TRUE CRIME
9781837730582 Recasting one of the 20th century’s most notorious murders in a fascinating and important new light.
John Blake
The Natural History of Crime Patricia Wiltshire 14th March, hb, eb, £22, 9781789466485 Through a study of her most infamous cases, we join the forensic ecologist in putting the puzzle together, teasing the evidence and showing us how life and death are always intertwined.
Michael O’Mara
13th February, pb, £25.99, 9781479823475 Argues that a range of behaviours such as murder-suicide, terrorism and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than homicidal ones.
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What Lies Beneath Peter Faulding 22nd February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781035005932 Discover what it is like to be one of the few people allowed to pass the crime scene tape with a leading UK forensic search expert.
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Faces of Evil Dominic Utton 28th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781789296259 True crime anthology lifts the lid on the world’s most infamous serial killers. Motives and methods and how they were brought to justice.
Mirror Books
Noah Donohoe: The Search for Truth Donal MacIntyre 4th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781915306579 With exclusive access to court documents and police statements and with family support, investigative author MacIntyre reveals the inside story behind the disappearance and death of a Belfast schoolboy.
The Lady in the Lake Jeremy Craddock 20th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915306685 Reporter’s account of a chilling murder in the Lake District and his reinvesti- gation 25 years later. Powerful themes of murder and denial, this true-crime memoir reads like a thriller.
New York University Press
The Varieties of Suicidal Experience Thomas Joiner
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Pegasus Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud 8th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529094855 Investigates how people’s lives and privacy are being threatened by the most sophisticated spyware ever seen at a sweep and scale that astounds and horrifies.
Potomac
In Search of the Romanovs Peter Sarandinaki 1st July, hb, £36, 9781640121560 A family’s quest to solve one of history’s most brutal crimes.
Profile
All That Glitters Orlando Whitfield 2nd May, hb, eb, £20, 9781788169950 Welcome to the contemporary art world, a ruthless and glamorous arena where the rewards are limitless for those who can pay the price.
The History Press
Women in Policing Tom Andrews (ed) 7th March, pb, eb, £20, 9781803992495 The history of the development of women in policing written by a group of leading police historians.
The Many Faces of Crime Dennis W McGookin 18th April, hb, eb, £22.99, 9781803995960 Rare and detailed insight behind the curtains of a major crime department. Includes the hunt for notorious criminal Kenneth Noye.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
This House of Grief Helen Garner 29th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399606806 Engrossing, true-crime classic that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure.
W W Norton
Genealogy of a Murder Lisa Belkin 26th July, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324076124 Multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.
PREVIEWER’S PERSPECTIVE Previewer’s perspective
Spring 2024 looks set for a smorgasbord of fantastic fiction
There are plenty of big fiction titles to look forward to in the next six months including offerings from Costa Novel Award winner Colm Tóibín and prolific US author Percival Everett
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elcome to the next six months in books! If I were to pick out just one “event” title from this preview, it would be Long Island (Picador),
the sequel to Colm Tóibín’s Costa Novel Award-winning Brooklyn. Based on the sales of the first book, which also benefited from the film adaptation starring Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey, Long Island looks set to be that rare thing, a genuine literary bestseller. Another Irish writer surely destined for great things
is Kevin Barry with his fourth novel, The Heart in Winter (Canongate), a rebellious love story set in Bute, Montana, in 1891.
Expect a lot of fanfare to accompany the publication
of Percival Everet’s James (Picador), the US author’s 24th (yes, 24th!) novel, a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim. Pan Mac is in the process of publishing Everet’s key backlist titles on the Picador imprint, six titles will land just ahead of James. There’s a new state-of-the-nation opus from Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road (Faber), and the wonderful David Nicholls is back with second-chance romance You Are Here (Sceptre). Also look out for sophomore novels from Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite (W&N), and Costa First Novel Award winner Ingrid Persaud who returns with The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Faber). To crime, and while the cosy end of things shows no sign of slowing sales—see the Reverend Richard Coles whose bestselling Canon Clement Mystery series continues with Murder at the Monastery (W&N)—there is also high-concept crime in the form of Stuart Turton’s The Last Murder at the End of the World (Raven Books), historical crime featuring Victorian con artists in Elizabeth Macneal’s The Burial Plot (Picador), and fans of Peter James’ long-running DS Roy Grace series will be intrigued by the standalone They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy’s Story (Macmillan). Will the disappearance of Mrs Grace finally be explained?
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