Ice Islands
by Humphrey Hawksley

Major Rake Ozenna’s mission is simple: gain access to the Kato family – Japan’s most dangerous crime empire – and stop the threat to America. But when the secret son of the Russian leader is executed and Rake’s target, Sara Kato, is implicated in the murder, a political crisis between Russia, Japan and the US is set in motion.

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Humphrey Hawksley is a foreign correspondent for the BBC, a regular speaker and panellist at Intelligence Squared and the Royal Geographical Society, and many literary festivals. Hawksley’s writing has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Yale Global. Hawksley’s television documentaries include The Curse of Gold and Bitter Sweet, Aid Under Scrutiny, Old Man Atom and Danger: Democracy at Work@hwhawksley humphreyhawksley.com

Death and the Decorator
by Simon Brett

Jude’s decision to redecorate her cottage leads to a meeting with a local decorator and a surprising discovery behind a wall panel in a Victorian building: a woman’s handbag! The discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag’s owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier.

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Flyin’ Solo
by Peggy O’Neal Peden

Travel agent Campbell Hale isn’t looking for love when she runs into her high-school sweetheart, Franklin “Fly” Young, at her high-school reunion. Her date, homicide detective Sam Davis, might have stood her up, but he does have an excuse: there’s a murder to investigate. Fly’s company accountant, as it soon turns out …

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Peggy O’Neal Peden grew up in Middle Tennessee and has lived in and around Nashville for most of her life. She has taught English at high school and college levels, owned a travel agency, been published in regional magazines, and written award-winning advertising copy. She has a bachelor’s degree from Lipscomb University and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky. A talented artist as well as writer, Peggy is a member of the Nashville Artist Guild.Your Killin’ Heart, the first book in the Nashville mystery series, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award.

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The Hanging Tree

Paul Doherty

Set in the late 14th century, the intricately plotted new historical mystery featuring friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan.

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Blind Justice

David Mark

Hull’s DS Aector McAvoy investigates a deeply sadistic killer in this dark, gritty instalment of the Sunday Times bestselling, Kindle chart-topping British police procedural series.

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Death and Hard Cider

Barbara Hambly

NYT-bestselling author Barbara Hambly is back, with the new installment in her critically acclaimed historical mystery series featuring talented amateur sleuth and free man of color, Benjamin January.

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Fatal Conflict

Matt Hilton

Private Investigator Tess Grey comes to the aid of a pregnant teenage girl in the ninth entry in the fast-paced Grey & Villere series.

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Forever Past

Marty Ambrose

A seductively engrossing, heart-warming historical mystery set near Florence.

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What We May Become

Teresa Messineo

A meticulously researched and plotted historical mystery set during World War II featuring a heroic American Red Cross nurse.

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Death at Fort Devens

Peter Colt

When the daughter of an old army buddy goes missing, Vietnam veteran turned Private Investigator Andy Roark swears to get her back – no matter the cost.

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Here Comes Trouble

Debbie Macomber

A classic rivals-to-lovers romance from a veteran of the genre.

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Death by Tart Attack

Tamar Myers

A laugh-out-loud culinary cozy in the long-running Pennsylvania-Dutch mystery series.

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Lights Down

Graham Hurley

A taut and expressive thriller set in the English countryside.

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5th Jul 2022

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Late for His Own Funeral

Elaine Viets

Fans of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta or Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennon series will enjoy this police procedural that looks at the unusual role of Death Investigator.

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5th Jul 2022

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Death and the Decorator

Simon Brett

A thoroughly entertaining, waspishly witty English village mystery in the long-running Fethering series.

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5th Jul 2022

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The Yeoman’s Tale

M.J. Trow

The second lively and entertaining medieval mystery to feature 14th century poet and amateur sleuth Geoffrey Chaucer.

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5th Jul 2022

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Havana Highwire

John Keyse-Walker

Set in the seamy underside of 1950s Havana, the first Cuban noir novel introduces cynical PI Henry Gore and will hold readers tight – right until the savage, gut-punch ending.

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5th Jul 2022

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Flyin’ Solo

Peggy O’Neal Peden

Reuniting with an old boyfriend spells trouble for nosy, warm-hearted travel agent Campbell Hale in the third Nashville traditional cozy mystery: a perfect pick for fans of vacations, gutsy sleuths . . . and cute kittens!

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5th Jul 2022

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Augusta Hawke

G.M. Malliet

The first in a new mystery series from Agatha Award-winning author G.M. Malliet staring crime writer-turned-amateur sleuth Augusta Hawke that will appeal to fans of Tana French or Jules Maigret novels.

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2nd Aug 2022

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Catch Your Death

Lissa Marie Redmond

Fans of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series will love this claustrophobic mystery set during a snowstorm that sees Cold Case Detectives solving a seventeen-year-old murder.

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2nd Aug 2022

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Ice Islands

Humphrey Hawksley

Major Rake Ozenna faces dangerous choices and deadly consequences in this rip-roaring political thriller that takes you on a breathtaking ride!

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Death in Cornwall

G.M. Malliet

Fans of the Golden Age British mysteries, such as those by Dorothy Sayers, will enjoy this entry in the St. Just cozy mystery series set in modern-day Cornwall.

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Carl Smith
Commissioning Editor

Death in Cornwall is quirky, comforting and incredibly meta. DCI Arthur St. Just is going on holiday to get away from crime and murder, but you know the proverbial is going to hit the fan. That is teased mercilessly. We laugh along at Arthur’s luck as he cannot escape. If a small-town mystery with this kind of humour is your thing, you’ll get a kick out of this novel.

The Cry of the Hangman

Susanna Calkins

In Susanna Calkins’ latest seventeenth-century historical mystery, the sixth in the series, will printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion be publishing true accounts of murder – or starring in one?

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Rachel Slatter
Senior Commissioning Editor

“The Cry of the Hangman has a real corker of a mystery plot – twisty, accomplished and page-turning. If you like a complex puzzle that ties together neatly at the end, this is the book for you! I loved this book – and I’m excited for you to read it too.”