ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Adventure, Crime & Horror
Peter Ackroyd Mr Cadmus Canongate, 1st July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786898975 Wickedly satirical novel filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy from the multi- award-winning author.
E V Adamson Five Strangers HarperCollins, 13th May, pb, £7.99, 9780008439262 Five strangers, one horrific memory. What did they see?
R G Adams Allegation riverrun, 18th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529404661 An evil monster exposed or an innocent father condemned? A young social worker hunts the truth in the light of a high- profile allegation.
Jussi Adler-Olsen Victim 2117 Quercus, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786486189 The master of the Nordic thriller returns with the eighth instalment of the gripping Department Q series.
Maria Adolfsson Fatal Isles Zaffre, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785768378 Ann Cleeves meets Håkan Nesser in this Scandi crime début about a remote island, a murder and a secret hidden in the past.
Susan Allott The Silence Te Borough Press, 29th April, pb, £8.99, 9780008361341 “The Silence excavates dark, decades-old secrets buried in human hearts, in families and in nations”—Erin Kelly. “A poignant literary mystery, impossible to put down”— Trevor Wood.
Mac Altgelt In the Cage of the Beast Book Guild, 28th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913551926 A centuries-old immortal from medieval Europe finds himself at a newly refurbished zoo in modern-day Georgia defending its exotic animal species from game smugglers.
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David Annandale Deacon of Wounds Games Workshop, 4th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781789993042 Spine-chilling Warhammer Horror novel set in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe.
MJ Arlidge Truth or Dare Orion, 24th June, hb, £12.99, 9781409188452 From the mind of the million-copy bestseller comes his biggest and best DI Helen Grace thriller yet.
Guillermo Arriaga, Frank Wynne, Jessie Mendez Sayer The Untameable MacLehose Press, 1st April, hb, eb, £20, 9780857058195 Taut coming-of-age thriller of vengeance and destiny set between Mexico City’s murderous 1960s underworld and the bleak tundras of Canada’s most remote province.
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Jonathan Ames A Man Named Doll Pushkin Vertigo, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782276999 Offbeat, blackly comic thriller from the author of You Were Never Really Here.
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Rhona MacLeod Lin Anderson 5: Easy Kill Pan, 4th February, pb, £8.99, 9781529024814 6: Final Cut 4th February, 9781529024838 7: The Reborn 4th March, 9781529024852 8: Picture Her Dead 4th March, 9781529024876 15: The Innocent Dead Macmillan, 18th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529033656 Reprints of earlier stories of the Scottish forensic scientist.
16: The Killing Tide Macmillan, 22nd July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529033687 When three bodies are found on a wreck in the Orkney Isles, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is brought in to investigate.
Claire Askew Cover Your Tracks Hodder, 8th April, pb, £8.99, 9781529327373 The next exciting thriller in the Di Birch series by award-winning author.
Ace Atkins Robert B Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me No Exit Press, 22nd April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857304285 In the latest Spenser thriller, the legendary Boston PI and his young protégé take on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for powerful clients.
Martine Bailey The Prophet Severn House, 26th February, hb, eb, £20.99, 9780727891037 Destiny, prophecy and murder weave an intricate web in this beguiling historical mystery. Could a dark prophecy spell danger for Tabitha De Vallory and her unborn child?
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British Library Tales of the Weird Jen Baker (ed) 22: Minor Hauntings British Library, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780712353199 In this spine-tingling new collection Baker gathers the most chilling tales of hauntings by children, expertly paired with snippets of the folklore and urban legends that inspired them.
Tina Baker Call Me Mummy Profile Books, 25th February, hb, £12.99, 9781788165228 pb, eb, £12.99, 9781788165235 Emotionally charged psychological thriller that takes the abducted-child plotline to a whole new level.
Heine Bakkeid, Anne Bruce Scatter Her Ashes Raven Books, 27th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781526610836 Thorkild Aske returns in the second novel in this darkly funny crime series from a fresh voice in Nordic Noir.
David Baldacci Daylight Pan, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509874606 A gripping thriller featuring Atlee Pine, FBI Special Agent.
