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Before I Sleep
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Happily married, wealthy Felicity Holland is missing, and no one knows why. DCI Bill Slider and his team will have to move fast if there’s to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul play – nothing to go on at all – where do they even start looking? All they know for sure is that the clock is ticking …

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is the author of over ninety books, including the internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and her Morland Dynasty series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. cynthiaharrodeagles.comCynthia Harrod-Eagles was born and educated in London and had a variety of jobs in the commercial world before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and the historical Morland Dynasty series. She lives in London, is married with three children and enjoys music, wine, gardening, horses and the English countryside.

The Ambassador
by Peter Colt

Boston, 1985. Gordon Stevenson, the former ambassador of Laos, has been getting death threats, and he demands private investigator Andy Roark take the case. After what Stevenson did during the Vietnam war, though, Roark’s almost tempted to cheer the man’s would-be assassin on. Then he finds out why he’s been headhunted for the job …

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Peter Colt is a 1996 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a BA in Political Science and a 24-year veteran of the Army Reserve with deployments to Kosovo and Iraq as an Army Civil Affairs officer. He is currently a police officer in Rhode Island. He is married with two sons and two perpetually feuding cats. He is the author of the Andy Roark mysteries: The Off-Islander, Back Bay Blues, Death at Fort Devens and The Ambassador.

Invitation to a Killer
by G.M. Malliet

Crime novelists Augusta Hawke expects to be quizzed her on writing skills when she’s invited to a dinner party by aspiring writer Callie Moore. What she doesn’t expect is to be solving a mystery, but that’s just want happens when one guest suddenly dies, and Augusta suspects it is not a heart attack that killed the kindly celebrity doctor…

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Agatha Award-winning G.M. Malliet is the acclaimed author of two traditional mystery series and a standalone novel set in England. The first entry in the DCI St. Just series, Death of a Cozy Writer, won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for Macavity and Anthony Awards. The Rev. Max Tudor series has been nominated for many awards as have several of her short stories appearing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Strand. The Augusta Hawke mysteries, of which Invitation to a Killer is the second, are her first novels set in the U.S., where she and her husband now live.www.gmmalliet.com

Chalice of Darkness
by Sarah Rayne

Jack Fitzglens plans to seek out the infamous Talisman Chalice, steal it and create a dazzling piece of theater around it, but he uncovers something far darker. Scandal, secrets, and danger lurk in every shady corner. As past and present collide, can Jack find the Chalice, the truth and return to his theater of thieves unscathed?

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Sarah Rayne is the author of many novels of psychological and supernatural suspense, including the Nell West & Michael Flint series. She lives in Staffordshire.

Sentenced to Death
by Betty Hechtman

When Veronica Blackstone is asked to write the copy for The Friends of Hyde Park’s annual garden tour, she never expected to get involved in a violent death. But that’s exactly what happens when author, Landon Donte, is found dead in a suspected suicide during a dinner to highlight the tour. But Veronica can sniff out murder and soon on the case!

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Despite completing a Fine Arts degree, all Betty Hechtman ever wanted to be was a writer. She wrote a weekly column in her college newspaper and later wrote magazine and newspaper pieces, along with short stories and a prize-wining screenplay. Betty had her first novel published in 2006. Since then she has had 20 books published across two cozy mystery series centered on another one of her loves – yarn craft. She lives with her family in Southern California.

Reflections of Deviance
by A.J. Cross

Marion Cane swapped a successful career in the city for a quiet life in a wealthy village near Birmingham. So why was she found dead in her new home just months later? Marion’s death was thought to be due to natural causes, but an anonymous note draws DCI Watts, PC Chloe Judd and criminologist Will Traynor into a complex and disturbing case.

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A.J. Cross is a forensic psychologist with over twenty years’ experience in the field. She lives in Birmingham with her jazz-musician husband and is the author of five Kate Hanson mysteries.A.J. Cross is a forensic psychologist with over twenty years’ experience in the field. She lives in Birmingham with her jazz-musician husband. As well as the Will Traynor series, she is the author of five Kate Hanson Cold Case mysteries.

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Undue Influence

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The Long Way Out

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THE LONG WAY OUT is dark and grimy with a complicated, fascinating amateur sleuth with a dark past, and a serial murderer choosing victims on the fringe of American society.

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Before I Sleep

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A gripping, intricately detailed forensic mystery from an industry professional.

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Sara Porter
Editor

This lively Tudor mystery – and first in a new series – featuring gossip, treachery and tragedy at the court of Henry VIII is a page-turning delight! Court jester Will Somers brings a unique energy to the scandal and upset at court through his sharp eyes and wit, and this irresistible new super sleuth also knows a trick or two when it comes to catching a killer…

Invitation to a Killer

G.M. Malliet

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Vic Britton
Commissioning Editor

Crime writer turned amateur sleuth Augusta Hawke is back and once again finds herself embroiled in another mystery. Malliet does not disappoint with her second Augusta Hawke mystery – the wit and dry sense of humour of her female protagonist is a joy to read as she navigates the colourful array of dinner guests – and potential murderers! – while trying to avoid becoming a victim herself. I can’t wait for readers to get stuck into this cosy mystery.

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New Books for January 2023

New Year, New Books: 9 Books to Start Reading in 2023

3 January 2023

Are you ready to start your 2023 reading list? We’ve got nine new genre fiction books – from cozy crime […]

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New Books for December

8 New Crime Books for Your TBR Pile

6 December 2022

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We’re delighted to be publishing these nine fantastic new books today! We’ve got intricately researched historical fiction, tense thrillers, cozy […]

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