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 […]

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 […]

DARK OBJECTS by Simon Toyne

DARK OBJECTS Simon Toyne (simontoyne.net) HarperCollins (harpercollins.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The body of a wealthy woman is found in the living room of her ultra-modern, ultra-secure Highgate home, surrounded by four strange objects. DCI Tannahill Khan catches the case and discovers that one of the objects is a book […]

GOERING’S GOLD by Richard O’Rawe

GOERING’S GOLD Richard O’Rawe Melville House (mhpbooks.com) £12.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Ex-IRA member, and the man who robbed a Belfast bank and got away with £36.5 million, James “Ructions” O’Hare, is living in hiding with his girlfriend, in a small French village. When his hiding place is discovered by the […]

EQUINOX by David Towsey

EQUINOX David Towsey (davidtowsey.blogspot.com) Ad Astra / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Christophor Morden is a King’s Special Inspector, who specialises in cases where witchcraft is suspected. Early one evening, Christophor is summoned to the city’s St Leonars prison, where he finds a young man who has […]

THOSE WHO RETURN by Kassandra Montag

THOSE WHO RETURN Kassandra Montag (kassandramontag.com) Quercus (quercusbooks.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Hatchery House sits in the middle of the wilderness in the Great Plains of Nebraska. At various times in its history a church, an asylum and an orphanage, it’s now a treatment facility for orphaned children with psychiatric […]

ANNOUNCEMENT: LISBETH SALANDER RETURNS IN MILLENNIUM 7

Karin Smirnoff lives on a farm in northern Sweden, just a short car journey away from Stieg Larsson’s birth place. She is a bestselling author whose novels have sold over 700,000 copies in her home country, has a black belt in karate, and enjoys spending time with her mother and kids. But now, her life […]

FIRST BORN by Will Dean

FIRST BORN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Molly Raven lives her life assessing and avoiding risks wherever possible. One half of a pair of identical twins, Molly feels that she is the darker of the two, the twin who ended up with all of the […]

THE WOLF MILE by C. F. Barrington

THE WOLF MILE Book One of The Pantheon C. F. Barrington (cfbarrington.com) Ad Astra / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite bookshop. Tyler Maitland has been searching for his sister, Morgan, since she disappeared – seemingly into thin air – a year earlier. Lana Cameron has been searching for meaning […]

A MATTER OF TIME by Claire Askew

A MATTER OF TIME Claire Askew (claireaskew.com) Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 At 8am, a man opens fire with a shotgun at an agricultural show in Scotland’s Borders region. Either he’s a poor shot, or he has been aiming deliberately to minimise casualties. Then he’s in the wind. By lunchtime he’s holed up in a […]