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18: Game of Mirrors 19th August, 3938 Montalbano is being led into a hall of mirrors where there is danger at every turn.
19: Blade of Light 19th August, 3976 A distraction of the heart takes over the detective’s head. 20: A Voice in the Night Stephen Sartarelli (tr) 19th August, 3983 A supermarket’s links with the Sicilian mafia are creating problems at every turn. 21: A Nest of Vipers Stephen Sartarelli (tr) 14th October, 3990 Inspector Montalbano discovers that half a village had motives for killing a man whose body is found on the beach. 22: The Pyramid of Mud 14th October, 7844 Montalbano must unravel the mystery of a corpse found in a sewer. 23: The Overnight Kidnapper 14th October, 7837 Three cases of kidnapping baffle the Vigàtan police force. 28: Riccardino Mantle, 14th October, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529073300 Inspector Montalbano embarks on his final thrill- ing adventure: a fitting end to a remarkable series of novels.
From the bestselling author of Our House and winner of the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year award comes a nail-biting story of trag- edy and revenge.
Louise Carey Outcast Gollancz, 20th January, pb, £14.99, 9781473232754 Breakneck sequel to the prescient Inscape, whose dystopia was described as “chillingly plausible” by Claire North.
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British Library Crime Classics John Dickson Carr, Martin Edwards 89: Till Death Do Us Part British Library, 10th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712353793 First published in 1944, this remains a pacy and deeply satisfying impos- sible crime story demon- strating the very best of Carr’s brilliant mystery writing.
Scott Carson Where They Wait Welbeck, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787396487 Writing a profile of a new mindfulness app, Nick Bishop hears a song on the app gives which gives him endless nightmares and start to permeate his waking life.
Will Carver Psychopaths Anonymous Orenda Books, 25th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193751 When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve Beauman sets up a group for psychopaths. Electrify- ingly original thriller.
Ramsey Campbell Born to the Dark: The Three Births of Daoloth 2 Flame Tree Press, 21st September, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781787585621 hb, £20, 9781787585638 Dominic Sheldrake’s son experiences nocturnal seizures that are a medi- cal mystery. Meanwhile, Dominic assumes the occultist is out of his life. But is he?
Louise Candlish The Heights Simon & Schuster, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471183485 5th August, audiofile, £14.40, 9781471184543 20th January, pb, £8.99, 9781471183515
Wiley Cash When Ghosts Come Home Faber, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571369256 An abandoned plane, a dead body and a small town threatening to explode. A twist readers will never see coming.
Steve Cavanagh The Devil’s Advocate Orion, 5th August, hb, £12.99, 9781398700178 New thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author.
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City Blues Quartet Ray Celestin Pan, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 97815290656 Reissue of the taut histori- cal mystery series. 1: The Axeman’s Jazz 33
2: Dead Man’s Blues 26
Diane Chamberlain The Last House on the Street Headline Review, 20th January, hb, £20, 9781472271204 Moving page-turner about a respectable street with a devastating secret.
Kimberley Chambers The Family Man HarperCollins, 16th September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008365998 Epic new thriller from the queen of gangland crime.
Yu-Ko Chang, Roddy Flagg (tr) Whisper Honford Star, 15th Octo- ber, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781916277168 Plot-driven chiller from Taiwan that will appeal to fans of classic Japanese horror such as Koji Suzu- ki’s Ring. Translated from the Chinese.
Martin Chevreau The Harvard Curse Book Guild, 28th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913913250 Clementine, Eveline and Adrien all disappear at the end of the 2019 fall term at Harvard University.
Francesco Cheynet, Lucio Schina, Charlotte J March (tr), Wolf Graham (ed) The First Investigations of Dorian Bayley Black Wolf Edition & Publish- ing, 19th October, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781913964108 Beginning of a series of investigations that will lead readers to know the deductive crime.
Lee Child, Andrew Child Better off Dead Bantam Press, 26th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781787633735 Jack Reacher returns in his 26th outing. Relentless action, a gripping mystery and a host of evil new enemies who are soon going to learn they’d be better off dead.
crime and mystery short stories.
Emma Christie Find Her First Welbeck, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787396982 Paramedic Billy King gets home to find police ramming down his door. His wife, found alive but bleeding, tells him she slipped on wet tiles but Billy’s convinced she’s lying.
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung The Eighth Girl Pushkin Vertigo, 4th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782276968 Unsettling, seductive psychological thriller. A young woman with multi- ple personalities is drawn into London’s dangerous underworld. For fans of Clare Mackintosh and Jessica Moor.
Anne Wyn Clark Whisper Cottage Avon, 2nd September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008459970 Haunting story about the power of secrets and rumours. Lots to like for fans of Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key and Lucy Atkins’s Magpie Lane.
Cassandra Clark The Day of the Serpent Severn House, 26th August, hb, £20.99, 9780727890900 The murder of a loyal king’s man threatens the self-crowned King Henry’s new regime in this second gripping medieval mystery featuring friar, sleuth and reluctant spy Brother Chandler.
Lucy Clarke Untitled HarperCollins, 6th January, hb, £12.99, 9780008462376 On a Greek island six friends plan a hen week- end. Yet dangerous currents run beneath the idyll and they might not be counting down to a wedding, but a funeral.
Sarah Clarke A Mother Never Lies HarperCollins, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008494889 Breathless psychological thriller that will keep read- ers hanging until the final twist.
Lee Child (ed) Best Crime Stories of 2021 Head of Zeus, 2nd September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781801105736 The very best of the year’s
Paul Cleave The Quiet People Orenda Books, 25th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193942 Suspicion is cast on two successful crime writers when their seven-year- old son goes missing. Mesmerisingly dark stand- alone thriller.
Ann Cleeves The Heron’s Cry Macmillan, 2nd September, hb, eb, £20, 9781509889686 Pan, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509889709 Second book in the Two Rivers series featur- ing Devonian detective Matthew Venn.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny State of Terror Macmillan, 12th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781529079692 From bestselling authors comes a novel of unsur- passed thrills and incom- parable insider expertise.
Harlan Coben Play Dead Orion, 30th September, pb, £8.99, 9781398705739 Fast-moving, suspense- filled thriller from the bestselling author of Long Lost.
Harlan Coben Win Arrow Books, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787462991 From the author of The Stranger comes a riveting new thriller, starring new hero Windsor Horne Lock- wood III—or Win, as he is known to his friends.
Jason Cobley A Hundred Years to Arras Unbound Digital, 19th August, pb, £9.99, 9781789651492 From a Somerset farm to the trenches of France: one man’s coming of age through land, love and blood.
Tammy Cohen The Wedding Party Black Swan, 19th August, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784162481 It was meant to be her dream wedding. Instead it was murder. Immediate, irresistible and relatable hook sets this gripping thriller apart.
Daniel Cole Ragdoll Trapeze, 9th December, pb, £8.99, 9781398704732 Exciting thriller with twists and turns you won’t see coming for fans of Robert Galbraith, Paula Hawkins and Jo Nesbo. Soon to be a TV series.
Daniel Cole Mimic Trapeze, 19th August, hb, £14.99, 9781409198000 Chilling new detective thriller from Sunday Times bestseller.
Stevyn Colgan Cockerings Unbound Digital, 19th August, pb, £9.99, 9781789651515
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