SECTION SPONSOR Rebellion
Neil Lancaster Untitled HarperCollins, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008470395 Scottish DS Max Crai- gie returns in his second adventure.
John Lanchester Reality, and Other Stories Faber & Faber, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571363018 Very modern ghost stories from the Booker- nominated author of The Wall.
Shari Lapena Not a Happy Family Bantam Press, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787633018 Latest from the queen of the one-sit read, the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door. An elderly couple are found murdered. Could their chil- dren be responsible?
Stieg Larsson The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo MacLehose Press, 16th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529418835 The multimillion-copy bestseller that changed crime fiction for ever.
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British Library Crime Classics Rupert Latimer, Martin Edwards
ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Michael Ledwidge Run for Cover Headline, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781472283108 In this pulse-pounding thriller, former Navy Seal Michael Gannon must unravel a deadly conspir- acy before time runs out. “I read it in a day,” said James Patterson.
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Tim Leach A Winter War Head of Zeus, 5th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800242869 Disgraced warrior must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Roman Empire, in the first of a new trilogy set in the second century AD.
Stephen Leather Fast Track Hodder Paperbacks, 6th January, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473672079 New edge-of-your-seat novel in the thrilling Spider Shepherd series.
Te Shires Mysteries Anna Legat Headline Accent, pb, £9.99, 978178615 Set in the West Country, this cosy crime series will tempt fans of Betty Rowlands and Faith Martin. 1: Death Comes to Bishops Well 26th August, 7942 2: A Death in the Family 6th January, 9946
Dennis Lehane The Drop William Morrow Paper- backs, 20th January, pb, £9.99, 9780063084896 Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith. Based on The Drop starring Tom Hardy.
Simon Lelic The Search Party Penguin, 19th August, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780241986189 The killer isn’t out there. It’s one of you.
92: Murder After Christmas British Library, 10th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712353892 First published in 1944, Murder After Christmas is a lively riot of murder, mince pies and misdirec- tion, playing with beloved tropes to create some- thing suited for the holi- day season.
Katie Lattari Dark Things I Adore Titan Books, 14th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789095906 Provocative must-read of feminist fury about the inhuman lengths some take for success, or justice.
Sergei Lebedev, Antonina W Bouis Untraceable Apollo, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800246614 Extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all kinds: physi- cal, moral and political— all rooted in the recent history of Russia’s state assassinations.
Sergei Lebedev, Antonina W Bouis The Year of the Comet Apollo, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800249240 A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
Adam LeBor Dohany Street Head of Zeus, 11th November, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781786692764 Budapest’s dark history catches up with detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in LeBor’s Hungarian crime trilogy.
Christer Lende The Beast Hunters Hashtag Press, 30th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913835132 Terrifying creatures lurk everywhere. Ara must become a beast hunter to save unsuspecting souls from the same fate her parents suffered and defeat the monster plagu- ing the village.
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British Library Tales of the Weird
Christmas in Finland to tales of ice skaters skirt- ing the line between the realms.
John Lilith
The Ship of Secrets Matador, 28th August, pb, £7.99, 9781800464773 A ship appears unexpect- edly at a small port on the English coast, shrouded in mystery. Abandoned by her crew, the vessel is haunted by the spirit of a dead captain.
Tom Lloyd God of Night Gollancz, 5th August, pb, £9.99, 9781473224650 Wars are being fought. The gods may be return- ing and will need killing again. And the Cards are out of beer. Book 4 of The God Fragments.
GS Locke Six Orion, 19th August, pb, £8.99, 9781409190509 The follow-up to Neon—a commercial high-concept serial killer thriller with a great hook.
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British Library Crime Classics ECR Lorac, Martin Edwards 90: These Names Make Clues British Library, 10th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712353847
MacDonald and his allies in the CID must unravel a truly tangled case in this metafictional masterpiece from the beloved Golden Age author.
James Lovegrove Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors Titan Books, 12th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781789096712 “Lovegrove has nailed the tone and rhythm of Conan Doyle’s storytelling to a tee”—Starburst. From the author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon another sinister seasonal mystery.
29: Sunless Solstice British Library, 21st October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712354103 Delve within for a unique selection ranging from the macabre folklore of
Katie Lowe The Murder of Graham Catton HarperCollins, 6th Janu- ary, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008289065 Someone knows more than they’re letting on. Listeners are about to become judge, jury and executioner as they under- cover the truth about the murder of Graham Catton.
Robert Ludlum The Scarlatti Inheritance Orion, 19th August, pb, £9.99, 9781398705715 Spellbinding story of
international terror, intrigue, greed and murder from master storyteller. “The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum”—GQ.
Mike Lupica, Robert B Parker Robert B Parker’s Payback No Exit Press, 16th December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857304872 PI Sunny Randall takes on two serpentine cases that converge into one deadly mystery. She’s poking a hornet’s nest from both sides and all hell is about to break loose.
Bonnie MacBird The Three Locks Collins Crime Club, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008380878 Holmes and Watson are called to action again in another Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Stuart MacBride The Coffinmaker’s Garden HarperCollins, 19th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008208349 A Sunday Times bestseller.
DS MacDonald Elvis in Kabul Book Guild, 28th Novem- ber, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913913717 Thriller set in Afghanistan with themes of drugs, corruption and murder.
Will MacLean
The Apparition Phase Windmill Books, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786091017 Unsettling literary ghost story set between a claus- trophobic British subur- ban town and a menacing Suffolk manor.
Michael J Malone Quicksand of Memory Orenda Books, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193966 Scarred by their pasts, Jenna and Luke fall in love and their future looks rosy. But someone has been watching and has chilling plans for revenge.
Andrea Mara All Her Fault Corgi, 20th January, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780552177986 Four women in a close- knit community are thrust into the spotlight when a young child goes missing. Explosive thriller.
David Mark Darkness Falls Aries, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800246331 Prequel to the DS Hector McAvoy crime series.
Patricia Marques The Colours of Death Hodder Paperbacks, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529336702 First in a speculative detective series set in Lisbon.
John Marrs The Vacation Pan, 16th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529080865 For fans of TM Logan, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.
Faith Martin A Fatal Night HQ Digital, 11th Novem- ber, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008410520 When a body is found on New Year’s Day, Clement Ryder and Trudy Loveday are called in to crack the case.
Lucy Martin The First Confession Welbeck, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787396371 DS Veronica Delmar is asked to investigate the case of a teenage girl abused by a caretaker at her school. She quickly discovers parallels to her own life.
Sam Martin One Day in June Roundfire Books, 28th January, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781789047578 All his adult life Adrian Kramer had carried a secret but was it as big and as explosive as the secret he stumbled into?
Simon Mason A Killing in November riverrun, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529415674 Oxford-set crime series of surprising twists, troubled pasts and a dynamic duo who are brought together by a mysterious murder investigation.
Graham Masterton The Children God Forgot Head of Zeus, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800240223 A rash of strange and horrifying births sweeps through London in this new horror yarn.
Graham Masterton The Shadow People Head of Zeus, 9th Decem- ber, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800243361 Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritu- alistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals.
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