ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
“An absorbing, thought- provoking entry into crime fiction”—the Times.
Adventure, crime & horror
Kia Abdullah Next of Kin HQ, 2nd September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008433635 Brave courtroom drama that will keep readers on the edge of the seat until the final, heartstopping page.
Stacey Abrams While Justice Sleeps HarperCollins, 6th January, pb, £8.99, 9780008488734 Gripping political thriller from New York Times bestseller.
RG Adams Allegation riverrun, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529404678 An evil monster exposed or an innocent father condemned? A young social worker hunts the truth in the light of a high- profile allegation.
John Ajvide Lindqvist I Am the Tiger riverrun, 11th November, hb, eb, £20, 9781529408263 Biting supernatural horror from the author of the international bestseller Let the Right One In.
Heidi Amsinck My Name is Jensen Muswell Press, 5th August, hb, £12.99, 9781838110185 Hugely compelling début thriller from leading BBC Radio 4 story writer.
Jeffrey Archer Over My Dead Body HarperCollins, 14th October, hb, eb, £20, 9780008474270 Taut story of murder, revenge and betrayal from global bestseller.
Jeffrey Archer The Fourth Estate Pan, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529060089 Reissue of compelling story of two men standing face-to-face on the high- est precipice, prepared to risk everything to beat each other.
Claire Askew A Matter of Time Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529327403 Beautifully written and plotted police procedural from a rising star who has delivered a game- changing fourth book.
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Tina Baker Call Me Mummy Profile Books, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788165242 Emotionally charged psychological thriller that takes the abducted-child plotline to a whole new level.
Heine Bakkeid, Anne Bruce Scatter Her Ashes Raven Books, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526610836 Thorkild Aske returns in second novel in darkly funny crime series.
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Shaw and Katie James David Baldacci Pan, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 97815290433 1: The Whole Truth 27 Introducing special intel- ligence agent Shaw. 2: Deliver Us From Evil 58 Reissue of the heart- racing follow-up.
David Baldacci Mercy Macmillan, 25th November, hb, eb, £20, 9781529061710 Atlee Pine’s quest to find her missing sister reaches an explosive climax in this thrilling conclusion to the series.
David Baldacci A Gambling Man Pan, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529061802 Tense second historical crime novel in Aloysius Archer series follows the Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed.
John Banville Snow Faber & Faber, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571362707 Chilling festive mystery from the Man Booker Prize winner.
John Banville April in Spain Faber & Faber, 7th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571363582 Propulsive, sun-kissed follow-up to Snow.
Linwood Barclay Find You First HQ, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008332082 From the bestselling author of books such as Elevator Pitch comes the most gripping crime thriller of 2021.
Thomas Bardenwerper Mona Passage
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Syracuse University Press, 30th November, hb, £23.95, 9780815611394 The story of two neigh- bours in San Juan, Puerto Rico. During long evenings spent together talking, a deep friendship develops based on shared traumas and a common desire to heal.
JS Barnes
The City of Dr Moreau Titan Books, 14th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789095821 Visionary new horror novel in the style of Wells’ creepiest and most endur- ing fiction, The Island of Dr Moreau. For fans of clas- sic horror with a modern twist.
Kerry Barnes The Choice HQ, 16th September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008336493 Gritty crime thriller that will hook from the start.
Sonya Bates Inheritance of Secrets HarperCollins, 9th December, pb, £9.99, 9781460760543 A brutal murder, a wartime promise and a quest for the truth. Heather Morris meets Jane Harper in this mystery.
Belinda Bauer Exit Black Swan, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784164133 Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too late for life to go horribly wrong.
Gary Bell Post Mortem Raven Books, 14th October, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781526612410 Second in the Elliot Rook series, written by an acclaimed QC.
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British Library Crime Classics Anthony Berkeley, Martin Edwards 94: Murder in the Basement British Library, 10th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712353946 Novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author at his playful best.
Carol Birch Cold Boy’s Wood Apollo, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838939434 Fusing ghost story with psychological insight, this is a brilliant novel about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they
play on the mind from a Booker-shortlisted author.
DV Bishop City of Vengeance Pan, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529038798 Explosive historical thriller starring Cesare Aldo, set against the backdrop of the Medici dynasty in 1530s Renaissance Florence.
