite of Greek myth and a spiritual sequel Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
Anna Sharpe Lie for Your Life Orion, 28th January, pb, £10.99, 9781398715646
Critically acclaimed Sharpe produces a gripping new thriller. Nicole must imprison a possibly innocent man or the people she loves will die.
LD Sharpe Rogue Agency Constable, 15th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780349138534
Second instalment of the Agent Sarah Black series: pacy, whip-smart reads in the emerging area of three-dimensional action thrillers with female characters to root for.
Sienna Sharpe My Killer Blind Date Penguin, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804999271
On paper he is perfect. His one red flag? He might be a serial killer. Funny romance-thriller.
Series
Conrad the Cat Detective LT Shearer 97810350 Conrad the cat detective and retired police detective Lulu Lewis are back for more adventures. The Cat and the Christmas Kidnapper
Pan, 22nd October, pb, eb, £9.99, 43866
The Cat and the Halloween Murder Macmillan, 8th October, hb, eb, £20, 76321
AM Shine Grace Head of Zeus, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804548004
Tale of ancient evil and long-buried secrets in an isolated Irish community from the author of hit horror novel The Watchers.
Arthur Short (ed/illus) Something Macabre Globe Pequot Press, 1st September, pb, £16.99, 9781493097531
Thirteen gothic horror stories paired with introductions that reveal the history,
folklore, psychology and fears behind them.
Lilja Sigurdardottir, Larissa Kyzer (tr) Alfa Orenda Books, 5th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781917764513
Mekkin’s brother-in- law is murdered in a society created to prevent violence. Her investigation draws her family into a shocking investigation of a crime that should not exist.
David Simmons Fetty on the Switches Clash Books, 13th August, pb, £13.99, 9781968043117
In this debut crime- horror story collection Simmons drags readers into a phantasmagoric Baltimore where the dead refuse to stay dead.
Gordon Simpson Dead on Line Troubador, 28th August, pb, £10.99, 9781806344871
Crime thriller set against the backdrop of a major golf tournament held at Wentworth.
AG Slatter Fitcher’s Bird Titan Books, 6th October, hb, eb, £11.99, 9781835412589
Three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire. Years later two of them disappear and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived.
Karin Slaughter The Good Daughter HarperCollins, 22nd October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008818845
TV tie-in with series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy coming in the autumn. Twenty- eight years after an attack destroyed her family lawyer Charlotte faces a new case and buried secrets.
Bryan Smith Monstrous Flame Tree Press, 22nd September, hb, eb, £20, 9781787589940
An aspiring killer and a woman hiding a crime converge on a mountain trail. .
Sally Smith A Case of Fear and Favour Raven Books, 21st January, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781526697431
A murdered librarian, a missing manuscript and an innocent man framed. Gabriel Ward KC returns.
Shelley Smith, Martin Edwards The Party at No 5
British Library, 10th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780712369701
Tense tale of two women in a toxic relationship that culminates in murder. From one of the “lost” authors of the 1940s and 1950s.
Wilbur Smith The Sunbird Zaffre, 22nd October, hb, eb, £40, 9781806171088
Special collector’s edition of one of Smith’s best- loved adventure stories.
Teresa Solana, Peter Bush (tr) The Butterfly House Corylus Books, 16th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781917586283
Norma has to solve a crime in a student squat that seems to have no immediate motive but a variety of suspects – including her own daughter.
Jonathan Spencer Hazzard’s Convoy DK Audio Canelo, 15th October, audiofile, £16, 9780241850930
From combat at sea to the flaming ruins of Heliopolis this is the fourth chapter in the saga of Hazzard’s Egypt.
Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (tr) Face to Face Orenda Books, 3rd December, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781917764612
A dead man appears in his waiting room and Bergen investigator Varg Veum finds himself investigating a controversial death from 14 years earlier.
Series Jonathan Stagge,
Martin Edwards Call a Hearse British Library, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780712369411
A British murder mystery with an American accent. All the elements of 1930s British detective fiction but with the backdrop of upstate New York just before Christmas.
Domenic Stansberry The Lizard No Exit Press, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781835015414
SE Reynolds is a former investigative reporter now working as a political ghostwriter. He is thrust into the centre of a conspiracy investigation after an illicit romance turns deadly.
Rae Starling
An Ordinary House Hera Books, 3rd September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835984680
A traumatised teenager held captive with his family is freed but is torn between the outside world and his previous life. Horror-tinged thriller about guilt and resilience.
Per Moritz Stenborg, Alex Fleming (tr) Fear Not the Dark
Viper, 7th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781806490097
Residents of a sleepy Swedish town fear they have been struck by a ritualistic serial killer.
Naomi Stephens Don’t Upstage the Body Bethany House, 4th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780764242489
Hippolyta Halfpenny and her family of professional mourners find themselves trapped at a reclusive lord’s funeral after the undertaker is murdered.
Martin Stewart Loose Threads Polygon, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781846977275
Ex-boxer and journalist Robbie Gould is plunged into a world of missing Kremlin diamonds and pre-digital espionage.
Matthew Sullivan The Midnight Game HQ, 28th January, hb, eb, £20, 9780008669300
Sullivan earned an MFA from the University of Idaho and was a resident at Vermont Studio Center. His debut was a 2017 bestseller pick.
Tim Sullivan The Tailor Head of Zeus, 28th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035911615
The unfailingly shrewd George Cross is back to investigate the murder of a tailor.
Peter Swanson Do You See What I See? Faber & Faber, 24th September, hb, eb, £10, 9780571394005
Two deaths occur at a famous author’s home. A perfectly fiendish puzzle starts to emerge.
Vikas Swarup The Girl With the Seven Lives
Apollo, 13th August, hb, eb, £20, 9781035924646
Tour-de-force from bestselling author of Q & A, the book that inspired Slumdog Millionaire.
Vanda Symon Exposed Orenda Books, 14th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781917764940
A woman’s body is found in the harbour as a series of nighttime pranks escalates. Dunedin detective Sam Shephard investigates.
Rachel Taff Paper Cut Corvus, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805461999
Malibu Rising meets The Girls in a literary thriller
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