ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
Brazen, 4th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781914240867 Part literary horror, part feminist howl, The Eyes are The Best Part will make you unable to eat a cherry tomato for some time after reading.
T Kingfisher Sworn Soldier: What Feasts At Night Titan, 13th February, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781803369686 Hair-raising sequel to What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia only to be confronted by a strange new horror.
Laurie R King The Lantern’s Dance Allison & Busby, 13th February, hb, eb, £22, 9780749030247 Intriguing mystery which is perfect reading for the always-growing fanbase of Sherlock Holmes.
Lindsay King-Miller The Z Word Quirk, 7th May, pb, £14.99, 9781683694076 Propulsive, funny, emotional horror début about a found family coming together to fight corporate greed, political corruption, gay drama and zombies.
Owen King The Curator Hodder, 22nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399715126 Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries and conjurers the most wonderful criminals.
Jessica Knoll Bright Young Women Pan, 21st March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781509840014 Tense, psychological sorority thriller inspired by real-life events. Written by the author of Luckiest Girl Alive.
Joseph Knox Imposter Syndrome Doubleday, 13th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529927450 A mysterious grifter is enlisted by a wealthy family to impersonate their missing son so they can find out what happened to him.
Christina Koning Murder in Dublin Allison & Busby, 22nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780749029982 Follows injured war veteran and amateur sleuth Fred Rowlands as he seeks to protect a
friend from a murder accusation.
Siegfried Kracauer, Carl Skoggard Ginster NYRB Classics, 26th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781681378145 When the First World War breaks out an architecture student in Munich does everything to avoid enlistment in the German military. Wickedly humorous novel by a prominent writer.
Thomas Krug Pharaoh’s Gold Titan, 26th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781803366203 Band of mercenaries fight deadly enemies and solve ancient riddles to plunder the tomb of Egypt’s robber pharaoh.
Eleanor Kuhns
On the Horns of Death Severn House, 2nd April, hb, eb, £21.99, 9781448310883 When young bull leaper Martis finds Duzi, the newest member of the bull leaping team, dead in the pen it is clear that it was not an accident.
Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk (tr) The Silver Bone MacLehose Press, 5th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781529426496 First in a new historical series, the Kyiv Mysteries, framed by the chaos of the Russian Revolution. By the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees.
Eleni Kyriacou The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou Head of Zeus, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837930364 Crime novel set in 1950s London about a Cypriot grandmother accused of murder and the young Greek translator assigned to her case. Inspired by a true story.
Neil Lancaster The Devil You Know HQ Digital, 28th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008551322 Utterly readable Scottish police procedural for crime fiction and thriller fans.
William Landay All That is Mine I Carry With Me Orion, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781409121077 From New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob comes a tale about family secrets, vengeance and growing up.
Charlotte Langley The Blame No Exit Press, 15th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915798114 Detective Erin Crane and her partner have been assigned to investigate the murder of a 16-year- old. The case will test their relationship, and their trust in each other, to the limit.
Shari Lapena Everyone Here is Lying Penguin, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529176155 Secrets start to unravel in a family-friendly neighbourhood.
Shari Lapena What Have You Done? Bantam, 18th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781787635760 More from the queen of the one-sit read. A nasty crime exposes the secrets and obsessions of a small rural community.
Lihi Lapid, Sondra Silverston (tr) On Her Own HarperVia, 9th May, hb, £20, 9780063309760 A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock- ticking tension of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me with the issue- driven gravity of Jennifer Haigh’s Mercy Street.
Eric LaRocca This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances Titan, 2nd April, hb, eb, £13.99, 9781803366647 Fresh collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and Splatterpunk Award- winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.
John Lawton Moscow Exile Grove Press, 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804710128 The newest literary spy thriller from a master of the genre, Moscow Exile is a richly populated tale of espionage in Washington DC.
Stephen Leather First Strike Hodder & Stoughton, 25th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399719803 Spider Shepherd thriller action-packed s ever.
Georgina Lees True Crime One More Chapter, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008614096 A missing girl, an angry mother and a true-crime
documentary. Ten years earlier, Katy, a promising young journalist, left her desk and was never seen again.
