ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Hodder & Stoughton, 13th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529350913 One part You by Caroline Kepnes and one part “Parasite”: a dark and hypnotic novel about obsession and what happens when we twist the truth too far.
Will Carver Psychopaths Anonymous Orenda Books, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193751 When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve Beauman sets up a group for psychopaths. Will Carver’s devastatingly dark, electrifyingly original new thriller.
Stephen Cashmore Kindred Spirit Sparsile Books, 21st June, pb, £9.99, 9781913746988 No infomration at time of going to press.
AM Castle The Invitation HQ Digital, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008364748 Tapping into the trend for locked-room mysteries, The Invitation is a high- concept murder mystery for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Allie Reynolds.
series featuring Samson O’Brien and Delilah Metcalfe.
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Clay McLeod Chapman Whisper Down the Lane Quirk Books, 6th April, pb, £9.99, 9781683692331 From the author of The Remaking a true crime- inspired horror novel about a young boy whose little white lies about his teachers contributed to the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
Andrew Child, Lee Child The Sentinel Corgi, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780552177429 The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021, his 25th adventure.
Bora Chung, Anton Hur (tr) Cursed Bunny Honford Star, 15th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781916277182 Genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author blur the lines between magical realism, horror and science-fiction. Winner of a 2020 PEN/ Heim award.
V Castro
The Queen of the Cicadas Flame Tree Press, 22nd June, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781787586024 hb, £20, 9781787586031 Belinda Alvarez attends a wedding at the farm where the urban legend of the Queen of the Cicadas started, not realising how familiar she will become with the legend.
Steve Cavanagh Untitled Orion, 22nd July, hb, £12.99, 9781398700178 New thriller from bestselling.
Julia Chapman Date With Deceit Pan, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529049572 The sixth novel in The Dales Detective Series, Chapman’s cosy crime
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Maxine Mei-Fung Chung The Eighth Girl Pushkin Press, 4th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781782276944 In this unsettling, seductive psychological thriller, a young woman with multiple personalities is drawn into London’s dangerous underworld. For fans of Clare Mackintosh and Jessica Moor.
Julie Clark The Flight Hodder, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529384727 Two passengers, two tickets, one chance to escape.
Ann Cleeves The Darkest Evening Pan, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509889556 The ninth novel in the Vera Stanhope series by bestseller Cleeves. Now a major TV series on ITV.
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Shetland Pan, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529050 Ann Cleeves 1: Raven Black 18th March,189 2: White Nights 18th March, 196 3: Red Bones 18th March, 202 4: Blue Lightning 18th March, 219 5: Dead Water 13th May, 226 6: Thin Air 13th May, 233 7: Cold Earth 13th May, 240 8: Wild Fire 13th May, 257
All eight books in the series filmed as the major BBC One drama.
Rory Clements A Prince and a Spy Bonnier Zaffre, 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838773359 Follow-up to Hitler’s Secret. Tom Wilde returns to unravel a mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich and the British monarchy.
Bill Clinton, James Patterson The President’s Daughter Century, 7th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781529125665 Random House Audio- books, 7th June, audiobook, £16, 9781786143983 From the authors of the global number one bestseller The President is Missing comes the explosive new thriller of the new decade, co-credited to the 42nd president of the united States.
May Cobb
The Hunting Wives Trapeze, 20th May, pb, £13.99, 9781398702585 The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder.
Harlan Coben Win Century, 18th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781529123845 Riveting new thriller starring new hero Windsor Horne Lockwood III, or Win, as he is known to his (few) friends.
Tammy Cohen The Wedding Party Black Swan, 13th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784162481 It was meant to be her dream wedding. Instead it was murder. An immediate, irresistible and relatable hook sets this gripping thriller apart.
Karen Cole Destroy Me
Barrie Condon The Tethered God Sparsile Books, 3rd May, pb, £9.99, 9781916457263 When Egyptian god-king Khafre died 4,500 years ago he expected paradise. Instead, he finds himself in modern-day Cairo, trapped inside a police dog earning its living by sniffing out bombs.
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Charlie Parker John Connolly The Dirty South Hodder & Stoughton, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529398335 Follows an unprecedented campaign for the paperback of this bestselling prequel to the Charlie Parker series. The Nameless Ones Hodder & Stoughton, 15th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781529398342 Parker returns in a
heartpounding thriller with Angel and Louis taking centrestage. Follows events in A Book of Bones.
Robin Cook Viral Macmillan, 27th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781529059373 Medical thriller about a deadly airborne disease set in New York from a master of the genre.
Chris Coppel Legacy Matador, 28th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800462304 Time-travel horror story with the flavour of Stephen King. Written by a screenwriter and author of thriller and horror stories.
Jane Corry The Lies We Tell Penguin, 24th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780241989005 You did what any mother would do and now someone else’s son is dead.
Quercus, 18th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529413618 Twisty and addictive psychological thriller from a Kindle bestseller. For fans of Karin Slaughter and Erin Kelly.
SA Cosby Blacktop Wasteland Headline, 16th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472273758 Stylish and compulsive US crime novel has received huge acclaim with praise from Lee Child, Stephen King, Dennis Lehane, Mark Billingham and Steve Cavanagh.
Helen Cox Death Awaits in Durham Quercus, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529410365 In picturesque Durham, Kitt Hartley confronts her hardest case yet: a murder without a body. For fans of Faith Martin and Betty Ross.
Helen Cox A Witch Hunt in Whitby Quercus, 18th March, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781529410372 Kitt Hartley is in a race against time to catch a serial killer with vampiric tendencies and save her friend’s life.
Jeff Crook South Coast
Shenanigans: The Heist Book Guild, 28th July, pb, £9.99, 9781913913090 An unlikely gang of buccaneers commandeer a midget submarine built by a disreputable character.
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Will Traynor AJ Cross Dark Truths Black Torn, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838853945 Introducing criminologist Will Traynor in a gripping new forensic mystery from an expert in the field. 2: Devil in the Detail Severn House, 26th February, hb, eb, £20.99, 9780727890375 Suspected car-jacking leads to something deeper and darker in compelling new Will Traynor mystery.
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Te Ackerman Trillers Ethan Cross 5: I Am Hate Aries, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838931025 Special agent Marcus Williams and serial killer Francis Ackerman Jr have unearthed a network of hired killers. putting them on a path into the blackest depths of human depravity. 6: I Am Vengeance 4th March, 9781838931049 Francis Ackerman Jr, the infamous mass murderer, is now working as a special consultant for the US government.
Alex Dahl Cabin Fever Head of Zeus, 8th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789544039 A successful therapist, her troubled client, and an isolated cabin in the woods.
Kjell Ola Dahl, Don Bartlett (tr) The Assistant Orenda Books, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193652 A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail in a sophisticated Nordic Noir thriller set in Prohibition- era Norway.
Nana-Ama Danquah (ed) Accra Noir Cassava Republic Press, 20th April, pb, £12.99, 9781913175191 Accra tells its own exhilarating noir stories, bringing flawed protagonists to their death in the ever-hungry city.
Merilyn Davies If I Fall Arrow Books, 4th March, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781787461567 Gritty, heartstopping
Morgan Cry Six Wounds Polygon, 1st July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781846975707 When a prominent London gangster is found dead in the basement of Daniella’s Costa Blanca bar, she is plunged into a race against time to find his killer.
Charles Cumming Box 88 HarperCollins, 10th June, pb, £8.99, 9780008200398 An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught.
Fiona Cummins When I Was Ten Macmillan, 15th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509876969 An unimaginable crime has devastating consequences 21 years on in this thrilling novel by a rising star of crime fiction.
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