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set out to save a young girl’s life through murder.
Sarah Stovell Other Parents HQ, 20th January, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008441616 No information at time of going to press.
Helen Monks Takhar Precious You HQ, 25th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008340186 Book club meets upmar- ket thriller packed full of talking points: toxic gener- ation gaps, the unfair maligning of millennials, difficulties for women as they age, and difficult working relationships.
Brad Taylor American Traitor Aries, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838937775 The Taskforce must divert two world powers from engaging in a major conflict.
Brad Taylor End of Days Aries, 6th January, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781838937799 The Taskforce and Mossad join forces to bring down a fanatical organisation.
CL Taylor Her Last Holiday Avon, 20th January, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008379254 Heart-in-mouth roller- coaster ride, part mystery, part psychological thriller, explores a wellness retreat gone terribly wrong.
Lulu Taylor A Winter Memory Pan, 25th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529029680 Rich and intriguing gothic novel from author of A Midwinter Promise and The Winter Secret.
Russ Thomas Nighthawking Simon & Schuster, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471181436 A young woman is found buried in Shef- field’s Botanical Gardens. In his quest to find her murderer, DS Adam Tyler will find himself drawn into the secretive world of nighthawkers.
Lesley Thomson The Distant Dead Head of Zeus, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788549776 The detective’s daughter Stella Darnell connects a murder in Tewkesbury Abbey to a decades- old mystery in wartime London.
Charles Todd An Irish Hostage
William Morrow, 5th August, hb, £20, 9780062859853 In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Craw- ford returns. Twelfth book in the beloved mystery series.
Masako Togawa, Simon Grove (tr) The Master Key Pushkin Vertigo, 2nd December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782277729 New edition of this prize- winning classic mystery from one of Japan’s best- loved crime writers.
Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (tr) The Rabbit Factor Orenda Books, 28th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781913193874 An insurance auditor’s carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adven- ture park. Quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller.
Jen Turano To Write a Wrong Bethany House, 14th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780764235320 Writer Herman Hender- son desperately needs someone to investigate numerous attempts on his life. Enter quiet Daphne Beekman, mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night.
Simon Turney, Gordon Doherty Gods of Rome Aries, 4th November, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800242067 The story of Constantine and Maxentius, two ambi- tious young men, bril- liant generals and friends destined to fight to the death as they strive to become Emperor of Rome.
Nick Tyrone The Patient Headline Accent, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9781472287793 Chilling dystopian novel about the medical estab- lishment. Filled with dark humour and biting satire.
Christian Unge, George Goulding (tr), Sarah De Senarclens (tr) Hell and High Water MacLehose Press, 19th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529408027 hb, £18.99, 9781529408034 First in a Swedish crime series featuring Tekla Berg, a fearless doctor with a remarkable photo- graphic memory.
Nicola Upson The Dead of Winter Faber & Faber, 4th
ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571353255 Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas but two strange deaths on St Michael’s Mount interrupt the festivities.
VL Valentine The Plague Letters Profile Books, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788164559 Serial killer stalks London during the Great Plague of 1665 in this highly inven- tive historical thriller.
Julia Vaughan Daisy Chain Cahill Davis, 16th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838182069 A dead five-year-old girl, a new cold case team and a psychic. Will DCI Fortune finally find the killer?
Laura Vaughan The Favour Corvus, 13th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838952044 “Cruel Intentions” meets The Talented Mr Ripley in this sumptuous début laced with secrets, lies and dangerous obsessions.
Luca Veste You Never Said Goodbye Hodder & Stoughton, 30th December, hb, eb, £20, 9781529357332 Electrifying thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Peter James.
Elaine Viets Life Without Parole Severn House, 26th August, hb, £20.99, 9780727850287 Death investigator Angela Richman becomes entan- gled in the lives of the one percent in small-town Missouri in this intriguing procedural mystery.
Colin Wade Deadly Connections Book Guild, 28th September, pb, £8.99, 9781913913373 Sarah Braintree is the best chief of police Jersey has ever had but the day after her success is celebrated by the government, some- one starts a killing spree.
