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Natasha Pulley The Lost Future of Pepperharrow Bloomsbury, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781408885147 Step back into the enchanting world of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. This extraordinary sequel takes readers to Japan where time, destiny and love collide to electrifying effect.
Natasha Pulley The Kingdoms Bloomsbury, 27th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526623119 Would you change the past to save the future even if it meant losing those you love most? An enthralling, epic, unforgettable time-slip story.
Cate Quinn Black Widows Orion, 4th February, hb, £12.99, 9781409196952 Blake’s dead. His wife killed him. The question is: which one?
CS Quinn The Scarlet Code Corvus, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786498489 Thrilling sequel to The Bastille Spy, The Scarlet Code is a swashbuckling crime novel set in the early days of the French Revolution.
Jenny Quintana The Hiding Place Mantle, 18th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529040401 A decades-old news story, a missing mother and an abandoned baby. By the author of The Missing Girl and Our Dark Secret.
Matthew Quirk Hour of the Assassin Aries, 3rd June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800243453 A former Secret Service agent must expose a dark conspiracy. If he can’t uncover the truth, it will consume him and everyone else within the Oval Office.
Matthew Quirk The Night Agent Aries, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800243477 An FBI agent must expose a Russian mole in the US government.
Lori Rader-Day Death At Greenway William Morrow, 27th May, pb, £10.99, 9780062938046 Captivating suspense novel about World War II nurses who go to Agatha Christie’s former holiday estate. When a body is
discovered, the manor becomes host to a deadly mystery.
Khurrum Rahman Ride or Die HQ, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008322458 Your most deadly enemy is about to become your closest ally.
Khurrum Rahman The Motive HQ, 3rd February, pb, eb, £1, 9780008404444 A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to East of Hounslow written for Quick Reads 2021.
Caro Ramsay The Cursed Girls Black Torn, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838853808 From the acclaimed author of the Anderson & Costello series, a compelling standalone psychological thriller.
Kathy Reichs The Bone Code Simon & Schuster, 18th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781471188893, audiofile, £14.40, 9781398500327 Bestseller returns with her next edge-of-the seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
Nick Rennison (ed) American Sherlocks No Exit Press, 25th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857304391 Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but across the Atlantic he had plenty of rivals. This thrilling anthology features stories about 15 of them.
Rod Reynolds Black Reed Bay Orenda Books, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193676 When a young woman vanishes from an exclusive oceanfront community, Detective Casey Wray’s investigation plunges her into a darkness she could never have imagined.
Bryony Rheam All Come to Dust Parthian Books, 1st May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913640026 A murder mystery set in Zimbabwe in the last years of Mugabe’s rule.
Kate Rhodes Pulpit Rock Simon & Schuster, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471189890 Fourth instalment in atmospheric crime series set in the Scilly Isles. With a killer on the loose everyone is suspect and no one is safe.
ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Anthony Riches Nemesis Aries, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781801100106 Mickey Bale, a close protection officer at the Met, wants revenge on the mafia family who killed his sister.
Michael Ridpath The Diplomat’s Wife Corvus, 4th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781786497024 A diplomat’s wife encounters more than the light flirtation with communism she’d bargained for in prewar Paris and Berlin. Years later, the past returns to haunt her with deadly consequences.
Karen Robards Fire in the Sky Hodder & Stoughton, 17th June, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781529338386 Historical thriller that will take your breath away.
SERIES
Inspector Banks Peter Robinson 13: The Summer That Never Was Pan, 27th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781509859979 14: Playing With Fire 9781509859986 15: Strange Affair 9781509859993 27: Not Dark Yet Hodder & Stoughton, 18th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781529343076 More masterful police procedurals.
James Rollins Kingdom of Bones William Morrow, 1st April, hb, £20, 9780062892980 Riveting and imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series told with Rollins’ trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical mystery and pulse-pounding action. It begins in Africa .
Karen Rose Say No More Headline, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472265715 Second novel in the thrilling Sacramento series.
Alex Rosenberg In the Shadows of Enigma Top Hat Books, 25th June, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781789046663 The greatest undisclosed secret of the war haunts the lives of four people across three continents and 15 years.