David Baldacci A Gambling Man
Macmillan, 15th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781529061772 Second historical crime novel in the Aloysius Archer follows Sunday Times top five bestseller One Good Deed.
Sandra Balzo Flat White Severn House, 26th February, hb, eb, £20.99, 9780727890573 Coffee and romance—the perfect way to warm a freezing winter. Until Maggy Thorsen’s new barista’s beau turns up on the doorstep, bringing a deadly chill with him.
Linwood Barclay Find You First HQ, 3rd February, hb, eb, £20, 9780008332044 With just months to live, a billionaire businessman decides to track down his long-lost children. But a deadly killer is one step ahead of him.
John Barlow Right to Kill HQ, 1st April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008408855 DS Joe Romano has been working dead-end cases since returning to Leeds from a stint at Interpol. But that’s all about to change.
Kerry Barnes The Choice HQ, 15th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008336493 Mike Regan and Zara Ezra believe the so-called Governor is locked away in Zara’s hangar. But less than 24 hours later, the Governor is loose and out there, wreaking havoc.
Belinda Bauer Exit Black Swan, 22nd July, 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.
Sixtus Beckmesser Survival Matador, 28th April, pb, £15.99, 9781800462366 Tamara is brought up in a dangerously unstable Baltic state. Her parents are fully occupied trying to save democracy. The revolution comes, introducing a violent regime.
Gary Bell Post Mortem Raven Books, 22nd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781526612410 Breathless new novel in outstanding new legal crime series, written by an acclaimed QC. Perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith.
Trevor K Bell Gothic Ghost Stories Book Guild, 28th May, pb, £8.99, 9781913551889 Bell knows that what we fear most is the sensation of being afraid and that it is the reader’s imagination that conjures up the true phantoms of terror.
Alison Belsham The Embalmer Trapeze, 18th March, pb, £8.99, 9781409182702 International bestselling author returns with a tight new thriller in the Sullivan and Mullins series. Optioned for television.
Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar The Wychford Poisoning Case Collins Crime Club, 4th February, pb, £8.99, 9780008333881 One of the earliest psychological crime novels.
Steve Berry The Kaiser’s Web Hodder & Stoughton, 25th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529363944 Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone encounters information from a secret World War II dossier that could rewrite history.
Simon Berthon A Time to Lie HQ, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008214500 Set in present-day London, this is a topical political thriller about power and its ability to corrupt the heart of government.
Someone is targeting Secret Service agents. But how do you fight back when you don’t know who the enemy is?
James Carlos Blake The Bones of Wolfe No Exit Press, 24th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857304513 In the newest Wolfe family adventure an improbable resemblance leads Rudy and Frank towards the dangerous upper echelons of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Robin Blake Secret Mischief Severn House, 26th February, hb, £20.99, 9780727890702 The discovery of a body in a pigsty, shot to death, leads Coroner Titus Cragg and Dr Luke Fidelis into a complex and baffling murder investigation.
Sarah Blau, Danielle Zamir (tr) The Others Pushkin Vertigo, 13th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781782276494 Controversial Israeli bestseller about four women and their fatal promise not to have children.
Rachael Blok Into the Fire Head of Zeus, 1st April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781838931704 Eleven guests, three nights, one murderer.
Katarzyna Bonda Conspiracy of Blood Hodder & Stoughton, 27th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781473630499 Second novel from Bonda sees Sasza Zaluska plunged even deeper into the corruption and criminality that has engulfed Polish society since the fall of Communism.
Carol Birch Cold Boy’s Wood Head of Zeus, 1st April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781838939410 Fusing the ghost story with sharp, psychological insight, this tale about loneliness, buried secrets and the havoc they play on the mind cements Birch as a key writer.
Lynn H Blackburn Unknown Threat Revell, 5th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780800737955
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Philip Boehm (tr) The Passenger Pushkin Press, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781782275381 Devastating rediscovered classic written amid the horrors of Nazi Germany as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht.
Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch Night Hunters MacLehose Press, 24th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529409154 In the fourth Black Forest Investigation, Detective Inspector Bonì is confronted with the grim secrets of outwardly respectable citizens.
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