CUT AND SHUT – Jonathan Peace

CUT AND SHUT Jonathan Peace (jpwritescrime.com) Hobeck Books (hobeck.net) £9.99 Three young lads steal a car belonging to a Pakistani family and go for a joyride. The car, a “cut-and-shut” job, suffers a catastrophic failure and all three die horribly. The same night, two young Pakistani men make the mistake of going into a pub […]

THE DRIFT by C. J. Tudor

THE DRIFT CJ Tudor Michael Joseph (penguin.co.uk) £14.99 A bus, crashed in the wilderness, leaving a handful of survivors to fight their way out of their snowy tomb. A cable car, broken down within sight of its destination, the passengers suspended hundreds of metres above the snowy landscape with a murderer in their midst. And […]

Cover Reveal: THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS by Karin Smirnoff

THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS Karin Smirnoff Translated by Sarah Death MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com/) £16.99 Coming 29th AUGUST 2023 In April last year, MacLehose Press announced that Lisbeth Salander would be returning to a bookshelf near you in 2023, penned by Scandinavian superstar Karin Smirnoff. Here at Reader Dad we’re huge fans of Stieg […]

THE SANCTUARY by Emma Haugton

THE SANCTUARY Emma Haughton (emmahaughton.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Zoey wakes in a strange room with no recollection of how she got here. Vague memories of a standard New York night out, clubbing with friends and then. ..nothing. Now, a strange room, in a house she’s […]

THE POLITICIAN by Tim Sullivan

THE POLITICIAN Tim Sullivan (timsullivan.co.uk) Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Peggy Frampton is found, murdered, in the bedroom of her Bristol home it seems, at first glance, to be a robbery gone wrong. But something doesn’t ring true for Detective Sergeant George Cross, who is convinced […]

THE AXE WOMAN by Håkan Nesser

THE AXE WOMAN Håkan Nesser (nesser.se) Translated by Sarah Death Mantle (panmacmillan.com) £18.99 Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work following the sudden death of his wife as they slept in bed together. In order to ease him back into things, his boss hands him a cold case file and asks him to investigate: a man […]

FAIRY TALE by Stephen King

FAIRY TALE Stephen King (stephenking.com) Illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (instagram.com) & Nicolas Delort (nicolasdelort.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £22.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Charlie Reade is seventeen years old when he answers a distressed bark and discovers his elderly neighbour, having fallen from a ladder and broken his leg. It’s love […]

THE INVISIBLE by Peter Papathanasiou

THE INVISIBLE Peter Papathanasiou MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £16.99 Buy a copy at your favourite independent bookshop Following the accidental death of a teenage boy during an arrest-gone-wrong, Detective Sergeant George Manolis decides he needs a break. Arriving at the Greek town from whence his parents came, Manolis discovers that Lefty – a friend of the […]

THE LATECOMER by Jean Hanff Korelitz

THE LATECOMER Jean Hanff Korelitz (jeanhanffkorelitz.com) Faber & Faber (faber.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The Oppenheimer triplets…had been in full flight from one another as far back as their ancestral petri dish. Not one of the three – Harrison (the smart one), Lewyn (the weird one), or Sally (the girl) […]

DEEP WATER by Emma Bamford

DEEP WATER Emma Bamford Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Virginie and her husband Jake have packed in the rat race and spent their savings on a small yacht. Flying to Malaysia to take ownership of their new home/transport, their plan is to head to Thailand and see […]