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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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The Deadliest Sin

Jeri Westerson

A page-turning and hugely enjoyable historical mystery set in medieval London.

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From Ladle to Grave

Amy Patricia Meade

A darkly entertaining culinary cozy simmering with sharp twists set in Virginia.

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The Silent Conversation

Caro Ramsay

An ingeniously conceived, fiendishly plotted Scottish police procedural packed with startling twists.

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Past Life

David Mark

Hull’s DS Aector McAvoy must face his past in this explosive police procedural, the ninth in the addictive Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping British crime series.

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Prose and Cons

Wendy Corsi Staub

The fourth warm-hearted, charming Lily Dale cozy mystery, set in a quirky New York village populated by psychic mediums.

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The Danger Within

Hilary Bonner

A deftly-plotted traditional British police procedural which will keep readers guessing throughout.

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False Face

Veronica Heley

A darkly entertaining and quirky mystery with a strong female lead.

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Dark Queen Watching

Paul Doherty

A deftly plotted historical mystery set during the Wars of the Roses.

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Unsafe Haven

Lucy Burdette

A gripping, emotionally charged, page-turning novel of suspense – an exciting new departure for talented and acclaimed cozy writer Lucy Burdette, author of the popular Key West Food Critic mysteries.

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28th Oct 2021

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The Big Steep

Sandra Balzo

A richly brewed, addictive coffeehouse cozy set in Wisconsin.

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28th Oct 2021

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The Murder Dance

Sarah Rayne

A darkly chilling novel of Gothic suspense featuring music researcher Phineas Fox.

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28th Oct 2021

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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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28th Oct 2021

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Mr Campion’s Wings

Mike Ripley

A cunningly plotted and delightfully charming historical mystery full of wit and intrigue.

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28th Oct 2021

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Spirits and Smoke

Mary Miley

Young widow Maddie Pastore’s job as assistant to a fake medium gets her mixed up with the mob, in the thrilling second book in the 1920s, Chicago-set Mystic’s Accomplice mystery series.

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28th Oct 2021

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Palms, Paradise, Poison

John Keyse-Walker

In the third Teddy Creque mystery, set on a tiny Caribbean island paradise, the island’s sole constable investigates a locked room mystery with a thrilling supernatural twist.

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28th Oct 2021

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Gone Missin’

Peggy O’Neal Peden

Nosy, warm-hearted travel agent Campbell Hale gets mixed up in a missing persons case in the second sparkling Nashville cozy mystery – a perfect pick for fans of Donna Andrews and Diane Mott Davidson.

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28th Oct 2021

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Shadow of Spain

Fiona Buckley

A gripping Elizabethan mystery set during the eve of the Spanish Armada.

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25th Nov 2021

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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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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.”

Sometimes at Night

Ben Sanders

A hard-boiled crime noir, packed with stunning twists, featuring former NYPD undercover cop Marshall Grade.

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Kate Lyall Grant
Publisher

“Sometimes at Night is a wonderfully well-written, gripping and richly atmospheric crime noir, peopled by a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, and a plot offering up plentiful shocks and surprises from the opening scene right to the end.”