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The Silent Conversation
by Caro Ramsay

It’s been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwater disappeared without trace one afternoon. On the night a new TV documentary series revisiting the case is broadcast, detectives Anderson and Costello are called to investigate the murder of a female police officer, and a link is discovered between the dead woman and the missing young boy …

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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.

Pay or Play
by Howard Michael Gould

Eco-obsessed ex-cop Charlie Waldo doesn’t want to live in LA, and he doesn’t want to work as PI. But to his dismay, when his PI girlfriend Lorena needs help with a client, he finds himself doing both. At least he’s a fan of Judge Ida Mudge – but the controversial TV star is hiding something, and Waldo might not live long enough to find out what.

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Howard Michael Gould began his career on Madison Avenue before moving to Los Angeles, where he has worked as a screenwriter and playwright as well as an executive producer and head writer of a number of network television series.

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Scot Mist

Catriona McPherson

A laugh-a-minute mystery set in the confines of a motel during lockdown starring Scottish amateur sleuth Lexy Campbell.

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Magic in the Weave

Alys Clare

Seventeenth-century physician-sleuth Gabriel Tavener gets mixed up in a dark and dangerous mystery when Shakespeare’s theatre company visit Portsmouth on their ‘Plague Tour’.

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Four Thousand Days

M.J. Trow

There are surprises and twists galore in this first of an intriguing new late Victorian mystery series.

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Murder, Sweet Murder

Eleanor Kuhns

This claustrophobic turn-of-the-century mystery novel set in Boston will appeal to fans of Eliot Pattison’s Mystery of Colonial America series.

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Transfusion

Nick Oldham

An action-packed, uncompromising thriller set in Cyprus and Lancashire.

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A Dark, Divided Self

A.J. Cross

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

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The Shadow of the Empire

Qiu Xiaolong

Fans of historical Far-Eastern novels will love Anthony Award-winning Qiu Xiaolong’s homage to the legendary Judge Dee Renjie in this politically absorbing mystery.

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Dying Fall

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The new DCI Bill Slider police procedural sees the homicide detective and his team investigate a seemingly accidental death – with pulse-pounding results.

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The Big Steep

Sandra Balzo

A richly brewed, addictive coffeehouse cozy set in Wisconsin.

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Forthcoming

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The Blood Covenant

Chris Nickson

An unputdownable historical mystery full of dark twists set in Leeds in the early nineteenth century.

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30th Dec 2021

Such a Winter’s Day

Carlene Thompson

A spine-chilling, page-turning novel of romantic suspense set in small-town Ohio.

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30th Dec 2021

The Enlightenment Project

Lynn Hightower

Demonic possession, exorcist priests, cutting-edge medical science: a gripping supernatural thriller inspired by real-life religious and scientific research.

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30th Dec 2021

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The Chapel in the Woods

Dolores Gordon Smith

A richly atmospheric traditional country house mystery set in the 1920s, featuring gentleman-sleuth Jack Haldean.

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30th Dec 2021

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Murder in the Park

Jeanne M. Dams

First in a new historical mystery series which explores issues of snobbery, racism and bias in 1920s Illinois.

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30th Dec 2021

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Spring of Hope

Cora Harrison

A compelling Victorian mystery featuring classic writers Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins as an engaging pair of amateur sleuths.

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30th Dec 2021

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Almost a Whisper

Priscilla Masters

A completely gripping, twisty mystery set in Staffordshire.

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30th Dec 2021

For the Love of Lilah

Nora Roberts

The third book in The Calhouns series from bestselling author Nora Roberts, which can be enjoyed as a captivating standalone romance.

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27th Jan 2022

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Bitter Roots

Ellen Crosby

The richly atmospheric, intricately plotted new Wine Country mystery, set in small-town Virginia.

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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.”