PR Black The Runner Aries, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800246355 A killer forces young women to run for their lives.
Sam Blake The Dark Room Corvus, 4th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786498618 Pacy tale from the author of the number one Irish Times bestseller, Keep Your Eyes on Me.
Sam Blake Remember My Name Corvus, 6th January, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781838952952 More twists and turns from the woman behind The Dark Room.
Sarah Blau, Daniella Zamir (tr) The Others Pushkin Vertigo, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782276883 Controversial Israeli best- seller about four women and their fatal promise not to have children.
Sharon Bolton The Pact Trapeze, 14th October, pb, £7.99, 9781409198321 Clever thriller from Rich- ard & Judy bestseller about class, obsession, betrayal and revenge.
Sarah Bonner Her Perfect Twin Hodder Studio, 13th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529382709 The most addictive thriller for 2022.
Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch Night Hunters MacLehose Press, 30th September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529409154 Fourth in the Black Forest Investigations by the four-time winner of the German Crime Fiction Award.
CJ Box Dark Sky Head of Zeus, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788549332 Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accom- pany a Silicon Valley CEO
on a hunting trip—but soon learns that he may be the prey.
Patricia Bradley Crosshairs Revell, 23rd November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800735753 When ranger Ainsley Beaumont returns to her hometown of Natchez to investigate the murder of a teenage girl she doesn’t suspect she’ll become the murderer’s next target.
Amanda Brittany Untitled HarperCollins, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008362904 Another gripping psycho- logical thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Lie.
Ken Bruen A Galway Epiphany Head of Zeus, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838939342 An apparent miracle unleashes a lethal chain of events in the life of Jack Taylor, ex-cop turned private eye.
Greg Buchanan Sixteen Horses Pan, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529027181 Hysteria takes over a dying seaside town when 16 horses’ heads are discovered buried in a farmer’s field. For fans of Jane Harper’s The Dry.
John Buchan, Alistair McCleery The Thirty Nine Steps Flame Tree 451, 10th August, pb, £6.99, 9781839647864 Quintessential man-on- the-run tale with Richard Hannay as the resource- ful engineer exploiting the complacency of his enemies and using espionage and charm in the defence of king and country.
John Buchan
The Gap in the Curtain Handheld Press, 9th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912766482 This Buchan novel from 1932 was his last full- length work on the super- natural. If you saw one year into the future, what would you do with that foreknowledge?
Suzanne Burden, Simon Brett, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Front, Jon Glover, Full Cast Charles Paris: A Deadly Habit BBC Audio, 30th September, audiobook, £13.99, 9781529137569 Actor and sleuth Charles Paris is back in this
full-cast BBC radio dramatisation of Simon Brett’s novel.
Alafair Burke The Girl She Was Faber & Faber, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571345595 The past refuses to be forgotten in this grip- ping new thriller from the author of The Wife and The Better Sister.
James Lee Burke Another Kind of Eden Orion, 19th August, hb, £20, 9781398704695 New York Times bestsell- ing author brings read- ers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality and mysticism set in the turbu- lent 1960s.
James Lee Burke Lay Down My Sword and Shield Orion, 2nd September, pb, £9.99, 9781398706392 Powerful novel of conflict and shadows from the past by acclaimed author of The Tin Roof Blowdown.
Mandy Byatt Just Another Liar Avon, 20th January, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008459918 Suspenseful début that fans of Adele Parks and Liane Moriarty will love.
Susanna Calkins
The Cry of the Hangman Severn House, 26th August, hb, £20.99, 9780727850331 When a series of puzzling crimes takes place in 17th-century London, will printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion be publishing the news—or starring in it?
Linda Calvey The Locksmith Welbeck, 30th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787397552 One step outside the law sets young Ruby on a path—straight to the top.
Stella Cameron The Playing Fields Severn House, 26th August, hb, £20.99, 9781780291239 When two bodies are discovered within six weeks of one another, it would appear that a serial killer is at large in the sleepy Cotswold village of Folly. Another Alex Duggins.
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Inspector Montalbano Andrea Camilleri Picador, pb, eb, £8.99, 978152904 17: Angelica’s Smile 19th August, 3921 Montalbano must focus his mind to solve a perplexing investigation before events spiral out
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