Matthew Ross The Red Admiral’s Secret Red Dog Press, 3rd February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913331481 A Premier League bad
boy murdered at his newly refurbished home; a teenage runaway’s corpse uncovered on a construction site—both projects by beleaguered builder Mark Poynter. Can he fix it?
Pauline Rowson Dangers of the Deep Fathom, 29th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780955618949 Art Marvik tries to discover the truth behind his parents’ deaths. Will he live to expose a shocking revelation and bring the killer to justice?
Chris Ryan Zero 22 Coronet Books, 27th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473667976 When the president of the US wages war on the SAS, all hell breaks loose.
Chris Ryan Manhunter Bonnier Zaffre, 27th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838775209 New from SAS legend and five million copy-selling author introduces Joe Bowman, the ex-SAS hero battling opioid addiction and his own inner demons.
Catherine Ryan Howard The Nothing Man Corvus, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786496614 Tricky thriller from the critically acclaimed author of Rewind, an Irish Times bestseller.
Sadie Ryan When He Finds You Ruby Fiction, 16th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912550364 Breathless thriller from the author of Behind Closed Doors.
CA Sacha Legacy Matador, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800461970 Wide-ranging plot straddles four continents as the main characters’ lives are driven by love, ambition and the desire for a legacy.
Riley Sager Home Before Dark Hodder, 10th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529358230 Maggie grew up in a famously haunted house. Now she is back to see whether it was really all a lie, or if there really is darkness in these walls.
Trisha Sakhlecha Can You See Me Now? Pan, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509886340 Second psychological thriller from author of Your Truth or Mine?
Leslie Scace Fatal Solution Seren, 26th April, pb, £9.99, 9781781726181 The second Inspector Chard novel sees a poisoner at work in Victorian Pontypridd. Will Chard become a victim himself or can he solve the case?
Alexis Schaitkin Saint X Picador, 18th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529014266 Glorious début and a haunting portrait of grief, race, obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know each other.
Anika Scott
The German Heiress Windmill Books, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786090775 Clara Falkenberg, once an heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her friend missing, Clara enlists the help of a racketeer.
Nicholas Searle A Fatal Game Penguin, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241354391 White-knuckle tale of betrayal and espionage from the bestselling author of The Good Liar and the heir to John le Carré.
Holly Seddon The Hit List Trapeze, 13th April, pb, £7.99, 9781409195504 What would you do if you found your name on a hitlist? And your late husband put it there? Dark psychological thriller delivers a killer twist.
Gerald Seymour The Crocodile Hunter Hodder & Stoughton, 18th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529386011 Thrilling story of the secret services, their enemies and the society they operate in builds with unrelenting suspense to a superb climax.
Louise Sharland The Lake Avon, 18th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008403331 Claustrophobic psychological suspense novel about loss and revenge in which a grieving mother becomes convinced that the death of her teenage son was not an accident.
Neil Sharpson When the Sparrow Falls Solaris, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781781089163 Nikolai South is tasked
with escorting a widow through the repressive Caspian Republic. As they delve deeper into the death and the secrets it uncovers, South must choose his loyalty.
Alex Shaw Total Fallout HQ Digital, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008412289 Former SAS trooper Jack Tate is running a black op for MI6 when he learns that the man who killed his parents has been found.
William Shaw Grave’s End riverrun, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529401769 With meticulously realised characters and a brooding setting, Grave’s End confronts the crisis in housing, environmentalism, historic cases of abuse and the protection given to badgers by the law.
William Shaw The Trawlerman riverrun, 13th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529401820 Pacey, intense and riddled with surprising twists, The Trawlerman shows that deceit can be found in the most unlikely places. A Dungeness Mystery.
Will Shindler The Killing Choice Hodder & Stoughton, 4th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529301755 Second in a phenomenal new series featuring DI Alex Finn and DC Mattie Paulsen.
SERIES
Freyja and Huldar Yrsa Sigurdardottir 4: Gallows Rock Hodder, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473693425 A banker hanged from Gallows Rock and an unknown child discovered in his flat. Iceland’s queen of crime is back with a chillingly dark murder mystery. 5: The Doll Hodder & Stoughton, 22nd July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473693524 Detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja are once again on the trail of a serial killer.
Kate Simants A Ruined Girl Profile Books, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788166980 Winner of the Bath Novel Award, this is an immersive and heartrending thriller set in the world of the foster system and forgotten children.
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