The Kind to Kill
by Tessa Wegert

Former NYPD detective Shana Merchant is a talented Senior Investigator, keeping her new friends and neighbors in New York’s beautiful Thousands Islands community safe. She’s a loving partner. A strong woman. A survivor. She’s also the cousin of a serial killer. And after months of concealing the truth from the world, her secret is finally out …

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Tessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant series of mysteries. A former freelance journalist, Tessa has contributed to such publications as Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, The Economist, and The Globe and Mail. Tessa grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial arts and is currently at work on her next novel.

The Devil Stone
by Caro Ramsay

In the small Highland village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered in a satanic ritual and their heirloom, ‘the devil stone’, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists – case closed? But when DCI Christine Caplan is brought in to investigate, experience soon tells her that this is no open and shut case!

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CARO RAMSAY is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS Costello series, the first of which, Absolution, was shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.

Waste of a Life
by Simon Brett

Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order to the life of elderly recluse Cedric Waites when on one of her regular visits, Ellen finds the old man dead. Sad, but unsurprising, until the police reveal he was poisoned! The cause seems be something he ate, and as Ellen cleared away the old man’s food containers, she is under suspicion!

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Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours for services to Literature and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work.

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Vic Britton
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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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Martin Brown
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Adam Oyebanji’s first mystery novel is a masterclass in marrying a gripping whodunnit with wider themes of race, class, identity, and education. Protagonist Greg Abimbola grapples not only with solving a murder, but with the daily struggles of being a Black teacher at a wealthy, and mostly white, private school. Both a beautifully constructed murder mystery and a biting piece of social commentary.