ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
creatures. From a début author.
SJ Short The Young Widows Avon, 1st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008672867 Meet the young widows. Together, they have shared their grief in the wake of losing their husbands. But all is not as it seems.
Tracy Sierra Nightwatching Viking, 8th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241639863 This nightmare could happen to anyone. But what if it happened to you?
Jeffrey Siger At Any Cost Severn House, 6th February, hb, eb, £21.99, 9781448312108 Greece is burning and Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is determined to save his country from disaster.
Jo Silva Death Comes to St Ives One More Chapter, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008625726 The next Donna ’Deadly’ Nightshade cosy mystery.
Adam Simcox The Ungrateful Dead Gollancz, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781473230842 Part of a supernatural crime series about a dead detective investigating crimes the living are not equipped to solve.
Clea Simon Bad Boy Beat Severn House, 7th May, hb, eb, £21.99, 9781448313044 Rookie reporter is convinced a series of street crimes are connected. What will it take to chase down the big story?
Marta Skadi Confessions of an Antichrist Datura, 12th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915523075 Delightfully twisted crime novel with an unreliable narrator telling the tale of the rise and fall of a Satanic Norwegian band on a mission to burn the world down.
Douglas Skelton A Grave for a Thief Canelo, 8th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781804367155 Thief Jonas Flynt follows the trail of a missing lawyer to a quiet village in the north of England but dark forces are at play and an assassin stalks him.
Douglas Skelton Tigers in the Dark Polygon, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781846976636 Rebecca Connelly throws herself into investigating a 60-year-old, unsolved murder and comes face to face with an old adversary.
Karin Smirnoff, Sarah Death (tr) The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons MacLehose Press, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529427066 Lisbeth Salander returns in another instalment of the bestselling Millennium series.
Anna Smith Last Seen Quercus, 1st February, hb, eb, £22, 9781529428940 9th May, pb, £9.99, 9781529428957 PI Billie Carlson takes on a thrilling new case. For fans of Martina Cole and Marnie Riches.
Sally Smith A Case of Mice and Murder Raven, 18th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526668738 First in a lovely new mystery series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, follows an Edwardian barrister.
LD Smithson The Escape Room Bantam, 29th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857504807 Penguin, 4th July, pb, £8.99, 9781804991657 Reality TV show turns into a serial killer’s twisted competition. Can eight contestants solve the puzzle before it is too late?
Jo Spain Untitled Quercus, 6th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781529419221 Unmissable thriller from author of The Perfect Lie and Don’t Look Back.
Tom Spencer The Mystery of the Crooked Man Pushkin Vertigo, 2nd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805335108 Distinctive murder mystery with an unforgettably spiky protagonist. For fans of The Twyford Code, Magpie Murders and Yellowface.
Jonathan Squirrell Dead Man Talking Te Book Guild, 28th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916668096 Humorous, supernatural novel offering a fresh take on immortality. The semi- immortal narrator muses on existence, commenting on the nature of memoir
and relating the story of his lives.
Martin Stewart Double Proof Polygon, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781846976490 Join Robbie Gould as he plunges into a bizarre world of rare whisky, drug dealers, bent cops, social influencers and yakuza mobsters to rescue an abducted child.
Rex Stout How Like a God Hard Case Crime, 4th June, pb, £8.99, 9781803364865 In the shadowy stairwell of a New York brownstone a man stealthily begins to climb. At the top of the stairs is a woman he intends to kill.
William Strang Red Box Troubador, 28th March, pb, £9.99, 9781805142751 Two detectives embark on a relentless pursuit of justice through the world of drug trafficking in their local town.
Tim Sullivan The Teacher Head of Zeus, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804545676 Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates a murdered teacher in Sullivan’s latest police procedural.
Sarah Sultoon Death Flight Orenda, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916788015 Reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing the families of victims of Argentina’s Dirty War when a body washes up on a city beach and thrusts him into a shocking investigation.
Fiona Sussman In Sickness and in Health Legend Press, 15th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915643476 Enthralling domestic thriller follows the gradual, disturbing and ultimately violent disintegration of a longstanding relationship between four close friends.