Con Lehane Murder At the College Library Severn House, 5th March, hb, eb, £21.99, 9780727823052 Crime-fiction librarian and reluctant sleuth Ray Ambler gets mixed up in murder once again when he is called to appraise a mystery-novel collection at an exclusive New York college.
Fiona Leitch The Cornish Campsite Murder One More Chapter, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008647261 Jodie ’Nosey’ Parker is back in 2024 with a brand new Cornish mystery to unravel.
Simon Lewis No Exit Sort of Books, 1st February, pb, £9.99, 9781908745897 Hotly anticipated sequel to Bad Traffic.
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Marlaine Delargy (tr) The Kindness riverrun, 6th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529419085 “‘As Lindqvist has increasingly devoted himself to the subtle plumbing of the human soul he has become a distinctive and urgent voice in contemporary literature”—Svenska Dagbladet.
Veronica E Llaca, Mark Fried (tr) Blood Ties Mountain Leopard Press, 28th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781914495199 When Ignacio Suarez is sent photos of two murdered women, mirroring a passage in his own detective novel, he tries to uncover who is responsible.
Ellery Lloyd The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby Macmillan, 20th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781035020805 From bestselling author of R&J pick People Like Her and Reese Witherspoon choice The Club comes a darkly glamorous novel.
Robert J Lloyd The Bedlam Cadaver Melville House, 13th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781685890957 In late 17th-century London rich, young women are being kidnapped and murdered. Harry Hunt, formerly of the Royal Society, but now
a wealthy gentleman, must clear his name.
TM Logan The Dream Home Zaffre, 29th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804181324 Unrelenting yarn of a dream house that was anything but.
Kate London The Misper Corvus, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838954512 Another police procedural from the author of major ITV drama The Tower.
Amy Lord The Disappeared SRL, 14th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781915073341 Set in a near-future dystopian Britain where reading the wrong book could get you arrested.
Nick Louth The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle Canelo, 2nd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804367162 A woman’s body is found in a cottage, impaled with a crucifix. DI Talantire is baffled: this case has already happened, 50 years earlier.
Ali Lowe The School Run Hodder & Stoughton, 14th March, hb, eb, £22, 9781399717809 Suspense with Ali Lowe. Will bring in fans of Big Little Lies and Desperate Housewives.
Mike Lupica, Robert B Parker Robert B Parker’s Broken Trust No Exit Press, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915798244 Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire. Latest instalment of the series is the first written by Lupica.
Anders Lustgarten Three Burials Hamish Hamilton, 2nd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241638798 Wild ride of a début novel from playwright Lustgarten.
Max Luther On the Run Canelo, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804365823 Framed for a crime he did not commit, private bodyguard Alex Drayce goes on the run in Las Vegas.
CA Lynch The Traitors One More Chapter, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008643942 Locked-room thriller for
readers of Ruth Ware and Freida McFadden.
Rachel Lynch Shared Remains Canelo, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800327290 A body is found in a quarry. DI Kelly Porter soon uncovers a bitter feud between the two brothers who own the land. Will her investigation put others at risk?
Lorraine Mace Untitled Headline Accent, 25th April, pb, £10.99, 9781472283948 Nervy chiller with a dark secret at its heart. Keri Beevis, Rona Halsall and LH Stacey fans will like.
Colin MacIntyre When the Needle Drops Black and White, 9th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785305139 A sinister plot is unfolding, holding the island in its grip, and all the evidence starts to point back to the start—to the elusive Maggie May.
NJ Mackay The Sweetheart Killer Hera, 18th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804364895 The body of a young woman is found, followed by more victims, and suspicion falls on the man who dated them all.
Catherine Mack Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies Macmillan, 2nd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781035032068 The White Lotus meets Only Murders in the Building and Murder, She Wrote in this is a fresh and funny mystery.
Richard Madeley Father’s Day Simon & Schuster, 23rd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781471182945 Simon & Schuster Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398523005 The next must-read page- turner from Sunday Times bestselling author.
Jenny Lund Madsen, Megan E Turney (tr) Thirty Days of Darkness Orenda, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781914585623 A Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in 30 days and travels to Iceland for inspiration. Then a body appears. Sparkling, atmospheric, funny debut.
Imran Mahmood Finding Sophie Raven, 14th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526647597 Harry and Zara’s daughter Sophie is missing. How far
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