ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor The Lost and the Damned MacLehose Press, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857059642 Suspenseful police procedural in the Banlieues Trilogy by a former French police officer and one of the original writers on the hit TV series “Spiral”.
Charlotte Northedge The House Guest HarperCollins, 13th May, hb, £12.99, 9780008402532 About motherhood, lies and betrayal for fans of Louise Candlish and Harriet Tyce.
Bernard O’Keeffe The Final Round Muswell Press, 18th February, pb, £12.99, 9781838110109 Introducing Detective DI Garibaldi, a country music-loving, self- educated detective and the only cop in the Metropolitan Police who can’t drive a car.
Margaret Oliphant, Mike Ashley
The Open Door And Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen British Library, 3rd June, hb, £14.99, 9780712353540 From suspenseful hauntings to tales of purgatory, this newly edited collection of Oliphant’s stories offers many of her Seen and Unseen series and rare tales revived from the library collections.
Ed O’Loughlin This Eden riverrun, 10th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529412857 Smart modern spy novel reminiscent of the cybercrime fiction of William Gibson as well as the golden age of panoramic international espionage stories.
Anthony O’Neill The Devil Upstairs Black & White Publish- ing, 22nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785302909 If your neighbour was making your life hell would you call upon the devil?
Stephen O’Rourke The Crown Agent Sandstone Press, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913207328 A ship adrift, all hands dead. Doctor Mungo Lyon, reputation in tatters, is the wrong man to find the truth. That’s exactly why the Crown chose him.
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Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club Penguin, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241988268 Four unlikely friends and a shocking murder. Welcome to the Thursday Murder Club.
James Oswald What Will Burn Wildfire, 18th February, hb, £16.99, 9781472276148 Eleventh book in the bestselling Inspector McLean series from one of Scotland’s most celebrated crime writers.
BA Paris The Therapist HQ, 22nd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008412043 From the author of books such as The Dilemma comes the most gripping psychological thriller of 2021.
Rob Parker Far From the Tree Red Dog Press, 2nd July, pb, £8.99, 9781913331740 hb, £15.99, 9781913331863 Twenty-seven bodies are found in a mass grave. It’s no coincidence the corpses were buried in DI Brendan Foley’s hometown. The question is, why?
Adele Parks Both of You HQ, 27th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008395599 Parks returns with her most provocative, compelling book to date.
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Harry McCoy Triller vol 3 Alan Parks 3: Bobby March Will Live Forever Black Torn, 25th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786897183 4: The April Dead Canongate, 25th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786897190 Two more gripping thrillers from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir.
Sean Parnell One True Patriot William Morrow, 22nd July, pb, £7.99, 9780062986580 Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel. By the author of All Out War.
SJ Parris Execution HarperCollins, 4th February, pb, £8.99, 9780007481323 Part of the bestselling Giordano Bruno series set in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. For lovers of CJ Sansom and Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light.
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James Patterson 20th Victim Arrow Books, 2nd February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787461956 The Women’s Murder Club face the fight of their lives.
James Patterson 21st Birthday Century, 4th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781529125290 In the latest instalment in the globally bestselling Women’s Murder Club series, SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a 20-year-old victim long enough to see her 21st birthday.
James Patterson The Red Book Century, 1st April, hb, eb, £20, 9781529125375 Highly anticipated sequel to Sunday Times bestseller The Black Book.
James Patterson The Russian Century, 4th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781780899466 As Detective Michael Bennett’s wedding day approaches a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the 13th novel featuring NYPD’s finest cop.
James Patterson Deadly Cross Arrow Books, 22nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787461895 A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross.
Bryony Pearce The Girl on the Platform Avon, 15th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008441845 Girl on the Train meets Found in a story about a woman who becomes obsessed with finding a little girl she witnessed being abducted.
Sarah Pearse The Sanatorium Bantam Press, 18th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781787633315 In the Swiss Alps, a luxury hotel opens in what was once a sanatorium but the new design can’t hide the building’s dark history for long.
Heidi Perks The Whispers Century, 15th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529124255 Anna Robinson has it all but when she disappears overnight everyone is desperate to uncover what happened.
Charlotte Philby A Double Life Te Borough Press, 7th April, pb, £8.99, 9780008365219 Among the Times Best Books for Summer 2021.
Polly Phillips My Best Friend’s Murder Simon & Schuster, 8th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781471195396 The Rumour meets “The Holiday” in this compulsive thriller with a toxic friendship at its heart that keeps the reader in the dark until the final breathless pages.
Scott Phillips That Left Turn At Albuquerque Soho Press, 18th February, pb, £8.99, 9781641292573 A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State marks the return of a noir master.
Sarah Pinborough Dead to Her HarperCollins, 10th June, pb, £8.99, 9780008289119 From bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes. “Gloriously glamorous and brilliantly plotted, Dead to Her is everything I love in a novel”—Clare Mackintosh.
Jonathan Pinnock Bad Day in Minsk Farrago, 8th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788423038 After a botched raid on a secretive thinktank and ending up in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Tom is trapped in Minsk planning his escape from the mafia.
Lynda La Plante Judas Horse Zaffre, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781785769801 Thrilling second book in bestselling Detective Jack Warr crime series.
Lynda La Plante Blunt Force Zaffre, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785769870 Jane Tennison must navigate the salacious world of theatre to solve a murder in London’s West End in the brilliant new thriller from the queen of crime drama.
Henry Porter The Old Enemy Quercus, 30th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529403305 Heartstopping international spy thriller from “An espionage master” (Charles Cumming) stars ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson. For fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and John le Carre.
Malcolm Pryce The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness Bloomsbury, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781408895276 Quirky nostalgic crime read—a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing
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