Martin Walker Dangerous Vacation & Other Bruno Tales Quercus, 11th November, hb, £16.99, 9781529418101 pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529418118 Bumper collection of delightful stories featuring Bruno, France’s favourite cop, all set in the beautiful Dordogne valley and the surrounding Perigord. The perfect escape read.
Natalie Zina Walschots Hench
William Morrow Paperbacks, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9780062978585 Smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affec- tion, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower.
Natalie Walters Lights Out Revell, 23rd November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800739782 To fight the war on terror- ism, CIA analyst Brynn Taylor invited foreign spies into America. Now one is missing.
Catriona Ward The Last House on Needless Street Profile Books, 30th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788166188 Immersive and deliver- ing twist after twist—this is the must-read gothic thriller of 2021.
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Tales of MI7: Te Originals James Ward Cool Millennium, 2nd August, hb, eb, £20, 97819138512
London with MI7’s prefer- ence . . . and her own.
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Tales of MI7: John Mordred James Ward Cool Millennium, 14th August, hb, eb, £20, 9781913851 1: The Eastern Ukraine Question 262
John Mordred is despatched to Russia to assist in a plot to under- mine President Putin. 2: The Social Magus 279
Popular new politi- cal party is strongly suspected of having received funding from abroad — and that’s the least of its secrets. 3: Encounter With Isis 286 The 14-year-old daughter of a government minister is suspected of having travelled to Syria. 4: World War O 293 World War Offshore is the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration in history. But who’s organising it, and why didn’t GCHQ and NSA hear about it? 5: The New Europeans 309 2016 and the run-up to the EU referendum. One government minis- ter believes he can take advantage of the fallout to redraw Europe’s map. 6: Libya Story 316 Agent John Mordred’s sister has been kidnapped in Libya.
winning, although he didn’t enter it. 10: Death in a Half Foreign Country 354
John Mordred leaves MI7 to get married. Now he’s untethered from central control, he’s fair game. 11: The BBC Hunters 361 The Kremlin launches an audacious plan to take control of the BBC from within.
12: The Seductive Scent of Empire 378 After years of bitter rivalry, the various depart- ments in MI7 embark on an internecine war. John Mordred has to choose sides.
13: Humankind 2.0 385 From eco-warrior to gene technologist: Hector Raynebow wants to end the world as we know it. 14: Ruby Parker’s Last Orders 392 Murder victim revealed to be a former MI7 agent with information about a Russian plot to destabilise Western Europe.
Ruth Ware One by One Vintage, 2nd September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784708085 “The sense of dread deep- ens as the snow falls in Ware’s tensely plotted and deliciously cast Alpine thriller”—Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House.
1: The Kramski Case 17
Someone starts assas- sinating paparazzi and the killer turns out to be part of a tortuous plot to dismantle British democracy. 2: The Girl From Kandahar 24 The war on terror comes to London in the unlikely shape of a former MI7 agent, now a tool of Islamists. 3: The Vengeance of San Gennaro 31 This year’s Venice Bien- nale provides the perfect opportunity for one of MI7’s oldest enemies to augment his web of crime. 18: Our Woman in Jamaica 14th August, 55 A general election in Jamaica is poised to decide definitively between socialism and the free market. Ruby Parker is despatched from
David Heska Wanbli Weiden Winter Counts Simon & Schuster, 30th September, hb, £14.99, 9781398509306 audiofile, eb, £14.40, 9781398509320 Groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reser- vation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.
7: Little War in London 323 Can a discreet battle to the death be going on in London’s streets between CIA operatives and Russian spies? 8: The Square Mile Murder 330 Five missing IMF officials, the kidnapping of a Brit- ish financier and evidence of a cover-up in Whitehall all seem related to one murder.
9: The Ultimate Londoner 347 The Ultimate Londoner is a competition John Mordred appears to be
Richard Wells Damnable Tales Unbound, 2nd September, hb, £25, 9781800180604 Beautifully illustrated collection of 23 classic folk horror stories by Shir- ley Jackson, MR James, Robert Aickman and Thomas Hardy among others.
Louise Welsh The Second Cut Canongate, 27th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838850869 Compelling follow-up to the award-winning, atmospheric cult classic The Cutting Room.
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