John Sutherland The Fallen Orion, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398708860 From Sunday Times bestselling author of Blue and Crossing the Line comes the second novel from ex-hostage negotiator Sutherland.
John Sutherland The Stalking Season Orion, 23rd May, hb, eb, £22, 9781398716858 Heart-racing new thriller with an incredible ending.
Halley Sutton The Hurricane Blonde Allison & Busby, 22nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780749030773 Compelling, noir-tinged whodunnit set amid the bright lights and tawdry corners of Hollywood, a perennially fascinating backdrop to fiction.
Leonie Swann The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp Allison & Busby, 21st March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780749030537 Cosy crime mystery with a sharp edge, twists galore and darkly comic style.
Louise Swanson Lights Out Hodder & Stoughton, 25th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529396140 Someone is watching Grace. But in the darkness she cannot see them.
Peter Swanson A Talent for Murder Faber & Faber, 4th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571373611 Newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer. Deviously clever novel.
Jonny Sweet The Kellerby Code Faber & Faber, 21st March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571379873 The perfect country house crime novel: “Knives Out” in book form, packed with deadly charm.
Tasha Sylva The Guest Room Welbeck, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781802793178 Every guest has their secret. Grief-stricken after the mysterious death of her sister Rosie, Tess rents out her sister’s old room. But the new lodger has a sinister obsession.
Akimitsu Takagi, Jesse Kirkwood (tr) The Noh Mask Murder Pushkin Press, 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782279655 Gruesome Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Tattoo Murder.
Marcia Talley Circles of Death Severn House, 5th March, hb, eb, £21.99, 9781448307975 Hannah Ives uncovers a deadly connection between disturbing discoveries in the past and present.
CL Taylor Every Move You Make Avon, 28th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008601515 The only way to stop a
Marie Tierney Deadly Animals Zaffre, 15th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781804181874
stalker is to become one yourself.
Tania Tay The Other Woman Headline Accent, 9th May, pb, £10.99, 9781035405985 Jaw-dropping twist will have readers gasping.
Joe Thomas Red Menace Arcadia, 1st February, hb, eb, £20, 9781529423402 Second in the United Kingdom trilogy takes us from Live Aid to Broadwater Farm and exposes the seedy underbelly of Thatcher’s Britain.
Scarlett Thomas The Sleepwalkers Scribner, 11th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781398528406 Scribner Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398528437 Exhilarating, suspenseful, and subversively funny, The Sleepwalkers asks urgent questions about relationships, sexuality and the darkest elements of contemporary society.
Jennifer Thorne Diavola Titan, 26th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835410028 The White Lotus meets “Hereditary” in this uproarious and unsettling dissection of a dysfunctional family and their ghosts.
Rebecca Thorne The Grief House Raven, 18th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526656292 Atmospheric mystery with a twist. A grief retreat, an ex-tarot reader and a murderer who thought they had escaped.
Robert Thorogood The Queen of Poisons HQ, 20th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008567347 Brand-new cosy crime in the Marlow Murder Club Mysteries. Judith, Suzie, and Becks are on the hunt for a killer.
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. Exceptionally bright, she has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose.
Amy Tintera Listen for the Lie Bantam, 14th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857505705 She has no idea if she murdered her best friend and she would do just about anything to find out
Charles Todd The Cliff’s Edge William Morrow, 28th March, pb, £10.99, 9780063039957 In the aftermath of the First World War nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families. Thirteenth book in popular mystery series.
Marion Todd Bridges to Burn Canelo, 7th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804362150 A dead schoolgirl, a man in danger and a killer lurking behind the most innocent of faces. Unputdownable DI Shona Mackay thriller from the queen of tartan noir.
Rebecca Tope A Discovery in the Cotswolds Allison & Busby, 22nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780749030476 Classic British cosy crime mystery set in the Cotswold countryside.
Rebecca Tope The Borrowdale Body Allison & Busby, 22nd February, hb, eb, £22, 9780749031619 Compelling addition to series set in the Borrowdale area of the Lake District.
Stuart Turton The Last Murder At the End of the World Raven, 28th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781526634955 On the last island in a world wiped out by a poisonous fog the inhabitants fight against time to solve a murder
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